[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52026-52027]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19380]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4665-N-19]


Conference Call Meeting of the Manufactured Housing Consensus 
Committee

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

ACTION: Notice of upcoming meeting via conference call.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an 
upcoming meeting of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (the 
Committee) to be held via telephone conference call. This meeting is 
open to the general public. Members of the public wishing to 
participate may do so by following the instructions below.

DATES: The conference call is scheduled for Wednesday, September 1, 
2004, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. eastern time.

ADDRESSES: Information concerning the conference call can be obtained 
from the Department's Consensus Committee Administering Organization, 
the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Interested parties can 
log onto NFPA's Web site for instructions concerning how to 
participate, and for contact information for the conference call: 
http://www.nfpa.org/ECommittee/HUDManufacturedHousing/hudmanufacturedhousing.asp.
    Alternately, interested parties may contact Jill McGovern of NFPA 
by phone at (617) 984-7404 (this is not a toll-free number) for 
conference call information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William W. Matchneer III, 
Administrator, Office of Manufactured Housing Programs, Office of the 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs and Manufactured 
Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20410-8000, telephone (202) 708-6409 (this is not a 
toll-free number). Persons who have difficulty hearing or speaking may 
access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 
Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is provided in 
accordance with sections 10(a) and (b) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and 41 CFR 102-3.150. The Manufactured 
Housing Consensus Committee is established under section 604(a)(3) of 
the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act 
of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4503(a)(3). The Committee is charged 
with providing recommendations to the Secretary to adopt, revise, and 
interpret manufactured home construction and safety standards and 
procedural and enforcement regulations, and with developing and 
recommending proposed model installation standards to the Secretary.
    The purpose of this conference call meeting is to permit the 
Committee, at its request, to review and make further recommendations 
to the Secretary regarding a proposed rule that would establish Model 
Manufactured Home Installation Standards pursuant to statute. The 
exceptional circumstances permitting less than 15 calendar days' notice 
of the meeting are that it is necessary to have the meeting on this 
date, which has been agreed to by the Committee, to permit the 
Committee to timely consider the proposed rule.

Tentative Agenda

    A. Roll call.
    B. Welcome and opening remarks.
    C. Full Committee meeting and take actions on a draft of a proposed 
rule to establish the Model Manufactured Home Installation Standards.
    D. Adjournment.


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    Dated: August 18, 2004.
Sean Cassidy,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing.
[FR Doc. 04-19380 Filed 8-19-04; 4:23 pm]
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