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available through this NOFA, by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–117, approved December 

16, 2009). Of this amount, 

approximately $1 million is for Lead 

Technical Studies and approximately $6 

million is for Healthy Homes Technical 

Studies. The overall goal of both the 

Lead and the Healthy Homes Technical 

Studies programs is to gain knowledge 

to improve the efficacy and costeffectiveness of methods for evaluation 

and control of lead-based paint and 

other housing related health and safety 

hazards. 

The notice providing information 

regarding the application process, 

funding criteria and eligibility 

requirements can be found using the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development agency link on the 

Grants.gov/Find Web site at http://

www.grants.gov/search/agency.do. A 

link to Grants.gov is also available on 

the HUD Web site at http://

www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/

fundsavail.cfm. The Catalogue of 

Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 

number for the Lead Technical Studies 

Grant Program is 14.902. The CFDA 

number for the Healthy Homes 

Technical Studies Grant Program is 

14.906. Applications must be submitted 

electronically through Grants.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information concerning the Lead 

Technical Studies and Healthy Homes 

Technical Studies Programs, you may 

contact Dr. Peter Ashley, Office of 

Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard 

Control, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development; 451 Seventh Street, 

SW., Room 8236, Washington, DC 

20410–3000; at 202–402–7595 or via 

e-mail at Peter.J.Ashley@hud.gov. 

Persons with speech or hearing 

impairments may access this telephone 

number via TTY by calling the toll-free 

Federal Relay Service during working 

hours at 800–877–8339. 

Dated: September 27, 2010. 

Barbara S. Dorf, 

Director, Office of Departmental Grants 

Management and Oversight, Office of the 

Chief of the Human Capital Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[FR–5386–N–10] 

Privacy Act; Notification of a New 

Privacy Act System of Records, 

Homeless Families Impact Study Data 

Files 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer HUD. 

ACTION: Notification of a New Privacy 

Act System of Records (SORN). 

SUMMARY: HUD proposes to establish a 

new Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), 

SORN. The proposed new SORN is the 

Homeless Families Impact Study Data 

Files (HFISDF). The records system will 

be used by HUD’s Office of Policy 

Development and Research to study the 

effects of housing and services 

interventions for homeless families. 

Refer to the ‘‘Objective’’ caption to 

obtain detailed information about the 

purpose of this study. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: November 

3, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, 

Office of General Counsel, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications should refer to the 

above docket number and title. A copy 

of each communication submitted will 

be available for public inspection and 

copying between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 

p.m. weekdays at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donna Robinson-Staton, Departmental 

Privacy Act Officer, 451 Seventh Street, 

SW., Room 2256, Washington, DC 

20410, Telephone Number (202) 402– 

8047. (This is not a toll-free number.) A 

telecommunication device for hearingand speech-impaired individuals (TTY) 

is available at (800) 877–8339 (Federal 

Information Relay Service). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 

552a), as amended notice is given that 

HUD proposes to establish a new SORN 

as identified as Housing Families 

Impact Study Data Files. 

Title 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4) and (11) 

provide that the public be afforded a 30- 

day period in which to comment on the 

new system of records. 

The new system report was submitted 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), the Senate Committee on 

Governmental Affairs, and the House 

Committee on Government Reform 

pursuant to paragraph 4c of Appendix 1 

to OMB Circular No. A–130, ‘‘Federal 

Responsibilities for Maintaining 

Records About Individuals,’’ July 25, 

1994 (59 FR 37914). 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a 88 Stat. 1896; 42 

U.S.C. 3535(d). 

Dated: September 15, 2010. 

Jerry E. Williams, 

Chief Information Officer. 

HUD/PD&R–10 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Homeless Families Impact Study Data 

Files 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Homeless Families Impact Study Data 

Files are to be located at Abt Associates 

Inc., 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, MA; 

Abt Associates Inc., 4550 Montgomery 

Avenue, Bethesda, MD; and the AT&T 

Datacenter, 15 Enterprise Ave., 

Secaucus, NJ 07094. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Families enrolled in Homeless 

Families Impact Study. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Name; Social Security Number; study 

identifier; birth date; contact 

information (home address, telephone 

numbers, e-mail address); demographic 

characteristics of the family head (e.g., 

race/ethnicity, gender, marital status); 

number of children and other adults in 

the household (a roster of adults and 

children with the family head at 

baseline and spouse/partner and 

children not with the family head at 

baseline, and characteristics of these 

family members); income sources and 

total family income; employment and 

earnings for the family head; health 

(behavioral health and physical health 

of the family head); substance use; foster 

care history for the family head; 

exposure to domestic violence; housing 

status prior to shelter entry; 

homelessness history; barriers to 

housing; homeless program 

participation; contact information for 

family and friends; and assigned study 

intervention, and study involvement 

information. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Sec. 501, 502, Housing and Urban 

Development Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91– 

609), 12 U.S.C. 1701z–1, 1701z–2. 

PURPOSE: 

The U.S. Department of Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD) is 

undertaking an evaluation of the 

Impacts of Housing and Services 

Interventions for Homeless Families to 

provide research evidence to help 

federal policymakers, community 


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planners, and local practitioners make 

sound decisions about the best ways to 

address homelessness among families. 

This study will compare four 

combinations of housing and service 

interventions for homeless families in a 

rigorous, multi-site experiment, to 

determine what interventions work best 

to promote family stability and wellbeing and, within the limits of statistical 

power, what sorts of families benefit 

most from each intervention. The 

interventions are: (1) Permanent 

housing subsidy without services 

(Subsidy Only); (2) Community-Based 

Rapid Re-housing (CBRR), consisting of 

temporary housing subsidy provided in 

conventional housing with limited 

supportive services; (3) temporary 

housing subsidy provided in facilitybased housing with intensive services 

but no guarantee of a permanent subsidy 

(Project-Based Transitional HousingPBTH); and (4) shelter, with whatever 

services the shelter ordinarily provides 

to its residents and any other assistance 

available in the community (Usual 

Care). This study will also exploit 

naturally occurring variation in program 

features within these categories and 

across sites to explore, nonexperimentally, what features of 

programs seem most responsible for 

success. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

fi Authorized AbtSRBI researchers 

will collect the data from participating 

families and will match these primary 

study data with other datasets for 

tracking (e.g., matching with change of 

address databases) to track and locate 

families throughout the study and to 

manage the data collection process. 

fi A limited number of authorized 

Abt researchers will access personally 

identifying information to link data 

from one phase of data collection to 

another or to match primary study data 

with other datasets for data collection 

purposes (e.g., matching with HUD’s 

public housing dataset to measure 

housing receipt). 

fi Authorized Abt researchers will 

also use the data for statistical analysis 

and to develop findings for this research 

study. 

fi Authorized Abt researchers may 

use the data to create a public use file 

of non-identifiable data for disclosure to 

authorized researchers for other 

purposes. The Department suspects or 

has confirmed that the security or 

confidentiality of information in the 

system of records has been 

compromised; the Department has 

determined that as a result of the 

suspected or confirmed compromise 

there is a risk of harm to economic or 

property interests, identity theft or 

fraud, or harm to the security or 

integrity of this system or other systems 

or programs (whether maintained by the 

HUD or another agency or entity) that 

rely upon the compromised 

information. 

fi If the Department suspects or has 

confirmed that the security or 

confidentiality of information in the 

system of records has been 

compromised; or if the Department has 

determined that as a result of the 

suspected or confirmed compromise 

there is a risk of harm to economic or 

property interests, identity theft or 

fraud, or harm to the security or 

integrity of this system or other systems 

or programs (whether maintained by the 

HUD or another agency or entity) that 

rely upon the compromised 

information; than the disclosure made 

to such agencies, entities, and persons is 

reasonably necessary to assist in 

connection with the HUD’s efforts to 

respond to the suspected or confirmed 

compromise and prevent, minimize, or 

remedy such harm. 

Each data user’s permissions will be 

defined based on the user’s role on the 

project. For example, the local site 

interviewer will be able to review data 

for study participants only for his or her 

own specific site.Study data will be 

aggregated or de-identified at the 

highest level possible for each required, 

authorized use. 

Abt Associates will not use or 

disclose the data for any purposes other 

than for the ‘‘The Impacts of Housing 

and Services Interventions for Homeless 

Families’’ study (‘‘Homeless Families 

Study’’) or related follow-up studies. Abt 

Associates will not disclose the data to 

additional parties without the written 

authority of the providing organization, 

except where required by law. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

SAFEGUARDS: 

The following safeguards shall be 

used to secure data in storage, retrieval, 

during access, and disposal. 

fi All personal data (identifiable and 

de-identified data analyses files) will be 

encrypted and maintained on a secure 

workstation or server that is protected 

by a firewall, complex passwords, and 

multi-authentication factors, in a 

directory that can only be accessed by 

the network administrators and the 

analysts actively working on the data. 

fi Data on the secure server will be 

encrypted using an industry standard 

algorithm incorporating at least 128-bit 

encryption. The decryption key will 

only be known to analysts actively 

working with the data. 

fi Separate data files will be 

maintained for each questionnaire and 

for identifying information. Data files 

used for analysis will be stored in a 

separate location from files with 

identifying information to minimize the 

risk that an unauthorized user could use 

the unique identification number to link 

de-identified files with the identifiers. 

The unique identification number will 

be protected through multi-mode 

authentication, in addition to 

encryption technologies. 

fi Access rights to the data are 

granted to limited researchers on a 

need-to-know basis, and the level of 

access provided to each researcher is 

based on the minimal level required that 

individual to fulfill his research role. 

fi Abt Associates will backup the 

data on a regular basis to safeguard 

against system failures or disasters. 

Only encrypted versions of the data will 

be copied to the backup media. 

Unencrypted data will never be stored 

on a laptop or on a movable media such 

as CDs, diskettes, or USB flash drives. 

fi If an authorized researcher leaves 

employment or is no longer working on 

this project, their user ID and access 

will be terminated within one day, as 

will VPN access. These steps will be 

documented as part of termination 

process. 

fi The site interviewers will securely 

store any hard copy documents with 

personal protected information, such as 

signed consent forms, tracking letters, or 

interview appointment schedules. 

Consent Forms. After the family signs 

the informed consent form, the site 

interviewers will seal the form in an 

envelope at the conclusion of the 

interview. Envelopes will be stored in a 

box in the trunk of the interviewer’s car 

until the interviewer returns home. 

Once home, the interviewers will 

complete all necessary paperwork and 

will submit the completed surveys to 

the Abt Project Director via FedEx 

signature required. 

Tracking documentation. Each site 

interviewer must store any tracking 

letters, appointment schedules, or other 

documentation with personal protected 

information, such as name, in a locked 

cabinet that can only be accessed by the 

interviewer. Tracking documentation 

with personal protected information 

should not be generated until needed in 

the tracking process to limit risk of 

unauthorized disclosures. Site 

interviewers should use study IDs in 

lieu of personal protected information 

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feasible to limit risk of unauthorized 

disclosures. 

All hard copy forms with personal 

identifying data (the participant 

agreement/informed consent form) will 

be stored securely in a locked cabinet 

that can only be accessed by authorized 

individuals working on the data. The 

locked cabinet will be stored in a locked 

office in a limited-access building. 

Hard copy forms that are no longer 

needed for the study will be shredded. 

If site interviewers do not have access 

to a paper shredder, they will submit 

the paperwork to the Abt Project 

Director via FedEx with clear 

instructions to destroy the documents 

upon receipt. 

RETRIEVING: 

The random assignment datafile 

within this system will include personal 

identifiers that can be used to locate 

records to update families’ whereabouts 

or to verify if a family has already been 

enrolled in the study. Records within 

the random assignment datafile can be 

retrieved by name, social security 

number, study identification number, 

birthdate, or spouse name. 

After data collection is complete, 

researchers will use a dataset that is 

stripped of identifying information for 

all analyses, with the exception of a 

unique study identification number 

assigned to each participating family. 

The study identification number will be 

randomly generated at the time of 

random assignment and will be 

unrelated to personal information such 

as SSN, DOB, or name. The study 

identifier can be linked to the personal 

identifying information but only by a 

small number of central research staff at 

Abt Associates. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

PII will be maintained only as long as 

required and only under conditions 

specified in the study protocol. Upon 

completion of all research for the 

Homeless Families study, Abt 

Associates will permanently destroy of 

all electronic personally-identifiable 

information on the working server using 

one of the methods described by the 

NIST SP 800–88. 

‘‘Guidelines for Media Sanitization’’ 

(September 2006). Encrypted versions of 

the data may remain on backup media 

for a longer period of time, but will be 

similarly permanently destroyed. 

At the end of the contract, records 

that do not need to be retained will be 

shredded and the remainder of the files 

will be shredded after the three-year 

retention period required in the 

contract. The retention and disposal 

procedures are in keeping with HUD’s 

records management policies as 

described in HUD Records Disposition 

Schedules (2225.6) Appendix 67. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Carol Star, Director of the Program 

Evaluation Division, Office of Policy 

Development and Research, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20410, Telephone Number (202) 

402–6139. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

For information, assistance, or inquiry 

about existence or records, contact 

Donna Robinson-Stanton, Departmental 

Privacy Act Officer, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, in 

accordance with the procedures in 24 

CFR part 16. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

The Department’s rules for providing 

access to records to the individual 

concerned appear in 24 CFR part 16. If 

additional information or assistance is 

required, contact the Privacy Act Officer 

at the appropriate location. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Department’s rules for contesting 

the contents of records and appealing 

initial denials, by the individual 

concerned, appear in 24 CFR part 16. If 

additional information or assistance is 

needed, it may be obtained by 

contacting: 

(i) In relation to contesting contents of 

records, the Departmental Privacy Act, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Room 2256, Washington, DC 20410. 

(ii) In relation to appeals of initial 

denials, the HUD Departmental Privacy 

Appeals Officers, Office of General 

Counsel, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20410. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Original data collected directly from 

participating families, third party data 

for tracking purposes (e.g. National 

Change of Address database, credit 

bureaus), and administrative data on 

HUD’s public housing programs. 

EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN OF PROVISION OF THE

ACT: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R5–R–2010–N164; BAC–4311–K9–S3] 

Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, 

Genesee County and Orleans County, 

NY 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of draft 

comprehensive conservation plan and 

environmental assessment; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

availability of the draft comprehensive 

conservation plan (CCP) and 

environmental assessment (EA) for 

Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge 

(NWR) for a 30-day public review and 

comment period. In this draft CCP/EA, 

we describe three alternatives, including 

our Service-preferred Alternative B, for 

managing this refuge for the next 15 

years. Also available for public review 

and comment is the draft compatibility 

determinations, which is included as 

Appendix A in the draft CCP/EA. 

DATES: To ensure our consideration of 

your written comments, we must 

receive them by November 3, 2010. We 

will also hold an open house and public 

meeting at the refuge in the town of 

Alabama, New York, during the 30-day 

review period to receive comments and 

provide information on the draft plan. 

We will announce and post details 

about the public meeting in local news 

media, via our project mailing list, and 

on our Regional planning Web site, 

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/planning/

Iroquois/ccphome.html. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments, 

requests for more information, or 

requests for copies of the draft CCP/EA 

by any of the following methods. 

U.S. Mail: Thomas Bonetti, Natural 

Resource Planner, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 300 Westgate Center 

Drive, Hadley, MA 01035. 

Facsimile: Attention: Thomas Bonetti, 

413–253–8468. 

Electronic mail: 

northeastplanning@fws.gov. Include 

‘‘Iroquois NWR CCP’’ in the subject line 

of your message. 

Agency Web site: View or download 

the draft document at http://

www.fws.gov/northeast/iroquois/. 

In-Person Drop Off: You may drop off 

comments during regular business hours 

at Iroquois NWR, 1101 Casey Road, 

Basom, NY 14013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Roster, Project Leader, Iroquois 


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