[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 40084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17330]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-6174-D-01]


Order of Succession for the Office of Community Planning and 
Development

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Order of Succession for the Office of Community 
Planning and Development.

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SUMMARY: In this notice, the Secretary of HUD designates the Order of 
Succession for the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD). 
This Order of Succession supersedes all prior Orders of Succession for 
the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, 
including the Order of Succession published on April 20, 2015.

DATES: August 1, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Biechman, Field Management 
Officer and CPD Continuity of Operations Plan Coordinator, Office of 
Field Management, Office of Community Planning and Development, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 
7228, Washington, DC 20410-7000, telephone number 202-402-2252 (this is 
not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech impairments may 
access this telephone number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay 
Service, toll-free, at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary of HUD is issuing this Order 
of Succession of officials authorized to perform the functions and 
duties of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 
and Development when the Assistant Secretary is not available to 
exercise the powers or perform the duties of the office. This Order of 
Succession is subject to the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform 
Act of 1998 (5 U.S.C. 3345-3349d). This publication supersedes all 
prior orders of succession for the Office of Community Planning and 
Development, including the Order of Succession published in the Federal 
Register on April 20, 2015 at 80 FR 21755.

Section A. Order of Succession

    Subject to the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 
1998, during any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or 
vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development is not available to exercise the powers or perform the 
duties of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development the following officials within the Office of Community 
Planning and Development are hereby designated to exercise the powers 
and perform the duties of the Office, including the authority to waive 
regulations:
    (1) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.
    (2) General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.
    (3) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs.
    (4) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs Programs.
    (5) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Development.
    (6) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations.
    (7) CPD Regional Office Director, Philadelphia.
    (8) CPD Regional Office Director, Kansas City.
    (9) CPD Regional Office Director, Boston.
    These officials shall perform the functions and duties of the 
Office in the order specified herein, and no official shall serve 
unless all the other officials, whose positions precede his/hers in 
this order, are unable to act by reason of absence, disability, or 
vacancy in office. No individual who is serving in an office listed 
above in an acting capacity shall act as the Assistant Secretary for 
Community Planning and Development pursuant to this Order of 
Succession.

Section B. Authority Superseded

    This Order of Succession supersedes all prior orders of succession 
for the Office of Community Planning and Development, including the one 
published at 80 FR 21755 on April 20, 2015.

    Authority: Section 7(d), Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).

    Dated: August 1, 2019.
Brian D. Montgomery,
Acting Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-17330 Filed 8-12-19; 8:45 am]
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