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through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Information Relay Service at
(800) 877–8339. (Other than the HUD
USER information line and TTY
numbers, telephone numbers are not
toll-free.)
Update
Random Digit Dialing (RDD) surveys
were completed in October 2008 for the
following FMR areas: New Orleans—
Metairie—Kenner, LA MSA,
Hattiesburg, MS MSA, and Pearl River
County, MS. These RDDs were begun in
August 2008 but were interrupted by
Hurricane Ike and so not completed

until October 2008. The RDD survey for
Hattiesburg, MS indicated a slight
decline in rents in that metropolitan
area, but the difference in rents was
within the confidence interval of the
survey result so no change in the FMR
is indicated. Survey results for Pearl
River show an increase in market rents
over the published FY2009 FMR.
New Orleans was surveyed at the
request of program sponsors in response
to evidence that the New Orleans rental
market and the Section 8 program were
being adversely affected by the FMR
bonus applied to the New Orleans FMR

in FY2006 to facilitate program
operations after hurricanes Katrina and
Rita. The New Orleans survey indicates
that current market rents in New
Orleans are lower than the FY2009 FMR
published on September 29, 2008. This
revision to the New Orleans FMR
effectively eliminates the Katrinarelated bonus in New Orleans. Because
the rental market appears to be working
again in New Orleans, return of the New
Orleans FMR to its market level is
warranted.
The FMR for the affected areas are
updated as follows:
Number of bedrooms

2009 Fair market rent

New Orleans–Metairie—Kenner, LA MSA .................................................................................................
Pearl River, MS ..........................................................................................................................................

Dated: March 26, 2009.
Jean Lin Pao,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
Development and Research.
[FR Doc. E9–8184 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5280–N–13]

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities
To Assist the Homeless
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This Notice identifies
unutilized, underutilized, excess, and
surplus Federal property reviewed by
HUD for suitability for possible use to
assist the homeless.
DATES: Effective Date: April 10, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street, SW., Room 7262, Washington,
DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234;
TTY number for the hearing- and
speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (these
telephone numbers are not toll-free), or
call the toll-free Title V information line
at 800–927–7588.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the December 12, 1988
court order in National Coalition for the
Homeless v. Veterans Administration,
No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD
publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis,
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excess and surplus Federal buildings
and real property that HUD has
reviewed for suitability for use to assist
the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the
purpose of announcing that no
additional properties have been
determined suitable or unsuitable this
week.
Dated: April 2, 2009.
Mark R. Johnston,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs.
[FR Doc. E9–7889 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Proposed Renewal of Information
Collection: OMB Control Number
1091–0001, Applicant Background
Survey
AGENCY: Office of Civil Rights,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR
1320, which implement the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
(see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d)). This notice
identifies an information collection
activity that the Office of Civil Rights,
Office of the Secretary, Department of
the Interior (DOI) has submitted to OMB
for renewal.

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1219
790

1259
1113

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the information
collection renewal request, but may
respond after 30 days; therefore, public
comments should be submitted to OMB
by May 11, 2009, in order to be assured
of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Send your written
comments by facsimile to 202–395–5806
or e-mail
([email protected]) to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Department of the
Interior Desk Officer (1091–0001). Also,
please send a copy of your comments to
Department of the Interior, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Civil Rights, Attn.
Ophelia Anderson, 1849 C St., NW., MS
5230 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Send
any faxed comments to (202) 208–6112,
attn Ophelia Anderson. Comments may
also be e-mailed to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information on
this information collection or its
Applicant Background Survey Form
should be directed to U.S. Department
of the Interior, Office of the Secretary,
Office of Civil Rights, Attn. Ophelia
Anderson 1849 C St., NW., MS 5230
MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Before
including your address, phone number,
e-mail address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we

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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
DOI is below parity with the Relevant
Civilian Labor Force representation for
many mission critical occupations. The
Department’s Strategic Human Capital
management Plan identifies the job
skills that will be needed in its current
and future workforce. The job skills it
will need are dispersed throughout its
eight bureaus and include, among
others, making visitors welcome to
various facilities, such as parks and
refuges, processing permits for a wide
variety of uses of the public lands,
collecting royalties for minerals
extracted from the public lands,
rounding-up and adopting-out wild
horses and burros found in the west,
protecting archeological and cultural
resources of the public lands, and
enforcing criminal laws of the United
States. As a result of this broad
spectrum of duties and services, the
Department touches the lives of most
Americans.
The people who deal with the
Department bring with them a wide
variety of backgrounds, cultures, and
experiences. A diverse workforce
enables the Department to provide a
measure of understanding to its
customers by relating to the diverse
background of those customers. By
including employees of all backgrounds,
all DOI employees gain a measure of
knowledge, background, experience,
and comfort in serving all of the
Department’s customers.
In order to determine if there are
barriers in our recruitment and selection
processes, DOI must track the
demographic groups that apply for its
jobs. There is no other statistically valid
method to make these determinations,
and no source of this information other
than directly from applicants. The data
collected is not provided to selecting
officials and plays no part in the merit
staffing or the selection processes. The
data collected will be used in summary
form to determine trends covering the
demographic make-up of applicant
pools and job selections within a given
occupation or organizational group. The
records of those applicants not selected
are destroyed in accordance with DOI’s
records management procedures.
II. Data
(1) Title: Applicant Background
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1091–0001.
Current Expiration Date: April 30,
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Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Applicants for DOI
jobs.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 335,820
Frequency of Response: Once per job
application.
(2) Annual reporting and record
keeping burden:
Average reporting burden per
application: 2 minutes.
Total annual reporting: 11,194.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: This information is
required to obtain the source of
recruitment, ethnicity, race, and
disability data on job applicants to
determine if the recruitment is
effectively reaching all aspects of
relevant labor pools and to determine if
there are proportionate acceptance rates
at various stages of the recruitment
process. Response is optional. The
information is used for evaluating
recruitment only, and plays no part in
the selection of who is hired.
As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a
Federal Register notice soliciting
comments on the collection of
information was published on
November 28, 2008 (73 FR 72518). No
comments were received. This notice
provides the public with an additional
30 days in which to comment on this
information collection activity.
III. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
information collection on respondents,
including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons
to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
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transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
All written comments will be
available for public inspection in the
Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street,
NW., Washington, DC during normal
business hours, excluding legal
holidays. For an appointment to inspect
comments, please contact Ophelia
Anderson by telephone on (202) 219–
0805, or by e-mail at
[email protected]. A valid
picture identification is required for
entry into the Department of the
interior.
Dated: April 6, 2009.
Sharon Eller,
Director, Office of Civil Rights, Office of the
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9–8179 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–RE–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Proposed Renewal of Information
Collection: OMB Control Number
1094–0001, Alternatives Process in
Hydropower Licensing
Office of the Secretary, Interior.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:

SUMMARY: In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of
Environmental Policy and Compliance,
Office of the Secretary, Department of
the Interior announces the proposed
extension of a public information
collection and seeks public comments
on the provisions thereof.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by June 9, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Send your written
comments to the Linda S. Thomas, U.S.
Department of the Interior, Office of the
Secretary, 1951 Constitution Avenue,
NW., MS 115 SIB, Washington, DC
20240, phone 202–208–7294, fax 202–
219–2374, or by electronic mail to
[email protected]. Please mention
that your comments concern the
Alternatives Process in Hydropower
Licensing, OMB Control 1094–0001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the information
collection request, any explanatory
information and related forms, contact
Linda S. Thomas, U.S. Department of
the Interior, Office of the Secretary,
1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., MS
115 SIB, Washington, DC 20240, phone
202–208–7294, fax 202–219–2374, or by
electronic mail to
[email protected].

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