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The housing must be available for 

occupancy only to low- or moderateincome families or persons, whose 

incomes at the time of initial occupancy 

do not exceed 115 percent of the median 

income of the area. After initial 

occupancy, the tenant’s income may 

exceed these limits; however, rents, 

including utilities, are restricted to no 

more than 30 percent of the 115 percent 

of area median income for the term of 

the loan. 

The Secretary is authorized under 

Section 510(k) of the Housing Act of 

1949 to prescribe regulations to ensure 

that these federally-funded loans are 

made to eligible applicants for 

authorized purposes. The lender must 

evaluate the eligibility, cost, benefits, 

feasibility, and financial performance of 

the proposed project. The Agency 

collects this information from the lender 

to determine if funds are being used to 

meet the goals and mission of Rural 

Development. The information 

submitted by the lender to the Agency 

is used by the Agency to manage, plan, 

evaluate, and account for Government 

resources. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 1.8 man hours 

per response. 

Respondents: Non-profit and forprofit lending corporations and public 

bodies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

150. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 16.7. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

2,498. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1,389 hours. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from Jeanne Jacobs, 

Regulations and Paperwork 

Management Branch, at (202) 692–0040. 

Comments: 

Comments are invited on: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of 

the Agency’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) 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 may be sent to 

Jeanne Jacobs, Regulations and 

Paperwork Management Branch, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Rural 

Development, STOP 0742, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. All responses to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for OMB 

approval. All comments will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Dated: January 3, 2011. 

Tammye Trevin ̃ o, 

Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–305 Filed 1–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Information Collection Activity; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended), the 

Rural Utilities Service, an agency 

delivering the United States Department 

of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural 

Development Utilities Programs, 

hereinafter referred to as Rural 

Development and/or Agency, invites 

comments on this information 

collection for which the Agency intends 

to request approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by March 14, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele L. Brooks, Director, Program 

Development and Regulatory Analysis, 

Rural Utilities Service, 1400 

Independence Ave., SW., STOP 1522, 

Room 5162 South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–1078, FAX: (202) 

690–1078. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires 

that interested members of the public 

and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice 

identifies an information collection that 

the Agency is submitting to OMB for 

extension. 

Comments are invited on: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of 

the Agency’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) 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 may be sent to: 

Michele L. Brooks, Director, Program 

Development and Regulatory Analysis, 

Rural Utilities Service, U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, STOP 1522, Room 5162, 

1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. FAX: 

(202)720–4120. 

Title: Public Television Station Digital 

Transition Grant Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0134. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: As part of the nation’s 

evolution to digital television, the 

Federal Communications Commission 

had ordered all television broadcasters 

to initiate the broadcast of a digital 

television signal. Public television 

stations rely largely on community 

financial support to operate. In many 

rural areas the cost of the transition to 

digital broadcasting may exceed 

community resources. Since rural 

communities depend on public 

television stations for services ranging 

from educational course content in their 

schools to local news, weather, and 

agricultural reports, any disruption of 

public television broadcasting would be 

detrimental. 

Initiating a digital broadcast requires 

the installation of a new antenna, 

transmitter or translator, and new digital 

program management facilities 

consisting of processing and storage 

systems. Public television stations use a 

combination of transmitters and 

translators to serve the rural public. If 

the public television station is to 

perform program origination functions, 

as most do, digital cameras, editing and 

mastering systems are required. A new 

studio-to-tower site communications 

link may be required to transport the 

digital broadcast signal to each 

transmitter and translator. The 

capability to broadcast some 

programming in a high definition 

television format is inherent in the 

digital television standard, and this can 

require additional facilities at the 

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studio. These are the new components 

of the digital transition. 

In designing the national competition 

for the distribution of these grant funds, 

priority is given to public television 

stations serving the areas that would be 

most unable to fund the digital 

transition without a grant. The largest 

sources of funding for public television 

stations are public membership and 

business contributions. In rural areas, 

lower population density reduces the 

field of membership, and rural areas 

have fewer businesses per capita than 

urban and suburban areas. Therefore, 

rurality is a primary predictor of the 

need for grant funding for a public 

television station’s digital transition. In 

addition, some rural areas have per 

capita income levels that are lower than 

the national average, and public 

television stations covering these areas 

in particular are likely to have difficulty 

funding the digital transition. As a 

result, the consideration of the per 

capita income of a public television 

station’s coverage area is a secondary 

predictor of the need for grant funding. 

Finally, some public television stations 

may face special difficulty 

accomplishing the transition, and a 

third scoring factor for station hardship 

will account for conditions that make 

these public television stations less 

likely to accomplish the digital 

transition without a grant. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 21 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Not-for-profit 

institutions; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1.12. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1,168 hours. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, at (202) 720–7853. FAX: (202) 

720–4120 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: January 5, 2011. 

Jonathan Adelstein, 

Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–372 Filed 1–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: National Survey of Fishing, 

Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated 

Recreation (FHWAR) Cell Phone and 

Debit Card Test. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number(s): Control Advance 

Letter FHW–W1[T], Prenotice Postcard 

for Cell Phone Sample FHW–W1[C1], 

Advance Letter for Cell Phone Sample 

FHW–W1[C2], Advance Letter for Debit 

Card Sample FHW–W1[D]. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Burden Hours: 254. 

Number of Respondents: 1,500. 

Average Hours per Response: 8 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (FWS) and the U.S. 

Census Bureau plan to conduct (covered 

under separate OMB clearance number 

1018–0088) the 2011 National Survey of 

Fishing, Hunting, and WildlifeAssociated Recreation (FHWAR) which 

is authorized under the Fish and 

Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Wildlife 

and Sport Fish Restoration Programs 

Improvement Act of 2000. The Census 

Bureau is authorized to conduct the 

FHWAR under Title 13, United States 

Code Section 8(b). The FHWAR data, 

collected approximately every five 

years, assist Federal and State agencies 

in administering the Sport Fish and 

Wildlife Restoration grant programs and 

provide up-to-date information on the 

uses and demands for wildlife-related 

recreation resources, trends in uses of 

those resources, and a basis for 

developing and evaluating programs 

and projects to meet existing and future 

needs. 

The FHWAR uses an address-based 

sample selected from the Census 

Bureau’s Master Address File (MAF). 

Interviewing is conducted using 

Computer-Assisted Telephone 

Interviewing (CATI) and ComputerAssisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). 

Through research conducted by 

Relevate, Lexis Nexis, and by 

researchers at the Census Bureau’s three 

telephone centers, we estimate that we 

will obtain telephone numbers for 

47,891 sample households that will be 

eligible for CATI interviewing. With a 

total household sample of 81,955, this 

leaves 34,064 households eligible for a 

CAPI interview. Due to the cost of 

conducting personal visit interviews, 

the 2011 FHWAR budget will only fund 

5,154 CAPI interviews. These 5,154 

cases will be subsampled from the 

34,064 cases for which we do not have 

a household telephone number. 

A CAPI sample in the FHWAR is 

particularly important because 

households with available phone 

numbers may differ in characteristics 

from those without telephones and 

those with unlisted phone numbers. By 

decreasing our sample from 34,064 to 

5,154, we are introducing additional 

variance in our survey data. 

The purpose of the Cell Phone and 

Debit Card Test is to research alternative 

survey designs that could increase the 

number of CATI interviews while 

reducing the variance associated with 

conducting fewer CAPI interviews. 

Researching comparable alternatives 

to CAPI interviewing is important since 

the FWS has limited funding to conduct 

the survey. An FHWAR CAPI interview 

is estimated to cost approximately $600 

per case, while a CATI interview is 

estimated to cost $65 per case. 

We plan to conduct a test in the first 

wave of interviewing (the FHWAR is 

conducted in three waves) that includes 

three panels of 500 households each. 

We will select the test cases from the 

remaining cases (approximately 28,910 

cases) without phone numbers after the 

production CAPI sample is selected. 

These 1,500 cases will remain in the 

CATI sample; they will not be sent for 

CAPI interviewing. 

The first panel will receive an 

advance letter with a cell phone. The 

advance letter will ask that a household 

member call the telephone center and 

complete an interview using the cell 

phone. The telephone centers will also 

attempt to contact these households 

using the assigned cell phone telephone 

number. The second panel will receive 

an advance letter and a $25 incentive. 

The advance letter will ask that a 

household member call the telephone 

center to complete an interview and 

accept the prepaid debit or gift card as 

a ‘‘thank you’’ for participating. The 

third panel will only receive an advance 

letter that requests a household member 

call the telephone center to complete an 

interview. (NOTE: The only way that 

contact will be made with households 

in the second and third panels will be 

if household respondents call the 

telephone center.) 

The test data from these three panels 

will not be included with the 

production FHWAR data and the FWS 

will not have access to the data. 

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