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Register (81 FR 9870) on February 26,
2016, allowing for a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
This process is conducted in accordance
with 5 CFR 1320.10. CBP invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to comment on proposed and/
or continuing information collections
pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C.
3507). The comments should address:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s
estimates of the burden of the collection
of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology; and (e) the annual costs to
respondents or record keepers from the
collection of information (total capital/
startup costs and operations and
maintenance costs). The comments that
are submitted will be summarized and
included in the CBP request for OMB
approval. All comments will become a
matter of public record. In this
document, CBP is soliciting comments
concerning the following information
collection:
Title: Declaration for Free Entry of
Unaccompanied Articles.
OMB Number: 1651–0014.
Form Number: Form 3299.
Abstract: 19 U.S.C. 1498 provides that
when personal and household effects
enter the United States but do not
accompany the owner or importer on
his/her arrival in the country, a
declaration is made on CBP Form 3299,
Declaration for Free Entry of
Unaccompanied Articles. The
information on this form is needed to
support a claim for duty-free entry for
these effects. This form is provided for
by 19 CFR 148.6, 148.52, 148.53 and
148.77. CBP Form 3299 is accessible at:
http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/
documents/CBP%20Form%203299.pdf.
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date with no changes to the burden
hours or to CBP Form 3299.
Type of Review: Extension (without
change).
Affected Public: Businesses and
Individuals.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
150,000.
Estimated Number of Total Annual
Responses: 150,000.

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Estimated Time per Response: 45
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 112,500.
Dated: June 9, 2016.
Tracey Denning,
Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
[FR Doc. 2016–14001 Filed 6–13–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
[1651–0023]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Information
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments; Extension of an existing
collection of information.
AGENCY:

U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) of the Department of
Homeland Security will be submitting
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act: Request for Information
(CBP Form 28). CBP is proposing that
this information collection be extended
with no change to the burden hours or
to the information collected. This
document is published to obtain
comments from the public and affected
agencies.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before July 14, 2016 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
this proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to the OMB Desk Officer for Customs
and Border Protection, Department of
Homeland Security, and sent via
electronic mail to oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Tracey Denning,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
Regulations and Rulings, Office of
Trade, 90 K Street NE., 10th Floor,
Washington, DC 20229–1177, at 202–
325–0265.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposed information collection was
previously published in the Federal
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Register (81 FR 18866) on April 1, 2016,
allowing for a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments. This process
is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.10. CBP invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to comment
on proposed and/or continuing
information collections pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C. 3507). The
comments should address: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimates of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or the use of other forms of
information technology; and (e) the
annual costs to respondents or record
keepers from the collection of
information (total capital/startup costs
and operations and maintenance costs).
The comments that are submitted will
be summarized and included in the CBP
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. In this document, CBP is
soliciting comments concerning the
following information collection:
Title: Request for Information.
OMB Number: 1651–0023.
Form Number: CBP Form 28.
Abstract: Under 19 U.S.C. 1500 and
1401a, Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) is responsible for appraising
imported merchandise by ascertaining
its value; classifying the merchandise
under the tariff schedule; and assessing
a rate and amount of duty to be paid. On
occasions when the invoice or other
documentation does not provide
sufficient information for appraisement
or classification, CBP may request
additional information through the use
of CBP Form 28, Request for
Information. This form is sent by CBP
personnel to importers, or their agents,
requesting additional information. CBP
Form 28 is provided for by 19 CFR
151.11. A copy of this form and
instructions are available at http://
forms.cbp.gov/pdf/CBP_Form_28.pdf.
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date with no change to the burden hours
or to the information collected.
Type of Review: Extension (without
change).
Affected Public: Businesses.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
60,000.

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Estimated Time per Respondent: 2
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 60,000.
Dated: June 9, 2016.
Tracey Denning,
Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
[FR Doc. 2016–14002 Filed 6–13–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5933–N–01]

Notice of Neighborhood Stabilization
Program; Changes to Closeout
Requirements Related to Program
Income
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice describes changes
to closeout requirements applied to and
additional regulations waived for
grantees receiving grants under the three
rounds of funding under the
Neighborhood Stabilization Program
who are also grantees under the
Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) program.
DATES: Effective Date: June 14, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stanley Gimont, Director, Office of
Block Grant Assistance, Office of
Community Planning and Development,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street SW.,
Room 7286, Washington, DC 20410;
telephone number 202–708–3587 (this
is not a toll-free number). Persons with
hearing or speech impairments may
access this number via TTY by calling
the Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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I. Background
The Neighborhood Stabilization
Program (NSP) was established by
Division B, Title III of the Housing and
Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA)
(Pub. L. 110–289, approved July 30,
2008), for the purpose of stabilizing
communities that have suffered from
foreclosures and abandonment. As
established by HERA, NSP provided
grants to all states and selected local
governments on a formula basis. The
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) (Pub. L. 111–
5, approved February 17, 2009)
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awarded to states, local governments,
nonprofits and a consortium of
nonprofit entities, but on a competitive
basis. The Recovery Act also authorized
funding for national and local technical
assistance providers to support NSP
grantees. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act
(Dodd- Frank Act) (Pub. L. 111–203,
approved July 21, 2010) authorized a
third round of Neighborhood
Stabilization grants to all states and
select local governments on a formula
basis.
The purpose of the funds awarded
under the three rounds of NSP is to
target the stabilization of neighborhoods
negatively affected by properties that
have been foreclosed upon and
abandoned. The notice, Notice of
Formula Allocations and Program
Requirements for Neighborhood
Stabilization Program Formula Grants,
published October 19, 2010 (75 FR
64322) (‘‘Unified NSP Notice’’),
provides further background for these
programs, the program principles, and
the objectives and outcomes of the NSP
program. The Notice of Neighborhood
Stabilization Program; Closeout
Requirements and Recapture (Closeout
Notice), published November 27, 2012
(77 FR 70799), amended the Unified
Notice by adding grant closeout and
related provisions. In addition, the
Notice of Fund Availability (NOFA) for
the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
2 under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, 2009, 74 FR 21377
(May 7, 2009), as amended by
subsequent notices (‘‘NSP2 NOFA’’),
includes requirements specific to the
competitive round of funding under the
Recovery Act.
II. This Notice
The primary purpose of this notice is
to revise requirements set forth in the
amended Unified NSP Notice and the
Closeout Notice to revise the treatment
of program income for all three rounds
of NSP by allowing NSP program
income received by a CDBG recipient to
be transferred by the recipient from the
NSP program to the CDBG program.
After the transfer is carried out, any
transferred program income will be
subject to the CDBG program income
regulations. Following publication of
this notice, HUD will update the issued
NSP closeout instructions (Notice CPD
14–02) to conform the instructions for
consideration of program income during
and after closeout of NSP grants.
The Closeout Notice generally
required that with the exception of de
minimis amounts received after grant
closeout, program income generated by
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be used for NSP uses. In attempting to
implement this requirement, HUD has
become aware that it is, in many
instances, administratively unworkable
for NSP grantees and difficult for HUD
to oversee effectively. For NSP grantees
that are generating a substantial amount
of program income, the requirement to
use this program income prior to
drawing additional funds from the
grant’s line of credit is also impeding
their ability to completely expend their
NSP grant funds. Further, some grantees
no longer have an adequate pool of NSPeligible foreclosed or abandoned
properties in their target areas although
they do have other needs that CDBG
funding could be used to address. On
HUD’s part, with dwindling
administrative resources remaining from
those provided for the NSP program, the
inability to achieve the criteria for grant
closeout for these grantees creates a
looming oversight issue.
Several NSP grantees have asked that
HUD reconsider the NSP program
income requirements and allow the
same flexibility for the NSP program
income as is currently allowed for the
CDBG Disaster Recovery (CDBG–DR)
grants under Public Law 113–2. These
requirements allow a grantee to transfer
CDBG–DR program income received
prior to grant closeout to the recipient’s
CDBG program. HUD agrees that this
solution addresses the issues identified
above and so this notice will provide
the same flexibility to any NSP grantee
that is also a CDBG grantee (entitlement
or state) with an open formula
entitlement grant or a unit of general
local government (UGLG) recipient of a
CDBG grant from a state. HUD will not
allow transfer of NSP program income
to the CDBG program if the transfer will
result in the NSP grantee failing to meet
the statutory NSP 25 percent set-aside
requirement for low-income housing. To
prevent such a failure, the grantee must
obtain HUD approval by notifying HUD
in writing prior to a transfer of program
income from NSP to CDBG to permit
HUD’s review of compliance with the
NSP 25 percent requirement. HUD will
notify the grantee of any possible issues.
Based on the data available, HUD
anticipates that issues of this sort will
be uncommon.
Since this notice applies to grantees
receiving grants under any of the three
rounds of NSP funding, the terms NSP1,
NSP2 or NSP3 are used to describe each
of the three funding rounds. When
referring to the grants, grantees, assisted
activities, and implementation rules
under HERA, this notice will use the
term ‘‘NSP1.’’ When referring to the
grants, grantees, assisted activities, and
implementation rules under the

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