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• Fax: 202–343–4010.
• Mail: Philip S. Kaplan, Chief
Privacy Officer, Privacy Office,
Department of Homeland Security,
Washington, DC 20528–0655.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5997–N–66]

For
general questions, please contact:
William Holzerland, (202) 212–7719,
Senior Director for Information
Management, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 500 C Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20472. For privacy
questions, please contact: Philip S.
Kaplan, (202) 343–1717, Chief Privacy
Officer, Privacy Office, Department of
Homeland Security, Washington, DC
20528–0655.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Pursuant
to the provisions of the Privacy Act of
1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, and as part of its
ongoing integration and management
efforts, the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) is
rescinding the system of records notice,
‘‘Letter of Map Amendment System
(LOMA), DHS/FEMA/NFIP/LOMA–1’’,
which covered applicants who were
seeking a letter of map amendment as
part of FEMA’s National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) Letter of Map
Amendment (LOMA) system.
FEMA will continue to collect and
maintain records regarding FEMA’s
Letters of Map Amendments and will
rely upon the newly-created FEMA
system of records notice titled ‘‘DHS/
FEMA–014 Hazard Mitigation Planning
and Flood Mapping Products and
Services System of Records’’ that is also
published in this issue of the Federal
Register.
Eliminating this system of records
notice will have no adverse impacts on
individuals, but will promote the
overall streamlining and management of
DHS Privacy Act record systems.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

System Name and Number:

‘‘Letter of Map Amendment System
(LOMA), DHS/FEMA/NFIP/LOMA–1.’’
HISTORY:

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71 FR 7990 (Feb. 15, 2006).
Philip S. Kaplan,
Chief Privacy Officer, Department of
Homeland Security.
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30 Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for Public Comment on the:
Resident Opportunity and SelfSufficiency Service Coordinator
(ROSS–SC) Program Evaluation
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, 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 30 days of public
comment.

SUMMARY:

Comments Due Date: November
24, 2017.
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 Guido at [email protected] or
telephone 202–402–5535. Persons with
hearing or speech impairments may
access this number through TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877–8339. This is not a
toll-free number. Copies of available
documents submitted to OMB may be
obtained from Ms. Guido.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD has
submitted to OMB a request for
approval of 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 January 9, 2017 at 82 FR 2390.
DATES:

A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Resident Opportunity and SelfSufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS–
SC) Program Evaluation.
OMB Approval Number: 2528–New.
Type of Request: New.
Form Number: No forms.

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Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: HUD is
conducting this study under contract
with the Urban Institute and its
subcontractors (EJP Consulting). The
project is an evaluation of the Resident
Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency
Service Coordinator (ROSS–SC)
program operated by grantees across the
country. It will include a national webbased survey and in-person site visits to
select grantees. Since 2008, the ROSS–
SC program has provided information
and referral for families, elderly, and
disabled residents in public housing by
funding local Service Coordinators to
link residents to resources that they
need to become independent and selfsufficient. The purpose of the program
is to leverage existing local public and
private services to increase income,
reduce or eliminate welfare assistance,
work towards economic independence
and housing self-sufficiency, and
improve living conditions and ability to
age in-place for elderly and disabled
residents. To date, there has been no
HUD-funded evaluation of this program.
A GAO study across several HUD selfsufficiency programs published in 2013
found that the ROSS–SC program lacked
enough quality data on participation
and outcomes ‘‘to determine whether it
was meeting goals of the effective and
efficient use of resources’’ in improving
resident self-sufficiency and
independence. They recommended
improving the data reporting process
and developing a strategy for regularly
analyzing ROSS–SC participation and
outcome data. This project helps
implement GAO’s recommendations by:
(1) Assessing improvements in program
processes and reporting since changes
were made to the program’s logic model
in FY 2014; (2) examining the breadth
and depth of ROSS–SC program
implementation by current service
coordinators across all grantee types;
and (3) analyzing current reporting
requirements and performance metrics
to improve future program outcome
evaluation. To do so, this study will use
a full population survey of current
service coordinators funded through
ROSS–SC grants made in FY 2013, FY
2014, and FY 2015, and site visits to
select grantees.
A web-based survey will allow the
study team to investigate important
Service Coordinator (SC) program
characteristics not included in grant
applications or current reporting tools,
in order to provide generalizable
evidence on the ‘‘effective and efficient
use of resources’’ across all ROSS–SC
service coordinators. These include SC
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management structure, resident intake
and assessment processes, services
offered, partnerships utilized and
leveraged, and case management data
systems and outcome evaluation tools
used to track participant activities and
outcomes. Since there is no centralized
database of service coordinator contact
information, this must first be obtained
through a brief online survey sent to
each grantee contact person.
Site visits to seven high-performing
grantees will include onsite
observations and interviews with
grantees, service coordinators, and
program partners, as well as focus
groups with program participants to
gather context-specific data on both
program processes and outcomes to aid
in identifying best practices and
common challenges across grantees.

per response by using the most recent
(May 2016) Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Occupational Employment Statistics
median hourly wage for the labor
category, Chief Executives (11–1011):
$87.12.
Whereas ROSS–SC service
coordinators and other grantee staff and
service partners have a range of
experience and skills, we averaged the
median hourly wage for two labor
categories: The Social and Community
Service Manager (11–9151) median
hourly wage of $31.10, and the
Community and Social Service
Specialists, All Other (21–1099)
category with a rate of $20.73.
This produces an average of both
median hourly wage rates equal to
$25.92.

Respondents: For the survey, 330
grantee contact persons and 840 service
coordinators (assumes 70% response
rate from total estimated population of
1200) at 7 grantee site visit locations, 56
staff and partners, and 107 public
housing residents.
Estimated total number of hours
needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of response,
hours of response, and cost of response
time: Based on the below assumptions
and tables, we calculate the total burden
hours for this study to be 1,244.50 hours
and the total cost to be $32,856.28.
Whereas many ROSS–SC grantee
contact persons in HUD’s database are a
PHA Executive Director, PHA Division
Director, or the Chief Executive Officer
of the grantee, we estimated their cost

Respondent

Occupation

SOC code

Grantee Contact Person .................................
ROSS Service Coordinator & Partners ..........

Chief Executive ..............................................
Social and Community Services Manager .....
Community and Social Service Specialist, All
Other.

11–1011
11–9151
21–1099

Median hourly
wage rate
$87.12
$31.10
$20.73

Average
(median)
hourly wage
rate
$87.12
$25.92
........................

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics (May 2016), https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm

Hourly costs for public housing
resident focus group participants were
estimated using FY 2016 HUD 30%
Income Limit for All Areas calculations
from the Office of Policy Development
and Research through HUD’s Web site
located at https://www.huduser.gov/
portal/datasets/il/il16/index.html. This
identifies income limits by county for
extremely low income households
earning at or below 30% of their county
median income. These limits are
adjusted by household sizes of up to
eight household members. We averaged
the county median values to produce a
national average median income by

Number of
respondents

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Grantee Contact Person Survey ..............
Service Coordinators Survey ...................
ROSS Site Visit—Staff and Partners .......
HUD Residents living alone .....................
HUD Residents in 2-person household ...
HUD Residents in 3-person household ...
HUD Residents in 4-person household ...
HUD Residents in 5-person household ...

Frequency of
response

330.00

Burden hour
per response

• 30% will reside in a 4-person
household (31 respondents) with an
average median income of $19,305.
• 10% will reside in a 5-person
household (11 respondents) with an
average median income of $20,872.
To produce a basic hourly rate, we
divide the average median annual
income amount by 2,080 work hours per
year, equaling 40 hours per week for
each of the 52 weeks out of the year.
All assumptions are reflected in the
table below.

Annual burden
hours

Hourly cost
per response

Total cost

56.00
21.00
11.00
31.00
31.00
11.00

1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00

0.25
1.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00

82.50
840.00
112.00
42.00
22.00
62.00
62.00
22.00

$87.12
25.92
25.92
6.51
7.43
8.36
9.28
10.03

$7,187.40
21,772.80
2,903.04
273.42
163.46
518.32
575.36
220.66

1,331.00

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

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

1,244.50

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

33,614.46

1 840.00

Total ..................................................
1 The

household size for extremely low
income households. Based on the
ROSS–SC program emphasis on
increasing family self-sufficiency, and
independent living and aging in place
for the elderly and disabled, we estimate
that:
• 20% of potential respondents will
live alone (21 respondents) with an
average median income of $13,537.
• 10% will reside in a 2-person
household (11 respondents) with an
average median income of $15,464.
• 30% will reside in a 3-person
household (31 respondents) with an
average median income of $17,396.

full population is estimated at 1,200 service coordinators. The number of respondents is based on anticipated response rate of 70%.

B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
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information described in Section A on
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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.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: October 17, 2017.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5997–N–69]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Congressional Earmarks
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, 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

SUMMARY:

OMB Approval Number: 2506–0179.
Type of Request: Reinstatement with
change of a previously approved
collection.
Form Number: SF–424.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
Department’s Office of Policy
Development and Coordination
administers congressionally mandated
grants, known as earmarks. These
projects have been identified in the
annual appropriation of funds to the
Department and in the accompanying
conference reports or congressional
record accompanying each
appropriation. Earmarks generally fall
into two categories: Economic
Development Initiative-Special Project
(EDI–SP) and Neighborhood Initiative
(NI) grants.
HUD’s Office of Policy Development
and Coordination and its Environmental
Officers in the field use this information
to make funds available to entities
directed to receive funds appropriated
by Congress. This information is used to
collect, receive, review and monitor
program activities through applications,
semi-annual reports, and close out
reports. The information that is
collected is used to assess performance.
Grantees are units of state and local
government, nonprofits and Indian
tribes. Respondents are initially
identified by congress and generally fall
into two categories: Economic
Development Initiative-Special Project
(EDI–SP) grantees and Neighborhood
Initiative (NI) grantees. The agency has
used the application, semi-annual
reports and close out reports to track
grantee performance in the
implementation of approved projects.

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 30 days of public
comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: November
24, 2017.
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:
OIRA [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna P. Guido, Reports Management
Officer, QMAC, 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. Person
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 June 16, 2017 at
81 FR 27719.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Congressional Earmark.

Information collection

Number of
respondents

Frequency of
response

Responses
per annum

Burden hour
per response

Annual burden
hours

Hourly cost
per response

Annual cost

SF–425 .........................

450.00

2.00

900.00

.50

450.00

$33.06

$14,877.00

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

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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;

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(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.

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Authority: Authority: Section 3507 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: October 17, 2017.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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