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4The calculation of the vacancy rate is defined in 

the Final Rule, available at https://

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2016f/ 

SAFMR-Final-Rule.pdf. 

from the 2018, 2019 and 2021 1-year 

ACS tabulations.4

The additional metropolitan FMR 

Areas that meet these requirements are 

as follows: 

Akron, OH MSA 

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC HUD 

Metro FMR Area 

Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX MSA 

Birmingham-Hoover, AL HUD Metro FMR 

Area 

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY MSA 

Charleston-North Charleston, SC MSA 

Chattanooga, TN-GA MSA 

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN HUD Metro FMR Area 

Cleveland-Elyria, OH MSA 

Columbus, OH HUD Metro FMR Area 

Dayton-Kettering, OH MSA 

Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA HUD Metro 

FMR Area 

Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI HUD Metro FMR 

Area 

Fort Wayne, IN MSA 

Greensboro-High Point, NC HUD Metro FMR 

Area 

Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA MSA 

Indianapolis-Carmel, IN HUD Metro FMR 

Area 

Jersey City, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area 

Kansas City, MO-KS HUD Metro FMR Area 

Knoxville, TN HUD Metro FMR Area 

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA HUD 

Metro FMR Area 

Louisville, KY-IN HUD Metro FMR Area 

Memphis, TN-MS-AR HUD Metro FMR Area 

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL HUD Metro 

FMR Area 

Mobile, AL HUD Metro FMR Area 

Montgomery, AL MSA 

Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro— 

Franklin, TN HUD Metro FMR Area 

Oklahoma City, OK HUD Metro FMR Area 

Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA HUD Metro 

FMR Area 

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA 

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA MSA 

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ MSA 

Raleigh, NC MSA 

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA HUD 

Metro FMR Area 

Seattle-Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area 

St. Louis, MO-IL HUD Metro FMR Area 

Tucson, AZ MSA 

Tulsa, OK HUD Metro FMR Area 

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VANC HUD Metro FMR Area 

Wichita, KS HUD Metro FMR Area 

Winston-Salem, NC HUD Metro FMR Area 

Consistent with the first cohort of 

Small Area FMR designated areas and as 

stated in 24 CFR 888.113(c)(4), these 

designations are permanent. 

IV. Additional Information 

Since the first cohort of mandatory 

Small Area FMR areas were required to 

begin using Small Area FMRs in the 

administration of the tenant-based 

voucher programs in April of 2018, this 

notice fulfills HUD’s 5-year requirement 

under the Small Area FMR final rule. 

Setting the implementation date of this 

notice as October 1, 2024, provides 

sufficient time for PHAs operating in the 

newly announced required areas to 

acquire sufficient training and provides 

time for further market analysis to 

prepare to set their payments standards 

using Small Area FMRs instead of 

metropolitan area-wide FMRs. Finally, 

setting an implementation date of 

October 1, 2024, provides that PHAs 

operating in this second cohort of 

mandatory areas, under normal voucher 

program operations, must have their 

payment standards aligned with the 

Small Area FMRs in their operating 

areas by January 1, 2025. Should a PHA 

operating in these 41 areas wish to begin 

using Small Area FMRs in the 

administration of their voucher 

programs prior to October 1, 2024, they 

will need to seek HUD permission 

pursuant to an opt-in decision by a PHA 

under 24 CFR 888.113(c)(3): ‘‘A PHA 

administering an HCV program in a 

metropolitan area not subject to the 

application of Small Area FMRs may 

opt to use Small Area FMRs by seeking 

approval from HUD’s Office of Public 

and Indian Housing (PIH) through 

written request to PIH.’’ Until the 

SAFMRs take effect for PHAs in the 41 

metropolitan areas identified in this 

Notice, any decision by a PHA to use 

SAFMRs is an opt-in decision, 

consistent with 24 CFR 88.113(c)(3) and 

Section 5(b) of PIH Notice 2018–01. 

If a PHA operating in one these 41 

areas is unable to implement Small Area 

FMRs within the timeframes provided 

in this notice, they may petition HUD 

for a temporary exemption as specified 

in 24 CFR 888.113 (c)(4), which states 

in part, ‘‘HUD may suspend a Small 

Area FMR designation from a 

metropolitan area, or may temporarily 

exempt a PHA in a Small Area FMR 

metropolitan area from use of Small 

Aree FMRs, when HUD by notice make 

a documented determination that such 

action is warranted. Actions that may 

serve as the basis of a suspension of 

Small Area FMRs are: (i) A 

Presidentially declared disaster area that 

results in the loss of a substantial 

number of housing units; (ii) A sudden 

influx of displaced households needing 

permanent housing; or (iii) Other events 

as determined by the Secretary.’’ For 

additional guidance, PHAs who want to 

petition HUD for an exemption should 

refer to section 9 of PIH Notice 2018– 

01, available at https://www.hud.gov/ 

sites/dfiles/PIH/documents/PIH-2018- 

01.pdf. 

Solomon J. Greene, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Policy Development and Research. 

Dominique Blom, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23685 Filed 10–23–23; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX24NN00TH3L700, OMB Control Number 

1028–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Central Flyway Online 

Goose Harvest Assessment 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey 

(USGS) is proposing a new information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

December 26, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to USGS, Information 

Collections Clearance Officer, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 159, Reston, 

VA 20192; or by email to gs-info_

collections@usgs.gov. Please reference 

OMB Control Number 1028–NEW 

Central Flyway Goose Harvest 

Assessment in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Jay VonBank by email 

at jvonbank@usgs.gov, or by telephone 

at (701) 368–0177. Individuals in the 

United States who are deaf, deafblind, 

hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 

TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the PRA (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all 

information collections require 

approval. We may not conduct or 

sponsor, nor are you required to 


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respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

federal agencies to comment on new, 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand our 

information collection requirements and 

provide the requested data in the 

desired format. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How the agency might 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 response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personally identifiable 

information (PII) in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your PII—may be 

made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your PII from public review, 

we cannot guarantee that we will be 

able to do so. 

Abstract: To estimate the species and 

age composition of U.S. goose harvest, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

(FWS) annually conducts two separate 

surveys from a sample of hunters in 

each flyway: a Parts Collection Survey 

(PCS) used to identify age and species 

of goose and the Migratory Bird Harvest 

Survey (i.e., Diary Survey) to estimate 

the total number of geese harvested. 

Data from each survey are then 

combined post hoc to estimate speciesand age-specific harvests. Harvest data 

are then incorporated into models to 

estimate population abundance for 

many goose species. These monitoring 

efforts are essential to estimating annual 

harvest and subsequent population size, 

but FWS managers have identified 

several potential biases that need to be 

addressed. Information provided by 

hunters via the PCS may introduce 

potential biases. Due to liberalization in 

bag limits and hunting-season lengths, 

as well as PCS participation fatigue, 

some participants only submit a subset 

of daily harvested waterfowl or do not 

request additional envelopes to 

continue participation once the initial 

supply of envelopes is exhausted (i.e., 

completeness bias). Thus, huntercollected samples for the PCS are likely 

temporally biased toward early in the 

hunting season (e.g., hunters quit 

participating during the hunting season, 

or they only submit as many samples as 

the initial envelopes provided allow, 

with a decreasing number of hunters 

requesting additional envelopes). 

Therefore, fewer parts are submitted 

later in the season, resulting in a 

temporal harvest bias in addition to a 

quantity- and completeness bias. Our 

proposed study aims to integrate both 

surveys into one easily accessible, 

robust data collection platform that 

reduces the burden on hunters and is 

expected to increase participation. In an 

effort to develop and evaluate an 

additional survey to the PCS and Diary 

Survey that may help to alleviate the 

concerns outlined above, we propose 

the development of an online/mobile 

application survey platform to allow 

goose harvest reporting of species and 

age directly from hunters without the 

need to participate in two surveys or to 

collect and mail parts. We propose a 

short-term study within Central Flyway 

states on the design, implementation, 

comparability, and efficacy of an online 

survey methodology. This study will 

determine if such a survey is feasible to 

accurately estimate future goose 

harvests and reduce the identified 

biases, costs, burden, and time involved 

in the current PCS and Diary surveys. 

Understanding biases and assumptions 

in current harvest survey protocols has 

direct management implications as 

many goose harvest strategies are 

predicated on harvest and population 

estimates. Developing alternative 

methods to address these biases are 

necessary to ensure accurate, reliable, 

and increasingly precise estimates of 

harvest and abundance. Furthering our 

understanding of assumptions related to 

current practices and surveys will aid in 

improving the management process for 

North American goose populations. 

Title of Collection: Central Flyway 

online goose harvest assessment. 

OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: New. 

Respondents/Affected Public: General 

Public. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 3,552. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 4 per respondent (total of 

14,208 annual responses). 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 2 minutes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 474 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: Frequency 

Once annually. 

Total Estimated Annual Non-hour 

Burden Cost: None. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, nor is a person required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Robert A Gleason, 

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, 

Center Director, Midcontinent Region, USGS. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[24XD4523WS/DWSN00000.000000/ 

DS61500000/DP.61501] 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Invasive Species Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: National Invasive Species 

Council, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

notice is hereby given that a meeting of 

the Invasive Species Advisory 

Committee (ISAC) will meet as 

indicated below. 

DATES: The Invasive Species Advisory 

Committee will convene in-person on 

Monday, November 13, 2023, 9:00 a.m.– 

5:00 p.m. (ET); Tuesday, November 14, 

2023, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (ET); and, 

Wednesday, November 15, 2023; 9:00 

a.m.–1:00 p.m. (ET). The general session 

proceedings will also be streamed 

virtually via Zoom webinar. NOTE: 

Virtual access to the general session 

portions of the meeting will be in 

‘‘listen only’’ mode. Registration is 

required at: https://forms.office.com/g/ 

5TwFXSkEpf. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of the 

Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, 

DC 20240. Meeting will be held in the 

North Penthouse. All registered inperson attendees must pass through 


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