Notice2024-18016
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Published
August 13, 2024
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Agriculture Department
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65838-65839]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-18016]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments
are requested regarding: whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility; the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to
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.
Comments regarding this information collection received by
September 12, 2024 will be considered. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the
following website <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.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
Rural Housing Service
Title: 7 CFR part 1924-A, Planning and Performing Construction and
Other Development.
OMB Control Number: 0575-0042.
Summary of Collection: The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is the
credit Agency for rural housing and community development within Rural
Development of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Agency
offers a supervised credit program to build modest housing and
essential community facilities in rural areas. This regulation
prescribes the policies and responsibilities, including the information
and collection necessary to demonstrate compliance with applicable acts
for planning and performing development work for these facilities.
Section 501 of Title V of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended,
authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to extend financial assistance
to construct, improve, alter, repair, replace, or rehabilitate
dwellings, farm buildings and/or related facilities to provide decent,
safe, sanitary living conditions and adequate farm buildings and other
structures in rural areas. Section 506 of the Act requires that all new
buildings and repairs shall be constructed in accordance with plans and
specifications as required by the Secretary and that such construction
be supervised and inspected. Section 509 of the Act grants the
Secretary the power to determine and prescribe the standards of
adequate farm housing and other buildings. The Housing and Urban Rural
Recovery Act of 1983 amended section 509(a) and section 515 to require
residential buildings and related facilities comply with the standards
prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, the standards prescribed by
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or the standards
prescribed in any of the nationally recognized model building codes.
Similar authorizations are contained in sections 303, 304, 306, and 339
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended, which
authorized loans and grants for essential community services. In
several sections of both acts, loan limitations are established as
percentages of development costs, requiring careful monitoring of those
costs. Also, the Secretary is authorized to prescribe regulations to
ensure that Federal funds are not wasted or dissipated, and that
construction will be undertaken economically and will not be of
elaborate or extravagant design or materials.
Need and Use of the Information: RHS provides several forms to
assist in the collection and submission of information. The information
is used by Rural Development to determine whether a loan/grant can be
approved, to ensure that Rural Development has adequate security for
the loans financed, to provide for sound construction and development
work, and to determine that the requirements of the applicable acts
have been met. The information is also used to monitor compliance with
the terms and conditions of the loan/grant and to monitor the prudent
use of Federal funds.
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Description of Respondents: Individuals or households; Business or
other for-profit; Not-for-profit institutions; Farms; State, Local and
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 12,425.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Report: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 51,572.
Rural Housing Service
Title: Multi-Family Housing Preservation and Revitalization
Restructuring Demonstration Program (MPR).
OMB Control Number: 0575-0190.
Summary of Collection: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016,
Public Law No: 114-113, signed December 18, 2015, authorized USDA to
conduct a demonstration program for the preservation and revitalization
of the sections 514, 515, and 516 multi-family rental housing
properties to restructure existing USDA/Multi-Family Housing (MFH)
loans expressly to ensure the project has sufficient resources to
provide safe and affordable housing for low-income residents and farm
laborers under the programs authorized by the Housing Act of 1949, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1484, 1485 and 1486). The authorities to be
demonstrated through this program will allow the Agency to test the
efficacy of many of the preservation and revitalization tools
identified in a fiscal year 2004 study report titled, ``Rural Rental
Housing--Comprehensive Property Assessment and Portfolio Analysis.''
This report has subsequently been followed up in a report which again
reviewed the section 515 Rural Rental Housing (RRH) loan portfolio and
examined the degree of impact the repairs had made on the overall
portfolio. It concluded that although the portfolio has been well
managed, it has continued to mature and needs attention now to assure
that it can continue to deliver decent, safe and sanitary affordable
rental housing into the future.
Need and Use of the Information: The Agency will be collecting
information from the proposer to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses
to which the proposal concept possesses or lacks the attributes set
forth in the proposed content and evaluation criteria. RHS will use the
collected information to select the most feasible proposals that will
enhance the Agency's chances in accomplishing the demonstration
objective. The information will be utilized to sustain and modify RHS'
current policies pertaining to revitalization and preservation of
affordable rental housing in rural areas.
Description of Respondents: Private sector; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 150.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 11,180.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-18016 Filed 8-12-24; 8:45 am]
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