[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 14, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 53007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20546]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4665-N-03]


Manufactured Housing Program: Notice Announcing the Selection of 
Members for the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing 
Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Selection of Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee 
Members.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the voting members who have been 
appointed to the Consensus Committee for manufactured housing under the 
Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000. The twenty-one voting 
members are comprised of seven representatives from each of three 
interest categories: producers, users, and general interest and public 
officials.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William W. Matchneer III, 
Administrator, Manufactured Housing Program, Office of Consumer and 
Regulatory Affairs, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 
7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-6409 (this is 
not a toll-free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may 
access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information 
Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the National Manufactured 
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 
et seq.) (the Act), the Department initiated a program that, in part, 
provides for establishment of standards by which all manufactured homes 
are constructed. The Act provides that these construction and safety 
standards preempt all standards of a State or political subdivision 
applicable to the same aspect of performance of a manufactured home 
that are not identical to the Federal manufactured home construction 
and safety standards.
    The Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (Title VI of 
Public Law 106-569, approved December 27, 2000) (the 2000 Act) amended 
the Act in several areas. The 2000 Act specifically provides for the 
establishment of a Consensus Committee for manufactured housing. In 
accordance with the 2000 Act, the Department acquired the services of 
an Administering Organization (AO), in part to undertake the process of 
seeking qualified candidates and recommending to HUD the initial 
members for the Consensus Committee. The AO selected candidates to 
recommend as the initial members based on procedures for consensus 
committees promulgated by the American National Standards Institute 
(ANSI). As required by the 2000 Act, the selections were designed to 
ensure equal representation among the prescribed interest categories: 
producers, users, and general interest and public officials.
    Twenty-one individuals have been selected by HUD to serve as voting 
members on the committee. Those persons selected are listed below, with 
the localities and States from which they come, in the major interest 
category they represent. In order to remain eligible for service, each 
member must continue to qualify as a representative of the category for 
which he or she has been selected.

Producers

C. Edgar Bryant, Auburn Hills, MI
William Farish, Riverside, CA
Danny Ghorbani, Washington, DC
Douglas Gorman, Tulsa, OK
Ronald LaMont, Grand Prairie, TX
Nader Tomasbi, Goshen, IN
Frank Walter, Arlington, VA

Users

Jack Berger, Camp Hill, PA
Karl Braun, Las Vegas, NV
Susan Brenton, Tempe AZ
Earl Gilson, Port Angeles, WA
Charles Leven, Millbrook, NY
Jerome McHale, Port Charlotte, FL
Alan Youse, Salem, OR

General Interest and Public Officials

William Lagano, Clearwater, FL
Bryan Portz, Cleveland, OH
Dana Roberts, Salem, OR
Randy Vogt, St. Paul, MN
Christine Walsh Rogers, Seattle, WA
Richard Weinert, Sacramento, CA
Michael Zieman, Long Beach, CA

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5403(a)(3).

    Dated: August 6, 2002.
John C. Weicher,
Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 02-20546 Filed 8-13-02; 8:45 am]
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