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(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. 

The General Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Policy Development and 

Research, Todd M. Richardson, having 

reviewed and approved this document, 

is delegating the authority to 

electronically sign this document to 

submitter, Nacheshia Foxx, who is the 

Federal Register Liaison for HUD, for 

purposes of publication in the Federal 

Register. 

Nacheshia Foxx, 

Federal Liaison for the Department of Housing 

and Urban Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19715 Filed 9–13–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No.FR–6287–N–01] 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meetings 

of the Moving to Work Research 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 

and Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Policy Development and Research, 

Housing and Urban Development 

(HUD). 

ACTION: Notice of two federal advisory 

committee meetings. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda for two 

meetings of the Moving to Work (MTW) 

Research Advisory Committee 

(Committee). The Committee meetings 

will be held via a virtual web-based 

platform and an option for a call-in 

number on Thursday, October 14, 2021, 

and Thursday, October 28, 2021. The 

meetings are open to the public and are 

accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. 

DATES: The virtual meetings will be held 

on October 14, 2021, from 1:00 p.m. to 

4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) 

and on October 28, 2021, from 2:00 p.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. EDT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva 

Fontheim, Office of Public and Indian 

Housing, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, 

Room 4126, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone (202) 402–3461 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Persons who have 

difficulty hearing or speaking may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877– 

8339 (this is a toll-free number) or can 

email: MTWAdvisoryCommittee@

hud.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is provided in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 10(a)(2). The 

Committee was established on May 2, 

2016, to advise HUD on specific policy 

proposals and methods of research and 

evaluation related to the expansion of 

the MTW demonstration to an 

additional 100 Public Housing 

Authorities (PHAs). See 81 FR 24630. 

The Committee met several times since 

2016 to discuss areas of policy focus for 

study within the MTW expansion. 

Using the advice of the Committee, the 

one hundred Expansion MTW PHAs 

will be added in four to five cohorts. To 

date, 31 PHAs have been selected to 

participate in the MTW Flexibility for 

Smaller PHAs Cohort, all consist of 

high-performing PHAs that administer 

1,000 or fewer Housing Choice 

Vouchers (HCV) and public housing 

units combined. An additional 10 PHAs 

have been selected to participate in the 

Stepped and Tiered Rent Cohort, 

consisting of PHAs with 1,001 or more 

public housing and HCV units. In order 

to ensure adequate sample size in the 

Stepped and Tiered Rent Cohort, the 

selected PHAs were required to have 

1,000 or more existing non-elderly, nondisabled public housing and/or HCV 

households. This cohort will study 

different rent models that may or may 

not be income-based, to include tiered 

rents, and/or stepped-up rents. The 

Landlord Incentives Cohort, application 

deadline is October 15, 2021, will study 

landlord incentives in the housing 

choice voucher program. 

HUD is committed to implementing 

the MTW Expansion in a way that is 

responsive to the economic realities and 

current needs of low-income families; 

therefore, the Work Requirements 

Cohort has been rescinded. For this 

reason, HUD is reconvening the 

Committee to explore alternative 

policies to study through the MTW 

Expansion to ensure that there are 100 

designated MTW PHAs. The minutes of 

all previous meetings are available on 

the HUD website at: https://

www.hud.gov/program_offices/ 

public_indian_housing/programs/ph/ 

mtw/expansion/rac. 

HUD will convene two virtual 

meetings to explore which policies to 

study in future MTW cohorts. 

The agenda for the meetings are as 

follows: 

October 14, 2021—1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. 

EDT 

I. Welcome and Introductions 

II. Update on the MTW Expansion 

III. Review of the Agenda 

IV. Background and Status Update 

a. Revisit Guiding Principles 

b. Overall status of the Expansion 

c. Small PHA Flexibility Cohort 

d. Tiered and Stepped Rent Cohort 

e. Landlord Incentives Cohort 

f. Other Cohorts Previously Discussed 

g. Questions 

V. Goal for this Meeting: Discuss 

potential topics for remaining 

cohorts 

a. Framing 

b. Overview of options 

i. Asset Building 

ii. Sponsor-Based Housing 

iii. Project-Based Voucher 

Flexibilities 

iv. MTW Flexibility (small/medium 

PHAs) 

v. Discussion of other big idea 

program reforms HUD may want to 

test 

vi. Other ideas from Committee 

VI. Open Discussion 

VII. BREAK 

VIII. Continued Open Discussion 

IX. Public Input 

X. Committee Debrief 

XI. Prioritize and Rank 

XII. Summary of Discussion 

XIII. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn 

October 28, From 2:00–5:00 p.m. EDT 

I. Welcome and Introductions 

II. Revisit Guiding Principles 

III. Review of October 14, 2021 Meeting 

IV. Goal for this Meeting—Discuss and 

provide recommendations for two 

new cohort studies (including 

research design and specific 

policies). 

V. Discussion: Policy Topics Selected at 

October 14, 2021 Meeting 

a. Key research questions 

b. Considerations for structuring the 

Cohort 

c. Considerations for evaluating the 

Cohort 

V. BREAK 

VI. Public Input 

VII. Committee Debrief 

VIII. Summary of Discussion 

IX. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn 

Members of the public will have an 

opportunity to provide feedback during 


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the calls. The total amount of time for 

such feedback will be limited to ensure 

pertinent Committee business is 

completed. Further, the amount of time 

allotted to each individual commenter 

will be limited and will be allocated on 

a first-come first-served basis by HUD. 

If the number of commenters exceeds 

the available time, HUD may ask for the 

submission of comments via email. 

The public is invited to join the 

October 14th meeting by clicking: 

https://ems8.intellor.com/login/840677. 

Follow the prompts to connect audio by 

computer or telephone. If you are 

unable to join the web conference, 

attendees may dial 1–888–251–2949; 

Access Code: 5190893#. 

The public is invited to join the 

October 28th meeting by clicking 

https://ems8.intellor.com/login/840685. 

Follow the prompts to connect audio by 

computer or telephone. If you are 

unable to join the web conference, 

attendees may dial 1–888–251–2949; 

Access Code: 1252894#. 

Persons with hearing impairments 

may also follow the discussion by first 

calling the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 

at 1–800–877–8339 and providing the 

FRS operator with the Conference Call 

Toll-Free Number: 1–888–251–2949. 

Records and documents discussed 

during the meetings, as well as other 

information about the work of this 

Committee, will be available for public 

viewing as they become available at: 

https://www.facadatabase.gov/FACA/ 

FACAPublicPage by clicking on 

‘‘Agencies/Committees’’ at the top of the 

tool bar. These materials will also be 

available on the MTW Demonstration’s 

expansion web page at: https://

www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_

indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/ 

expansion/rac. 

Records generated from these 

meetings may also be inspected and 

reproduced at the U.S. Department of 

Housing Development Headquarters in 

Washington, DC as they are available 

and when HUD is able to, both before 

and after the meetings. 

Outside of the work of this 

Committee, information about HUD’s 

broader implementation of the MTW 

expansion, as well as additional 

opportunities for public input, can be 

found on the MTW Demonstration’s 

expansion web page at: https://

www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_

indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/ 

expansion. 

Dominique Blom, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing. 

Todd Richardson, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy 

Development and Research. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX21MR00G74E400; OMB Control Number 

1028–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Nonindigenous Aquatic 

Species eDNA Data Submission Forms 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are 

proposing a new information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 15, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to U.S. Geological Survey, 

Information Collections Officer, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive MS 159, Reston, 

VA 20192; or by email to gs-info_

collections@usgs.gov. Please reference 

OMB Control Number 1028–NEW in the 

subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Matthew Neilson by 

email at mneilson@usgs.gov, or by 

telephone at (352) 264–3519. 

Individuals who are hearing or speech 

impaired may call the Federal Relay 

Service at 1–800–877–8339 for TTY 

assistance 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

We are soliciting comments on the 

proposed ICR that is described below. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following 

issues: (1) Is the collection necessary to 

the proper functions of the USGS; (2) 

will this information be processed and 

used in a timely manner; (3) is the 

estimate of burden accurate; (4) how 

might the USGS enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (5) how might the 

USGS minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: America is under siege by 

many harmful non-native species of 

plants, animals, and microorganisms. 

More than 6,500 nonindigenous species 

are now established in the United 

States, posing risks to native species, 

valued ecosystems, and human and 

wildlife health. These invaders extract a 

huge cost, an estimated $120 billion per 

year, to mitigate their harmful impacts. 

The current annual environmental, 

economic, and health-related costs of 

invasive species exceed those of all 

other natural disasters combined. 

Through its Invasive Species Program 

(http://www.usgs.gov/ecosystems/ 

invasive_species/), the USGS plays an 

important role in federal efforts to 

combat invasive species in natural and 

semi-natural areas through early 

detection and assessment of newly 

established invaders; monitoring of 

invading populations; and improving 

understanding of the ecology of 

invaders and factors in the resistance of 

habitats to invasion. The USGS provides 

the tools, technology, and information 

supporting efforts to prevent, contain, 

control, and manage invasive species 

nationwide. To meet user needs, the 

USGS also develops methods for 

compiling and synthesizing accurate 

and reliable data and information on 

invasive species for inclusion in a 

distributed and integrated web-based 

information system. 

As part of the USGS Invasive Species 

Program, the Nonindigenous Aquatic 


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