Notice of Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Annual Factors for Determining Public Housing Agency Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation Programs, 38053-38054 [2014-15712]

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Burden Estimate: The estimated burden has decreased from 2,774 hours to 2,334 hours a year due to a decrease in the number of SIP participants (i.e., companies and vessels). tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended. Dated: June 26, 2014. Marshall B. Lytle, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Technology. [FR Doc. 2014–15671 Filed 7–2–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9110–04–P VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:53 Jul 02, 2014 Jkt 232001 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR–5793–N–01] Notice of Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Annual Factors for Determining Public Housing Agency Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation Programs Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: This Notice announces the monthly per unit fee amounts for use in determining the on-going administrative fee for housing agencies administering the rental voucher and moderate rehabilitation programs, including Single Room Occupancy during CY 2014. DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2014. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Miguel Fontanez, Director, Housing Voucher Financial Management Division, Office of Public Housing and Voucher Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 4222, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20410–8000, telephone number 202– 402–2934. (This is not a toll-free number). Hearing or speech impaired individuals may call TTY number 1 (800) 877–8337. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: Purpose and Substantive Description This Notice provides the Department’s methodology to determine the CY 2014 administrative fees rates by area, which the Office of Housing Voucher Program (OHVP) will utilize to compensate public housing authorities (PHAs) for administering the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) programs. The PIH Notice 2014–05, Implementation of the Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Funding Provision for the Housing Choice Voucher Program,1 issued on March 18, 2014, describes the settlement process for this compensation, which will be a result of the mandate enacted in the ‘‘Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014’’ (Pub. L. 113–76), signed on January 17, 2014. B. FY 2014 Methodology For CY 2014, in accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, 1 PIH Notice 2014–05 can be found at: https:// portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/ program_offices/administration/hudclips/notices/ pih. PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 38053 administrative fees will be paid on the basis of units leased as of the first day of each month; this data will be extracted from the Voucher Management System (VMS) at the close of each reporting cycle. As noted in the attachment to this notice, two fee rates are provided for each public housing authority (PHA). The first rate, Column A, applies to the first 7200 unit months leased in CY 2014. The second rate, Column B, applies to all remaining unit months leased in CY 2014. In years prior to CY 2010, a Column C rate was also provided, which applied to all unit months leased in units owned by the PHA. For CY 2014 there are no Column C administrative fee rates. Fees for leasing PHA-owned units will be earned in the same manner and at the same Column A and Column B rates as for all other leasing. Administrative fees are updated annually using the change in average wages for local government workers in each State metropolitan and nonmetropolitan portion. Data on average wages come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program. The fee rates calculated for CY 2014, using the standard procedure described above, in many cases resulted in rates lower than those provided for CY 2013. In those cases, the affected PHAs are being held harmless at the CY 2013 rates. The fee rates for each PHA are generally those rates covering the areas in which each PHA has the greatest proportion of its participants, based on Public Housing Information Center (PIC) data. In some cases, PHAs have participants in more than one fee area. If a PHA so chooses, the PHA may request that the Department establish a blended fee rate schedule that will consider proportionately all areas in which participants are located. Once a blended rate schedule is calculated, it will be used to determine the PHA’s fee eligibility for all months of CY 2014. A PHA that received a blended fee rate schedule for 2013 will not receive it automatically for 2014; it must be requested. Requests for blended fee rates for CY 2014 were due on April 15, 2014, per instructions provided in the CY 2014 HCV Funding Implementation Notice, PIH 2014–05, published on March 18, 2014. HUD will evaluate the requests and will notify housing agencies of the results during the month of July, 2014. These fee rates also apply to the Moderate Rehabilitation program and the 5-Year Mainstream Program. E:\FR\FM\03JYN1.SGM 03JYN1 38054 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 128 / Thursday, July 3, 2014 / Notices Paperwork Reduction Act Statement The information collection requirements contained in this document are pending the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), and have been assigned OMB control number 2502– 0348. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the collection displays a currently valid control number. Accordingly, the Department publishes the monthly per unit fee amount to be used for determining PHA administrative fees under the Housing Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation programs as set forth on the schedule appended to this notice. The fee rates are posted on HUD’s Web site at: https://portal.hud.gov/ hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/ public_indian_housing/programs/hcv. Dated: June 26, 2014. Sandra B. Henriquez, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing. [FR Doc. 2014–15712 Filed 7–2–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210–67–P DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR–5750–N–27] Federal Property Suitable as Facilities To Assist the Homeless Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for use to assist the homeless. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Juanita Perry, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Room 7266, Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202) 402–3970; TTY number for the hearing- and speechimpaired (202) 708–2565 (these telephone numbers are not toll-free), or call the toll-free Title V information line at 800–927–7588. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with 24 CFR part 581 and section 501 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11411), as amended, HUD is publishing this Notice to identify Federal buildings and other real property that HUD has tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:53 Jul 02, 2014 Jkt 232001 reviewed for suitability for use to assist the homeless. The properties were reviewed using information provided to HUD by Federal landholding agencies regarding unutilized and underutilized buildings and real property controlled by such agencies or by GSA regarding its inventory of excess or surplus Federal property. This Notice is also published in order to comply with the December 12, 1988 Court Order in National Coalition for the Homeless v. Veterans Administration, No. 88–2503– OG (D.D.C.). Properties reviewed are listed in this Notice according to the following categories: Suitable/available, suitable/ unavailable, and suitable/to be excess, and unsuitable. The properties listed in the three suitable categories have been reviewed by the landholding agencies, and each agency has transmitted to HUD: (1) Its intention to make the property available for use to assist the homeless, (2) its intention to declare the property excess to the agency’s needs, or (3) a statement of the reasons that the property cannot be declared excess or made available for use as facilities to assist the homeless. Properties listed as suitable/available will be available exclusively for homeless use for a period of 60 days from the date of this Notice. Where property is described as for ‘‘off-site use only’’ recipients of the property will be required to relocate the building to their own site at their own expense. Homeless assistance providers interested in any such property should send a written expression of interest to HHS, addressed to Theresa Ritta, Ms. Theresa M. Ritta, Chief Real Property Branch, the Department of Health and Human Services, Room 5B–17, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, (301)–443–2265 (This is not a toll-free number.) HHS will mail to the interested provider an application packet, which will include instructions for completing the application. In order to maximize the opportunity to utilize a suitable property, providers should submit their written expressions of interest as soon as possible. For complete details concerning the processing of applications, the reader is encouraged to refer to the interim rule governing this program, 24 CFR part 581. For properties listed as suitable/to be excess, that property may, if subsequently accepted as excess by GSA, be made available for use by the homeless in accordance with applicable law, subject to screening for other Federal use. At the appropriate time, HUD will publish the property in a PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Notice showing it as either suitable/ available or suitable/unavailable. For properties listed as suitable/ unavailable, the landholding agency has decided that the property cannot be declared excess or made available for use to assist the homeless, and the property will not be available. Properties listed as unsuitable will not be made available for any other purpose for 20 days from the date of this Notice. Homeless assistance providers interested in a review by HUD of the determination of unsuitability should call the toll free information line at 1– 800–927–7588 for detailed instructions or write a letter to Ann Marie Oliva at the address listed at the beginning of this Notice. Included in the request for review should be the property address (including zip code), the date of publication in the Federal Register, the landholding agency, and the property number. For more information regarding particular properties identified in this Notice (i.e., acreage, floor plan, existing sanitary facilities, exact street address), providers should contact the appropriate landholding agencies at the following addresses: AIR FORCE: Ms. Connie Lotfi, Air Force Real Property Agency, 143 Billy Mitchell Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78226, (210) 925–3047; ARMY: Ms. Veronica Rines, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, Department of Army, Room 5A128, 600 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310, (571)–256–8145; (These are not toll-free numbers). Dated: June 26, 2014. Brian P. Fitzmaurice, Director, Division of Community Assistance, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs. Title V, Federal Surplus Property Program Federal Register Report for 07/04/2014 Suitable/Available Properties Building Maryland 4 Buildings Aberdeen Proving Ground APG MD 21010 Landholding Agency: Army Property Number: 21201420026 Status: Unutilized Directions: E1375, E3244, E3306, E3615 Comments: off-site removal only; no future agency need; secured area; contact Army for more info. on a specific property & accessibility/removal reqs. Unsuitable Properties Building Arizona 18 Buildings Davis Monthan 4855 S. Wickenberg Avenue E:\FR\FM\03JYN1.SGM 03JYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 128 (Thursday, July 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38053-38054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15712]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5793-N-01]


Notice of Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Annual Factors for Determining 
Public Housing Agency Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing 
Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation Programs

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This Notice announces the monthly per unit fee amounts for use 
in determining the on-going administrative fee for housing agencies 
administering the rental voucher and moderate rehabilitation programs, 
including Single Room Occupancy during CY 2014.

DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Miguel Fontanez, Director, Housing 
Voucher Financial Management Division, Office of Public Housing and 
Voucher Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, Room 4222, 451 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20410-8000, telephone number 202-402-2934. (This is not 
a toll-free number). Hearing or speech impaired individuals may call 
TTY number 1 (800) 877-8337.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Substantive Description

    This Notice provides the Department's methodology to determine the 
CY 2014 administrative fees rates by area, which the Office of Housing 
Voucher Program (OHVP) will utilize to compensate public housing 
authorities (PHAs) for administering the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) 
programs. The PIH Notice 2014-05, Implementation of the Federal Fiscal 
Year (FY) 2014 Funding Provision for the Housing Choice Voucher 
Program,\1\ issued on March 18, 2014, describes the settlement process 
for this compensation, which will be a result of the mandate enacted in 
the ``Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014'' (Pub. L. 113-76), signed 
on January 17, 2014.
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    \1\ PIH Notice 2014-05 can be found at: https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/administration/hudclips/notices/pih.
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B. FY 2014 Methodology

    For CY 2014, in accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2014, administrative fees will be paid on the basis of units 
leased as of the first day of each month; this data will be extracted 
from the Voucher Management System (VMS) at the close of each reporting 
cycle.
    As noted in the attachment to this notice, two fee rates are 
provided for each public housing authority (PHA). The first rate, 
Column A, applies to the first 7200 unit months leased in CY 2014. The 
second rate, Column B, applies to all remaining unit months leased in 
CY 2014. In years prior to CY 2010, a Column C rate was also provided, 
which applied to all unit months leased in units owned by the PHA. For 
CY 2014 there are no Column C administrative fee rates. Fees for 
leasing PHA-owned units will be earned in the same manner and at the 
same Column A and Column B rates as for all other leasing.
    Administrative fees are updated annually using the change in 
average wages for local government workers in each State metropolitan 
and non-metropolitan portion. Data on average wages come from the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and 
Wages (QCEW) program.
    The fee rates calculated for CY 2014, using the standard procedure 
described above, in many cases resulted in rates lower than those 
provided for CY 2013. In those cases, the affected PHAs are being held 
harmless at the CY 2013 rates.
    The fee rates for each PHA are generally those rates covering the 
areas in which each PHA has the greatest proportion of its 
participants, based on Public Housing Information Center (PIC) data. In 
some cases, PHAs have participants in more than one fee area. If a PHA 
so chooses, the PHA may request that the Department establish a blended 
fee rate schedule that will consider proportionately all areas in which 
participants are located. Once a blended rate schedule is calculated, 
it will be used to determine the PHA's fee eligibility for all months 
of CY 2014. A PHA that received a blended fee rate schedule for 2013 
will not receive it automatically for 2014; it must be requested. 
Requests for blended fee rates for CY 2014 were due on April 15, 2014, 
per instructions provided in the CY 2014 HCV Funding Implementation 
Notice, PIH 2014-05, published on March 18, 2014. HUD will evaluate the 
requests and will notify housing agencies of the results during the 
month of July, 2014.
    These fee rates also apply to the Moderate Rehabilitation program 
and the 5-Year Mainstream Program.

[[Page 38054]]

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

    The information collection requirements contained in this document 
are pending the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520), and have been assigned OMB control number 2502-0348. In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD may not conduct or 
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of 
information unless the collection displays a currently valid control 
number.
    Accordingly, the Department publishes the monthly per unit fee 
amount to be used for determining PHA administrative fees under the 
Housing Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation programs as set 
forth on the schedule appended to this notice.
    The fee rates are posted on HUD's Web site at: https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv.

    Dated: June 26, 2014.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 2014-15712 Filed 7-2-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4210-67-P
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