[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 235 (Friday, December 8, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58013-58014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-26525]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5997-N-76]


30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Evaluation of 
the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Re-Entry Permanent Supportive Housing 
Demonstration

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: HUD submitted the proposed information collection requirement 
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The purpose of 
this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public comment.

DATES: Comments Due Date: January 8, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
Control Number and should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 
20503; fax: 202-395-5806. Email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Anna P. Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing

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and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410; email 
Anna P. Guido at [email protected] or telephone 202-402-5535. This 
is not a toll-free number. Persons with hearing or speech impairments 
may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 
Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
    Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from 
Ms. Guido.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is 
seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in 
Section A.
    The Federal Register notice that solicited public comment on the 
information collection for a period of 60 days was published on August 
25, 2017 at 82 FR 40586.

A. Overview of Information Collection

    Title of Information Collection: Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for 
Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration.
    OMB Approval Number: 2528-New.
    Type of Request: New.
    Form Number: No forms.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The 
U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Justice 
(DOJ) entered into an interagency collaboration that combines DOJ's 
mission to promote safer communities by focusing on the reentry 
population with HUD's mission to end chronic homelessness. This 
collaboration resulted in the Pay for Success Permanent Supportive 
Housing Demonstration with $8.68M awarded to seven communities to 
develop supportive housing for persons cycling between the jail or 
prison systems and the homeless service systems using pay for success 
(PFS) as a funding mechanism. HUD-DOJ announced seven grantees from 
across the country in June 2016. The PFS Demonstration grant supports 
activities throughout the PFS lifecycle, including feasibility 
analysis, transaction structuring, and outcome evaluation and success 
payments, with each grantee receiving funds for different stages in the 
PFS lifecycle. Through the national evaluation, which is funded through 
an interagency agreement between HUD and DOJ and managed by HUD's 
Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD-DOJ seek to assess 
whether PFS is a viable model for scaling supportive housing to improve 
outcomes for a re-entry population. The main goal of the evaluation is 
to learn how the PFS model is implemented in diverse settings with 
different structures, populations, and community contexts. The Urban 
Institute has designed a multi-disciplinary, multi-method approach to 
``learn as we do'' and meet the key objectives of the formative 
evaluation. To understand project implementation, the evaluation 
includes data collection on both the time that project partners 
dedicate to each PFS project as well as PFS partner perceptions and 
interactions and community-level changes that may benefit the target 
population. This information collection request is for an ongoing time 
survey and an annual partnership web survey. The time survey will be 
used to assess staff time spent on development of each PFS project 
throughout the different lifecycle phases and the partnership survey 
will be used to document partner perceptions and interactions and 
community-level changes that may benefit the target population.
    Respondents: For the annual web-based partnership survey and weekly 
time text survey, 100 respondents from the grantee and key project 
partner at 7 demonstration sites. For the monthly web-based time 
survey, 35 supervisory staff.
    Respondents:

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                                             Number of     Frequency of    Responses per    Burden hour    Annual burden    Hourly cost
         Information collection             respondents      response          annum       per response        hours       per response     Annual cost
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Annual Web-Based Partnership Survey.....          100.00            1.00          100.00            0.25           25.00           25.92         $648.00
Weekly Time Text Survey.................          100.00           52.00        5,200.00            0.03          156.00           25.92        4,043.52
Monthly Web-Based Time Survey...........           35.00           12.00          420.00            0.17           71.40           31.10        2,220.54
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    Total...............................          235.00  ..............  ..............  ..............          252.40  ..............        6,912.06
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B. Solicitation of Public Comment

    This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and 
affected parties concerning the collection of information described in 
Section A on the following:
    (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility;
    (2) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information;
    (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (4) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond; including using appropriate automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., 
permitting electronic submission of responses.
    HUD encourages interested parties to submit comment in response to 
these questions.

     Authority:  Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.

    Dated: November 15, 2017.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
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