63084 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 204 / Friday, October 20, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4561–N–65]

Notice of Submission of Proposed

Information Collection to OMB;

Emergency Comment Request;

Departmental Grants Management

Survey; Notice of Proposed

Information Collection of Public

Comment

AGENCY: Office of Chief Information

Officer.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

collection requirement described below

has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

emergency review and approval, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act. The Department is soliciting public

comments on the subject proposal.

DATES: Comments Due Date: October 27,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments must be

received within seven (7) days from the

date of this Notice. Comments should

refer to the proposal by name/or OMB

approval number and should be sent to:

Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., HUD Desk Officer,

Office of Management and Budget, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Wayne Eddins, Reports Management

Officer, Q, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street,

SW, Washington, DC 20410; e-mail

Wayne_Eddins@HUD.gov; telephone

(202) 708–2374. This is not a toll-free

number. Copies of available documents

submitted to OMB may be obtained

from Mr. Eddins.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

Notice informs the public that the

Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD) has submitted to

OMB, for emergency processing, an

information collection package with

respect to a survey of HUD’s business

partners and current grantees on their

use of HUD’s current grant management

systems and the time and effort

involved in their processing of grant

information. The Department is

developing a web-based, departmental

grants management system that will

cover the lifecycle of a grant from

application through to closeout and

audit and feels input from our business

partners will help minimize the

associated information collection

burden.

This Notice is soliciting comments

from members of the public and

affecting agencies concerning the

proposed collection of information to:

(1) Evaluate 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) evaluate the

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information; (3) enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (4) 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.

This Notice also lists the following

information:

Title of Proposal: Departmental Grants

Management Survey.

OMB Control Number: Pending.

Agency Form Numbers: None.

Members of Affected Public: State,

local or tribal government, not-for-profit

institutions.

Estimation of the total numbers of

hours needed to prepare the information

collection including number of

respondents, frequency of responses,

and hours of response: 110 total hours;

110 respondents; one response per

respondent; and one hour per response.

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act

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

Dated: October 13, 2000.

Wayne Eddins,

Departmental Reports Management Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

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BILLING CODE 4210–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4560–FA–11]

Announcement of Funding Awards for

the Historically Black Colleges and

Universities Program, Fiscal Year 2000

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of funding awards.

SUMMARY: In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989, this announcement

notifies the public of funding decisions

made by the Department in a

competition for funding under the

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)

for the Historically Black Colleges and

Universities (HBCUs) Program. This

announcement contains the names and

addresses of the awardees and the

amount of the awards made available by

HUD to provide assistance to the

HBCUs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Delores Pruden, Historically Black

Colleges and Universities Program,

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Grant Programs, Community

Planning and Development, Department

of Housing and Urban Development,

451 7th St., S.W., Washington, DC

20410; telephone (202) 708–1590 (this is

not a toll-free number). Hearing- and

speech-impaired persons may access

this number via TTY by calling the

Federal Information Relay Service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339. Information

may also be obtained from a HUD field

office, see Appendix A for names,

addresses and telephone numbers, or for

general information, applicants can call

Community Connections at 1–800–998–

9999.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

program is authorized under section

107(b)(3) of the Housing and

Community Development Act of 1974

(the 1974 Act) (42 U.S.C. 5307(b)(3)),

which was added by section 105 of the

Department of Housing and Urban

Development Reform Act of 1989 (Pub.

L. 101–235). The program is governed

by regulations contained in 24 CFR

570.400 and 570.404, and in 24 CFR

part 570, subparts A, C, J, K, and O.

This notice announces FY 2000

funding of $10,365,897 to HBCUs to be

used to stimulate economic and

community development activities in

the HBCUs’ locality. The FY 2000

grantees announced in this Notice were

selected for funding consistent with the

provisions in the NOFA published in

the Federal Register on February 24,

2000 (65 FR 9429).

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number for this program is

14.237.

In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42

U.S.C. 3545), the Department is

publishing the grantees and amounts of

the awards in Appendix B.