[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 190 (Friday, October 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53400-53401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25706]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4434-N-04]


Notice of Obsolete Public Housing Documents

AGENCY: Office of Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of obsolete Public Housing documents pursuant to section 
503(d) of the Public Housing Reform Act.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to publish a list of the 
documents issued or promulgated under the United States Housing Act of 
1937 that are or will be obsolete because of the enactment of the 
Public Housing Reform Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rod Solomon, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Policy, Program and Legislative Initiatives, Office of 
Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 4116, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 
(202) 708-0713. 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: This list of documents relating to public 
housing and Section 8 tenant-based assistance is published in 
accordance with Section 503(d) of the Quality Housing and Work 
Responsibility Act of 1998 (Title V of Pub.L. 105-276, 112 Stat. 2461, 
approved October 21, 1998) (Public Housing Reform Act). Section 503(d) 
requires the Secretary of HUD to publish in the Federal Register a list 
of all rules, regulations, and orders (including all handbooks, notices 
and related requirements) pertaining to public housing or section 8 
tenant-based programs issued or promulgated under the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 before the date of the enactment of the Public 
Housing Reform Act that became or will become obsolete because of the 
enactment of the Public Housing Reform Act, or are otherwise obsolete.
    In identifying requirements as ``obsolete,'' this notice lists not 
only those that are completely eliminated and removed, but also those 
that are significantly changed but not removed. For example, the 
regulatory parts, subparts and sections listed in this notice include 
regulatory provisions and requirements that are no longer in use or 
applicable at all as a result of the Public Housing Reform Act, as well 
as regulatory requirements that are still generally applicable to HUD 
programs but that are significantly changed by the Public Housing 
Reform Act and are being revised through rulemaking.

Regulations

    A. Portions of the following regulations in title 24 of the CFR 
were made obsolete by the Public Housing Reform Act and have been or 
are being revised to reflect the changes:

Part 5--General HUD Program Requirements; Waivers.
Part 761--Drug Elimination Program.
Part 904--Low Rent Housing Homeownership Opportunities (Turnkey III)--
obsolete except as to existing projects.
Part 906--Section 5(h) Homeownership Program--obsolete except as to 
existing projects.
Part 945--Designated Housing--obsolete; superseded by statutory changes 
made by the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996. Now 
being administered by Notice. The Public Housing Reform Act made a few 
changes.
Part 960--Admission to, and Occupancy of, Public Housing.
Part 964--Tenant Participation and Tenant Opportunities in Public 
Housing.
Part 965--PHA Owned or Leased Projects, General Provisions.
Part 966--Lease and Grievance Procedures.
Part 969--PHA-owned Projects, Continued Operation.
Part 970--Demolition or Disposition of Public Housing.
Part 982--Section 8 Tenant-based Assistance.
Part 984--Section 8 and Public Housing Self-Sufficiency.
Part 985--Section 8 Management Assessment Program.

    B. The Public Housing Reform Act also has the following effects:
    Part 941 (Development) and Part 968 (Modernization), although made 
obsolete for future years, remain in effect pending issuance of final 
regulations to implement the Public Housing Reform Act changes. Once 
regulations for the Capital Fund are issued, Parts 941 and 968 will be 
discontinued. Part 969 (PHA-Owned

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Projects--Continued Operation as Low-Income Housing After Completion of 
Debt Service) also may be covered by the new Capital Fund regulation.
    Part 990, Annual Contributions for Operating Subsidy, remains in 
effect pending negotiated rulemaking on the Operating Fund and issuance 
of pertinent revisions to the regulations.

Handbooks

    A. The following program handbooks, made obsolete by the Public 
Housing Reform Act, remain in effect but ultimately will be revised, 
replaced or eliminated:

1. 7417.1  Public Housing Development Handbook.
2. 7420.3  Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program.
3. 7420.6  Housing Assistance Payments Program Accounting.
4. 7420.6  Section 8 Rental Certificate, Rental Voucher and Moderate 
Rehabilitation.
5. 7430.1  Low-Income Leased Housing (guide).
6. 7410.1  Public and Indian Housing Low-Rent Technical Accounting 
Guide.
7. 7460.5  Public Housing Management Assessment Program.
8. 7485.1  Public and Indian Housing Comprehensive Improvement 
Assistance Program.
9. 7485.3  Public and Indian Housing Comprehensive Grant Program 
Handbook.
10. 7560.1  Public and Indian Housing Development and Modernization 
Fund.
11. 7465.1  Public Housing Occupancy Audit Handbook.
12. 7465.2  Public Housing Occupancy Reporting Handbook.
13. 7475.1  Financial Management Handbook (guide).

    B. The Department, in its effort to simply program administration 
for its partners, previously discontinued the following handbooks:

1. 7401.1  Low-Rent Housing Administration of Programs Handbook.
2. 7401.2  Low-Rent Housing Administrative Practices Guide.
3. 7401.5  Low-Income Housing Property/Casualty Insurance Handbook.
4. 7401.7  Public Housing Agency Personnel Policies (Part I).
5. 7401.7  Public Housing Agency Personnel Policies (Part II).
6. 7420.7  Public Housing Agency Administrative Practices Handbook 
(except section 4-5.d.1, chapters 5 and 8).
7. 7430.1  Low-Rent Lease Housing Handbook.
8. 7460.5  The Public Housing Management Handbook.
9. 7465.1  Public Housing Occupancy Handbook.
10. 7475.1  Low-Income Housing Financial Management Handbook.
11. 7475.2  Performance Funding System.
12. 7476.1  Audits of Public Housing Agencies and Indian Housing 
Authorities.
13. 7486.1  Public Housing Demolition, Disposition and Conversion.
14. 7495.3  Low-Rent Homeownership Opportunities Handbook.

Notices

    Notices generally expire within a year from the date of issuance. 
Notices necessary for implementing changes made by the Public Housing 
Reform Act have been or will be issued and those made obsolete have 
expired. Program guides and documents are being revised as necessary or 
discontinued to meet the requirements of the Public Housing Reform Act.

    Dated: September 29, 1999.
Deborah Vincent,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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