Department of Housing and Urban Development July 14, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

HUD announces the availability on its Web site of the application information, submission deadlines, funding criteria, and other requirements for the FY2009 Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant NOFA for FY(2009). Approximately $200,000 is made available through this NOFA, by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2009 (Pub. L. 111-8, approved March 11, 2009), to enable doctoral candidates enrolled at institutions of higher education accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to complete their dissertations on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues. The notice providing information regarding the application process, funding criteria and eligibility requirements is available on the Grants.gov Web site at https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms_apps_idx.html. A link to Grants.gov is also available on the HUD Web site at https:// www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm. The Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number for the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program is 14.516. Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is issuing a final regulation to provide the procedures and guidelines under which it will implement the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The regulation provides the policies and procedures whereby individuals may obtain notification of whether an FHFA system of records contains information about the individual and, if so, how to access or amend a record under the Privacy Act. Upon adoption of this regulation the Privacy Act regulations of the Federal Housing Finance Board and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, will be removed.