Order of Succession for the Office of Policy Development and Research, 1228-1229 [E9-387]

Download as PDF 1228 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 7 / Monday, January 12, 2009 / Notices sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES authorizes federal guarantees for financing of certain tribal activities (Title VI Loan Guarantee Program). The regulations governing the IHBG and Title VI Loan Guarantee Programs are located in part 1000 of HUD’s regulations in title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations. In accordance with section 106 of NAHASDA, HUD developed the regulations with active tribal participation and using the procedures of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990 (5 U.S.C. 561– 570). Under the IHBG Program, HUD makes assistance available to eligible Indian tribes for affordable housing activities. The amount of assistance made available to each Indian tribe is determined using a formula that was developed as part of the NAHASDA negotiated rulemaking process. Based on the amount of funding appropriated annually for the IHBG Program, HUD calculates the annual grant for each Indian tribe and provides this information to the Indian tribes. An Indian Housing Plan for the Indian tribe is then submitted to HUD. If the Indian Housing Plan is found to be in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, the grant is made. Under the Title VI Loan Guarantee Program, HUD guarantees notes and other obligations issued by Indian tribes or their tribally designated housing entities, for the purposes of financing the eligible activities specified in NAHASDA. The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110–411, approved October 14, 2008) (2008 Reauthorization Act) reauthorizes NAHASDA through 2013 and makes several amendments to the statutory requirements governing the IHBG and Title VI Loan Guarantee Programs. The 2008 Reauthorization Act amends section 106 of NAHASDA to provide that HUD shall ‘‘initiate a negotiated rulemaking in accordance with this section by not later than 90 days after enactment of the’’ 2008 Reauthorization Act. Through this notice, HUD announces the initiation of the negotiated rulemaking required by the 2008 Reauthorization Act. This notice also provides an overview of the next steps in the negotiated rulemaking process. II. Negotiated Rulemaking The basic concept of negotiated rulemaking is to have the agency that is developing a regulation bring together representatives of affected interests for face-to-face negotiations. The give-andtake of the negotiation process is VerDate Nov<24>2008 20:34 Jan 09, 2009 Jkt 217001 expected to foster constructive, creative and acceptable solutions to difficult problems. The establishment of the negotiated rulemaking committee will offer Indian tribal governments the opportunity to have input into the changes to the IHBG Program regulations. Section 564 of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990 requires that an agency, prior to the establishment of a negotiated rulemaking committee, publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing its intent to establish the committee, provide a list of the proposed committee membership, provide certain other information regarding the formation of the committee, and solicit nominations for selection to the committee. HUD will be publishing the notice required by section 564 in the Federal Register. HUD’s goal is to establish a committee whose membership reflects a balanced representation of Indian tribes. When the committee is established, all meetings of the negotiated rulemaking committee will be announced in the Federal Register and be open to the public. Dated: December 31, 2008. Milan Ozdinec, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Choice Program, Office of Public and Indian Housing. [FR Doc. E9–269 Filed 1–9–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210–67–P DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR–5289–D–01] Order of Succession for the Office of Policy Development and Research AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, HUD. ACTION: Notice of order of succession. SUMMARY: In this notice, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research designates the Order of Succession for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. This Order of Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for the Office of Policy and Development, published on July 28, 2003. DATES: Effective Date: January 6, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynn B. Newkirk, Director, Management and Administrative Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 8228, Washington, DC 20410– 6000, telephone number (202) 708– PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 1812. (This is not a toll-free number.) Persons with hearing-or speechimpairments may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 1– 800–877–8339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research is issuing this Order of Succession of officials authorized to perform the duties and functions of the Office of the Assistant Secretary when, by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary is not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Office. This Order of Succession is subject to the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (5 U.S.C. 3345–3349d). This publication supersedes the Order of Succession notice on July 28, 2003 (68 FR 44353). Accordingly, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research designates the following Order of Succession: Section A. Order of Succession Subject to the provision of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, during any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research is not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, the following officials within the Office of Policy Development and Research are hereby designated to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Office: (1) General Deputy Assistant Secretary. (2) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation, and Monitoring. (3) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. (4) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. These officials shall perform the functions and duties of the Office in the order specified herein, and no official shall serve unless all the other officials, whose position titles precede his or hers in this order, are unable to act by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office. Foley, Richard. Section B. Authority Superseded This Order of Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, published on July 28, 2003 (68 FR 44353). E:\FR\FM\12JAN1.SGM 12JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 7 / Monday, January 12, 2009 / Notices Authority: Section 7(d) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d). Dated: January 6, 2009. Darlene F. Williams, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. [FR Doc. E9–387 Filed 1–9–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210–67–P DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR–5278–N–01] Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program—Contract Rent Annual Adjustment Factors, Fiscal Year 2009 Office of the Secretary, HUD. Notice of Revised Contract Rent Annual Adjustment Factors. AGENCY: sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES ACTION: SUMMARY: The United States Housing Act of 1937 requires that assistance contracts signed by owners participating in the Department’s Section 8 housing assistance payments programs provide for annual adjustment in the monthly rentals for units covered by the contract. This notice announces revised Annual Adjustment Factors (AAFs) for adjustment of contract rents on assistance contract anniversaries. The factors are based on a formula using data on residential rent and utilities cost changes from the most current annual Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI) survey. These factors are applied at Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract anniversaries for those calendar months commencing after the effective date of this notice. DATES: Effective Date: January 12, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact David Vargas, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Office of Public Housing and Voucher Programs, 202– 708–2815, for questions relating to the Project-Based Certificate, and Moderate Rehabilitation programs (non Single Room Occupancy); Ann Oliva, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, 202–708–4300 for questions regarding the Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Moderate Rehabilitation program; Willie Spearmon, Director, Office of Housing Assistance and Grant Administration, Office of Housing, 202–708–3000, for questions relating to all other section 8 programs; and Marie L. Lihn, Senior Economist, Economic and Market Analysis Division, Office of Policy Development and Research 202–708– 0590, for technical information VerDate Nov<24>2008 20:34 Jan 09, 2009 Jkt 217001 regarding the development of the schedules for specific areas or the methods used for calculating the AAFs. Mailing address for the above persons: Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410. Hearing-or speech-impaired persons may contact the Federal Information Relay Service at 800–877–8339 (TTY). (Other than the ‘‘800’’ TTY number, the above-listed telephone numbers are not toll free.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In addition to being published in the Federal Register, these data will be available electronically from the HUD data information page at https:// www.huduser.org/datasets/aaf.html. I. Applying AAFs to Various Section 8 Programs AAFs established by this Notice are used to adjust contract rents for units assisted in certain Section 8 housing assistance payments programs during the initial (i.e., pre-renewal) term of the HAP contract and for all units in the Project-Based Certificate program. There are three categories of section 8 programs that use the AAFs: Category 1—The Section 8 New Construction and Substantial Rehabilitation programs and the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program. Category 2—The Section 8 Loan Management (LM) and Property Disposition (PD) programs. Category 3—The Section 8 ProjectBased Certificate (PBC) program. Each section 8 program category uses the AAFs differently. The specific application of the AAFs is determined by the law, the HAP contract, and appropriate program regulations or requirements. AAFs are not used in the following cases: Renewal Rents. With the exception of the Project-Based Certificate program, AAFs are not used to determine renewal rents after expiration of the original section 8 HAP contract (either for projects where the section 8 HAP contract is renewed under a restructuring plan adopted under 24 CFR part 401; or renewed without restructuring under 24 CFR part 402). In general, renewal rents are based on the applicable state-by-state operating cost adjustment factor (OCAF) published by HUD; the OCAF is applied to the previous year’s contract rent minus debt service. Budget-based Rents. AAFs are not used for budget-based rent adjustments. For projects receiving Section 8 subsidies under the LM program (24 CFR part 886, subpart A) and for projects receiving Section 8 subsidies PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 1229 under the PD program (24 CFR part 886, subpart C), contract rents are adjusted, at HUD’s option, either by applying the AAFs, or by budget-based adjustments in accordance with 24 CFR 886.112(b) and 24 CFR 886.312(b). Budget-based adjustments are used for most section 8/ 202 projects. Certificate Program. In the past, AAFs were used to adjust the contract rent (including manufactured home space rentals) in both the tenant-based and project-based certificate programs. The tenant-based certificate program has been terminated and all tenancies in the tenant-based certificate program have been converted to the Housing Choice Voucher Program, which does not use AAFs to adjust rents. All tenancies remaining in the project-based certificate program continue to use AAFs to adjust contract rent for outstanding HAP contracts. Voucher Program. AAFs are not used to adjust rents in the Tenant-Based or the Project-Based Voucher programs. Moderate Rehabilitation Program. Under the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program, (both the regular program and the single room occupancy program), the public housing agency (PHA) applies the AAF to the base rent component of the contract rent, not the full contract rent. II. Adjustment Procedures This section of the notice provides a broad description of procedures for adjusting the contract rent. Technical details and requirements are described in HUD notices H 2002—10 (Section 8 New Construction and Substantial Rehabilitation, Loan Management, and Property Disposition) and PIH 97—57 (Moderate Rehabilitation and ProjectBased Certificates). Because of statutory and structural distinctions among the various Section 8 programs, there are separate rent adjustment procedures for the three program categories: Category 1: Section 8 New Construction, Substantial Rehabilitation, and Moderate Rehabilitation Programs In the section 8 New Construction and Substantial Rehabilitation programs, the published AAF factor is applied to the pre-adjustment contract rent. In the section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program, the published AAF is applied to the pre-adjustment base rent. For Category 1 programs, the Table 1 AAF factor is applied before determining comparability (rent reasonableness). Comparability applies if the pre-adjustment gross rent (preadjustment contract rent plus any allowance for tenant-paid utilities) is E:\FR\FM\12JAN1.SGM 12JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 7 (Monday, January 12, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1228-1229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-387]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5289-D-01]


Order of Succession for the Office of Policy Development and 
Research

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of order of succession.

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SUMMARY: In this notice, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development 
and Research designates the Order of Succession for the Office of 
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. This Order of 
Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for the Office of Policy 
and Development, published on July 28, 2003.

DATES: Effective Date: January 6, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynn B. Newkirk, Director, Management 
and Administrative Services, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 8228, Washington, DC 20410-6000, 
telephone number (202) 708-1812. (This is not a toll-free number.) 
Persons with hearing-or speech-impairments may access this number 
through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service 
at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Assistant Secretary for Policy 
Development and Research is issuing this Order of Succession of 
officials authorized to perform the duties and functions of the Office 
of the Assistant Secretary when, by reason of absence, disability, or 
vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary is not available to exercise 
the powers or perform the duties of the Office. This Order of 
Succession is subject to the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform 
Act of 1998 (5 U.S.C. 3345-3349d). This publication supersedes the 
Order of Succession notice on July 28, 2003 (68 FR 44353).
    Accordingly, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research designates the following Order of Succession:

Section A. Order of Succession

    Subject to the provision of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 
1998, during any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or 
vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research is not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties 
of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research, the following officials within the Office of Policy 
Development and Research are hereby designated to exercise the powers 
and perform the duties of the Office:
    (1) General Deputy Assistant Secretary.
    (2) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation, and 
Monitoring.
    (3) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.
    (4) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.
    These officials shall perform the functions and duties of the 
Office in the order specified herein, and no official shall serve 
unless all the other officials, whose position titles precede his or 
hers in this order, are unable to act by reason of absence, disability, 
or vacancy in office. Foley, Richard.

Section B. Authority Superseded

    This Order of Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for the 
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, published on 
July 28, 2003 (68 FR 44353).


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    Authority: Section 7(d) of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).

    Dated: January 6, 2009.
Darlene F. Williams,
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
[FR Doc. E9-387 Filed 1-9-09; 8:45 am]
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