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[FR Doc No: 94-4531]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. D-94-1053; FR-3657-D-01]]

 

Delegation of Authority for Indian Programs

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of delegation of authority.

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SUMMARY: This delegation of authority revokes the authority to 
administer the Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian 
Tribes and Alaska Natives presently delegated to the Assistant 
Secretary for Community Planning and Development and delegates the 
authority to the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 15, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dominic A. Nessi, Director, Office of 
Native American Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, room 4140, 45 7th Street 
SW., telephone (202) 708-1015. (This is not a toll-free number.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 902 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-550; October 28, 1992) (``Housing 
Act of 1992'') established a new office for Indian and Alaska Native 
programs to be located within the Office of Public and Indian Housing. 
The Housing Act of 1992 states that the office is to be headed by the 
Special Assistant for Indian and Alaska Native Programs. Subsequent 
Congressional guidance indicated that it would not be inappropriate, 
however, for the head of the office to have a different job title.
    The Department is therefore establishing within the Office of 
Public and Indian Housing, the Office of Native American programs, to 
be headed by a Director. According to the statute, the office is to 
administer and coordinate all programs of the Department relating to 
Indian and Alaska Native housing and community development. The office 
is responsible for directing, coordinating, and assisting in managing 
HUD field offices that administer Indian and Alaska Native programs. 
The statute also provides that the office is responsible for 
administering the provision of assistance to Indian tribes under the 
Community Development Act of 1974.
    In a redelegation of authority appearing elsewhere in the Federal 
Register today, the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 
is revoking all authority previously redelegated to HUD Regional 
Administrators with respect to Indian and Alaska Native programs, as 
well as any further redelegations of that authority, and redelegating 
the authority (including all authority with respect to the Community 
Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives) 
to the Director, the Deputy Director for Headquarters Operations, and 
the Deputy Director for Field Operations, Office of Native American 
Programs.
    The present delegation of authority revokes from the Assistant 
Secretary for Community Planning and Development and delegates to the 
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing the power and 
authority to administer the Community Development Block Grant Program 
for Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives under Title I of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.).
    Therefore, the Secretary delegates as follows:

Section A. Authority Delegated

    The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
delegates to the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing all 
power and authority with respect to the Community Development Block 
Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives, pursuant to Title I 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et 
seq.), except as provided in Section B of this delegation of authority.

Section B. Authority Excepted

    The authority delegated under Section A does not include the power 
to sue and be sued.

Section C. Revocation and Supersedure

    This delegation revokes in part the delegation of authority to the 
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development published in 
the Federal Register on October 25, 1983 at 48 FR 49384, with respect 
to the Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and 
Alaska Natives, pursuant to Title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) as well as the 
redelegations of authority published at 43 FR 34102 and 45 FR 67157.

    Authority: Title I, Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), as amended; Section 7(d), Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(d)).

    Dated: February 15, 1994.
Henry Cisneros,
Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development.
[FR Doc. 94-4531 Filed 2-28-94; 8:45 am]
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