2025 AHS 30 Day Federal Register Notice

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FEMA will review the information
provided to ensure proper
documentation of each activity.
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) adopted in its entirety
the Uniform Administrative
Requirements, Cost Principles, and
Audit Requirements for Federal Awards
(2 CFR part 200) on December 26, 2014.
This rule eliminates overlapping and
duplicative requirements for
stakeholders, including States,
territories and Indian Tribal
governments, by using general terms
such as ‘‘recipient’’ or ‘‘pass-through
entity.’’ FEMA is also avoiding
unnecessary duplication, overlap and
the demand for maintenance of
requirements under HMGP in two
documents, the State Administrative
Plan, and the Tribal Administrative
Plan. FEMA instead is offering and
referring to one common set of
requirements in an ‘‘Administrative
Plan.’’ The term ‘‘State Administrative
Plan’’ is now referred to
‘‘Administrative Plan for the Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program.’’
This proposed information collection
previously published in the Federal
Register on August 19, 2024, at 89 FR
67101 with a 60-day public comment
period. Three public comments were
received. Two of the comments discuss
policy concerns with the HMGP and are
not germane to this information
collection. The third public comment is
a statement of support from a private
non-profit organization and FEMA
thanks them for their comment.
The purpose of this notice is to notify
the public that FEMA will submit the
information collection abstracted below
to the Office of Management and Budget
for review and clearance.

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Title: Administrative Plan for the
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
Type of Information Collection:
Extension of a currently approved
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0026.
FEMA Forms: Not applicable.
Abstract: The State Administrative
Plan for the Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program (HMGP) is a procedural guide
that details how the State, territory, or
Tribal government will administer the
HMGP. The State, territory, or Tribal
government (who acts as a recipient)
must have a current administrative plan
approved by the appropriate FEMA
Regional Administrator before receiving
HMGP funds. The administrative plan
may take any form including a chapter
within a comprehensive State, territory,
or Tribal mitigation program strategy.

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Comments
Comments may be submitted as
indicated in the ADDRESSES caption
above. Comments are solicited to (a)
evaluate whether the proposed data
collection is necessary for the proper
performance of the Agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) evaluate the
accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) 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
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Millicent Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office
of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
35.
Estimated Number of Responses: 70.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 560.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $37,257.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $26,581.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7080–N–57]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection; 2025 American Housing
Survey; OMB Control No.: 2528–0017
Office of Policy Development
and Research, Chief Data Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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

SUMMARY:

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information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for an additional 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: January 10,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Interested persons are
also invited to submit comments
regarding this proposal and comments
should refer to the proposal by name
and/or OMB Control Number and
should be sent to: Anna Guido,
Clearance Officer, REE, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
7th Street SW, Room 8210, Washington,
DC 20410.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna Guido, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email
Anna.P.Guido@hud.gov or telephone
(202) 402–3400. 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.
The Federal Register notice that
solicited public comment on the
information collection for a period of 60
days was published on September 3,
2024 at 89 FR 71384.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: 2025
American Housing Survey.
MB Approval Number: 2528–0017.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Form Number: N/A.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use:
The purpose of the American Housing
Survey (AHS) is to supply the public
with detailed and timely information

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about housing quality, housing costs,
and neighborhood assets, in support of
effective housing policy, programs, and
markets. Title 12, United States Code,
Sections 1701Z–1, 1701Z–2(g), and
1710Z–10a mandates the collection of
this information.
Increasing field costs and declining
response rates have led HUD to adopt a
continuous data collection model as
opposed to the periodic 5-month data
collection every other year. HUD
believes continuous data collection will
be more effective, primarily because: (1)
it eliminates the expensive, timeconsuming Regional Office AHS rampup costs every two years, and (2) it puts
in place a more experienced AHS
workforce with a constant workload. An
added benefit is that we will be able to
increase the frequency of national and
metro AHS estimates, allowing for more
current estimates and better
comparability to other data sources
which collect annual data (surveys such
as the American Community Survey and
key estimates such as homeownership/
vacancy rates).
The survey will continue to be
longitudinal, interviewing the same
housing unit every two years. The
sample will be divided into 12 cohorts
where each cohort has a 2-month data
collection period. Data collection will
begin May 2025.
In addition to the ‘‘core’’ data, HUD
plans to collect supplemental data on
climate risk and insurance, arts and
culture, home accessibility, accessory
dwelling units, and housing costs roster.
Additionally wording variations related
to sexual orientation and gender will be
tested in support of the American
Community Survey Content Test.
The 2025 survey will begin a new
longitudinal sample consisting of
approximately 175,000 housing units.
The sample is designed to provide

Number of
respondents

Information collection

Frequency
of response

Responses
per annum

different target groups, such as first-time
home buyers and the elderly.
2. With the data, HUD can evaluate,
monitor, and design HUD programs to
improve efficiency and effectiveness.
HUD received two comments.
The first, from the Pine Street Inn, a
nonprofit organization that provides
resources and support to the homeless
population in the greater Boston area.
The organization expressed strong
support for the proposed changes to the
American Housing Survey data
collection process and commented that
‘‘data regarding the country’s current
housing crisis, including the physical
condition of homes and neighborhoods,
the cost of financing and maintaining
homes, and the characteristics of
households, is of great importance to
our organization.’’ HUD appreciates the
Pine Street Inn’s comments and support
of the proposed changes for the 2025
AHS.
The second, from Manufactured
Housing Institute (MHI), expressed
support for the change to continuous
data collection, stating ‘‘MHI collects
and analyzes information to produce
research publications on a near realtime basis. MHI relies on reliable up-todate information to do so. Therefore, a
continuous data collection process
would be more accurate and improve
MHI’s capabilities in this area.’’ MHI
also asked for clarification on the
intervals for release of data and if the
releases would be annual or even
monthly. HUD appreciates the
Manufactured Housing Institute’s
comments and support of the proposed
changes for the 2025 AHS. Currently,
HUD plans to release annual and
biennial PUF data products. The
biennial file will produce two-year
estimates, similar to an average of two
consecutive annual estimates.

Burden hour
per response

Annual burden
hours

Hourly cost
per response

Annual cost

Occupied Interviews ......................................
Vacant Interviews ..........................................
Non-interviews ...............................................
Ineligible ........................................................

59,500
8,750
16,625
2,625

1
1
1
1

59,500
8,750
16,625
2,625

0.75
0.08
0
0

44,625
700
0
0

23.11
23.11
23.11
23.11

$1,031,283.75
16,177.00
0
0

Subtotal ..................................................
Reinterviews ..................................................

87,500
6,423

1
1

87,500
6,423

........................
0.17

45,325.00
1,091.91

........................
23.11

1,047,460.75
25,234.04

Total .......................................................

93,923

1

93,923

........................

46,416.91

........................

1,072,694.79

B. Solicitation of Public Comment
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estimates twenty metropolitan areas and
at least seventeen states. An oversample
of HUD-assisted housing units is
included in the sample design. For the
first survey cycle (2025–26) a bridge
sample will be fielded. The bridge
sample will be drawn from housing
units that were successfully interviewed
in 2023.
The bridge sample serves as an
evaluation tool. If something unforeseen
were to happen with the 2025 sample,
the estimates from the bridge sample
can measure what the 2025 estimates
would have looked like if we had not
redesigned the AHS sample. The bridge
sample size will be 8,500.
Approximately seven percent of all
interviews will be reinterviewed for the
purpose of interviewer quality control
(an estimated total of 12,845 housing
units).
To help reduce respondent burden on
households in the longitudinal sample,
the 2025 AHS will make use of
dependent interviewing techniques,
which will decrease the number of
questions asked. Policy analysts,
program managers, budget analysts, and
Congressional staff use AHS data to
advise executive and legislative
branches about housing conditions and
the suitability of public policy
initiatives. Academic researchers and
private organizations also use AHS data
in efforts of specific interest and
concern to their respective
communities.
The Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) needs the
AHS data for the following two reasons:
1. With the data, policy analysts can
monitor the interaction among housing
needs, demand and supply, as well as
changes in housing conditions and
costs, to aid in the development of
housing policies and the design of
housing programs appropriate for

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:

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(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;

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(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

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information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
(5) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
chapter 35.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of Policy Development and Research,
Chief Data Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7086–N–33]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Multifamily Insurance
Benefits Claims Package, OMB Control
No.: 2502–0418
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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.

SUMMARY:

Comments Due Date: February
10, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection can be sent
within 60 days of publication of this
notice to www.regulations.gov.
Interested persons are also invited to
submit comments regarding this
proposal by name and/or OMB Control
Number and can be sent to: Colette
Pollard, Reports Management Officer,
REE, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room
8210, Washington, DC 20410–5000;
telephone (202) 402–3400. (this is not a
toll-free number) or email at
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov, for a copy of

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the proposed forms or other available
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov or telephone
(202) 402–3400. 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 and
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. Pollard.
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:
Multifamily Insurance Benefits Claims
Package.
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0418.
OMB Expiration Date: 07/31/2025.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Form Numbers: HUD–2741; HUD–
2742; HUD–2744–A; HUD–2744–B;
HUD–2744–C; HUD–2744–D; HUD–
2744–E; HUD–434; HUD–1044–D.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: A lender
with an insured multifamily mortgage
pays an annual insurance premium to
the Department. When and if the
mortgage goes into default, the lender
may elect to file a claim for FHA
Multifamily insurance benefits with the
Department. HUD needs this
information to determine if FHA
multifamily insurance claims submitted
to HUD are accurate, valid and support
payment.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit; State, Local, or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
110.
Estimated Number of Responses: 110.
Frequency of Response: Occasional.
Average Hours per Response: 6.25.
Total Estimated Burden: 688.
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:

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(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.
Jeffrey D. Little,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Housing.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6495–N–01]

Notice of Certain Operating Cost
Adjustment Factors for 2025
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:

This notice establishes
operating cost adjustment factors
(OCAFs) for project-based assistance
contracts issued under section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 and
renewed under the Multifamily Assisted
Housing Reform and Affordability Act
of 1997 (MAHRA) for eligible
multifamily housing projects having an
anniversary date on or after February 11,
2025. OCAFs are annual factors used to
adjust section 8 rents renewed under
section 515 or section 524 of MAHRA.
Additionally, OCAFs are part of an
allowable method of rent adjustment for
project-based voucher contracts
pursuant to the provision at section
8(o)(13)(I) of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 that was implemented June
6, 2024. Through this notice HUD also
seeks public input on the technical
changes to its OCAF calculation
method.

SUMMARY:

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