[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 215 (Monday, November 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78177-78178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-26872]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5932-N-06]


Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Moving to Work 
Research Advisory Committee

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

ACTION: Notice of a federal advisory committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda for a 
meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee 
(Committee). The Committee meeting will be held via conference call on 
Tuesday, December 13, 2016. The meeting is open to the public and is 
accessible to individuals with disabilities.

DATES: The teleconference meeting will be held on December 13, 2016, 
from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Fontheim, Office of Public and 
Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW., Room 4130, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 402-3461 
(this is not a toll-free number). Persons who have difficulty hearing 
or speaking may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free 
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339 or can email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is provided in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5. U.S.C. App. 
10(a)(2). The Committee was established on May 2, 2016, to advise HUD 
on specific policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation 
related to the expansion of the MTW demonstration to an additional 100 
high-performing Public Housing Authorities (PHAs). See 81 FR 24630. On 
July 26 and 28, 2016, HUD convened two conference call meetings of the 
Committee followed by a two-day in-person meeting on September 1 and 2, 
2016. The minutes of these meetings are available on the HUD Web site 
at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.
    HUD is now convening a 3-hour conference call to continue the 
discussion from the September meeting. HUD will convene the meeting on 
Tuesday, December 13, 2016, via teleconference from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 
p.m. (EST). The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 From 1-4 p.m. EST

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Summary of July and September Meetings
III. Goal for this Meeting
    a. Continue discussion and provide

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recommendations on whether to study mobility and/or place-based models 
through a cohort of the 100-agency MTW Expansion
    b. Revisit Guiding Principles
IV. Policy Framework and Research Methodology--MTW Statutory Objective 
#3: Increasing Housing Choice
    a. Strategies to Encourage Participant Mobility
V. BREAK
VI. Policy Framework and Research Methodology--MTW Statutory Objective 
#3: Increasing Housing Choice (continued)
    a. Place-Based Strategies as a platform for health and educational 
outcomes
VII. Public Input
VIII. Summary of Discussion
IX. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn

    The public is invited to call-in to the meeting by using the 
following Conference Toll-Free Number in the United States: 1-800-230-
1074 or the following International number for those outside the United 
States: (612) 234-9960. Please be advised that the operator will ask 
callers to provide their names and their organizational affiliations 
(if any) prior to placing callers into the conference line. Callers can 
expect to incur charges for calls they initiate over wireless lines and 
for international calls, and HUD will not refund any incurred charges. 
Callers will incur no charge for calls they initiate over land-line 
connections to the toll-free phone number. Persons with hearing 
impairments may also follow the discussion by first calling the Federal 
Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 and providing the FRS operator 
with the Conference Call Toll-Free Number: 1-800-230-1074.
    With advance registration, members of the public will have an 
opportunity to provide feedback during the call. The total amount of 
time for such feedback will be limited to ensure pertinent Committee 
business is completed. Further, the amount of time allotted to each 
individual commenter will be limited and will be allocated on a first-
come first-served basis by HUD. If the number of registered commenters 
exceeds the available time, HUD may ask for the submission of comments 
via email. In order to pre-register to provide comments, please visit 
the MTW Demonstration's registration page: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/event/moving-to-work-expansion-dec2016.html.
    Records and documents discussed during the meeting, as well as 
other information about the work of this Committee, will be available 
for public viewing as they become available at: http://www.facadatabase.gov/committee/committee.aspx?t=c&cid=2570&aid=77 by 
clicking on the ``Committee Meetings'' link.
    These materials will also be available on the MTW Demonstration's 
expansion Web page at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion. 
Records generated from this meeting may also be inspected and 
reproduced at the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Headquarters in Washington, DC, as they become available, both before 
and after the meeting.
    Outside of the work of this Committee, information about HUD's 
broader implementation of the MTW expansion, as well as additional 
opportunities for public input, can be found on the MTW Demonstration's 
expansion Web page at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.

    Dated: October 24, 2016.
Lourdes Castro Ram[iacute]rez,
Principal Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
Katherine M. O'Regan,
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
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