[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 128 (Thursday, July 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38053-38054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15712]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5793-N-01]


Notice of Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Annual Factors for Determining 
Public Housing Agency Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing 
Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation Programs

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This Notice announces the monthly per unit fee amounts for use 
in determining the on-going administrative fee for housing agencies 
administering the rental voucher and moderate rehabilitation programs, 
including Single Room Occupancy during CY 2014.

DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Miguel Fontanez, Director, Housing 
Voucher Financial Management Division, Office of Public Housing and 
Voucher Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, Room 4222, 451 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20410-8000, telephone number 202-402-2934. (This is not 
a toll-free number). Hearing or speech impaired individuals may call 
TTY number 1 (800) 877-8337.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Substantive Description

    This Notice provides the Department's methodology to determine the 
CY 2014 administrative fees rates by area, which the Office of Housing 
Voucher Program (OHVP) will utilize to compensate public housing 
authorities (PHAs) for administering the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) 
programs. The PIH Notice 2014-05, Implementation of the Federal Fiscal 
Year (FY) 2014 Funding Provision for the Housing Choice Voucher 
Program,\1\ issued on March 18, 2014, describes the settlement process 
for this compensation, which will be a result of the mandate enacted in 
the ``Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014'' (Pub. L. 113-76), signed 
on January 17, 2014.
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    \1\ PIH Notice 2014-05 can be found at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/administration/hudclips/notices/pih.
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B. FY 2014 Methodology

    For CY 2014, in accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2014, administrative fees will be paid on the basis of units 
leased as of the first day of each month; this data will be extracted 
from the Voucher Management System (VMS) at the close of each reporting 
cycle.
    As noted in the attachment to this notice, two fee rates are 
provided for each public housing authority (PHA). The first rate, 
Column A, applies to the first 7200 unit months leased in CY 2014. The 
second rate, Column B, applies to all remaining unit months leased in 
CY 2014. In years prior to CY 2010, a Column C rate was also provided, 
which applied to all unit months leased in units owned by the PHA. For 
CY 2014 there are no Column C administrative fee rates. Fees for 
leasing PHA-owned units will be earned in the same manner and at the 
same Column A and Column B rates as for all other leasing.
    Administrative fees are updated annually using the change in 
average wages for local government workers in each State metropolitan 
and non-metropolitan portion. Data on average wages come from the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and 
Wages (QCEW) program.
    The fee rates calculated for CY 2014, using the standard procedure 
described above, in many cases resulted in rates lower than those 
provided for CY 2013. In those cases, the affected PHAs are being held 
harmless at the CY 2013 rates.
    The fee rates for each PHA are generally those rates covering the 
areas in which each PHA has the greatest proportion of its 
participants, based on Public Housing Information Center (PIC) data. In 
some cases, PHAs have participants in more than one fee area. If a PHA 
so chooses, the PHA may request that the Department establish a blended 
fee rate schedule that will consider proportionately all areas in which 
participants are located. Once a blended rate schedule is calculated, 
it will be used to determine the PHA's fee eligibility for all months 
of CY 2014. A PHA that received a blended fee rate schedule for 2013 
will not receive it automatically for 2014; it must be requested. 
Requests for blended fee rates for CY 2014 were due on April 15, 2014, 
per instructions provided in the CY 2014 HCV Funding Implementation 
Notice, PIH 2014-05, published on March 18, 2014. HUD will evaluate the 
requests and will notify housing agencies of the results during the 
month of July, 2014.
    These fee rates also apply to the Moderate Rehabilitation program 
and the 5-Year Mainstream Program.

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Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

    The information collection requirements contained in this document 
are pending the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520), and have been assigned OMB control number 2502-0348. In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD may not conduct or 
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of 
information unless the collection displays a currently valid control 
number.
    Accordingly, the Department publishes the monthly per unit fee 
amount to be used for determining PHA administrative fees under the 
Housing Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation programs as set 
forth on the schedule appended to this notice.
    The fee rates are posted on HUD's Web site at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv.

    Dated: June 26, 2014.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 2014-15712 Filed 7-2-14; 8:45 am]
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