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beneficiaries have been subject to 

multiple, overlapping periods of 

potential TPS validity due to the 

ongoing litigation. They also have not 

been required to re-register for several 

years. Therefore, this extended reregistration period allows this 

population of beneficiaries to more 

easily comply with the re-registration 

requirement, which could avoid placing 

additional burdens on these reregistrants. In addition, permitting reregistration throughout the entirety of 

the designation extension period could 

reduce the operational burden on 

USCIS; reviewing and adjudicating latefiled re-registration applications that 

may occur as a result of the 60-day 

period due to lack of awareness of the 

re-registration requirement that these 

particular beneficiaries are more likely 

to experience because of the protracted 

litigation and subsequent TPS actions to 

continue documentation, would require 

additional resources. 

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27342 Filed 12–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–97–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7076–N–19] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Public Housing Agency 

(PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan; OMB 

Control No.: 2577–0226 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 

(PIH), 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: February 

12, 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: Colette Pollard, 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: 

Colette Pollard, Management Analyst, 

Reports Management Officer, REE, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW, 

Washington, DC 20410; email 

Colette.Pollard@hud.gov, telephone 

202–402–3400. 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. Pollard. 

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: Public 

Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and 

Annual Plan. 

OMB Approval Number: 2577–0226. 

Type of Request: Revision of currently 

approved collection. 

Form Number(s): HUD–50075–5Y, 

HUD–50075–HCV, HUD–50075–HP, 

HUD–50075–MTW, HUD–50075–SM, 

HUD–50075–ST, HUD–50077–CR, 

HUD–50077–CRT–SM HUD–50077–ST– 

HCV–HP and HUD–50077–SL. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: The 

Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was 

created by section 5A of the United 

States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

1437c–1). There are two different PHA 

Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the 

Annual Plan. The Five-Year Plan 

describes the agency’s mission, longrange goals, and objectives for achieving 

its mission over a five-year period. The 

Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive 

guide to PHA policies, programs, 

operations, and strategies for meeting 

local housing needs and goals. This 

revision addresses updates to the HUD– 

50075–HCV form and the automation of 

all the PHA Plan forms including the 

Moving to Work (MTW) Supplement for 

PHAs that joined the MTW 

Demonstration under the 2016 

Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW 

Expansion). 

PHA Plans are needed to inform the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD), residents, and the 

public of the PHA’s mission and 

strategy for serving the needs of low 

income, very low-income, and 

extremely low- income families in the 

PHA’s jurisdiction. This information 

helps provide accountability to the local 

community for how PHAs spend their 

funding and implement their policies. 

The PHA Plan submission also includes 

various certifications to confirm that 

PHAs will abide by all Federal civil 

rights laws and that the PHA Plan is 

consistent with the applicable 

Consolidated Plan. 

PHA plans also allow HUD to monitor 

the performance of programs and the 

performance of the public housing 

agencies that administer them. Since 

2000, HUD has taken several steps to 

reduce the administrative burden of the 

PHA Plan submission including the use 

of streamlined plan submissions for 

certain PHA based on size and 

performance. Most recently, the 

Housing and Economic Reform Act 

(HERA) removed the requirement for 

qualified PHAs to submit an annual 

PHA Plan and to only submit the 5-year 

Plan. A ‘‘qualified PHA’’ is one that 

manages 550 or fewer public housing 

units and vouchers and is not labeled as 

a troubled public housing agency. 

Currently, qualified PHA must only 

submit an annual certification to 

confirm that they will abide by all 

Federal civil rights laws. 

In January 2021 HUD requested from 

OMB that the PHA Plan collection be 

reinstated with change. These changes 

included a new section to accommodate 

the new requirements of the 

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 

(AFFH) Rule and the introduction of the 

MTW Supplement. OMB approved the 

changes, reinstated the collections and 

HUD made the new templates available 

to PHAs on the HUD website as 

individual word processing files. After 

publication, HUD made subsequent 

minor changes to the forms and 

certifications to remove unnecessary 

sections, make minor edits and to 

account for updated or removed 

regulatory citations. Additionally, HUD 

took steps to automate the MTW 

supplement in the Housing Information 

Portal (HIP). 

With this current proposed 

information collection, HUD intends to 


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automate all PHA Plan templates and 

certifications in the web based Public 

Housing Portal (formerly known as the 

Operating Fund Web Portal). While the 

templates will be automated, the 

content and required elements will be 

with same with minor modifications as 

needed. Modifications to the collection 

include the following: 

(1) HUD is adding an additional 

element to the HUD–50075–HCV form. 

The revised HUD–50075–HCV form will 

include an additional element requiring 

Section 8 only PHAs to report on their 

Project Based Voucher (PBV) activities. 

This template will be used by HCV-only 

PHA’s that administer the Housing 

Choice Voucher (HCV) program which 

may also include PBV developments. 

(2) HUD is adding an optional feature 

for PHA’s to attach their written 

Admission and Continued Occupancy 

Policy (ACOP) or Administrative Plan 

documents to their Five-Year Plan and 

Annual Plan submissions. This will 

create a centralized database of all local 

PHA policies which currently can only 

be found at each individual PHA or on 

their websites. 

(3) HUD will now require complete 

electronic submission from all PHAs. 

Currently, PHA Plan templates are 

downloaded, edited, and submitted as 

email attachments which must then be 

individually uploaded, analyzed and 

organized by HUD. Automating the PHA 

Plan forms will make the PHA Plan 

review process more efficient by 

streamlining the submission and 

reducing the administrative burden on 

both HUD and the PHA. HUD estimated 

that automating the PHA Plan form will 

reduce both the PHA and HUD 

administrative burden by approximately 

25% each. Electronic submission and 

collection of this information will also 

make future data and policy analysis 

feasible. 

Overall, the burden hours associated 

with the collection is expected to 

decrease by 2,024 hours due to the 

automation of the PHA Plan templates. 

Additional time may be required in the 

first year to train PHAs on the system, 

however, because the Public Housing 

Portal is an existing HUD system that 

PHAs use and are familiar with, this 

burden is expected to go down in 

subsequent years. Accordingly, the 

additional burden of the one-time 

training is not expected to exceed the 

time savings created by the system. 

Finally, revisions were made to this 

collection to reflect adjustments in 

calculations based on the total number 

of current, active public housing 

agencies (PHAs) to date. Since the last 

approved information collection, the 

number of active public housing 

agencies has changed from 

approximately 3,780 to 3,763. The 

number of PHAs can fluctuate due to 

many factors, including but not limited 

to performance scoring, the merging of 

two or more PHAs or the termination of 

the public housing and/or voucher 

programs due to the Rental Assistance 

Demonstration (RAD). 

Respondents: Local, Regional and 

State Body Corporate Politic Public 

Housing Agencies (PHAs) Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,763. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

4,570 (Certifications: 2,321 [Qualified 

PHAs], Annual Plans: 1,496 and 5-Year 

Plans: 753 [3,763/5]). 

Frequency of Response: Once every 

five years for all PHAs (5-Year Plan), 

annually for all PHAs except HERA 

Qualified PHAs (Annual Plans), and 

annually for all PHAs (certifications). 

Average Hours per Response: 5.07 

hours. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 12,590 

hours. 

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Responses 

per annum 

Burden hour 

per response Annual burden hours 

Hourly 

cost per 

response 

Annual cost 

Form HUD–50075–ST ...................................... 796 1 796 5.64 4,489.44 * $26.62 $119.508.89 

Form HUD–50075–SM ...................................... 202 1 202 2.67 539.74 26.62 14,367.99 

Form HUD–50075–HP ...................................... 152 1 152 5.26 799.52 26.62 21,283.22 

Form HUD–50075–HCV ................................... 246 1 246 4.52 1,111.92 26.62 29,599.31 

Form HUD–50075–MTW .................................. 100 1 100 6.50 650 26.62 17,303.00 

Form HUD–50077–CR (Qualified PHAs) .......... 2,321 1 2,321 0.16 371.36 26.62 9,885.60 

Form HUD–50075–5Y ....................................... 3,763 1 3,763/5 1.23 (6.15/5) 4,628.49 (23,142.45/5) 26.62 123,210.40 

Total ........................................................... 3,763 1 3,763 25.98 12,590.47 26.62 335,158 

* Hourly cost for response assuming a GS–9, Step 5 ($55,564), Executive Assistant, hourly rate is $26.62. 

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 comment in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

chapter 35. 

Nicholas J. Bilka, 

Chief, Office of Policy, Programs, and 

Legislative Initiatives. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7077–N–27] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Office of Fair Housing and 

Equal Opportunity, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 

the Department of the Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD), Office of 

Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity 

(FHEO) is modifying a system of 

records, ‘‘HUD Enforcement 

Management System’’ (HEMS). The 

modification makes updates to: System 


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