2024-12172. 60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: HUD Research, Evaluation, and Demonstration Cooperative Agreements; OMB Control No.: 2528-0299

AGENCY:

Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.

DATES:

Comments Due Date: August 5, 2024.

ADDRESSES:

Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding this proposal.

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection can be submitted within 60 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/​public/​do/​PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting, “Currently under 60-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function. Interested persons are also invited to submit comments regarding this proposal by name and/or OMB Control Number and can be sent to: Anna Guido, Reports Management Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410-5000 or email at [e-mail].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anna Guido, Reports Management Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20410; email; [e-mail]; telephone [phone] (this is not a toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is prepared to receive calls from individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as individuals with speech or communication disabilities. To learn more about how to make an accessible telephone call, please visit https://www.fcc.gov/​consumers/​guides/​telecommunications-relay-service-trs.

Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from Ms. Guido.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This notice informs the public that HUD is seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in Section A.

A. Overview of Information Collection

Title of Information Collection: HUD Research, Evaluation, and Demonstration Cooperative Agreements.

OMB Approval Number: 2528-0299.

Type of Request: Revision of currently approved collection.

Form Number: N/A.

Description of the need for the information and proposed use: PD&R intends to establish cooperative agreements with qualified for-profit and nonprofit research organizations and universities to conduct research, demonstrations, and data analysis. This information collection includes the post-award materials that cooperative agreement recipients will be required to submit to PD&R over the course of the period of performance of their award. PD&R will use these deliverables to monitor the progress of the research being carried out under the cooperative agreement and to monitor the use of the funding and authorize payments to the awardee.

Respondent: For-profit and nonprofit organizations that are selected to receive an award under HUD's Research, Evaluation, and Demonstration Cooperative Agreements.

Estimated Number of Respondents: HUD anticipates up to 33 organizations may be selected to receive a cooperative agreement award over the three years covered by this ICR. Recipients of the cooperative agreements will be the sole members of the affected public for the reporting requirement.

Table 1—Estimated Hour and Cost Burden of Information Collection

Information collection	Number of respondents	Frequency of response	Responses per annum	Burden hour per response	Annual burden hours	Hourly cost per response	Cost
Quality Control Plan	25	0.33	8.25	20	165	$49.14	$8,108.10
Management and Work Plan	25	0.33	8.25	40	330	49.14	16,216.20
Sustainability Plan	7	0.33	2.31	40	92.4	49.14	4,540.53
Research Design	29	0.33	9.57	160	1531.2	49.14	75,243.16
Quarterly Progress Reports	33	4	132	4	528	49.14	25,945.92
Final Research Report	33	0.33	10.89	240	2613.6	49.14	128,432.30
Final Narrative Report	33	0.33	10.89	5	54.45	49.14	2,675.67
Total					5,314.65		261,161.88

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and affected parties concerning the collection of information described in Section A on the following:

(1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility;

(2) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information;

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected, and

(4) Ways to 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.

HUD encourages interested parties to submit comments in response to these questions.

C. Authority

Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507.

Todd M. Richardson,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.