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111See Eliminating Exception To Expedited 

Removal Authority for Cuban Nationals 

Encountered in the United States or Arriving by 

Sea, 82 FR 4902 (Jan. 17, 2017). 

112See Implementation of a Parole Process for 

Cubans, 88 FR 1266 (Jan. 9, 2023); Implementation 

of a Parole Process for Haitians, 88 FR 1243 (Jan. 

9, 2023); Implementation of a Parole Process for 

Nicaraguans, 88 FR 1255 (Jan. 9, 2023); 

Implementation of Changes to the Parole Process for 

Venezuelans, 88 FR 1282 (Jan. 9, 2023); 

Implementation of a Parole Process for 

Venezuelans, 87 FR 63507 (Oct. 19, 2022). 

113See DHS Announces Family Reunification 

Parole Processes for Colombia, El Salvador, 

Guatemala, and Honduras, July 17, 2023, https://

www.dhs.gov/news/2023/07/07/dhs-announcesfamily-reunification-parole-processes-colombia-elsalvador-guatemala; Implementation of a Family 

Reunification Parole Process for Colombians, 88 FR 

43591 (July 10, 2023); Implementation of a Family 

Reunification Parole Process for Salvadorans, 88 FR 

43611 (July 10, 2023); Implementation of a Family 

Reunification Parole Process for Guatemalans, 88 

FR 43581 (July 10, 2023); and Implementation of a 

Family Reunification Parole Process for Hondurans, 

88 FR 43601 (July 10, 2023). 

114Per the normal clearance procedures at 5 CFR 

1320.10(e). 

adversely affect the United States’ 

ability to negotiate for and request 

additional enforcement measures and 

increased cooperation with removals. In 

diplomatic engagements, regional 

partner countries have repeatedly 

requested additional lawful pathways in 

return for increased law enforcement 

measures throughout the migratory 

routes, imposing additional 

requirements on key nationalities using 

their countries as a gateway to make 

irregular journeys to the SWB, and 

accepting additional removal flights 

with significantly reduced manifest 

times. As encounters of Ecuadorians 

along the SWB have remained high 

compared to the same months last year, 

maintaining and expanding their 

cooperation on removals is necessary to 

effectively manage irregular migration. 

Demographics and dynamics are 

evolving and difficult to predict, 

requiring flexibility in the responses of 

all governments involved. A key means 

of delivering on these partnerships, in 

keeping with the U.S. strategy and 

approach on migration management 

overall, is to make available lawful 

pathways to provide safe and orderly 

alternatives to the danger and 

consequences of irregular migration. 

The invocation of the foreign affairs 

exemption here is also consistent with 

DHS precedent. For example, in 2017, 

DHS published a notice eliminating an 

exception to expedited removal for 

certain Cuban nationals, which 

explained that the change in policy was 

consistent with the foreign affairs 

exemption because the change was 

central to ongoing negotiations between 

the two countries.111 DHS similarly 

invoked the foreign affairs exemption 

more recently in connection with the 

CHNV parole processes 112 and family 

reunification parole processes for 

certain nationals of Colombia, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras 

announced on July 10, 2023.113

B. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

(PRA), 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, all 

Departments are required to submit to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), for review and approval, any 

new reporting requirements they 

impose. The process announced by this 

notice requires changes to the 

collections of information on Form I– 

134A, Online Request to be a Supporter 

and Declaration of Financial Support 

(OMB control number 1615–0157), 

which will be used for the FRP process 

for Ecuadorians and is being revised in 

connection with this notice by 

increasing the burden estimate. This 

process also requires changes to the 

collection of information for Advance 

Travel Authorization (ATA) (OMB 

Control Number 1651–0143); the 

revision to the ATA collection will add 

Ecuador to the list of countries 

authorized to utilize ATA. USCIS and 

CBP have submitted, and OMB has 

approved, requests for emergency 

authorization for OMB approval of the 

required changes (under 5 CFR 1320.13) 

to Form I–134A and ATA for a period 

of 6 months. USCIS and CBP will issue 

respective Federal Register notices 

seeking comment on these changes.114

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7075–N–14] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Evaluation of Cohort 1 of 

the Moving to Work Demonstration 

Program Expansion OMB Control No.: 

2528–0328 

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development 

and Research, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: January 16, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection can be submitted 

within 60 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting, 

‘‘Currently under 60-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Interested persons are 

also invited to submit comments 

regarding this proposal by name and/or 

OMB Control Number and can be sent 

to: Anna Guido, Reports Management 

Officer, REE, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 

20410–5000 or email at 

PaperworkReductionActOffice@

hud.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anna Guido, Reports Management 

Officer, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20410; email; 

Anna.P.Guido@hud.gov; telephone (202) 

402–5535 (this is not a toll-free 

number). HUD welcomes and is 

prepared to receive calls from 

individuals who are deaf or hard of 

hearing, as well as individuals with 

speech or communication disabilities. 

To learn more about how to make an 

accessible telephone call, please visit 

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Guido. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: 

Evaluation of Cohort 1 of the Moving to 

Work Demonstration Program 

Expansion. 

OMB Approval Number: 2528–0328. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: The 

Office of Policy Development and 

Research (PD&R), at the U.S. 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD), is proposing this 

collection of information for the 


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Evaluation of Cohort 1 of the Moving to 

Work Demonstration Program 

Expansion. 

Moving to Work (MTW) is a 

demonstration program that encourages 

public housing agencies (PHAs) to test 

ways to achieve three specific 

objectives: (1) increase the cost 

effectiveness of federal housing 

programs, (2) increase housing choice 

for low-income families, and/or (3) 

encourage greater self-sufficiency of 

households receiving housing 

assistance. MTW designation gives 

PHAs relief from many of the 

regulations and statutory provisions that 

apply to the public housing and 

Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) 

programs. MTW agencies can also merge 

their public housing and HCV funds 

into a single block grant and use these 

funds (if desired) for local activities 

outside of the typical public housing 

and HCV programs, such as providing 

supportive services or developing 

housing for populations with special 

needs. In 2016, Congress authorized 

HUD to expand the MTW program by 

100 high performing PHAs. 

The MTW expansion statute 

emphasizes evaluating the MTW 

program, directing HUD to expand the 

program in cohorts that would allow for 

‘‘one specific policy change to be 

implemented . . . .’’ and rigorously 

evaluated. The first cohort of the 

expansion is testing the impact of MTW 

designation on small PHAs, defined for 

these purposes as PHAs administering 

no more than 1,000 housing units across 

their HCV and public housing programs. 

In Cohort 1, PHAs are free to implement 

any program and policy changes 

permissible under the MTW program. 

Under contract with HUD’s Office of 

Policy Development and Research, Abt 

Associates Inc. is conducting an 

evaluation of Cohort 1 that includes a 

study of how PHAs use their MTW 

flexibility to meet the MTW program’s 

goals and a study of the impact of MTW 

designation on cost effectiveness, selfsufficiency, and housing choice. 

The Evaluation of Cohort 1 of the 

Moving to Work Demonstration Program 

Expansion is being implemented as a 

randomized control trial. To carry out 

the study, HUD randomly assigned the 

43 eligible PHAs that submitted a Letter 

of Interest to HUD for Cohort 1 into one 

of two groups: a treatment group (33 

PHAs) that was invited to complete the 

application for MTW designation and a 

control group (10 PHAs) that was not 

invited to complete the application for 

MTW designation and therefore was not 

permitted to receive MTW designation 

under Cohort 1. The evaluation will 

compare the outcomes of the treatment 

group PHAs to the outcomes of the 

control group PHAs over a five-year 

period. To the extent possible, this 

evaluation is relying on analysis of 

secondary data that PHAs already 

prepare and submit to HUD, however, 

some primary data collection is required 

to carry out the evaluation. 

This Federal Register Notice provides 

an opportunity to comment on the 

information collection for the 

evaluation. The evaluation will use the 

data described in this information 

collection request to clarify and expand 

on information provided in the existing 

data sources and to capture qualitative 

information about the experiences of 

study PHAs implementing activities 

related to cost effectiveness, selfsufficiency, or housing choice without 

MTW flexibility. The proposed 

information collection consists of: (1) 

interviews with MTW (treatment group) 

PHAs; (2) online surveys to non-MTW 

(control group) PHAs; and (3) interviews 

with non-MTW (control group) PHAs. 

Respondents: PHA Executive 

Directors and staff. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

This information collection will affect 

approximately 129 PHA Executive 

Directors and Staff annually. HUD 

expects to collect data from 

approximately three staff at each of the 

33 treatment group PHAs each year, and 

approximately two staff at each of the 

ten control group PHAs every other 

year. 

ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Responses 

per annum 

Burden hour 

per 

response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Hourly cost 

per 

response 

Annual cost 

Interviews: Treatment 

PHAs ........................ 99 1 1 2 198 $52.14 $10,232.72 

Online Surveys: Control 

PHAs ........................ 10 1 1 0.5 5 52.14 260.70 

Interviews: Control 

PHAs ........................ 20 1 1 1.5 30 52.14 1,564.20 

Total ...................... 129 ........................ ........................ ........................ 233 ........................ 12,148.62 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected, and 

(4) Ways to 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. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comments in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507. 

Todd M. Richardson, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy 

Development and Research. 

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