Office of Housing Counseling
– Agency Performance Review
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
08/08/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2024
353
353
3,354
353
0
0
HUD-approved agencies are non-profit
and government organizations that provide housing services. The
information collected allows HUD to monitor and provide oversight
for agencies approved to participate in the Housing Counseling
Program. Specifically, the information collected is used to ensure
that participating agencies comply with program policies and
regulations and to determine if agencies remain eligible to
maintain an approval status. Housing counseling aids tenants and
homeowners in improving their housing conditions and in meeting the
responsibilities of tenancy and homeownership.
US Code:
12
USC 1701x Name of Law: Housing and Urban Development Act of
1968
US Code: 12
USC 1701w Name of Law: Housing and Urban Development Act of
1968
This is a revision of a
currently approved collection. OHC has made a correction to Item 13
on the OMB 83-I form. The total annual hours requested has
increased from 353 to 3353.5 hours. The increase is a result of the
time it takes to complete Part B and Part C of the form which not
only requires responses to the question, but also the time it takes
to gather and submit verification/documentation to support the
agency’s response. The last collection did not take into account
the time it takes to collect the documentation for the form. OHC
revised form HUD-9910 “Maintaining Approval Criteria” section in
Part A to include two new questions: one that addresses the
agency’s ongoing regulatory duty to screen for ineligible
participants. This new question asks the reviewer to verify whether
the agency maintains policies to screen for ineligible
participants. Including this question resolves a key OIG
recommendation to clarify the documentation to be produced during a
performance review to demonstrate compliance with 24 CFR
214.103(c). The first new question, line item #9 of the form HUD
9910, has been added to verify if the agency maintains policies to
screen for ineligible participants, including agency’s directors,
partners, officers, principals, or employees. Line item #9 of the
form was inadvertently excluded from the last collection. The
second new question, line item #66a, addresses whether the
counselors that provide housing counseling are HUD certified
counselors as required by the Housing Counseling Certification
Requirements Final Rule which was implemented in August 2021 as a
result of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act of 2010, which amended Section 106 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968. Another question revised is question 55f
which was an incomplete sentence that was missing information
pertaining to an agency providing information on comparable
products from at least 3 different lenders. The sentence is now
complete with the added information. In the last collection, 353
burden hours were reported. The new collection reports 3353.5
burden hours since the annual reporting hours per response has
changed from 1 hour to 9.5 hours for a respondent to complete and
return from HUD-9910. The last preparer did not consider the time
it took to collect the documentation to support the agency
responses. The form specifically requests the agency to submit
verification/documentation of its responses. Item 14 of the
Supporting Statement has also changed. The annual cost to the
Federal Government has increased due to the increase in the 2022
salaries on the GS Pay Scale. As previously mentioned in Sections 3
and 8, plans are underway to further streamline form HUD-9910 and
fully automate it in a new HUD system called HCAMS, HUD system
P301, which has been in development for several years. A new module
has been created that will replace the paper form HUD-9910 and
enable HCAs to complete the form on-line, thus further reducing the
reporting burden. The module has just completed the final testing
phase. Once OMB 2502-0574 (this collection) has been approved by
OMB, then a new PRA collection will be submitted for the agency
performance review module which will be the first module to be
activated in the HCAMS system.
$3,412,401
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Teri Ames 202 402-3025
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form HUD 9910 Office of Housing Counseling – Agency Performance Review
2502-0574 30 day.pdf
Support Statement A 2502-0574,.docx
Office of Housing Counseling – Agency Performance Review