[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 11, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21704-21705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-07533]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-7070-N-19]


30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Capital Needs 
Assessment of Public Housing; OMB Control No.: 2528-New Collection

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, Chief Data Officer, 
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 an additional 30 days of 
public comment.

DATES: Comments Due Date: May 11, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anna Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email Anna Guido at 
[email protected], telephone 202-402-5535 (this is 
not a toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is prepared to receive calls 
from individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as 
individuals with speech or communication disabilities. To learn more 
about how to make an accessible telephone call, please visit https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 
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 
September 7, 2022 at 87 FR 54709.

A. Overview of Information Collection

    Title of Information Collection: Capital Needs Assessment of Public 
Housing.
    OMB Approval Number: 2528-New; pending.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The 
Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of 
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is proposing the collection of 
information for the Capital Needs Assessment of Public Housing.
    Public housing serves the housing needs of low- and very-low-income 
households, including needy families, the elderly, and the disabled. In 
the United States, public housing is owned and managed by public 
housing authorities (PHAs), which are units of state and local 
government. Public housing is nonetheless heavily subsidized and 
regulated by HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing through the 
Operating Fund, Capital Fund, and other means. The capital needs of 
public housing have a direct bearing on HUD's Capital Fund budget and 
its support to PHAs for using alternative means of financing to meet 
those needs.
    The number of public housing developments and units in the United 
States and the number of PHAs that own and manage public housing 
developments and units have changed over time. According to the most 
recent HUD data, there are 2,780 PHAs that own and manage 940,330 units 
in 6,523 public housing developments.
    The public housing Capital Fund provides funds for the capital and 
management activities of PHAs as authorized under section 9 of the 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) (the Act). Capital needs are 
defined by section 9(d)(1) of the Act, as codified at 24 CFR part 905, 
with Section 200 listing eligible activities. These activities include, 
among others, the development, financing, and modernization of public 
housing, vacancy reduction, nonroutine maintenance, and planned code 
compliance. This work is intended to bring each PHA's projects up to 
applicable modernization and energy conservation standards.
    This Federal Register Notice provides an opportunity to comment on 
the information collection for the capital needs assessment (CNA) of 
public housing.
    After OMB approval of the Paperwork Reduction Act package, HUD and 
its contractor will administer a web-based survey to a sample of 
approximately 300 PHAs to collect data on their CNA estimates, their 
practices to arrive at those estimates, and their use of those 
estimates.
    After analyzing the data from the first survey of PHAs, HUD and its 
contractor will administer a second web-based survey of another 500 
PHAs. This survey will ask many of the same questions as the first 
survey. Both surveys will provide data that, when combined with HUD's 
other data sources, will be used to estimate the capital needs of 
public housing following an iterative and duplicable approach.
    Both surveys also include questions about the processes that PHAs 
use to assess their capital needs. Based on responses to those 
questions, the study will assess PHAs' processes to see how they 
compare to in-person data collection methods used in previous CNAs and 
industry best practices.
    The purpose of this assessment is to better understand if a non-
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based approach can yield reliable and valid results that are comparable 
to those in the past studies, if not better.

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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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First PHA Survey........................             300               1             300            0.75             225          $38.18       $8,590.50
Second PHA Survey.......................             500               1             500            0.75             375          $38.18      $14,317.50
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    Total...............................             800               1             800             1.5             600          $76.36      $22,908.00
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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 through the use of appropriate 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
    (5) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.
    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.

Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of Policy Development and 
Research, Chief Data Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-07533 Filed 4-10-23; 8:45 am]
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