[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 26392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12342]
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Part VII
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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24 CFR Part 3280
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards: Metal Roofing;
Advance Notice; Proposed Rule
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
24 CFR Part 3280
[Docket No. FR-4271-A-02]
RIN 2502-AH05
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards: Metal
Roofing; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: Elsewhere in today's Federal Register, the Department is
publishing an Interpretative Bulletin (IB) on roofing requirements for
manufactured homes designed to be sited in high wind areas. That IB
reiterates the Department's current policy as it addresses questions
that have arisen concerning: Whether manufacturers that design their
products using the wind pressures specified in a table in the
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards must provide roof
sheathing under metal roofing; and the appropriateness of the testing
of metal roofing that has been done under current regulations. By this
advance notice of proposed rulemaking, the Department is providing an
opportunity for interested persons to make recommendations regarding
any changes in the table with respect to roofing requirements for
manufactured homes designed to be sited in high wind areas. The
Department will review any comments received in response to this
advance notice and consider them in making a determination whether to
revise the applicable Federal standards and regulations.
DATES: Comment Due Date: July 13, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this advance notice of proposed rulemaking to the Regulations Division,
Room 10276, Office of General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410-0500.
Comments should refer to the above docket number and title. A copy of
each comment submitted will be available for public inspection and
copying during regular business hours at the above address. Facsimile
(FAX) comments are not acceptable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David R. Williamson, Director, Office
of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, S.W., Room 9156, Washington, DC 20410,
telephone: (202) 708-6401 (this is not a toll-free number). For
hearing- and speech-impaired persons, this number may be accessed via
TTY (text telephone) by calling the Federal Information Relay Service
at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Prospective commenters should review
Interpretative Bulletin I-2-98 published elsewhere in today's Federal
Register for an explanation of the Department's interpretation of the
standard in 24 CFR 3280.305(c)(1)(ii)(B), which includes the Table of
Design Wind Pressures (``Table''), as applied to metal roofing in wind
zones II and III. In that IB, HUD interprets the standard to require
every design for manufactured housing for high wind areas to include
roof sheathing or alternative roof material that performs like
sheathing in resisting the wind pressures specified in the Table,
whenever the Table is used as the basis for qualifying the design.
If the Department receives or develops information that indicates
the standard codified in 24 CFR 3280.305(c)(1)(ii)(B) should be
revised, the Department may propose revisions for further review and
public comment in subsequent rulemaking. To ensure that all interested
parties are given access to any advice the Department receives on this
subject, a public docket has been opened. Comments received in response
to this advance notice will be included in the public docket for
inspection and copying.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 3535(d) and 5424.
Dated: April 29, 1998.
Art Agnos,
Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing.
[FR Doc. 98-12342 Filed 5-11-98; 8:45 am]
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