[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 31, 2017)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 8811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00255]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

24 CFR Part 574

[Docket No. FR 5339-C-04]
RIN 2502-AI94


Housing Counseling: New Certification Requirements; Correction

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, HUD.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On December 14, 2016, HUD published a final rule implementing 
changes to HUD's housing counseling statute to improve the 
effectiveness of housing counseling in HUD programs by, among other 
things: Establishing the Office of Housing Counseling and giving this 
office the authority over the establishment, coordination, and 
administration of all regulations, requirements, standards, and 
performance measures under programs and laws administered by HUD that 
relate to housing counseling; requiring that organizations providing 
housing counseling required under or in connection with HUD programs be 
approved to participate in the Housing Counseling Program (Housing 
Counseling Agencies, or HCAs) and have all individuals providing such 
housing counseling certified by HUD as competent to provide such 
services; prohibiting the distribution of housing counseling grant 
funds awarded to agencies participating in HUD's Housing Counseling 
Program that are found in violation of Federal election laws or that 
have employees found in violation of Federal election laws; and 
requiring the reimbursement to HUD of housing counseling grant funds 
that HUD finds were misused. After publication, HUD discovered an 
incorrect amendatory instruction. This document makes the necessary 
correction. The effective date for HUD's final rule of January 13, 2017 
is unchanged.

DATES: Effective January 31, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: With respect to this supplementary 
document, contact Ariel Periera, Associate General Counsel for 
Legislation and Regulations, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 10238, Washington, DC 20410; 
telephone number 202-708-1793 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons 
with hearing or speech impairments may access this number through TTY 
by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the final rule FR Doc. 2016-29822, 
published in the Federal Register on December 14, 2016 (81 FR 90632), 
the following correction is made:
    On page 90659, in the third column, revise amendatory instruction 
17 to read ``Add Sec.  574.660 to read as follows:''.

    Dated: January 4, 2017.
Aaron Santa Anna,
Assistant General Counsel for Regulations.
[FR Doc. 2017-00255 Filed 1-30-17; 8:45 am]
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