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regulations of the Public Housing
Operating Fund Program at 24 CFR part
990, which was developed through
negotiated rulemaking. Part 990
provides a new formula for distributing
operating subsidy to public housing
agencies (PHAs) and establishes
requirements for PHAs to convert to
asset management.
Subpart H of the part 990 regulations
(§§ 990.255 to 990.290) establishes the
requirements regarding asset
management. Under § 990.260(a), PHAs
that own and operate 250 or more
dwelling rental units must operate using
an asset management model consistent
with the subpart H regulations.
However, for calendar year 2008, that
regulation is superseded by § 225 of
Title II of Division K of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2008, Public Law
110–161 (approved December 26, 2007).
Under that law, PHAs that own or
operate 400 or fewer units may elect to
transition to asset management, but they
are not required to do so.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2008, Public Law 110–161, also
provided ‘‘ * * * $5,940,000 for
competitive grants and contracts to third
parties for the provision of technical
assistance to public housing agencies
related to the transition and
implementation of asset-based
management in public housing.’’ The
contract now in effect will provide for
web-based training, on-site seminars
and on-site technical assistance to assist
PHAs in implementing asset
management. The Training Evaluation
Form will be used by the Office of
Public and Indian Housing to determine
how the training and technical
assistance can be improved to meet PHA
needs.
Agency form number, if applicable:
Pending.
Members of affected public: Public
housing agencies.
Estimation of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents: The estimated number of
respondents is 29,288 annually with one
response per respondent. The average
number for each response is .033 hours,
for a total reporting burden of 966
hours.
Status of the proposed information
collection: New collection.
Authority: Section 3506 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.

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Dated: May 20, 2010.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Programs, and Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWO220000–
L10200000.PH0000.00000000; OMB Control
Number 1004–0019]

Information Collection; Grazing
Management
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: 30-day Notice and Request for
Comments.
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for a 3-year extension of OMB
Control Number 1004–0019 under the
Paperwork Reduction Act. The
respondents are individuals,
households, farms and businesses
interested in cooperating with the BLM
in constructing or maintaining range
improvement projects to aid in handling
and caring for domestic livestock
authorized by BLM to graze on public
lands.
DATES: The OMB is required to respond
to this information collection request
within 60 days but may respond after 30
days. Therefore, written comments
should be received on or before June 25,
2010 in order to be assured of
consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior (OMB #1004–
0019), Office of Management and
Budget, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, fax 202–395–5806,
or by electronic mail at
[email protected]. Please mail a
copy of your comments to: Bureau
Information Collection Clearance Officer
(WO–630), Department of the Interior,
1849 C Street, NW., Mail Stop 401 LS,
Washington, DC 20240. You may also
send a copy of your comments by
electronic mail to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard Mayberry, Bureau of Land
Management, Rangeland Resources
Division, at (202) 912–7229. Persons
who use a telecommunication device for
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
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1–800–877–8339, 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, to contact Mr. Mayberry.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Grazing Management (43 CFR
4120).
OMB Number: 1004–0019.
Forms: 4120–6 (Cooperative Range
Improvement Agreement), and 4120–7
(Range Improvement Permit).
Abstract: The Bureau of Land
Management proposes to extend the
currently approved collections of
information, which enables the BLM to
make decisions regarding proposed
range improvement projects.
60–Day Notice: On January 25, 2010,
the BLM published a 60-day notice (75
FR 3914) requesting comments on the
proposed information collection. The
comment period ended on March 26,
2010. One comment was received. The
comment did not address, and was not
germane to, this information collection;
rather, it was a general invective about
the Department of the Interior, the BLM,
and Washington politicians. Therefore,
we have no response to the comment.
Current Action: This proposal is being
submitted to extend the expiration date
of May 31, 2010.
Type of Review: 3-year extension.
Affected Public: Individuals,
households, farms and businesses.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Annual Responses: 1,216.
Annual Burden Hours: 1,799.
There is no filing fee associated with
each of these information collections.
The BLM requests comments on the
following subjects:
1. Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
functioning of the BLM, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. The accuracy of the BLM’s estimate
of the burden of collecting the
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
3. The quality, utility and clarity of
the information to be collected; and
4. How to minimize the information
collection burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other forms of
information technology.
Please send comments to the
addresses listed under ADDRESSES.
Please refer to OMB control number
1004–0019 in your correspondence.
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
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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
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Jean Sonneman,
Acting Information Collection Clearance
Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Concession Contracts; Implementation
of Alternate Valuation Formula for
Leasehold Surrender Interest in the
Signal Mountain Lodge and Leek’s
Marina Proposed Concession
Contract, Grand Teton National Park
National Park Service; Interior.
Notice.

AGENCY:

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ACTION:

SUMMARY: The National Park Service
(NPS), by notice in the Federal Register
dated February 1, 2010, invited public
comments on a proposed alternative
formula for the valuation of leasehold
surrender interest (LSI) pursuant to
authority contained in Public Law 105–
391 enacted in 1998 (the 1998 Act) to
be included in its proposed concession
contract GRTE003–11 for operation of
the Signal Mountain Lodge and Leeks
Marina at Grand Teton National Park
(new contract). NPS invites further
public comment in the proposed LSI
alternative.
DATES: Public comments will be
accepted on or before June 25, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Ms. Jo
Pendry, Chief, Commercial Services
Program, National Park Service, 1201
Eye Street, NW., 11th Floor,
Washington, DC 20005, or via e-mail at
[email protected] or via fax at 202–
371–2090.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo
Pendry, Chief Commercial Services
Program, 202–513–7156.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public
comments received in response to the
February 1, 2010, Federal Register
notice regarding the proposed LSI
alternative expressed concerns, among
other matters, that the notice did not
contain a sufficient explanation of the
relationship of the proposed LSI
alternative to the objectives of providing
a fair return to the government and
fostering competition for the new
contract. For this reason, NPS considers
it appropriate to provide a further
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proposed LSI alternative. Although
NPS, among other matters, is
considering the possibility of changing
the currently proposed LSI provisions of
the new contract with respect to the
treatment of fixtures for LSI purposes,
the NPS will not make a final
administrative decision in regard to the
proposed LSI alternative until after full
consideration of all public comments
received in response to both this and the
February 1, 2010, Federal Register
notice. The submission date for
proposals for the new contract has been
extended to August 10, 2010, by notice
in FedBizOpps (FedBizOpps.gov) under
Solicitation No. GRTE003–11 published
on April 29, 2010.
The standard formula for LSI value for
applicable improvements provided by a
concessioner under a National Park
Service concession contract as defined
in 36 CFR Part 51 (‘‘standard LSI
formula’’) is as follows:
(1) The initial construction cost of the
related capital improvement;
(2) Adjusted by (increased or
decreased) the same percentage increase
or decrease as the percentage increase or
decrease in the Consumer Price Index
from the date the Director approves the
substantial completion of the
construction of the related capital
improvement to the date of payment of
the leasehold surrender interest value;
(3) Less depreciation of the related
capital improvement on the basis of its
condition as of the date of termination
or expiration of the applicable leasehold
surrender interest concession contract,
or, if applicable, the date on which a
concessioner ceases to utilize a related
capital improvement (e.g., where the
related capital improvement is taken out
of service by the Director pursuant to
the terms of a concession contract).
However, Section 405(a)(4) of Public
Law 105–391 authorizes the inclusion of
alternative LSI value formulas in
concession contracts (such as the new
contract) estimated to have an LSI value
in excess of $10,000,000. Under this
authority, the proposed LSI alternative
is as follows:
(1) Initial LSI Value. The reduction of
the initial LSI value under the new
contract on a monthly straight line
depreciation basis applying a 40-year
recovery period regardless of asset class.
There is no adjustment of the initial LSI
value as a result of the installation
(including replacement) of fixtures in
the related capital improvements during
the term of the proposed contract; and
(2) New LSI Value. The reduction of
the LSI value in any new structures or
major rehabilitations constructed during
the term of the new contract to be based
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apply a 40-year recovery period (on a
monthly basis) with no asset class
distinctions. The construction cost of
new capital improvements will include
the costs of installed fixtures. Any
installation (or replacement) of fixtures
after the initial construction would not
alter the established LSI value in the
improvements.
Section 405(a)(4) of the 1998 Act
requires NPS, in certain circumstances,
to determine that use of the LSI
alternative, in comparison to the
standard LSI formula, is necessary in
order to provide a fair return to the
government and to foster competition
for the new contract by providing a
reasonable opportunity for profit to the
new concessioner.
With regard to a fair return to the
government, under the standard LSI
formula the amount of money paid (by
the government, directly or indirectly)
for LSI as of the expiration of the new
contract is inevitably speculative at the
time of contract solicitation, contract
award, and during the contract term.
This is because the future rate of the
Consumer Price Index (CPI), the amount
of future physical depreciation that will
occur, and the cost to cure such future
physical depreciation, must all be
estimated in advance of the new
contract by both NPS and prospective
concessioners.
As a consequence, if the NPS were to
establish the required minimum
franchise fee for the new contract under
the terms of the standard LSI formula,
that minimum fee necessarily would
incorporate speculative estimates of
these factors. Likewise, if a prospective
concessioner offered to meet or exceed
the minimum franchise fee established
by NPS under the standard LSI formula,
its business decision would necessarily
be made in reliance on speculative
estimates of future CPI and future
physical depreciation of LSI
improvements.
If the NPS depreciation and CPI
assumptions made at the time of
contract solicitation ultimately prove to
be inaccurate, its minimum franchise
fee will result in a less than fair return
to the government. NPS therefore
believes, subject to review of public
comments, that the proposed LSI
alternative, in comparison to the
standard LSI formula, will better
provide a fair return to the government
under the new contract.
NPS also believes (again, subject to
review of public comments) that
eliminating the speculative aspect of LSI
value will help foster competition for
the new contract by providing a
reasonable opportunity to make a profit.
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