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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 193 / Wednesday, October 5, 2016 / Notices

Form 434 is provided for by 19 CFR
181.11 and is accessible at: https://
www.cbp.gov/newsroom/publications/
forms.
CBP Form 446, NAFTA Verification of
Origin Questionnaire, is a questionnaire
that CBP personnel use to gather
sufficient information from exporters
and/or producers to determine whether
goods imported into the United States
qualify as originating goods for the
purposes of preferential tariff treatment
under NAFTA. CBP Form 446 is
provided for by 19 CFR 181.72 and is
accessible at: https://www.cbp.gov/
newsroom/publications/forms.
CBP Form 447, North American Free
Trade Agreement Motor Vehicle
Averaging Election, is used to gather
information required by 19 CFR 181
Appendix, Section 11, (2) ‘‘Information
Required When Producer Chooses to
Average for Motor Vehicles’’. This form
is provided to CBP when a manufacturer
chooses to average motor vehicles for
the purpose of obtaining NAFTA
preference. CBP Form 447 is accessible
at: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/
publications/forms.
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date for CBP Forms 434, 446, and 447
and to revise the burden hours as a
result of updated estimates for the time
per response for CBP Forms 434 and
446. There are no changes to the forms
or the information collected.
Type of Review: Extension with a
change to the burden hours.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Form 434, NAFTA Certificate of
Origin:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
40,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 3.
Estimated Time per Response: 2
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 240,000.
Form 446, NAFTA Questionnaire:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
400.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Time per Response: 2
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 800.
Form 447, NAFTA Motor Vehicle
Averaging Election:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
11.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.28.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 14.

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Dated: September 29, 2016.
Seth Renkema,
Branch Chief, Economic Impact Analysis
Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
[1651–0083]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: United States-Caribbean
Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA)
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments; Extension of an existing
collection of information.
AGENCY:

U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) of the Department of
Homeland Security will be submitting
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act: United States-Caribbean
Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA)
(Form 450). CBP is proposing that this
information collection be extended with
a change to the burden hours. There is
no change to the information collected.
This document is published to obtain
comments from the public and affected
agencies.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before November 4, 2016
to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
this proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to the OMB Desk Officer for Customs
and Border Protection, Department of
Homeland Security, and sent via
electronic mail to
[email protected] or faxed
to (202) 395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Paperwork
Reduction Act Clearance Officer, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection,
Regulations and Rulings, Office of
Trade, 90 K Street NE., 10th Floor,
Washington, DC 20229–1177, or via
email ([email protected]). Please
note contact information provided here
is solely for questions regarding this
notice. Individuals seeking information
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about other CBP programs please
contact the CBP National Customer
Service Center at 877–227–5511, (TTY)
1–800–877–8339, or CBP Web site at
https://www.cbp.gov/. For additional
help: https://help.cbp.gov/app/home/
search/1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposed information collection was
previously published in the Federal
Register (81 FR 43615) on July 5, 2016,
allowing for a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments. This process
is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.10. CBP invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to comment
on proposed and/or continuing
information collections pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3507). The comments should
address: (a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s
estimates of the burden of the collection
of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology; and (e) the annual costs to
respondents or record keepers from the
collection of information (total capital/
startup costs and operations and
maintenance costs). The comments that
are submitted will be summarized and
included in the CBP request for OMB
approval. All comments will become a
matter of public record. In this
document, CBP is soliciting comments
concerning the following information
collection:
Title: United States-Caribbean Basin
Trade Partnership Act.
OMB Number: 1651–0083.
Form Number: CBP Form 450.
Abstract: The provisions of the United
States-Caribbean Basin Trade
Partnership Act (CBTPA) were adopted
by the U.S. with the enactment of the
Trade and Development Act of 2000
(PL.106–200). The objective of the
CBTPA is to expand trade benefits to
countries in the Caribbean Basin. For
preferential duty treatment under
CBTPA, importers are required to have
a CBTPA Certification of Origin (CBP
Form 450) in their possession at the
time of the claim, and to provide it to
CBP upon request. CBP Form 450
collects data such as contact
information for the exporter, importer
and producer, and information about
the goods being claimed.

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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 193 / Wednesday, October 5, 2016 / Notices
This collection of information is
provided for by 19 CFR 10.224. CBP
Form 450 is accessible at: http://
forms.cbp.gov/pdf/CBP_Form_450.pdf.
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date and to revise the burden hours as
a result of an increase in time estimated
per response from 15 minutes to 2
hours. There are no changes to CBP
Form 450 or to the data collected on this
form.
Type of Review: Extension with a
change to the burden hours.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
15.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 286.13.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
4,292.
Estimated Time per Response: 2
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 8,584.
Dated: September 29, 2016.
Seth Renkema,
Branch Chief, Economic Impact Analysis
Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5971–N–01]

Notice of Certain Operating Cost
Adjustment Factors for 2017
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice establishes
operating cost adjustment factors
(OCAFs) for project-based rental
assistance contracts issued under
Section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 and renewed under the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform
and Affordability Act of 1997 (MAHRA)
with an anniversary date on or after
February 11, 2017. OCAFs are annual
factors used primarily to adjust the rents
for contracts renewed under section 515
or section 524 of MAHRA.
DATES: Effective Date: February 11,
2017.

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SUMMARY:

Stan
Houle, Program Analyst, Office of Asset
Management and Portfolio Oversight,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410; telephone
number 202–402–2572 (this is not a toll-

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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free number). Hearing- or speechimpaired individuals may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at 800–877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. OCAFs
Section 514(e)(2) and section 524(c)(1)
of MAHRA (42 U.S.C. 1437f note)
require HUD to establish guidelines for
the development of OCAFs for rent
adjustments. Sections 524(a)(4)(C)(i),
524(b)(1)(A), and 524(b)(3)(A) of
MAHRA, all of which prescribe the use
of the OCAF in the calculation of
renewal rents, contain similar language.
HUD has therefore used a single
methodology for establishing OCAFs,
which vary from State to State.
MAHRA gives HUD broad discretion
in setting OCAFs, referring, for example,
in sections 524(a)(4)(C)(i), 524(b)(1)(A),
524(b)(3)(A) and 524(c)(1) simply to ‘‘an
operating cost adjustment factor
established by the Secretary.’’ The sole
limitation to this grant of authority is a
specific requirement in each of the
foregoing provisions that application of
an OCAF ‘‘shall not result in a negative
adjustment.’’ Contract rents are adjusted
by applying the OCAF to that portion of
the rent attributable to operating
expenses exclusive of debt service.
The OCAFs provided in this notice
are applicable to eligible projects having
a contract anniversary date of February
11, 2017 or after and were calculated
using the same method as those
published in HUD’s 2016 OCAF notice
published on October 13, 2015 (79 FR
59502). Specifically, OCAFs are
calculated as the sum of weighted
average cost changes for wages,
employee benefits, property taxes,
insurance, supplies and equipment, fuel
oil, electricity, natural gas, and water/
sewer/trash using publicly available
indices. The weights used in the OCAF
calculations for each of the nine cost
component groupings are set using
current percentages attributable to each
of the nine expense categories. These
weights are calculated in the same
manner as in the October 13, 2015,
notice. Average expense proportions
were calculated using three years of
audited Annual Financial Statements
from projects covered by OCAFs. The
expenditure percentages for these nine
categories have been found to be very
stable over time, but using three years
of data increases their stability. The
nine cost component weights were
calculated at the state level, which is the
lowest level of geographical aggregation
with enough projects to permit
statistical analysis. These data were not
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so data for Hawaii were used as the best
available indicator of OCAFs for these
areas.
The best current price data sources for
the nine cost categories were used in
calculating annual change factors. Statelevel data for fuel oil, electricity, and
natural gas from Department of Energy
surveys are relatively current and
continue to be used. Data on changes in
employee benefits, insurance, property
taxes, and water/sewer/trash costs are
only available at the national level. The
data sources for the nine cost indicators
selected used were as follows:
• Labor Costs: First quarter, 2016
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ECI,
Private Industry Wages and Salaries, All
Workers (Series ID CIU2020000000000I)
at the national level and Private
Industry Benefits, All Workers (Series
ID CIU2030000000000I) at the national
level.
• Property Taxes: Census Quarterly
Summary of State and Local
Government Tax Revenue—Table 1
http://www2.census.gov/govs/qtax/
2016/q1t1.xls. 12-month property taxes
are computed as the total of four
quarters of tax receipts for the period
from April through March. Total 12month taxes are then divided by the
number of occupied housing units to
arrive at average 12-month tax per
housing unit. The number of occupied
housing units is taken from the
estimates program at the Bureau of the
Census. http://www.census.gov/
housing/hvs/data/histtab8.xls.
• Goods, Supplies, Equipment: May
2015 to May 2016 Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index,
All Items Less Food, Energy and Shelter
(Series ID CUUR0000SA0L12E) at the
national level.
• Insurance: May 2015 to May 2016
Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS)
Consumer Price Index, Tenants and
Household Insurance Index (Series ID
CUUR0000SEHD) at the national level.
• Fuel Oil: October 2015–March 2016
U.S. Weekly Heating Oil and Propane
Prices report. Average weekly
residential heating oil prices in cents
per gallon excluding taxes for the period
from October 5, 2015 through March 28,
2016 are compared to the average from
October 13, 2014 through March 30,
2015. For the States with insufficient
fuel oil consumption to have separate
estimates, the relevant regional
Petroleum Administration for Defense
Districts (PADD) change between these
two periods is used; if there is no
regional PADD estimate, the U.S. change
between these two periods is used.
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/
pet_pri_wfr_a_EPD2F_prs_dpgal_w.htm.

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