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data is collected by the CTES Training 

Support Unit and provides valuable 

feedback to the Supervisory Air Marshal 

in Charge (SAC) and CTES instructional 

staff and supervisors on how the 

training material was presented and 

received. The Level 1 Surveys are 

mandatory for students who 

successfully complete training, but the 

students may remain anonymous. Once 

reviewed, the feedback is used to 

improve the course curriculum and the 

course of instruction. The estimated 

burden is approximately one hour per 

participant, 180 hours per calendar year 

(average 180 students per calendar year) 

to read, answer, and submit the 

questions. 

Dated: December 22, 2014. 

Christina A. Walsh, 

TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office 

of Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30395 Filed 12–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5819–N–01] 

Waivers and Alternative Requirements 

for the Family Self-Sufficiency 

Program 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Previously, the Family SelfSufficiency Program was administered 

as two separate programs—one for 

Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) 

participants and one for Public Housing 

participants. Appropriations for the 

Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program 

in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2014, provided, however, that the two 

programs be merged into one program 

under a separate line item. The 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, 

also provided that the Secretary could, 

by Federal Register notice, waive or 

specify alternative requirements under 

specific sections of the United States 

Housing Act of 1937 in order to 

facilitate the operation of a unified 

Family Self-Sufficiency program. Based 

on this authority, HUD has unified these 

programs. This notice provides waivers 

and alternative requirements to facilitate 

the operation of a unified selfsufficiency program. 

DATES: This notice is effective: 

December 29, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anice Chenault, FSS Program Manager, 

at Anice.S.Chenault@hud.gov, Office of 

Public Housing Investments, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 

4120, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

number 202–402–2341 (this is not a tollfree number). Persons with hearing- or 

speech-impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Approximately $75 million in 

appropriations was made available for 

HUD’s (FY) 2014 FSS program, in the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, 

(Pub. L. 113–76, 128 Stat. 5, enacted 

January 17, 2014). Previously HUD 

administered the FSS program as two 

separate programs—one for Housing 

Choice Voucher (Section 8) participants 

and one for Public Housing participants. 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 

provided, however, that the two 

programs be merged into one program 

under a separate line item. The objective 

of the FSS program is to enable 

participating low-income families to 

increase their earned income and reduce 

their dependency on welfare assistance 

and rental subsidies. Under the FSS 

program, low-income families are 

provided opportunities for education, 

job training, and other forms of social 

service assistance, while living in 

assisted housing, so they can obtain 

skills necessary to achieve selfsufficiency. 

II. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, 

and Alternative Requirements 

To facilitate the operation of a unified 

self-sufficiency program, the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, 

authorizes the Secretary to waive, or 

specify alternative requirements of the 

sections (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(5) or (c)(1) of 

Section 23 of the United States Housing 

Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u) (1937 

Act). Under this authority, the Secretary 

hereby authorizes the following waivers 

and alternative requirements, which has 

the effect of modifying the FSS statute. 

1. Waiver allowing the Alternative 

requirement to permit families in either 

the public housing or Housing Choice 

Voucher program to count towards 

compliance with public housing 

agencies’ (PHAs’) mandatory FSS 

participation level and its reduction. 

HUD is providing an alternative 

requirement to Sections 23(b)(3) and 

(b)(4) to allow public housing agencies 

to operate a unified FSS program that 

combines the number of families under 

the formerly separated programs and 

formerly count graduating participants 

from either rental assistance program to 

both fulfill their mandatory program 

size requirements and subsequently 

reduce the program size in accordance 

with Section 236(b)(4). Without such a 

policy, PHAs would have to continue 

the separate tracking of families from 

each program, which would be 

unnecessarily burdensome. Moreover, 

this flexibility will allow some PHAs 

that have had difficulty meeting 

program requirements to come into 

compliance, and enable more families to 

benefit from FSS. This will apply to all 

PHAs, including those that administer 

only a single FSS program now and 

choose to expand to serve residents 

from the other rental assistance 

program. For example, if a PHA serves 

voucher participants only through their 

FSS program and the PHA expands its 

FSS program to public housing 

residents as well, then the PHA may 

count both its voucher FSS and public 

housing FSS graduating participants in 

reducing its mandatory program size. 

2. Waiver allowing Alternative 

requirement to the timely processing of 

assistance. HUD is providing an 

alternative requirement to Section (b)(5) 

to provide that public housing 

applicants, like HCV applicants, shall 

not be delayed in receipt of housing 

assistance due to electing not to 

participate in FSS. Section 23(b)(5) 

required no delay in admission of HCV 

applicants who decline to participate in 

FSS, but is silent about public housing 

admissions. Extending the existing 

policy to public housing applicants 

promotes uniformity, and also avoids 

the risk that some families will indicate 

an interest in FSS just to gain admission 

to assisted housing, and then not make 

effective use of the opportunity. It also 

supports the principle that participation 

in FSS is voluntary. 

3. Waiver to allow Alternative 

requirements on Conditions of 

Participation. HUD is providing an 

alternative requirement to Section (c)(1) 

that provides that housing assistance 

may not be terminated or withheld as a 

consequence of failure to complete the 

Contract of Participation without good 

cause. Section 23(c)(1) allows PHAs to 

have a policy that HCV assistance may 

be withheld or terminated for those 

families that fail to comply with their 

FSS contracts without good cause, but 

does not authorize eviction of public 

housing tenants for FSS noncompliance. This alternative 

requirement will promote uniformity as 

well as the principle that participation 

in FSS is voluntary. Anecdotal evidence 

suggests that the risk of termination has 

dampened interest in FSS among HCV 

participants at agencies that have 

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difficult for PHAs to comply with FSS 

requirements. 

Dated: December 17, 2014. 

Jemine Bryon, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and 

Indian Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30342 Filed 12–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

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DS10700000 DX.10701.CEN00000] 

Renewal of Information Collection for 

the Source Directory of American 

Indian and Alaska Native Owned and 

Operated Arts and Crafts Businesses 

AGENCY: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Indian Arts and Crafts 

Board (IACB) collects information to 

identify and revise listings for the 

Source Directory of American Indian 

and Alaska Native Owned and Operated 

Arts and Crafts Businesses (Source 

Directory). In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

IACB has submitted a request for 

renewal of approval of this information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), and requests public 

comments on this submission. 

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to 

approve or disapprove the information 

collection request, but may respond 

after 30 days; therefore, public 

comments should be submitted to OMB 

by January 28, 2015, in order to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Send your written 

comments by facsimile (202) 395–5806 

or email (OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov) to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Attention: Department of the Interior 

Desk Officer (1085–0001). Also, please 

send a copy of your comments to 

Meridith Z. Stanton, Indian Arts and 

Crafts Board, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, MS 2528–MIB, 1849 C Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20240. If you 

wish to submit comments by facsimile, 

the number is (202) 208–5196, or by 

email to (iacb@ios.doi.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the Source Directory 

application and renewal form, i.e., the 

information collection instrument, 

should be directed to Meridith Z. 

Stanton, Director, Indian Arts and Crafts 

Board, 1849 C Street NW., MS 2528– 

MIB, Washington, DC 20240. You may 

also request additional information by 

telephone (202) 208–3773 (not a toll free 

call), or by email to (iacb@ios.doi.gov) or 

by facsimile to (202) 208–5196. You 

may also review the information 

collection request online at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Source Directory of American 

Indian and Alaska Native owned and 

operated arts and crafts enterprises is a 

program of the Indian Arts and Crafts 

Board that promotes American Indian 

and Alaska Native arts and crafts. The 

Source Directory is a listing of American 

Indian and Alaska Native owned and 

operated arts and crafts businesses that 

may be accessed by the public on the 

Indian Arts and Crafts Board’s Web site 

http://www.iacb.doi.gov/. 

The service of being listed in this 

directory is provided free-of-charge to 

members of federally recognized tribes. 

Businesses listed in the Source 

Directory include American Indian and 

Alaska Native artists and craftspeople, 

cooperatives, tribal arts and crafts 

enterprises, businesses privately-ownedand-operated by American Indian and 

Alaska Native artists, designers, and 

craftspeople, and businesses privately 

owned-and-operated by American 

Indian and Alaska Native merchants 

who retail and/or wholesale authentic 

Indian and Alaska Native arts and crafts. 

Business listings in the Source Directory 

are arranged alphabetically by State. 

The Director of the Board uses this 

information to determine whether an 

individual or business applying to be 

listed in the Source Directory meets the 

requirements for listing. The approved 

application will be printed in the 

Source Directory. The Source Directory 

is updated as needed to include new 

businesses and to update existing 

information. There is one type of 

application form, with a box to check 

what type of listing they are applying 

for: (1) New businesses—group; (2) new 

businesses—individual; (3) businesses 

already listed—group; and (4) 

businesses already listed—individual. 

As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a 

Federal Register notice soliciting 

comments on the collection of 

information was published on August 

29, 2014 (79 FR 51582). No comments 

were received. This notice provides the 

public with an additional 30 days in 

which to comment on the following 

information collection activity. 

II. Data 

(1) Title: Source Directory of 

American Indian and Alaska Native 

Owned and Operated Arts and Crafts 

Businesses. 

OMB Control Number: 1085–0001. 

Current Expiration Date: 1/31/2015. 

Type of Review: Renewal of an 

existing collection. 

Affected Entities: American Indian 

owned or operated arts and crafts 

businesses. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 100. 

Frequency of Response: As needed. 

(2) Annual Reporting and Record 

Keeping Burden. 

Total Annual Reporting per 

Respondent: 15 minutes. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 25 

hours. 

(3) Description of the Need and Use 

of the Information: Submission of this 

information is required to receive the 

benefit of being listed in the Indian Arts 

and Crafts Board Source Directory. The 

information is collected to determine 

the applicant’s eligibility for the service 

and to obtain the applicant’s name and 

business address to be added to the 

online directory. 

(4) As required under 5 CFR 

1320.8(d), a Federal Register notice 

soliciting comments on the information 

collection was published on August 29, 

2014 (79 FR 51582). No comments were 

received. This notice provides the 

public with an additional 30 days in 

which to comment on the proposed 

information collection activity. 

III. Request for Comments 

The Department of the Interior invites 

comments on: 

(a) 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; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

and the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

‘‘Burden’’ means the total time, effort, 

or financial resources expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide information to or 

for a federal agency. This includes the 


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