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information collection to take
approximately 30 minutes.
136 respondents × 1⁄2 hour = 68 hours
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and This information
collection is conducted in manner
consistent with the guidelines in 5 CFR
1320.5(d)(2).
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. A complainant may access
the complaint form on the agency
website and may submit a completed
complaint form electronically to the
relevant Component’s EEO Office. The
complaint form can then be directly
uploaded into the DHS EEO Enterprise
Complaints Tracking System, also
known as ‘‘icomplaints.’’
Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).
Title: DHS Individual Complaint of
Employment Discrimination.
OMB Number: 1610–0001.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Affected Public.
Number of Respondents: 1200.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 30
Mins.
Total Burden Hours: 600 Hours.
Robert Dorr,
Executive Director, Business Management
Directorate.
[FR Doc. 2023–05696 Filed 3–20–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7071–N–04; OMB Control
No. 2502–0621]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Housing Counseling Notice
of Funding Opportunity
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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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

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is to allow for 60 days of public
comment.
DATES:

Comments Due Date: May 22,

2023.
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection can be sent
within 60 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 60-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Interested persons are
also invited to submit comments
regarding this proposal by name and/or
OMB Control Number and should be
sent to: Colette Pollard, Reports
Management Officer, REE, Department
of Housing and Urban Development,
451 7th Street SW, Room 4176,
Washington, DC 20410; 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th 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. HUD
welcomes and is prepared to receive
calls from individuals who are deaf or
hard of hearing, as well as individuals
with speech and communication
disabilities. To learn more about how to
make an accessible telephone call,
please visit: https://www.fcc.gov/
consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
ADDRESSES:

A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Housing Counseling Notice of Funding
Opportunity (NOFO).
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0621.
OMB Expiration Date: June 30, 2023.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Form Numbers: HUD–9906–L; HUD–
9906–P; NOFO 9906 Charts (A, B, E);
HUD 424–CB; HUD–2880; SF–424; SF–
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Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: This is a
revision of the collection because minor
and clarifying revisions were made to
the Form 9906 and its supplemental
charts. This information is collected in
connection with HUD’s Housing
Counseling Program and will be used by
HUD to determine that the Housing
Counseling grant applicant meets the
requirements of the Notice of Funding
Opportunity (NOFO). Information
collected is also used to assign points
for awarding grant funds on a
competitive and equitable basis. HUD’s
Office of Housing Counseling will also
use the information to provide housing
counseling services through private or
public organizations with special
competence and knowledge in
counseling low and moderate-income
families. The information is collected
from housing counseling agencies that
participate in HUD’s Housing
Counseling Program. The information is
collected via the Form 9906 (grant
application chart) and its supplemental
charts.
Respondents: Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
300.
Estimated Number of Responses: 300.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Hours per Response: 40.
Total Estimated Burden: 12,000.
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.

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welcomes and is prepared to receive
calls from individuals who are deaf or
hard of hearing, as well as individuals
with speech and communication
disabilities. To learn more about how to
make an accessible telephone call,
please visit https://www.fcc.gov/
consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs. HUD encourages
submission of questions about this
document be sent to
BuildAmericaBuyAmerica@hud.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Jeffrey D. Little,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Housing.
[FR Doc. 2023–05691 Filed 3–20–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. 6331–N–10A]

Public Interest Phased Implementation
Waiver for FY 2022 and 2023 of Build
America, Buy America Provisions as
Applied to Recipients of HUD Federal
Financial Assistance
Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the Build
America, Buy America Act (‘‘BABA’’ or
‘‘the Act’’) this notice advises that HUD
has issued a public interest waiver of
the Buy America Domestic Content
Procurement Preference (‘‘Buy America
Preference,’’ or ‘‘BAP’’) for recipients of
Federal Financial Assistance (‘‘FFA’’)
provided by HUD as set forth below.
This notice provides a waiver and sets
forth an updated implementation
schedule for application of the BAP to
HUD FFA. HUD is also announcing its
BAP implementation schedule for all
HUD FFA used to purchase iron or steel
products in infrastructure projects in
HUD programs, other than the CDBG
formula grants addressed in the
November 23, 2022, waiver. HUD is also
announcing its BAP implementation
schedule for the purchase of four
specifically-listed construction
materials: non-ferrous metals; lumber;
composite building materials; and
plastic and polymer-based pipe and
tube (herein after referred to as
‘‘specifically-listed construction
materials’’), all manufactured products,
and all other construction materials.
DATES: March 15, 2023. This waiver is
effective as stated herein for FFA
obligated by HUD on or after the
effective date of the waiver until the
implementation deadlines for the BAP
as specifically shown below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Faith Rogers, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street SW, Room 10126, Washington,
DC 20410–5000, at (202) 402–7082 (this
is not a toll-free number). HUD

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I. Build America, Buy America
The Build America, Buy America Act
(‘‘BABA’’ or ‘‘the Act’’) was enacted on
November 15, 2021, as part of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(‘‘IIJA’’) (Pub. L. 117–58). The Act
establishes a domestic content
procurement preference, the BAP, for
Federal infrastructure programs. Section
70914(a) of the Act establishes that no
later than 180 days after the date of
enactment, HUD must ensure that none
of the funds made available for
infrastructure projects may be obligated
by the Department unless it has taken
steps to ensure that the iron, steel,
manufactured products, and
construction materials used in a project
are produced in the United States. In
section 70912, the Act further defines a
project to include ‘‘the construction,
alteration, maintenance, or repair of
infrastructure in the United States’’ and
includes within the definition of
infrastructure those items traditionally
included along with buildings and real
property. Thus, starting May 14, 2022,
new awards of HUD FFA, and any of
those newly obligated funds by HUD
then obligated by the grantee for
infrastructure projects, are covered
under BABA provisions of the Act, 41
U.S.C. 8301 note, unless covered by a
waiver.
II. HUD’s Progress in Implementation of
the Act
Since the enactment of the Act, HUD
has worked diligently to implement the
BAP. HUD understands that advancing
Made in America objectives is a
continuous effort and believes this
transparent schedule of future
implementation will provide industry
partners and FFA recipients with the
time and notice necessary to efficiently
and effectively implement the BAP.
HUD’s plans to move forward with the
implementation of the new BAP
requirements as set forth in this notice
are designed to maximize coordination
and collaboration to support long-term
investments in domestic production.
HUD will continue its efforts to
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guidance and requirements of the Made
in America Office of the Office of
Management and Budget, including
anticipated guidance concerning
appropriate compliance with the BAP.
In order to ensure orderly
implementation of the BAP across
HUD’s programs, HUD has provided
public interest, general applicability
waivers in order to implement the BAP
in phases in connection with the
application of the BAP across HUD’s
FFA programs and to provide HUD with
sufficient time to solicit information
from the public relating to the agency’s
implementation of the BAP in
connection with FFA awards made by
HUD. HUD has previously published
general applicability, public interest
waivers to the BAP to provide the
agency with sufficient time to solicit
information from the public relating to
the agency’s implementation of the BAP
in connection with FFA awards made
by HUD. On November 23, 2022, HUD
issued a separate waiver covering all
HUD FFA obligated by HUD on or
before February 21, 2023, with the
exception of the BAP as to the purchase
of iron and steel for infrastructure
projects funded by Community
Development Block Grant (‘‘CDBG’’)
formula grants on or after November 15,
2022. Separately, HUD waived the
application of the BAP in connection
with HUD FFA provided to Tribes,
Tribally Designated Housing Entities
(‘‘TDHE’’), and other Tribal Entities
(referred to herein as ‘‘Tribal FFA’’) to
allow time for HUD to complete the
Tribal consultation process regarding
implementation of the BAP in
connection with infrastructure projects.
This Notice does not apply to Tribal
FFA covered by that separate waiver.1
Details on HUD’s implementation of
the BABA requirements, including two
public interest waivers covering Exigent
Circumstances and De Minimis and
Small Grants and a separate public
interest waiver for all Tribal FFA, can be
found at https://www.hud.gov/program_
offices/general_counsel/BABA.
III. Waiver Authority
Under section 70914(b), HUD and
other Federal agencies have authority to
waive the application of a domestic
content procurement preference when
(1) application of the preference would
be contrary to the public interest, (2) the
materials and products subject to the
1 General Applicability Waiver of Build America,
Buy America Provisions as Applied to Tribal
Recipients of HUD Federal Financial Assistance
(Effective until May 14, 2023) address Tribes,
Tribally Designated Housing Entities (‘‘TDHE’’), and
other Tribal Entities’ implementation of BABA.
(May 5, 2022, 87 FR 26221).

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