Notice2025-16972
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: HOPE VI Implementation and HOPE VI Main Street Programs: Funding and Program Data Collection
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Published
September 4, 2025
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Housing and Urban Development Department
Abstract
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 comments from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 169 (Thursday, September 4, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42773-42774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16972]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7104-N-13; OMB Control No.: 2577-0208]
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: HOPE VI
Implementation and HOPE VI Main Street Programs: Funding and Program
Data Collection
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, (PIH), 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 comments
from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: November 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection can be sent within 60 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Interested persons are also invited
to submit comments regarding this proposal and comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB Control Number and should be sent to:
Dawn Martin, Program Analyst, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 3180, Washington, DC 20410-5000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dawn Martin, Program Analyst,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20410; email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#401009086d1012011035222c2923032f2d2d252e3433002835246e272f36"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3b6b7273166b697a6b4e59575258785456565e554f487b534e5f155c544d">[email protected]</span></a>, telephone
(202) 402-6488. 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. Martin.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in
Section A.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: HOPE VI Implementation and HOPE VI
Main Street Programs.
OMB Approval Number: 2577-0208.
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Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Form Number: HUD-52825-A, HUD-52861, HUD-53001-A.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use:
Section 24 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, as added by Section 535 of
the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-
276, 112 Stat. 2461, approved October 21, 1998) and revised by the HOPE
VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Main Street Rejuvenation
and Housing Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108-186, 117 Stat. 2685, approved
December 16, 2003), established the HOPE VI program for the purpose of
making assistance available on a competitive basis to Public Housing
Agencies (PHAs) to improve the living environment for public housing
residents of severely distressed public housing projects (or portions
thereof); and, beginning in Fiscal Year 2004, to rejuvenate the
traditional or historic downtown areas of smaller units of local
government. Funds were appropriated for competitive HOPE VI
Implementation Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) through Fiscal
Year 2011, when the HOPE VI program sunset and was replaced with the
Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.
HOPE VI funds are no longer being appropriated, and HOPE VI Main
Street funds are being funded through the Choice Neighborhoods
Initiative appropriations. In a change from previous years, the Main
Street grant program accounts for most of the reporting burden because
many HOPE VI grants are now fully completed and closed out. Currently,
there are approximately three HOPE VI Implementation grants that remain
active and must be monitored by HUD. HUD publishes competitive bi-
annual NOFOs for the HOPE VI Main Street program and monitors grants
that have been awarded through those NOFOs. These information
collections are required in connection with the monitoring of the
remaining active HOPE VI Implementation grants and the bi-annual
publication on <a href="http://www.grants.gov">http://www.grants.gov</a> of HOPE VI Main Street NOFOs,
contingent upon available funding and authorization, which announce the
availability of funds provided in annual appropriations for Section 24
of the Housing Act of 1937, as amended.
Eligible units of local government interested in obtaining HOPE VI
Main Street grants are required to submit applications to HUD, as
explained in each NOFO. The information conducted in the applications
enables HUD to conduct a comprehensive, merit-based selection process
in order to identify and select the applications to receive funding.
With the use of HUD-prescribed forms, the information collection
provides HUD with sufficient information to approve or disapprove
applications.
Applicants that are awarded HOPE VI Implementations grants are
required to report on a quarterly basis on their Implementation grant
revitalization activities. HOPE VI Implementation grantees do this by
sending emails to the HUD grant managers. HUD reviews and evaluates the
collected information and uses it as a primary tool with which to
monitor the status of HOPE VI projects and programs.
Members of affected public: Public Housing Agencies, Units of Local
Government.
Estimation of the total number of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
response, and hours of response:
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Burden hour Annual Hourly cost
Information collection Number of Frequency of Responses per per burden per Annual cost
respondents response annum response hours response
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HOPE VI Main Street Application:
Main Street NOFO Narrative Exhibits............. 5 0.5 2.5 80 200 \1\ $61 $12,200
Main Street NOFO 52861 Application Data Sheet... 5 0.5 2.5 5 37.5 61 2,287.5
Main Street NOFO Project Area Map............... 5 0.5 2.5 1 2.5 61 152.5
Main Street NOFO Program Schedule............... 5 0.5 2.5 4 10 61 610
Main Street NOFO Photographs of site............ 5 0.5 2.5 5 12.5 61 762.5
Main Street NOFO Five-year Pro-forma............ 5 0.5 2.5 5 12.5 61 762.5
Main Street NOFO Site Plan and Unit Layout...... 5 0.5 2.5 10 25 61 1,525
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Subtotal.................................... 35 .............. 17.5 ........... 300 ........... 18,300
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Non-NOFO Collections:
Quarterly Reporting............................. 35 4 140 1 140 61 8,540
52825-A HOPE VI Budget updates.................. 40 1 40 3 40 61 2,440
53001-A Actual HOPE VI Cost Certificate......... 55 1 27.5 2 27.5 61 1,677.5
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Subtotal.................................... 130 .............. 235 ........... 207.5 ........... 12,657.5
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Total Burden................................ 165 .............. 252.5 ........... 507.5 ........... 30,957.5
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\1\ Staff filling out these forms typically hold positions equivalent to a Business Operation, Management Analyst positions with an average hourly mean
of $61 under the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Therefore, the hourly basic rate used for this calculation is the 2025 hourly mean rate for District of
Columbia Management Analyst.
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 who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to submit comments in response to
these questions.
C. Authority
Section 2 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507.
Laura Kunkel,
Acting Director, Office of Policy, Programs, and Legislative
Initiatives.
[FR Doc. 2025-16972 Filed 9-3-25; 8:45 am]
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