Refuse To Accept Procedures for Premarket Tobacco Product Submissions; Withdrawal, 80567 [2016-27456]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 221 / Wednesday, November 16, 2016 / Rules and Regulations Appendix to Chief Compliance Officer Annual Report Requirements for Futures Commission Merchants, Swap Dealers, and Major Swap Participants; Amendments to Filing Dates— Commission Voting Summary On this matter, Chairman Massad and Commissioners Bowen and Giancarlo voted in the affirmative. No Commissioner voted in the negative. [FR Doc. 2016–27525 Filed 11–15–16; 8:45 am] Dated: November 9, 2016. Peter Lurie, Associate Commissioner for Public Health Strategy and Analysis. [FR Doc. 2016–27456 Filed 11–15–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4164–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 24 CFR Parts 888, 982, 983, and 985 BILLING CODE 6351–01–P [Docket No. FR–5855–F–03] RIN 2501–AD74 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Establishing a More Effective Fair Market Rent System; Using Small Area Fair Market Rents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program Instead of the Current 50th Percentile FMRs Food and Drug Administration 21 CFR Part 1105 Office of the Secretary, HUD. Final rule. AGENCY: [Docket No. FDA–2016–N–1555] ACTION: Refuse To Accept Procedures for Premarket Tobacco Product Submissions; Withdrawal This final rule applies the use of Small Area Fair Market Rents (Small Area FMRs) in the administration of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program for certain metropolitan areas. This final rule provides for the use of Small Area FMRs, in place of the 50th percentile rent, the currently codified regulations, to address high levels of voucher concentration in certain communities. The use of Small Area FMRs is expected to give HCV tenants access to areas of high opportunity and lower poverty areas by providing a subsidy that is adequate to cover rents in those areas, thereby reducing the number of voucher families that reside in areas of high poverty concentration. DATES: Effective: January 17, 2017. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this rule, contact Peter B. Kahn, Director, Economic and Market Analysis Division, Office of Economic Affairs, Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 402–2409 or Becky L. Primeaux, Director, Housing Voucher Management and Operations Division, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708–0477; email: SAFMR_Rule@ hud.gov. The listed telephone numbers are not toll-free numbers. Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339 (this is a toll-free number). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under this final rule, public housing agencies AGENCY: SUMMARY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Direct final rule; withdrawal. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in the Federal Register of August 8, 2016, a direct final rule regarding procedures for refusing to accept premarket tobacco product submissions. The comment period closed October 24, 2016. FDA is withdrawing the direct final rule because the Agency received significant adverse comment. FDA will consider the comments we received on the direct final rule to be comments on the companion proposed rule published at 81 FR 52371 (August 8, 2016). SUMMARY: The direct final rule published at 81 FR 52329 (August 8, 2016), is withdrawn effective November 16, 2016. DATES: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with RULES Annette Marthaler or Paul Hart, Office of Regulations, Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, Document Control Center, Bldg. 71, Rm. G335, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 877–287–1373, CTPRegulations@fda.hhs.gov. Therefore, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and under authority delegated to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the direct final rule published on August 8, 2016, (81 FR 52329) is withdrawn. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:03 Nov 15, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 80567 (PHAs) operating in designated metropolitan areas are required to use Small Area FMRs, while PHAs not operating in the designated areas have the option to use Small Area FMRs in administering their HCV programs. Other programs that use FMRs would continue to use area-wide FMRs. This final rule also provides for regulatory implementation of certain provisions of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) related to FMRs, as well as conforming regulatory changes to part 982 concerning the reduction in payment standards during the term of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract in the HCV program. Specifically, the final rule provides for publication of FMRs by way of the World Wide Web, and provides that PHAs are no longer required to reduce the payment standard for a family under HAP contract when the PHA is required to reduce the payment standard for its program as the result of a reduction in the FMR. I. Executive Summary A. Purpose of the Regulatory Action This final rule establishes a more effective means for HCV tenants to move into areas of higher opportunity and lower poverty by providing the tenants with a subsidy adequate to make such areas accessible and, consequently, help reduce the number of voucher families that reside in areas of high poverty concentration. Prior to this rule, subsidy for HUD’s HCV program is determined by a formula that considers rent prices across an entire metropolitan area. However, rents can vary widely within a metropolitan area depending upon the size of the metropolitan area and the neighborhood in the metropolitan area within which one resides. The result of determining rents on the basis of an entire metropolitan area is that a voucher subsidy may be too high or may be too low to cover market rent in a given neighborhood. To date, HUD’s policy for addressing high concentrations of voucher holders raises the level of the FMR from the 40th percentile to the 50th percentile (roughly a 7—8 percent increase) in the whole FMR area. This level of added subsidy has not been targeted to areas of opportunity, and consequently, this formula has not proven effective in addressing the problem of concentrated poverty and economic and racial segregation in neighborhoods. Experience with the 50th percentile regime has shown that the majority of HCV tenants use their vouchers in neighborhoods where rents are low but E:\FR\FM\16NOR1.SGM 16NOR1

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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 16, 2016)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 80567]
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[FR Doc No: 2016-27456]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

21 CFR Part 1105

[Docket No. FDA-2016-N-1555]


Refuse To Accept Procedures for Premarket Tobacco Product 
Submissions; Withdrawal

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Direct final rule; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in the 
Federal Register of August 8, 2016, a direct final rule regarding 
procedures for refusing to accept premarket tobacco product 
submissions. The comment period closed October 24, 2016. FDA is 
withdrawing the direct final rule because the Agency received 
significant adverse comment. FDA will consider the comments we received 
on the direct final rule to be comments on the companion proposed rule 
published at 81 FR 52371 (August 8, 2016).

DATES: The direct final rule published at 81 FR 52329 (August 8, 2016), 
is withdrawn effective November 16, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Annette Marthaler or Paul Hart, Office 
of Regulations, Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug 
Administration, Document Control Center, Bldg. 71, Rm. G335, 10903 New 
Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 877-287-1373, 
CTPRegulations@fda.hhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Therefore, under the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act, and under authority delegated to the Commissioner of Food 
and Drugs, the direct final rule published on August 8, 2016, (81 FR 
52329) is withdrawn.

    Dated: November 9, 2016.
Peter Lurie,
Associate Commissioner for Public Health Strategy and Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2016-27456 Filed 11-15-16; 8:45 am]
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