Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request,

[Federal Register: June 19, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 118)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4349-N-24]

Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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 soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due date: July 20, 1998.

ADDRESSES: 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 and 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: Wayne Eddins, Reports Management Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, Southwest, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-1305. This is not a toll-free number. Copies of the proposed forms and other available documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from Mr. Eddins.

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

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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: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as amended.

Dated: June 12, 1998. David S. Cristy, Director, IRM Policy and Management Division.

Title of Proposal: Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards.

Office: Housing.

OMB Approval Number: 2502-0253.

Description of the Need for the Information and Its Proposed Use: The National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act authorized HUD to establish construction and safety standards for manufactured (mobile) homes and to enforce these standards. The standards require pertinent information in the form of labels and notices to be placed in each manufactured home. HUD needs this information to make sure manufacturers are complying with the standards.

Form number: None.

Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Governments, and businesses or other for-profit.

Frequency of submission: Monthly and recordkeeping.

Reporting burden:

Number of

Frequency of

Hours per

respondents x response x response = Burden hours

SAA Reports.......................

432

1

.64

276 IPIA Reports......................

1,056

1

.60

633 Manufacturer Records..............

360,000

1

.16

57,600 Consumer Information Cards........

360,000

1

.48

172,800 State Plans.......................

12

40

1.00

480 Consumer Manuals..................

360,000

1

.08

28,800 Labels and Notices................

360,000

1

.22

79,200

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 339,789.

Status: Reinstatement with changes.

Contacts: Stuart Margulies, HUD, (202) 708-6409; Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB, (202) 395-7316.

Dated: June 12, 1998.

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