[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 225 (Monday, November 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72983-72984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29812]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5884-N-01]


Notice of Annual Factors for Determining Public Housing Agency 
Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, 
Mainstream, 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 that HUD has posted on its Web site the 
monthly per unit fee rates for use in determining the on-going 
administrative fees for housing agencies administering the Housing 
Choice Voucher (HCV), 5-Year Mainstream, and Moderate Rehabilitation 
programs, including Single Room Occupancy, during calendar year (CY) 
2015.

DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2015.

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 202-708-2934. (This is not 
a toll-free number). Hearing or speech impaired individuals may call 
TTY number 1 (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background

    This Notice announces that HUD has posted on its Web site the CY 
2015 administrative fee rates and provides the Department's methodology 
used to determine the fee rates by area, which the Office of Housing 
Voucher Programs (OHVP) will use to compensate public housing agencies 
(PHAs) for administering the HCV programs. PIH Notice 2015-03, entitled 
``Implementation of the Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Funding 
Provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher Program,'' (2015 HCV Funding 
Implementation Notice) issued on February 27, 2015, describes the 
advance and settlement processes for this compensation, which are a 
result of the mandate enacted in the ``Consolidated and Further 
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015'' (Pub. L. 113-235), referred to 
hereinafter as ``the Act','' enacted on December 16, 2014. PIH Notice 
2015-03 can be found at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=15-03pihn.pdf.

B. CY 2015 Methodology

    For CY 2015, in accordance with the Act, administrative fees will 
be earned on the basis of vouchers 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 and validated prior to use.
    Two fee rates are provided for each PHA. The first rate, Column A, 
applies to the first 7200 voucher unit months leased in CY 2015. The 
second rate, Column B, applies to all remaining voucher unit months 
leased in CY 2015. In years prior to 2010, a Column C rate was also 
established, which applied to all voucher unit months leased in 
dwelling units owned by the PHA. For CY 2015, as in recent years, there 
are no Column C administrative fee rates. Fees for leasing HA-owned 
units will be earned in the same manner and at the

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same Column A and Column B rates as for all other Voucher leasing.
    The fee rates established for CY 2015, using the standard 
procedures, in some cases resulted in fee rates lower than those 
established for CY 2014. In those cases, the affected PHAs are being 
held harmless at the CY 2014 fee rates.
    The fee rates for each PHA are generally those rates covering the 
fee areas in which each PHA has the greatest proportion of its 
participants, based on Public Housing Information Center (PIC) data 
submitted by the PHA. In some cases, PHAs have participants in more 
than one fee area. If such 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 established, it will be used to determine the 
PHA's fee eligibility for all months in CY 2015. The PHAs were advised 
via the 2015 HCV Funding Implementation Notice to apply for blended fee 
rate by March 31, 2015. These applications were already reviewed and 
determinations were announced.
    PHAs that operate over a large geographic area, defined as multiple 
counties, may request a higher administrative fee rate if eligible 
under the circumstance described in the CY 2015 implementation notice. 
The PHAs were advised via the 2015 HCV Funding Implementation Notice to 
apply for higher fee rates by March 31, 2015. These applications were 
already reviewed and determinations will be announced during early 
September 2015.
    Accordingly, the Department issues the monthly per voucher unit fee 
rates to be used to determine PHA administrative fee eligibility for 
the programs identified in this Notice. These fee rates are posted on 
HUD's Web site at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv, under Program 
Related Information.
    Any questions concerning this Notice should be directed to the 
PHA's assigned representative at the Financial Management Center or to 
the Financial Management Division at 
[email protected].

C. MTW Agencies

    Where MTW Agencies have alternative formula for calculating HCV 
Administrative Fees in Attachment A of their MTW Agreements, HUD will 
continue to calculate the HCV Administrative Fees in accordance with 
that MTW Agreement provision.

    Dated: November 8, 2015.
Lourdes Castro Ram[iacute]rez,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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