Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 94 / Monday, May 17, 2010 / Notices 27563 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Voluntary Customer Survey 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP), Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for 

comments; Proposal to establish a new 

collection of information. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, CBP invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to comment 

on a proposed information collection 

requirement concerning a Voluntary 

Customer Survey. This request for 

comment is being made pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C. 3505(c)(2)). 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before July 16, 2010 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 

Attn: Tracey Denning, Office of 

Regulations and Rulings, 799 9th Street, 

NW., 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20229– 

1177. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Tracey Denning, 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 

Office of Regulations and Rulings, 799 

9th Street, NW., 7th Floor, Washington, 

DC. 20229–1177, at 202–325–0265. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104– 

13; 44 U.S.C. 3505(c)(2)). The comments 

should address: (a) Whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimates of the burden of the 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden including 

the use of automated collection 

techniques or the use of other forms of 

information technology; and (e) 

estimates of capital or start-up costs and 

costs of operations, maintenance, and 

purchase of services to provide 

information. The comments that are 

submitted will be summarized and 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. In this 

document the CBP is soliciting 

comments concerning the following 

information collection: 

Title: Voluntary Customer Survey. 

OMB Number: Will be assigned upon 

approval. 

Abstract: Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) plans to conduct a 

customer survey of international 

travelers seeking entry into the United 

States at the twenty highest volume 

airports in order to determine 

perceptions of the arrival process at our 

ports of entry. This voluntary customer 

survey will be conducted through short 

verbal surveys of travelers as they move 

through entry processing areas. 

Travelers who do not speak English will 

be given a written version of the survey 

in their language and may submit their 

responses in writing. The survey will 

include questions about wait times, ease 

of entry processing, and the level of 

communication, efficiency and 

professionalism of CBP officers. The 

results and analysis of the survey 

responses will be used to identify 

actionable items to improve services to 

the traveling public with respect to the 

entry processes for travelers arriving at 

United States air ports of entry. 

Current Actions: This submission is 

being made to establish a new collection 

of information. 

Type of Review: Approval of a new 

collection of information. 

Affected Public: Individuals, 

Travelers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

21,000. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,743. 

Dated: May 12, 2010. 

Tracey Denning, 

Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11724 Filed 5–14–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2010–0032] 

Federal Radiological Preparedness 

Coordinating Committee 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Radiological 

Preparedness Coordinating Committee 

(FRPCC) is holding a public meeting on 

June 3, 2010 in Arlington, VA. 

DATES: The meeting will take place on 

June 3, 2010. The session open to the 

public will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 

Send written statements and requests to 

make oral statements to the contact 

person listed below by close of business 

May 21, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Crystal City Courtyard Marriott, 

Blue Ridge Shenandoah Conference 

Room, located at 2899 Jefferson Davis 

Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Timothy Greten, FRPCC Executive 

Secretary, DHS/FEMA, 1800 South Bell 

Street—CC847, Mail Stop 3025, 

Arlington, VA 20598–3025; telephone 

(202) 646–3907; fax (703) 305–0837; or 

e-mail timothy.greten@dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The role 

and functions of the Federal 

Radiological Preparedness Coordinating 

Committee (FRPCC) are described in 44 

CFR 351.10(a) and 351.11(a). The 

FRPCC is holding a public meeting on 

June 3, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., at 

the Crystal City Courtyard Marriott, 

Blue Ridge Shenandoah Conference 

Room, located at 2899 Jefferson Davis 

Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. Please 

note that the meeting may close early. 

This meeting is open to the public. 

Public meeting participants must preregister to be admitted to the meeting. 

To pre-register, please provide your 

name and telephone number by close of 

business on May 21, 2010, to the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section above. 

The tentative agenda for the FRPCC 

meeting includes: (1) Introductions, 

(2) reports from FRPCC Subcommittees, 

(3) old business and new business, and 

(4) business from the floor. The FRPCC 

Chair shall carry out the meeting in a 

way that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Reasonable 

provisions will be made, if time permits, 

for oral statements from the public of 

not more than five minutes in length. 

Any member of the public who wishes 

to make an oral statement at the meeting 

should send a written request for time 

by close of business on May 21, 2010, 

to the individual listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. Any member of the public who 

wishes to file a written statement with 

the FRPCC should provide the statement 

by close of business on May 21, 2010, 

to the individual listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. 


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27564 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 94 / Monday, May 17, 2010 / Notices 

1Section 3(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act 

of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(2)) (1937 Act) provides 

for assisted housing for ‘‘low-income families’’ and 

‘‘very low-income families,’’ and defines these terms 

as families whose incomes are below 80 percent 

and 50 percent, respectively, of the median family 

income for the area with adjustments for family 

size. These income limits are referred to as ‘‘Section 

8 income limits’’ because of the historical and 

statutory links with that program, although the 

same income limits are also used as eligibility 

criteria by several other Federal programs. The 1937 

Act specifies conditions under which Section 8 

income limits are to be adjusted either on a 

designated area basis or because of unusually high 

or low family incomes or housing-cost-to-income 

relationships. Section 8 income limits are 

calculated using Section 8 Fair Market Rent (FMR) 

area definitions, which in turn are based on Office 

of Management and Budget metropolitan statistical 

area definitions. 

Information on Services for Individuals 

With Disabilities 

For information on facilities or 

services for individuals with disabilities 

or to request special assistance at the 

meeting, please write or call the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section above as 

soon as possible. 

Authority: 44 CFR 351.10(a) and 351.11(a). 

Timothy W. Manning, 

Deputy Administrator, Protection and 

National Preparedness, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11673 Filed 5–14–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5323–N–03] 

Final Notice on Ending the ‘‘HoldHarmless’’ Policy in Calculating 

Section 8 Income Limits Under the 

United States Housing Act of 1937 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy Development and 

Research, HUD. 

ACTION: Final notice. 

SUMMARY: Today’s notice announces 

that HUD will allow Section 8 income 

limits to decrease beginning with the 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 income limits, but 

will limit all annual decreases to no 

more than 5 percent and limit all annual 

increases to 5 percent or twice the 

change in national median family 

income, whichever is greater. This 

notice follows notices of September 14, 

2009, and October 7, 2009, that solicited 

public comment on HUD’s proposal to 

discontinue its ‘‘hold-harmless’’ policy. 

HUD’s hold-harmless policy maintained 

Section 8 income limits for certain areas 

at previously published levels when 

reductions would otherwise have 

resulted from changes in median family 

income estimates, housing cost 

adjustment data, median family income 

update methodology, income limit 

methodology, or metropolitan area 

definitions. HUD has also decided that 

rents used in its HOME Investment 

Partnerships program (HOME) will 

continue to be held harmless and that 

income limits for rural housing 

programs will continue their current 

hold-harmless policy, based on different 

area definitions. 

DATES: Effective Date: May 17, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information on the 

methodology used to develop income 

limits and median family income 

estimates, please call the HUD USER 

information line at 800–245–2691 or 

access the information on the HUD Web 

site, http://www.huduser.org/portal/ 

datasets/il.html. That Web site lists 

current and historical income limits. 

Furthermore, HUD maintains an 

interactive on-line documentation 

system for income limits and median 

family income estimates. The 

documentation system provides 

interested users with their income limits 

prior to the application of the holdharmless policy in areas currently being 

held harmless. The FY 2009 

documentation system may be accessed 

at http://www.huduser.org/portal/ 

datasets/il/index_il2009.html. 

Questions may be addressed to Mark 

Stanton or Marie Lihn, Economic and 

Market Analysis Division, Office of 

Economic Affairs, Office of Policy 

Development and Research, telephone 

number 202–708–0590. Persons with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Information 

Relay Service at 800–877–8339. 

Electronic Data Availability: This 

Federal Register notice is available 

electronically from the HUD news page: 

http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/ 

hudclips/index.cfm. Federal Register 

notices also are available electronically 

from the U.S. Government Printing 

Office Web site: http:// 

www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html. This 

Federal Register notice also will be 

posted on the following HUD Web site: 

http://www.huduser.org/portal/ 

datasets/il.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The September 14, 2009, 

Notice 

On September 14, 2009, HUD 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register (74 FR 47016) seeking public 

comment on the impact of eliminating 

the hold-harmless policy for Section 8 

income limits while continuing this 

policy for rents in the HOME program.1

In the September 14, 2009, notice, HUD 

stated that through FY 2009, it would 

continue its policy of maintaining 

Section 8 income limits for HUD rental 

subsidy programs at the previously 

published level in cases where HUD’s 

estimate of area median family income 

or housing cost adjustment data, or 

changes in calculation methodology, 

would lead to a lower income limit than 

was previously published. This holdharmless policy was implemented to 

avoid jeopardizing the financial 

feasibility of existing housing projects in 

instances where program rents were tied 

to Section 8 income limits. Under the 

hold-harmless policy, Section 8 income 

limits would be maintained until such 

a time as income limit calculations 

produced increases. 

The primary Federal housing 

programs that rely on Section 8 income 

limits other than the Section 8 Voucher 

program are multifamily tax subsidy 

projects (MTSPs) financed with lowincome housing tax credits (LIHTCs) 

under section 42 of the Internal Revenue 

Code of 1986 (IRC) and tax-exempt 

private activity bonds under section 142 

of the IRC. Under these programs, 

maximum rents for units in MTSPs are 

generally 30 percent of the HUDpublished Section 8 income limit for a 

four-person household, adjusted by the 

number of bedrooms in a unit. MTSPs 

use of Section 8 income limits to 

determine rents was HUD’s principal 

reason for establishing the holdharmless policy; otherwise, when 

Section 8 income limits fall, the 

maximum rent that private owners can 

charge low-income tenants in the 

MTSPs falls, which may place a 

financial strain on existing MTSPs. 

MTSP rents, however, are now 

protected from falling under the 

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 

2008 (Pub. L. 110–289, approved July 

30, 2008) (HERA). 

HERA eliminates the need for HUD to 

continue its hold-harmless policy for 

the benefit of MTSPs. Specifically, 

Section 3009 of HERA amended IRC 

section 142(d) (26 U.S.C. 142 (note)) by 

implementing a statutory project-level 

hold-harmless provision for existing 

MTSPs. The provision applies to all 

MTSP projects and is not limited to 

projects benefiting from the HUD holdharmless policy. As a result of this 

provision, determinations of area 

median gross income with respect to the 

project may not be less than the 

determination with respect to the 

project made for the preceding year. 

Section 3009 also provides additional 


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