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2007–0046. Submit comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal website at
https://www.regulations.gov under eDocket ID number USCIS–2007–0046.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division,
Samantha Deshommes, Chief, telephone
number (240) 721–3000 (This is not a
toll-free number. Comments are not
accepted via telephone message). Please
note contact information provided here
is solely for questions regarding this
notice. It is not for individual case
status inquiries. Applicants seeking
information about the status of their
individual cases can check Case Status
Online, available at the USCIS website
at https://www.uscis.gov, or call the
USCIS Contact Center at 800–375–5283
(TTY 800–767–1833).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background
Statutory authorization to set aside
visas under the EB–5 Immigrant
Investor Regional Center Program
expired at midnight on June 30, 2021.
See Departments of Commerce, Justice,
and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act 1993,
Public Law 102–395, 106 Stat. 1828,
§ 610(b), as amended. The Regional
Center Program was originally created
as a pilot program with authorization to
set aside visas under the program for a
five-year period. However, since its
advent in 1992, Congress has
reauthorized or extended the visa setaside under the program at least 30
times, most recently through June 30,
2021. Consolidated Appropriations Act
of 2021, Public Law 116–120, div. O,
title I, § 104, 134 Stat. 1182, 2148
(substituting ‘‘June 30, 2021’’ for
‘‘September 30, 2015’’ in § 610(b) of
Public Law 102–395). Based on the
history of prior Congressional
reauthorizations and extensions, absent
any indication that future
reauthorization is not forthcoming, and
also in the interests of keeping Form I–
924 current, USCIS has decided to
extend this form without change.
Even if the visa set-aside under the
EB–5 Immigrant Investor Regional
Center Program is not reauthorized,
USCIS would need to maintain this
form for the limited use of when the
application indicates that it is an
amendment to an existing regional
center’s name, organizational structure,
ownership, or administration.
Comments
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions
or additional information by visiting the

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Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
https://www.regulations.gov and
entering USCIS–2007–0046 in the
search box. All submissions will be
posted, without change, to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov, and will include
any personal information you provide.
Therefore, submitting this information
makes it public. You may wish to
consider limiting the amount of
personal information that you provide
in any voluntary submission you make
to DHS. DHS may withhold information
provided in comments from public
viewing that it determines may impact
the privacy of an individual or is
offensive. For additional information,
please read the Privacy Act notice that
is available via the link in the footer of
https://www.regulations.gov.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
should address one or more of the
following four points:
(1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Extension, Without Change, of a
Currently Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Regional Center Under
the Immigrant Investor Program.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the DHS
sponsoring the collection: I–924, I–
924A; USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals
representing any economic unit, public
or private, in the United States that is
involved with promoting economic
growth. This collection will be used by
such individuals to ask USCIS to be

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designated as a regional center under
the Immigrant Investor Program, to
request an amendment to a previously
approved regional center designation, or
to demonstrate continued eligibility for
designation as a regional center under
the Immigrant Investor Program.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: The estimated total number of
respondents for the information
collection I–924 is 21 and the estimated
hour burden per response is 51 hours.
The estimated total number of
respondents for the information
collection I–924A is 625 and the
estimated hour burden per response is
14 hours. The estimated total number of
respondents for Compliance Review is
40 and the estimated hour burden per
response is 24 hours. The estimated
total number of respondents for the
information collection during the Site
Visit is 40 and the estimated hour
burden per response is 16 hours.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden associated with this
collection is 11,421 hours.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: The estimated total annual
cost burden associated with this
collection of information is $2,344,605.
Dated: November 19, 2021.
Samantha L Deshommes,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7041–N–06]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Moving To Work Stepped
and Tiered 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:

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DATES:

OMB Approval Number: Pending.
Type of Request: New.
Form Number: N/A.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: HUD has
selected 10 Public Housing Agencies
(PHAs) to participate in the second
cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW)
Expansion, Stepped and Tiered Rent
Demonstration (STRD). These PHAs will
implement an alternative rent policy (a
stepped rent or tiered rent) that is
intended to reduce PHA administrative
burden and increase self-sufficiency of
assisted households. Five PHAs will
implement a stepped rent and five PHAs
will implement a tiered rent. HUD’s
Office of Policy Development and
Research (PD&R) will evaluate the
impacts of those alternative rent
policies, using a randomized controlled
trial. The evaluation will rely on data
from a variety of sources, including new
information collection efforts proposed
in this Notice. HUD has contracted with
MDRC to conduct the first phase of the
evaluation, including random
assignment, baseline data collection,
and monitoring PHA implementation.
Within the 10 participating PHAs,
eligible households will be randomly
assigned to have their rent calculated
under the new rules (stepped/tiered
rent) or old rules (the Brooke rent,
typically 30% of household income).
Eligible households will be non-elderly,
non-disabled participants in the public
housing and housing choice voucher
program. Prior to random assignment,
each household will be asked to
complete a baseline information form
(BIF) and provide informed consent to
authorize HUD’s evaluator to use their

Comments Due Date: January 24,

2022.
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.

ADDRESSES:

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 [email protected] 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 tollfree 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.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Moving to Work (MTW) Cohort 2
Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration
Evaluation.

data for the evaluation. The BIF will
provide important information not
otherwise available from HUD’s
administrative data, such as whether the
household has significant barriers to
employment. The BIF will average
approximately 7 minutes long.
MDRC will also conduct interviews
with staff from participating PHAs, to
better understand their experience
implementing the new rent policies. For
the first phase of the evaluation, MDRC
is expected to conduct two rounds of
staff interviews with each PHA. This
collection request focuses on the first of
the two rounds of staff data collection.
During the first round, MDRC expects to
interview up to ten staff per PHA
(reflecting a mix of executive
management staff, public housing and
HCV directors, and public housing and
HCV specialists). The mode will be a
mix of one-on-one interviews and group
interviews, with small groups of 2–3
staff performing similar roles.
Respondents: Recipients of HUD
housing assistance participating in the
Stepped and Tiered Rent
Demonstration; Staff with PHAs
participating in the Demonstration.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Up to 25,000 study participants who
will complete the baseline survey; 100
PHA staff interviewees.
Frequency of Response: Once (BIF);
Once for staff included in Round 1 staff
interviews.
Average Hours per Response: The BIF
will take 7 minutes per response (.12
hour). PHA staff interviews will take
one hour, on average.

TOTAL ESTIMATED BURDENS

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Information
collection

Number of
respondents

Frequency of
response

Responses
per annum

Burden hour
per response

Annual burden
hours

Hourly cost
per response

Annual cost

Baseline Information
Form
(household
survey).
PHA staff
interviews.

25,000

1

25,000

.12

3,000

$9.43

$14,145 (12,500 Employed sample members * $9.43 * 0.12
hour).

100

1

100

1

100

34.64

$3,464 (100 interviews *
$34.64 * 1 hr).

Total .....

25,100

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

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

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

3,100

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

For the Baseline Information Form
Hourly Cost Per Response, Households
in the STRD will range widely in
employment position and earnings. We
have estimated the average prevailing
minimum hourly wage across the ten
STRD sites at $9.43, and further assume
that about 50 percent of the participants

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to be employed at the time of survey
response.
For the PHA staff interviews Hourly
Cost Per Response, for program staff
participating in interviews, the estimate
uses the median hourly wages of
selected occupations (classified by
Standard Occupational Classification
(SOC) codes) was sourced from the

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$17,609

Occupational Employment Statistics
from the U.S. Department of Labor’s
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Potentially relevant occupations and
their median hourly wages are:

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Occupation

Mean hourly
wage rate

SOC code

Community and Social Service Specialist ...........................................................
Social/community Service Manager ....................................................................
Chief Executives ..................................................................................................

21–1099
11–9151
11–1011

$25.64
44.24
59.86

Source: Occupational Employment Statistics, accessed online September 29, 2021 at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
To estimate cost burden to program staff respondents, we use an average of the occupations listed weighted by expected respondent distribution for those listed above, or $34.64/hr.

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

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Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
The General Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and
Research,
Todd M. Richardson, having reviewed
and approved this document, is
delegating the authority to electronically
sign this document to submitter,
Chaneeka Dessesow, who is the Federal
Register Liaison for HUD, for purposes
of publication in the Federal Register.
Chaneeka Dessesow,
Federal Register Liaison for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6298–N–01]

Availability of HUD’s Fiscal Year 2019
Service Contract Inventory
Office of the Chief Procurement
Officer, Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice advises of the
availability to the public of service
contracts awarded by HUD in Fiscal
Year (FY) 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Akinsola A. Ajayi, Assistant Chief
Procurement Officer, Office of Policy,
Systems and Risk Management, Office
of the Chief Procurement Officer,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW,
Washington, DC 20410; telephone
number 202–402–6728 (this is not a tollfree number) and fax number 202–708–
8912.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with section 743 of Division
C of the Consolidated Appropriations
Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–117, approved
December 16, 2009, 123 Stat. 3034, at
123 Stat. 3216), HUD is publishing this
notice to advise the public of service
contracts inventories that were awarded
in FY 2018. The inventories are
organized by function and are reviewed
by HUD to better understand how
contracted services are used to support
HUD’s primary mission, to insure HUD
maintains an adequate workforce for
operations and to research whether
contractors were performing inherently
governmental functions.
The inventory was developed in
accordance with guidance issued on
November 5, 2010 by the Office of
Management and Budget’s Office
Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).
OFPP’s guidance is available at https://
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/
default/files/omb/procurement/memo/
service-contract-inventories-guidance11052010.pdf.
HUD has posted its inventory and a
summary of the inventory on the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development’s homepage at the
SUMMARY:

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following link: http://portal.hud.gov/
hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/
cpo/sci.
Akinsola A. Ajayi,
Assistant Chief Procurement Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLORM00000–L12200000.DF0000–21X.
HAG21–0088]

Notice of Public Meetings, Western
Oregon Resource Advisory Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) Western
Oregon Resource Advisory Council
(RAC) will meet as follows.
DATES: The Western Oregon RAC will
meet January 10 to 11 and conduct a
field tour on January 12, 2022. Each
meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn
at approximately 3 p.m. The field tour
will commence at 9 a.m. and conclude
around 4 p.m. The field tour and
meetings are open to the public.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held
virtually over the Zoom platform. Those
wishing to participate in the Zoom
meetings must register at least 2 weeks
in advance of the meetings. The link to
register for the January RAC Zoom
meetings is: https://blm.zoomgov.com/
webinar/register/WN_
pLpbh88OQmq55ry73zC-CA.
The RAC will take a field tour of the
Edson Campground and Sixes River
Campground on Wednesday, January
12. The RAC will meet at 9 a.m. at the
BLM Coos Bay District Office, 1300
Airport Lane, North Bend, Oregon, and
arrive at the Edson Campground at
10:45 a.m., returning to the BLM Coos
Bay District Office at around 4 p.m.
SUMMARY:

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