Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Extension of Deadline for Submission of Assessment of Fair Housing for Consolidated Plan Participants That Receive a Community Development Block Grant of $500,000 or Less, 73129-73130 [2016-25637]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5173–N–11]
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing:
Extension of Deadline for Submission
of Assessment of Fair Housing for
Consolidated Plan Participants That
Receive a Community Development
Block Grant of $500,000 or Less
Office of the Assistance
Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice advises that HUD
is extending the deadline for submission
of an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH)
by consolidated plan program
participants that received in Fiscal Year
(FY) 2015 or receive in a subsequent
fiscal year a Community Development
Block Grant of $500,000 or less, or in
the case of a HOME consortium, whose
members collectively received a CDBG
grant of $500,000 or less, from the
program year that begins on or after
January 1, 2018, to the program year that
begins on or after January 1, 2019 for
which a new consolidated plan is due,
the same date that qualified public
housing agencies (PHAs) are to submit
their AFHs.
DATES: Effective Date: October 24, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Norlander, Special Assistant,
Office of Community Planning and
Development, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Room 7100, Washington, DC
20410; telephone number 202–402–3778
(toll-free). Individuals with hearing or
speech impediments may access this
number via TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service during working
hours at 1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
On July 16, 2015, at 80 FR 42357,
HUD published in the Federal Register
its Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH) final rule. The AFFH
final rule provides HUD program
participants with a new approach for
planning for fair housing outcomes that
will assist them in meeting their
statutory obligation to affirmatively
further fair housing as required by the
Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3608. To
assist HUD program participants in
meeting this obligation, the AFFH rule
provides that program participants must
conduct an Assessment of Fair Housing
(AFH) using an ‘‘Assessment Tool.’’
HUD’s AFFH regulations codified in
24 CFR part 5 provide, in § 5.160, for a
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staggered AFH submission deadline for
its program participants. For example,
§ 5.160 provides that for their first AFH,
consolidated program participants,
except for program participants that
received a FY 2015 CDBG grant of
$500,000 or less, must submit an AFH
no later than 270 calendar days prior to
the start of their program year that
begins on or after January 1, 2017 for
which a new consolidated plan is due.
Section 5.160 provides that
consolidated program participants that
received a FY 2015 CDBG grant of
$500,000 or less must submit their first
AFH no later than 270 calendar days
prior to the start of the program year
that begins on or after January 1, 2018
for which a new consolidated plan is
due. Section 5.160 provides that
qualified public housing agencies
(PHAs) 1 must submit their first AFH no
later than 270 calendar days prior to the
start of the fiscal year that begins on or
after January 1, 2019 for which a new
5-year plan is due.
By notice published in the Federal
Register on January 15, 2015, at 80 FR
2062, prior to publication of the AFFH
final rule, HUD announced its intention
to provide a later AFH submission
deadline for certain program
participants that are typically small
entities, such as qualified PHAs, or in
the case of consolidated program
participants that receive a small CDBG
grant of $350,000 or less. HUD solicited
public comment with the notice for a
period of 30 days, on its January 15,
2015, and public feedback was favorable
to HUD’s proposal to provide later AFH
submission deadlines for smaller
program participants and program
participants that received a smaller
CDBG grant. In consideration of public
comment received on the January 15,
2015, notice, and, as noted above, in the
AFFH final rule, HUD provided a
separate submission deadline for
QPHAs; that is, their first AFH is due no
later than 270 calendar days prior to the
start of the fiscal year that begins on or
after January 1, 2019 for which a new
1 ‘‘Qualified PHA,’’ is defined in section 2702 of
title VII of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act
(HERA) (Public Law 110–289, approved July 30,
2008). Section 2702 of HERA defines ‘‘qualified
PHA’’ as a PHA: (1) for which the sum of (i) the
number of public housing dwelling units
administered by PHA, and (ii) the number of
vouchers under section 8(o) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o))
administered by the PHA is 550 or fewer; and (2)
that is not designated under section 6(j)(2) of the
United States Housing Act as a troubled PHA, and
does not have a failing score under the Section 8
Management Assessment Program during the prior
12 months. HUD codified this statutory definition
in its regulations on Public Housing Agency Plans
at 24 CFR part 903, and the definition of ‘‘qualified
PHA’’ is found at § 903.3(c).
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5-year plan is due. For consolidated
program participants that received an
FY 2015 CDBG grant of $500,000 or less,
their first AFH must be submitted not
later than 270 days prior to the start of
the program year that begins on or after
January 1, 2018 for which a new
consolidated plan is due. In response to
public comment, HUD raised the dollar
amount of the CDBG grant from
$350,000 to $500,000.
Through this notice, HUD is
extending the AFH submission deadline
for the first AFH submission for
consolidated program participants that
received an FY 2015 CDBG grant of
$500,000 or less, or in the case of HOME
consortia, whose members collectively
received an FY 2015 CDBG grant of
$500,000 or less, to the same AFH
submission deadline as QPHAs. For
consolidated program participants that
received an FY 2015 CDBG grant of
$500,000 or less, their first AFH is due
no later than 270 calendar days prior to
the start of the program year that begins
on or after January 1, 2019, for which a
new consolidated plan is due.
Through this notice, HUD also advises
that the AFH submission deadline for
program participants that received an
FY 2015 CDBG grant of $500,000 or less
also applies to new consolidated
program participants that received a
small CDBG grant in FY 2016, or receive
a small CDBG grant in FY 2017 or FY
2018.
Consolidated Plan program
participants that receive this extension
must continue to comply with existing,
ongoing obligations to affirmatively
further fair housing. Until a
consolidated plan program participant
has submitted its first AFH, it will
continue to provide the AFFH
Consolidated Plan certification in
accordance with the regulations that
existed prior to August 17, 2015. (See 24
CFR 5.160(3).) The prior certification
provides that program participants will
conduct an analysis to identify
impediments (AI) to fair housing choice
within the jurisdiction, take appropriate
actions to overcome the effects of any
impediments identified through that
analysis, and maintain records reflecting
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the analysis and actions. For
Consolidated Plan program participants
that are starting a new 3–5 year
Consolidated Plan cycle that begins
before their due date for an AFH or for
Consolidated Plan program participants
that otherwise have old or out-of-date
AIs, the AI should continue to be
updated in accordance with the Fair
Housing Planning Guide until those
Consolidated Plan program participants
convert to the new AFFH process.
Dated: October 13, 2016.
Gustavo Velasquez,
Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and
Equal Opportunity.
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(this is not a toll-free number) or email
at Colette.Pollard@hud.gov for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Liz
Zepeda, Environmental Specialist,
Office of Environment and Energy,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202)
402–3988 (this is not a toll-free number)
or email at elizabeth.g.zepeda@hud.gov.
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: 24 CFR Part 55, Floodplain
Management and Protection of
Wetlands
Office of Community Planning
and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
A. Overview of Information Collection
HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 60 days of public
comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: December
23, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone (202) 402–3400
Title of Information Collection: 24
CFR 55, Floodplain Management and
Protection of Wetlands.
OMB Approval Number: 2506–0151.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved request.
Form Number: None.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: 24 CFR
55 implements decisionmaking
procedures prescribed by Executive
Order 11988 with which applicants
must comply before HUD financial
assistance can be approved for projects
that are located within floodplains.
Records of compliance must be kept.
Respondents (i.e. affected public):
Local, state, and tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
575.
Estimated Number of Responses: 575.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Hours per Response: Varies.
Total Estimated Burdens: 2,500 hours.
SUMMARY:
Frequency of
response
Responses
per annum
Burden hour
per response
Annual burden
hours
Hourly cost
per response
Annual cost
55.20 ...............................
55.21 ...............................
275
300
1
1
275
300
8 ..................
1 ..................
2,200
300
40
40
88,000
12,000
Total ........................
575
1
575
Varies ..........
2,500
40
100,000
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5173-N-11]
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Extension of Deadline for
Submission of Assessment of Fair Housing for Consolidated Plan
Participants That Receive a Community Development Block Grant of
$500,000 or Less
AGENCY: Office of the Assistance Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice advises that HUD is extending the deadline for
submission of an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) by consolidated plan
program participants that received in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 or receive
in a subsequent fiscal year a Community Development Block Grant of
$500,000 or less, or in the case of a HOME consortium, whose members
collectively received a CDBG grant of $500,000 or less, from the
program year that begins on or after January 1, 2018, to the program
year that begins on or after January 1, 2019 for which a new
consolidated plan is due, the same date that qualified public housing
agencies (PHAs) are to submit their AFHs.
DATES: Effective Date: October 24, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Norlander, Special Assistant,
Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 7100, Washington, DC 20410;
telephone number 202-402-3778 (toll-free). Individuals with hearing or
speech impediments may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-
free Federal Relay Service during working hours at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On July 16, 2015, at 80 FR 42357, HUD published in the Federal
Register its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) final rule.
The AFFH final rule provides HUD program participants with a new
approach for planning for fair housing outcomes that will assist them
in meeting their statutory obligation to affirmatively further fair
housing as required by the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3608. To assist
HUD program participants in meeting this obligation, the AFFH rule
provides that program participants must conduct an Assessment of Fair
Housing (AFH) using an ``Assessment Tool.''
HUD's AFFH regulations codified in 24 CFR part 5 provide, in Sec.
5.160, for a staggered AFH submission deadline for its program
participants. For example, Sec. 5.160 provides that for their first
AFH, consolidated program participants, except for program participants
that received a FY 2015 CDBG grant of $500,000 or less, must submit an
AFH no later than 270 calendar days prior to the start of their program
year that begins on or after January 1, 2017 for which a new
consolidated plan is due. Section 5.160 provides that consolidated
program participants that received a FY 2015 CDBG grant of $500,000 or
less must submit their first AFH no later than 270 calendar days prior
to the start of the program year that begins on or after January 1,
2018 for which a new consolidated plan is due. Section 5.160 provides
that qualified public housing agencies (PHAs) \1\ must submit their
first AFH no later than 270 calendar days prior to the start of the
fiscal year that begins on or after January 1, 2019 for which a new 5-
year plan is due.
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\1\ ``Qualified PHA,'' is defined in section 2702 of title VII
of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) (Public Law 110-289,
approved July 30, 2008). Section 2702 of HERA defines ``qualified
PHA'' as a PHA: (1) for which the sum of (i) the number of public
housing dwelling units administered by PHA, and (ii) the number of
vouchers under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) administered by the PHA is 550 or fewer; and
(2) that is not designated under section 6(j)(2) of the United
States Housing Act as a troubled PHA, and does not have a failing
score under the Section 8 Management Assessment Program during the
prior 12 months. HUD codified this statutory definition in its
regulations on Public Housing Agency Plans at 24 CFR part 903, and
the definition of ``qualified PHA'' is found at Sec. 903.3(c).
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By notice published in the Federal Register on January 15, 2015, at
80 FR 2062, prior to publication of the AFFH final rule, HUD announced
its intention to provide a later AFH submission deadline for certain
program participants that are typically small entities, such as
qualified PHAs, or in the case of consolidated program participants
that receive a small CDBG grant of $350,000 or less. HUD solicited
public comment with the notice for a period of 30 days, on its January
15, 2015, and public feedback was favorable to HUD's proposal to
provide later AFH submission deadlines for smaller program participants
and program participants that received a smaller CDBG grant. In
consideration of public comment received on the January 15, 2015,
notice, and, as noted above, in the AFFH final rule, HUD provided a
separate submission deadline for QPHAs; that is, their first AFH is due
no later than 270 calendar days prior to the start of the fiscal year
that begins on or after January 1, 2019 for which a new
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5-year plan is due. For consolidated program participants that received
an FY 2015 CDBG grant of $500,000 or less, their first AFH must be
submitted not later than 270 days prior to the start of the program
year that begins on or after January 1, 2018 for which a new
consolidated plan is due. In response to public comment, HUD raised the
dollar amount of the CDBG grant from $350,000 to $500,000.
Through this notice, HUD is extending the AFH submission deadline
for the first AFH submission for consolidated program participants that
received an FY 2015 CDBG grant of $500,000 or less, or in the case of
HOME consortia, whose members collectively received an FY 2015 CDBG
grant of $500,000 or less, to the same AFH submission deadline as
QPHAs. For consolidated program participants that received an FY 2015
CDBG grant of $500,000 or less, their first AFH is due no later than
270 calendar days prior to the start of the program year that begins on
or after January 1, 2019, for which a new consolidated plan is due.
Through this notice, HUD also advises that the AFH submission
deadline for program participants that received an FY 2015 CDBG grant
of $500,000 or less also applies to new consolidated program
participants that received a small CDBG grant in FY 2016, or receive a
small CDBG grant in FY 2017 or FY 2018.
Consolidated Plan program participants that receive this extension
must continue to comply with existing, ongoing obligations to
affirmatively further fair housing. Until a consolidated plan program
participant has submitted its first AFH, it will continue to provide
the AFFH Consolidated Plan certification in accordance with the
regulations that existed prior to August 17, 2015. (See 24 CFR
5.160(3).) The prior certification provides that program participants
will conduct an analysis to identify impediments (AI) to fair housing
choice within the jurisdiction, take appropriate actions to overcome
the effects of any impediments identified through that analysis, and
maintain records reflecting the analysis and actions. For Consolidated
Plan program participants that are starting a new 3-5 year Consolidated
Plan cycle that begins before their due date for an AFH or for
Consolidated Plan program participants that otherwise have old or out-
of-date AIs, the AI should continue to be updated in accordance with
the Fair Housing Planning Guide until those Consolidated Plan program
participants convert to the new AFFH process.
Dated: October 13, 2016.
Gustavo Velasquez,
Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
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