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• Household Member First Name 

• Household Member Last Name 

• Inspection Completion(Y/N) 

• Insurance Settlement Flood Amount 

• Insurance Settlement Other Amount 

• Insurance Type (Insurance Code) 

• NCOMP Flag (Y/N) 

• Owner/Renter 

• Personal Property Total FVL Amount 

(Aggregated for all PERSONAL 

PROPERTY FVL one field replaces all 

fields related to personal property 

damage) Personal Property Flood 

Damage FVL Amount 

• Primary Residence (RI) (Yes/No) 

• Real Property Total FVL Amount 

(Aggregated for all REAL PROPERTY 

FVL (one field replaces all fields 

related to real property damage) Real 

Property Flood Damage FVL Amount 

• Registrant Date of Birth 

• Registrant First Name 

• Registrant Last 4 Digits of SSN 

• Registrant Last Name 

• Residence Type 

• Temporary Housing Unit (THU)— 

Latest Currently Licensed-in Date 

• Total Housing Assistance Approved 

Amount (Aggregated Eligibility 

Amount) Total Housing Assistance 

Approved Flood Damage Amount 

• Total Other Assistance Approved 

Amount (Aggregated Eligibility 

Amount) Total Other Assistance 

Flood Damage Approved Amount 

• Total Other Needs Assistance 

Approved Amount (Aggregated 

Eligibility Amount) Total Other Needs 

Assistance Flood Damage Approved 

Amount 

• Total Personal Property Assistance 

Amount (Aggregated Eligibility 

Amount) Total Personal Property 

Assistance Flood Damage Amount 

• Total Repair Assistance Approved 

Amount (Aggregated Eligibility 

Amount) Total Repair Assistance 

Flood Damage Amount 

• Total Replacement Assistance 

Approved Amount (Aggregated 

Eligibility Amount) 

System(s) of Records: 

• DHS/FEMA–008 Disaster Recovery 

Assistance Files System of Records 

Notice, 87 FR 7852 (February 10, 

2022), or as amended. 

• Inventory Management System (also 

known as the Public and Indian 

Housing Information Center) (IMS/ 

PIC), HUD/PIH.01, 84 FR 11117 

(March 25, 2019). 

• Enterprise Income Verification (EIV), 

HUD/PIH–5, EIV 71 FR 45,066 

(August 8, 2006), which was updated 

by 74 FR 45235 (September 1, 2009). 

Tenant Rental Assistance Certification 

System (TRACS), HSNG/MF.HTS.02, 

81 FR 56684 (August 22, 2016). 

Bradley S. Jewitt, 

Senior Agency Official for Privacy, 

Department of Housing & Urban 

Development. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No: FR–7092–N–19] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Real Estate Assessment Center, 

Office of Public and Indian Housing, 

HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of a re-established 

matching program. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988, as amended, HUD is providing 

notice of its intent to execute a new 

computer matching agreement with 

HHS for a recurring matching program 

with HUD’s Office of Public and Indian 

Housing (PIH) and Office of Housing, 

involving comparisons of information 

provided by participants in any 

authorized HUD rental housing 

assistance program with the 

independent sources of income 

information available through the 

National Directory of New Hires 

(NDNH) maintained by HHS. HUD will 

obtain HHS data and make the results 

available to: (1) Program administrators 

such as public housing agencies (PHAs) 

and private owners and management 

agents (O/As) (collectively referred to as 

POAs) to enable them to verify the 

accuracy of income reported by the 

tenants (participants) of HUD rental 

assistance programs and (2) contract 

administrators (Cas) overseeing and 

monitoring O/A operations as well as 

independent public auditors (IPAs) that 

audit both PHAs and O/As. The most 

recent renewal of the current matching 

agreement expires on February 28, 2024. 

DATES: The period of this matching 

program is estimated to cover the 18- 

month period from February 28, 2024, 

through August 28, 2025. However, the 

computer matching agreement (CMA) 

will become applicable at the later of 

the following two dates: February 28, 

2024, or 30 days after all public 

comments have been received from 

interested members of the public 

requiring modification to the notice and 

republication of the notice for another 

30-day comment period. The matching 

program will continue for 18 months 

after the applicable date and may be 

extended for an additional 12 months, if 

the respective agency Data Integrity 

Boards (DIBs) determine that the 

conditions specified in 5 U.S.C. 

552a(o)(2)(D) have been met. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice at www.regulations.gov or to 

the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street SW, Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410. 

Communications should refer to the 

above docket number A copy of each 

communication submitted will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 

p.m. weekdays at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact the Recipient Agency. 

Bradley S. Jewitt, Senior Agency 

Official for Privacy, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street SW, Room 6204, 

Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

number (202) 402–5522. HUD welcomes 

and is prepared to receive calls from 

individuals who are deaf or hard of 

hearing, as well as individuals with 

speech and 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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act (CMPPA) of 1988, as 

amended; OMB’s guidance on this 

statute entitled, ‘‘Final Guidance 

Interpreting the Provisions of Public 

Law 100–503’’; OMB Circular No. A– 

108, ‘‘Federal Agency Responsibilities 

for Review, Reporting, and Publication 

under the Privacy Act;’’ and OMB 

Circular No. A–130, ‘‘Managing 

Information as a Strategic Resource’’; 

HUD is providing the public with notice 

of a new computer matching agreement 

with HHS (previous notice of a 

computer matching program between 

HUD and HHS was previously 

published at 86 FR 40610 on July 28, 

2021). The first HUD–HHS computer 

matching program was conducted in 

September 2005, with HUD’s Office of 

Public and Indian Housing. The scope 

of the HUD–HHS computer matching 

program was extended to include HUD’s 

Office of Housing in December 2007, 

and the participants of HUD’s Disaster 

Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) in 

January 2011. 

The matching program will be carried 

out only to the ’xtent necessary to: (1) 

verify the employment and income of 

participants in certain rental assistance 

programs to correctly determine the 


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amount of their rent and assistance, (2) 

identify, prevent, and recover improper 

payments made on behalf of tenants, 

and (3) after removal of personal 

identifiers, to conduct analyses of the 

employment and income reporting of 

individuals participating in any HUD 

authorized rental housing assistance 

program. 

HUD will make the results of the 

computer matching program available to 

public housing agencies (PHAs), private 

housing owners and management agents 

(O/As) administering HUD rental 

assistance programs to enable them to 

verify employment and income and 

correctly determine the rent and 

assistance levels for individuals 

participating in those programs, and 

contract administrators (Cas) overseeing 

and monitoring O/A operations. This 

information also may be disclosed to the 

HUD Office of Inspector General (HUD/ 

OIG) and the United States Attorney 

General in detecting and investigating 

potential cases of fraud, waste, and 

abuse within HUD rental assistance 

programs. 

In addition to the above noted 

information disclosures, limited 

redisclosure of reports containing 

NDNH information may be redisclosed 

to the following persons and/or entities: 

(1) Independent auditors for the sole 

purpose of performing an audit of 

whether these HUD authorized entities 

verified tenants’ employment and/or 

income and calculated the subsidy and 

rent correctly; and (2) entities and/or 

individuals associated with grievance 

procedures and judicial proceedings 

(i.e., lawyers, court personnel, agency 

personnel, grievance hearing officers, 

etc.) relating to independently verified 

unreported income identified through 

this matching program. 

HUD and its third-party 

administrators (PHAs, O/As, and CAs) 

will use this matching authority to 

identify, reduce or eliminate improper 

payments in HUD’s rental housing 

assistance programs, while continuing 

to ensure that HUD rental housing 

assistance programs serve and are 

accessible by its intended program 

beneficiaries. 

Participating Agencies: Department of 

Housing and Urban Development and 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

Authority for Conducting the 

Matching Program: This matching 

program is being conducted pursuant to 

Section 217 of the Consolidated 

Appropriation Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108– 

199, Approved January 23, 2004), which 

amended Section 453(j) of the Social 

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 653(j)), Sections 

3003 and 13403 of the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103– 

66, approved August 10, 1993); Section 

542(b) of the 1998 Appropriations Act 

(Pub. L. 105–65); Section 904 of the 

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 

Assistance Amendments Act of 1988, as 

amended by Section 239 of HUD’s 2009 

Appropriations, effective March 11, 

2009 (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 SelfDetermination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 

4101 et seq.); and the Quality Housing 

and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (42 

U.S.C. 1437a(f)). 

The Housing and Community 

Development Act of 1987 authorizes 

HUD to require applicants and 

participants (as well as members of their 

household 6 years of age and older) in 

HUD-administered programs involving 

rental housing assistance to disclose to 

HUD their Social Security Numbers 

(SSNs) as a condition of initial or 

continuing eligibility for participation 

in the programs. Effective January 31, 

2010, all applicants and participants 

under the age of 6, are required to 

disclose their SSN to HUD, in 

accordance with regulatory revisions 

made to 24 CFR 5.216, as published at 

74 FR 68924, on December 29, 2009. 

Section 217 of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 

108–199, approved January 23, 2004) 

authorizes HUD to provide to HHS 

information on persons participating in 

any programs authorized by: 

(i) The United States Housing Act of 

1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.); 

(ii) Section 202 of the Housing Act of 

1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); 

(iii) Section 221(d)(3), 221(d)(5) or 

236 of the National Housing Act (12 

U.S.C. 17151(d) and 1715z–1); (iv) 

Section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 

National Affordable Housing Act (42 

U.S.C. 8013); or (v) Section 101 of the 

Housing and Urban Development Act of 

1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); 

The Refinement of Income and Rent 

Determination Requirements in Public 

and Assisted Housing Programs: 

Implementation of the Enterprise 

Income Verification (EIV) System— 

Amendments; Final rule published at 74 

FR 68924 on December 29, 2009, 

requires program administrators to use 

HUD’s EIV system to verify tenant 

employment and income information 

during mandatory re-examinations or 

recertifications of family composition 

and income and reduce administrative 

and subsidy payment errors in 

accordance with HUD administrative 

guidance (HUD regulation at 24 CFR 

5.233). 

This matching program also assists 

HUD in complying with the following 

Federal laws, requirements, and 

guidance related to identifying and 

reducing improper payments: 

1. Improper Payments Elimination 

and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA) (Pub. 

L. 111–204) (July 22, 2010); 

2. Presidential Memorandum on 

Enhancing Payment Accuracy Through 

a ‘‘Do Not Pay List’’ (June 18, 2010) 

3. Office of Management and Budget 

M–18–20, Transmittal of Appendix C to 

OMB Circular A–123, Requirements for 

Payment Integrity Improvement’’ (June 

26, 2018); 

4. Presidential Memorandum on 

Finding and Recapturing Improper 

Payments (March 10, 2010); 

5. Reducing Improper Payments and 

Eliminating Waste in Federal Programs 

(Executive Order 13520, November 

2009); 

6. Improper Payments Information 

Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107–300); 

7. Office of Management and Budget 

M–03–13, Improper Payments 

Information Act of 2002; 

8. Improper Payments Elimination 

and Recovery Improvement Act 

(IPERIA) of 2012, (Pub. L. 112–248) 

(January 10, 2013); and 

9. Office of Management and Budget 

M–13–20, Protecting Privacy while 

Reducing Improper Payments with the 

Do Not Pay Initiative (August 16, 2013). 

This matching program is also 

authorized by subsections 453(j)(7)(A), 

(C)(i), and (D)(i) of the Social Security 

Act (as amended and authorized by 

Section 217 of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 

108–199)). Specifically, the 

aforementioned law authorizes HHS to 

compare information provided by HUD 

with data contained in the NDNH and 

report the results of the data match to 

HUD. The Social Security Act gives 

HUD the authority to disclose this 

information to CAs, O/As, and PHAs for 

the purpose of verifying the 

employment and income of individuals 

receiving benefits in the above 

programs. HUD shall not seek, use or 

disclose information relating to an 

individual without the prior written 

consent of that individual, and HUD has 

the authority to require consent as a 

condition of participating in HUD rental 

housing assistance programs. 

The NDNH contains new hire, 

quarterly wage, and unemployment 

insurance information furnished by 

State and Federal agencies and is 


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maintained by HHS’ Office of Child 

Support Enforcement (OCSE) in its 

system of records ‘‘OCSE National 

Directory of New Hires,’’ No. 09–80– 

0381, published in the Federal Register 

at 80 FR 17894 (specifically pages 

17906–17909) on April 2, 2015. The 

published system of records notice 

authorizes disclosure of NDNH 

information to HUD pursuant to Routine 

Use (12) ‘‘for the purpose of verifying 

the employment and income of the 

individuals and, after removal of 

personal identifiers, for the purpose of 

conducting analyses of the employment 

and income reporting of such 

individuals.’’ 

The HUD records used in the 

information comparison are retrieved 

from HUD’s Enterprise Income 

Verification (EIV) System, and the 

results of the information comparison 

are maintained within HUD’s EIV 

System No. HUD/PIH–5, last published 

in the Federal Register at 87 FR 

50635(August 17, 2022). Routine use (D) 

of the system of records authorizes 

disclosure of HUD records to HHS. 

Purpose(s): HUD’s primary objective 

of the computer matching program is to 

verify the employment and income of 

participants in certain rental assistance 

programs to determine the appropriate 

level of rental assistance, and to detect, 

deter and correct fraud, waste, and 

abuse in rental housing assistance 

programs. 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 PHAs, and O/ 

As, by household members is complete 

and accurate. HUD’s various rental 

housing assistance programs require 

that participants meet certain income 

and other criteria to be eligible for rental 

assistance. In addition, tenants generally 

are required to report and recertify the 

amounts and sources of their income at 

least annually. However, under the 

Quality Housing and Work 

Responsibility Act (QHWRA) of 1998, 

PHAs operating Public Housing 

programs may offer tenants the option to 

pay a flat rent, or an income-based rent. 

Those tenants who select a flat rent will 

be required to recertify income at least 

every three years. In addition, the 

changes to the Admissions and 

Occupancy final rule (March 29, 2000 

(65 FR 16692)) specified that household 

composition must be recertified 

annually for tenants who select a flat 

rent or income-based rent. 

Categories of Individuals: 

Covered Programs 

This notice of computer matching 

program applies to individuals receiving 

services from the following rental 

assistance programs: 

A. Disaster Housing Assistance Program 

(DHAP) 

B. Public Housing 

C. Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers 

(HCV) 

D. Project-Based Vouchers 

E. Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation 

F. Project-Based Section 8 

1. New Construction 

2. State Agency Financed 

3. Substantial Rehabilitation 

4. Sections 202/8 

5. Rural Housing Services Section 

515/8 

6. Loan Management Set-Aside 

(LMSA) 

7. Property Disposition Set-Aside 

(PDSA) 

G. Section 101 Rent Supplement 

H. Section 202/162 Project Assistance 

Contract (PAC) 

I. Section 202 Project Rental Assistance 

Contract (PRAC) 

J. Section 811 Project Rental Assistance 

Contract (PRAC) 

K. Section 236 Rental Assistance 

Program 

L. Section 221(d)(3) Below Market 

Interest Rate (BMIR) 

Note: This notice does not apply to the 

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) or 

the Rural Housing Services Section 515 

without Section 8 programs. 

Categories of Records: The following 

are the categories of record in this 

matching agreement: 

HUD Input File 

• First name 

• Last name 

• Date of birth 

• Social Security number 

HHS New Hire File 

• New hire processed date 

• Employee name 

• Employee address 

• Employee date of hire 

• Employee State of hire 

• Federal Employer Identification 

Number 

• State Employer Identification Number 

• Department of Defense status code 

• Employer name 

• Employer address 

• Transmitter agency code 

• Transmitter State code 

• Transmitter State or agency name 

HHS Quarterly Wage File 

• Quarterly wage processed date 

• Employee name 

• Federal Employer Identification 

Number 

• State Employer Identification Number 

• Department of Defense code 

• Employer name 

• Employer address 

• Employee wage amount 

• Quarterly wage reporting period 

• Transmitter agency code 

• Transmitter State code 

• Transmitter State or agency name 

HHS Unemployment Insurance File 

• Unemployment insurance processed 

date 

• Claimant name 

• Claimant address 

• Claimant benefit amount 

• Unemployment insurance reporting 

period 

• Transmitter State code 

• Transmitter State or agency name 

System(s) of Records: OCSE NDNH 

contains new hire, quarterly wage, and 

unemployment insurance information 

furnished by State and Federal agencies 

and is maintained by OCSE in its system 

of records ‘‘OCSE National Directory of 

New Hires,’’ No. 09–80–0381; see 

System of Records Notice (SORN) 

published in full at 87 FR 3550 (January 

24, 2022). The disclosure of NDNH 

records by OCSS to HUD constitutes a 

‘‘routine use,’’ as defined by the Privacy 

Act. 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3). Routine use 

(12) published in the NDNH SORN 

authorizes the disclosure of NDNH 

records to HUD. 87 FR 3553, 3555 

(January 24, 2022). 

The HUD records used in the 

information comparison are retrieved 

from, and the results of the information 

comparison are maintained within, the 

HUD system of records ‘‘Enterprise 

Income Verification’’ (EIV), No. HUD/ 

PIH–5, 87 FR 50635(August 17, 2022). 

Routine use (D) in that system of records 

authorizes the disclosure of HUD 

records to OCSE. 

Bradley S. Jewitt, 

Senior Agency Official for Privacy. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[Docket No. FWS–R8–ES–2023–0107; 

FF09M21200–234–FXMB1231099BPP0; 

OMB Control Number 1018–New] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Western Snowy Plover 

Survey and Reporting 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

(Service), are proposing a new 

information collection in use without 


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