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order issued by a Federal court or as 

otherwise provided under the Privacy 

Act (5 U.S.C. 552a). Only the Designated 

Agency Ethics Official or the DAEO’s 

designate may release a Confidential 

Financial Disclosure Report. 

Dated: August 19, 2009. 

Rajiv Khandpur, 

U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Chief, Office of 

Waterways Management. 

[FR Doc. E9–20510 Filed 8–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5284–N–01] 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Comment Request; 

Maintenance Wage Rate 

Recommendation, and Maintenance 

Wage Rate Survey; and Report of 

Additional Classification and Wage 

Rate 

AGENCY: Office of Departmental 

Operations and Coordination, Office of 

Labor Relations, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Department is 

soliciting public comments on the 

subject proposal. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: October 26, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number and should be sent to: 

Lillian Deitzer, Reports Management 

Officer, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street, 

SW., L’Enfant Plaza Building, Room 

4178, Washington, DC 20410 or 

Lillian.L.Deitzer@hud.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jade 

Banks, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of 

Labor Relations, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW., Room 2102, Washington, DC 20410 

or Jade.M.Banks@hud.gov, telephone 

(202) 402–5475 (this is not a toll-free 

number) for copies of the proposed 

forms and other available information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department is submitting the proposed 

information collection to OMB for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35, as amended). 

This Notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning the proposed 

collection of information to: (1) Evaluate 

whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) Enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) Minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond; including 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

This Notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Proposal: Maintenance Wage 

Rate Recommendation; Maintenance 

Wage Rate Survey; Report of Additional 

Classification and Wage Rate. 

OMB Control Number, if applicable: 

2501–0011. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: Public 

housing agencies (PHAs), Triballydesignated housing entities (TDHEs), 

and the Department of Hawaiian 

Homelands (DHHL) are required to 

ensure that maintenance laborers and 

mechanics employed in the operation of 

HUD-assisted low-income or affordable 

housing are paid no less than prevailing 

wages that are determined or adopted by 

HUD (section 12(a), U.S. Housing Act of 

1937, as amended; sections 104(b) and 

805(b) of the Native American Housing 

Assistance and Self-Determination Act 

of 1996, as amended). Except that, 

TDHEs may, at their discretion, 

implement tribally determined 

prevailing maintenance wage rates 

which would apply in place of HUDdetermined or -adopted wage rates. 

HUD determines or adopts a schedule 

of prevailing maintenance wage rates for 

each PHA, TDHE (except for those 

TDHEs that implement triballydetermined prevailing wage rates), and 

the DHHL, annually, coinciding with 

the agency’s fiscal year. In order to 

ensure that the wage rates are reflective 

of current economic conditions, HUD 

requests that each PHA, TDHE and the 

DHHL submit a recommendation of 

prevailing wage rates for HUD 

consideration. PHA, TDHE, and DHHL 

recommendations may be based on a 

wide variety of economic indicators 

including, at the discretion of the PHA, 

TDHE, or DHHL, the results of a wage 

survey that the PHA, TDHE or DHHL 

may conduct of maintenance employers 

in their operating jurisdiction. In 

addition, HUD may conduct a 

maintenance wage rate survey in the 

absence of a PHA/TDHE/DHHL 

recommendation or to evaluate a 

recommendation that has been provided 

by a PHA, TDHE or DHHL. 

In order to assist PHAs, TDHEs and 

the DHHL to submit prevailing wage 

rate recommendations and, if they 

choose, to conduct and evaluate the 

results of a maintenance wage survey, 

and to assist HUD personnel in the 

conduct and evaluation of a 

maintenance wage survey, HUD 

instituted three forms: Maintenance 

Wage Rate Recommendation; 

Maintenance Wage Rate Survey 

Summary; and a Maintenance Wage 

Rate Survey. PHA, TDHE or DHHL 

submission of a recommendation is 

highly encouraged by HUD. In the 

absence of an agency recommendation, 

HUD will issue a prevailing wage rate 

schedule based upon its own actions, 

which may include a maintenance wage 

survey conducted by HUD. Participation 

in any maintenance wage survey 

conducted by a PHA, TDHE, DHHL, or 

HUD is voluntary on the part of 

maintenance employers. Maintenance 

wage rate recommendations, survey 

summaries and survey responses must 

be retained by PHAs, TDHEs, the DHHL 

and HUD to document compliance with 

the statutory labor standards provisions. 

Agencies, contractors and 

subcontractors engaged on HUD-assisted 

construction and maintenance projects 

subject to Federal labor standards must 

pay no less than the wages determined 

to be prevailing by the Secretary of 

Labor (for construction work) or 

determined to be prevailing by the 

Secretary of HUD (for maintenance 

work) to all laborers and mechanics 

engaged on such work. Occasionally, 

the applicable wage decision schedule 

does not contain a prevailing wage rate 

for all classifications of work needed to 

complete the project. In such cases, the 

employer that will utilize the 

classification(s) missing from the wage 

decision must propose a wage rate for 

each such classification for the 

consideration of the Department of 

Labor (DOL) or HUD, as the case may 

be. The employer must submit its 

request in writing; there is no form 

specified or required for employer 

submissions. HUD and local agencies 

that administer HUD-assisted projects 

use the form HUD–4230A to record and 

submit employer additional 

classification and wage rate requests to 

DOL, when DOL approval is required. 

Agency form numbers, if applicable: 

Forms HUD–4750 for Maintenance 

Wage Rate Recommendation, HUD– 

4751 for Maintenance Wage Rate 


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Survey, HUD–4752 Maintenance Wage 

Rate Survey Summary Sheet, and HUD– 

4230A for Report of Additional 

Classification and Wage Rate. 

ESTIMATION OF THE TOTAL NUMBERS OF HOURS NEEDED TO PREPARE THE INFORMATION COLLECTION INCLUDING

NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS, FREQUENCY OF RESPONSE, AND HOURS OF RESPONSE

Item Number of 

respondents 

Amount of 

time required 

(hours) 

Total time required/annum 

hours) 

Maintenance Wage Recommendation ........................................................................................ 3,400 4 13,600 

Survey Summary ......................................................................................................................... 1,800 4 7,200 

Survey Form Agency Evaluation ................................................................................................. 1,800 8 14,400 

Survey Form Employer Response .............................................................................................. 1,800 4 7,200 

Record keeping ............................................................................................................................ 3,400 1 3,400 

Additional Classification and Wage Rate .................................................................................... 500 2 1,000 

Recordkeeping ............................................................................................................................. 500 1 500 

Total Annual Burden .................................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ 47,300 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: Extension of a currently 

approved collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, 44 U.S.C., Chapter 35, as amended. 

Dated: August 14, 2009. 

Waite H. Madison, 

Director, Office of Labor Relations. 

[FR Doc. E9–20601 Filed 8–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Renewal of Information Collection for 

Tribal Self-Governance Program 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Submission of 

Information Collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs 

(BIA) is submitting a request to renew 

the information collection entitled 

‘‘Tribal Self-Governance Program, 25 

CFR 1000’’ to OMB, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. This 

information collection is currently 

authorized by OMB Control Number 

1076–0143. Respondents include 

potential and existing Self-Governance 

Indian tribes. The information collected 

will be used to establish requirements 

for entry into the pool of qualified 

applicants for Self-Governance and to 

meet reporting requirements of the 

Tribal Self-Governance Act. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

September 25, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the information collection to the 

Desk Officer for the Department of the 

Interior at the Office of Management and 

Budget, by facsimile at (202) 395–5806 

or by e-mail to 

OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Please 

also send a copy to Sharee M. Freeman, 

Director, Office of Self-Governance, 

1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., Mail 

Stop 355–G SIB, Washington, DC 20240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may request further information or 

obtain copies of the information 

collection request submission from Dr. 

Kenneth Reinfeld, Senior Policy/ 

Program Analyst, 1951 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Mail Stop 355–G SIB, 

Washington, DC 20240, (202) 208–5734. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

A notice seeking comments from the 

public on a request to OMB to extend 

information collection activities was 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 9, 2009 (74 FR 917). No 

comments were received in response to 

this notice. You are advised that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

a person is not required to respond to, 

a collection of information that does not 

display a valid OMB control number. 

II. Request for Comments 

BIA requests you to send your 

comments on this collection to the two 

locations listed in the ADDRESSES

section. Your comments should address: 

(a) Necessity of this information 

collection 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 (hours 

and cost) of the collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways we could enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) ways we could 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

the information on the respondents, 

such as through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

OMB has up to 60 days to make a 

decision on the submission for renewal, 

but may make the decision after 30 

days. Therefore, to receive the best 

consideration of your comments, you 

should submit them by the date 

indicated in the DATES section. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address or other 

personally identifiable information, be 

advised that your entire comment— 

including your personally identifiable 

information—may be made public at 

any time. While you may request that 

we withhold your personally 

identifiable information, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0143. 

Title: Tribal Self-Governance 

Program, 25 CFR 1000. 

Brief Description of Collection: The 

Self-Governance program is authorized 

by the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 

1994, Public Law 103–413 (the Act), as 

amended. Indian tribes interested in 

entering into Self-Governance must 

submit certain information as required 

by the Act. In addition, those tribes and 

tribal consortia that have entered into 

Self-Governance funding agreements 

will be requested to submit certain 

information as described in 25 CFR 

1000. This information will be used to 

justify a budget request submission on 

their behalf and to comport with section 

405 of the Act that calls for the 

Secretary to submit an annual report to 

the Congress. Responses are required to 

obtain or retain a benefit or are 

voluntary, depending upon the parts of 

the program being addressed. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 


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