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OMB Control No: 2502-0621	ICR Reference No: 202212-2502-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202111-2502-001
Agency/Subagency: HUD/OH	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Housing Counseling Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 12/21/2022
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 12/19/2022
	Date Received in OIRA: 12/14/2022
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	06/30/2023	6 Months From Approved	07/31/2025
Responses	300	0	300
Time Burden (Hours)	12,000	0	12,000
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: This information is collected in connection with HUD’s Housing Counseling Program and will be used by HUD to determine that the grant applicants meet the requirements of the Comprehensive Housing Counseling Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and all other housing counseling requirements. The information allows HUD to work with organizations that provide tenant and homeownership counseling. Counseling helps tenants and homeowners to improve their housing conditions and in meeting the responsibilities of tenancy and homeownership. HUD-approved housing counseling agencies can compete for program grant funds.

Emergency Justfication: In compliance with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.13, this letter requests emergency processing within 7 days from the date of publication. HUD has historically been required to obligate housing counseling grants within 180 days of Congress’s enactment of the appropriation act; and due to unforeseen administrative delays, this emergency review is needed to fulfill Congress’s intent for the Housing Counseling Program to expeditiously provide housing counseling grant funds to support the delivery of housing counseling services. This emergency review is necessary because the use of normal clearance procedures is reasonably likely to prevent or disrupt the collection of information that is needed to ensure proper collection of data in response to our FY 2022 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) which is currently progressing through departmental clearance. The collection is primarily being revised due to changes to the FY2023 HUD NOFO Template, which added additional narrative requirements to the 9906-L and 9906-P forms. This change only took effect in the NOFO template after October 1, 2022, and required revision to the forms that were not previously anticipated. An emergency PRA is needed for this package to be able to maintain the necessary timeline to release the NOFO for publication, application review, scoring, and award announcement before FY22 funds expire. Other changes include moving standard forms from OMB 2502-0261 to OMB 2502-0621 to contain all necessary documents for the NOFO within one collection, and other minor updates.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 12 USC 1701x Name of Law: Assistance with respect to housing for low- and moderate-income families

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

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
NOFO 9906 Charts – Grant Applications	424-CB, HUD-9906-L, HUD-9906-P	, ,

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	300	300
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	12,000	12,000
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: $1,856,375

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. No

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. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

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

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Aphrodite McCarthy 228 234-8732 aphrodite.t.mccarthy@hud.gov

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