Grant application to determine
eligibility for the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance grant
program, to establish grant amounts, and to ensure that technical
requirements are met.
Ms. Chandana L. Achanta
OMB Desk Officer Office of Management and Budget New Executive
Office Building Washington, DC 20503 Dear Ms. Achanta: The
Department is seeking emergency review of the Paperwork Reduction
Act requirements contained in the "Continuum of Care Homeless
Assistance Grant Application. The Notice of Paperwork Submission
(copy enclosed), proposed for immediate Federal Register
publication, explains the burden of the collection requirements and
invites public comments on them. This program is supported by the
information collection for the Continuum of Care Program under OMB
control number 2506-0112. The revised information collection will
significantly reduce the burden of applicants for "Continuum of
Care Homeless Assistance Programs and will create electronic
submission for FY2008. The emergency processing is requested due to
late requirements that address the development of an electronic
submission system. The Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs
is creating this electronic system in response to HUDs requirement
to migrate the majority of its funding opportunities to electronic
submission and to streamline the CoC application project. This will
allow HUD to improve its competitive funding process. The revised
information collection will also address Congressional direction on
improving homeless data collection at the local and national
levels. In compliance with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.13, this
letter requests emergency processing within seven days from the
date of the Federal Register publication of the Notice of
Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB. This
emergency processing is essential to provide much needed funding
for projects serving Americas most vulnerable population. Thank
you for your consideration and assistance. Sincerely, Nelson R.
Bregón General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning
and Development
The burden hours per respondent
were lessened this year by making the application electronic and
removing the collection of HMIS Data and Technical Standards data
from the application process. The collection of HMIS Data and
Technical Standards data will become its own process at a later
date as a separate package. The overall amount of time that it will
take for an applicant to complete the application should also
lessen because the electronic system will ask the applicant for a
piece of information only once, store it in a data base, and then
populate that answer elsewhere in the application where the
information is necessary. We expect the burden hours to decrease
dramatically in the 2009 Competition as CoCs and applicants will be
able to retrieve the information that they submitted in the 2008
Competition from the data base and change only the necessary
items.
$1,392,135
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Ann Oliva 202 402-4497
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form HUD-2991 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Grant Application
83i 2506-0112.doc
Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Grant Application