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Federal Register
Vol. 84, No. 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Request for Extension of
Currently Approved Information
Collection
Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Rural Housing Service (RHS) invites
comments on this information
collection for the Housing Preservation
Grant (HPG) Program, which approval
from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) will be requested.
DATES: Comments on this Notice must
be received by April 15, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas P. Dickson, Rural Development
Innovation Center—Regulatory Team 2,
USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
STOP 1522, Room 5164, South
Building, Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email
[email protected].
For program inquires, contact Bonnie
Edwards-Jackson, Finance and Loan
Analyst, Multi-Family Housing
Preservation and Direct Loan Division,
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural
Development, STOP 0781, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20250–0782, telephone (202) 690–
0759 (voice) (this is not a toll-free
number) or (800) 877–8339 (TDDFederal Information Relay Service) or
via email at, bonnie.edwards@
wdc.usda.gov.
SUMMARY:

The Office
of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires
that interested members of the public
and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information

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collection and recordkeeping activities
(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice
identifies an information collection that
the Agency is submitting to OMB for
revision.
Comments are invited on (a) whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumption used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques on other forms
and information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Thomas P.
Dickson, Rural Development Innovation
Center—Regulatory Team 2, USDA,
1400 Independence Avenue SW, STOP
1522, Room 5164, South Building,
Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email
[email protected].
Title: 7 CFR part 1944–N Housing
Preservation Grants.
OMB Control Number: 0575–0115.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: The primary purpose of the
HPG Program is to repair or rehabilitate
individual housing, rental properties, or
co-ops owned or occupied by very lowand low-income rural persons. Grantees
will provide eligible homeowners,
owners of rental prope1iies and owners
of co-ops with financial assistance
through loans, grants, interest reduction
payments or other comparable financial
assistance for necessary repairs and
rehabilitation of dwellings to bring them
up to code or minimum property
standards. Where repair and
rehabilitation assistance are not
economically feasible or practical the
replacement of existing, individual
owner-occupied housing is available.
These grants were established by
Public Law 98–181, the Housing UrbanRural Recovery Act of 1983, which
amended the Housing Act of 1979 (Pub.
L. 93–383) by adding section 533, 42
U.S.C. S 2490(m), Housing Preservation
Grants. In addition, the Secretary of

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Agriculture has authority to prescribe
rules and regulations to implement the
HPG and other programs under 42
U.S.C. S 1480(G). Section 533(d) is
prescriptive about the information
applicants are to submit to RHS as part
of their application and in the
assessments and criteria RHS is to use
in selecting grantees. An applicant is to
submit a ‘‘statement of activity’’
describing its proposed program,
including the specific activities it will
undertake, and its schedule. RHS is
required in turn to evaluate proposals
on a set of prescribed criteria, for which
the applicant will also have to provide
information, such as: (1) Very low- and
low-income persons proposed to be
served by the repair and rehabilitation
activities; (2) participation by other
public and private organizations to
leverage funds and lower the cost to the
HPG program; (3) the areas to be served
in terms of population and need: (4) cost
data to assure greatest degree of
assistance at lowest cost; (5)
administrative capacity of the applicant
to carry out the program. The
information collected will be the
minimum required by law and by
necessity for RHS to assure that it funds
responsible grantees proposing feasible
projects in areas of greatest need. Most
data are taken from a localized area,
although some are derived from census
reports of city, county and Federal
governments showing population and
housing characteristics.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 8,262 hours.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,093.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 7.55.
Copies of this information collection
can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal,
Rural Development Innovation Center—
Regulations Team. Telephone: (202)
720–7853. Email: MaryPatDaskal@
usda.gov.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Joel C. Baxley,
Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
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