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measure the impact of the policy
changes identified; policy changes
adopted by MTW PHAs that have
proven successful and can be applied
more broadly to all PHAs; and statutory
and/or regulatory changes necessary to
implement policy changes for all PHAs.
The Committee shall have no role in
reviewing or selecting the MTW PHAs.
Each year, the Committee shall provide
a report to the HUD Secretary that
describes the activities, status, and
changes in composition of the
Committee since the previous year. A
draft of the Committee’s Charter and
Membership Balance Plan can be found
on HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/
mtw.
Structure: The Committee shall
consist of up to fourteen (14) members,
as the Secretary will appoint. Members
will be reappointed at the discretion of
the Secretary. When appropriate, HUD
will provide stipends to members
selected as former or current residents
of MTW PHAs as compensation for their
time. All other members shall serve
without compensation.
Membership of the Committee shall
include program and research experts
from HUD; a fair representation of PHAs
with an MTW designation, including
current and/or former residents; and
independent subject matter experts in
housing policy research. No person who
is a federally-registered lobbyist may
serve on the Committee. Members of the
Committee shall be chosen to ensure
balance, diversity, and a broad
representation of ideas, in accordance
with HUD’s Membership Balance Plan
for the Committee. In general, subject
matter expertise in the programs
operated by HUD’s Office of Public and
Indian Housing, and specifically the
MTW Demonstration Program, is
beneficial in helping the Committee
accomplish its mission. Membership on
the Committee is personal to the
appointee. Committee members
representing MTW agency Executive
Directors may designate an alternate
member of their MTW agency to attend
in their place, should they be unable to
participate in a Committee meeting.
The Committee will meet in person at
least one (1) time per fiscal year and by
conference call up to six (6) times as
needed to render advice to HUD.
Meetings shall be coordinated by a
Designated Federal Officer who shall
approve the agenda and chair
Committee meetings.
Committee members will be required,
as applicable, to provide disclosures
and certifications regarding conflicts of
interest and eligibility for membership
prior to final appointment.

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Dated: April 19, 2016.
Lourdes Castro Ramı´rez,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Public and Indian Housing.
Katherine M. O’Regan,
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
and Research.
[FR Doc. 2016–09754 Filed 4–25–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5909–N–31]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Core Performance
Reporting Requirements for
Competitively-Funded Grants
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD has submitted the
proposed information collection
requirement described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review, in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for an
additional 30 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: May 26,
2016.
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:
HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. Email:
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna P. Guido, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Washington, DC 20410; email
Anna P. Guido at Anna.P.Guido@
hud.gov or telephone 202–402–5533.
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. Copies of
available documents submitted to OMB
may be obtained from Ms. Guido.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
The Federal Register notice that
solicited public comment on the
information collection for a period of 60
days was published on September 10,
2015 at 80 FR 54577.
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A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Core
Performance Reporting for
Competitively-Funded Grants.
OMB Control Number: 2501-New.
Type of Request: New collection.
Form Number: HUD–PRL, HUD–CIRL,
and 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), Multifamily
Housing Service Coordinator Program
(MFSC), 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
comparability and utilization.
Consolidation of de-identified data
drawn from pre-existing HUD’s 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
(FY) 2013, nine program offices at HUD
used six systems and 15 reporting tools

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to collect over 700 data elements in
support of varied metrics to assess the
performance of competitively-funded
grants. 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 HUD
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 FY 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 which 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 Thaddeus Wincek
([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 of 2010.
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 from the following HUD
programs: Community Development
Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes
and Alaska Native Villages (ICDBG),
Family Self-Sufficiency 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),
Multifamily Housing Service
Coordinator Program (MFSC), Self-Help
Homeownership Opportunity Program
(SHOP), Supportive Services
Demonstration Program (202), and
Resident Opportunity and SelfSufficiency Service Coordinators
Program (ROSS).

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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATE FOR THE REQUESTED REPORTING APPROACH INITIAL YEAR OR PROOF OF CONCEPT PILOT
PROJECT
Type of record

Number of
respondents

Participant Record-level (data export
to HUD reporting system).
Participant Record-level (direct data
entry).
Capital Investment Record-level .........
Grant Feedback ..................................
Total .............................................

Average Number
of minutes

Estimated
annual
burden
hours

Estimated
annual
burden
dollars

Submission
frequency

Hourly rate1

1,500 grantees 2 .......

1

$14.19

5 Per Record ...........

15,375

$218,171

500 grantees 2 ..........

1

14.19

20 Per Record .........

20,500

290,895

7 grantees 3 ..............
200 grantees ............

1
1

14.19
14.19

15 Per Record .........
30 Per Record .........

7
100

99
1,419

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14.19

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35,982

510,584

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 246,000 individuals to be served by the 2,000 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
Type of record

Number of
respondents

Participant Record-level (data export
to HUD reporting system).
Participant Record-level (direct data
entry).
Capital Investment Record-level .........
Grant Feedback ..................................
Total .............................................

Average Number
of minutes

Estimated
annual
burden
hours

Estimated
annual
burden dollars

Submission
frequency

Hourly rate 1

3,000 grantees 2 .......

1

$14.19

5 Per Record ...........

30,750

$436,343

1,850 grantees 2 .......

1

14.19

20 Per Record .........

75,850

1,076,312

150 grantees 3 ..........
1,000 grantees .........

1
1

14.19
14.19

15 Per Record .........
30 Per Record .........

150
500

2,129
7,095

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/////

14.19

///// ............................

107,250

1,521,879

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 596,550 individuals to be served by the 4,850 grantees.
3 There are an estimated 600 project-level records for the 150 grantees.

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

ACTION:

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 comment in response to these
questions.

SUMMARY:

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
Dated: April 19, 2016.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Paperwork Reduction Act Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–09604 Filed 4–25–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5916–N–10]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Public Housing Agency
Executive Compensation Information
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, PIH, HUD.

AGENCY:

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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.
DATES: Comments Due Date: June 27,
2016.
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 202–402–3400
(this is not a toll-free number) or email
at [email protected] for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Arlette Mussington, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives,
PIH, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
(L’Enfant Plaza, Room 2206),
Washington, DC 20410; telephone 202–
402–4109, (this is not a toll-free
number). Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number via TTY by calling the Federal
Information Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339. Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Mussington.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is

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seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Proposal: Public Housing
Agency Executive Compensation
Information.
OMB Approval Number: 2577–0272.
Type of Request: Revision of
previously approved collection.
Form Number: Form HUD–52725.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: Pursuant
to PIH Notice 2015–14, HUD collects
information on the compensation
provided by public housing agencies
(PHAs) to the top management official,
top financial official, and highest
compensated employee, similar to the
information that non-profit
organizations receiving federal tax
exemptions are required to report to the
IRS annually. Because PHAs receive
significant direct federal funds HUD has
been collecting compensation
information to enhance regulatory
oversight by HUD, as well as state and
local authorities. HUD provides the
information collected to the public. The
compensation data collected includes
base salary, bonus, and incentive and
other compensation, and the extent to
which these payments are made with
Section 8 and 9 appropriated funds.
Respondents: Public Housing
Agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Approximately 4000.
Estimated Number of Responses:
Approximately 4000.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Average Hours per Response: 30
minutes.
Total Estimated Burdens: The total
burden hours is estimated to be 2000
hours annually. The total burden cost is
estimated to be $45,200.

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