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for individual case status inquiries.
Applicants seeking information about
the status of their individual cases can
check Case Status Online, available at
the USCIS Web site at http://
www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS
National Customer Service Center at
(800) 375–5283; TTY (800) 767–1833.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Comments
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions,
or additional information by visiting the
Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
http://www.regulations.gov and enter
USCIS–2007–0012 in the search box.
Written comments and suggestions from
the public and affected agencies should
address one or more of the following
four points:
(1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Action on an Approved
Application or Petition.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the DHS
sponsoring the collection: Form I–824;
USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. Form I–824 is used to
request a duplicate approval notice, or
to notify the U.S. Consulate that a
petition has been approved or that a
person has been adjusted to permanent
resident status.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to

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respond: The estimated total number of
respondents for the information
collection Form I–824 is 12,609 and the
estimated hour burden per response is
.417 hours (25 minutes).
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden associated with this
collection is 5,258.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: The estimated cost burden
associated with this collection of
information is $1,544,602.50.
Dated: September 03, 2015.
Laura Dawkins,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2015–22700 Filed 9–9–15; 8:45 am]
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60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Core Performance
Reporting Requirements for
Competitively-Funded Grants
Office of the Deputy Secretary,

HUD.
ACTION:

Notice.

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: November
9, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone number 202–
402–3400 (this is not a toll-free number)
or email at [email protected].
Copies of the proposed forms and other
information are available by contacting
Ms. Pollard. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollDATES:

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free Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@
hud.gov or by telephone at 202–402–
3400. This is not a toll-free number.
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339.
Requests for copies of the proposed
forms should be submitted to Ms.
Pollard.
This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Overview of Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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Title of Information Collection: Core
Performance Reporting for
Competitively-Funded Grants.
OMB Approval Number: Pending.
Type of Request: Regular.
Type of Information Collection: New.
Form Numbers: HUD–PRL, HUD–
CIRL, HUD–GF.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use:
This request is for the clearance of
data collection and reporting
requirements to enable the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) Office of Strategic
Planning and Management (OSPM) to
better assess the effectiveness of
competitively-funded grants included in
this information collection request
(ICR). The competitively-funded grant
programs included in this ICR are:
Community Development Block Grant
Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska
Native Villages (ICDBG), Family SelfSufficiency Program (FSS), Housing
Counseling (HC), Housing Opportunities
for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA),
JobsPlus Program (Jobs+), Juvenile
Reentry Assistance Program (JRAP),
Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control
(LBPHC), Lead Hazard Reduction
Demonstration (LHRD), Self-Help
Homeownership Opportunity Program
(SHOP), Supportive Services
Demonstration Program (202), and
Resident Opportunity and Self
Sufficiency Service Coordinators
Program (ROSS).
A key component of this proposed
collection is the reporting of
measureable outcomes. Additionally,
the standardization of data collection
and reporting requirements across the
Department will increase data

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comparability and utilization.
Consolidation of de-identified data
drawn from pre-existing HUD systems
and databases, as applicable, into a
single repository will enhance the
Department’s comprehensive and
comparative analysis of competitivelyfunded HUD programs. Data submission
will be acceptable via Comma Separated
Values (CSV), Extensible Markup
Language (XML), and other file formats
in addition to direct data entry into an
online web form.
The Department has several reporting
models in place for competitive grant
programs, including the eLogic Model.
The reporting models provide
information on a wide variety of outputs
and outcomes and are based on unique
data definitions and outcome measures
in program-specific performance and
progress reports. In Federal Fiscal Year
2013, nine program offices at HUD used
six systems and 15 reporting tools to
collect over 700 data elements in
support of varied metrics to assess the
performance of competitively-funded.
The proposed data collection and
reporting requirements described in this
notice are designed to replace the use of
the eLogic Model and other report forms
and requirements.
The lack of standardized data
collection and reporting requirements
imposes an increased burden on
grantees with multiple grant awards
from HUD. The need for a
comprehensive and standardized
reporting approach is underscored by
reviews conducted by external oversight
agencies, including the Department’s
Office of Inspector General (OIG) and
the Government Accountability Office
(GAO). These oversight agencies have
questioned the validity and
comparability of data reported by the
Department. To address these issues, the
Department is using its statutory and
regulatory authority to redesign and
strengthen performance reporting for

many of its competitive grant programs
into a single comprehensive approach.
The Secretary’s statutory and
regulatory authority to administer
housing and urban development
programs include provisions allowing
for the requirement of performance
reporting from grantees. This legal
authority is codified at 42 U.S.C.
3535(r). The individual privacy of
service recipients is of the highest
priority. The reporting repository
established at HUD to receive data
submission from grantees will not
include any personally identifying
information (PII). Additionally, if the
data for a grant has 25 or fewer
individuals served during a fiscal year
as reported in the record-level reports,
then the results for the demographic
data elements for the 25 or fewer
individuals will also be redacted or
removed from the public-use data file
and any publicly available analytical
products in order to ensure the inability
to identify any individual.
Eligible entities awarded grants by the
Department are expected to implement
the proposed recordkeeping and
reporting requirements with available
grant funds. It is important to note that
much of the data to be reported by
grantees under this ICR is already
required and reported to one or more
program offices at HUD. Furthermore,
generally only a subset of the universe
of data elements presented will be
submitted as data collection and
reporting requirements are determined
by the program office and include
consideration of the type and level of
service provided by the respective grant
programs.
The reporting requirements in this
proposal better organize the data already
being collected, standardize outcomes
and performance measures, and allow
program offices at HUD to select which
data elements and performance
indicators are relevant for their
respective programs. Documents

detailing the data elements,
performance indicators, and draft online
data entry forms are available for review
by request from Colette Pollard
([email protected]). All
information reported to HUD will be
submitted electronically. Recipients or
grantees may use existing management
information systems provided those
systems collect all of the required data
elements and can be exported for
submission to HUD. Recipients or
grantees that sub-grant funds to other
organizations will need to collect the
required information from their subrecipients or sub-grantees.
Information collected and reported
will be used by recipients or grantees
and the Department for the following
purposes:
• To provide program and
performance information to recipients,
general public, Congress, and other
stakeholders;
• To continuously improve the
quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of
grant-funded programs;
• To provide management
information for use by the Department
in program administration and
oversight, including the monitoring of
grant-specific participation, services,
capital investments, and outcomes; and
• To better measure and analyze
performance information to identify
successful practices to be replicated and
prevent or correct problematic practices
and improve outcomes in compliance
with the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA) and the GPRA
Modernization Act.
The data collection and reporting
requirements will be phased in over a
three-year period which includes a
proof of concept pilot in FY16. The
Department will provide technical
assistance to recipients or grantees
throughout the implementation.
Respondents (i.e. affected public):
Organizations awarded competitivelyfunded grants as listed on page 2.

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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATE FOR THE REQUESTED REPORTING APPROACH INITIAL YEAR OR PROOF OF CONCEPT PILOT
PROJECT
Submission
frequency

Estimated
annual burden
hours

Estimated
annual burden
dollars

20 Per Record
15 Per Record

2,583
7

$36,653
99

14.19

15 ...................

35

497

14.19

........................

2,625

37,249

Hourly rate 1

Type of record

Number of respondents

Participant Record-level ......
Capital Investment Recordlevel.
Grant Feedback ..................

63 grantees 2 ......................
7 grantees 3 ........................

1
1

$14.19
14.19

70 grantees ........................

2

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

.............................................

........................

Average
number of
minutes

1 The

hourly rate of $14.19 is the average wage for office and administrative support occupations as reported in the May 2014 Occupational
Employment and Wages produced by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
2 There are an estimated 7,749 individuals to be served by the 63 grantees.
3 There are an estimated 28 project-level records for the 7 grantees.

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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATE FOR THE REQUESTED REPORTING APPROACH SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT YEARS
Average number of minutes

Estimated
annual burden
hours

Estimated
annual burden
dollars

$14.19
14.19

20 Per Record
15 Per Record

116,850
150

$1,658,102
2,129

2

14.19

15 ...................

1,500

21,285

........................

14.19

........................

118,500

1,681,516

Submission
frequency

Hourly rate 1

Type of record

Number of respondents

Participant Record-level ......
Capital Investment Recordlevel.
Grant Feedback ..................

2,850 grantees 2 .................
150 grantees 3 ....................

1
1

3,000 grantees ...................

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

.............................................

1 The

hourly rate of $14.19 is the average wage for office and administrative support occupations as reported in the May 2014 Occupational
Employment and Wages produced by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
2 There are an estimated 351,000 individuals to be served by the 2,850 grantees.
3 There are an estimated 600 project-level records for the 150 grantees.

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
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comments in response to these
questions.

Notice.

Retrospective Review—Improving the
Previous Participation Reviews of
Prospective Multifamily Housing and
Healthcare Program Participants
Informational Conference Call

Through this notice, HUD
announces that it will be holding a
conference call on September 16, 2015,
to discuss HUD’s previous participation
review process and solicit feedback on
how this process can be improved. On
August 10, 2015, HUD published a
proposed rule to revise its regulations
governing the previous participation
review process that is applied to certain
entities seeking to take part in
multifamily housing and healthcare
programs administered by HUD’s Office
of Housing. HUD’s goal in revising the
regulations is to simplify the process by
which HUD currently reviews the
previous participation of participants
that have decision-making authority
over their projects as one component of
HUD’s responsibility to assess financial
and operational risk to the projects in
these programs.
DATES: The teleconference call will be
held on September 16, 2015,
commencing at 11:30 a.m., EDT.
ADDRESSES: Because this is a conference
call, there is no meeting venue. Current
and prior multifamily housing and
healthcare programs’ participants
interested in participating in the
conference call can register for the call
at HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/
emarc as can other interested members
of the public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Aaron Hutchinson, Office of Housing,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room
6178, Washington, DC 20410; telephone
number 202–708–3994 (this is not a tollfree number). Individuals with speech
or hearing impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at 800–877–
8339 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.

Background
HUD’s regulations governing the
assessment of previous participation are

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
Dated: September 1, 2015.
Henry Hensley,
Acting Director, Office of Strategic Planning
and Management.
[FR Doc. 2015–22758 Filed 9–9–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
24 CFR Part 200
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codified in 24 CFR part 200, subpart H
(Subpart H),1 and require applicants to
complete a very detailed and lengthy
certification form (HUD Form 2530).2
The 2530 form currently requires
disclosure of all principals to be
involved in the proposed project, a list
of projects in which those principals
have previously participated or
currently participate in, a detailed
account of the principals’ involvement
in the listed project(s), and assurances
that the principals have upheld their
responsibilities while participating in
those programs. The regulations govern
not only the content of the certification
submitted by applicants, but the types
of parties that must certify, and the
process for submitting the certification.
Participants in HUD’s multifamily
housing and healthcare programs have
long complained about the delays with
HUD’s previous participation review
process because of the number of
required principals that must complete
the form and the overly detailed
information required to be submitted,
and HUD is committed to improving the
process. HUD has commenced steps to
strive to improve the previous
participation process and on August 10,
2015, at 80 FR 47874, HUD published a
proposed rule, entitled ‘‘Retrospective
Review—Improving the Previous
Participation Reviews of Prospective
Multifamily Housing and Healthcare
Programs Participants.’’ 3
Conference Call
To aid HUD in the goal to revise the
previous participation regulations so
that the review process is effective but
also expedient and less burdensome,
HUD seeks input in the form of public
comment on how the process can be
1 See http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2014title24-vol2/pdf/CFR-2014-title24-vol2-part200subpartH.pdf.
2 See http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/
huddoc?id=2530.pdf.
3 See http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-0810/pdf/2015-19529.pdf.

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