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(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: June 3, 

2022. 

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: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC 

20410–5000; telephone 202–402–3400 

(this is not a toll-free number) or email 

at Colette.Pollard@hud.gov for a copy of 

the proposed forms or other available 

information. Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877– 

8339. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410; email 

Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@

hud.gov or telephone 202–402–3400. 

This is not a toll-free number. Persons 

with hearing or speech impairments 

may access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339. 

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: 

Continuation of Interest Reduction 

Payments after Refinancing Section 236 

Projects. 

OMB Approval Number: 2502–0572. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement, 

without change, of previously approved 

collection for which approval has 

expired. 

Form Number: 

• HUD–93173 Agreement for Interest 

Reduction Payments (§ 236(e)(2)). 

• HUD–93175 Agreement for Interest 

Reduction Payments (§ 236(b)). 

• HUD–93174 Use Agreement 

(§ 236(e)(2)). 

• HUD–93176 Use Agreement 

(§ 236(b)). 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: The 

purpose of this information collection is 

to preserve low-income housing units. 

HUD uses the information to ensure that 

owners, mortgagees and or public 

entities enter into binding agreements 

for the continuation of Interest 

Reduction Payments (IRP) after 

refinancing eligible Section 236 

projects. HUD has created an electronic 

application for eligible projects to retain 

the IRP benefits after refinancing. 

Respondents: Profit Motivated or 

Non-Profit Owners of Section 236 

projects. 

Form No. Form Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Total annual 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

Form HUD–93173 ... Agreement for Interest Reduction Payments (§ 236(e)(2)) ....... 870 1 870 0.5 435 

Form HUD–93175 ... Agreement for Interest Reduction Payments (§ 236(b)) ........... 870 1 870 0.5 435 

Form HUD–93174 ... Use Agreement (§ 236(e)(2)) ..................................................... 5 1 5 0.5 3 

Form HUD–93176 ... Use Agreement (§ 236(b)) ......................................................... 5 1 5 0.5 3 

Total ................. .................................................................................................... 875 ...................... 1,750 1 875 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

875. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

1,750. 

Frequency of Response: 1. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hour. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 875. 

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. 

Janet M. Golrick, 

Acting, Chief of Staff for the Office of 

Housing—Federal Housing Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07012 Filed 4–1–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6191–N–05] 

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers: 

Implementation of the Housing Choice 

Voucher Mobility Demonstration for 

Awarded PHAs, Supplementary Notice 

for Demonstration Participants 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 

(PIH), Department of Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On July 15, 2020, HUD 

published a notice (‘‘Implementation 

Notice’’) implementing the Housing 

Choice Voucher (HCV) mobility 

demonstration (‘‘demonstration’’) 

authorized by the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2019. Through that 

Implementation Notice, HUD made 

available up to $50,000,000 to 

participating Public Housing Agencies 

(‘‘PHAs’’) to implement housing 

mobility programs. On April 30, 2021, 

HUD announced its selection of PHAs 

that will participate in the 

demonstration. These PHAs will receive 

$45.7 million in total funding under that 

award. This notice supplements the July 

15, 2020, notice to describe additional 

policies and flexibilities for PHAs 

selected to participate in the 

demonstration. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ryan Jones, Director, Housing Voucher 

Management and Operations Division, 

Department of Housing and Urban 


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Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, 

Room 4214, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone number (202) 402–2677. (This 

is not a toll-free number.) Individuals 

with hearing or speech impediments 

may access this number via TTY by 

calling the Federal Relay during 

working hours at 800–877–8339. (This 

is a toll-free number). HUD encourages 

submission of questions about the 

demonstration be sent to: 

HCVmobilitydemonstration@hud.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On July 15, 2020, HUD published an 

Implementation Notice for the Housing 

Choice Voucher (HCV) mobility 

demonstration authorized by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019. 

Through that Notice, HUD made 

available up to $50,000,000 to 

participating PHAs throughout the 

country to implement housing mobility 

programs by offering mobility-related 

services to increase the number of 

voucher families with children living in 

opportunity areas. On April 30, 2021, 

HUD announced that nine lead PHAs 

will participate in the HCV mobility 

demonstration and were awarded new 

housing choice vouchers and mobilityrelated services funding, and that an 

additional four PHAs that applied in 

partnership with a lead PHA were 

awarded new housing choice vouchers. 

These PHAs will receive $45.7 million 

in total funding under that award. 

Through the demonstration, the 

awarded PHAs will provide 

approximately 10,000 families with 

children better access to low-poverty 

neighborhoods with high-performing 

schools and other strong community 

resources. 

The Implementation Notice described 

broad parameters for selected PHAs, 

including the set of mobility-related 

services that they will likely be required 

to provide to families participating in 

the program, the likely research design, 

and an estimated cost of services per 

family offered participation in the 

program. The Implementation Notice 

also described a required evaluation that 

would be conducted at the selected 

PHAs and explained that some aspects 

of the program and research design 

would be determined jointly by HUD 

(including its research evaluator and 

technical assistance provider) in 

collaboration with the selected PHAs. 

During the collaborative process to 

finalize the program and research 

design, HUD has identified policies to 

supplement those identified in the 

Implementation Notice that will 

promote the goals of the demonstration. 

The additional flexibilities will benefit 

families participating in the programs 

and the selected PHAs as well as help 

ensure an effective research evaluation. 

HUD now supplements the July 15, 

2020, Implementation Notice to describe 

policies and flexibilities for PHAs 

selected to participate in the HCV 

mobility demonstration. 

Supplement to the Implementation 

Notice 

I. Pilot Length 

The Implementation Notice described 

that a planning and pilot period would 

last approximately one year. After 

working closely with the selected PHAs, 

HUD has determined that additional 

flexibility in the length of the pilot may 

be necessary for PHAs to successfully 

pilot their programs prior to full 

program implementation. HUD therefore 

will determine the length of the pilot in 

collaboration with the PHA. 

Before the pilot can begin, HUD and 

its evaluator must complete certain 

tasks and obtain approvals. Once HUD 

has completed all its required tasks and 

gained all the required approvals, PHAs 

may begin their pilots. HUD calls the 

date that it has completed all the 

required tasks and received all the 

required approvals the ‘‘earliest pilot 

start date.’’ 

Each PHA is expected to start its pilot 

no later than four months after the 

established earliest pilot start date. A 

PHA that is unable to start its pilot 

within four months after the earliest 

pilot start date will receive a corrective 

action plan and technical assistance to 

identify and support the necessary final 

preparations. If a PHA is unable to start 

its pilot within six months after the 

established earliest pilot start date, HUD 

may recapture any remaining funds that 

were awarded to PHA. 

The anticipated length of the pilot is 

six months. PHA sites that are 

experiencing challenges completing 

their pilot activities timely will receive 

a corrective action plan and technical 

assistance to identify and support the 

necessary final preparations. If the PHA 

is unable to complete their pilot 

activities within nine months from the 

start date of their pilot, HUD may 

recapture funds from the PHA. 

HUD will issue a Public and Indian 

Housing (PIH) Notice that describes the 

policies and procedures regarding 

funding recapture and reallocation. 

II. Enrollment of Existing Voucher 

Holders and New Admissions 

As described in the Implementation 

Notice, each PHA must enroll families 

into the evaluation, which includes a 

randomized controlled trial (RCT). The 

Implementation Notice estimated that 

approximately 1,800 existing voucher 

holders and 150 new admissions would 

be enrolled at each selected PHA. After 

discussions with the evaluator, HUD has 

determined that allowing a PHA limited 

flexibility in reducing the number of 

existing voucher holders enrolled and 

increasing, by the same amount, the 

number new admissions enrolled, will 

help ensure the evaluation is able to 

detect the effects of mobility-related 

services for new admission families. 

HUD anticipates that the maximum use 

of flexibility between existing voucher 

holders and new admissions would 

enable a PHA to enroll a maximum of 

500 new admission families. 

PHAs must submit a written request 

to HUD to change the number of 

existing voucher holders and new 

admissions. Any changes in the 

numbers of existing voucher holders 

and new admissions to be enrolled will 

be documented in each PHA’s 

‘‘recruitment and enrollment plan.’’ 

This additional flexibility will 

strengthen PHAs’ ability to enroll 

families into the study and improve 

HUD’s ability to evaluate the effects of 

the program. PHAs must use their own 

turnover vouchers—that is, vouchers 

that become available when a voucher 

holder exits the HCV program—for any 

increased new admissions. PHAs may 

use turnover mobility demonstration 

vouchers (MDVs) for new admissions 

enrolled in the demonstration. PHAs 

must receive prior HUD approval before 

using any other new incremental 

vouchers for this purpose. PHAs may 

not use vouchers from another nonpartner PHA for new admissions. 

III. Flexibility Between CMRS, SMRS, 

and Control Group 

Families with children receiving 

voucher assistance that agree to 

participate in the demonstration will be 

randomly assigned to a treatment group 

that receives mobility-related services or 

a control group that receives HCV 

program services already offered by the 

PHA to all HCV applicants and 

participants. The demonstration has two 

different treatment groups. The first 

treatment group will receive 

comprehensive mobility-related services 

(CMRS). The second treatment group 

will receive a subset of the CMRS, 

which HUD calls selected mobilityrelated services (SMRS). 

To ensure an effective study, HUD 

also will allow some flexibility between 

the number of families enrolled in the 

CMRS, SMRS, and control groups 

compared to the Implementation Notice. 

These changes will be based on 

statistical analysis that helps ensure the 


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1These annual amounts for staff time and 

expenses related to recruitment and enrollment and 

for program oversight are in addition to the onetime, up to five percent of the PHA allocation of 

mobility related services funding that PHAs were 

permitted to use for start-up costs as described in 

the Implementation Notice. 

validity of the evaluation. Any changes 

in the number of families to be enrolled 

in the CMRS, SMRS, and control groups 

will be approved by HUD and 

documented in each PHA’s 

‘‘recruitment and enrollment plan.’’ 

IV. Memorandum of Understanding 

and Performance Standards 

Requirements 

The Implementation Notice stated 

that after the program and research 

design is finalized, HUD would draft a 

memorandum of understanding (MOU) 

and performance standards agreement 

that outlines roles and responsibilities, 

the program and research design, 

description of administrative policies, 

and recapture and reallocation terms, 

among other things. After completing 

the planning phase collaboratively with 

PHAs, HUD has determined that a 

statement of responsibilities is the more 

appropriate document to capture these 

provisions. Therefore, HUD will draft 

and issue a statement of responsibilities 

to the PHA sites that includes the 

provisions of the MOU and performance 

standards agreements originally stated 

in the Implementation Notice. PHAs 

will have 60 days from the issuance of 

the statement of responsibilities to opt 

to withdraw from the demonstration. 

After 60 days from the issuance of the 

statement of responsibilities, PHAs will 

not be able to exit the demonstration 

without HUD’s prior authorization. 

V. Eligible Uses of Funds 

Through the collaborative process to 

finalize the program and research 

design, PHAs and HUD have identified 

uses of mobility-related services funding 

that will help implement the program 

effectively. These uses of mobilityrelated services funds were not directly 

addressed by the Implementation 

Notice. HUD has, for the purposes of 

transparency and clarity, included a 

discussion of these uses of funds in this 

notice. 

As part of the evaluation, families 

enrolling in the study will complete an 

enrollment process that includes a 

voluntary baseline survey. The 

enrollment process and baseline survey 

will take approximately 135 minutes to 

complete. In recognition of the time it 

takes for families to complete the study, 

HUD will require PHAs to provide a $25 

payment to each family upon 

completion of the survey, contingent on 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget. HUD encourages PHAs to 

provide this payment in the form of a 

gift card. This payment is an eligible use 

of mobility-related services funding. 

PHAs participating in the 

demonstration must recruit and enroll 

families into the study over a five-year 

period. Each PHA site (i.e., an 

individual PHA or the lead PHA and its 

partner) may use up to $40,000 each 

year for staff time and expenses related 

to recruitment and enrollment. 

PHAs participating in the 

demonstration will have ongoing 

oversight responsibilities for 

implementation. Given the nature of the 

evaluation and importance of ensuring 

mobility-related services are provided 

with full fidelity to the agreed upon 

program and research design, each PHA 

site may use up to $40,000 each year to 

supplement salaries of PHA staff, or hire 

new staff, who are responsible for 

providing oversight of the program.1

PHAs may also use their existing 

mobility-related services funding award 

to pay for these activities. PHAs must 

update their annual expenditure plans 

to reflect the amount of funds they 

intend to use for these purposes and 

begin immediately reporting these 

expenditures on their invoices. 

After the funding awards made on 

April 30, 2021, HUD has $4,127,590 in 

remaining mobility-related services 

funding. HUD will issue an additional 

Federal Register notice describing the 

allocation process for those remaining 

funds. 

Dominque Blom, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06997 Filed 4–1–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–HQ–FAC–2022–N224; 

FXFR13360900000–FF09F14000–201] 

Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of teleconference/web 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service gives notice of a teleconference/ 

web meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance 

Species (ANS) Task Force, in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. 

DATES: 

Teleconference/web meeting: The 

ANS Task Force will meet Tuesday, 

Wednesday, and Thursday, May 24–26, 

2022, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day 

(Eastern Time). 

Registration: Registration is required. 

The deadline for registration is May 20, 

2022. 

Accessibility: The deadline for 

accessibility accommodation requests is 

May 20, 2022. Please see Accessibility 

Information, below. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via teleconference and broadcast over 

the internet. To register and receive the 

web address and telephone number for 

participation, contact the Executive 

Secretary (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT) or visit the ANS Task Force 

website at https://www.fws.gov/ 

program/aquatic-nuisance-species-taskforce. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Pasko, Executive Secretary, ANS 

Task Force, by telephone at (703) 358– 

2466, or by email at Susan_Pasko@

fws.gov. Individuals in the United States 

who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, 

or have a speech disability may dial 711 

(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ANS 

Task Force was established by the 

Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance 

Prevention and Control Act of 1990, and 

is composed of Federal and ex-officio 

members. The ANS Task Force’s 

purpose is to develop and implement a 

program for U.S. waters to prevent 

introduction and dispersal of aquatic 

invasive species; to monitor, control, 

and study such species; and to 

disseminate related information. 

This meeting is open to the public. 

The meeting agenda will include: 

Reports from ANS Task Force members, 

regional panels, and subcommittees; 

discussion on priority outputs to 

advance the goals identified in the ANS 

Task Force Strategic Plan for 2020– 

2025; presentation by the U.S Geological 

Survey on new species occurrences in 

the United States; recommendations by 

the ANS Task Force regional panels; 

and public comment. The final agenda 

and other related meeting information 

will be posted on the ANS Task Force 

website, https://www.fws.gov/program/ 

aquatic-nuisance-species-task-force. 

Public Input 

If you wish to provide oral public 

comment or provide a written comment 


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