Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No FR-4263-N-37]

Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of Administration, HUD.

ACTION: Notice

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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described

below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department

is

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soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due date: November 10, 1997.

ADDRESS: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments must be received within thirty (30) days from

the date of this Notice. Comments should refer to the proposal by name

and/or OMB approval number 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:

Kay F. Weaver, 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 Ms. Weaver.

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 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.

Authority: Sec. 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44

U.S.C. 135, as amended.

Dated: October 1, 1997.

David S. Cristy,

Director, Information Resources, Management Policy and Management

Division.

Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB

Proposal: Utility Allowance Adjustments.

Office: Housing.

OMB Approval Number: 2502-0352.

Description of the Need for the Information and Its Proposed Use:

The information will be used by the project owners to advise HUD and

request approval of new utility allowances when the utility rate change

results in a cumulative increase of 10 percent or more. If periodic

adjustments to the utility allowance are not made, tenants would be

required to pay a larger total tenant payment than is permissible.

Form Number: None.

Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government, Business or Other

For-Profit, and Not-For-Profit Institutions.

Frequency of Submission: On occasion.

Reporting Burden:

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Number of Frequency of Hours per

respondents x response x response = Burden hours

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Periodic Requests............. 1,200 1 0.5 600

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Total Estimated Burden Hours: 600.

Status: Reinstatement, without changes.

Contact: Michael E. Diggs, HUD, (202) 708-3944 x2514, Joseph F.

Lackey, Jr., OMB, (202) 395-7316.

Dated: October 1, 1997.

[FR Doc. 97-26766 Filed 10-8-97; 8:45 am]

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