[Federal Register: August 25, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 164)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4815-N-58]
Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB:
Applications for Housing Assistance Payments
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described
below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Housing owners/agents submit vouchers to HUD or their Contract
Administrators (CA)/Performance Based Contract Administrators (PBCA)
monthly to receive assistance payments for the difference between the
gross rent and the total tenant payment for all assisted tenants.
Special claims vouchers are also submitted by owners/agents to HUD or
their CA/PBCA to receive an amount to offset unpaid rent, tenant
damages, vacancies, and/or debt service losses. This is a proposed
revision to the current information collection.
The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject
proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: September 24, 2003.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB
approval number (2502-0182) and should be sent to: Lauren Wittenberg,
OMB Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, New
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503; Fax number (202) 395-
6974; e-mail Lauren_Wittenberg@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Eddins, Reports Management
Officer, AYO, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street, Southwest, Washington, DC 20410; e-mail Wayne_Eddins@HUD.gov;
telephone (202) 708-2374. This is not a toll-free number. Copies of the
proposed forms and other available documents submitted to OMB may be
obtained from Mr. Eddins or through HUD's Information Collection Budget
Tracking System at http://mf.hud.gov:63001/po/i/icbts/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department has submitted the proposal
for the collection of information, as described below, to OMB for
review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter
35). The Notice lists the following information: (1) The title of the
information collection proposal; (2) the office of the agency to
collect the information; (3) the OMB approval number, if applicable;
(4) the description of the need for the information and its proposed
use; (5) the agency form number, if applicable; (6) what members of the
public will be affected by the proposal; (7) how frequently information
submissions will be required; (8) an estimate of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information submission including number of
respondents, frequency of response, and hours of response; (9) whether
the proposal is new, an extension, reinstatement, or revision of an
information collection requirement; and (10) the name and telephone
number of an agency official familiar with the proposal and of the OMB
Desk Officer for the Department.
This Notice also lists the following information:
Title of Proposal: Applications for Housing Assistance Payments.
OMB Approval Number: 2502-0182.
Form Numbers: HUD-52670; HUD-52670-A, Part 1; HUD-52670-A, Part 2;
HUD-52671-A/B/C/D.
Description of the Need for the Information and Its Proposed Use:
Owners/agents submit vouchers to HUD or their Contract Administrators/
Performance Based Contract Administrators monthly to receive assistance
payments for the difference between the gross rent and the total tenant
payment for all assisted tenants. Special claims vouchers are also
submitted to receive an amount to offset unpaid rent, tenant damages,
vacancies, and/or debt service losses.
Respondents: Individuals or households, Business or other for-
profit, Not-for-profit institutions, State, local or tribal government
Frequency of Submission: On occasion, Monthly.
Reporting Burden: Number of Respondents 23,507; Average responses
per respondent 16.8; Total annual responses 394,824; Average burden per
response 0.81 hrs.
Total Estimated Burden Hours: 319,627.
Status: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
44 U.S.C. 35, as amended.
Dated: August 15, 2003.
Wayne Eddins,
Departmental Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-21634 Filed 8-22-03; 8:45 am]
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