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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5311–N–02]

Notice of Availability: Notice of
Funding Availability (NOFA) for
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act Capital Fund Recovery
Competition Grants; Corrections,
Changes, and Clarifications
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: On May 7, 2009, HUD posted
on its website its Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA) for HUD’s
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act Capital Fund Recovery Competition
(CFRC) Grants. Through this document,
HUD announces that it has posted on its
Web site a revised NOFA that corrects,
changes and clarifies a number of
criteria established in the document
posted on May 7, 2009. The corrections,
changes, and clarifications to the NOFA
include, among other items, the
following: adding threshold funding
caps in Categories 1, 2 and 3 for public
housing agencies (PHAs) designated as
High Performers; adding a rating factor
on High Performer status to Category 4;
amending the Capacity threshold
requirement relating to the Capital
Fund; clarifying the threshold
requirement of Category 2, Public
Housing Transformation, that deals with
the census tract and the concentration of
poverty; adding definitions of leverage
and match and adding tie-breaking
criteria based on leverage and match;
amending the leverage ratio criteria in
Category 1 required for Round 1
consideration; amending the Category 3
threshold requirement to require that
any demolition and/or disposition
applications had to be submitted to
HUD no later than the date of the
publication of the revised NOFA; and
clarifying certain other Category 4 rating
factors and funding limits. Please see
the revised NOFA document for all the
corrections, changes, and clarifications
made. To permit applicants time to
prepare applications that take into
account these and other changes
incorporated in the revised NOFA, HUD
is revising the application deadline
dates for each funding category: For
Threshold-Based applications
(Categories 1, 2 and 3), the Department
will assign the first Ordinal on July 6,
2009; but will begin accepting
applications on June 22, 2009. For Rated
and Ranked applications (Category 4),
the deadline date for applications is July
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applications on June 22, 2009. The
NOFA which reflects these changes,
corrections and clarifications is
available on the HUD Web site at:
http://www.hud.gov/recovery (which
connects to the Office of Capital
Improvements Web site, http://www.
hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/
capfund/ocir.cfm).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have a question or need a
clarification, you may contact the Office
of Capital Improvements by sending an
email message to PIHOCI@hud.gov.
Please see http://www.hud.gov/offices/
pih/programs/ph/capfund/ocir.cfm,
which can be accessed from http://
www.hud.gov/recovery/, for additional
information.
Dated: June 3, 2009.
Dominique G. Blom,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing
Investments.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5300–N–06A]

Notice of Availability: Notice of
Funding Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2009 Lead-Based Paint
Hazard Control Grant Program and
Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration
Grant Program; Technical Correction
AGENCY: Office of Healthy Homes and
Lead Hazard Control, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of technical correction.
SUMMARY: On May 22, 2009, HUD
posted on its Web site its Notice of
Funding Availability (NOFA) for HUD’s
FY2009 Lead-Based Paint Hazard
Control Grant Program and Lead Hazard
Reduction Demonstration Grant
Program. Today’s Federal Register
publication announces that HUD has
posted on its Web site a revised NOFA
that corrects Appendix A of the NOFA
and extends the deadline for submitting
waiver requests to reduce the statutory
match. Specifically, HUD inadvertently
omitted a number of jurisdictions that
are eligible for the FY2009 Lead Hazard
Reduction Demonstration Grant
Program from part A of Appendix A,
entitled ‘‘Cities, Towns, Counties, and
States Having at Least One Place or
County with 3,500 or More Occupied
Rental Housing Units Built Before 1940,
and Eligible States and Tribes.’’ The
revised Appendix A is available at
http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/
09NOFA/leadcombo.cfm. In addition, in
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eligible applicants, the deadline for
submitting waiver requests to reduce the
statutory match amount from 25% to
10% is being extended from June 10,
2009 to June 23, 2009. The period for
HUD to review the requests is extended
from June 22, 2009 to June 30, 2009. The
deadline for receipt of the applications
in HUD headquarters remains 5:00 PM
eastern time July 20, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information concerning the Lead-Based
Paint Hazard Control Grant Program and
Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration
Grant Program, contact Warren
Friedman, Senior Advisor to the
Director, Office of Healthy Homes and
Lead Hazard Control, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
Seventh Street, SW., Room 8236,
Washington, DC 20410–3000; telephone
number 202–402–7574 (this is not a tollfree number). Persons with speech or
hearing impairments may access this
telephone number via TTY by calling
the toll-free Federal Information Relay
Service during working hours at 800–
877–8339.
Dated: June 3, 2009.
Jon L. Gant,
Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead
Hazard Control.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Office of Policy Analysis; Proposed
Information Collection; Non-use
Valuation Survey, Klamath Basin
U.S. Department of the Interior.
Notice; request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

SUMMARY: We (The Department of the
Interior) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the Information Collection (IC)
described below. As required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
as part of our continuing efforts to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, we invite the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this IC. We
may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
ADDRESSES: Mail or hand-carry
comments to the Department of the
Interior, Office of Policy Analysis,
Attention: Don Bieniewicz, Mail Stop
3530; 1849 C Street, NW., Washington,

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DC 20240. If you wish to e-mail
comments, the e-mail address is
Donald_Bieniewicz@ios.doi.gov.
Reference ‘‘Klamath non-use value
survey’’ in your e-mail subject line.
Include your name and return address
in your e-mail message and mark your
message for return receipt.
DATES: Public comments will be
accepted on or before August 10, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Benjamin Simon, Acting Director, Office
of Policy Analysis, U.S. Department of
the Interior telephone at 202–208–5978
or by e-mail at
Benjamin_Simon@ios.doi.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Klamath River provides habitat
for fall and spring run Chinook salmon
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), coho
salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch),
steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss),
green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris),
Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentate),
and Pacific eulachon (Thaleichthys
pacificus). Some of these species are
important components of non-tribal
harvest (e.g., fall Chinook, steelhead),
some have important subsistence and
cultural value to Klamath Basin tribes
(e.g., salmon, sturgeon, lamprey,
eulachon), and some are at low levels of
abundance or ESA-listed (e.g., spring
Chinook, lamprey, coho, eulachon). In
addition to its importance as fish
habitat, the Klamath River also provides
water to agriculture through the Bureau
of Reclamation’s Klamath Irrigation
Project. Oversubscription of Klamath
water has thwarted recovery of
depressed fish stocks and led to
economic hardship for farming and
fishing communities—prompting
federal disaster relief for farmers in 2001
and for fishermen in 2006.
In November 2008 the U.S.
Government, the States of Oregon and
California, and the utility company
PacifiCorp signed an agreement in
principle (AIP) to remove four
hydroelectric dams on the Klamath
River by 2020. Dam removal is being
considered a viable alternative to
volitional fish passage (ladders and
screens), which was being considered
by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) as a condition for
relicensing of PacifiCorp’s hydroelectric
project. Parties to the AIP are working
with stakeholders (including tribes,
fishers, farmers, conservation groups,
and local governments) to reach a final
agreement that would result in the
largest dam removal project in U.S.
history. If achieved, this agreement will
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species recovery, water allocation, and
water quality problems in the Klamath
Basin.
In October 2011 the Secretary of the
Interior is expected to make a final
determination regarding dam removal,
contingent on results of an economic
analysis that will address benefits, costs,
and distributional effects of dam
removal relative to volitional fish
passage.
Dam removal is expected to have
positive long-term effects on the
viability of fish populations and other
aspects of the Klamath Basin ecosystem.
Benefits of these environmental
improvements include ‘‘non-use
values,’’ which accrue to members of
the public who value such
improvements regardless of whether
they ever consume Klamath fish or visit
the Klamath Basin. An information
collection is planned in order to
implement a state-of-the-art non-use
valuation survey of the U.S. public that
addresses the incremental
environmental improvements of dam
removal relative to volitional fish
passage. This data collection is intended
to address one component of an
economic analysis that will include all
costs and benefits of dam removal
relative to volitional fish passage.

Klamath nonuse value
survey ........

Estimated
number of
burden hours

Responses

3,000

6,000

II. Data
OMB Control Number: None. This is
a new collection.
Title: Non-Use Valuation Survey,
Klamath River Dam Removal.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: New.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimate Annual Number of
Respondents: 6,000.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
6,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,000.
III. Request for Comments
We invite comments concerning this
IC on: (1) Whether or not the collection
of information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
our estimate of the burden for this
collection of information; (3) ways to
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of the information to be collected; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents. Comments that you submit
in response to this notice are a matter
of public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. Before
including your address, phone number,
e-mail address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Dated: June 3, 2009.
Benjamin M. Simon,
Acting Director, Office of Policy Analysis, U.S.
Department of the Interior.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Agency Information Collection;
Activities Under OMB Review;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of renewal of a currently
approved collection (OMB No. 1006–
0006).
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces the Bureau of Reclamation
(we, our, or us) has forwarded the
following Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval: Certification
Summary Form, Reporting Summary
Form for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR
part 426 and 43 CFR part 428, OMB
Control Number: 1006–0006. This ICR is
required under the Reclamation Reform
Act of 1982 (RRA), Acreage Limitation
Rules and Regulations, 43 CFR part 426,
and Information Requirements for
Certain Farm Operations In Excess of
960 Acres and the Eligibility of Certain
Formerly Excess Land, 43 CFR part 428.
The ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
cost and burden.
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove this information
collection, but may respond after 30
days; therefore, public comments must

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