30-Day Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5997–N–25]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Small Area Fair Market
Rent Demonstration Evaluation
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD 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: July 3,
2017.
SUMMARY:

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 202–402–5535.
This is not a toll-free number. Persons

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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 21,
2016 at 81 FR 64929.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Small
Area Fair Market Rent Demonstration
Evaluation.
OMB Approval Number: Pending.
Type of Request: 2528—New.
Form Number: No forms.
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
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
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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.

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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 using
appropriate automated collection
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technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.

Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan
for South Sacramento County,
California; Joint Draft Environmental
Impact Statement/Environmental
Impact Report

Dated: May 25, 2017.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–11396 Filed 6–1–17; 8:45 am]
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Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R8–ES–2017–N050; FF08ESMF00–
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Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; receipt of
permit application; request for public
comment.
AGENCY:

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, announce the
availability of a draft environmental
impact statement and draft
environmental impact report (EIS/EIR),

SUMMARY:

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