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effectiveness. The comments will be
reviewed and, as appropriate,
considered for general program
development. Thank you for the
substantive comments. The purpose of
this notice is to notify the public that
FEMA will submit the information
collection abstracted below to the Office
of Management and Budget for review
and clearance.
Collection of Information
Title: Mitigation Grant Programs
(including Mitigation (MT) Grants
Management (formerly Mitigation (MT)
Electronic Grants (eGrants) and FEMA
GO) for Flood Mitigation Assistance
(FMA), Building Resilient Infrastructure
and Communities (BRIC) and PreDisaster Mitigation (PDM)).
Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0072.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–206–
FY–22–151, Quarterly Progress Report
(QFR).
Abstract: FEMA’s FMA and BRIC
programs use an automated grant
application and management system
called FEMA GO. The PDM program
uses an automated grant application and
management system called MT e-Grants.
These grant programs provide funding
for the purpose of reducing or
eliminating the risks to life and property
from hazards. The FEMA GO and
eGrants systems include all the
application information needed to apply
for funding under these grant programs.
FEMA and SLTTs use the BRIC Panel
Review Form to solicit volunteers from
SLTTs and Other Federal Agencies
(OFA) to review sub-applicant project
applications. The volunteers will
review, and score applications based on
a pre-determined scoring criteria. The
PDM, FMA, and BRIC programs will use
the same QPR Form.
Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal,
or Territorial Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
660.
Estimated Number of Responses:
6,596.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 104,168.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $6,228,883.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $7,739,695.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as
indicated in the ADDRESSES caption

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above. Comments are solicited to (a)
evaluate whether the proposed data
collection is necessary for the proper
performance of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) 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;
(c) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) 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.
Millicent Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office
of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7050–N–29; OMB Control
No.: 2528–NEW]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Stepped and Tiered Rent
Demonstration Evaluation
Office of Policy Development
and Research, Chief Data Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The proposed information
collection requirement described below
will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. The Department is
soliciting public comments on the
subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: July 29,
2022.
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].
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339.

ADDRESSES:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anna P. Guido, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; mail to:
[email protected]; email her at
[email protected] or telephone
202–402–5535. 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 November 24, 2021, at 86 FR 67076.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration
Evaluation.
OMB Approval Number: 2528–New.
Type of Request: New collection.
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
data for the evaluation. The BIF will

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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
Information collection

Number of
respondents

Baseline Information
Form (household survey) (Attachment A)
Stepped Rent Informed
Consent Form (Attachment B.1) ...........
Tiered Rent Informed
Consent Form (Attachment B.2) ...........
PHA Executive Director-Senior Leader
Interview Guide (Attachment C) ..............
PHA Program Director
Interview Guide (Attachment D) ..............
PHA MTW Coordinator
Interview Guide (Attachment E) ..............
PHA Housing Specialist
Interview Guide (Attachment F) ..............
Rent Policy Implementation Data Tracking
Tool (Attachment G)
Total ......................

Frequency
of response

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Burden hour
per response

Annual
burden hours

Hourly cost
per response

Annual cost

1

24,000

.12

2,880

$9.43

$27,158.40

7,000

1

7,000

.18

1,260

9.43

11,881.80

17,000

1

17,000

.18

3,060

9.43

28,855.80

10

1

10

.75

7.5

59.86

448.95

20

1

20

1.5

30

44.24

1,327.20

10

1

10

.75

7.5

44.24

331.80

60

1

60

1.5

90

25.64

2,307.60

10

1

10

9

90

25.64

2,307.60

48,110

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

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

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

7,425

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

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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) If the information will be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(4) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(5) 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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Responses
per annum

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.

24,000

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

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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.
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C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Data Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–FR–6335–N–01]

Housing Trust Fund Federal Register
Allocation Notice
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of fiscal year 2022
funding awards.
AGENCY:

The Housing and Economic
Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA)
established the Housing Trust Fund
(HTF) to be administered by HUD.
Pursuant to the Federal Housing
Enterprises Financial Security and

SUMMARY:

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Soundness Act of 1992 (the Act), as
amended by HERA, eligible HTF
grantees are the 50 states, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana
Islands, and the United States Virgin
Islands. This notice announces the
formula allocation amount for each
eligible HTF grantee.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Virginia Sardone, Director, Office of
Affordable Housing Programs, Room
7164, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street SW,
Washington, DC 20410–7000; telephone
(202) 708–2684. (This is not a toll-free
number.) A telecommunications device
for hearing- and speech-impaired
persons (TTY) is available at 800–877–
8339 (Federal Information Relay
Service). (This is a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
1131 of HERA, Division A amended the
Act to add a new section 1337 entitled
‘‘Affordable Housing Allocations’’ and a
new section 1338 entitled ‘‘Housing
Trust Fund.’’ Congress authorized the
Housing Trust Fund (HTF) with the
stated purpose of: (1) Increasing and

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