60-Day Notice

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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 183 / Wednesday, September 21, 2016 / Notices
Dated: September 15, 2016.
David Clary,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2016–22669 Filed 9–20–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4140–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5915–N–10]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Small Area Fair Market
Rent Demonstration Evaluation
Office of Policy Development
and Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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
21, 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:
Anna P. Guido, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone (202) 402–5534
(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
DATES:

Information collection

Number of
respondents

A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Small
Area Fair Market Rent Demonstration
Evaluation.
OMB Approval Number: N/A.
Type of Request: New.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: HUD
generally publishes a single FMR for
each metropolitan area and provides
public housing agencies with discretion
to vary local voucher payment standards
between 90 and 110 percent of the Fair
Market Rent (FMR) (unless HUD
approves an exception). The SAFMR

Frequency of
response

Responses
per annum

Burden hour
per response

demonstration is testing the alternative
approach of setting FMRs at the ZIP
Code level. The core hypothesis is that
this will significantly expand the ability
of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV)
holders to access housing in
neighborhoods with high-quality
schools, low crime rates, and other
indicators of opportunity, as well as
integrated neighborhoods in furtherance
of HUD’s goal of affirmatively furthering
fair housing.
HUD is evaluating the SAFMR
demonstration and an important
consideration in this evaluation is how
voucher holders and landlords perceive
the shift from traditional area-wide
FMRs to SAFMRs. HUD will look into
whether both existing and new voucher
holders understood how the change to
using SAFMRs affected their housing
options and whether it led movers to
search in new neighborhoods or affected
the rate of moving of existing voucher
holders. Similarly, HUD wants to know
whether landlords were aware of the
change in the HCV program and
whether this affected their willingness
to rent to voucher holders and the level
at which they set rents. In order to
address these perceptions, 70 tenants
and 35 landlords will be interviewed in
the areas served by the five PHAs that
are in the SAFMR demonstration:
Housing Authority of Cook County (IL);
Housing Authority of the City of Long
Beach (CA); Chattanooga (TN) Housing
Authority; Town of Mamaroneck (NY)
Housing Authority; Housing Authority
of the City of Laredo (TX); and two
PHAs from the Dallas metropolitan
area—Dallas Housing Authority (TX),
and the Plano Housing Authority (TX).
To build rapport during recruitment, by
acknowledging the value of their time,
an incentive payment of $20 for tenants
and $40 for landlords will be made.

Annual burden
hours

Cost per
response

Annual cost

Tenants ........................
Landlords .....................

70
35

1
1

1
1

0.5
1

35
35

$20
40

$1,400
1,400

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

105

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

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

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

70

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

2,800

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

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number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
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) 402–5535.
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.
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.

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;

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(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

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information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.

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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 183 / Wednesday, September 21, 2016 / Notices

Dated: September 8, 2016.
Katherine M. O’Regan,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy
Development and Research.
[FR Doc. 2016–22722 Filed 9–20–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4210–67–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5910–N–12]

60–Day Notice of Proposed
Information Collection: Public
Comment Request: Notice on Equal
Access Regardless of Sexual
Orientation, Gender Identity, or Marital
Status for HUD’s Community Planning
and Development Programs
Office of Community Planning
and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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 (PRA), 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: November
21, 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.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail.
Comments may be submitted by mail to
the Regulations Division, Office of
General Counsel, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
7th Street SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410–0500.
2. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Interested persons may
submit comments electronically through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly
encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic

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submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare
and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to
make them immediately available to the
public. Comments submitted
electronically through the
www.regulations.gov Web site can be
viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public.
Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public
comments, comments must be submitted
through one of the two methods specified
above. Again, all submissions must refer to
the docket number and title of the notice.

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile
(FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications
submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above
address. Due to security measures at the
HUD Headquarters building, an advance
appointment to review the public
comments must be scheduled by calling
the Regulations Division at 202–708–
3055 (this is not a toll-free number).
Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing
or have speech impairments may access
this number via TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at 800–877–
8339. Copies of all comments submitted
are available for inspection and
downloading at www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special
Needs Assistance Programs, Office of
Community Planning and Development,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410–7000; telephone
number 202–708–4300 (this is not a tollfree number). Persons who are deaf or
hard of hearing or have speech
impairments can access this number via
TTY by calling the toll-free Federal
Relay Service at 800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
As noted in the Summary, elsewhere
in today’s Federal Register, HUD is
publishing its final rule entitled ‘‘Equal
Access in Accordance with an
Individual’s Gender Identity in
Community Planning and Development
Programs.’’ Through this final rule, HUD
ensures equal access to individuals in
accordance with their gender identity in
programs and shelter funded under
programs administered by HUD’s Office
of Community Planning and
Development (CPD). This rule builds

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upon HUD’s February 2012 final rule
entitled ‘‘Equal Access to Housing in
HUD Programs Regardless of Sexual
Orientation or Gender Identity’’ (2012
Equal Access Rule), which aimed to
ensure that HUD’s housing programs
would be open to all eligible individuals
and families regardless of sexual
orientation, gender identity, or marital
status. The 2012 Equal Access Rule,
however, did not address how
transgender and gender non-conforming
individuals should be accommodated in
temporary, emergency shelters and
other buildings and facilities used for
shelter that have physical limitations or
configurations that require and that are
permitted to have shared sleeping
quarters or shared bathing facilities.1
This final rule published in today’s
Federal Register follows HUD’s
November 20, 2015 proposed rule,
which addressed this issue after
soliciting public comment. The final
rule requires that recipients and
subrecipients of CPD funding, as well as
owners, operators, and managers of
shelters, and other buildings and
facilities and providers of services
funded in whole or in part by any CPD
program to grant equal access to such
facilities, and other buildings and
facilities, benefits, accommodations and
services to individuals in accordance
with the individual’s gender identity,
and in a manner that affords equal
access to the individual’s family.
The notice set out in the appendix
presents an additional measure by HUD
to ensure that individuals seeking
placement or accommodation in a
shelter or other building or facility and
housing funded under a program
administered by CPD are aware of
HUD’s equal access policy, as
established in HUD’s 2012 Equal Access
Rule, and elaborated upon in the final
rule published in today’s Federal
Register. Through this PRA notice, HUD
proposes to require owners and
operators of CPD-funded shelters,
housing, buildings and other facilities to
post this notice on bulletin boards and
in other public places where individuals
staying in the shelter, building, housing
or facility or seeking placement or
accommodation in the shelter, building,
housing, or facility would see this
information. HUD strives to reduce
burden by providing the content of the
notice to be posted and estimates it will
take about six minutes for owners and
operators to print and post this notice.
All existing and new owners would be
required to post the notice only once,
1 Shared sleeping quarters and shared bathing
facilities are those for simultaneous use by more
than one person.

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