[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50676-50677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21861]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7006-N-12]
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Public Housing
5-Year and Annual PHA Plan and MTW Supplement to the PHA Plan
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, PIH, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment
from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for 30 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: December 10, 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: Colette Pollard, Reports
Management Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development,
451 7th Street SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410-5000; telephone 202-
402-3400 (this is not a toll-free number) or email at
[email protected] for a copy of the proposed forms or other
available information. Persons with hearing or speech impairments may
access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877-8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Arlette Mussington, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 3178, Washington, DC 20410;
telephone 202-402-4109, (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with
hearing or speech impairments may access this number via TTY by calling
the Federal Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Copies of
available documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from Ms.
Mussington.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in
Section A.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Public Housing Agency 5-Year and
Annual
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Plan and MTW Supplement to the PHA Plan.
OMB Approval Number: 2577-0226.
Type of Request: Revision of currently approved collection.
Form Number(s): HUD-50075-5Y, HUD-50075-ST, HUD-50075-SM, HUD-
50075-HCV, HUD-50075-HP, HUD-50075-MTW, HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-SL,
HUD-50077-CRT-SM, and HUD-50077-ST-HCV-HP.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The
Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was created by section 5A of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437c-1). There are two
different PHA Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the Annual Plan. The Five-
Year Plan describes the agency's mission, long-range goals and
objectives for achieving its mission over a five-year period. The
Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive guide to PHA policies, programs,
operations, and strategies for meeting local housing needs and goals.
This revision integrates the MTW Supplement to the Annual PHA Plan
process for PHAs that join MTW under the 2016 Appropriations Act (i.e.,
MTW Expansion).
The PHA Plans informs HUD, residents, and the public of the PHA's
mission for serving the needs of low, very low-income, and extremely
low-income families and its strategy for addressing those needs. This
information helps provide accountability to the local community for how
PHAs spend their funding and implement their policies. Also, PHA plans
allow HUD to monitor the performance of programs and the performance of
public housing agencies that administer them.
HUD's most recent action in July of 2016 was to revise the
collection in response to public comments urging HUD to return to
earlier multiple versions of the PHA Plan templates by specific PHA
type (e.g. standard, small, high performer, Section 8 only) instead of
a ``One-Size Fits All'' form. HUD also added a section to accommodate
the new requirements of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
(AFFH) Rule, other public comments from 2013, and a minor change made
in late 2014. OMB approved the changes as a full revision, but the 2016
versions of the forms were not made public due to ongoing changes to
AFFH policies.
With this current proposed information collection, HUD intends to
add a new template titled HUD-50075-MTW, and further modify the 5-Year
and Annual PHA Plan Templates as well as the accompanying
certifications in the following manner:
(1) Revise the instructions provided on the Assessment of Fair
Housing (AFH) ensuring that program participants continue to conduct
the Analysis of Impediments (AI) to fair housing until they are
required to submit an AFH.
(2) Create a new section on all certifications to give program
participants the option to add an explanation when they cannot certify
to being fully compliant with the stated regulations.
(3) Specify on related certifications that the signed
acknowledgement of the `authorizing official' must be of the PHA
Executive Director (ED) and Board Chairperson.
(4) Add the Moving to Work (MTW) Supplement template to the
collections which will serve as the reporting mechanism to the
Department for the new 100 MTW agencies that will be designated
pursuant to the MTW Expansion authorized by the Appropriations Act of
2016 (i.e., MTW Expansion).
Finally, the burden hours of the collection will increase by 600
hours due to an estimated 6.0 hours needed per MTW Supplement
applicable to 100 new MTW agencies. However, it should be noted that,
due to the de-coupling of Capital Fund Program activities from PHA Plan
submissions in 2016, (HUD-50075.1 and HUD-50075.2 Capital Fund Annual
Statement/Performance and Evaluation Report and 5-Year Action Plan
forms), the associated burden hours (10,070) were removed from the
approval for the PHA Plan under OMB no. 2577-0226. Therefore, the added
burden of the MTW Supplement is relatively minor.
Revisions are made to this collection to reflect adjustments in
calculations based on the total number of current, active public
housing agencies (PHAs) to date. The number of active public housing
agencies has changed from 3,819 to 3,780 since the last approved
information collection. The number of PHAs can fluctuate due to many
factors, including but not limited to performance scoring, the merging
of two or more PHAs or the termination of the public housing and/or
voucher programs due to the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD).
Respondents (i.e., affected public): Local, Regional and State Body
Corporate Politic Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,780.
Estimated Number of Responses: 4,832 (Annual Plan: 1,052 and 5 Year
Plan: 3,780).
Frequency of Response: Every five years for all PHAs, annually for
all PHAs except HERA Qualified PHAs.
Average Hours per Response: 6.2 hrs.
Total Estimated Burdens: 12,371.
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 through the use of 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.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: September 26, 2018.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Director, Office of Policy, Program and Legislative Initiatives.
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