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Operating Fund Calculation of 

Operating Subsidy (HUD–52723); and 

Calculation of Subsidies for Operations: 

Non-Rental Housing (HUD–53087). 

HUD uses the information on these 

forms to determine the operating 

subsidy obligation and proration level 

for each PHA. The three forms listed in 

this collection are automated in the 

Subsidy and Grant Information System 

(SAGIS). 

Frequency of Submission: Annually. 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

responses × Hours per response = Burden hours 

Reporting Burden .............................................................................. 13,919 1 0.75 10,439 

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 10,439 

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: June 2, 2010. 

Leroy McKinney, Jr., 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–13694 Filed 6–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5376–N–48] 

Housing Counseling Outcomes Study 

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. 

This request is for the clearance of 

survey instruments designed to provide 

statistically accurate information on 

outcomes realized by clients of HUDfunded housing counseling agencies 

seeking assistance to either purchase a 

home (pre-purchase clients) or to 

resolve or prevent a mortgage 

delinquency (foreclosure mitigation 

clients). Fourteen-hundred and thirty 

counseling clients have already been 

recruited to voluntarily participate in 

the study. In granting their informed 

consent to participate in the study, these 

counseling clients agreed to be 

contacted by telephone 12 months 

following the recipt of counseling to 

complete a survey about their conseling 

experience and their current housing 

situation. The purpose of this survey is 

to gather information needed to both 

document the share clients realizing 

different outcomes following counseling 

and to analyze how these outcomes vary 

with the characteristics of clients and 

the services they receive. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: July 8, 

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 (2528–Pending) 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: Housing Counseling 

Outcomes Study. 

OMB Approval Number: 2528– 

Pending. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and its Proposed Use: 

This request is for the clearance of 

survey instruments designed to provide 

statistically accurate information on 

outcomes realized by clients of HUDfunded housing counseling agencies 

seeking assistance to either purchase a 

home (pre-purchase clients) or to 

resolve or prevent a mortgage 

delinquency (foreclosure mitigation 

clients). Fourteen-hundred and thirty 

counseling clients have already been 

recruited to voluntarily participate in 

the study. In granting their informed 

consent to participate in the study, these 

counseling clients agreed to be 

contacted by telephone 12 months 

following the recipt of counseling to 

complete a survey about their conseling 

experience and their current housing 

situation. The purpose of this survey is 

to gather information needed to both 

document the share clients realizing 

different outcomes following counseling 

and to analyze how these outcomes vary 

with the characteristics of clients and 

the services they receive. 

Frequency of Submission: One Time. 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

responses × Hours per response = Burden hours 

Reporting Burden .............................................................................. 978 1 0.5 489 


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Total Estimated Burden Hours: 489. 

Status: New Collection. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

amended. 

Dated: June 2, 2010. 

Leroy McKinney, Jr., 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–13695 Filed 6–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R7–FHC–2010–N067; 71490–1351– 

0000–L5–FY10] 

Marine Mammals; Incidental Take 

During Specified Activities 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of application 

and proposed incidental harassment 

authorization; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), have received an 

application from the Alaska Department 

of Transportation and Public Facilities 

and the Aleutians East Borough for 

authorization to take small numbers of 

marine mammals by harassment 

incidental to the Akutan Airport’s 

Airport Construction and Hovercraft 

Operation in Akutan and Unalaska, 

Alaska. In accordance with provisions 

of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 

1972 (MMPA), as amended, we request 

comments on our proposed 

authorization for the applicant to 

incidentally take, by harassment, small 

numbers of northern sea otters for a 

period of 1 year, beginning May 1, 2010. 

We anticipate no take by injury or death 

and include none in this proposed 

authorization, which would be for take 

by harassment only. 

DATES: Comments and information must 

be received by July 8, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

1. By mail to: Douglas Burn, Office of 

Marine Mammals Management, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 East 

Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99503. 

2. By fax to: 907–786–3816. 

3. By electronic mail (e-mail) to: 

R7_MMM_Comment@FWS.gov. Please 

include your name and return address 

in your message. If you do not receive 

a confirmation from the system that we 

have received your message, contact us 

directly at the telephone numbers 

above. 

4. By hand-delivery to the above 

address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request copies of the application, the list 

of references used in this notice, and 

other supporting materials, contact 

Douglas Burn at the address or 

telephone numbers in ADDRESSES, or by 

e-mail at Douglas_Burn@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the 

MMPA, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1371 

(a)(5)(A) and (D)), authorize the 

Secretary of the Interior to allow, upon 

request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region, provided that we 

make certain findings and either issue 

regulations or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, provide a notice of a 

proposed authorization to the public for 

review and comment. 

We may grant authorization to 

incidentally take marine mammals if we 

find that the taking will have a 

negligible impact on the species or 

stock(s), and will not have an 

unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

subsistence uses. As part of the 

authorization process, we prescribe 

permissible methods of taking and other 

means of affecting the least practicable 

impact on the species or stock and its 

habitat, and requirements pertaining to 

the monitoring and reporting of such 

takings. 

The term ‘‘take,’’ as defined by the 

MMPA, means to harass, hunt, capture, 

or kill, or to attempt to harass, hunt, 

capture, or kill any marine mammal. 

Harassment, as defined by the MMPA, 

means ‘‘any act of pursuit, torment, or 

annoyance which (i) has the potential to 

injure a marine mammal or marine 

mammal stock in the wild [the MMPA 

calls this Level A harassment], or (ii) 

has the potential to disturb a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild by causing disruption of behavioral 

patterns, including, but not limited to, 

migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, 

feeding, or sheltering [the MMPA calls 

this Level B harassment].’’ 

The terms ‘‘small numbers,’’ 

‘‘negligible impact,’’ and ‘‘unmitigable 

adverse impact’’ are defined in 50 CFR 

18.27, the Service’s regulations 

governing take of small numbers of 

marine mammals incidental to specified 

activities. ‘‘Small numbers’’ is defined as 

‘‘a portion of a marine mammal species 

or stock whose taking would have a 

negligible impact on that species or 

stock.’’ ‘‘Negligible impact’’ is defined as 

‘‘an impact resulting from the specified 

activity that cannot be reasonably 

expected to, and is not reasonably likely 

to, adversely affect the species or stock 

through effects on annual rates of 

recruitment or survival.’’ ‘‘Unmitigable 

adverse impact’’ is defined as ‘‘an impact 

resulting from the specified activity (1) 

that is likely to reduce the availability 

of the species to a level insufficient for 

a harvest to meet subsistence needs by 

(i) Causing the marine mammals to 

abandon or avoid hunting areas, (ii) 

directly displacing subsistence users, or 

(iii) placing physical barriers between 

the marine mammals and the 

subsistence hunters; and (2) that cannot 

be sufficiently mitigated by other 

measures to increase the availability of 

marine mammals to allow subsistence 

needs to be met.’’ 

Section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA 

established an expedited process by 

which citizens of the United States can 

apply for an authorization to 

incidentally take small numbers of 

marine mammals where the take will be 

limited to harassment. Section 

101(a)(5)(D)(iii) establishes a 45-day 

time limit for Service review of an 

application, followed by a 30-day public 

notice and comment period on any 

proposed authorizations for the 

incidental harassment of marine 

mammals. Within 45 days of the close 

of the comment period, we must either 

issue or deny issuance of the 

authorization. We refer to these 

authorizations as Incidental Harassment 

Authorizations (IHAs). 

Previous Federal Action 

On July 9, 2008, we received a joint 

application from the Alaska Department 

of Transportation and Public Facilities 

and the Aleutians East Borough 

(Applicants) for the taking by 

harassment of northern sea otters 

(Enhydra lutris kenyoni) incidental to 

the Akutan Airport, Alaska Airport 

Construction and Hovercraft Operation 

(Project). The request was published in 

the Federal Register on August 27, 2008 

(73 FR 50634). On November 10, 2008, 

the Service issued IHAs to the 

Applicants authorizing Level B 

harassment of northern sea otters for a 

period of 1 year, the last date of which 

is April 30, 2010. Due to funding 

constraints, no construction activities or 

hovercraft operations have been 

conducted to date or will be conducted 

during the remainder of this period. 

Therefore no incidental take of sea 

otters occurred under the existing IHAs. 


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