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OMB Control No: 2577-0289	ICR Reference No: 201904-2577-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No:
Agency/Subagency: HUD/PIH	Agency Tracking No: PRA-2019-05
Title: National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate
Type of Information Collection: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 05/10/2019
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 05/07/2019
	Date Received in OIRA: 05/02/2019
Terms of Clearance: This emergency clearance grants a 6 month approval during which HUD will test several electronic submission methods to determine the most effective and least burdensome way to receive and process data associated with this collection. OMB appreciates HUD’s attempts to identify data collection procedures that may reduce costs and respondent burden. As a term of clearance for renewal of this collection, HUD agrees to provide OMB with a summary of HUD's findings from the demonstration, including options considered and actions taken to limit respondents' costs.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	11/30/2019	6 Months From Approved
Responses	4,500	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	11,950	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Property owners and public housing agencies that participate in the Demonstration to test a new inspection protocol will submit information to HUD about the inspections of their properties that they conduct annually. The annual inspection self-inspection data includes building profile information, building system certifications, local code violations and work orders. Through the analysis of specific property conditions HUD will refine inspection standards and protocols to better ensure resident housing is decent, safe, sanitary and in good repair

Emergency Justfication: The Department is seeking emergency review of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) requirements regarding the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) Demonstration. The Notice of Paperwork Submission (copy enclosed), proposed for immediate publication in the Federal Register for 14 days, explains the burden of the collection requirements and invites public comments. This is a new information collection. In compliance with the requirements of 5 CFR § 1320.13, this letter requests emergency processing within 30 days from the date of publication. This request for emergency processing is essential to HUD’s mission of ensuring safe, decent, and habitable housing for the nation’s most at risk population. It also serves to expedite activities that support congressional and departmental efforts to protect residents living in HUD-assisted/insured housing from present and unnecessary harm through the identification and removal of health and safety hazards in their homes. In 2017, as a result of the priority placed on resident health and safety by the Secretary, HUD initiated a wholesale reexamination of the department’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) physical inspection process as a means of bringing more HUD-assisted/insured housing into compliance with HUD’s standards for acceptable housing. At the same time, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted an audit that recommended changes to REAC inspections protocols, which would strengthen the department’s ability to identify substandard housing. In response to the Secretary’s concerns and GAO’s recommendations, a departmental-level task force has initiated the NSPIRE Model – with the specific intent of expeditiously testing revisions to the inspection standards and protocol through a demonstration program to enable enhanced identification and resolution of health and safety deficiencies in HUD-assisted/insured housing. This PRA enables the collection of data needed to validate the NSPIRE Model, thereby allowing HUD to implement the changes necessary to protect resident health and safety. To obtain input from interested agencies and members of the public regarding the burden associated with the collection, HUD has held a series of listening sessions through which many public housing agencies and property owners (collectively referred to as POAs) have received information, offered recommendations, and voiced their support for the NSPIRE Model. Also, HUD will solicit volunteer participants for the NSPIRE Demonstration through a separate Federal Register notice, which will be subject to a public comment period. Through self-nomination, POAs will indicate they are aware of, and are willing to meet, the burden required by the self-inspections for the duration of the Demonstration. Further, HUD will also submit a PRA package to continue the collection beyond the 6-month emergency period. HUD believes these actions will offer adequate opportunities for comment on the collection and submission of POA self-inspection data. In summary, the expedient transition to the NSPIRE Model is necessary for the Department to fulfill its responsibility of ensuring HUD assisted/insured housing is decent, safe, and habitable. A delay in the collection and evaluation of the information described in this PRA will result in a substantial, and possibly unrecoverable, postponement in the Demonstration and eventual implementation of the NSPIRE Model. Any such delay will ultimately place some residents living in HUD-assisted/insured housing at unnecessary risk.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 1437d(f)(3) Name of Law: The United States Housing Act of 1937

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: US Code: 42 USC 1437d(f)(3) Name of Law: The United States Housing Act of 1937

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to New Statute
Annual Number of Responses	4,500	4,500
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	11,950	11,950
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement:

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $36,903

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? Yes

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? Yes

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Daniel Williams 202 475-8873 daniel.r.williams@hud.gov

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