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submitted to OMB may be obtained

from Mr. Eddins.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department has submitted the proposal

for the collection of information, as

described below, to OMB for review, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The Notice

lists the following information: (1) The

title of the information collection

proposal; (2) the office of the agency to

collect the information; (3) the OMB

approval number, if applicable; (4) the

description of the need for the

information and its proposed use; (5)

the agency form number, if applicable;

(6) what members of the public will be

affected by the proposal; (7) how

frequently information submissions will

be required; (8) an estimate of the total

number of hours needed to prepare the

information submission including

number of respondents, frequency of

response, and hours of response; (9)

whether the proposal is new, an

extension, reinstatement, or revision of

an information collection requirement;

and (10) the name and telephone

number of an agency official familiar

with the proposal and of the OMB Desk

Officer for the Department. This Notice

also lists the following information:

Title of Proposal: Requirements for

Designation Housing Projects Plan.

OMB Approval Number: 2577–0192.

Form Numbers: None.

Description of the Need for the

Information and Its Proposed Use: This

information collection is required by the

Housing and Community Development

Act of 1992. Public Housing Agencies

(PHAs) will submit an application

which is composed of an Allocation

Plan and a Supportive Services Plan to

designate a project for occupancy by

elderly and disabled families. HUD will

use the information in the Plans to

evaluate a PHA’s request for designated

housing.

Respondents: State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Frequency of Submission: On

occasion.

Number of

respondents X Frequencyof response X Hours perresponse = Burdenhours

Reporting burden .............................................................................................................. 176 1 19.0 3,358

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 3,358.

Status: Reinstatement, with change.

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as

amended.

Dated: April 20, 2001.

Wayne Eddins,

Departmental Reports Management Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–10597 Filed 4–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4655–N–12]

Submission for OMB Review: Review

of Health Care Facility Portfolios

AGENCY: Office of Assistant Secretary for

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of proposed information

collection requirement.

SUMMARY: The Department of Housing

and Urban Development (HUD) will be

publishing a Notice which establishes

classifications of owners and or

operators of health care facilities:

owners of large portfolios of health care

facilities; owners of mid-size portfolios,

and owners of small portfolios. The

mid-size and large owners who intend

to finance or refinance 11 or more

health care facilities, with a combined

estimated mortgage amount equal to or

in excess of $75 million, in an 18-month

period of time are required to submit

additional information to a rating

agency for evaluation and submission to

HUD. The additional information,

covering a variety of corporate-related

information such as a strategic

management plan, is designed to enable

HUD to determine the financial and

management strength of the proposed

sponsor.

DATES: Comments Due Date: May 7,

2001.

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:

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, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street,

SW, Washington, DC 20410, telephone

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

number) or e-mail to

Wayne_Eddins@HUD.gov. Copies of the

available documents submitted to OMB

may be obtained from Mr. Eddins.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department has submitted the proposal

for the collection of information, as

described below, to OMB for review as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 USC Chapter 35). HUD has

requested OMB approval by May 7,

2001.

An agency may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to, a collection of information

unless collection displays a valid

control number.

This notice contains the following

information:

(1) The title for the collection of

information;

(2) A summary of the collection of

information;

(3) A brief description of the need for

the information and proposed use of the

information;

(4) A description of the likely

respondents, including the estimated

number of likely respondents, and

proposed frequency of response to the

collection of information;

(5) An estimate of the total annual

reporting and recordkeeping burden that

will result from the collection of

information;

Title: Review of Health Care Facility

Portfolios

OMB Control Number: 2502–

Type of submission: An owner and/or

an operator of health care facilities

(nursing homes, intermediate care

facilities, board and care facilities, or

assisted living facilities) may wish to

finance or refinance large groups of

those facilities. If it intends to seek FHA

mortgage insurance for loans for these

facilities, and it is planning to finance

or refinance a minimum of 11 health

care facilities, with combined estimated

mortgage amount of $75 million or

more, during an 18 month period, then

the owner/operator must furnish

information that has not been

previously required with the application

for mortgage insurance. The owner and/

or operator will be acting with an FHAapproved lender, or, if the application is

to be processed with Multifamily

Accelerated Processing (MAP), the

lender must be MAP-approved.

The information includes a Corporate

Credit Analysis, to be submitted to a

credit rating agency (Standard & Poor’s,

Moody’s Investor Services, Fitch IBCA,

Duff & Phelps) and the Analysis

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includes detailed financial information,

management policies, and corporate

strategy. Owners/operators with 50 or

more projects, with estimated combined

mortgage amount of $250 million or

more must file, in addition to the

Corporate Credit Analysis, more

detailed information that is required for

non-Portfolio owners in connection

with the site visit. These large-size

owners/operators must also provide

information on their other properties

and lines of business not being financed

with FHA mortgage insurance.

Need and Use of the information

The information is collected and

evaluated, first by a rating agency and

then by HUD. The purpose is to

determine the financial strength and

management reliability of the owner/

operator. If the owner and/or the

operator should go into bankruptcy or

be unable to continue management of its

large group of properties, the ability of

the individual properties to keep

operating successfully would be

severely jeopardized. The failure of the

owner/operator could lead to

assignments to HUD of large numbers of

health care facilities, and a serious

resulting charge to the mortgage

insurance fund.

Respondents:

Reporting Burden:

Number of respondents X Frequency of response X Hours per response = Total burden hours

Contact: Eric Stevenson, HUD (202)

708–0614, ext. 2544), Joseph Lackey,

OMB, (202) 395–7316

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35,

as amended.

Dated: April 20, 2001.

Wayne Eddins,

Reports Management Officer, Office of the

Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–10599 Filed 4–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–27–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES–030–01–1610–DO]

Notice of Intent To Prepare the Lower

Potomac River Coordinated

Management Plan/Environmental

Assessment

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Milwaukee Field Office, DOI.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a

coordinated management plan.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),

Milwaukee Field Office, intends to

prepare a coordinated management plan

(CMP) for the purpose of determining

whether and where to acquire land in

the Lower Potomac River project area

located in Charles County, Maryland.

No specific tracts have been targeted for

acquisition.

The planning efforts will follow the

procedures set forth in title 43 of the

Code of Federal Regulations, Subpart

1600. The EA will be prepared under

the National Environmental Policy Act

of 1969 regulations (40 CFR 1500, et

seq.).

The public has 30 days from the date

of publication of this notice to send its

ideas regarding the proposal described

below in the ‘‘Supplementary

Information’’ and in the preliminary

planning criteria sections. These

comments should be written to help

focus the plan on substantive issues and

develop appropriate management

alternatives. These comments may

include specific resource data or

information or locations where these

data or information may be found.

DATES: The public scoping period

commences with the publication of this

notice. Comments must be postmarked

no later than May 30, 2001 to ensure the

issues they raise are considered in the

plan.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

the following addresses: James W.

Dryden, Field Office Manager,

Milwaukee Field Office, P.O. Box 631,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201–0631 or

Ed Ruda, Project Leader Manager,

Eastern States Office, 7450 Boston

Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed

Ruda, Project Leader at (703) 440–1663,

or by electronic mail at

ed_ruda@es.blm.gov, or Howard Levine,

Planning and Environmental

Coordinator at (414) 297–4463, or by

electronic mail at

howard_levine@es.blm.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress

has appropriated a total of $3 million in

Land and Water Conservation Funds

(LWCF) for the acquisition of lands by

the BLM in the ‘‘Douglas Point’’ region

of southwestern Charles County,

Maryland. The planning area has been

renamed Lower Potomac River Project

Area.

Prior to expending Federal money for

acquisition, BLM must fulfill the

requirements of Sections 202 and 205(b)

of the Federal Land Policy and

Management Act of 1976, as amended

(43 U.S.C. 1701, et seq.) (FLPMA).

Under these requirements, any land

acquisitions by BLM must conform with

applicable land use plans. Currently,

BLM has no land use plans in the State

of Maryland. The Lower Potomac River

Coordinated Management Plan/

Environmental Assessment will fulfill

that requirement. The plan will not

identify any specific tracts for

acquisition by the Federal Government,

but will instead develop a set of criteria

to evaluate proposals for acquisition in

the future.

The Lower Potomac River CMP will

be developed cooperatively with

Maryland Department of Natural

Resources (MDNR) and Charles County.

By preparing a single plan, each

agency’s needs will be met and potential

acquisitions can be evaluated within an

overall conservation strategy for the

region.

The planning regulations require that

BLM release for review a list of planning

criteria that will guide development of

the land use plan. The public is invited

to review, comment and propose

amendments to any of the following

planning criteria:

1. The plan will be completed in

compliance with FLPMA and other

applicable laws.

2. The plan will include an

Environmental Assessment (EA)

prepared under the National

Environmental Policy Act. If scoping

reveals the potential for significant

impact, BLM will prepare an

environmental impact statement.

3. The final plan will include a set of

acquisition criteria that will be used to

evaluate specific proposals either by

Bureau motion or raised by willing

sellers. Although land acquisition can

be defined as fee title acquisition

criteria, conservation easement

acquisition, or mineral estate

acquisition (less than fee), the terms of

BLM’s LWCF proposal, as approved by

Congress, envision full fee acquisition.

4. The economic benefits and costs of

potential Federal acquisitions will be

evaluated in the plan.

5. Potential Federal acquisitions will

be evaluated in the context of other land

acquisitions made by the State of

Maryland or not-for-profit groups.

6. Any lands acquired by BLM will be

managed consistent with objectives