[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7469-7470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4001]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Information Collection Request
for the Housing Assistance Application requires renewal. The proposed
information collection requirement, with no appreciable changes,
described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, Public Law 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). The Bureau is
soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before April 21, 1997.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments
regarding this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name
and/or OMB Control Number and should be sent to June Henkel, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, NW, MS-4603-
MIB, Washington, D.C. 20240.
All written comments will be available for public inspection in
Room 4603 of the Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington,
D.C. from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instructions should be directed to
June Henkel, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, 1849
C Street, NW, MS-4603, Washington, D.C. 20240, and 202/208-3667. (This
is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The information collection is needed to establish whether an
applicant is eligible to receive services under the Housing Improvement
Program (HIP) and to establish the priority order in which eligible
applicants may receive services under the program.
II. Method of Collection
The housing regulations at 25 CFR Part 256 contain the program
eligibility and selection criteria (Sec. 256.6, .7) which prospective
applicants seeking program services must demonstrate that they meet.
Information collected from applicants under these regulations provides
eligibility and selection data used by the local servicing housing
office to establish whether an applicant is eligible to receive
services under the program and in what priority order the applicants
are eligible to receive services. The local servicing housing office
may be a tribal housing office under a Public Law 93-638, Indian Self-
Determination contract or a Self-Governance annual funding agreement,
or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Additionally, the data is used by the
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs to establish whether a request for
waiver of a specific housing regulation is in the best interest of the
applicant and the Federal government.
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III. Data
(1) Title of the Collection of Information: Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Housing Assistance Application.
OMB Number: 1076-0084.
Expiration Date: February 28, 1997.
Type of Review: Renewal of a currently approved information
collection.
(2) Summary of the Collection of Information: The collection of
information provides pertinent data concerning an applicant's
eligibility to receive services under the Housing Improvement Program
and includes:
A. Applicant Information including: Name, Current Address,
Telephone Number, Date of Birth, Social Security Number, Tribe, Roll
Number, Marital Status, Name of Spouse, Date of Birth (of spouse),
Social Security Number (of spouse), Tribe (of spouse), and Roll Number
(of spouse).
B. Family Information including: Name, Date of Birth, Social
Security Number, Relationship to Applicant, and Tribe/Roll Number.
C. Income Information including: Earned and Unearned Income.
D. Housing Information including: Location of the house to be
repaired, constructed or purchased; Description of housing assistance
for which applying; Knowledge of receipt of prior Housing Improvement
Program assistance, amount, to whom and when; Ownership or rental;
Availability of electricity and name of electric company; Type of sewer
system; Water source; Number of bedrooms; Size of house; and, Bathroom
facilities.
E. Land Information including: land owner; legal status of land;
or, type of interest in land.
F. General Information including: Prior receipt of services under
the Housing Improvement Program and description of such; Ownership of
other housing and description of such, Identification of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) funded house and current status of project;
Identification of other sources of housing assistance for which the
applicant has applied and been denied assistance if applying for a new
housing unit or purchase of an existing standard unit; and, advisement
and description of any severe health problem, handicap or permanent
disability.
G. Applicant Certification including: Signature of Applicant and
Date, and Signature of Spouse and Date.
(3) Description of the need for the information and proposed use of
the information: Submission of this information is required in order to
receive services under the Housing Improvement Program. The information
is collected to determine applicant eligibility for services and
applicant priority order to receive services under the program.
(4) Description of likely respondents, including the estimated
number of likely respondents, and proposed frequency of response to the
collection of information: Description of likely respondents:
Individual members of Indian tribes who are living on or near a
tribally, or by law, defined service area.
Estimated number of respondents: 3,500.
Proposed frequency of response: Annually or less frequently,
depending on length of waiting list, funding availability and dynamics
of service population.
(5) Estimate of total annual reporting and record keeping burden
that will result from the collection of information:
Estimated time per application: The reporting burden for this
application is estimated to average \1/2\ hour per response, including
the time for reviewing the instructions, gathering and maintaining the
data, and completing and reviewing the form.
Estimated total Annual Burden Hours: 1750 hours.
Estimated total Record Keeping Burden: 1300 hours.
Estimated Annual Record Keeping Costs: $52,000 (1300 hours x $40.00
per hour).
IV. Request for Comments
The Department of the Interior invites comment 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 agencies'' estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information,
including 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, or disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
Dated: February 11, 1997.
Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 97-4001 Filed 2-18-97; 8:45 am]
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