[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 32 (Friday, February 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 7666]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-2813]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4878-N-04]


Final Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients 
Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination 
Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons: Change in Effective Date 
of Final Guidance

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal 
Opportunity, HUD.

ACTION: Notice: Change in Effective Date of Final Guidance.

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SUMMARY: Through this notice, HUD advises members of the public that 
its final ``Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients 
Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination 
Affecting Limited English Proficient (LEP) Persons,'' as required by 
Executive Order (EO) 13166, published in the Federal Register on 
January 22, 2007, and scheduled to become effective on February 21, 
2007, will now become effective on March 7, 2007.
    HUD is moving the effective date to March 7, 2007, in order to 
allow HUD the opportunity to brief interested members of the public on 
the guidance before it takes effect. A meeting for this purpose 
originally scheduled to be held at HUD Headquarters on February 13, 
2007, had to be rescheduled for February 28, 2007. Please see notice 
published elsewhere in today's Federal Register. Therefore, HUD is 
moving the effective date of the final guidance to March 7, 2007.

DATES: Effective Date: March 7, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pamela D. Walsh, Director, Program 
Standards and Compliance Division, Office of Fair Housing and Equal 
Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Room 5226, Washington DC 20410, telephone: (202) 402-2288 
(this is not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech 
impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free 
Federal Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 22, 2007, HUD published in the 
Federal Register (72 FR 2732) final guidance to help recipients of 
federal financial assistance take reasonable steps to meet their 
regulatory and statutory obligations to ensure that LEP persons have 
meaningful access to HUD programs and activities (LEP Final Guidance). 
Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and its 
implementing regulations, recipients of federal financial assistance 
have a responsibility to ensure meaningful access to programs and 
activities by LEP persons. HUD's LEP Final Guidance can be found at 
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/promotingfh/lep.cfm. This guidance was 
scheduled to become effective on February 21, 2007.
    In order to allow HUD to brief interested members of the public and 
affected parties, HUD is moving the effective date to March 7, 2007. 
HUD's briefing was originally scheduled for February 13, 2007, and has 
been rescheduled. Please see rescheduled meeting notice published 
elsewhere in today's Federal Register.

    Dated: February 12, 2007.
Kim Kendrick,
Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
 [FR Doc. E7-2813 Filed 2-15-07; 8:45 am]
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