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(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agencies estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(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 through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Application to Adjust Status from 

Temporary to Permanent Resident. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the 

Department of Homeland Security 

sponsoring the collection: Form I–698. 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services (USCIS). 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

Households. The data collected on this 

form is used by the USCIS to determine 

eligibility to adjust an applicant’s 

residence status. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: 1,179 responses at 60 minutes 

(1 hour) per response. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: 1,179 annual burden hours. 

If you need a copy of the information 

collection instrument, please visit the 

Web site at: http://www.regulations.gov. 

We may also be contacted at: USCIS, 

Regulatory Products Division, 111 

Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20529–2210; 

Telephone 202–272–8377. 

Dated: August 27, 2009. 

Stephen Tarragon, 

Deputy Chief, Regulatory Products Division, 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 

Department of Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. E9–21131 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5288–N–08] 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection for Public Comment; Public 

Housing Operating Subsidy—StopLoss and Appeals 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing, 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: November 

2, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name or OMB Control 

Number and should be sent to: Lillian 

L. Deitzer, Department Reports 

Management Officer, ODAM, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., 

Room 4116, Washington, DC 20410– 

5000; telephone: 202–708–2374, (this is 

not a toll-free number) or e-mail Ms. 

Deitzer at Lillian_L._Deitzer@HUD.gov 

for a copy of the proposed form and 

other available information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy, Programs 

and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20410; telephone: 202– 

708–0713, (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department will submit 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 of information 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 

through 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: Public Housing 

Operating Subsidy—Stop-Loss and 

Appeals. 

OMB Control Number: 2577–0246. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: PHAs 

that will experience a reduction in 

subsidy will have their subsidy 

reduction phased in over a five-year 

period. PHAs that elect to stop the 

phase in of the decrease in their subsidy 

are required to demonstrate to HUD a 

successful conversion to asset 

management, as provided in the 

operating fund final rule. A PHA with 

a reduction in subsidy may make this 

demonstration to HUD in order to ‘‘stop 

its losses’’ during any one of the five 

years over which HUD phases in the 

reduction. Under the operating fund 

final rule, PHAs that elect to file an 

appeal of their subsidy amounts are 

required to meet the appeal 

requirements set forth in subpart G of 

the operating fund final rule. The final 

rule establishes five grounds for appeals 

in 24 CFR § 990.245 and they are the: (a) 

Streamlined appeal; (b) appeal of 

formula income for economic hardship; 

(c) appeal for specific local conditions; 

(d) appeal for changing market 

conditions; and (e) appeal to substitute 

actual project cost data. To stop the 

phase-in of the reduction in the amount 

of subsidy a PHA receives under the 

new operating fund formula, PHAs 

submit a ‘‘stop-loss’’ package to HUD 

demonstrating conversion to asset 

management. To appeal the amount of 

subsidy on any one of the permitted 

bases of appeal, PHAs submit an appeal 

request to HUD. 

Agency form number, if applicable: 

N/A. 

Members of affected public: PHAs, 

state or local government. 

Estimation of the total number of 

hours needed to prepare the information 

collection including number of 

respondents: The estimated number of 

respondents is an annual average of 146 

PHAs that submit one request for stoploss and an annual average of 176 PHAs 

that submit an appeal of the amount of 

operating subsidy, for a total 322 PHAs 

that submit annually. The average 

number for each PHA response varies by 

size of the PHA, with a total reporting 

burden of 5,168 hours: An average of 

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and an average of 11.5 hours per 

respondent for appeals. 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: Extension of an existing 

collection. 

Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, 

as amended. 

Dated: August 28, 2009. 

Bessy Kong, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, Program 

and Legislative Initiatives. 

[FR Doc. E9–21206 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5327–N–01] 

Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 

Opportunity To Register and Other 

Important Information for Electronic 

Application Submission for Continuum 

of Care Homeless Assistance 

Programs 

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning 

and Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

instructions to potential Continuums of 

Care (CoCs) applying for the 

approximately $1.43 billion of funding 

under HUD’s Continuum of Care 

Homeless Assistance Competition in FY 

2009. The CoC competition uses an 

electronic system outside of Grants.gov 

for CoC registration, as well as for 

submission of the CoC application, 

called e-snaps. Notification of the 

availability of the 2009 CoC application 

will be released via HUD’s Homeless 

Assistance listserv. To join HUD’s 

listserv, go to http://www.hud.gov/ 

subscribe/mailinglist.cfm and click on 

‘‘Homeless Assistance Program.’’ 

This notice provides information to 

help applicants better understand the 

CoC registration and electronic 

application submission process through 

e-snaps, which is located at http:// 

www.hud.gov/esnaps. Applicants for 

project funding are also required to 

register with Dun and Bradstreet, if they 

have not already done so, and complete 

or renew their registration in the Central 

Contractor Registration (CCR). More 

information on this can be found in the 

General Section to HUD’s FY 2009 

NOFAs for Discretionary Programs 

published in the Federal Register 

December 29, 2008 (73 FR 79548), as 

amended April 16, 2009 (73 FR 17685). 

In an effort to streamline the renewal 

award process in 2009, HUD has 

modified the selection process. Eligible 

Supportive Housing Program (SHP) and 

Shelter Plus Care (S+C) renewal projects 

will be conditionally awarded as 

quickly as possible. New projects will 

be awarded after the project threshold 

review and the scoring of the CoC 

application have been completed. A 

project application must be submitted 

for each project that is eligible for 

renewal in the 2009 competition, in 

order for it to be considered for funding, 

Projects are considered eligible for 

renewal in the 2009 competition if they 

expire in Calendar Year 2010 and have 

met all of the performance and capacity 

requirements that will be outlined in the 

2009 CoC Notice of Funding 

Availability (NOFA). HUD reserves the 

right to not renew grants where the 

grantee has exhibited serious capacity 

issues in prior grants, including 

performance and financial problems, or 

unresolved monitoring findings for 

which there is no evidence that the 

grantee is working toward appropriate 

resolution. CoCs and project applicants 

should read all sections of this notice, 

as well as the upcoming 2009 NOFA, to 

help identify these types of issues and 

work with their local field office to 

resolve the issues prior to the 2009 CoC 

Application due date. Grantees and 

project sponsors are responsible for 

keeping grant files and for knowing the 

beginning and ending dates of their 

grants. If a grantee fails to apply for a 

renewal project in the appropriate year, 

the project will not be eligible for 

renewal in the next funding 

competition. Please Note: Under the 

2002 and 2003 Appropriation Acts, 

funds for all grants awarded in those 

years will be available for use until 

September 30, 2009, and September 30, 

2010, respectively. Projects that were 

awarded in 2002 and expire in 2009 

were required to apply for renewal in 

the 2008 competition and, therefore, 

will not be eligible for renewal in the 

2009 competition. Although the terms of 

all grants awarded in 2002 and 2003 

should have expired before September 

30, 2009, and September 30, 2010, 

respectively, HUD has discovered that, 

due to delays in signing the grant 

agreements or extensions, some grants 

have an expiration date in 2010 or later. 

Funds will not be available for 

expenditure after September 30, 2009, 

and September 30, 2010, respectively, 

for these grants. Recipients may not 

accelerate their spending rate. Field 

offices will monitor draws for affected 

grants, to ensure that funds will be 

drawn only to reimburse the affected 

recipients for actual costs incurred in 

accordance with the project budget on, 

or before, funds are no longer available. 

Notwithstanding the expiration date of 

your SHP or S+C grant, if the grant was 

awarded in 2002 or 2003, but has an 

expiration date of 2010 or later, the 

applicant must apply for renewal in 

2009. 

As stated previously, HUD will rate 

new project applications separately 

from renewal project submissions. The 

determination of leveraging and housing 

emphasis scores in Exhibit 1 will be 

calculated only with data from new 

project applications. For more 

information on this and other significant 

changes to the 2009 CoC competition, 

please see Section III of this notice. 

HUD advises potential applicants to 

read this notice in its entirety and 

complete the training offered at http:// 

www.hudhre.info. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

CoCs may contact the HUD Field Office 

serving their area, at the telephone 

number shown in the General Section. 

In addition, applicants are strongly 

encouraged to send questions regarding 

this notice to the e-snaps Virtual Help 

Desk at http://www.hudhre.info/ 

helpdesk. 

Full Text of Announcement 

This notice is divided into three 

sections. Section I describes important 

information that CoCs and project 

applicants should be familiar with prior 

to applying for 2009 Homeless 

Assistance funding. This includes 

pertinent definitions and an overview of 

the necessary CoC planning process. 

Section II provides detailed information 

on completing the CoC registration 

process in e-snaps. Finally, Section III 

provides information about the major 

changes that HUD will make to the 2009 

CoC Homeless Assistance competition. 

HUD hopes that this will assist CoCs in 

better planning their 2009 CoC 

application. 

I. Overview Information 

A. Program Description 

Approximately $1.43 billion is 

available for funding through the 

FY2009 CoC Homeless Assistance 

Competition. Carried over or recaptured 

funds from previous fiscal years, if 

available, may be added to this amount. 

The purpose of the CoC Homeless 

Assistance Program is to reduce the 

incidence of homelessness in CoC 

communities by assisting homeless 

individuals and families move to selfsufficiency and permanent housing. 

The 2009 CoC NOFA will be 

published separately in the Federal 

Register no earlier than August 15, 

2009. 


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