[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5801-5802]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02655]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5858-N-08]


Announcement of the Housing Counseling Federal Advisory 
Committee; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing 
Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Notice of Housing Counseling Federal Advisory Committee (HCFAC) 
Public Meeting.

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SUMMARY: This gives notice of a Housing Counseling Federal Advisory 
Committee (HCFAC) meeting and sets forth the proposed agenda. The 
Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, March 1, 2018. The meeting 
is open to the public and is accessible to individuals with 
disabilities.

DATES: The in-person meeting will be held on Thursday, March 1, 2018 
starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (ET) at HUD Headquarters, 
451 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20410 and via conference phone.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Virginia F. Holman, Housing 
Specialist, Office of Housing Counseling, U.S. Department of Housing 
and Urban Development, 600 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219; 
telephone number 804-822-4911 (this is not a toll-free number); email 
[email protected]. 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 (toll-free number). Individuals 
may also email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD is convening the meeting of the HCFAC on 
Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. The meeting 
will be held at HUD Headquarters, 451 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 
20410 and via conference phone. This meeting notice is provided in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 
10(a)(2).

Draft Agenda--Housing Counseling Federal Advisory Committee Meeting--
March 1, 2018

I. Welcome
II. Advisory Committee deliberation and

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recommendations
III. Public Comment
IV. Next Steps
V. Adjourn

Registration

    The public is invited to attend this one-day meeting in-person or 
by phone. Advance registration is required to participate. To register 
to attend, please visit the following link: https://pavr.wufoo.com/forms/hcfac-meeting-registration-03012018/.
    After completing the pre-registration process at the above link, 
in-person attendees will receive details about the meeting location and 
how to access the building. The meeting is also open to the public with 
limited phone lines available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
Phone attendees can call-in to the one-day meeting by using the 
following number in the United States: 800-231-0316 (toll-free number). 
An operator will ask callers to provide their names and their 
organizational affiliations (if applicable) prior to placing callers 
into the conference line to ensure they are part of the pre-
registration list. Callers can expect to incur charges for calls they 
initiate over wireless lines 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): (800) 977-8339 (toll-free number) and 
providing the FRS operator with the conference call number: 800-231-
0316.

Comments

    With advance registration, members of the public will have an 
opportunity to provide oral and written comments relative to agenda 
topics for the Committee's consideration. To provide oral comments, 
please be sure to indicate this on the registration link. The total 
amount of time for oral comments will be 15 minutes with each commenter 
limited to two minutes to ensure pertinent Committee business is 
completed. Written comments must be provided no later than February 19, 
2018 to [email protected]. Please note, written statements 
submitted will not be read during the meeting. The Committee will not 
respond to individual written or oral statements; but, will take all 
public comments into account in its deliberations.

Meeting Records

    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?cid=2492&aid=77 by 
clicking on the ``Committee Meetings'' link. Information on the 
Committee is also available on HUD Exchange at https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/housing-counseling/federal-advisory-committee/.

    Dated: January 30, 2018.
Dana Wade,
General Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Housing.
[FR Doc. 2018-02655 Filed 2-8-18; 8:45 am]
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