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III. Significance of Guidance 

This draft guidance, developed under 

the VICH process, has been revised to 

conform to FDA’s good guidance 

practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). 

For example, the document has been 

designated ‘‘guidance’’ rather than 

‘‘guideline.’’ In addition, guidance 

documents must not include mandatory 

language such as ‘‘shall,’’ ‘‘must,’’ 

‘‘require,’’ or ‘‘requirement,’’ unless 

FDA is using these words to describe a 

statutory or regulatory requirement. 

The draft guidance, when finalized, 

will represent the Agency’s current 

thinking on this topic. It does not create 

or confer any rights for or on any person 

and does not operate to bind FDA or the 

public. An alternative approach may be 

used if such approach satisfies the 

requirements of applicable statutes and 

regulations. 

IV. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

This draft guidance refers to 

previously approved collections of 

information found in FDA regulations. 

These collections of information are 

subject to review by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). The collections 

of information in this draft guidance 

have been approved under OMB control 

number 0910–0032. 

V. Comments 

Interested persons may submit to the 

Division of Dockets Management (see 

ADDRESSES) written or electronic 

comments regarding this document. It is 

only necessary to send one set of 

comments. Identify comments with the 

docket number found in brackets in the 

heading of this document. Received 

comments may be seen in the Division 

of Dockets Management between 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

VI. Electronic Access 

Persons with access to the Internet 

may obtain the draft guidance at either 

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ 

GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ 

GuidanceforIndustry/default.htm or 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

Dated: March 29, 2012. 

Leslie Kux, 

Assistant Commissioner for Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4160–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5630–N–02] 

Rental Assistance Demonstration: 

Extension of Public Comment Period 

and Clarification of Demonstration 

Components 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 

and Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Housing-Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On March 8, 2012, HUD 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register inviting public comments on 

the demonstration notice posted on 

HUD’s Web site entitled ‘‘Rental 

Assistance Demonstration—Partial 

Implementation and Request for 

Comments’’ (Program Notice). This 

notice extends the due date for the 

submission of comments on the Program 

Notice. In addition, HUD is taking this 

opportunity to clarify the scope of the 

demonstration that took effect on March 

8, 2012. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: The new 

date for the submission of comments on 

the Program Notice is April 23, 2012. 

Effective Date: The effective date 

announced in the March 8, 2012, notice 

is unchanged. The provisions regarding 

the conversion of Rent Supp and RAP 

properties under Section III of the 

Program Notice were effective on March 

8, 2012. The Moderate Rehabilitation 

(Mod Rehab) provisions detailed in 

Section II of the Program Notice are not 

in effect until HUD reviews the public 

comments and issues a notice in the 

Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments on 

applicable parts of the March 8, 2012, 

notice to the Regulations Division, 

Office of General Counsel, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 7th Street SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. All 

submissions and communications must 

refer to ‘‘Rental Assistance 

Demonstration: Notice of Web 

Availability and Request for Comments’’ 

docket number FR–5630–N–01. There 

are two methods for submitting public 

comments. 

1. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

2. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments electronically through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, ensures timely 

receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to 

make them immediately available to the 

public. Comments submitted 

electronically through the 

www.regulations.gov Web site can be 

viewed by other commenters and 

interested members of the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Note: To receive consideration as public 

comments, comments must be submitted 

through one of the two methods specified 

above. Again, all submissions must refer to 

the docket number and title of the rule. Also, 

to expedite review of public comments, it is 

recommended commenters should organize 

their comments by specific topical areas and 

section numbers and label those areas 

accordingly. 

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile 

(FAX) comments are not acceptable. 

Public Inspection of Public 

Comments. All properly submitted 

comments and communications 

submitted to HUD will be available for 

public inspection and copying between 

8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above 

address. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled by calling 

the Regulations Division at 202–402– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

Individuals with speech or hearing 

impairments may access this number 

via TTY by calling the Federal Relay 

Service, toll-free, at 800–877–8339. 

Copies of all comments submitted are 

available for inspection and 

downloading at www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

assure a timely response, please 

electronically direct requests for further 

information to this email address: 

rad@hud.gov. Written requests may also 

be directed to the following address: 

Office of Public and Indian Housing— 

RAD Program, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW., Room 2000; Washington, DC 

20410. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On March 8, 2012, at 77 FR 14029, 

HUD published in the Federal Register 

a notice announcing HUD’s Rental 

Assistance Demonstration (RAD) 

program, which provides the 


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opportunity to test the conversion of 

public housing and other HUD-assisted 

properties to long-term, project-based 

Section 8 rental assistance to achieve 

certain goals, including the preservation 

and improvement of these properties 

through access by public housing 

agencies (PHAs) and owners to private 

debt and equity to address immediate 

and long-term capital needs; the extent 

to which residents have increased 

housing choices after the conversion; 

and the overall impact of conversion on 

the subject properties. The March 8, 

2012, notice advised that HUD posted 

on its Web site the full details of the 

demonstration in a Program Notice 

entitled ‘‘Rental Assistance 

Demonstration–Partial Implementation 

and Request for Comments.’’ HUD refers 

the reader to the March 8, 2012, Federal 

Register notice for detailed information 

about RAD, as well as to the Program 

Notice, posted on HUD’s Web site at 

www.hud.gov/rad. This notice extends 

the due date for the submission of 

public comments on the Program Notice 

to April 23, 2012, and clarifies the scope 

of the demonstration that took effect on 

March 8, 2012. 

II. Extension of Public Comment Due 

Date 

The March 8, 2012, notice solicited 

public comment on the demonstration 

and established a comment due date of 

April 9, 2012. In order to ensure that 

interested members of the public have 

sufficient time to prepare and submit 

comments, HUD is extending the due 

date for the submission of comments on 

the Program Notice until April 23, 2012. 

III. Clarification of Demonstration 

Scope 

As provided in the March 8, 2012, 

notice and in the Program Notice, RAD 

consists of two components. The first 

component, which is covered under 

Sections I and II of the Program Notice 

for PHAs and Mod Rehab owners, 

respectively, allows projects funder 

under HUD’s public housing and Mod 

Rehab programs to convert to long-term 

Section 8 rental assistance contracts. 

Under this first component, PHAs and 

Mod Rehab owners may apply to HUD 

to convert to one of two forms of Section 

8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) 

contracts: Project-based vouchers (PBVs) 

or project-based rental assistance 

(PBRA). 

The second component, which is 

covered under Section II of the Program 

Notice, for owners of Mod Rehab 

projects, and under Section III of the 

Program Notice, for owners of Rent 

Supplement (Rent Supp) and Rental 

Assistance (RAP) projects, of the 

Program Notice, allows projects funded 

under the Mod Rehab, Rent Supp and 

RAP programs, with a contract 

expiration or termination occurring after 

October 1, 2006, and no later than 

September 30, 2013, to convert tenant 

protection vouchers (TPVs) to PBVs. 

The ‘‘Effective Date’’ section of the 

March 8, 2012, notice provided that the 

conversion of Rent Supp and RAP 

Properties under Section III of the 

Program Notice were effective on March 

8, 2012. 

The March 8, 2012 notice, at 77 FR 

14030, following the explanation of the 

Section II and Section III provisions of 

the second component stated, 

inconsistent with the ‘‘Effective Date’’ 

provision, ‘‘These provisions are 

effective immediately.’’ 

Accordingly, this notice clarifies the 

scope of the sections of the 

demonstration that are effective on 

March 8, 2012, to eliminate any 

confusion made by the statement at the 

end of the explanation of the second 

component at 77 FR 14030. The only 

provisions that are effective 

immediately are, as provided in the 

‘‘Effective Date’’ section of the notice, 

those of Section III of the Program 

Notice for the conversion of Rent Supp 

and RAP Properties. The Section II 

provisions for properties funded under 

Mod Rehab, which are part of the 

discussion of the second component, are 

not yet in effect. 

Dated: March 30, 2012. 

Deborah Hernandez, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing. 

Carol J. Galante, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing— 

Federal Housing Commissioner. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R9–MB–2011–N215; 91400– 

5110–0000–7B; 91400–9410–0000–7B] 

Multistate Conservation Grant 

Program; Priority List and Approval for 

Conservation Projects 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of priority list 

and approval of the projects. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (FWS), announce the 

fiscal year 2012, priority list of wildlife 

and sport fish conservation projects 

from the Association of Fish and 

Wildlife Agencies (AFWA). As required 

by the Wildlife and Sport Fish 

Restoration Programs Improvement Act 

of 2000, AFWA submits a list of projects 

to us each year to consider for funding 

under the Multistate Conservation Grant 

program. We have reviewed the list and 

have awarded the grants from the list. 

ADDRESSES: John C. Stremple, Multistate 

Conservation Grants Program 

Coordinator, Wildlife and Sport Fish 

Restoration Program, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax 

Drive, Mail Stop MBSP–4020, 

Arlington, VA 22203. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

C. Stremple, at the above address, or at 

(703) 358–2156 (phone) or John_

Stremple@fws.gov (email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration 

Programs Improvement Act of 2000 

(Improvement Act, Pub. L. 106–408) 

amended the Pittman-Robertson 

Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669 

et seq.) and the Dingell-Johnson Sport 

Fish Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 777 et 

seq.) and established the Multistate 

Conservation Grant Program. The 

Improvement Act authorizes us to 

award grants of up to $3 million 

annually from funds available under 

each of the Restoration Acts, for a total 

of up to $6 million annually. Projects 

can be funded from both funds 

depending on the project activities. We 

may award grants to projects from a list 

of priority projects recommended to us 

by the Association of Fish and Wildlife 

Agencies. The FWS Director, exercising 

the authority of the Secretary of the 

Interior, need not fund all projects on 

the list, but all projects funded must be 

on the list. 

Grantees under this program may use 

funds for sport fisheries and wildlife 

management and research projects, 

boating access development, hunter 

safety and education, aquatic education, 

fish and wildlife habitat improvements, 

and other purposes consistent with the 

enabling legislation. 

To be eligible for funding, a project 

must benefit fish and/or wildlife 

conservation in at least 26 States, or in 

a majority of the States in any one FWS 

Region, or it must benefit a regional 

association of State fish and wildlife 

agencies. We may award grants to a 

State, a group of States, or one or more 

nongovernmental organizations. For the 

purpose of carrying out the National 

Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and 

Wildlife-Associated Recreation, we may 

award grants to the FWS, if requested by 

AFWA, or to a State or a group of States. 

Also, AFWA requires all project 

proposals to address its National 


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