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PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT

CHANGE WORKSHEET

Agency/Subagency U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Housing, Office of Housing Counseling							OMB Control Number 2502-0261
Enter only items that change Current record New record
Agency form number(s) Housing Counseling NOFA including Grant Charts
Annual reporting and recordkeeping hour burden
	Number of respondents
	Total annual responses
			Percent of these responses collected electronically
	Total annual hours
	Difference
	Explanation of difference
				Program change
				Adjustment
Annual reporting and recordkeeping cost burden (in thousands of dollars)
		Total annualized Capital/Startup costs
		Total annual costs (O&M)
		Total annualized cost requested
		Difference
		Explanation of difference
				Program change
				Adjustment
Other changes** In order to serve its clients better, HUD has made the following non material change: HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling is seeking approval for some minor revisions which will further simplify the Housing Counseling NOFA including Grant Charts (currently approved as part of OMB Control 2502-0261, Housjng Counseling Program which expires 4 / 30 / 2016). These minor revisions will continue to improve data quality, further streamline grant applicant responses for housing counseling agencies (HCAs), and will also streamline grant scoring for staff. The grant charts utilized by the Housing Counseling Program (”Program”) will continue to be used by housing counseling agencies as part of the required documents submitted with their housing counseling grant proposal. The information is being collected for a housing counseling agency to participate in HUD’s grant program in FY15. The Excel grant charts continue to streamline and replace a very arduous narrative writing response process for grant applicants. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to be 40 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. The proposed minor revisions to the FY15 NOFA and Housing Counseling Grant Charts do not affect the previously estimated time to complete the charts which were also submitted in FY14. Previous PRA submissions for this form were made under OMB Control Number 2502-0261 Housing Counseling Program under the Office of Housing Counseling (OHC),, Office of Housing.
Signature of Senior Official or designee: Brian N. Siebenlist, Director, Office of Policy and Grant Administration, Office of Housing Counseling						Date:	For OIRA Use _______________ ______________

**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date.

OMB FORM 83-C 10/95