[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 161 (Monday, August 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50149-50150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-20414]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5610-N-13]
Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment:
Moving to Work Demonstration: Revision to Form HUD 50058 MTW
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of proposed information collection.
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SUMMARY: 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.
Tenant data is collected to understand demographic, family profile,
income, and housing information for participants in the Public Housing,
Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, Section 8 Project Based Certificate,
Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation, and Moving to Work Demonstration
programs. This data also allows HUD to monitor the performance of
programs and the performance of public housing agencies that administer
the programs.
DATES: Comments Due Date: October 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: 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, Departmental
Reports Management Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 4160, Washington, DC 20410-5000;
telephone 202.402.3400 (this is not a toll-free number) or email Ms.
Pollard 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 toll-free Federal
Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. (Other than the HUD USER
information line and TTY numbers, telephone numbers are not toll-free.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Arlette Mussington, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 490 East L'Enfant Plaza, Room 2206, Washington, DC
20410; telephone 202-402-4109, (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department is submitting the proposed
information collection to OMB for review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended).
This Notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and
affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information to:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection 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; (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 the
use of appropriate automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
This Notice also lists the following information:
Title of Proposal: Revision of MTW Family Report--HUD 50058 MTW.
OMB Control Number, if applicable: 2577-00863.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use:
The Office of Public and Indian Housing of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides funding to Public Housing
Agencies (PHAs) to administer assisted housing programs. Form HUD-50058
MTW Family Reports solicit demographic, family profile, income and
housing information on the entire nationwide population of tenants
residing in assisted housing. The information collected through the
Form HUD-50058 MTW will be used to monitor and evaluate the Office of
Public and Indian Housing, Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration program
which includes Public Housing, Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher,
Section 8 Project Based Certificates and Vouchers, Section 8 Moderate
Rehabilitation and Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration programs.
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Reason for PRA
MTW Agencies are providing housing assistance through a
wide variety of interesting and creative programs that fall outside of
sections 8 and 9 need to be able to report households served through
these programs into PIC.\1\
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\1\ PIH Notice 2011-45 (HA), issued August 15, 2011, clarifies
HUD policies, Federal statutes and regulations that apply to local,
non-traditional activities implemented under the Moving to Work
(MTW) demonstration program.
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The Moving to Work (MTW) PIC Module is currently unable to
capture all of the households served through MTW activities because the
HUD 50058 MTW Form in PIC does not have a code for reporting Local,
Non-Traditional assisted families in the PIC system.
Agencies have not been reporting these families into PIC
and this makes it difficult to accurately account for the number of MTW
families being served. The MTW Office is engaging in a manual
collection of the number of families served each year but the PIC
system needs to be revised to make this information collection easier
for MTW agencies and HUD.
Background
The MTW statute (1996 Appropriations Act, Section 204)
states that an agency may combine its funding as provided under
Sections 8 and 9 to provide housing assistance and services for low-
income families. At the outset of the demonstration, a number of MTW
agencies used this flexibility to design activities that went outside
the bounds of the eligible activities of Sections 8 and 9 of the 1937
Act. Though the Standard MTW Agreement did not contain this
flexibility, HUD committed to MTW agencies during negotiations that any
provision permitted under an agency's original MTW agreement that was
legal could be retained under the Standard Agreement.
On October 1, 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development issued a letter to MTW agencies regarding the
availability of the broader uses of funds authority, under the Moving
to Work (MTW) program. The letter provided a brief description of the
required steps that must be completed in order for agencies to access
this additional MTW authorization.
Revision to HUD 50058 MTW--PIC System Change
Create a Local, Non-Traditional Assistance ``LN'' program
code categorization in Section 1.C Form 50058-MTW to track households
that are provided assistance through local, non-traditional MTW
programs in addition to public housing, tenant-based and project-based
assistance.
Add Local, Non-Traditional Assistance to the heading of
Section 21 of Form 50058-MTW to allow detailed reporting on this type
of assistance.
Agency form numbers, if applicable: HUD 50058 MTW.
Members of affected public: Public Housing Agencies, State and
local governments, individuals and households.
Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
response, and hours of response: The estimated number of burden hours
is 1,081,685. The number of respondents is 4,149 and the number of
responses is 2,874,934. The frequency of responses is annually for
recertifications and new admissions.
Status of the proposed information collection: This is a revision
of an existing collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C..,
Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: August 10, 2012.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Deputy Director for Office of Policy, Program and Legislative
Initiatives.
[FR Doc. 2012-20414 Filed 8-17-12; 8:45 am]
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