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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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[Docket No. FR–5275–N–03]
Native American Housing Assistance
and Self-Determination
Reauthorization Act of 2008: Notice of
Proposed Membership of Negotiated
Rulemaking Committee
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
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ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: On March 2, 2009, HUD
published a Federal Register notice
requesting nominations for membership
on the negotiated rulemaking committee
that will develop regulatory changes to
programs authorized under the Native
American Housing Assistance and SelfDetermination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA).
Changes to these programs were made
by the Native American Housing
Assistance and Self-Determination
Reauthorization Act of 2008, which also
directs that HUD undertake negotiated
rulemaking to implement the statutory
revisions. In accordance with section
564 of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act,
this notice establishes the committee,
announces the names and affiliations of
the committee’s proposed members,
requests public comment on the
committee and its proposed
membership, explains how additional
nominations for committee membership
may be submitted, and provides other
information regarding the negotiated
rulemaking process.
DATES: Comment Due Date: October 23,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Regulations Division,
Office of General Counsel, Department
of Housing and Urban Development,
451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410–0500.
Communications must refer to the above
docket number and title. There are two
methods for submitting public
comments. All submissions must refer
to the above docket number and title.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail.
Comments may be submitted by mail to
the Regulations Division, Office of
General Counsel, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410–0500.
2. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Interested persons may
submit comments electronically through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly
encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic
submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare
and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to
make them immediately available to the
public. Comments submitted
electronically through the https://
www.regulations.gov Web site can be
viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public.
Commenters should follow the
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instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public
comments, comments must be submitted
through one of the two methods specified
above. Again, all submissions must refer to
the docket number and title of the rule.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile
(FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications
submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above
address. Due to security measures at the
HUD Headquarters building, an advance
appointment to review the public
comments must be scheduled by calling
the Regulations Division at 202–708–
3055 (this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with speech or hearing
impairments may access this number
via TTY by calling the Federal
Information Relay Service at 800–877–
8339. Copies of all comments submitted
are available for inspection and
downloading at https://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rodger Boyd, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Native American
Programs, Room 4126, Office of Public
and Indian Housing, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20410, telephone number: 202–401–
7914 (this is not a toll-free number).
Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals
may access this number via TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Information
Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Native American Housing
Assistance and Self-Determination Act
of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.)
(NAHASDA) changed the way that
housing assistance is provided to Native
Americans. NAHASDA eliminated
several separate assistance programs
and replaced them with a single block
grant program, known as the Indian
Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program. In
addition, title VI of NAHASDA
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
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Rulemaking Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 561–
570).
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 a
number of 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.
On January 12, 2009 (74 FR 1227),
HUD published a notice in the Federal
Register announcing the initiation of the
negotiated rulemaking required by the
2008 Reauthorization Act. On March 2,
2009 (74 FR 9100), HUD published
another notice in the Federal Register
soliciting nominations for membership
on the negotiated rulemaking
committee. The notice provided that the
negotiated rulemaking committee must
consist of representatives of interests
that are potentially affected by the
rulemaking, such as tribally designated
housing entities, elected officials of
tribal governments, and HUD
representatives. It is not required that
each potentially affected organization or
entity necessarily have its own
representative. However, HUD must be
satisfied that the group as a whole
reflects a geographically diverse crosssection of small, medium, and large
Indian tribes.
II. The Negotiated Rulemaking
Committee
This notice establishes the negotiated
rulemaking committee, as required by
section 105 of the 2008 Reauthorization
Act, and announces the proposed
membership of the negotiated
rulemaking committee. In making its
proposed selections for membership on
the negotiated rulemaking committee,
HUD’s goal was to establish a committee
whose membership reflects a balanced
representation of Indian tribes.
Selections were based on those
nominees who met the eligibility
criteria for membership contained in the
March 2, 2009, Federal Register notice,
and HUD is satisfied that the proposed
membership reflects a geographically
diverse cross-section of small, medium,
and large Indian tribes. In addition to
the tribal members of the committee,
there will be one or more HUD
representatives on the negotiated
rulemaking committee. After careful
consideration of all the public
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comments received on the two notices,
HUD has made the following selections
for proposed tribal membership on the
negotiated rulemaking committee:
Steven Angasan, King Salmon Tribe,
Naknek, Alaska.
Carol Gore, President/CEO, Cook Inlet
Housing Authority, Anchorage,
Alaska.
Blake Kazama, President, Tlingit-Haida
Regional Housing Authority, Juneau,
Alaska.
Marty Shuravloff, Executive Director,
Kodiak Island Housing Authority,
Kodiak, Alaska.
Michael Cook, Executive Director,
United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.,
Nashville, Tennessee.
Ray DePerry, Housing Director, Red Cliff
Chippewa Housing Authority,
Bayfield, Wisconsin.
Robert Durant, Executive Director,
White Earth Reservation Housing
Authority, Waubun, Minnesota.
Leon Jacobs, Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina, Mystic, Connecticut.
Susan Wicker, Executive Housing
Director, Poarch Band of Creek
Indians, Atmore, Alabama.
Jason Adams, Executive Director, Salish
Kootenai Housing Authority, Pablo,
Montana.
Lafe Haugen, Executive Director,
Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing
Authority, Lame Deer, Montana.
Rebecca Phelps, Development
Specialist, Turtle Mountain Housing
Authority, Belcourt, North Dakota.
S. Jack Sawyers, Paiute Indian Tribe of
Utah, Cedar City, Utah.
Marguarite Becenti, Interim Director,
Umatilla Reservation Housing
Authority, Pendleton, Oregon.
Henry Cagey, Chairman, Lummi Nation,
Bellingham, Washington.
Larry Coyle, Executive Director, Cowlitz
Indian Tribal Housing, Chehalis,
Washington.
Karin Foster, Legal Counsel, Yakama
Nation Housing Authority,
Toppenish, Washington.
Marvin Jones, Manager, Housing
Oversight, Cherokee Nation,
Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Thomas McGeisey, Director, Seminole
Nation Housing Authority, Wewoka,
Oklahoma.
Shawna Pickup, Secretary, Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma,
Wyandotte, Oklahoma.
Russell Sossamon, Executive Director,
Choctaw Nation Housing Authority,
Hugo, Oklahoma.
Ervin Keeswood, Member, Navajo
Housing Authority Board of
Commissioners, Window Rock,
Arizona.
Judith Marasco, Executive Director,
Yurok Indian Housing Authority,
Klamath, California.
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Alvin Moyle, The Honorable Chairman,
Fallon Business Council, Fallon
Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Fallon,
Nevada.
Darlene Tooley, Executive Director,
Northern Circle Indian Housing
Authority, Ukiah, California.
III. Request for Comments and
Committee Nominations
Persons may submit comments on
HUD’s establishment of the negotiating
rulemaking committee and may submit
additional nominations for committee
membership in accordance with the
ADDRESSES section above. Nominations
for membership on the Committee must
include:
1. The name of your nominee and a
description of the interests the nominee
would represent;
2. Evidence that your nominee is
authorized to represent a tribal
government, which may include the
tribally designated housing entity of a
tribe, with the interests the nominee
would represent, so long as the tribe
provides evidence that it authorizes
such representation;
3. A written commitment that the
nominee will actively participate in
good faith in the development of the
rule; and
4. The reasons that the persons
proposed above do not adequately
represent the interests of the person
submitting the nomination.
IV. Committee Meetings
At this time, HUD has not finalized
the schedule and agenda for the
committee meetings. HUD will provide
administrative support to the
committee. Notice of committee
meetings will be published in the
Federal Register. Meetings of the
negotiated rulemaking committee will
be open to the public without advance
registration. Public attendance may be
limited to the space available. Members
of the public will be provided with an
opportunity to make statements during
the meeting, to the extent that time
permits, and to file written statements
with the committee for its
consideration. In the event that the
logistics of the committee meetings are
changed, HUD will advise the public
through Federal Register notice.
Dated: September 15, 2009.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5275-N-03]
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination
Reauthorization Act of 2008: Notice of Proposed Membership of
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On March 2, 2009, HUD published a Federal Register notice
requesting nominations for membership on the negotiated rulemaking
committee that will develop regulatory changes to programs authorized
under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act
of 1996 (NAHASDA). Changes to these programs were made by the Native
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act
of 2008, which also directs that HUD undertake negotiated rulemaking to
implement the statutory revisions. In accordance with section 564 of
the Negotiated Rulemaking Act, this notice establishes the committee,
announces the names and affiliations of the committee's proposed
members, requests public comment on the committee and its proposed
membership, explains how additional nominations for committee
membership may be submitted, and provides other information regarding
the negotiated rulemaking process.
DATES: Comment Due Date: October 23, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications must refer to the
above docket number and title. There are two methods for submitting
public comments. All submissions must refer to the above docket number
and title.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail. Comments may be submitted by
mail to the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, Department
of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410-0500.
2. Electronic Submission of Comments. Interested persons may submit
comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly encourages commenters to
submit comments electronically. Electronic submission of comments
allows the commenter maximum time to prepare and submit a comment,
ensures timely receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to make them immediately
available to the public. Comments submitted electronically through the
https://www.regulations.gov Web site can be viewed by other commenters
and interested members of the public. Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public comments, comments
must be submitted through one of the two methods specified above.
Again, all submissions must refer to the docket number and title of
the rule.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the
above address. Due to security measures at the HUD Headquarters
building, an advance appointment to review the public comments must be
scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at 202-708-3055 (this is
not a toll-free number). Individuals with speech or hearing impairments
may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay
Service at 800-877-8339. Copies of all comments submitted are available
for inspection and downloading at https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rodger Boyd, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Native American Programs, Room 4126, Office of Public and
Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone number: 202-401-
7914 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired
individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act
of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.) (NAHASDA) changed the way that housing
assistance is provided to Native Americans. NAHASDA eliminated several
separate assistance programs and replaced them with a single block
grant program, known as the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program.
In addition, title VI of NAHASDA 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
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Rulemaking Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 561-570).
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 a number of 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.
On January 12, 2009 (74 FR 1227), HUD published a notice in the
Federal Register announcing the initiation of the negotiated rulemaking
required by the 2008 Reauthorization Act. On March 2, 2009 (74 FR
9100), HUD published another notice in the Federal Register soliciting
nominations for membership on the negotiated rulemaking committee. The
notice provided that the negotiated rulemaking committee must consist
of representatives of interests that are potentially affected by the
rulemaking, such as tribally designated housing entities, elected
officials of tribal governments, and HUD representatives. It is not
required that each potentially affected organization or entity
necessarily have its own representative. However, HUD must be satisfied
that the group as a whole reflects a geographically diverse cross-
section of small, medium, and large Indian tribes.
II. The Negotiated Rulemaking Committee
This notice establishes the negotiated rulemaking committee, as
required by section 105 of the 2008 Reauthorization Act, and announces
the proposed membership of the negotiated rulemaking committee. In
making its proposed selections for membership on the negotiated
rulemaking committee, HUD's goal was to establish a committee whose
membership reflects a balanced representation of Indian tribes.
Selections were based on those nominees who met the eligibility
criteria for membership contained in the March 2, 2009, Federal
Register notice, and HUD is satisfied that the proposed membership
reflects a geographically diverse cross-section of small, medium, and
large Indian tribes. In addition to the tribal members of the
committee, there will be one or more HUD representatives on the
negotiated rulemaking committee. After careful consideration of all the
public comments received on the two notices, HUD has made the following
selections for proposed tribal membership on the negotiated rulemaking
committee:
Steven Angasan, King Salmon Tribe, Naknek, Alaska.
Carol Gore, President/CEO, Cook Inlet Housing Authority, Anchorage,
Alaska.
Blake Kazama, President, Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority,
Juneau, Alaska.
Marty Shuravloff, Executive Director, Kodiak Island Housing Authority,
Kodiak, Alaska.
Michael Cook, Executive Director, United South and Eastern Tribes,
Inc., Nashville, Tennessee.
Ray DePerry, Housing Director, Red Cliff Chippewa Housing Authority,
Bayfield, Wisconsin.
Robert Durant, Executive Director, White Earth Reservation Housing
Authority, Waubun, Minnesota.
Leon Jacobs, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Mystic, Connecticut.
Susan Wicker, Executive Housing Director, Poarch Band of Creek Indians,
Atmore, Alabama.
Jason Adams, Executive Director, Salish Kootenai Housing Authority,
Pablo, Montana.
Lafe Haugen, Executive Director, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing
Authority, Lame Deer, Montana.
Rebecca Phelps, Development Specialist, Turtle Mountain Housing
Authority, Belcourt, North Dakota.
S. Jack Sawyers, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Cedar City, Utah.
Marguarite Becenti, Interim Director, Umatilla Reservation Housing
Authority, Pendleton, Oregon.
Henry Cagey, Chairman, Lummi Nation, Bellingham, Washington.
Larry Coyle, Executive Director, Cowlitz Indian Tribal Housing,
Chehalis, Washington.
Karin Foster, Legal Counsel, Yakama Nation Housing Authority,
Toppenish, Washington.
Marvin Jones, Manager, Housing Oversight, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah,
Oklahoma.
Thomas McGeisey, Director, Seminole Nation Housing Authority, Wewoka,
Oklahoma.
Shawna Pickup, Secretary, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Wyandotte,
Oklahoma.
Russell Sossamon, Executive Director, Choctaw Nation Housing Authority,
Hugo, Oklahoma.
Ervin Keeswood, Member, Navajo Housing Authority Board of
Commissioners, Window Rock, Arizona.
Judith Marasco, Executive Director, Yurok Indian Housing Authority,
Klamath, California.
Alvin Moyle, The Honorable Chairman, Fallon Business Council, Fallon
Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Fallon, Nevada.
Darlene Tooley, Executive Director, Northern Circle Indian Housing
Authority, Ukiah, California.
III. Request for Comments and Committee Nominations
Persons may submit comments on HUD's establishment of the
negotiating rulemaking committee and may submit additional nominations
for committee membership in accordance with the ADDRESSES section
above. Nominations for membership on the Committee must include:
1. The name of your nominee and a description of the interests the
nominee would represent;
2. Evidence that your nominee is authorized to represent a tribal
government, which may include the tribally designated housing entity of
a tribe, with the interests the nominee would represent, so long as the
tribe provides evidence that it authorizes such representation;
3. A written commitment that the nominee will actively participate
in good faith in the development of the rule; and
4. The reasons that the persons proposed above do not adequately
represent the interests of the person submitting the nomination.
IV. Committee Meetings
At this time, HUD has not finalized the schedule and agenda for the
committee meetings. HUD will provide administrative support to the
committee. Notice of committee meetings will be published in the
Federal Register. Meetings of the negotiated rulemaking committee will
be open to the public without advance registration. Public attendance
may be limited to the space available. Members of the public will be
provided with an opportunity to make statements during the meeting, to
the extent that time permits, and to file written statements with the
committee for its consideration. In the event that the logistics of the
committee meetings are changed, HUD will advise the public through
Federal Register notice.
Dated: September 15, 2009.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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