Published 30-day FR Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 89 / Wednesday, May 8, 2013 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5683–N–35]

Notice of Submission of Proposed
Information Collection to OMB; Section
901 Notice of Intent and Fungibility
Plan for Combining Public Housing
Capital or Operating Funds, or
Housing Choice Voucher Funds To
Assist Displaced Families and Address
Damages
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The proposed information
collection requirement described below
has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. HUD is soliciting public
comments on the subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: June 7,
2013.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
approval Number (2577–0245) and
should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. Email:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov fax:
202–395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard., Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street SW., Washington, DC 20410;
email Colette Pollard at
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov. or telephone
(202) 402–3400. This is not a toll-free
number. Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that the HUD
has submitted to OMB a request for
approval of the Information collection
described below. This notice is
soliciting comments from members of
the public and affecting agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information to: (1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) Enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) Minimize the
burden of the collection of information

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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.
This notice also lists the following
information:
Title of Proposed: Section 901 Notice
of Intent and Fungibility Plan for
Combining Public Housing Capital or
Operating Funds, or Housing Choice
Voucher Funds to Assist Displaced
Families and Address Damages.
OMB Approval Number: 2577–0245.
Form Numbers: None.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use:
The Notice of Intent is necessary for
HUD to be informed about which
eligible PHAs elect to invoke the
funding flexibility authorized by section
901 of the Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations (Pub. L. 109–148). The
Fungibility Plan and Reports are
necessary for HUD to know how eligible
PHAs plan to reallocate and spend these
funds, the rate such funds are obligated
and expended, and the results in using
this funding flexibility. Fungibility
Plans proposing to use Section 901
flexibility and funding to develop new
housing units under Capital Fund
mixed-finance uses or for development
of HCV project-based units were
required to include new development
proposals following the format required
by 24 CFR 941.606 or mixed-finance
rules as appropriate. Fungibility Plans
proposing to use Section 901 flexibility
to pay for public housing renovations
were required to submit CFP Annual
Statements identifying work items and
costs. These collections are approved
under separate OMB numbers. Under
Section 901, funds from one of the
programs identified above could be used
for another program’s purposes, but
were required to follow the rules of the
program in which the funds would be
used. HUD has not received any new
Section 901 Fungibility Plans since
2009, which was the last year Congress
extended this funding flexibility to
address the impacts of Hurricanes Rita
and Katrina. Some PHAs have used the
fungibility plan format to submit
revisions to their originally approved
plans.
Estimation of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of response, and
hours of response:
Notification of Intent and Fungibility
Plan. This is a one-time submission
estimated to take 40 hours for each of
up to twelve eligible PHAs that
submitted plans from 2006 through

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2009. PHAs may also use this format to
request HUD approval for subsequent
plan revisions. The original burden
estimate for this information collection
was 6,624 hours assuming all ninety-six
PHAs in the areas impacted by
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita would opt
to use it. A later burden estimate of
1,248 hours was submitted, when in
2006, only eight out of ninety-six
eligible PHAs submitted plans to use
Section 901 flexibility. In 2007, seven
out of the eight 2006 PHAs and one new
PHA submitted plans to use Section 901
flexibility. In 2008, seven out of the nine
2006 and 2007 PHAs and three new
PHAs submitted plans to use Section
901 flexibility. Ten or fewer
respondents have submitted plans to
use Section 901 flexibility each year.
One PHA submitted a plan in 2009, the
last year in which Section 901 funding
flexibility was available. As a result, the
estimate of burden hours for new
fungibility plans has been removed. A
total of ten different PHAs have been
approved to use and must report the
results of Section 901 flexibility. A new
estimate of burden for Section 901
Notifications of Intent and Fungibility
Plans or revisions, and subsequent
periodic reporting is 1,680 hours based
on requirements for 10 PHAs to prepare
and submit these documents.
Status: Extension without change of a
currently approved collection.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as
amended.
Dated: May 2, 2013.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[DR.5B711.IA000813]

Indian Gaming
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Approved Tribal-State
Class III Gaming Compact.
AGENCY:

This notice publishes the
approval of an amendment to the Class
III Tribal-State Gaming Compact
between the Menominee Indian Tribe of
Wisconsin and the State of Wisconsin
(Amendment).
DATES: Effective Date: May 8, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Paula L. Hart, Director, Office of Indian
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