Department of Housing and Urban Development June 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a (Privacy Act), the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) is issuing public notice of its intent to revise one existing system of records and delete one existing system of records. The systems are being revised or deleted as a result of reevaluation of the manner in which OFHEO maintains the records. OFHEO is combining these two systems of records into one expanded system, therefore, OFHEO-05, Senior Staff Biography System will be deleted, and the number OFHEO-05 reserved for future use. The revised system, OFHEO-03, Employee Identification Card System will be renamed the Staff Information and Identification System and will include information formerly maintained in OFHEO-05, Senior Staff Biography System. Revisions will incorporate administrative changes that have taken place since the last publication of OFHEO-03 at 63 FR 9007 on February 23, 1998. The revised system of records will consist of information on employees and contractors in order to issue temporary identification cards; provide biographical information to the media and other groups which request information on OFHEO staff as speakers or panel participants; and provide a resource to allow management to identify employees and contractors by their photograph, status and organizational office.

Although this NOFA is not included in the SuperNOFA announcement, this NOFA is governed by the information and instructions found in the Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year 2008 Notice of Funding Availability Policy Requirements and General Section (2008 General Section) that HUD published on March 19, 2008, and all subsequent Supplementary Information and Technical Corrections published in the Federal Register.

On November 28, 2007, HUD published a final rule revising HUD's regulations on mortgage insurance for hospitals. This publication corrects certain non-substantive errors and omissions that occurred in the final rule, as well as makes certain additional amendments designed to enhance clarity of certain of the rule's provisions.

This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-503), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines on the Conduct of Matching Programs (54 FR 25818 (June 19, 1989)); and OMB Bulletin 89-22, ``Instructions on Reporting Computer Matching Programs to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congress and the Public,'' HUD is issuing a public notice of its intent to conduct a recurring computer matching program with ED to utilize a computer information system of HUD, the Credit Alert Interactive Voice Response System (CAIVRS), with ED's debtor files. HUD has revised the ``records to be matched'' section of this notice to reflect the new HUD Privacy Act Systems of Records involved in the matching program. This update does not change the authority or objectives of the existing matching program.

On April 9, 2008, HUD published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing Grants notice of funding opportunity (NOFA). Today's notice amends HUD's requirement to provide a cash or in-kind match as set out in the April 9, 2008 publication.

The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.

This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.

Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA) requires the Secretary to publish FMRs periodically, but not less than annually, adjusted to be effective on October 1 of each year. Today's notice proposes FMRs for FY 2009 to be used: To determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program, to determine initial renewal rents for some expiring project-based Section 8 contracts, and to determine initial rents for housing assistance payment (HAP) contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program. Other programs may require use of FMRs for other purposes. The proposed FY 2009 FMR areas are based on current Office of Management and Budget (OMB) metropolitan area definitions and include HUD modifications that were first used in the determination of FY 2006 FMR areas. OMB changes to the metropolitan area definitions through November 2007 are incorporated. This means that there are six Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) name changes that reorder, add, or delete a primary city name.\1\ Proposed FY 2009 FMRs are based on 2000 Census data updated with more current survey data. For FY 2009, FY 2008 FMRs are updated using 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) data, Random Digit Dialing (RDD) telephone rent surveys conducted since the release of the final FY 2008 FMRs, and more recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) rent and utility indexes. HUD continues to use ACS data in different ways according to how many two-bedroom standard-quality and recent-mover sample cases are available in the FMR area or its Core- Based Statistical Area (CBSA). Revised 2006 FMRs based on Census and ACS data have been updated with CPI data through the end of 2007 and then trended to April 2009, the mid-point of FY 2009.

HUD's current regulations require that a mortgage show an acceptable payment history when submitted for late endorsement, but they are silent as to what constitutes an acceptable payment history. This proposed rule would provide factors that establish an acceptable payment history when a mortgage is submitted for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance more than 60 days after closing, and would make one technical amendment pertaining to the submission of documentation for endorsement.

The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal. The Public Housing Assessment System requires public housing agencies to submit financial information annually to HUD. The Uniform Financial Reporting Standards for HUD housing programs requires that this information be submitted electronically, using generally accepted accounting principles, in a prescribed format. HUD will implement a revised financial data schedule (FDS) to capture property level financial data.

This notice announces HUD's intention to sell certain unsubsidized multifamily and healthcare mortgage loans, without Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance, in a competitive, sealed bid sale (MHLS 2008-2). This notice also describes generally the bidding process for the sale and certain persons who are ineligible to bid.