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4. A Lender must have submitted its 

application under the GRRHP 2009 

Notice published January 21, 2009, 

Volume 74 FR 3551–3558, or the 

GRRHP 2009 Notice published on June 

26, 2009, Volume 74 FR 30503–30510 or 

the GRRHP 2010 Notice published 

February 26, 2010, Volume 75 FR 8896– 

8902. 

5. The application to be considered 

must have been obligated from October 

1, 2009 to December 17, 2010. However, 

if the Demonstration Program funds 

have not been fully utilized by 

December 17, 2010, the Agency may 

consider applications obligated on or 

after October 1, 2008. 

6. The Lender must not have closed 

the construction loan prior to its 

selection to participate in the 

Demonstration Program. 

Demonstration Program Selection 

Process 

Selections from qualified applications 

that have requested consideration and 

met all requirements for this 

Demonstration Program will be based on 

priority scores they received on their 

previously submitted applications, with 

the highest scoring applications being 

selected first, until all available 

Demonstration Program authority is 

used. In the event of a tie, priority will 

be given to the application that is in the 

smaller rural community, and in case of 

a subsequent tie to the application that 

has the lowest LTC ratio. 

The first round of selections into the 

Demonstration Program will be made on 

May 20, 2010. In the event there are not 

enough qualified requests for selection 

into the Demonstration Program to 

utilize all the available Demonstration 

Program authority, then until all funds 

are exhausted, an additional selection 

process will be conducted on the 3rd 

Friday of each month starting 

September 17, 2010. December 17, 2010, 

will be the last possible selection date 

unless the Final Rule is published as 

explained below. All applicants will be 

notified of the selection results no later 

than 30 business days from the date of 

selection. 

DATES: Effective Dates: The GRRHP 

intends to incorporate the guarantee 

offered under this demonstration as a 

permanent part of the program. To that 

end we have published in the Federal 

Register (January 29, 2009, Volume 75 

FR 4707–4710) a proposed rule for 

‘‘Continuous Construction-Permanent 

Loan Guarantees.’’ This Notice will 

terminate upon the earlier of either the 

publication date of the final rule or 

December 17, 2010. 

Demonstration Program Response 

Submission Address 

Eligible lenders wishing to have their 

obligated applications considered for 

selection into the Demonstration 

Program must submit a signed request 

(not to exceed one page) on its 

letterhead that includes the following 

information: 

1. Developer’s Name 

2. Borrower’s Name 

3. Project’s Name 

4. Project’s Address (City and State) 

5. Project Type (Family, Senior, or 

Mixed) 

6. Project’s Total Units 

7. Project’s Total Development Cost 

(TDC) 

8. Amount of 538 Loan Guarantee 

9. Amount of Tax Credits Awarded 

10. Amount and Source of Other 

Financing 

11. Loan to Cost (LTC) % 

12. Area Population 

13. Date obligated or date of 

Conditional Commitment 

Send the Demonstration Program 

Response Submission Letter with all of 

the information listed above, along with 

a copy of the State Office’s ‘‘Proceed 

with Application/NOFA Response 

Selection’’ letter and a copy of the tax 

credit award notification to: Tammy S. 

Daniels, Financial and Loan Analyst, 

Multi-Family Housing Guaranteed Loan 

Division, Guaranteed Rural Rental 

Housing Program, USDA Rural 

Development, South Agriculture 

Building, Room 1233, STOP 0781, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0781. 

Requests may also be faxed to 202– 

690–3444 or sent by email (signed PDF 

copies of the above submissions) to 

tammy.daniels@wdc.usda.gov. Eligible 

lenders mailing a request must provide 

sufficient time to permit delivery to the 

submission address. If all the funds set 

aside for the Demonstration Program 

have not been utilized, the Agency will 

continue to accept requests for inclusion 

into the FY 2010 Demonstration 

Program until December 17, 2010 or 

publication of the final rule if earlier. 

Acceptance by a U.S. Post Office or 

private mailer does not constitute 

delivery. Postage due responses and 

applications will not be accepted. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the information 

collection requirements contained in 

this Notice is approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) under 

OMB Control Number 0575–0174. 

Nondiscrimination Statement 

‘‘The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, age, 

disability, and where applicable, sex, 

marital status, familial status, parental 

status, religion, sexual orientation, 

genetic information, political beliefs, 

reprisal, or because all or a part of an 

individual’s income is derived from any 

public assistance program. (Not all 

prohibited bases apply to all programs.) 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication of 

program information (Braille, large 

print, audiotape, etc.) should contact 

USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720– 

2600 (voice and TDD). To file a 

complaint of discrimination write to 

USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410 or call 

(800) 795–3272 (voice) or (202) 720– 

6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal 

opportunity provider and employer.’’ 

Dated: May 3, 2010. 

Tammye Trevin ̃ o, 

Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10929 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XV–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request, Supplemental 

Nutrition Assistance Program 

Regulations, Part 275—Quality Control 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, this notice 

invites the general public and other 

public agencies to comment on the 

proposed information collection for the 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program’s Regulations, Part 275— 

Quality Control. Specifically, the 

burden associated with the collection of 

information for the sampling plan, 

arbitration process, and the good cause 

process. This collection is a revision of 

a currently approved collection, OMB 

No. 0584–0303. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before July 9, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: 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 


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information has practical utility; (b) the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; (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 or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments may be sent to: Tiffany 

Susan Wilkinson, Program Analyst, 

Quality Control Branch, Program 

Accountability and Administration 

Division, Food and Nutrition Service, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 

Park Center Drive, Room 822, 

Alexandria, VA 22302. You may also 

download an electronic version of this 

notice at http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/ 

rules/regulations/default.htm and 

comment via e-mail at SNAPHQWeb@fns.usda.gov or use the Federal 

e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 

All written comments will be open for 

public inspection at the office of the 

Food and Nutrition Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 

5 p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101 

Park Center Drive, Room 822, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22302. 

All responses to this notice will be 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval. All 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

form and instruction should be directed 

to Tiffany Susan Wilkinson, (703) 305– 

2805. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program’s (SNAP) Quality Control 

Regulations, Part 275. 

OMB Number: 0584–0303. 

Expiration Date: November 30, 2010. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: There are three components 

of the Quality Control (QC) system that 

are covered in this proposed 

information collection. They are: (1) The 

sampling plan; (2) the arbitration 

process; and (3) the good cause process. 

Each State is required to develop a 

sampling plan that demonstrates the 

integrity of its case selection 

procedures. The QC system is designed 

to measure each State agency’s payment 

error rate based on a statistically valid 

sample of SNAP cases. A State agency’s 

payment error rate represents the 

proportion of cases that were reported 

through a QC review as being ineligible, 

overissued and underissued SNAP 

benefits. 

The QC system contains procedures 

for resolving differences in review 

findings between State agencies and 

FNS. This is referred to as the 

arbitration process. The QC system also 

contains procedures that provide relief 

for State agencies from all or a part of 

a QC liability when a State agency can 

demonstrate that a part or all of an 

excessive error rate was due to an 

unusual event that had an 

uncontrollable impact on the State 

agency’s payment error rate. This is 

referred to as the good cause process. 

The approved burden for the QC 

system includes the burden for the QC 

sampling plan, the arbitration process, 

and the good cause process. The annual 

reporting burden associated with the QC 

sampling plan remains at 265 hours. We 

estimate the annual reporting burdens 

associated with arbitration and good 

cause processes to total 936 hours and 

160 hours, respectively. The increase in 

the proposed burden from the currently 

approved 840 to 936 hours for the 

arbitration process is due to an increase 

in the number of State agencies 

estimated to respond from 14 to 15 and 

to the estimated number of responses 

per State agency from 2.5 to 2.6. These 

increases are a result of State agencies 

more frequently disagreeing with FNS’ 

findings. The proposed annual reporting 

burden for the good cause process is 

unchanged from the currently approved 

burden of 160 hours. The total reporting 

burden for the QC system is, therefore, 

1,361 hours. 

The proposed annual recordkeeping 

burden associated with the QC sampling 

plan is 1.25 hours per year. The 

proposed annual recordkeeping burdens 

associated with arbitration have 

increased from 0.83 to 0.92 hours and 

the good cause process remains at 

0.0236 hour. The recordkeeping burden 

for the arbitration process increased 

from 0.83 hour to 0.92 hour due to an 

increase in the estimated number of 

affected State agencies from 14 to 15 

and an increase in the estimated number 

of responses per State from 2.5 to 2.6. 

The recordkeeping burden for the good 

cause process remains at 0.0236 hours. 

The total burden for recordkeeping is 

2.19 hours. As a result, the total annual 

burden for the QC system, as proposed 

by this notice, increased from 1,267 to 

1,363 hours. 

Quality Control System Reporting 

Burden Associated with the Sampling 

Plan, Arbitration, and Good Cause: 

REPORTING BURDEN

Affected public Requirement Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses/ 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

per year 

Time per 

response 

(hrs) 

Annual 

reporting 

burden 

(hrs) 

State Agencies ............ Sampling Plan ......................... 53 1 1 5 265 

State Agencies ............ Arbitration Process .................. 15 2 .6 39 24 936 

State Agencies ............ Good Cause Process .............. 1 1 1 160 160 

1,361 

Quality Control System 

Recordkeeping Burden Associated with 

the Sampling Plan, Arbitration, and 

Good Cause: 


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RECORDKEEPING BURDEN

Affected public Requirement Number of 

records 

Number of 

records/state 

Time per 

record (hrs) 

Total annual 

recordkeeping 

burden 

(hrs) 

Total annual 

reporting & 

recordkeeping 

burden 

(hrs) 

State Agencies ............ Sampling Plan ........................ 53 1 0.0236 1 .25 266.25 

State Agencies ............ Arbitration Process ................. 15 2 .6 0.0236 0 .92 936.92 

State Agencies ............ Good Cause Process ............. 1 N/A 0.0236 0 .0236 160.02 

2 .1936 1,363.19 

The Combined Quality Control 

System’s Estimated Burden (includes 

the burdens associated with the 

Sampling Plan, Arbitration and Good 

Cause): (Reporting 1,361 + 

Recordkeeping 2 burden hours) = 1,363 

hours. 

Dated: April 29, 2010. 

Julia Paradis, 

Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10928 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Information Collection; Noninsured 

Crop Disaster Assistance Program 

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency and 

Commodity Credit Corporation and, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Farm Service Agency and the 

Commodity Credit Corporation are 

seeking comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on the 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection in support of the 

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 

Program (NAP). The information 

collected is needed for producers to 

determine eligibility to obtain NAP 

assistance. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by July 9, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: We invite to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comments, include date, volume, and 

page number of this issue of the Federal 

Register. You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Mail: Candance Thompson, Acting 

Division Director, Production, 

Emergencies, and Compliance Division, 

Farm Service Agency, USDA, Mail Stop, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0522. 

• E–Mail: 

Candy.Thompson@wdc.usda.gov. 

• Fax: 202–690–2130. 

You may also send comments to the 

Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC, 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Terry Hill, Section Head, Crop Disaster 

Section, Disaster Assistance Branch, 

(202) 720–3087. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection 

Title: Noninsured Crop Disaster 

Assistance Program. 

OMB Number: 0560–0175. 

Expiration Date: November 30, 2010. 

Type of Request: Extension with no 

revision. 

Abstract: The NAP is authorized 

under 7 U.S.C. Section 7333 and 

implemented under regulations issued 

at 7 CFR Part 1437. The NAP is 

administered under the general 

supervision of the Executive VicePresident of CCC (who also serves as 

Administrator, FSA), and is carried out 

by FSA State and County committees. 

The information collected allows CCC to 

provide assistance under NAP for losses 

of commercial crops or other 

agricultural commodities (except 

livestock) for which catastrophic risk 

protection under 7 U.S.C Section 1508 

is not available, and that are produced 

for food or fiber. 

Additionally, NAP provides 

assistance for losses of floriculture, 

ornamental nursery, Christmas tree 

crops, turfgrass sod, seed crops, 

aquaculture (including ornamental fish), 

sea oats and sea grass, and industrial 

crops. The information collected is 

necessary to determine whether a 

producer and crop or commodity meet 

applicable conditions for assistance and 

to determine compliance with existing 

rules. Producers must annually: (1) 

Request NAP coverage by completing an 

application for coverage and paying a 

service fee by the CCC-established 

application closing date; (2) file a 

current crop-year report of acreage for 

the covered crop or commodity; and (3) 

certify production of each covered crop 

or commodity. When damage to a 

covered crop or commodity occurs, 

producers must file a notice of loss with 

the local FSA administrative county 

office within 15 calendar days of 

occurrence or 15 calendar days of the 

date damage to the crop or commodity 

becomes apparent. Producers must also 

file an application for payment and 

certification of income with the local 

FSA County office. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this information collection is 

estimated to average 0.6 hours per 

response. 

Type of Respondents: Producers of 

commercial crops or other agricultural 

commodities (except livestock). 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 291,500. 

Estimated Annual Number of Forms 

Filed per Respondent: 3. 

Estimated Total Number of 

Responses: 2,167,302. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,143,562. 

We are requesting comments on all 

aspects of this information collection 

and to help us to: 

(1) Evaluate whether the 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, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 


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