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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices
Dated: July 27, 2012.
Paul Bradford,
Forest Supervisor, Kootenai National Forest.
[FR Doc. 2012–18850 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Request for Extension of a
Currently Approved Information
Collection
Rural Housing Service (RHS),
USDA.
ACTION: Proposed collection; comments
requested.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Rural Housing
Service’s (RHS) intention to request an
extension for a currently approved
information collection in support of the
program for the Housing Preservation
Grant Program.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by October 1, 2012 to be
assured of consideration.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bonnie Edwards-Jackson, Finance and
Loan Analyst, Multi-Family Housing
Preservation and Direct Loan Division,
USDA Rural Development, Stop 0781,
1400 Independence Ave. SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0782, telephone
(202) 690–0759 (voice) (this is not a toll
free number) or (800) 877–8339 (TDD–
Federal Information Relay Service) or
via email at,
Bonnie.Edwards@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
RHS/Housing Preservation Grant
Program.
OMB Number: 0575–0115.
Expiration Date of Approval:
September 30, 2012.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: The primary purpose of the
Housing Preservation Grant Program is
to repair or rehabilitate individual
housing, rental properties, or co-ops
owned or occupied by very low- and
low-income rural persons. Grantees will
provide eligible homeowners, owners of
rental properties and owners of co-ops
with financial assistance through loans,
grants, interest reduction payments or
other comparable financial assistance
for necessary repairs and rehabilitation
of dwellings to bring them up to code
or minimum property standards.
Where repair and rehabilitation
assistance is not economically feasible
or practical the replacement of existing,

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individual owner occupied housing is
available.
These grants were established by
Public Law 98–181, the Housing UrbanRural Recovery Act of 1983, which
amended the Housing Act of 1979 (Pub.
L. 93–383) by adding section 533, 42
U.S.C. 2490(m), Housing Preservation
Grants (HPG). In addition, the Secretary
of Agriculture has authority to prescribe
rules and regulations to implement HPG
and other programs under 42 U.S.C.
1480(j).
Section 533(d) is prescriptive about
the information applicants are to submit
to RHS as part of their application and
in the assessments and criteria RHS is
to use in selecting grantees. An
applicant is to submit a ‘‘statement of
activity’’ describing its proposed
program, including the specific
activities it will undertake, and its
schedule. RHS is required in turn to
evaluate proposals on a set of prescribed
criteria, for which the applicant will
also have to provide information, such
as: (1) Very low- and low-income
persons proposed to be served by the
repair and rehabilitation activities; (2)
participation by other public and
private organizations to leverage funds
and lower the cost to the HPG program;
(3) the area to be served in terms of
population and need: (4) cost data to
assure greatest degree of assistance at
lowest cost; (5) administrative capacity
of the applicant to carry out the
program. The information collected will
be the minimum required by law and by
necessity for RHS to assure that it funds
responsible grantees proposing feasible
projects in areas of greatest need. Most
data are taken from a localized area,
although some are derived from census
reports of city, county and Federal
governments showing population and
housing characteristics.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average .88 hours per
response.
Respondents: A public body or a
public or private nonprofit corporation.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,373.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 5.6.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 13,274 hours.
Copies of this information collection
can be obtained from Jeanne Jacobs,
Regulations and Paperwork
Management Branch at (202 692–0040).
Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of RHS, including

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whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
RHS’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments may be sent to Jeanne
Jacobs, Regulations and Paperwork
Management Branch, U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Rural Development,
STOP 0742, 1400 Independence Ave.
SW., Washington, DC 20250. All
responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
Dated: July 27, 2012.
Cristina Chiappe,
Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
[FR Doc. 2012–18824 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–56–2012]

Proposed Foreign-Trade Zone—
Chenango County, NY; Under
Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) by Chenango County, New York
to establish a foreign-trade zone (FTZ) at
sites in Chenango County, adjacent to
the Syracuse CBP port of entry, under
the alternative site framework (ASF)
adopted by the Board (15 CFR 400.2(c)).
The ASF is an option for grantees for the
establishment or reorganization of zones
and can permit significantly greater
flexibility in the designation of new
‘‘subzones’’ or ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ sites
for operators/users located within a
grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ in the context of
the Board’s standard 2,000-acre
activation limit for a zone project. The
application was submitted pursuant to
the provisions of the Foreign-Trade
Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–
81u), and the regulations of the Board
(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed
on July 30, 2012. The applicant is
authorized to make the proposal under
Chapter 569, Laws of New York 2011,
Section 224–27.

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