Manufactured Home
Construction and Safety Standards Act Park Model RV Exemption
Notice
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
12/05/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
01/31/2024
4,480
4,000
25
22
0
0
To carry out its responsibilities
under the Act, HUD has issued the Federal Manufactured Home
Construction and Safety Standards (the Standards), 24 CFR 3280. The
Department has also issued the Manufactured Home Procedural and
Enforcement Regulations (the Regulations), 24 CFR 3282, to enforce
these standards. The Regulations incorporate an exemption from HUD
regulation for recreational vehicles (RV) if they are: built on a
single chassis; 400 square feet or less when measured at their
largest horizontal projections; self-propelled or permanently
towable by a light duty truck; and designed primarily not for use
as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for
recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use. Through recent
rulemaking, HUD is adopting a recommendation of the Manufactured
Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), a Federal Advisory Committee,
and is clarifying the definition of recreational vehicle (RV) and
modifying it to require certification with either the American
National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) standard for Park Model
Recreational Vehicles (PMRV), A119.5–15 or the National Fire
Protection Association’s NFPA 1192, Standard on Recreational
Vehicles, 2015 Edition. Since Park Model RVs built to ANSI
A119.5-15 may exceed the RV exemption’s 400 square foot threshold,
a manufacturer must post notice in the home that the structure is
only designed for recreational purposes and is not designed as a
primary residence or for permanent occupancy.
US Code:
24
USC 3280 Name of Law: Federal Manufactured Home Construction
and Safety Standards
US Code: 24
USC 3282 Name of Law: Manufactured Home Procedural and
Enforcement Regulations
This is a revision of a
currently approved collection. The increased amount is because the
industry has grown about 12% from 130 manufacturing facilities to
145 manufacturing facilities. It is estimated that the number of
PMRV has increase by the same percentage. For this submission, HUD
is identifying the burden hours resulting from the requirement for
PMRV manufacturers that produce exempt products to provide specific
consumer notifications. HUD has determined that this information
collection burden does not fit within other information collections
for the Manufactured Housing program. Therefore, this information
collection is being submitted as a revision of a currently approved
collection. This information collection: • Includes the PMRV
manufacturers as respondents (25 PMRV manufacturers building to the
A119.5–15 Standard). The increased amount is due to the fact that
the manufactured housing industry has grown about 12% from 130
manufacturing facilities to 145 manufacturing facilities. It is
estimated that the number of PMRV has increase by the same
estimated percentage. Includes the burden hours associated with the
time and cost for delivering a Manufacturer’s Notice to prospective
consumers prior to the completion of the sales transaction and
placing the same notice inside the exempted PMRV. This is estimated
at approximately 20 seconds, and involves the time incurred in
developing a template notice, using that template to create two
copies for delivery and posting in affected PMRVs, as well as
having a copy available for the dealer\seller to provide to the
purchaser of the unit.
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.