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information and proposed use: Section
516 of the Quality Housing and Work
Responsibility Act of 1998
(QHWRA)(Pub. L. 105–276, October 21,
1998) added Section 30, Public Housing
Mortgages and Security Interest, to the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (1937
Act)(42 U.S.C. 1437z-2). Section 30
authorizes the Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) to approve a
Housing Authority’s (HA) request to
mortgage public housing real property
or grant a security interest in other
tangible forms of personal property if
Laura Miller-Pittman,
Chief, Office of Policy, Programs and
Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6350–N–01]
Green and Resilient Retrofit Program:
Request for Information
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:
In response to the passage of
the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,
HUD is currently designing a new
program, the Green and Resilient
Retrofit Program (GRRP), and expects to
make multiple rounds of funding
available to support energy, and water
efficiency retrofits and climate
resilience of HUD-assisted multifamily
properties. Through this Request for
Information (RFI), HUD is seeking input
on funding rounds as well as on utility
benchmarking. Information provided in
response to this RFI will inform
prioritization of work, treatment of costbenefit analyses, and key design
elements that will help ensure program
goals are met.
DATES: Comments are requested on or
before October 27, 2022. Late-filed
comments will be considered to the
extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments responsive
to this RFI. All submissions must refer
to the docket number and title of the
RFI. Commenters are encouraged to
identify the number of the specific
question or questions to which they are
responding. Responses should include
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the name(s) of the person(s) or
organization(s) filing the comment;
however, because any responses
received by HUD will be publicly
available, responses should not include
any personally identifiable information
or confidential commercial information.
There are two methods for submitting
public comments.
1. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Interested persons may
submit comments electronically through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov.
2. 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.
HUD strongly encourages commenters
to submit their feedback and
recommendations electronically.
Electronic submission of comments
allows the commenter maximum time to
prepare and submit a response, ensures
timely receipt by HUD, and enables
HUD to make comments immediately
available to the public. Comments
submitted electronically through the
https://www.regulations.gov website 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 notice.
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Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All comments and
communications properly 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 can dial 7–1–1 to access the
Telecommunications Relay Service
(TRS), which permits users to make
text-based calls, including Text
Telephone (TTY) and Speech to Speech
(STS) calls. Individuals who require an
alternative aid or service to
communicate effectively with HUD
should email GRRP@hud.gov and
provide a brief description of their
preferred method of communication.
Copies of all comments submitted are
available for inspection and
downloading at https://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lauren Ross, Senior Adviser for
Housing and Sustainability, Office of
Multifamily Housing, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
7th Street SW, Room 6106, Washington,
DC 20410–0500; telephone number 202–
402–5423 (this is not a toll-free
number). Individuals can dial 7–1–1 to
access the Telecommunications Relay
Service (TRS), which permits users to
make text-based calls, including Text
Telephone (TTY) and Speech to Speech
(STS) calls. Individuals who require an
alternative aid or service to
communicate effectively with HUD
should email GRRP@hud.gov and
provide a brief description of their
preferred method of communication.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
(Pub. L. 117–169) (the Act) makes
$837.5 million available to HUD for the
provision of loans and grants to fund
projects that improve energy or water
efficiency, enhance indoor air quality or
sustainability, implement the use of
zero-emission electricity generation,
low-emission building materials or
processes, energy storage, or building
electrification strategies, and/or address
climate resilience. Eligible HUD-assisted
multifamily properties include, but are
not limited to, Section 8 Project Based
Rental Assistance (PBRA), Section 811
Housing for Persons with Disabilities,
and Section 202 Housing for the Elderly.
The Act also includes $42.5 million for
energy and water benchmarking of the
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HUD-assisted multifamily portfolio
along with associated data analysis and
evaluation at the property- and
portfolio-level, and the development of
information technology systems
necessary for the collection, evaluation,
and analysis of such data.
In response to the passage of the
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, HUD is
currently designing a new program, the
Green and Resilient Retrofit Program
(GRRP), and expects to make multiple
rounds of funding available to support
energy and water efficiency retrofits and
climate resilience of HUD-assisted
multifamily properties. HUD is seeking
input on funding rounds as well as on
benchmarking. Public input will inform
prioritization of work, treatment of costbenefit analyses, and key design
elements that will help ensure program
goals are met. Overall goals of the GRRP
for the HUD-assisted multifamily
portfolio include reducing energy
consumption and carbon emissions,
improving indoor air quality for
residents, reducing residents’ and
properties’ exposure to climate hazards,
and protecting life, livability, and
property when disaster strikes.
Additionally, the GRRP will serve to
further preserve the long-term
affordability of the assisted properties.
II. Purpose of This Request for
Information
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit
information regarding the design and
implementation of the GRRP to support
the improvement of energy and water
efficiency retrofits, and climate
resilience of HUD-assisted multifamily
properties.
III. Specific Information Requested
While HUD welcomes all comments
relevant to the design and
implementation of the GRRP, HUD is
particularly interested in receiving
input from interested parties on the
questions outlined below.
1. HUD is seeking input on program
design features, energy-saving measures,
low-emission technology, and resilience
design and measures that have proven
effective in affordable multifamily
buildings. How might this program help
prioritize and scale best practices for
reducing energy consumption and
carbon emissions, improving indoor air
quality for residents, and strengthening
climate resilience among affordable
multifamily buildings? How can these
measures and practices be deployed in
a way that preserves affordability of our
properties? Eligible uses for project
funding and/or financing include:
a. Improve energy and/or water
efficiency.
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b. Enhance indoor air quality and/or
sustainability.
c. Implement the use of zero-emission
electricity generation, low-emission
building materials or processes, and/or
energy storage, or building
electrification strategies.
d. Address climate resilience.
2. This program offers owners of
HUD-assisted multifamily properties an
opportunity to plan comprehensively
around energy efficiency and climate
resilience. Often, these goals can be
interrelated. Materials and technologies
that enhance a building’s energy
efficiency can also make the building
more durable and resilient to threats
posed by extreme weather events. It is
also possible that some energy
efficiency and climate resilience
improvements may be in tension. HUD
would like recommendations for
designing the program to meet energy
and emissions reduction goals as well as
climate resilience. HUD seeks
information on how to balance multiple
goals (i.e., energy efficiency,
decarbonization, and climate resilience).
In addition, given the various eligible
uses of funds, cost-effectiveness will
vary greatly across projects. How might
HUD factor in cost-effectiveness when
evaluating applications for energy- and/
or resilience-related projects?
3. States, localities, and utilities
administer programs aimed at delivering
energy efficiency and electrification to
affordable multifamily properties. In
addition, the Inflation Reduction Act
makes significant funding available for
home energy rebates for low- and
moderate-income households through
the U.S. Department of Energy and
expands the renewable energy
Investment Tax Credit. How might HUD
encourage or require applicants to
leverage other funding for projects—
such as owner equity, other federal,
state, local, and/or utility grants, loans,
rebates, tax credits, and incentives?
4. HUD seeks to design this program
to enable deep retrofits of multifamily
properties—retrofits that would likely
not be possible without this funding.
Certain markets are more primed to
deploy deep and resilient retrofits in the
multifamily sector, while others may
lack the state and local infrastructure
and workforce for delivering retrofits in
this sector. While HUD seeks to
maximize impact, how can HUD best
ensure that funding is distributed
equitably?
5. HUD’s ability to achieve its goal of
benchmarking energy and water use for
the majority of HUD-assisted
multifamily portfolio rests on the
availability and accessibility of wholebuilding aggregate energy data. What
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role can HUD play to support greater
access to this utility data? What
opportunities exist for HUD to engage
utilities and/or public utility
commissions to make this data readily
available to our multifamily building
owners? What incentives, financial
support, and/or technical support
would encourage owners to participate
and get their properties benchmarked?
6. What equity considerations should
HUD consider when implementing
property retrofits and benchmarking?
HUD-assisted properties exist
nationwide, and they disproportionately
serve residents who are otherwise
underserved by housing markets,
including people with disabilities, older
adults, and people from communities of
color.
7. This will be the first HUD program
to target multifamily properties
nationwide with property-level
resilience interventions at this scale.
How can and should HUD evaluate
resilience needs and the effectiveness of
these interventions, considering the
variety of natural hazards and that the
effectiveness of many resilience
strategies are truly tested only when a
disaster event strikes? How should HUD
balance geographic disparities in the
needs for resilience interventions (i.e.,
more frequent in coastal areas) and the
availability of other funds, from HUD
and other agencies, for recovering from
disasters?
Jeffrey D. Little,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Housing.
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Office of the Secretary, Office of Budget
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Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
27, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on
this information collection request (ICR)
by mail to the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Office of the Secretary, Office
of Budget, Attn: Dionna Kiernan, 1849
C Street NW, MS 4106 MIB,
Washington, DC 20240 or by email to
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subject line of your comments.
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email at doi_pilt@ios.doi.gov, or by
telephone at 202–513–7783. Individuals
in the United States who are deaf, blind,
hard of hearing or have a speech
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
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should use the relay services offered
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
public and other Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on new,
proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand our
information collection requirements and
provide the requested data in the
desired format.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day public comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on May 12,
2022 (87 FR 29176), by the Office of the
Secretary, Office of Budget, soliciting
comments from the public and other
interested parties. No public comments
were received.
We are soliciting comments on the
proposed ICR that is described below.
We are especially interested in public
comment addressing the following
issues: (1) is the collection necessary to
the proper functions of the Office of
Budget; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Office of Budget
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(5) how might the Office of Budget
minimize the burden of this collection
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on the respondents, including through
the use of information technology.
Comments you submit in response to
this notice are a matter of public record.
We will include or summarize each
comment in our request to the Office of
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address, phone number, email address,
or other personal identifying
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
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property taxes due to non-taxable
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dated October 20, 1976. This law was
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each State to furnish the Department of
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The Department uses the amounts
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payment received should be factored
into the individual payment calculation
for units of general local governments
which they might otherwise receive. If
such listings were not furnished by the
Governor of each affected State, the
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-6350-N-01]
Green and Resilient Retrofit Program: Request for Information
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing
Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: In response to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of
2022, HUD is currently designing a new program, the Green and Resilient
Retrofit Program (GRRP), and expects to make multiple rounds of funding
available to support energy, and water efficiency retrofits and climate
resilience of HUD-assisted multifamily properties. Through this Request
for Information (RFI), HUD is seeking input on funding rounds as well
as on utility benchmarking. Information provided in response to this
RFI will inform prioritization of work, treatment of cost-benefit
analyses, and key design elements that will help ensure program goals
are met.
DATES: Comments are requested on or before October 27, 2022. Late-filed
comments will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments responsive
to this RFI. All submissions must refer to the docket number and title
of the RFI. Commenters are encouraged to identify the number of the
specific question or questions to which they are responding. Responses
should include the name(s) of the person(s) or organization(s) filing
the comment; however, because any responses received by HUD will be
publicly available, responses should not include any personally
identifiable information or confidential commercial information.
There are two methods for submitting public comments.
1. Electronic Submission of Comments. Interested persons may submit
comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov.
2. 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.
HUD strongly encourages commenters to submit their feedback and
recommendations electronically. Electronic submission of comments
allows the commenter maximum time to prepare and submit a response,
ensures timely receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to make comments
immediately available to the public. Comments submitted electronically
through the https://www.regulations.gov website 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
notice.
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Public Inspection of Public Comments. All comments and
communications properly 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 can dial 7-1-1 to access the
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS), which permits users to make
text-based calls, including Text Telephone (TTY) and Speech to Speech
(STS) calls. Individuals who require an alternative aid or service to
communicate effectively with HUD should email [email protected] and provide
a brief description of their preferred method of communication. Copies
of all comments submitted are available for inspection and downloading
at https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lauren Ross, Senior Adviser for
Housing and Sustainability, Office of Multifamily Housing, Department
of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 6106,
Washington, DC 20410-0500; telephone number 202-402-5423 (this is not a
toll-free number). Individuals can dial 7-1-1 to access the
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS), which permits users to make
text-based calls, including Text Telephone (TTY) and Speech to Speech
(STS) calls. Individuals who require an alternative aid or service to
communicate effectively with HUD should email [email protected] and provide
a brief description of their preferred method of communication.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Pub. L. 117-169) (the Act)
makes $837.5 million available to HUD for the provision of loans and
grants to fund projects that improve energy or water efficiency,
enhance indoor air quality or sustainability, implement the use of
zero-emission electricity generation, low-emission building materials
or processes, energy storage, or building electrification strategies,
and/or address climate resilience. Eligible HUD-assisted multifamily
properties include, but are not limited to, Section 8 Project Based
Rental Assistance (PBRA), Section 811 Housing for Persons with
Disabilities, and Section 202 Housing for the Elderly. The Act also
includes $42.5 million for energy and water benchmarking of the HUD-
assisted multifamily portfolio along with associated data analysis and
evaluation at the property- and portfolio-level, and the development of
information technology systems necessary for the collection,
evaluation, and analysis of such data.
In response to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,
HUD is currently designing a new program, the Green and Resilient
Retrofit Program (GRRP), and expects to make multiple rounds of funding
available to support energy and water efficiency retrofits and climate
resilience of HUD-assisted multifamily properties. HUD is seeking input
on funding rounds as well as on benchmarking. Public input will inform
prioritization of work, treatment of cost-benefit analyses, and key
design elements that will help ensure program goals are met. Overall
goals of the GRRP for the HUD-assisted multifamily portfolio include
reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions, improving indoor air
quality for residents, reducing residents' and properties' exposure to
climate hazards, and protecting life, livability, and property when
disaster strikes. Additionally, the GRRP will serve to further preserve
the long-term affordability of the assisted properties.
II. Purpose of This Request for Information
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit information regarding the
design and implementation of the GRRP to support the improvement of
energy and water efficiency retrofits, and climate resilience of HUD-
assisted multifamily properties.
III. Specific Information Requested
While HUD welcomes all comments relevant to the design and
implementation of the GRRP, HUD is particularly interested in receiving
input from interested parties on the questions outlined below.
1. HUD is seeking input on program design features, energy-saving
measures, low-emission technology, and resilience design and measures
that have proven effective in affordable multifamily buildings. How
might this program help prioritize and scale best practices for
reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions, improving indoor air
quality for residents, and strengthening climate resilience among
affordable multifamily buildings? How can these measures and practices
be deployed in a way that preserves affordability of our properties?
Eligible uses for project funding and/or financing include:
a. Improve energy and/or water efficiency.
b. Enhance indoor air quality and/or sustainability.
c. Implement the use of zero-emission electricity generation, low-
emission building materials or processes, and/or energy storage, or
building electrification strategies.
d. Address climate resilience.
2. This program offers owners of HUD-assisted multifamily
properties an opportunity to plan comprehensively around energy
efficiency and climate resilience. Often, these goals can be
interrelated. Materials and technologies that enhance a building's
energy efficiency can also make the building more durable and resilient
to threats posed by extreme weather events. It is also possible that
some energy efficiency and climate resilience improvements may be in
tension. HUD would like recommendations for designing the program to
meet energy and emissions reduction goals as well as climate
resilience. HUD seeks information on how to balance multiple goals
(i.e., energy efficiency, decarbonization, and climate resilience). In
addition, given the various eligible uses of funds, cost-effectiveness
will vary greatly across projects. How might HUD factor in cost-
effectiveness when evaluating applications for energy- and/or
resilience-related projects?
3. States, localities, and utilities administer programs aimed at
delivering energy efficiency and electrification to affordable
multifamily properties. In addition, the Inflation Reduction Act makes
significant funding available for home energy rebates for low- and
moderate-income households through the U.S. Department of Energy and
expands the renewable energy Investment Tax Credit. How might HUD
encourage or require applicants to leverage other funding for
projects-- such as owner equity, other federal, state, local, and/or
utility grants, loans, rebates, tax credits, and incentives?
4. HUD seeks to design this program to enable deep retrofits of
multifamily properties--retrofits that would likely not be possible
without this funding. Certain markets are more primed to deploy deep
and resilient retrofits in the multifamily sector, while others may
lack the state and local infrastructure and workforce for delivering
retrofits in this sector. While HUD seeks to maximize impact, how can
HUD best ensure that funding is distributed equitably?
5. HUD's ability to achieve its goal of benchmarking energy and
water use for the majority of HUD-assisted multifamily portfolio rests
on the availability and accessibility of whole-building aggregate
energy data. What
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role can HUD play to support greater access to this utility data? What
opportunities exist for HUD to engage utilities and/or public utility
commissions to make this data readily available to our multifamily
building owners? What incentives, financial support, and/or technical
support would encourage owners to participate and get their properties
benchmarked?
6. What equity considerations should HUD consider when implementing
property retrofits and benchmarking? HUD-assisted properties exist
nationwide, and they disproportionately serve residents who are
otherwise underserved by housing markets, including people with
disabilities, older adults, and people from communities of color.
7. This will be the first HUD program to target multifamily
properties nationwide with property-level resilience interventions at
this scale. How can and should HUD evaluate resilience needs and the
effectiveness of these interventions, considering the variety of
natural hazards and that the effectiveness of many resilience
strategies are truly tested only when a disaster event strikes? How
should HUD balance geographic disparities in the needs for resilience
interventions (i.e., more frequent in coastal areas) and the
availability of other funds, from HUD and other agencies, for
recovering from disasters?
Jeffrey D. Little,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing.
[FR Doc. 2022-20855 Filed 9-26-22; 8:45 am]
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