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Agenda: To review and evaluate personal 

qualifications and performance, and 

competence of individual investigators. 

Place: Hilton Washington/Rockville, 

(Formerly Double Tree Hotel), 1750 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. 

Time: June 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate the NIMH 

Intramural Laboratories, PIs, and Training 

Fellows. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive 

Boulevard, Conference Room C, Rockville, 

MD 20852. 

Time: June 5, 2007, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate personal 

qualifications and performance, and 

competence of individual investigators. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive 

Boulevard, Conference Room C, Rockville, 

MD 20852. 

Contact Person: Richard K. Nakamura, 

PhD, Acting Scientific Director, Division of 

Intramural Research Programs, National 

Institute of Mental Health, NIH, 

Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., 

Room 8229, Bethesda, MD 20892–9669, 301–

443–3675, rnakamur@mail.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.242, Mental Health Research 

Grants; 93.281, Scientist Development 

Award, Scientist Development Award for 

Clinicians, and Research Scientist Award; 

93.282, Mental Health National Research 

Service Awards for Research Training, 

National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: May 3, 2007. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5119-N–01] 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Comment Request; 

Economic Opportunities for Low- and 

Very Low-Income Persons 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal 

Opportunity, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement concerning the 

Section 3 program 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: July 13, 

2007. 

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: 

Juanina B. Harris, Reports Liaison 

Officer, Office of Fair Housing and 

Equal Opportunity, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street, SW., Room 5124, 

Washington, DC 20410 telephone (202) 

402–6979. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Staci Gilliam, Director, Economic 

Opportunity Division, Office of Fair 

Housing and Equal Opportunity, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 

5234, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

(202) 402–3468 (This is not a toll-free 

number). Hearing or speech-impaired 

individuals may access this number 

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–800–

877–8399. 

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 34, as amended). 

This Notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning the proposed 

collection of information to: (1) Enhance 

the Section 3 Program, (2) Enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and; (3) 

Minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who 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: Economic 

Opportunity for Low- and Very LowIncome Persons. 

OMB Control Number, if applicable: 

2529–0043. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: 

A. The Section 3 Summary Report 

(Revised HUD form 60002) 

The information will be used by the 

Department to monitor program 

recipients’ compliance with the 

requirements of Section 3 of the 

Housing and Urban Development Act of 

1968. HUD Headquarters will use the 

information to assess the results of the 

Department’s efforts to meet the 

statutory objectives of Section 3. The 

data collected will be used by recipients 

as a self-monitoring tool. If the 

information is used, it will be used to 

prepare the mandatory reports to 

Congress assessing the effectiveness of 

Section 3. 

B. Updated Section 3 Brochure (HUD–

1476–FHEO, Revised) 

The Section 3 Brochure will be used 

to disseminate information about the 

Section 3 program. It provides 

information regarding the program and 

provides instructions on filing a 

complaint. 

C. Monitoring Review Feedback Form 

(HUD form 60003) 

The information on this form will be 

used to improve and enhance Section 3 

outreach and education efforts. 

D. Complaint register HUD form 958 

The information will be used in order 

to respond to and investigate complaints 

filed alleging noncompliance with 

Section 3. 

Agency form numbers, if applicable: 

Form HUD 60002 Revised, HUD 958, 

HUD 1476–FHEO Revised, and HUD 

form 60003. 

Members of affected public: State and 

local governments or their agencies, 

public and private non-profit 

organizations, low and very low income 

residents, Public Housing Authorities or 

other public entities. 

Estimation of the total numbers of 

hours needed to prepare the information 

collection including number of 

respondents, frequency of response, and 

hours of response: On an annual basis 

approximately 5,500 respondents (HUD 

recipients) will submit one report to 

HUD. It is estimated that two hours per 

annual reporting period will be required 

of the recipients to prepare the Section 

3 report for a total of 11,000 hours. 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: Reinstatement of a currently 

approved collection of information from 

HUD recipients. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

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

Dated: April 10, 2007. 

Kim Kendrick, 

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing & Equal 

Opportunity. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5130–N–02] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of 

Matching Program: Matching Tenant 

Data in Assisted Housing Programs 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, HUD. 


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ACTION: Notice of a computer matching 

program between the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 

and the Rural Housing Service (RHS), 

Department of Agriculture. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988, as amended, and the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

Guidance on the statute, HUD is 

announcing a new a matching program 

involving comparisons between data 

provided by applicants or participants 

in HUD’s assisted housing programs and 

applicants for RHS’s rural housing 

programs. The matching program will 

be carried out to detect excessive or 

duplicate housing assistance as result of 

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 

The matching program will be 

accomplished by comparing income, 

family size, family address, family 

identity, and benefit data for individuals 

participating in HUD’s assisted housing 

programs and subsidized multifamily 

housing programs with rural housing 

assistance data maintained by RHS in its 

HS Multifamily Programs (MFH), 

Multifamily Information System (MFIS), 

Single Family Housing Programs (SFH), 

Dedicated Loan Origination and 

Servicing System (DLOS), and 

Guaranteed Loan System (GLS) 

databases within its system of records 

known as System of Records titled 

‘‘USDA/Rural Development,’’ last 

published 63 FR 38546 (July 17, 1998). 

Specifically, HUD will compare the RHS 

identity, income, family size, and 

benefit data to tenant-reported data 

included in HUD’s system of records 

known as: (1) the Tenant Housing 

Assistance and Contract Verification 

Data (HUD/H–11), last published at 62 

FR 11909 (March 13, 1997); and (2) the 

Public and Indian Housing Information 

Center (HUD/PIH–4), last published at 

67 FR 20986 (April 29, 2002). The 

tenant comparisons will identify, based 

on criteria established by HUD, tenants 

whose incomes, family size, address, or 

benefit levels, etc. that require further 

verification to determine if the tenants 

received excessive or duplicate rental 

assistance. The program also provides 

for the verification of the matching 

results and the initiation of appropriate 

administrative or legal actions. 

DATES: Effective Date: Computer 

matching is expected to begin June 13, 

2007, unless comments are received 

which will result in a contrary 

determination, or 40 days after a copies 

of the underlying matching agreement is 

signed, approved by HUD and RHS Data 

Integrity Boards, and sent to both 

Houses of Congress, whichever is later. 

Comments Due Date: June 13, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, 

Office of General Counsel, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications should refer to the 

above docket number and title. 

Facsimile (FAX) comments are not 

acceptable. A copy of each 

communication submitted will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

weekdays at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

Privacy Act: Jeanette Smith, 

Departmental Privacy Act Officer, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone number (202) 402–8062. A 

telecommunications device for hearingand speech-impaired individuals (TTY) 

is available at 1–800–877–8339 (Federal 

Information Relay Service). 

For further information from recipient 

agency: Bryan Saddler, Counsel to the 

Inspector General, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Room 8260, 

Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

number (202) 708–1613. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act (CMPPA) of 1988, an 

amendment to the Privacy Act of 1974 

(5 U.S.C. 552a), OMB’s guidance on this 

statute entitled ‘‘Final Guidance 

Interpreting the Provisions of Public 

Law 100–503, the CMPPA of 1988’’

(OMB Guidance), and OMB Circular No. 

A–130 requires publication of notices of 

computer matching programs. Appendix 

I to OMB’s Revision of Circular No. A–

130, ‘‘Transmittal Memorandum No. 4, 

Management of Federal Information 

Resources,’’ prescribes Federal agency 

responsibilities for maintaining records 

about individuals. In compliance with 

the CMPPA and Appendix I to OMB 

Circular No. A–130, copies of this notice 

are being provided to the Committee on 

Government Reform of the House of 

Representatives, the Committee on 

Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and 

OMB’s Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs. 

I. Authority 

This matching program is being 

conducted pursuant to the Emergency 

Supplemental Appropriations to 

Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of 

Mexico and Pandemic Influenza, 2006 

(Pub. L. 109–148); section 904 of the 

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 

Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (42 

U.S.C. 3544); section 165 of the Housing 

and Community Development Act of 

1987 (42 U.S.C. 3543); the National 

Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1701–1750g); 

the United States Housing Act of 1937 

(42 U.S.C. 1437–1437z); section 101 of 

the Housing and Community 

Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 

1701s); the Native American Housing 

Assistance and Self-Determination Act 

of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.); the 

Quality Housing and Work 

Responsibility Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 

1437a(f)); the Inspector General Act of 

1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 3); Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988 (Pub. L. 100–53); and 65 FR 24732 

and 64 FR 54930. 

Chapter 9, Title I, of the Emergency 

Supplemental Appropriations to 

Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of 

Mexico and Pandemic Influenza, 

requires HUD to provide Tenant-Based 

Rental Assistance only to tenants who 

received housing assistance prior to the 

hurricanes and to ‘‘those which were 

homeless or in emergency shelters in 

the declared disaster area prior to 

Hurricanes Katrina or Rita.’’ It also 

requires, with respect to Community 

Development Fund assistance, that HUD 

establish procedures to prevent 

recipients from receiving any 

duplication of benefits. 

The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 

Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 

authorizes HUD and housing agencies 

(HAs) (but not private owners/ 

management agents for subsidized 

multifamily projects) to request wage 

and claim information from State Wage 

Information Collection Agencies 

(SWICAs) responsible for administering 

State unemployment laws in order to 

undertake computer matching of 

individual’s income and eligibility for 

HUD housing assistance. This Act 

authorizes HUD to require applicants 

and participants to sign a consent form 

authorizing HUD or the HA to request 

wage and claim information from the 

SWICAs. 

The Inspector General Act authorizes 

the HUD Inspector General to undertake 

programs to detect and prevent fraud 

and abuse in all HUD programs. 

RHS, pursuant to section 312 of the 

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford 

Act) 42 U.S.C. 5155, Pub. L. 93–288, as 

amended, and 7 CFR part 1951, subpart 

O must assure that no person receiving 

disaster assistance receives 

unauthorized assistance. 

II. Objectives To Be Met by the 

Matching Program 

HUD’s primary objectives in 

implementing the computer matching 


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program are: (a) To identify individuals 

who are receiving housing benefits in 

excess of those to which they are 

entitled; and (b) to identify duplicate 

disaster assistance payments. In meeting 

these objectives HUD also is carrying 

out a responsibility under 42 U.S.C. 

1437f(K) to ensure that income data 

provided to POAs by household 

members is complete and accurate, and 

under 42 U.S.C. 5155 to avoid the 

duplication of Federal assistance 

payments. 

The matching program identifies 

tenants receiving inappropriate 

(excessive or insufficient) rental 

assistance resulting from under or overreported household income (including 

other Federal assistance) or 

composition. When excessive rental 

assistance amounts are identified, some 

tenants move out of assisted housing 

units; other tenants agree to repay 

excessive rental assistance. These 

actions may increase rental assistance or 

the number of units available to serve 

other beneficiaries of HUD programs. 

When tenants continue to be eligible for 

rental assistance, but at a reduced level, 

the tenants will be required to increase 

their contributions toward rent. 

III. Program Description 

This computer matching program, to 

the extent that it involves the use of 

SSA, IRS or SWICA data is fully 

described at 69 FR 11033. With respect 

to RHS data, the matching program will 

be accomplished by comparing income, 

family size, family address, family 

identity, and benefit data for individuals 

participating in HUD’s assisted housing 

programs and subsidized multifamily 

housing programs with rural housing 

assistance data maintained by RHS in its 

systems of records known as ‘‘USDA/ 

Rural Development’’, last published 63 

FR 38546 (July 17, 1998). Specifically, 

HUD will compare the RHS identity, 

income, family size, and benefit data to 

tenant-reported data included in HUD’s 

system of records known as: (1) The 

Tenant Housing Assistance and Contract 

Verification Data (HUD/H–11), last 

published at 62 FR 11909 (March 13, 

1997); and (2) the Public and Indian 

Housing Information Center (HUD/PIH–

4), last published at 67 FR 20986 (April 

29, 2002). The tenant comparisons will 

identify, based on criteria established by 

HUD, tenants whose incomes, family 

size, address, or benefit levels, etc. 

require further verification to determine 

if the tenants received excessive or 

duplicate rental assistance. The program 

also provides for the verification of the 

matching results and the initiation of 

appropriate administrative or legal 

actions. 

A. Income Verification 

Any match (i.e., a ‘‘hit’’) will be 

further reviewed by HUD, the POA, or 

the HUD Office of Inspector General 

(OIG), RHS, or the Department of 

Agriculture Office of Inspector to 

determine whether the information 

reported to the POA is correct and 

complies with HUD and POA 

requirements, and whether the tenant 

received duplicate housing assistance 

from RHS. Specifically, current or prior 

wage information and other data will be 

sought directly from employers. 

B. Administrative or Legal Actions 

Regarding all the matching described 

in this notice, HUD anticipates that 

POAs will take appropriate action in 

consultation with tenants to: (1) Resolve 

income disparities between tenantreported and independent income 

source data, and (2) use correct income 

amounts in determining housing rental 

assistance. 

POAs must compute the rent in full 

compliance with all applicable 

occupancy regulations. POAs must 

ensure that they use the correct income 

and correctly compute the rent. The 

POAs may not suspend, terminate, 

reduce, or make a final denial of any 

housing assistance to any tenant as the 

result of information produced by this 

matching program until: (a) The tenant 

has received notice from the POA of its 

findings and informing the tenant of the 

opportunity to contest such findings 

and (b) either the notice period 

provided in applicable regulations of 

the program, or 30 days, whichever is 

later, has expired. In most cases, POAs 

will resolve income discrepancies in 

consultation with tenants. Additionally, 

serious violations, which POAs, HUD 

Program staff, or HUD OIG verify, 

should be referred for full investigation 

and appropriate civil and/or criminal 

proceedings. 

IV. Records To Be Matched 

This computer matching program, to 

the extent that it involves the use of 

SSA, IRS or SWICA data is fully 

described at 69 FR 11033. With respect 

to RHS data, the match will involve 

tenant records obtained directly from 

POAs and subsidized multifamily 

projects included in the Tenant Housing 

Assistance and Contract Verification 

Data (HUD/H–11) and the Public and 

Indian Housing Information Center 

(HUD/PIH–4). These records contain 

information about individuals who are 

participants in the Federal low income 

and Section 8 housing assistance 

programs. Specifically, the tenant 

records include these data elements: 

(1) SSNs for each family member; 

(2) Family control number to identify 

each tenant with a particular family; 

(3) Head of Household Indicator; 

(4) Last Name, First Name, Middle 

Initial, and Address for household; 

(5) Sex; 

(6) Birth Date; 

(7) Reported Income by source, 

description and amount; 

(8) Program Code; and 

(9) Recertification Date. 

The RHS will provide HUD with files 

from the USDA/Rural Development. The 

notice for this system was published at 

63 FR 38546. The disclosure from 

USDA/Rural Development will be made 

in accordance with routine use ‘‘5.’’

HUD will match the tenant records to 

the RHS records on disaster assistance 

applicants to compare tenant reported 

income. For matched tenant’s SSNs (i.e., 

‘‘hits’’), HUD will match the following 

information from USDA/Rural 

Development: the RHS applicant or coapplicant name(s), address(es), social 

security number(s), assistance date(s), 

and rental/loan/grant assistance 

amount(s). 

V. Period of the Match 

The computer matching program will 

be conducted according to an agreement 

between HUD and the RHS. The 

computer matching agreement for the 

planned matches will terminate either 

when the purpose of the computer 

matching program is accomplished, or 

18 months from the date the agreement 

is signed, whichever comes first. The 

agreement may be extended for one 12- 

month period, with the mutual 

agreement of all involved parties, if the 

following conditions are met: 

(1) Within 3 months of the expiration 

date, all Data Integrity Boards review 

the agreement, find that the program 

will be conducted without change, and 

find a continued favorable examination 

of benefit/cost results; and 

(2) All parties certify that the program 

has been conducted in compliance with 

the agreement. 

The agreement may be terminated, 

prior to accomplishment of the 

computer matching purpose or 18 

months from the date the agreement is 

signed (whichever comes first), by the 

mutual agreement of all involved parties 

within 30 days of written notice. 

Dated: May 3, 2007. 

Lisa Schlosser, 

Chief Information Officer. 

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