Notice2024-13582
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Public Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan, OMB Control No.: 2577-0226
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June 21, 2024
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Housing and Urban Development Department
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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 30 days of public comment.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52074-52076]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13582]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7080-N-28]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Public Housing
Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan, OMB Control No.: 2577-0226
AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, Chief Data Officer,
HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: 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 30 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: July 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection can be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Interested persons
are also invited to submit comments regarding this proposal by name
and/or OMB Control Number and should be sent to: Colette Pollard,
Reports Management Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410-5000;
telephone (202) 402-3400 (this is not a toll-free number) or email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e0b081908592978f928bb28584958394898f8ea18394af8686898385a0889584ce878f96"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="184879687d6a6f776a734a7d7c6d7b6c717776597b6c577e7e717b7d58706d7c367f776e">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 7th Street
SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410; email Colette Pollard at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a0925262f3e3e2f641a2526262b382e0a223f2e642d253c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="20634f4c455454450e704f4c4c415244604855440e474f56">[email protected]</span></a> or telephone (202) 402-3400. This is not a
toll-free number. HUD welcomes and is prepared to receive calls from
individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as individuals
with speech or communication disabilities. To learn more about how to
make an accessible telephone call, please visit <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs">https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs</a>.
Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from
Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for 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
December 14, 2023 at 88 FR 86667.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Proposal: Public Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual
Plan.
OMB Control Number: 2577-0226.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of previously approved
collection for which approval has expired.
Form Number(s): HUD-50075-5Y, HUD-50075-HCV, HUD-50075-HP, HUD-
50075-MTW, HUD-50075-SM, HUD-50075-ST, HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-CRT-SM,
HUD-50077-ST-HCV-HP and HUD-50077-SL.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The
Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was created by section 5A of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437c-1). There are two
different PHA Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the Annual Plan. The Five-
Year Plan describes the agency's mission, long-range goals, and
objectives for achieving its mission over a five-year period. The
Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive guide to PHA policies, programs,
operations, and strategies for meeting local housing needs and goals.
This revision addresses necessary updates to all the forms and the
automation of all the PHA Plan forms including the Moving to Work (MTW)
Supplement for PHAs that joined the MTW Demonstration under the 2016
Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW Expansion).
PHA Plans are needed to inform the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), residents, and the public of the PHA's mission and
strategy for serving the needs of low income, very low-income, and
extremely low-income families in the PHA's jurisdiction. This
information helps provide accountability to the local community for how
PHAs spend their funding and implement their policies. The PHA Plan
submission also includes various certifications to confirm that PHAs
will abide by all federal civil rights laws and that the PHA Plan is
consistent with the applicable Consolidated Plan.
PHA plans also allow HUD to monitor the performance of programs and
the performance of the public housing agencies that administer them.
Since 2000, HUD has taken several steps to reduce the administrative
burden of the PHA Plan submission including the use of streamlined plan
submissions for certain PHA based on size and performance. For example,
the Housing and Economic Reform Act (HERA) removed the requirement for
qualified PHAs to submit an annual PHA Plan and to only submit the 5-
year Plan. A ``qualified PHA'' is one that manages 550 or fewer public
housing units and vouchers and is not labeled as a troubled public
housing agency. Currently, qualified PHA's must only submit an annual
certification to confirm that they are abiding by all federal civil
rights laws.
In January 2021 HUD requested from OMB that the PHA Plan collection
be reinstated with change. These changes included the addition of a new
section to accommodate the anticipated fair housing planning
requirements of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
Rule and the introduction of the MTW Supplement. OMB approved the
changes, reinstated the collections and HUD made the new templates
available to PHAs on the HUD website as individual word processing
files. After publication, HUD made subsequent minor changes to the
forms and certifications to remove unnecessary sections, make minor
edits and to account for updated or eliminated regulatory citations.
Additionally, HUD took steps to automate the MTW supplement in the
Housing Information Portal (HIP).
With this current proposed information collection, HUD intends to
automate all PHA Plan templates and certifications. While the templates
will be automated, the content and required elements will be mostly the
same with
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a few modifications as needed to account for recent changes in
regulations. Modifications to the collection include the following:
(1) HUD is adding an additional element to the HUD-50075-HCV form.
The revised HUD-50075-HCV form will include an additional element
requiring Section 8 only PHAs to report on their Project Based Voucher
(PBV) activities. This template will be used by HCV-only PHA's that
administer the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program which may also
include PBV developments.
(2) HUD is adding an optional feature for PHA's to attach their
written Admission and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) or
Administrative Plan documents to their Five-Year Plan and Annual Plan
submissions. This will create a centralized database of all local PHA
policies which currently can only be found at each individual PHA or on
their websites.
(3) Section D of the PHA Plan Templates, meant to address the fair
housing goals as was originally required by the 2015 Affirmatively
Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, has been removed. This is due to
the 2020 Preserving Neighborhood and Community Choice (PNCC) rule
rescinding the 2015 AFFH rule which eliminated the requirement for HUD
grantees to conduct fair housing planning. On June 10, 2021, HUD
published an AFFH interim final rule (IFR) which does not restore the
2015 AFFH rule for HUD grantees to conduct fair housing planning only
that grantees meaningfully certify that they are meeting the Fair
Housing Act's AFFH obligation. The language in the HUD certifications
have been updated to reflect this change.
(4) Additional edits have been made to the PHA Plan templates as
required by the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016
(HOTMA)--Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and Project-Based Voucher (PBV)
Implementation final rule. These edits include the addition of Section
B.5 HUD Form 50075-5Y for PHAs to report PBV activities as required by
24 CFR 903.6(c). The HOTMA-HCV rule also required citation updates to
account for the redesignation of paragraph (r) of 24 CFR 903.7 as
paragraph (s).
(5) Lastly, HUD will now strongly encourage complete electronic
submission from all PHAs. Currently, PHA Plan templates are downloaded,
edited, and submitted as email attachments which must then be
individually uploaded, analyzed, and organized by HUD. Automating the
PHA Plan forms will make the PHA Plan review process more efficient by
streamlining the submission and review process thus reducing the
administrative burden on both HUD and PHAs. HUD estimates that
automating the PHA Plan form will reduce both the PHA and HUD
administrative burden by approximately 25%. Electronic submission and
collection of this information will also make future data and policy
analysis feasible.
Overall, the burden hours associated with the collection is
expected to decrease by 2,024 hours due to the automation of the PHA
Plan templates. Additional time may be required in the first year to
train PHAs on the system, however, because the Public Housing Portal is
an existing HUD system that PHAs use and are familiar with, this burden
is expected to reduce in subsequent years. Accordingly, the additional
burden of the one-time training is not expected to exceed the time
savings created by the system.
Finally, revisions were made to this collection to reflect
adjustments in calculations based on the total number of current,
active PHAs to date. Since the last approved information collection,
the number of active public housing agencies has changed from
approximately 3,780 to 3,763. The number of PHAs can fluctuate due to
many factors, including but not limited to performance scoring, the
merging of two or more PHAs or the termination of the public housing
and/or voucher programs due to the Rental Assistance Demonstration
(RAD).
Members of affected public: Public Housing Agencies, Developers.
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Number of Frequency of Responses per Burden hour Hourly cost
Information collection respondents response annum per response Annual burden hours per response * Annual cost
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Form HUD-50075-ST [dagger]........ 796 1 796 5.64 4,489.44............ $26.62 $119.508.89
Form HUD-50075-SM [dagger]........ 202 1 202 2.67 539.74.............. 26.62 14,367.99
Form HUD-50075-HP [dagger]........ 152 1 152 5.26 799.52.............. 26.62 21,283.22
Form HUD-50075-HCV [dagger]....... 246 1 246 4.52 1,111.92............ 26.62 29,599.31
Form HUD-50075-MTW [dagger]....... 100 1 100 6.50 650................. 26.62 17,303.00
Form HUD-50077-CR (Qualified PHAs) 2,321 1 2,321 0.16 371.36.............. 26.62 9,885.60
Form HUD-50075-5Y [dagger]........ 3,763 1 3,763/5 1.23 (6.15/5) 4,628.49 (23,142.45/ 26.62 123,210.40
5).
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Total......................... 3,763 1 3,763 25.98 12,590.47........... 26.62 335,158
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* The hourly cost for response assumes a GS-9, Step 5 ($55,564), Executive Assistant, hourly rate is $26.62.
[dagger] Note: The rows representing the burden for each template/respondent type includes the burden of the relevant annual certification forms (HUD-
50077-SL, HUD-50077-CR-SM & HUD-50077-ST-HCV-HP).
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
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who are to respond; including through the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or the forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of responses.
(5) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
HUD encourages interested parties to submit comment in response to
these questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
chapter 35.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of Policy Development and
Research, Chief Data Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-13582 Filed 6-20-24; 8:45 am]
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