Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 94 / Monday, May 16, 2022 / Notices 29733 

(202) 720–9639. All responses to this 

notice will be summarized and included 

in the request for OMB approval. All 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. 

Karama Neal, 

Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10441 Filed 5–13–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Housing Service 

[Docket No. RHS–22–SFH–0009] 

Notice of Request for Revision of 

Currently Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, 

Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

USDA Rural Housing Service (RHS) 

invites comments on this information 

collection for the Housing Preservation 

Grant (HPG) Program, which approval 

from the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) will be requested. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by July 15, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pamela Bennett, Regulations 

Management Division, Innovation 

Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Email: pamela.bennett@usda.gov. 

Telephone: (202) 720–9639. 

For program inquires, contact Mandy 

Couture, Finance and Loan Analyst, 

Single Family Housing Direct Loan 

Division, Special Programs and 

Initiatives Branch, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Email: mandy.couture@

usda.gov. Telephone (515) 418–2188. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s regulation 

(5 CFR 1320) implementing provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–13) requires that interested 

members of the public and affected 

agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an 

information collection that the Agency 

is submitting to OMB for revision. 

Comments are invited on (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumption used; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques on other forms 

and information technology. 

Comments may be sent by the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://

www.regulations.gov and, in the 

‘‘Search’’ box, type in the Docket No. 

RHS–22–SFH–0009. A link to the Notice 

will appear. You may submit a comment 

here by selecting the ‘‘Comment’’ button 

or you can access the ‘‘Docket’’ tab, 

select the ‘‘Notice,’’ and go to the 

‘‘Browse & Comment on Documents’’ 

tab. Here you may view comments that 

have been submitted as well as submit 

a comment. To submit a comment, 

select the ‘‘Comment’’ button, complete 

the required information, and select the 

‘‘Submit Comment’’ button at the 

bottom. Information on using 

Regulations.gov, including instructions 

for accessing documents, submitting 

comments, and viewing the docket after 

the close of the comment period, is 

available through the site’s ‘‘FAQ’’ link 

at the bottom. 

Title: 7 CFR Part 1944–N Housing 

Preservation Grants. 

OMB Control Number: 0575–0115. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

November 30, 2022. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The primary purpose of the 

HPG Program is to repair or rehabilitate 

individual housing, rental properties, or 

co-ops owned or occupied by very lowand low-income rural persons. Grantees 

will provide eligible homeowners, 

owners of rental properties and owners 

of co-ops with financial assistance 

through loans, grants, interest reduction 

payments or other comparable financial 

assistance for necessary repairs and 

rehabilitation of dwellings to bring them 

up to code or minimum property 

standards. Where repair and 

rehabilitation assistance are not 

economically feasible or practical the 

replacement of existing, individual 

owner-occupied housing is available. 

The Rural Housing Amendments of 

1983 amended the Housing Act of 1949 

by adding Section 533 (12 U.S.C. 

1490m). The program is implemented at 

7 CFR part 1944, subpart N. In addition, 

the Secretary of Agriculture has 

authority to prescribe rules and 

regulations to implement the HPG and 

other programs under 42 U.S.C. S 

1480G. Section 533(d) is prescriptive 

about the information applicants are to 

submit to RHS as part of their 

application and in the assessments and 

criteria RHS is to use in selecting 

grantees. An applicant is to submit a 

’’statement of activity’’ describing its 

proposed program, including the 

specific activities it will undertake, and 

its schedule. RHS is required in turn to 

evaluate proposals on a set of prescribed 

criteria, for which the applicant will 

also have to provide information, such 

as: (1) Very low- and low-income 

persons proposed to be served by the 

repair and rehabilitation activities; (2) 

participation by other public and 

private organizations to leverage funds 

and lower the cost to the HPG program; 

(3) the areas to be served in terms of 

population and need: (4) Cost data to 

assure greatest degree of assistance at 

lowest cost; (5) administrative capacity 

of the applicant to carry out the 

program. The information collected will 

be the minimum required by law and by 

necessity for RHS to assure that it funds 

responsible grantees proposing feasible 

projects in areas of greatest need. Most 

data are taken from a localized area, 

although some are derived from census 

reports of city, county and Federal 

governments showing population and 

housing characteristics. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average .85 hours per 

response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 11,045 hours. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,083. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 6.21. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from Pamela Bennett, 

Rural Development Innovation Center, 

Regulations Management Division, at 

(202) 720–9639. All responses to this 

notice will be summarized and included 

in the request for OMB approval. All 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Joaquin Altoro, 

Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10469 Filed 5–13–22; 8:45 am] 

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