The agency will respond to all comments received on the proposed rule.
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The Physical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a projection of capital needs to address long term repairs and replacements of physical property components for real estate. All PHAs will complete a PNA once every 5 years, will update the PNA annually, and will submit information electronically to HUD. The information is used by PHAs as a strategic and capital planning tool. The information uploaded to HUD will be used for aggregation of an estimate of the capital needs across the Public Housing portfolio and evaluation of the impact of the Capital Fund in meeting the physical needs based upon review of the annual updates.
a. The proposed PNA requirement would represent a greater detail in data collected and would project needs over a 20 year period instead of only 5 years. The quality assurance process would also entail additional burden for those PHAs selected for sampling. This program change is estimated to increase burden by 82,264 hours annually.
b. Information collection #2577-0157 included 47,740 hours for the new PNA including annual updating. These hours are proposed to be transferred from that previous data collection into this data collection representing the adjustment of 47,740 hours bringing the total hours to 130,004.
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.