[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 68 (Friday, April 9, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 17301-17302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9004]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
24 CFR Part 990
[Docket No. FR-4425-N-03]
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Operating Fund Allocation;
Meetings
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Meetings.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the second and third meetings of the
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Operating Fund Allocation. These
meetings are sponsored by HUD for the purpose of discussing and
negotiating a proposed rule that would change the current method of
determining the payment of operating subsidies to public housing
agencies (PHAs).
DATES: The second committee meeting will be held on April 13 and April
14, 1999. On April 13, 1999, the meeting will begin at approximately
9:30 am and run until completion; on April 14, 1999, the meeting will
begin at approximately 9:00 am and run until approximately 4:00 pm.
The third committee meeting will be held on May 13 and may 14,
1999. On May 13, 1999, the meeting will begin at approximately 9:30 am
and run until completion; on May 14, 1999 the meeting will begin at
approximately 9:00 am and run until approximately 4:00 pm.
ADDRESSES: The second and third committee meetings will take place at
the Hyatt Dulles Hotel (Concorde Ballroom), 2300 Dulles Corner
Boulevard, Herndon, VA 22071.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joan DeWitt, Director, Funding and
Financial Management Division, Public and Indian Housing, Room 4216,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 431 Seventh Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20410-0500; telephone (202) 708-1872 ext. 4035 (this
telephone numbers is not toll-free). Hearing or speech-impaired
individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free
federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary of HUD has established the
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Operating Fund Allocation to
negotiate and develop a proposed that would change the current method
of determining the payment of operating subsidies to PHAs. The
establishment of the committee is required by the Quality Housing and
Work Responsibility Act of 1996 (Pub.L. 105-276, approved October 21,
1998; 112 Stat. 2461) (the ``Public Housing Reform Act''). The Public
Housing Reform Act makes extensive changes to HUD's public and assisted
housing programs. These changes include the establishment of an
Operating Fund for the purpose of making assistance available to PHAs
for the operation and management of public housing. The Public Housing
Reform Act requires that the assistance to be made available from the
new Operating Fund be determined using a formula developed through
negotiated rulemaking procedures.
On March 16, 1999 (64 FR 12920), HUD published a notice in the
Federal Register that announced: (1) The establishment of the
negotiated rulemaking committee; (2) the names of the committee
members; and (3) the dates, location, and agenda for the first
committee meeting. The second and third meetings of the negotiated
rulemaking committee will take place as described in the DATES and
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
The agenda planned for the committee meetings includes: (1) The
adoption of committee protocols, as appropriate; (2) defining the goals
for the operating fund formula; (3) discussing the various methods for
translating these goals into a formula-based allocation system; and (4)
the scheduling of future meetings.
In accordance with the General Services Administration (GSA)
regulations implementing the Federal Advisory Committee Act, HUD
normally publishes a Federal Register meeting notice at least 15
calendar days before the date of an advisory committee meeting. The GSA
regulations, however, also provide that an agency may give less than 15
days notice if the reasons for doing so are included in the Federal
Register meeting notice. (See 41 CFR 10-6.1015(b).) Due to the
difficulty in obtaining suitable hotel and conference room
accommodations in the Washington, DC area during April, 1999, it has
not been possible for HUD to announce the date and location of the
second committee meeting before today. Given the strict statutory
deadline for implementation of the Operating Fund formula, HUD believes
it is imperative that the negotiations for development of the formula
not be delayed. Failure to publish the Operating Fund final rule on a
timely basis will delay the provision of operating subsidies to PHAs.
Accordingly, rather than defer the negotiations, HUD has decided to
proceed with the second committee meeting on April 13 and April 14,
1999.
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The meetings will be open to the public without advance
registration. Public attendance may be limited to the space available.
Members of the public may make statements during the meeting, to the
extent time permits, and file written statements with the committee for
its consideration. Written statements should be submitted to the
address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION section of this notice.
Summaries of committee meetings will be available for public inspection
and copying at the address in the same section.
Dated: April 7, 1999.
Harold Lucas,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 99-9004 Filed 4-8-99; 8:45 am]
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