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Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant websites. For
this reason, please do not include in
your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive
personal information or proprietary
information. If you send an email
comment, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comments that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Kendall
Carpenter at 703.705.6376 or at
Kendall.Carpenter@HQ.DHS.GOV.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
of Emergency Communications (OEC),
formed under Title XVIII of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002, 6
U.S.C. 571 et seq., as amended, provides
emergency communications-related
technical assistance at no charge to
State, regional, local, and tribal
government officials. To receive this
technical assistance, stakeholders must
submit a request form identifying their
priorities. In order for OEC to assess the
value of the services it provides through
technical assistance, an evaluation form
is also requested of those receiving
technical assistance.
OEC uses the Technical Assistance
Request Form (DHS Form 9043) to
identify the number and type of
technical assistance services needed by
the State, territory, local, and tribal
agencies. This information enables OEC
to plan and align resources accordingly.
OEC considers each request based on
the priority indicated by the State, as
well as the anticipated impact of the
service offering on the implementation
of the Statewide Communication
Interoperability Plan (SCIP) and the
applicability to National Emergency
Communications Plan (NECP). The
evaluation form (DHS Form 9042) is
completed by stakeholders at the
completion of OEC technical assistance
services and enables OEC to assess the
quality of technical assistance services
provided and, in a holistic fashion,
measure the value of the services. The
information collected through these
evaluations is used by OEC for
continued improvement planning.
Approximately 100 percent of request
and evaluation forms are submitted

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electronically by logging into the portal
at https://www.dhs.gov/ictapscipresources. From the website, users are
able to select the appropriate form,
either the Technical Assistance
Requests (DHS Form 9043) and/or the
TA Evaluation forms (DHS Form 9042),
to complete as a fillable PDF. Each form
is then submitted by email to either
TARequest@hq.dhs.gov or
TAevaluations@hq.dhs.gov,
respectively.
The changes to the collection since
the previous OMB approval include:
Updating the web address, decreasing
the estimated number of responses,
decreasing the burden time, and
increasing the cost estimates.
This is a renewal of an information
collection.
OMB is particularly interested in
comments that:
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,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. 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 submissions
of responses.
Title of Collection: Technical
Assistance Request and Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 1670–0023.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal,
and Territorial Governments.
Number of Respondents: 175.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 50 hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $0.
Scott Libby,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.

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60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Public Housing 5-Year and
Annual PHA Plan and MTW
Supplement to the PHA Plan
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, PIH, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 30 days of public
comment.

SUMMARY:

Comments Due Date: December
10, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone 202–402–3400
(this is not a toll-free number) or email
at Colette.Pollard@hud.gov for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Arlette Mussington, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives,
PIH, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room
3178, Washington, DC 20410; telephone
202–402–4109, (this is not a toll-free
number). Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number via TTY by calling the Federal
Information Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339. Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Mussington.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
DATES:

A. Overview of Information Collection

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Plan and MTW Supplement to the PHA
Plan.
OMB Approval Number: 2577–0226.
Type of Request: Revision of currently
approved collection.
Form Number(s): HUD–50075–5Y,
HUD–50075–ST, HUD–50075–SM,
HUD–50075–HCV, HUD–50075–HP,
HUD–50075–MTW, HUD–50077–CR,
HUD–50077–SL, HUD–50077–CRT–SM,
and HUD–50077–ST–HCV–HP.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was
created by section 5A of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437c–1). There are two different PHA
Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the
Annual Plan. The Five-Year Plan
describes the agency’s mission, longrange goals and objectives for achieving
its mission over a five-year period. The
Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive
guide to PHA policies, programs,
operations, and strategies for meeting
local housing needs and goals. This
revision integrates the MTW
Supplement to the Annual PHA Plan
process for PHAs that join MTW under
the 2016 Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW
Expansion).
The PHA Plans informs HUD,
residents, and the public of the PHA’s
mission for serving the needs of low,
very low-income, and extremely lowincome families and its strategy for
addressing those needs. This
information helps provide
accountability to the local community
for how PHAs spend their funding and
implement their policies. Also, PHA
plans allow HUD to monitor the
performance of programs and the
performance of public housing agencies
that administer them.
HUD’s most recent action in July of
2016 was to revise the collection in
response to public comments urging
HUD to return to earlier multiple
versions of the PHA Plan templates by
specific PHA type (e.g. standard, small,
high performer, Section 8 only) instead
of a ‘‘One-Size Fits All’’ form. HUD also
added a section to accommodate the
new requirements of the Affirmatively
Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule,
other public comments from 2013, and
a minor change made in late 2014. OMB
approved the changes as a full revision,
but the 2016 versions of the forms were
not made public due to ongoing changes
to AFFH policies.
With this current proposed
information collection, HUD intends to
add a new template titled HUD–50075–
MTW, and further modify the 5-Year
and Annual PHA Plan Templates as
well as the accompanying certifications
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(1) Revise the instructions provided
on the Assessment of Fair Housing
(AFH) ensuring that program
participants continue to conduct the
Analysis of Impediments (AI) to fair
housing until they are required to
submit an AFH.
(2) Create a new section on all
certifications to give program
participants the option to add an
explanation when they cannot certify to
being fully compliant with the stated
regulations.
(3) Specify on related certifications
that the signed acknowledgement of the
‘authorizing official’ must be of the PHA
Executive Director (ED) and Board
Chairperson.
(4) Add the Moving to Work (MTW)
Supplement template to the collections
which will serve as the reporting
mechanism to the Department for the
new 100 MTW agencies that will be
designated pursuant to the MTW
Expansion authorized by the
Appropriations Act of 2016 (i.e., MTW
Expansion).
Finally, the burden hours of the
collection will increase by 600 hours
due to an estimated 6.0 hours needed
per MTW Supplement applicable to 100
new MTW agencies. However, it should
be noted that, due to the de-coupling of
Capital Fund Program activities from
PHA Plan submissions in 2016, (HUD–
50075.1 and HUD–50075.2 Capital Fund
Annual Statement/Performance and
Evaluation Report and 5-Year Action
Plan forms), the associated burden
hours (10,070) were removed from the
approval for the PHA Plan under OMB
no. 2577–0226. Therefore, the added
burden of the MTW Supplement is
relatively minor.
Revisions are made to this collection
to reflect adjustments in calculations
based on the total number of current,
active public housing agencies (PHAs)
to date. The number of active public
housing agencies has changed from
3,819 to 3,780 since the last approved
information collection. The number of
PHAs can fluctuate due to many factors,
including but not limited to
performance scoring, the merging of two
or more PHAs or the termination of the
public housing and/or voucher
programs due to the Rental Assistance
Demonstration (RAD).
Respondents (i.e., affected public):
Local, Regional and State Body
Corporate Politic Public Housing
Agencies (PHAs) Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
3,780.
Estimated Number of Responses:
4,832 (Annual Plan: 1,052 and 5 Year
Plan: 3,780).

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Frequency of Response: Every five
years for all PHAs, annually for all
PHAs except HERA Qualified PHAs.
Average Hours per Response: 6.2 hrs.
Total Estimated Burdens: 12,371.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information 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.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: September 26, 2018.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Director, Office of Policy, Program and
Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
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Notice of Proposed Information
Collection to OMB: Emergency
Comment Request, Indian Housing
Block Grant (IHBG) Competitive
Program
Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
ACTION: Notice of proposed information
collection.
AGENCY:

The proposed information
collection requirement described below
has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
emergency review and approval, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act. The Department is soliciting public
comments on the subject proposal.

SUMMARY:

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