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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: Applicant/Recipient 

Disclosure/Update Report. 

OMB Control Number, if applicable: 

2510–0011. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: Section 

102 of the Department of Housing and 

Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 

(HUD Reform Act) requires the 

Department to ensure greater 

accountability and integrity in the 

provision of assistance administered by 

the Department. One feature of the 

statute requires certain disclosures by 

applicants seeking assistance from HUD, 

assistance from states and units of local 

government, and other assistance to be 

used with respect to the activities to be 

carried out with the assistance. The 

disclosure includes the financial 

interests of persons in the activities, and 

the sources of funds to be made 

available for the activities, and the 

proposed uses of the funds. 

Each applicant that submits an 

application for assistance, within the 

jurisdiction of the HUD, to a state or to 

a unit of general local government for a 

specific project or activity must disclose 

this information whenever the dollar 

threshold is met. This information must 

be kept updated during the application 

review process and while the assistance 

is being provided. 

Agency form numbers, if applicable: 

HUD 2880. 

Members of affected public: 

Applicants for HUD competitively 

funded assistance. 

Estimation of the total numbers of 

hours needed to prepare the information 

collection including number of 

respondents, frequency of response, and 

hours of response: The form, HUD 2880, 

must be submitted as part of an 

applicant’s application for 

competitively funded assistance. 

Number of respondents Burden 

hours 

Frequency of 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

16,900 .............................................................................................................................. 2.0 1.2 40,560 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: Extension of a currently 

approved collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

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

Camille Acevedo, 

Associate General Counsel for Legislation and 

Regulations. 

[FR Doc. E9–9680 Filed 4–28–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5299–N–01] 

Request for Recommendations 

Regarding Administrative and 

Procedural Changes To Expedite the 

Approval of Applications for FHAInsured Multifamily Mortgages 

Involving Low-Income Housing Tax 

Credits or Tax-Exempt Bonds 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing–Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice, pursuant to 

statute, solicits recommendations from 

stakeholders in HUD’s insured 

multifamily projects, as well as 

interested members of the public, on 

administrative and procedural changes 

that HUD should adopt to expedite 

approval of multifamily housing 

projects involving low-income housing 

tax credits or tax-exempt bonds under 

the jurisdiction of HUD. In addition to 

soliciting, generally, recommendations 

on expediting the approval process of 

multifamily housing projects, HUD is 

soliciting recommendations on specific 

topics as stated in this notice. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: June 29, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice to the Regulations Division, 

Office of General Counsel, 451 7th 

Street, SW., Room 10276, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications must refer to the above 

docket number and title. There are two 

methods for submitting public 

comments. All submissions must refer 

to the above docket number and title. 

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 

http://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 

http://www.regulations.gov website 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. 

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 202–708– 

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

Individuals with speech or hearing 

impairments may access this number 

through TTY by calling the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. Copies of all comments submitted 

are available for inspection and 

downloading at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

Stevenson, Deputy Director, Office of 

Multifamily Development, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 6152, 

Washington, DC 20410, Telephone 202– 

708–1142; e-mail: 

Eric.Stevenson@hud.gov. Individuals 

with speech or hearing impairments 

may access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Information 

Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Background: Title VIII, subtitle B of 

the Housing and Economic 

Development Recovery Act of 2008 

(HERA), (Pub. L. 110–289, approved 


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July 30, 2008), which is cited as the 

‘‘Housing Tax Credit Coordination Act 

of 2008,’’ increases HUD’s ability to 

facilitate and coordinate the use of low 

income housing tax credits or taxexempt bonds with multifamily projects 

that receive FHA assistance. 

Section 2832 of HERA requires that 

HUD implement ‘‘administrative and 

procedural’’ changes to expedite the 

approval of assistance for certain 

multifamily assisted housing projects 

for which HUD approval is required. 

The multifamily housing projects 

covered by this section include projects 

for which HUD provides assistance in 

conjunction with low-income housing 

tax credits under section 42 of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 

U.S.C. 42) or tax-exempt housing bonds, 

and public or assisted housing projects 

for transactions, in conjunction with 

any low-income housing tax credits or 

tax-exempt bonds, involving the 

preservation or rehabilitation of the 

project. 

Section 2832(c) of HERA directs HUD 

to solicit recommendations from project 

owners and sponsors, investors and 

stakeholders in housing tax credits, state 

and local housing finance agencies, 

public housing agencies, tenant 

advocates, and other stakeholders in 

multifamily housing projects that will 

be receiving the benefit of low income 

housing tax credits or tax-exempt bonds, 

regarding administrative and procedural 

changes that could be implemented to 

expedite the approval of applications for 

HUD insured mortgages for such 

projects. The category of assisted 

multifamily housing projects to which 

this notice applies also includes, in 

addition to projects applying for FHA 

mortgage insurance, projects that will 

no longer have FHA insured mortgages, 

but which request to continue to retain 

the benefits of interest reduction 

payments under Section 236 of the 

National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z– 

1), with LIHTC or tax-exempt bond 

financing. This notice seeking comment 

from stakeholders and other interested 

members of the public is issued in 

response to the direction in section 2832 

of HERA to solicit recommendations on 

the multifamily housing approval 

process. 

In addition to soliciting 

recommendations, generally, on 

administrative and procedural changes 

that HUD should adopt to expedite and 

facilitate its approval of multifamily 

housing projects, HUD specifically 

solicits public comment on the 

following areas: 

(A) Improving the efficiency of 

approval procedures; 

(B) Simplifying approval 

requirements, 

(C) Establishing time deadlines or 

target deadlines for required approvals; 

(D) Modifying division of approval 

authority between field and national 

offices; 

(E) Improving outreach to project 

sponsors regarding information that is 

required to be submitted for such 

approvals; 

(F) Requesting additional funding for 

increasing staff, if necessary; and 

(G) Any other actions which would 

expedite approvals. 

Those stakeholders and interested 

members of the public who wish to 

comment on these or related topics 

should submit their comments as 

provided in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

Dated: April 17, 2009. 

Brian D. Montgomery, 

Assistant Secretary for Housing—Federal 

Housing Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. E9–9677 Filed 4–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. 5200–FA–12] 

Announcement of Funding Awards for 

the Indian Community Development 

Block Grant Program for Fiscal Year 

2008 

AGENCY: Office of Native American 

Programs, Office of Public and Indian 

Housing, HUD. 

ACTION: Announcement 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 

Fiscal Year 2008 (FY 2008) Notice of 

Funding Availability (NOFA) for the 

Indian Community Development Block 

Grant (ICDBG) Program. This 

announcement contains the 

consolidated names and addresses of 

this year’s award recipients under the 

ICDBG. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions concerning the ICDBG 

Program awards, contact the Area Office 

of Native American Programs (ONAP) 

serving your area or Deborah M. 

Lalancette, Office of Native American 

Programs, 1670 Broadway, 23rd Floor, 

Denver, CO 80202, telephone (303) 675– 

1600. Hearing or speech-impaired 

individuals may access this number via 

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service at (800) 877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

program provides grants to Indian tribes 

and Alaska Native Villages to develop 

viable Indian and Alaska Native 

communities, including the creation of 

decent housing, suitable living 

environments, and economic 

opportunities primarily for persons with 

low and moderate incomes as defined in 

24 CFR 1003.4. 

The FY 2008 awards announced in 

this Notice were selected for funding in 

a competition announced in a NOFA 

published in the Federal Register on 

May 12, 2008, (73 FR 27047). 

Applications were scored and selected 

for funding based on the selection 

criteria in that notice and Area ONAP 

geographic jurisdictional competitions. 

The amount appropriated in FY 2008 

to fund the ICDBG was $62,000,000. 

$3,960,000 of this amount was retained 

to fund imminent threat grants in 

FY2008. In addition, a total of 

$3,332,433 in carryover funds from 

prior years was also available. The 

allocations for the Area ONAP 

geographic jurisdictions, including 

carryover, are as follows: 

Eastern/Woodlands .............. $8,129,890 

Southern Plains .................... 12,832,443 

Northern Plains ..................... 9,038,717 

Southwest ............................. 21,432,835 

Northwest .............................. 3,257,000 

Alaska ................................... 6,681,548 

Total ............................... 61,372,433 

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 names, 

addresses, and amounts of the 83 

awards made under the various regional 

competitions in Appendix A to this 

document. 

Dated: April 9, 2009. 

Paula O. Blunt, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing. 

Appendix A 


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