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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5747–N–01]
Public Housing Assessment System
(PHAS) Capital Fund Interim Scoring
Notice: Reinstitution of Five Points for
Occupancy Sub-Indicator and Request
for Comment
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice advises public
housing agencies (PHAs), as well as
members of the public, that HUD
intends to reinstitute, temporarily, the
award of 5 points for the occupancy
sub-indicator of the Capital Fund
Program Indicator to all PHAs for the
PHAS Capital Fund Program Indicator.
This award of points is provided as
regulatory relief from a non-statutory
element of PHAS and intended to help
lessen the impact of decreases in
funding in recent appropriations acts.
Adding automatic points for the
occupancy sub-indicator will allow
PHAs to focus on the statutory criteria
for assessing performance under the
Capital Fund Indicator, which is timely
obligation of the Capital Funds and will
in no way limit HUD’s oversight and
monitoring of PHAs.
HUD welcomes public comment on
the scoring adjustment HUD intends to
make as provided in this notice.
DATES: Effective Date: December 16,
2013.
Comment due date: January 15, 2014.
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 7th Street SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410–0500.
Communications must refer to the above
docket number and title. There are two
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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
7th 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
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
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 Relay
Service at 1–800–877–8339. Copies of
all comments submitted are available for
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inspection and downloading at
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Claudia J. Yarus, Real Estate Assessment
Center (REAC), Office of Public and
Indian Housing, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 550 12th
Street SW., Suite 100, Washington, DC
20410, telephone 202–475–8830 (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 Relay
Service at 800–877–8339. Additional
information is available from the REAC
Internet site at https://www.hud.gov/
offices/reac/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The purpose of PHAS is to provide a
management tool for measuring the
performance of a PHA in essential
housing operations of projects, on a
program-wide basis and individual
project basis. PHAS measures a PHA’s
performance through four indicators:
physical condition, financial condition,
management operations and
performance under the Capital Fund
Program. Each of these indicators
contains subindicators, and the scores
for the subindicators are used to
determine a single score for each of
these PHAS indicators. The PHAS
regulations, codified at 24 CFR part 902,
were revised and updated by an interim
rule published on February 23, 2011, at
76 FR 10136.
The Capital Fund Program Indicator
consists of two subindicators. One
subindicator required by statute focuses
on the time taken by a PHA to obligate
Capital Funds (see 42 U.S.C. 1437g(j)).
The other subindicator, which is
regulatory, focuses on a PHA’s
occupancy rate as of the end of a PHA’s
fiscal year. Each subindicator is worth
up to 5 points for a total possible score
of 10 points for the Capital Fund
Program Indicator. (See 24 CFR 902.50.)
In addition to measuring a PHA’s
occupancy rate under the Capital Fund
Program Indicator, a PHA’s occupancy
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rate is accounted for under another
indicator, the management operations
indicator, at 24 CFR 902.43(a)(1).
Scoring for this indicator as originally
implemented is described in the Capital
Fund Scoring Notice, also published on
February 23, 2011, at 76 FR 10053.
Under this indicator, PHAs can receive
up to 5 points for the timeliness of fund
obligation and up to 5 points for the
occupancy rate. That scoring notice was
modified to award an automatic 5 points
for the occupancy sub-indicator of the
Capital Fund by an interim notice for
public comment, 77 FR 34399 (Monday,
June 11, 2012), which was, after
consideration of the public comments,
made final at 78 FR 21623 (April 11,
2013). At that time, this action was done
to give PHAs time to adjust their
systems and procedures to the new
scoring regime.
As a result of automatic across-theboard funding cuts required under the
Budget Control Act of 2011, Public Law
112–15 (approved August 2, 2011),
which became effect in January 2013,
funding for public housing was
significantly cut. HUD recognizes PHAs’
resources are more severely strained and
they need the flexibility to make choices
about how Capital Funds are expended
in accord with statutory requirements.
Given the current funding
environment and the fact that the
occupancy rate is also addressed under
the management operations indicator,
HUD believes that reinstating and
extending the automatic 5 points for the
occupancy sub-indicator of the Capital
Fund Program Indicator is appropriate,
and will provide some relief to PHAs as
they weigh options for expenditure of
limited Capital Funds and will result in
no PHA losing any Capital Funds as the
result of the non-statutory portion of the
regulatory PHAS Capital Fund Program
indicator.
II. Action
This notice advises that HUD will
award an automatic 5 points for the
Capital Fund occupancy sub-indicator
for PHAs with fiscal years ending March
31, 2014, June 30, 2014, September 30,
2014, December 31, 2014, March 31,
2015, June 30, 2015, September 30,
2015, and December 31, 2015.
HUD welcomes public comment on
this interim notice, and will consider all
significant and relevant issues raised in
issuing a final notice.
Dated: December 6, 2013.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5711–N–03]
Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests
Granted for the Third Quarter of
Calendar Year 2013
AGENCY:
Office of the General Counsel,
HUD.
ACTION:
Notice.
Section 106 of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform
Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly
Federal Register notices of all
regulatory waivers that HUD has
approved. Each notice covers the
quarterly period since the previous
Federal Register notice. The purpose of
this notice is to comply with the
requirements of section 106 of the HUD
Reform Act. This notice contains a list
of regulatory waivers granted by HUD
during the period beginning on July 1,
2013, and ending on September 30,
2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information about this notice,
contact Camille E. Acevedo, Associate
General Counsel for Legislation and
Regulations, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Room 10282, Washington, DC 20410–
0500, telephone 202–708–1793 (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 Relay
Service at 800–877–8339.
For information concerning a
particular waiver that was granted and
for which public notice is provided in
this document, contact the person
whose name and address follow the
description of the waiver granted in the
accompanying list of waivers that have
been granted in the third quarter of
calendar year 2013.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
106 of the HUD Reform Act added a
new section 7(q) to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Act
(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides
that:
1. Any waiver of a regulation must be
in writing and must specify the grounds
for approving the waiver;
2. Authority to approve a waiver of a
regulation may be delegated by the
Secretary only to an individual of
Assistant Secretary or equivalent rank,
and the person to whom authority to
waive is delegated must also have
authority to issue the particular
regulation to be waived;
3. Not less than quarterly, the
Secretary must notify the public of all
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waivers of regulations that HUD has
approved, by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register. These notices (each
covering the period since the most
recent previous notification) shall:
a. Identify the project, activity, or
undertaking involved;
b. Describe the nature of the provision
waived and the designation of the
provision;
c. Indicate the name and title of the
person who granted the waiver request;
d. Describe briefly the grounds for
approval of the request; and
e. State how additional information
about a particular waiver may be
obtained.
Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act
also contains requirements applicable to
waivers of HUD handbook provisions
that are not relevant to the purpose of
this notice.
This notice follows procedures
provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy
on Waiver of Regulations and Directives
issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337).
In accordance with those procedures
and with the requirements of section
106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of
regulations are granted by the Assistant
Secretary with jurisdiction over the
regulations for which a waiver was
requested. In those cases in which a
General Deputy Assistant Secretary
granted the waiver, the General Deputy
Assistant Secretary was serving in the
absence of the Assistant Secretary in
accordance with the office’s Order of
Succession.
This notice covers waivers of
regulations granted by HUD from July 1,
2013 through September 30, 2013. For
ease of reference, the waivers granted by
HUD are listed by HUD program office
(for example, the Office of Community
Planning and Development, the Office
of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity,
the Office of Housing, and the Office of
Public and Indian Housing, etc.). Within
each program office grouping, the
waivers are listed sequentially by the
regulatory section of title 24 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) that is
being waived. For example, a waiver of
a provision in 24 CFR part 58 would be
listed before a waiver of a provision in
24 CFR part 570.
Where more than one regulatory
provision is involved in the grant of a
particular waiver request, the action is
listed under the section number of the
first regulatory requirement that appears
in 24 CFR and that is being waived. For
example, a waiver of both § 58.73 and
§ 58.74 would appear sequentially in the
listing under § 58.73.
Waiver of regulations that involve the
same initial regulatory citation are in
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5747-N-01]
Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) Capital Fund Interim
Scoring Notice: Reinstitution of Five Points for Occupancy Sub-
Indicator and Request for Comment
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice advises public housing agencies (PHAs), as well as
members of the public, that HUD intends to reinstitute, temporarily,
the award of 5 points for the occupancy sub-indicator of the Capital
Fund Program Indicator to all PHAs for the PHAS Capital Fund Program
Indicator. This award of points is provided as regulatory relief from a
non-statutory element of PHAS and intended to help lessen the impact of
decreases in funding in recent appropriations acts. Adding automatic
points for the occupancy sub-indicator will allow PHAs to focus on the
statutory criteria for assessing performance under the Capital Fund
Indicator, which is timely obligation of the Capital Funds and will in
no way limit HUD's oversight and monitoring of PHAs.
HUD welcomes public comment on the scoring adjustment HUD intends
to make as provided in this notice.
DATES: Effective Date: December 16, 2013.
Comment due date: January 15, 2014.
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 7th 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 7th 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
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
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 Relay
Service at 1-800-877-8339. Copies of all comments submitted are
available for inspection and downloading at www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claudia J. Yarus, Real Estate
Assessment Center (REAC), Office of Public and Indian Housing,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 550 12th Street SW., Suite
100, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 202-475-8830 (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 Relay Service
at 800-877-8339. Additional information is available from the REAC
Internet site at https://www.hud.gov/offices/reac/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The purpose of PHAS is to provide a management tool for measuring
the performance of a PHA in essential housing operations of projects,
on a program-wide basis and individual project basis. PHAS measures a
PHA's performance through four indicators: physical condition,
financial condition, management operations and performance under the
Capital Fund Program. Each of these indicators contains subindicators,
and the scores for the subindicators are used to determine a single
score for each of these PHAS indicators. The PHAS regulations, codified
at 24 CFR part 902, were revised and updated by an interim rule
published on February 23, 2011, at 76 FR 10136.
The Capital Fund Program Indicator consists of two subindicators.
One subindicator required by statute focuses on the time taken by a PHA
to obligate Capital Funds (see 42 U.S.C. 1437g(j)). The other
subindicator, which is regulatory, focuses on a PHA's occupancy rate as
of the end of a PHA's fiscal year. Each subindicator is worth up to 5
points for a total possible score of 10 points for the Capital Fund
Program Indicator. (See 24 CFR 902.50.) In addition to measuring a
PHA's occupancy rate under the Capital Fund Program Indicator, a PHA's
occupancy
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rate is accounted for under another indicator, the management
operations indicator, at 24 CFR 902.43(a)(1).
Scoring for this indicator as originally implemented is described
in the Capital Fund Scoring Notice, also published on February 23,
2011, at 76 FR 10053. Under this indicator, PHAs can receive up to 5
points for the timeliness of fund obligation and up to 5 points for the
occupancy rate. That scoring notice was modified to award an automatic
5 points for the occupancy sub-indicator of the Capital Fund by an
interim notice for public comment, 77 FR 34399 (Monday, June 11, 2012),
which was, after consideration of the public comments, made final at 78
FR 21623 (April 11, 2013). At that time, this action was done to give
PHAs time to adjust their systems and procedures to the new scoring
regime.
As a result of automatic across-the-board funding cuts required
under the Budget Control Act of 2011, Public Law 112-15 (approved
August 2, 2011), which became effect in January 2013, funding for
public housing was significantly cut. HUD recognizes PHAs' resources
are more severely strained and they need the flexibility to make
choices about how Capital Funds are expended in accord with statutory
requirements.
Given the current funding environment and the fact that the
occupancy rate is also addressed under the management operations
indicator, HUD believes that reinstating and extending the automatic 5
points for the occupancy sub-indicator of the Capital Fund Program
Indicator is appropriate, and will provide some relief to PHAs as they
weigh options for expenditure of limited Capital Funds and will result
in no PHA losing any Capital Funds as the result of the non-statutory
portion of the regulatory PHAS Capital Fund Program indicator.
II. Action
This notice advises that HUD will award an automatic 5 points for
the Capital Fund occupancy sub-indicator for PHAs with fiscal years
ending March 31, 2014, June 30, 2014, September 30, 2014, December 31,
2014, March 31, 2015, June 30, 2015, September 30, 2015, and December
31, 2015.
HUD welcomes public comment on this interim notice, and will
consider all significant and relevant issues raised in issuing a final
notice.
Dated: December 6, 2013.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 2013-29837 Filed 12-13-13; 8:45 am]
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