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with tenants. Additionally, serious
Any match (i.e., a ‘‘hit’’) will be further violations, which POAs, HUD Program
staff, or the HUD OIG verify, should be
reviewed by HUD, the POAs, or the
referred for full investigation and
HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG)
appropriate civil and/or criminal
to determine whether the income
proceedings.
reported by tenants to the program
With respect to SSA-provided error
administrator is correct and complies
messages regarding HUD-provided
with HUD and program administrator
tenant, and matched borrower or corequirements. Specifically, current or
borrower personal identifiers, the POA
prior SS and SSI benefit information
and FHA administrator/agent will
and other data will be sought directly
confirm its file and system
from tenants. For public housing and
documentation to confirm accuracy of
Section 8 tenant-based HCV programs,
data elements, and make any necessary
tenants will be required to provide
corrections. If there is no error in the
PHAs with original SSA benefit
documentation, the POAs and FHA
verification letters dated within the last
administrators/agents will notify the
60 days for comparison to computer
individual of the error and request that
matching results for accuracy. For
the individual contact the SSA to
multifamily housing programs, tenants
correct any SSA data errors. POAs and
must provide O/As with SSA benefit
FHA administrators/agents cannot
verification letters dated within the last
correct such errors.
120 days. For SS and SSI benefit
V. Records To Be Matched
information for prior years, the tenant
may be required to provide POAs with
SSA will conduct the matching of
an original benefit history document
tenant SSNs and additional identifiers
from SSA if there is a dispute regarding
(surnames and dates of birth) to tenant
historical income information obtained
data that HUD supplies from its systems
through the computer matching
of records known as the Tenant Rental
program.
Assistance Certification System
(TRACS) (HUD/H–11) and the Inventory
B. Administrative or Legal Actions
Management System (IMS), formerly the
Regarding all the matching described
Public and Indian Housing Information
in this notice, POAs will take
Center (PIC) (HUD/PIH–4). Program
appropriate action in consultation with
administrators utilize the form HUD–
tenants to: (1) Resolve income
50058 module within the IMS system
disparities between tenant-reported and and the form HUD–50059 module
SSA-reported data; and (2) Use correct
within the TRACS to provide HUD with
income amounts in determining rental
the tenant data.
assistance.
SSA will match the tenant records
POAs must compute the rent in full
included in HUD/H–11 and HUD/PIH–
compliance with all applicable statutes, 4 to their systems of records known as
regulations and administrator policies.
SSA’s Master Files of Social Security
POAs must ensure that they use the
Number Holders, and SSN Applications
correct income and correctly compute
(60–0058), Master Beneficiary Record
the rent. In order to protect any
(60–0090), and Supplemental Security
individual whose records are used in
Income Record (60–103). The notice for
this matching program, POAs may not
these systems was published at 71 FR
suspend, terminate, reduce, or make a
1795 on January 11, 2006. HUD will
final denial of any rental assistance to
place the resulting matched data into its
any tenant, or take other adverse action
Enterprise Income Verification (EIV)
against the tenant as a result of
system (HUD/PIH–5). The notice for this
information produced by this matching
system was initially published at 70 FR
program until: (a) The tenant has
41780 on July 20, 2005, and amended
received notice from the POA of its
on September 1, 2009 (74 FR 45235) to
findings and has been informed of the
reflect changes in the following
opportunity to contest such findings; (b) categories (sections): Categories of
The POA has independently verified the Individuals Covered by the System,
information; and (c) either the notice
Categories of Records in the System,
period provided in applicable
Purposes of the System, and Routine
regulations of the program, or 30 days,
Uses of Records Maintained in the
whichever is later, has expired.
System, Including Categories of Users
‘‘Independently verified’’ in item (b)
and Purposes of Such Users. The tenant
means the specific information relating
records (one record for each family
to the tenant that is used as a basis for
member) include these data elements:
an adverse action has been investigated
full name, SSN, and date of birth.
HUD data will also be matched to the
and confirmed by the POA. (5 U.S.C.
SSA’s Master Files of Social Security
552a) As such, POAs must resolve
Number Holders, and SSN Applications
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(60–0058) for the purpose of validating
SSNs of borrowers and co-borrowers of
FHA mortgages and participants of HUD
rental assistance programs to identify
noncompliance with program eligibility
requirements. The Computerized Homes
Underwriting Management System
(HUD/H–5), published at 57 FR 62142
on December 29, 1997 is the HUD FHA
system of records used to match data
transferred from SSA’s Master Files of
Social Security Number Holder and SSN
Applications (60–0058) to the HUD
mainframe. Mortgagees enter SSN data
and review the returning verification/
failure data through the FHA
Connection. HUD will compare tenant
SSNs provided by POAs to reveal
duplicate SSNs and potential duplicate
rental assistance.
VI. Period of the Match
The computer matching program will
be conducted according to the computer
matching agreement between HUD and
the SSA. The computer matching
agreement for the planned matches will
terminate either when the purpose of
the computer matching program is
accomplished, or 18 months from the
date the original agreement was signed,
whichever comes first. The agreement
may be extended for one 12-month
period, with the mutual agreement of all
involved parties, if the following
conditions are met:
(1) Within three months of the
expiration date, all Data Integrity Boards
review the agreement, find that the
program will be conducted without
change, and find a continued favorable
examination of benefit/cost results; and
(2) All parties certify that the program
has been conducted in compliance with
the agreement.
The agreement may be terminated,
prior to accomplishment of the
computer matching purpose or 18
months from the date the agreement is
signed (whichever comes first), by the
mutual agreement of all involved parties
within 30 days of written notice.
Dated: March 25, 2010.
Jerry E. Williams,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Renewal of Agency Information
Collection for Tribal Energy Resource
Agreements; Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
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ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act, the Office of Indian
Energy and Economic Development
(IEED), in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary—Indian Affairs, is submitting
the information collection titled ‘‘Tribal
Energy Resource Agreements (TERAs)’’
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for renewal. The information
collection is currently authorized by
OMB Control Number 1076–0167,
which expires March 31, 2010. The
information collection requires Indian
tribes interested in entering into a TERA
or who already have a TERA to provide
certain information, including
information as part of the application
for, and implementation, reassumption,
and rescission of the TERA.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before April 30,
2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on the information collection to the
Desk Officer for Department of the
Interior at the Office of Management and
Budget, by facsimile to (202) 395–5806
or you may send an e-mail to:
OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Please
send a copy of your comments to Darryl
Francois, Department of the Interior,
Office of Indian Energy and Economic
Development, Room 20—South Interior
Building, 1951 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20245, fax (202)
208–4564; e-mail:
Darryl.Francois@bia.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Darryl Francois, Department of the
Interior, Office of Indian Energy and
Economic Development, Room 20—
South Interior Building, 1951
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20245, fax (202) 208–4564; e-mail:
Darryl.Francois@bia.gov, telephone
(202) 219–0740.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub.
L. 109–58) authorizes the Secretary to
approve individual TERAs. The intent
of these agreements is to promote tribal
oversight and management of energy
and mineral resource development on
tribal lands and further the goal of
Indian self-determination. A TERA
offers a tribe an alternative for
developing energy-related business
agreements and awarding leases and
granting rights-of-way for energy
facilities without having to obtain
further approval from the Secretary.
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25 CFR part 224 will allow IEED to
determine the capacity of tribes to
manage the development of energy
resources on tribal lands. Information
collected:
• Enables IEED to engage in a
consultation process with tribes that is
designed to foster optimal pre-planning
of development proposals and speed up
the review and approval process for
TERA agreements;
• Provides wide public notice and
opportunity for review of TERA
agreements by the public, industry, and
government agencies;
• Ensures that the public has an
avenue for review of the performance of
tribes in implementing a TERA;
• Creates a process for preventing
damage to sensitive resources as well as
ensuring that the public has fully
communicated with the tribe in the
petition process;
• Ensures that a tribe is fully aware of
any attempt by the Department of the
Interior to resume management
authority over energy resources on tribal
lands; and
• Ensures that the tribal government
fully endorses any relinquishment of a
TERA.
II. Request for Comments
IEED requests that you send your
comments on this collection to the
location listed in the ADDRESSES section.
Your comments should address: (a) The
necessity of the information collection
for the proper performance of the
agencies, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of our estimate of the
burden (hours and cost) of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways we could enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways we could
minimize the burden of the collection of
the information on the respondents,
such as through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Please note that an agency may not
sponsor or conduct, and an individual
need not respond to, a collection of
information unless it has a valid OMB
Control Number. Response to the
information collection is required to
obtain a benefit.
It is our policy to make all comments
available to the public for review at the
following location, during the hours of
9 a.m.–5 p.m., Eastern Daylight Savings
Time, Monday through Friday except
for legal holidays: Department of the
Interior, Office of Indian Energy and
Economic Development,
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Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20245. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail address
or other personally identifiable
information, be advised that your entire
comment—including your personally
identifiable information—may be made
public at any time. While you may
request that we withhold your
personally identifiable information, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
OMB has up to 60 days to make a
decision on the submission for renewal,
but may make the decision after 30
days. Therefore, to receive the best
consideration of your comments, you
should submit them closer to 30 days
than 60 days.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 1076–0167.
Title: Tribal Energy Resource
Agreements, 25 CFR Part 224.
Brief Description of Collection:
Submission of this information is
required for Indian tribes to apply for,
implement, reassume, or rescind a
TERA that has been entered into in
accordance with the Energy Policy Act
of 2005 and 25 CFR part 224. This
collection also requires the tribe to
notify the public of certain actions.
Response is required to obtain a benefit.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Respondents: Indian tribes.
Number of Respondents: 14 (4
applicant tribes and 10 tribes with a
TERA).
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Total Number of Responses: 34.
Estimated Time per Response: Ranges
from 32 hours to 1,080 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
10,752 hours.
Estimated Nonhour Cost Burden:
$48,200.
Alvin Foster,
Acting Chief Information Officer—Indian
Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2010–7172 Filed 3–30–10; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Renewal of Agency Information
Collection for Navajo Partitioned
Lands Grazing Permits; Request for
Comments
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget.

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