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existing building stock in the nation’s

cities, there is a need to examine

compliance alternatives to the building

rehabilitation process that maintain an

equivalent level of safety, but are

designed to encourage rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation has many financial,

environmental, and historical benefits

for communities. For example,

rehabilitation frequently allows cities to

commit fewer financial resources to the

development of city infrastructure,

rehabilitation minimizes the problems

of removal of building materials, and

rehabilitation preserves buildings that

are a part of the community’s history

and culture.

In the 1970s and 80s, HUD undertook

efforts to facilitate the process of

altering the building regulations for

housing rehabilitation. One step was the

publication of The Rehabilitation

Guidelines to begin examining

equivalent compliance alternatives to

the regulatory process for the nation’s

three model codes, state and local code

agencies. Although the guidelines are

not mandatory, they have had some

impact on alteration of the regulatory

process. However, the extent and the

success of these changes are unknown.

Some jurisdiction have adopted

regulations that are designed to

encourage rehabilitation while

accepting compliance alternatives that

maintain a level of safety equivalent to

that specified in the building codes. The

enforcement of these compliance

alternatives often relies on the

discretion of local code enforcement

officials, which means that enforcement

may vary between and within

jurisdictions.

At the May 1996 HUD sponsored

symposium of The Status of Building

Regulation for Housing Rehabilitation,

there was a need expressed by

participants to collect information on

building code enforcement as it related

to rehabilitation practices since this

knowledge is not available. Specifically,

the information is being collected (1) to

identify differences in building code

enforcement as it relates to

rehabilitation and (2) to determine the

success of compliance alternatives in

encouraging rehabilitation. This

information will provide data to further

facilitate the process of altering

rehabilitation enforcement practices

nationwide.

Agency Form Numbers, if Applicable:

None.

Members of Affected Public: A diverse

set of individuals and organizations

with roles in building rehabilitation

may be affected by the information

collection. Some examples are state and

local agencies involved with housing

rehabilitation code enforcement and

community members who are

responsible for the building

rehabilitation plans. The range of

affected individuals in code

enforcement agencies vary from policymakers of code regulations to the actual

administrators of codes in communities.

The community members affected range

from building owners and developers to

design professionals.

Estimation of the Total Number of

Hours Needed To Prepare the

Information Collection Including

Number of Respondents, Frequency of

Response, and Hours of Response:

Information will be collected by mail

survey with at most 1,000 participants

involved in the code enforcement

process. The survey’s will take

approximately 15 minutes to complete.

This means a total of 250 hours of

response time for the information

collection.

Status of the Proposed Information

Collection: Pending submission to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and clearance.

Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork

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

as amended.

Dated: May 21, 1996.

Michael A. Stegman,

Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy

Development and Research.

[FR Doc. 96–13502 Filed 5–29–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–62–M

[Docket No. FR–3917–N–83]

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner; Notice of Proposed

Information Collection for Public

Comment

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

requirement described below will be

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.

DATES: July 29, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments should refer to

the proposal by name and/or OMB

Control Number and should be sent to:

Oliver Walker, Housing, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, 451

7th Street SW., Room 9116, Washington,

DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Donald Kline, Single Family Insurance

Operations Division (SFIOD), telephone

number (202) 708–0614 ext. 3511 for

form HUD–27050–A or Savannah

Williams, SFIOD, telephone number

(202) 708–0614 ext. 3407 for form HUD–

27050–B (these are not toll-free

numbers) for copies of the proposed

forms and other available documents.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department will submit the proposed

information collection to OMB for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

chapter 35, as amended).

The 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 proper performance of the function

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: Mortgage Insurance

Termination—HUD–27050–A,

Application for Premium Refund or

Distributive Share Payment, HUD–

27050–B.

OMB Control Number: 2502–0414.

Description of the Need for the

Information and Proposed Use:

Mortgage Insurance Termination, form

HUD–27050–A, is used by servicing

mortgagees to comply with HUD

requirements for reporting termination

of FHA mortgage insurance. This form

is used whenever FHA mortgage

insurance is terminated and no claim for

insurance benefits will be filed. Under

the new streamline III program when

the form is submitted on magnetic tape,

the form can be used to directly pay

eligible homeowners. This condition

occurs when the form passes the criteria

of certain system edits.

As the result the system generates a

disbursement to the eligible

homeowners for the refund consisting of

the unused portion of the paid

premium. The collection information

required is used to update HUD’s Single

Family Insurance System. The billing of
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mortgage insurance premiums is

discontinued as a result of the

transaction. Without this information

the premium collection/monitoring

function would be severely impeded

and program data would be unreliable.

Under streamline III when the form is

processed and but does not pass the

series of edits the system generates in

these cases the form HUD–27050–B to

the homeowner to be completed and

returned to HUD for further processing

for the refund. In general a Premium

Refund is the difference between the

amount of prepaid premium and the

amount of the premium that has been

earned by HUD up to the time the

mortgage is terminated.

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting

burden for this collection of information

for the HUD–27050–A is estimated to

average 5 minutes per response,

including the time for reviewing

instructions, searching existing data

sources gathering and maintaining the

data needed, and completing and

reviewing the collection of information.

The number of respondents is 9,500 and

the frequency of response is as required

and the volume per respondents is 1 to

40,000 depending on the size of their

FHA portfolio.

Public reporting burden for this

collection of information for the HUD–

27–50–B estimated to average 15

minutes per response, including the

time for reviewing instructions,

searching existing data sources

gathering and maintaining the data

needed, and completing and reviewing

the collection of information. The

number of respondents is 382,000 and

the frequency of response is one time

and the volume per respondents is 1.

Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork

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

as amended.

Dated: May 23, 1996.

Nicolas P. Retsinas,

Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal

Housing Commissioner.

[FR Doc. 96–13503 Filed 5–29–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–27–M

[Docket No. FR–3852–N–03]

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Housing—Federal Housing

Commissioner; Service Coordinator

Program Announcement of Funding

Awards for Section 202 Projects—FY

1995

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of funding

awards.

SUMMARY: In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989, this announcement

notifies the public of funding awards

made by the Department on an ‘‘as

applied for’’ funding basis under a

Federal Register notice for the Service

Coordinator Program. This

announcment contains the names and

addresses of the Section 202 projects

and the amount of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carissa Janis, Office of Multifamily

Housing Asset Management and

Disposition, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, room 6176, 451

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20410, telephone (202) 708–3291 (this is

not a toll-free number). Hearing- or

speech-impaired individuals may access

this number by calling the Federal

Information Relay Service TTY at 1–

800–877–8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Service

Coordination is authorized by section

808 of the National Affordable Housing

Act of 1990, as amended by Section 677

of the Housing and Community

Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C.

1701q(g)).

Fiscal Year 1995 funds were

announced in a Federal Register notice

published on February 13, 1995 (60 FR

8280). The notice announced the

availability of $22 million for Section

202 projects to pay for the employment

of a service coordinator and for related

administrative expenses. This assistance

is available only to owners/borrowers of

Section 202 projects. A service

coordinator is a social service staff

person hired by the project owner/

management company. The coordinator

is responsible for assuring that residents

of the project, especially those who are

frail or disabled, are linked to the

supportive services they need to

continue living independently in that

project.

In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101–235,

approved December 15, 1989), the

Department is hereby publishing the

names and addresses of the Section 202

awardees that received funding from

February 13 through September 30,

1995 under this notice, and the amount

of funds awarded to each. the total

amount awarded during this period was

$8,794,142 to 77 projects. This

information is provided in Appendix A

to this document.

Dated: May 24, 1996.

Stephanie A. Smith,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Housing—Federal Housing Commissioner.

Appendix A—Fiscal Year 1995, Office of Housing

SECTION 202s FUNDED WITH SECTION 8 SERVICE COORDINATOR FUNDS WITH FY 1995 MONEY FROM 2/95 THROUGH 9/30/95

[Program Name: Service Coordinator Program; Statute: Public Law 101–625, November 28, 1990 and Public Law 102–550, October 28, 1992; Notice Date: February

13, 1995; Funding Recipient (Name, Address, Dollar Amount)]

McNamara House, 69 Holton Street, Boston (Allston), MA, Owner: Brighton-Allston Edlerly Homes, Inc 023–EH035,

MA06–T781–015

MA06–CS95–001

$106,800

NCSC Housing Management Corp., Earl M. Bourden Center, 67 Maple Avenue, Claremont, NH 03743,

Owner: Senior Citizens Housing Dev. Corp. of Clairmont.

024EH004

NH36–1440–021

31,575

Maine AFL–CIO Elderly House, Inc., Chateau Cushnec, Maine, Owner: Maine AFL–CIO Elderly Housing, Inc.024–EH080

ME36T801009

15,593

United Methodist Retirement Center, 40 Irving Avenue, East Providence 02914, Owner: Trustees of

United Health and Welfare.

016–SH001

R143–0202–00

75,195

Jamestown Lutheran, 9 Crane Street, Jamestown, NY, Owner: Jamestown Lutheran HDFC, Inc ............. 014–EH017

NY06–T781–012

NY06–CS95–003

232,390

Frances Schervier Housing, 2995 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY 10463, Owner: Frances Schervier

Housing Development Fund Co.

012–EH225

NY36–CS95–003

230,520