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the applicant becomes a tenant, is to 

facilitate contact by the housing 

provider with the person or organization 

identified by the tenant, to assist in 

providing any the delivery of services or 

special care to the tenant and assist with 

resolving any tenancy issues arising 

during the tenancy of such tenant. This 

supplemental application information is 

to be maintained by the housing 

provider and maintained as confidential 

information. 

Respondents: The respondents are 

individuals or families who are new 

admissions in the covered programs. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

302,770. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

302,770. 

Frequency of Response: Each 

individual or family only responds once 

unless they wish to update their 

information. 

Average Hours per Response: 0.25 

hours. 

Total Estimated Burden: 75,693. 

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. 

(5) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

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. 

Colette Pollard, 

Department Reports Management Officer, 

Office of Policy Development and Research, 

Chief Data Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7092–N–42] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Office of Public and Indian 

Housing, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: The Enterprise Income 

Verification System (EIV) is used to 

verify program participants/tenants, 

reported income, identify unreported 

income sources and/or amounts and 

identify substantial annual income 

discrepancies amongst households that 

receive HUD provided rental assistance 

through programs administered by 

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian 

Housing and Office of Housing 

Multifamily program. Under the Privacy 

Act of 1974, the Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, the Office of 

Public and Indian Housing proposes to 

update the system of records titled EIV. 

The EIV System has been modified 

replacing the Income Discrepancy 

Report with the Income Validation Tool 

built on the MicroStrategy platform. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted on or 

before January 27, 2025. This proposed 

action will be effective on the date 

following the end of the comment 

period unless comments are received 

which result in a contrary 

determination. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number or by one 

of the following methods: 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: https:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Fax: 202–619–8365. 

Email: privacy@hud.gov. 

Mail: Attention: Privacy Office; 

LaDonne White, Chief Privacy Officer; 

The Executive Secretariat; 451 Seventh 

Street SW, Room 10139; Washington, 

DC 20410–0001. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this rulemaking. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

ww.regulations.gov. including any 

personal information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to https://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

LaDonne White; 451 Seventh Street SW, 

Room 10139; Washington, DC 20410– 

0001; telephone number (202) 708–3054 

(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/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EIV 

System is used to verify program 

participants/tenants, reported income, 

identify unreported income sources 

and/or amounts and identify substantial 

annual income discrepancies amongst 

households that receive HUD provided 

rental assistance through programs 

administered by HUD’s Office of Public 

and Indian Housing and Office of 

Housing’s Multifamily Housing 

Programs. The EIV System has been 

modified replacing the Income 

Discrepancy Report with the Income 

Validation Tool built on the 

MicroStrategy platform. This change 

was necessary to address OIG Audit 

#2014–FO–0004, Compliance with the 

Improper Payments and Elimination 

Recovery Act of 2010, findings and 

recommendations related to improper 

payments and the identification of 

tenant unreported and/or underreported 

income during mandatory 

reexaminations of family composition 

and income. The intended effect of this 

change is to eliminate false positives 

within EIV’s Income Discrepancy Report 

which was estimated at approximately 

50% of all income discrepancies, and to 

allow HUD to make better decisions for 

determination of rental subsidy and the 

degree of improper payments in HUD 

rental subsidy programs. Further, the 

IVT provides projections of discrepant 

income enabling users to analyze in 

detail, income, wage, and social security 

benefit information for a specific 

household and/or household member(s), 

detailing all captured income sources 

and dates of employment. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

Enterprise Income Verification (EIV), 

HUD/PIH–05. 


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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Records are maintained at the NASA 

Stennis Space Center, John C. Stennis 

Space Center, MS 39529–0001. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S): 

Shalene Domingo, System Owner, 

Office of Public and Indian Housing, 

550 12th Street SW, First Floor, 

Washington, DC 20410–10001. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Section 453(j) of the Social Security 

Act as amended, now codified at 42 

U.S.C. 653(j), section 904 of the Stewart 

B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 

Amendments Act of 1988, as amended, 

now codified at 42 U.S.C. 3544, The 

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 

1993 (Budget Reconciliation Act) 

6103(l)(7) of title 26 of the United States 

Code (Internal Revenue Code). 

PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM: 

The EIV System is a web-based 

Upfront income verification System that 

allows authorized Public Housing 

Agencies, Multifamily Housing Owners/ 

Agents, and Contract Administrators to 

verify program participants/tenants, 

reported income, identify unreported 

income sources and/or amounts and 

identify substantial annual income 

discrepancies amongst households that 

receive HUD provided rental assistance 

through programs administered by 

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian 

Housing and Office of Housing’s 

Multifamily Housing Programs. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Families participating in housing 

programs administered by HUD’s Office 

of Public and Indian Housing (current 

and former participants), including 

Tribally Designated Housing Entities, 

participating in the public housing 

program, section 8 HCV program, 

Disaster Housing Assistance Programs 

and families currently participating in 

the Office of Housing, Multifamily 

Housing Division programs. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Records consist of unit address 

(subsidized property address), family 

composition (names, dates of birth and 

SSNs of Household Members), financial 

data such as tenant-reported income to 

PHAs, O/As, and C/As, and wage, 

unemployment compensation, SS and 

SSI benefit data obtained from 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) and Social Security 

Administration (SSA). 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Inventory Management System/Public 

Housing Information Center, Tenant 

Rental Assistance Certification System 

(IMS/PIC, TRACS), Social Security 

Administration and the Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

(A) To a congressional office from the 

record of an individual, in response to 

an inquiry from the congressional office 

made at the request of that individual. 

(B) To appropriate Federal, State, and 

local governments, or persons, pursuant 

to a showing of compelling 

circumstances affecting the health or 

safety or vital interest of an individual 

or data subject, including assisting such 

agencies or organizations in preventing 

the exposure to or transmission of a 

communicable or quarantinable disease, 

or to combat other significant public 

health threats, if upon such disclosure 

appropriate notice was transmitted to 

the last known address of such 

individual to identify the health threat 

or risk. 

(C) To Federal, State, and local 

agencies, their employees, and agents 

for the purpose of conducting computer 

matching programs as regulated by the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 

U.S.C. 552a). 

(D) To Federal agencies, non-Federal 

entities, their employees, and agents 

(including contractors, their agents or 

employees; employees or contractors of 

the agents or designated agents); or 

contractors, their employees or agents 

with whom HUD has a contract, service 

agreement, grant, cooperative 

agreement, or computer matching 

agreement for the purpose of: (1) 

Detection, prevention, and recovery of 

improper payments; (2) detection and 

prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse in 

major Federal programs administered by 

a Federal agency or non-Federal entity; 

(3) detection of fraud, waste, and abuse 

by individuals in their operations and 

programs, but only to the extent that the 

information shared is necessary and 

relevant to verify pre-award and 

prepayment requirements prior to the 

release of Federal funds, prevent and 

recover improper payments for services 

rendered under programs of HUD or of 

those Federal agencies and non-Federal 

entities to which HUD provides 

information under this routine use. 

(E) To contractors, grantees, experts, 

consultants, students, and others 

performing or working on a contract, 

service, grant, cooperative agreement, or 

other assignment for the Federal 

Government when necessary to 

accomplish an agency function related 

to this system of records. Also, to a 

recipient who has provided the agency 

with advance, adequate written 

assurance that the record provided from 

the system of records will be used solely 

for statistical research or reporting 

purposes. Records under this condition 

will be disclosed or transferred in a 

form that does not identify an 

individual. 

(F) To contractors, grantees, experts, 

consultants and their agents, or others 

performing or working under a contract, 

service, grant, or cooperative agreement 

with HUD, when necessary to 

accomplish an agency function related 

to a system of records. Disclosure 

requirements are limited to only those 

data elements considered relevant to 

accomplishing an agency function. 

Individuals provided information under 

these routine use conditions are subject 

to Privacy Act requirements and 

disclosure limitations imposed on the 

Department. 

(G) To contractors, experts and 

consultants with whom HUD has a 

contract, service agreement, or other 

assignment of the Department, when 

necessary to utilize relevant data for the 

purpose of testing new technology and 

systems designed to enhance program 

operations and performance. 

(H) To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when (1) HUD suspects or 

has confirmed that there has been a 

breach of the system of records, (2) HUD 

has determined that as a result of the 

suspected or confirmed breach there is 

a risk of harm to individuals, [the 

agency] (including its information 

systems, programs, and operations), the 

Federal Government, or national 

security; and (3) the disclosure made to 

such agencies, entities, and persons is 

reasonably necessary to assist in 

connection with the HUD’s efforts to 

respond to the suspected or confirmed 

breach or to prevent, minimize, or 

remedy such harm. To another Federal 

agency or Federal entity, when HUD 

determines that information from this 

system of records is reasonably 

necessary to assist the recipient agency 

or entity in (1) responding to a 

suspected or confirmed breach or (2) 

preventing, minimizing, or remedying 

the risk of harm to individuals, the 

recipient agency or entity (including its 

information systems, programs, and 

operations), the Federal Government, or 

national security, resulting from a 

suspected or confirmed breach. 

(I) To appropriate Federal, State, 

local, Tribal, or governmental agencies 

or multilateral governmental 

organizations responsible for 

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violations of, or for enforcing or 

implementing, a statute, rule, 

regulation, order, or license, where HUD 

determines that the information would 

assist in the enforcement of civil or 

criminal laws. To third parties during a 

law enforcement investigation, to the 

extent necessary to obtain information 

pertinent to the investigation, provided 

the disclosure of such information is 

appropriate to the proper performance 

of the official duties of the officer 

making the disclosure. 

(J) To a court, magistrate, 

administrative tribunal, or arbitrator 

while presenting evidence, including 

disclosures to opposing counsel or 

witnesses during civil discovery, 

litigation, mediation, or settlement 

negotiations; or in connection with 

criminal law proceedings; or in 

response to a subpoena or to a 

prosecution request when such records 

to be released are specifically approved 

by a court provided order. 

(K) To appropriate Federal, State, 

local, Tribal, or governmental agencies 

or multilateral governmental 

organizations responsible for 

investigating or prosecuting the 

violations of, or for enforcing or 

implementing, a statute, rule, 

regulation, order, or license, where HUD 

determines that the information would 

assist in the enforcement of civil or 

criminal laws. 

(L) To third parties during a law 

enforcement investigation to the extent 

necessary to obtain information 

pertinent to the investigation, provided 

disclosure is appropriate to the proper 

performance of the official duties of the 

officer making the disclosure. 

(M) To another agency or to an 

instrumentality of any governmental 

jurisdiction within or under the control 

of the United States for a civil or 

criminal law enforcement activity if the 

activity is authorized by law, and if the 

head of the agency or instrumentality 

has made a written request to the agency 

that maintains the record, specifying the 

portion desired and the law 

enforcement activity for which the 

record is sought. 

(N) To any component of the 

Department of Justice or other Federal 

agency conducting litigation or in 

proceedings before any court, 

adjudicative, or administrative body, 

when HUD determines that the use of 

such records is relevant and necessary 

to the litigation and when any of the 

following is a party to the litigation or 

have an interest in such litigation: (1) 

HUD, or any component thereof; or (2) 

any HUD employee in his or her official 

capacity; or (3) any HUD employee in 

his or her individual capacity where the 

Department of Justice or agency 

conducting the litigation has agreed to 

represent the employee; or (4) the 

United States, or any agency thereof, 

where HUD determines that litigation is 

likely to affect HUD or any of its 

components. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

Records are maintained in paper and 

electronic storage media. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Records are retrieved by Name, Date 

of Birth, and/or SSN. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

Destroy one year after System of 

Records is placed on inactive list. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

EIV Physical controls include, key 

cards, security guards and Identification 

badges. HUD will secure downloaded 

reports on HUD secure SharePoint site. 

Public Housing Agencies, Multifamily 

Housing Owners/Agents, and Contract 

Administrators must secure 

downloaded data to a secure/locked 

space and/or cabinet. Computer 

terminals are secured in controlled areas 

which are locked when unoccupied. 

Access to automated records is limited 

to authorized personnel who must use 

a password to gain access to the system. 

Administrative controls include 

methods to ensure only authorized 

personnel access to PII. Each EIV user 

must first have access to HUD’ Web 

Access Secure Systems. Each EIV User 

must be re-certified to use the EIV 

System every April and October of the 

calendar year. EIV Technical controls 

include, Encryption of Data at Rest, 

Firewall, Role-based Access Controls, 

VPN, Encryption of Data in Transit, 

User ID and Password, and PIV Card. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting records of 

themselves should address written 

inquiries to the Department of Housing 

Urban and Development 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. For 

verification, individuals should provide 

their full name, current address, and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The HUD rule for contesting the 

content of any record pertaining to the 

individual by the individual concerned 

is published in 24 CFR 16.8 or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting notification of 

records of themselves should address 

written inquiries to the Department of 

Housing Urban Development, 451 7th 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. 

For verification purposes, individuals 

should provide their full name, office or 

organization where assigned, if 

applicable, and current address and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

87 FR 50635, August 17, 2022. 

LaDonne White, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Office of 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6506–N–01] 

Nonavailability Waiver applicable to 

Domestically Assembled Solar 

Photovoltaics (PV) Panels Referred to 

as ‘‘Solar Modules’’ Under Build 

America, Buy America Manufactured 

Product Provisions as Applied to 

Recipients of Department of Housing 

and Urban Development Federal 

Financial Assistance 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice and request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Build 

America, Buy America Act (BABA), this 

notice advises that HUD is proposing to 

issue a temporary, limited nonavailability partial waiver of the 

manufactured product requirements in 

BABA included in the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for 

domestically assembled solar modules 

used in Federal financial assistance 

(FFA) awarded for infrastructure 

projects. This waiver covers multiple 

projects that HUD anticipates will 

involve the installation of solar modules 

with the intent of addressing multiple 

project specific non-availability waivers 

into one document to reduce paperwork 

and support administrative efficiency. 

The narrowly tailored BABA waiver 

proposed in this notice would support 

the establishment of a domestic solar 

supply chain, increase benefits for 


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