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beneficiaries have been subject to
multiple, overlapping periods of
potential TPS validity due to the
ongoing litigation. They also have not
been required to re-register for several
years. Therefore, this extended reregistration period allows this
population of beneficiaries to more
easily comply with the re-registration
requirement, which could avoid placing
additional burdens on these reregistrants. In addition, permitting reregistration throughout the entirety of
the designation extension period could
reduce the operational burden on
USCIS; reviewing and adjudicating latefiled re-registration applications that
may occur as a result of the 60-day
period due to lack of awareness of the
re-registration requirement that these
particular beneficiaries are more likely
to experience because of the protracted
litigation and subsequent TPS actions to
continue documentation, would require
additional resources.
Alejandro N. Mayorkas,
Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7076–N–19]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Public Housing Agency
(PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan; OMB
Control No.: 2577–0226
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 60 days of public
comment.

SUMMARY:

Comments Due Date: February
12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection can be submitted
within 60 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting

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‘‘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 can be sent
to: Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC
20410–5000 or email at
PaperworkReductionActOffice@
hud.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Colette Pollard, Management Analyst,
Reports Management Officer, REE,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov, 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 or
communication disabilities. To learn
more about how to make an accessible
telephone call, please visit https://
www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/
telecommunications-relay-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.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Public
Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and
Annual Plan.
OMB Approval Number: 2577–0226.
Type of Request: Revision of currently
approved collection.
Form Number(s): HUD–50075–5Y,
HUD–50075–HCV, HUD–50075–HP,
HUD–50075–MTW, HUD–50075–SM,
HUD–50075–ST, HUD–50077–CR,
HUD–50077–CRT–SM HUD–50077–ST–
HCV–HP and HUD–50077–SL.
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
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50075–HCV form and the automation of
all the PHA Plan forms including the
Moving to Work (MTW) Supplement for
PHAs that joined the MTW
Demonstration under the 2016
Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW
Expansion).
PHA Plans are needed to inform the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), residents, and the
public of the PHA’s mission and
strategy for serving the needs of low
income, very low-income, and
extremely low- income families in the
PHA’s jurisdiction. This information
helps provide accountability to the local
community for how PHAs spend their
funding and implement their policies.
The PHA Plan submission also includes
various certifications to confirm that
PHAs will abide by all Federal civil
rights laws and that the PHA Plan is
consistent with the applicable
Consolidated Plan.
PHA plans also allow HUD to monitor
the performance of programs and the
performance of the public housing
agencies that administer them. Since
2000, HUD has taken several steps to
reduce the administrative burden of the
PHA Plan submission including the use
of streamlined plan submissions for
certain PHA based on size and
performance. Most recently, the
Housing and Economic Reform Act
(HERA) removed the requirement for
qualified PHAs to submit an annual
PHA Plan and to only submit the 5-year
Plan. A ‘‘qualified PHA’’ is one that
manages 550 or fewer public housing
units and vouchers and is not labeled as
a troubled public housing agency.
Currently, qualified PHA must only
submit an annual certification to
confirm that they will abide by all
Federal civil rights laws.
In January 2021 HUD requested from
OMB that the PHA Plan collection be
reinstated with change. These changes
included a new section to accommodate
the new requirements of the
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
(AFFH) Rule and the introduction of the
MTW Supplement. OMB approved the
changes, reinstated the collections and
HUD made the new templates available
to PHAs on the HUD website as
individual word processing files. After
publication, HUD made subsequent
minor changes to the forms and
certifications to remove unnecessary
sections, make minor edits and to
account for updated or removed
regulatory citations. Additionally, HUD
took steps to automate the MTW
supplement in the Housing Information
Portal (HIP).
With this current proposed
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automate all PHA Plan templates and
certifications in the web based Public
Housing Portal (formerly known as the
Operating Fund Web Portal). While the
templates will be automated, the
content and required elements will be
with same with minor modifications as
needed. Modifications to the collection
include the following:
(1) HUD is adding an additional
element to the HUD–50075–HCV form.
The revised HUD–50075–HCV form will
include an additional element requiring
Section 8 only PHAs to report on their
Project Based Voucher (PBV) activities.
This template will be used by HCV-only
PHA’s that administer the Housing
Choice Voucher (HCV) program which
may also include PBV developments.
(2) HUD is adding an optional feature
for PHA’s to attach their written
Admission and Continued Occupancy
Policy (ACOP) or Administrative Plan
documents to their Five-Year Plan and
Annual Plan submissions. This will
create a centralized database of all local
PHA policies which currently can only
be found at each individual PHA or on
their websites.
(3) HUD will now require complete
electronic submission from all PHAs.
Currently, PHA Plan templates are

Number of
respondents

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Form
Form
Form
Form
Form
Form
Form

downloaded, edited, and submitted as
email attachments which must then be
individually uploaded, analyzed and
organized by HUD. Automating the PHA
Plan forms will make the PHA Plan
review process more efficient by
streamlining the submission and
reducing the administrative burden on
both HUD and the PHA. HUD estimated
that automating the PHA Plan form will
reduce both the PHA and HUD
administrative burden by approximately
25% each. Electronic submission and
collection of this information will also
make future data and policy analysis
feasible.
Overall, the burden hours associated
with the collection is expected to
decrease by 2,024 hours due to the
automation of the PHA Plan templates.
Additional time may be required in the
first year to train PHAs on the system,
however, because the Public Housing
Portal is an existing HUD system that
PHAs use and are familiar with, this
burden is expected to go down in
subsequent years. Accordingly, the
additional burden of the one-time
training is not expected to exceed the
time savings created by the system.
Finally, revisions were made to this
collection to reflect adjustments in
Frequency of
response

Responses
per annum

Burden hour
per response

calculations based on the total number
of current, active public housing
agencies (PHAs) to date. Since the last
approved information collection, the
number of active public housing
agencies has changed from
approximately 3,780 to 3,763. 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: Local, Regional and
State Body Corporate Politic Public
Housing Agencies (PHAs) Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
3,763.
Estimated Number of Responses:
4,570 (Certifications: 2,321 [Qualified
PHAs], Annual Plans: 1,496 and 5-Year
Plans: 753 [3,763/5]).
Frequency of Response: Once every
five years for all PHAs (5-Year Plan),
annually for all PHAs except HERA
Qualified PHAs (Annual Plans), and
annually for all PHAs (certifications).
Average Hours per Response: 5.07
hours.
Total Estimated Burdens: 12,590
hours.
Annual burden hours

Hourly
cost per
response

Annual cost

HUD–50075–ST ......................................
HUD–50075–SM ......................................
HUD–50075–HP ......................................
HUD–50075–HCV ...................................
HUD–50075–MTW ..................................
HUD–50077–CR (Qualified PHAs) ..........
HUD–50075–5Y .......................................

796
202
152
246
100
2,321
3,763

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

796
202
152
246
100
2,321
3,763/5

5.64
2.67
5.26
4.52
6.50
0.16
1.23 (6.15/5)

4,489.44
539.74
799.52
1,111.92
650
371.36
4,628.49 (23,142.45/5)

* $26.62
26.62
26.62
26.62
26.62
26.62
26.62

$119.508.89
14,367.99
21,283.22
29,599.31
17,303.00
9,885.60
123,210.40

Total ...........................................................

3,763

1

3,763

25.98

12,590.47

26.62

335,158

* Hourly cost for response assuming a GS–9, Step 5 ($55,564), Executive Assistant, hourly rate is $26.62.

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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
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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.
Nicholas J. Bilka,
Chief, Office of Policy, Programs, and
Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7077–N–27]

Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Records
Office of Fair Housing and
Equal Opportunity, Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
ACTION: Notice of a modified system of
records.
AGENCY:

Pursuant to the provisions of
the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended,
the Department of the Housing and
Urban Development (HUD), Office of
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
(FHEO) is modifying a system of
records, ‘‘HUD Enforcement
Management System’’ (HEMS). The
modification makes updates to: System

SUMMARY:

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