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I have determined that the damage in 

certain areas of the State of Maryland 

resulting from severe winter storms and 

snowstorms during the period of February 5– 

11, 2010, is of sufficient severity and 

magnitude to warrant a major disaster 

declaration under the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 

Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. (the ‘‘Stafford 

Act’’). Therefore, I declare that such a major 

disaster exists in the State of Maryland. 

In order to provide Federal assistance, you 

are hereby authorized to allocate from funds 

available for these purposes such amounts as 

you find necessary for Federal disaster 

assistance and administrative expenses. 

You are authorized to provide Public 

Assistance in the designated areas and 

Hazard Mitigation throughout the State. You 

are further authorized to provide emergency 

protective measures, including snow 

assistance, under the Public Assistance 

program for any continuous 48-hour period 

during or proximate to the incident period. 

You may extend the period of assistance, as 

warranted. For the authorized areas, the time 

period for emergency protective measures, 

including snow assistance, under the Public 

Assistance program is extended from 48 

hours to 72 hours. This assistance excludes 

regular time costs for the sub-grantees’ 

regular employees. 

Further, you are authorized to make 

changes to this declaration for the approved 

assistance to the extent allowable under the 

Stafford Act. 

The Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that 

pursuant to the authority vested in the 

Administrator, under Executive Order 

12148, as amended, Regis Leo Phelan, of 

FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal 

Coordinating Officer for this major 

disaster. 

The following areas of the State of 

Maryland have been designated as 

adversely affected by this major disaster: 

Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, 

Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, 

Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, 

Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George’s, 

Queen Anne’s, Saint Mary’s, Talbot, 

Washington, and Wicomico Counties and the 

Independent City of Baltimore for Public 

Assistance. 

Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, 

Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Charles, 

Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, 

Montgomery, Prince George’s, Queen Anne’s, 

Saint Mary’s, Washington, and Wicomico 

Counties and the Independent City of 

Baltimore for emergency protective measures 

(Category B), including snow assistance, 

under the Public Assistance program for any 

continuous 48-hour period during or 

proximate to the incident period. 

Cecil, Howard, Kent, and Talbot Counties 

for emergency protective measures (Category 

B), including snow assistance, under the 

Public Assistance program for any 

continuous 72-hour period during or 

proximate to the incident period. 

All counties within the State of Maryland 

are eligible to apply for assistance under the 

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. 

The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 

97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, 

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 

97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 

97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to 

Individuals and Households in Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, 

Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance— 

Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals 

and Households; 97.050, Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals 

and Households—Other Needs; 97.036, 

Disaster Grants—Public Assistance 

(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, 

Hazard Mitigation Grant. 

W. Craig Fugate, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12192 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5281–N–39] 

Notice of Submission of Proposed 

Information Collection to OMB; 

Emergency Comment Request; Indian 

Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Program 

(Combined and Simplified Indian 

Housing Plan and Annual Performance 

Reporting Requirements) 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

has been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

emergency review and approval, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act. The Department is soliciting public 

comments on the subject proposal, to 

assure better understanding of the 

reporting requirements and consistency 

in the submission of data. 

DATES: June 4, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments must be 

received within seven (14) days from 

the date of this Notice. Comments 

should refer to the proposal by name/or 

OMB approval number and should be 

sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503; e-mail: OIRA_Submission 

@omb.eop.gov; fax: (202) 395–5806. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leroy McKinney, Jr., Departmental 

Reports Management Officer, QDAM, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., 

Room 4178, Washington, DC 20410– 

5000; telephone 202–402–8048, (this is 

not a toll-free number) or e-mail Mr. 

McKinney at 

Leroy.McKinneyJr@hud.gov for a copy of 

the proposed forms, or other available 

information. Copies of available 

documents submitted to OMB may be 

obtained from Mr. McKinney. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

Notice informs the public that the U.S. 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD) has submitted to 

OMB, for emergency processing, a 

proposed information collection that 

combines and simplifies reporting for 

the Indian Housing Plan and Annual 

Performance Report and reduces the 

estimated annual burden hours for 

preparing the combined report. 

Recipients of IHBG funds are required 

to submit an annual Indian Housing 

Plan (IHP) (HUD–52735) that provides a 

series of goals and objectives for the 

recipient to accomplish with the IHBG 

funds to provide affordable housing for 

its low- to moderate-income tribal 

members (Native American Housing 

Assistance and Self-Determination Act 

(NAHASDA), § 102). 

At the end of each 1-year period the 

recipient is to submit an Annual 

Performance Report (APR) (HUD– 

52735–AS) to (1) Describe the use of 

grant funds; (2) compare relationship of 

grant fund use to the IHP goals and 

objectives; (3) discuss program 

accomplishments; and (4) describe how 

the recipient would change its program 

delivery and implementation based 

upon the recipient’s experience 

(NAHASDA § 404). 

IHBG recipients (tribes and tribally 

designated housing entities) are 

required to submit information annually 

to demonstrate compliance with 

eligibility and other requirements of 

NAHASDA and for HUD’s annual report 

to Congress. The information collected 

enables HUD to maintain its databases 

in order to monitor a recipient’s 

performance and determine program 

compliance. 

The proposal to create a combined 

IHP/APR reporting form is necessary for 

improving the quality of reported data 

and reducing the burden hours to 

complete the forms. HUD anticipates 

that the simplification of the IHP will 

reduce the average estimated hours to 

complete the IHP section of the IHP/ 

APR. The simplification of the APR and 

combining it with the IHP enables 

recipients to avoid unnecessary data 

entry while eliminating the need to 


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report on multiple open grants in each 

APR, thereby improving data quality 

and reducing reporting burden. In 

compliance with requirements of 5 CFR 

1320.13, the agency cannot reasonably 

comply with the normal clearance 

procedures under this part because the 

statutory changes accelerate the 

submission of the IHP starting in fiscal 

year 2011. With implementation of the 

statutory changes, the IHP is due 75 

days prior to the beginning of the 

grantee’s fiscal year. For grantees with a 

fiscal year beginning in October 1, 2010, 

the revised IHP will be due July 16, 

2010. 

Title of Proposed Notice: Indian 

Housing Block Grant Program 

(Combined Indian Housing Plan and 

Annual Performance Reporting 

Requirements). 

Description of Information Collection: 

This is a revision of a previously 

approved information collection. The 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development is seeking emergency 

review of the Paperwork Reduction Act 

requirements associated with HUD’s 

proposed combined IHP/APR. The 

combined reporting format will simplify 

the reporting process, improve the 

quality of data submitted annually, and 

reduce the annual burden for recipients 

IHBG funds. As a result, HUD will 

receive improved reporting data for 

monitoring a recipient’s performance 

and determining program compliance. 

OMB Control Number: 2577–0218. 

Agency Form Numbers: HUD–52735, 

HUD–52735–AS. (This revision 

modifies and combines both the HUD– 

52735 and 52735–AS and requests that 

the revised combined form be assigned 

a new form number or letter 

designation. Prior editions of the HUD– 

52735 should become obsolete. The 

HUD–52735–AS will need to be used for 

approximately three more years.) 

Members of Affected Public: Tribes 

and tribally designated housing entities. 

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 366; the 

frequency of response is once per year; 

and the total reporting burden will 

reduce significantly from the current 

total reporting time of 93,308 hours to 

52,941 hours. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

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

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Leroy McKinney, Jr., 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12221 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5397–N–01] 

RIN 2502–ZA05 

Federal Housing Administration 

(FHA)—Temporary Exemption From 

Compliance With FHA’s Regulation on 

Property Flipping 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

FHA has waived its regulation that 

prohibits the use of FHA financing to 

purchase properties that are being 

resold within 90 days of the previous 

acquisition. Prior to the waiver of this 

regulation, which took effect for all sales 

contracts executed on or after February 

1, 2010, a mortgage was not eligible for 

FHA insurance if the contract of sale for 

the purchase of the property that is the 

subject of the mortgage is executed 

within 90 days of the prior acquisition 

by the seller and the seller does not 

come under any of the exemptions to 

this 90-day period that are specified in 

the regulation. During this period of 

high foreclosures, FHA seeks to 

encourage investors that specialize in 

acquiring and renovating properties to 

renovate foreclosed and abandoned 

homes with the objective of increasing 

the availability of affordable homes for 

first-time and other purchasers and 

helping to stabilize real estate prices as 

well as neighborhoods and communities 

where foreclosure activity has been 

high. While the waiver is granted for the 

purpose of stimulating rehabilitation of 

foreclosed and abandoned homes, the 

waiver is applicable to all properties 

being resold within the 90-day period 

after prior acquisition, and is not 

limited to foreclosed properties. 

The waiver, however, has conditions, 

and eligible mortgages must meet the 

conditions specified in this notice. 

Additionally, the waiver is not 

applicable to mortgages insured under 

HUD’s Home Equity Conversion 

Mortgage (HECM) Program. 

Although the waiver is currently in 

effect, HUD seeks comments from 

industry, potential purchasers, and 

other interested members of the public 

on the conditions which must be met for 

the waiver to be provided. Comments 

will be taken into consideration in 

determining whether any modifications 

should be made to the waiver eligibility 

conditions. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 1, 2010 

through February 1, 2011. 

Comment Due Date. June 21, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this rule to the Regulations Division, 

Office of General Counsel, 451 7th 

Street, SW., Room 10276, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications must refer to the above 

docket number and title. There are two 

methods for submitting public 

comments. All submissions must refer 

to the above docket number and title. 

1. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

2. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments electronically through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. HUD 

strongly encourages commenters to 

submit comments electronically. 

Electronic submission of comments 

allows the commenter maximum time to 

prepare and submit a comment, ensures 

timely receipt by HUD, and enables 

HUD to make them immediately 

available to the public. Comments 

submitted electronically through the 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site can 

be viewed by other commenters and 

interested members of the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Note: To receive consideration as public 

comments, comments must be submitted 

through one of the two methods specified 

above. Again, all submissions must refer to 

the docket number and title of the rule. 

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile 

(FAX) comments are not acceptable. 

Public Inspection of Public 

Comments. All properly submitted 

comments and communications 

submitted to HUD will be available for 

public inspection and copying between 

8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above 

address. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled by calling 

the Regulations Division at 202–708– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

Individuals with speech or hearing 


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