60-Day Federal Register Notice

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(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.
DATES:

Comments Due Date: July 2,

2019.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW,
Washington, DC 20410; email Harry
Messner at [email protected] or
telephone 202–402–2626. This is not a
toll-free number. Persons with hearing
or speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
ADDRESSES:

Frequency of Response: Once per
transfer of physical assets.
Average Hours per Response: 8.
Total Estimated Burdens: 4,340.
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 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.

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Comments Due Date: July 2,

2019.
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 number 202–
402–3400 (this is not a toll-free number)
or email at [email protected].
Copies of the proposed forms and other
information are available by contacting
Ms. Pollard. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@
hud.gov or by telephone at 202–402–
3400. 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.
Requests for copies of the proposed
forms should be submitted to Ms.
Pollard.
ADDRESSES:

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This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P

A. Overview of Information Collection

Dated: April 29, 2019.
Vance T. Morris,
Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
for Housing—Federal Housing Commissioner.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7018–N–02]

A. Overview of Information Collection
Title: Application for Transfer of
Physical Assets (TPA).
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0275.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Form Number: HUD–92266.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: When
the sale and conveyance by deed to an
insured mortgage necessitates a
substitution of mortgagors, HUD
approval of the substitution is required.
Respondents (i.e., affected public):
Multifamily property owners with loans
insured or held by HUD.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
27,127.
Estimated Number of Responses: 543.

DATES:

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60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Standards for Success
Reporting
AGENCY:

Office of the Deputy Secretary,

HUD.
ACTION:

Notice.

The Department of Housing
and Urban Development (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:

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title of Information Collection:
Standards for Success Reporting.
OMB Approval Number: 2501–0034.
Type of Request: Regular.
Type of Information Collection:
Renewal.
Form Numbers: HUD–PRL.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use:
This request is for the continued
clearance of data collection and
reporting requirements to enable the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) Office of Business
Transformation (OBT) to better assess
the effectiveness of discretionaryfunded programs included in this
information collection request (ICR).
The discretionary-funded programs
included in this ICR are the Multifamily
Housing Service Coordinator Grant
Program, the Multifamily Housing
Budget-based Service Coordinator
Program, and the Resident Opportunity

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and Self Sufficiency Service
Coordinator Grant Program (ROSS).
This proposed collection, titled
Standards for Success, has three key
tenets which vastly improve data
collection and reporting for
participating programs. First is the
standardization of data collection and
reporting requirements across programs
which increases data comparability and
utilization. Second is the ability to
report on measurable outcomes and
aligning them with higher-level agency
objectives. And third is the collection of
record-level data, instead of aggregate
data. Collecting de-identified data at the
level of the service recipient allows for
more meaningful analysis, improved
management, and the ability to
demonstrate the progress and
achievements of the funding recipients
and the programs. Standards for Success
accepts data submission by direct data
input through the HUD-funded
GrantSolutions online data collection
and reporting tool (OLDC) and by data
file upload, accommodating file formats
in Microsoft Excel or Extensible Markup
Language (XML).
Currently across HUD, there are
several reporting models in place for its
discretionary programs. The reporting
models provide information on a wide
variety of outputs and outcomes and are
based on unique data definitions and
outcome measures in program-specific
performance and progress reports. In
Federal Fiscal Year 2013, nine program
offices at HUD used six systems and 15
reporting tools to collect over 700 data
elements in support of varied metrics to
assess the performance of their funding
recipients. The proposed data collection
and reporting requirements described in
this notice are designed to provide HUD
programs a tested alternative to their
existing disparate reporting
methodologies, forms, systems, and
requirements.
The lack of standardized data
collection and reporting requirements
imposes an increased burden on
funding recipients with multiple HUD
funding streams. The need for a
comprehensive standardized reporting
approach is underscored by reviews

conducted by external oversight
agencies, including the HUD Office of
Inspector General (OIG) and the
Government Accountability Office
(GAO). These oversight agencies have
questioned the soundness and
comparability of data reported by HUD
prior to Standards for Success. To
address these issues, HUD is using its
statutory and regulatory authority to
improve and strengthen performance
reporting for its discretionary programs,
ultimately working towards a single
comprehensive reporting approach.
The Secretary’s statutory and
regulatory authority to administer
housing and urban development
programs include provisions allowing
for the requirement of performance
reporting from funding recipients. This
legal authority is codified at 42 U.S.C.
3535(r). The individual privacy of
service recipients is of the highest
priority. The reporting repository
established at HUD to receive data
submission from funding recipients will
not include any personally identifiable
information (PII). Additionally, if the
data from a funding recipient has 25 or
fewer individuals served during a fiscal
year as reported in the record-level
reports, then the results for the
demographic data elements for the 25 or
fewer individuals will also be redacted
or removed from the public-use data file
and any publicly available analytical
products in order to ensure the inability
to identify any individual.
Eligible entities receiving funding by
HUD are expected to implement the
proposed recordkeeping and reporting
requirements with available HUD funds.
It is important to note that affected HUD
funding recipients only submit a subset
of the universe of data elements
presented. The participating HUD
program offices determine the specific
data collection and reporting
requirements, which considers the type
and level of service provided by the
respective HUD program.
The reporting requirements in this
proposal better organize the data that
participating programs collected in the
past, standardize outcomes and
performance measures, and allow

program offices at HUD to select which
data elements and performance
indicators are relevant for their
respective programs. Documents
detailing the data elements,
performance indicators, and programs
are available for review by request from
Colette Pollard (Colette.Pollard@
hud.gov). All information reported to
HUD will be submitted electronically.
Funding recipients may use existing
management information systems
provided those systems collect all of the
required data elements and can be
exported for submission to HUD.
Funding recipients that sub-award
funds to other organizations will need to
collect the required information from
their sub-recipients.
Information collected and reported
will be used by funding recipients and
HUD for the following purposes:
• To provide program and
performance information to recipients,
general public, Congress, and other
stakeholders;
• To continuously improve the
quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of
discretionary-funded programs;
• To provide management
information for use by HUD in program
administration and oversight, including
the scoring of applications and the
monitoring of funding-recipient
participation, services, and outcomes;
and
• To better measure and analyze
performance information to identify
successful practices to be replicated and
prevent or correct problematic practices
and improve outcomes in compliance
with the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA) and the GPRA
Modernization Act.
The data collection and reporting
requirements may expand to other HUD
programs. Program implementation will
be determined by the program. HUD
will provide technical assistance to
funding recipients throughout the
implementation.
Respondents (i.e., affected public):
Organizations receiving HUD funding as
listed on page 2.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATE FOR THE REQUESTED REPORTING APPROACH
Number of
respondents
(funding
recipients)

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HUD program

Multifamily Housing Service Coordinator
Grant Program ......................................
Multifamily Housing Budget-based Service Coordinator Program ......................

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Submission
frequency

Hourly rate 1

Average
number of
minutes
(per record)

Estimated
annual
burden hours

Estimated
annual
burden
dollars

1,665

1

$18.75

20

57,753

$1,082,869

2,835

1

$18.75

20

98,336

1,843,800

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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATE FOR THE REQUESTED REPORTING APPROACH—Continued
Number of
respondents
(funding
recipients)

HUD program

Submission
frequency

Hourly rate 1

Average
number of
minutes
(per record)

Estimated
annual
burden hours

Estimated
annual
burden
dollars

Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator Grant Program .....................................................

353

1

$18.75

20

12,244

229,581

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

2 4,853

1

$18.75

20

168,333

3,156,250

1 The hourly rate of $18.75 is the average wage for office and administrative support occupations as reported in the May 2018 Occupational
Employment and Wages produced by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
2 There are an estimated 505,000 individuals to be served by the 4,853 funding recipients.

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: April 23, 2019.
Christopher Walsh,
Presidential Management Fellows, Office of
Business Transformation.
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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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Fish and Wildlife Service
[Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2019–0023;
FXIA16710900000–190–FF09A30000]

Foreign Endangered Species; Receipt
of Permit Applications
AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

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Notice of receipt of permit
applications; request for comments.

ACTION:

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 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 comments in response to these
questions.

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on applications to conduct
certain activities with foreign species
that are listed as endangered under the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). With
some exceptions, the ESA prohibits
activities with listed species unless
Federal authorization is issued that
allows such activities. The ESA also
requires that we invite public comment
before issuing permits for any activity
otherwise prohibited by the ESA with
respect to any endangered species.
DATES: We must receive comments by
June 3, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: The
applications, application supporting
materials, and any comments and other
materials that we receive will be
available for public inspection at http://
www.regulations.gov in Docket No.
FWS–HQ–IA–2019–0023.
Submitting Comments: When
submitting comments, please specify the
name of the applicant and the permit
number at the beginning of your
comment. You may submit comments
by one of the following methods:
• Internet: http://
www.regulations.gov. Search for and
submit comments on Docket No. FWS–
HQ–IA–2019–0023.
• U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Public
Comments Processing, Attn: Docket No.
FWS–HQ–IA–2019–0023; U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Headquarters, MS:
BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike; Falls
Church, VA 22041–3803.
For more information, see Public
Comment Procedures under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda Tapia, by phone at 703–358–
2104, via email at [email protected], or
via the Federal Relay Service at 800–
877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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I. Public Comment Procedures
A. How do I comment on submitted
applications?
We invite the public and local, State,
Tribal, and Federal agencies to comment
on these applications. Before issuing
any of the requested permits, we will
take into consideration any information
that we receive during the public
comment period.
You may submit your comments and
materials by one of the methods in
ADDRESSES. We will not consider
comments sent by email or fax, or to an
address not in ADDRESSES. We will not
consider or include in our
administrative record comments we
receive after the close of the comment
period (see DATES).
When submitting comments, please
specify the name of the applicant and
the permit number at the beginning of
your comment. Provide sufficient
information to allow us to authenticate
any scientific or commercial data you
include. The comments and
recommendations that will be most
useful and likely to influence agency
decisions are: (1) Those supported by
quantitative information or studies; and
(2) those that include citations to, and
analyses of, the applicable laws and
regulations.
B. May I review comments submitted by
others?
You may view and comment on
others’ public comments at http://
www.regulations.gov, unless our
allowing so would violate the Privacy
Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) or Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).
C. Who will see my comments?
If you submit a comment at http://
www.regulations.gov, your entire
comment, including any personal
identifying information, will be posted
on the website. If you submit a
hardcopy comment that includes
personal identifying information, such
as your address, phone number, or

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