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State and county

Location and case
No.

Orange (FEMA
Docket No.: B–
1640).
Orange (FEMA
Docket No.: B–
1640).

City of Irvine (16–
09–0513P).

Orange (FEMA
Docket No.: B–
1622).
Ventura (FEMA
Docket No.: B–
1622).
Nevada:
Clark (FEMA
Docket No.: B–
1622).

City of San
Clemente (16–
09–0544P).
City of Simi Valley
(15–09–3074P).

City of Lake Forest
(16–09–0513P).

Unincorporated
areas of Clark
County (16–09–
0518P).

Chief executive officer of community
The Honorable Steven S. Choi, Ph.D.,
Mayor, City of Irvine, 1 Civic Center
Plaza, Irvine, CA 92606.
The Honorable Andrew Hamilton, Mayor,
City of Lake Forest, 25550
Commercentre Drive, Suite 100, Lake
Forest, CA 92630.
The Honorable Bob Baker, Mayor, City
of San Clemente, 100 Avenida Presidio, San Clemente, CA 92672.
The Honorable Bob Huber, Mayor, City
of Simi Valley, 2929 Tapo Canyon
Road, Simi Valley, CA 93063.

City Hall, 1 Civic Center
Plaza, Irvine, CA 92606.

The Honorable Steve Sisolak, Chairman,
Board of Supervisors, Clark County,
500 South Grand Central Parkway,
6th Floor, Las Vegas, NV 89106.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2016–0025; OMB No.
1660–0026]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; State
Administrative Plan for the Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Federal Emergency
Management Agency, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on an extension, without
change, of a currently approved
information collection. In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, this notice seeks comments
concerning the State Administrative
Plan for the procedural guide that
details how the State will administer the
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate
submissions to the docket, please use
only one of the following means to
submit comments:
(1) Online. Submit comments at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2016–0025. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
(2) Mail. Submit written comments to
Docket Manager, Office of Chief

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City Hall, 25550
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Commercentre Drive, Suite
100, Lake Forest, CA 92630.

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City Hall, 100 Avenida Presidio, San Clemente, CA
92672.
City Hall, 2929 Tapo Canyon
Road, Simi Valley, CA
93063.

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Office of the Director of Public
Works, 500 South Grand
Central Parkway, Las
Vegas, NV 89155.

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Collection of Information
Title: State Administrative Plan for
the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program

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Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street SW.,
8NE, Washington, DC 20472–3100.
All submissions received must
include the agency name and Docket ID.
Regardless of the method used for
submitting comments or material, all
submissions will be posted, without
change, to the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov,
and will include any personal
information you provide. Therefore,
submitting this information makes it
public. You may wish to read the
Privacy Act notice that is available via
the link in the footer of
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nicole LaRosa, Grants Policy Branch,
Mitigation Division, at (202) 646–3906.
You may contact the Records
Management Division for copies of the
proposed collection of information at
email address: FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA
regulations in 44 CFR 206.437 require
development and update of the State
Administrative Plan by State Grantees
as a condition of receiving Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
funding under section 404 of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act of 1988, 42
U.S.C. 5170c. Grantees can be any State
of the United States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and
the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, or an Indian tribal
government that chooses to act as a
grantee. Section 404 mandates FEMA
approval of the State Administrative
Plan before awarding any project grant
assistance to a community or State
applicant.

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Type of Information Collection:
Extension, without change, of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0026.
FEMA Forms: None.
Abstract: The State Administrative
Plan is a procedural guide that details
how the State will administer the
HMGP. The State must have a current
administrative plan approved by the
appropriate FEMA Regional
Administrator before receiving HMGP
funds. The administrative plan may take
any form including a chapter within a
comprehensive State mitigation program
strategy.
Affected Public: State, local or Tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 32.
Number of Responses: 64.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 512.
Estimated Cost: $21,847.04.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as
indicated in the ADDRESSES caption
above. Comments are solicited to (a)
evaluate whether the proposed data
collection is necessary for the proper
performance of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) 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,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.

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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 229 / Tuesday, November 29, 2016 / Notices

Dated: November 22, 2016.
Richard W. Mattison
Records Management Program Chief, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5976–N–02]

Housing Opportunity Through
Modernization Act of 2016: Solicitation
of Comments on Implementation of
Public Housing Income Limit
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice for comment.
AGENCY:

On July 29, 2016, President
Obama signed into law the Housing
Opportunity Through Modernization
Act of 2016 (HOTMA). One of the
statutory amendments made by HOTMA
adds an income limit to the Public
Housing program. This notice informs
the public of how HUD proposes to
implement that income limit and
solicits comments on that methodology.
DATES: Comment Due Date: December
29, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this notice for comment. All
communications must refer to the above
docket number and title. There are two
methods for submitting public
comments.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail.
Comments may be submitted by mail to
the Regulations Division, Office of
General Counsel, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
7th Street SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410–0500.
2. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Interested persons may
submit comments electronically through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly
encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic
submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare
and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to
make comments immediately available
to the public. Comments submitted
electronically through the
www.regulations.gov Web site can be
viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public.
Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.

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No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile
(fax) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications
submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m., weekdays, at the
above address. Due to security measures
at the HUD Headquarters building, an
advance appointment to review the
public comments must be scheduled by
calling the Regulations Division at 202–
708–3055 (this is not a toll-free
number). Individuals with speech or
hearing impairments may access this
number via TTY by calling the Federal
Relay Service at 800–877–8339 (this is
a toll-free number). Copies of all
comments submitted are available for
inspection and downloading at
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have any questions, please send an
email to HOTMAquestions@hud.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On July 29, 2016, President Obama
signed HOTMA into law (Pub. L. 114–
201, 130 Stat. 782). Section 103 places
an income limitation on a public
housing tenancy for families. The law
requires that after a family’s income has
exceeded 120 percent of the area
median income (AMI) for the most
recent two consecutive annual reviews,
a PHA must terminate the family’s
tenancy within 6 months of the second
income determination or charge the
family a monthly rent equal to the
greater of (1) the applicable Fair Market
Rent (FMR); or (2) the amount of
monthly subsidy for the unit including
amounts from the operating and capital
fund. A PHA must notify a family of the
potential changes to monthly rent after
one year of the family’s income
exceeding 120 percent of the AMI.
Pursuant to 24 CFR 960.503, this section
does not apply to small PHAs that are
renting to families with income over 120
percent of AMI. Each PHA must submit
a report annually to HUD about the
number of families residing in public
housing with incomes exceeding the
applicable income limitation and the
number of families on the waiting lists
for admission to public housing
projects. Such reports must be
publically available.
Section 103 of HOTMA sets a
maximum amount of annual adjusted
income for a family to occupy a public
housing unit at 120 percent of the AMI.
However, HUD has the ability to adjust
that 120 percent if the Secretary
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because of prevailing levels of
construction costs, or unusually high or
low family incomes, vacancy rates, or
rental costs.
On February 3, 2016, at 81 FR 5677,
HUD published an advanced notice of
proposed rulemaking (ANPR) soliciting
public input on various questions
dealing with the possibility of imposing
an income limit for public housing.1
HUD received 135 comments on the
ANPR, from individuals, PHAs, tenant
advocacy groups, and PHA associations.
Some opposed an income limit, stating
that public housing residents benefit
from being in mixed-income
developments, and that imposing an
income limit that would apply to
everyone would be unfair in areas with
high rents or low demand for the public
housing units. Other commenters
supported an income limit, stating that
encouraging families to move out when
their income reached a certain level
would allow families in the most need
to move into decent and affordable
units.
There were also many suggestions on
how to impose an income limit.
Commenters asked for a maximum
income based on the AMI or a
percentage over the income limits for
admission into public housing. Some
commenters said that incorporating
local housing conditions into the
income limit would be too complicated,
while others stated that not taking local
conditions into account would be unfair
to families. Some commenters stated
that families reaching an income limit
should be given a few months to find
new housing, while others suggested
families be allowed a period of several
years. Some commenters noted that
having an income limit did allow
families with a greater need to move in,
while others wrote that forcing the
highest-income tenants out would
increase the amount of subsidy a PHA
would pay and decrease their ability to
provide affordable housing.
Some of these comments and
questions were made moot by the
passage of HOTMA. However, as HUD
exercises the discretion available in the
new statute, HUD has taken into
account the views and suggestions
already submitted for the ANPR in its
initial methodology factoring in local
housing costs. HUD is providing for 30
days of public comment.
1 The comment period was originally 30 days, but
the comment period was re-opened for an
additional 30 days at 81 FR 12613.

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