[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 211 (Tuesday, November 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59195-59196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28570]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4441-N-51]
Submission for OMB Review: Welfare to Work Voucher Program
Evaluation
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Administration (VA) and the
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Independent
Agencies Appropriation Act of 1999 established the Section 8 Welfare to
Work Vouchers Program to help eligible families make the transfer from
welfare to work and set aside 283 million to achieve the effect. The
same act permitted HUD to use up to one percent of that amount to
conduct detailed evaluations of the effect of providing tenant-based
rental assistance to eligible families on their ability to obtain and
retain employment. Review of existing literature yields scant scholarly
or governmental research on the impact of the availability of assisted
housing on employment. The Department determined that the most
effective way to gauge the impact of Welfare to Work Vouchers was to
establish an experimental situation in which a small number of
communities allocated vouchers among eligible participants by random
assignment. An experimental group would receive the voucher, and a
control group would not. Both groups would be surveyed over time to
test whether the presence of the voucher had an independent effect on
the ability of families to obtain and retain employment and, thereby,
move from dependency upon welfare.
DATES: Comments Due Date: December 2, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB
approval number and should be sent to: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB Desk
Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, New Executive
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Eddins, Reports Management
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street,
Southwest, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-2374. This is not
a toll-free number. Copies of the proposed forms and other available
documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from Mr. Eddins.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department has submitted the proposal
for the collection of information, as described below, to OMB for
review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter
35). The Notice lists the following information: (1) The title of the
information collection proposal; (2) the office of the agency to
collect the information; (3) the OMB approval number, if applicable;
(4) the description of the need for the information and its proposed
use; (5) the agency form number, if applicable; (6) what members of the
public will be affected by the proposal; (7) how frequently information
submissions will be required; (8) an estimate of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information submission including the number
of respondents, frequency of response, and hours of response; (9)
whether the proposal is new, an extension, reinstatement, or revision
of an information collection requirement; and (10) the names and
telephone numbers of an agency official familiar with the proposal and
of the OMB Desk Officer for the Department.
This Notice also lists the following information:
Title of Proposal: Welfare to Work Voucher Program Evaluation.
OMB Approval Number: 2528-XXXX.
Form Number: None.
Description of the Need for the Information and its Proposed Use:
The Purpose is to evaluate the impact of the provision of Section 8
vouchers on the ability of eligible low-income families to obtain or
retain jobs.
Respondents: Individuals or Households.
Frequency of Submission: Annually.
Reporting Burden:
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Number of Frequency of Hours per
respondents X response X response = Burden hours
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Information Collection.......... 10,000 1 .67 6,667
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Total Estimated Burden Hours: 6,667.
Status: New.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
44 U.S.C. 35, as amended.
Dated: October 26, 1999.
Wayne Eddins,
Departmental Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-28570 Filed 11-1-99; 8:45 am]
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