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owners of public housing and assisted 

housing properties to have HUD review 

this information for the purpose of 

identifying these properties as meeting 

certain requirements for the 

weatherization program. Demand for the 

weatherization funds is very high, and 

long waiting lists already exist in many 

states for these funds; absent emergency 

processing of this information request, 

these individuals are likely to be placed 

at a competitive disadvantage in 

applying for Recovery Act 

weatherization assistance funding, since 

HUD is otherwise unable to identify 

these buildings or properties as meeting 

these requirements under the expedited 

procedures described in the DOE 

January 25, 2010 rule. 

Failure to secure the information in a 

timely fashion may delay the ability of 

potential weatherization program grant 

recipients to apply for Recovery Act 

weatherization funds under the 

streamlined procedures envisioned in 

the DOE rule. 

This Notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Proposal: Multifamily 

Weatherization Certification. 

Description of Information Collection: 

Certification to be provided by owners 

of public housing and assisted housing 

multifamily properties to enable HUD to 

identify additional properties or 

buildings that meet requirements of 

DOE’s Weatherization Assistance 

Program, in addition to those properties 

already posted on DOE’s Web site. 

OMB Control Number: 2501— 

Pending. 

Agency Form Numbers: None. 

Members of Affected Public: Public 

Housing Authorities, Owners of HUDassisted multifamily properties. 

Estimation of the Total Numbers of 

Hours Needed to Prepare the 

Information Collection Including 

Number of Respondents, Frequency of 

Responses, and Hours of Responses: 

The estimated number of respondents is 

100, and the number of responses is 1. 

There will be in total, approximately 

100 total responses. The total reporting 

burden is 50 hours. 

Status of the Proposed Information 

Collection: New collection of 

information. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended. 

Dated: May 11, 2010. 

Leroy McKinney, 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5376–N–37] 

Uniform Physical Standards & Physical 

Inspection Requirements 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

has been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Department is 

soliciting public comments on the 

subject proposal. 

All multifamily properties with 

Section 8 project based assistance or 

housing with HUD insured or HUD Held 

mortgages or Housing that is receiving 

insurance from HUD must be inspected 

regularly. Entities responsible for 

conducting physical inspections of the 

properties are HUD, the lender or the 

owner. Owners/Agents which have been 

cited with Exigent Health and Safety 

(EH&S) deficiencies must certify that 

(EH&S) deficiencies noted during the 

inspections have been repaired. This 

information is intended to ensure that 

HUD Program Participants maintain 

HUD properties in a condition that is 

decent, safe, sanitary, and in good 

repair. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: June 17, 

2010 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

approval Number (2502–0369) and 

should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leroy McKinney Jr., Reports 

Management Officer, QDAM, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20410; e-mail Leroy 

McKinney Jr. at 

Leroy.McKinneyJr@hud.gov or telephone 

(202) 402–5564. This is not a toll-free 

number. Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Mr. McKinney. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development has submitted to OMB a 

request for approval of the Information 

collection described below. This notice 

is soliciting comments from members of 

the public and affecting agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information to: (1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) Enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) 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. 

This notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Proposal: Uniform Physical 

Standards & Physical Inspection 

Requirements. 

OMB Approval Number: 2502–0369. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Its Proposed Use: All 

multifamily properties with Section 8 

project based assistance or housing with 

HUD insured or HUD Held mortgages or 

Housing that is receiving insurance from 

HUD must be inspected regularly. 

Entities responsible for conducting 

physical inspections of the properties 

are HUD, the lender or the owner. 

Owners/Agents which have been cited 

with Exigent Health and Safety (EH&S) 

deficiencies must certify that (EH&S) 

deficiencies noted during the 

inspections have been repaired. This 

information is intended to ensure that 

HUD Program Participants maintain 

HUD properties in a condition that is 

decent, safe, sanitary, and in good 

repair. 

Frequency of Submission: Annually, 

Semi Annually, Every 3 years. 

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Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

responses × House per response = Burden hours 

Reporting Burden .............................................................................. 10,576 1 3.1 32,953 

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 

32,953. 

Status: Extension of a currently 

approved collection. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

amended. 

Dated: May 10, 2010. 

Leroy McKinney, Jr., 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5374–N–11] 

Buy American Exceptions Under the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111–05, approved 

February 17, 2009) (Recovery Act), and 

implementing guidance of the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), this 

notice advises that certain exceptions to 

the Buy American requirement of the 

Recovery Act have been determined 

applicable for work using Capital Fund 

Recovery Formula and Competition 

(CFRFC) grant funds. Specifically, an 

exception was granted to the Housing 

Authority of Owensboro for the 

purchase and installation of tank-less 

water heaters at Adams Village. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dominique G. Blom, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Public Housing 

Investments, Office of Public Housing 

Investments, Office of Public and Indian 

Housing, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street, 

SW., Room 4130, Washington, DC, 

20410–4000, telephone number 202– 

402–8500 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Persons with hearing- or 

speech-impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Information Relay Service 

at 800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

1605(a) of the Recovery Act provides 

that none of the funds appropriated or 

made available by the Recovery Act may 

be used for a project for the 

construction, alteration, maintenance, or 

repair of a public building or public 

work unless all of the iron, steel, and 

manufactured goods used in the project 

are produced in the United States. 

Section 1605(b) provides that the Buy 

American requirement shall not apply 

in any case or category in which the 

head of a Federal department or agency 

finds that: (1) Applying the Buy 

American requirement would be 

inconsistent with the public interest; (2) 

iron, steel, and the relevant 

manufactured goods are not produced in 

the U.S. in sufficient and reasonably 

available quantities or of satisfactory 

quality, or (3) inclusion of iron, steel, 

and manufactured goods will increase 

the cost of the overall project by more 

than 25 percent. Section 1605(c) 

provides that if the head of a Federal 

department or agency makes a 

determination pursuant to section 

1605(b), the head of the department or 

agency shall publish a detailed written 

justification in the Federal Register. 

In accordance with section 1605(c) of 

the Recovery Act and OMB’s 

implementing guidance published on 

April 23, 2009 (74 FR 18449), this notice 

advises the public that, on April 23, 

2010, upon request of the Housing 

Authority of Owensboro, HUD granted 

an exception to the applicability of the 

Buy American requirements with 

respect to work, using CFRFC grant 

funds, based on the fact that the relevant 

manufactured goods (tank-less water 

heaters) are not produced in the U.S. in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities or of satisfactory quality. 

Dated: May 10, 2010. 

Deborah Hernandez, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public 

and Indian Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11732 Filed 5–17–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5413–N–01] 

Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher 

Program—Demonstration Project of 

Small Area Fair Market Rents in 

Certain Metropolitan Areas for Fiscal 

Year 2011 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy Development and 

Research, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of Demonstration Project 

of Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs) 

in Selected Metropolitan Areas for 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2011. 

SUMMARY: Section 8(c)(1) of the United 

States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA) 

requires the Secretary to publish FMRs 

periodically, but not less than annually, 

adjusted to be effective on October 1 of 

each year. The primary uses of FMRs are 

to determine payment standard amounts 

for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) 

program, to determine initial renewal 

rents for some expiring project-based 

Section 8 contracts, to determine initial 

rents for housing assistance payment 

(HAP) contracts in the Moderate 

Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy 

program (Mod Rehab), and to serve as a 

rent ceiling in the HOME rental 

assistance program. Today’s notice 

announces a demonstration project that 

will set small area FMRs for the HCV 

program within certain metropolitan 

areas, and requests comments on several 

topics related to small area FMRs, 

including how these small areas should 

be defined. Small area FMRs calculated 

for the Demonstration projects will be 

used only in the Section 8 HCV program 

and will not affect rents in any other 

HUD or other federal program. HUD 

expects that small area FMRs will 

provide Section 8 tenants with greater 

ability to move into opportunity areas 

where jobs, transportation, and 

educational opportunities exist, and 

prevent undue subsidy in lower-rent 

areas. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: July 19, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

HUD’s small area FMR demonstration, 

as announced in this notice, to the 

Office of General Counsel, Rules Docket 

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