[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 215 (Monday, November 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50750-50751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19823]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-6271-N-06]


Final Determination: Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for 
New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing; Additional 
Extension of HUD Compliance Dates

AGENCY: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Notice; extension of compliance dates.

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SUMMARY: On April 26, 2024, HUD and the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
published the ``Final Determination: Adoption of Energy Efficiency 
Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing'' 
Notice (Final Determination) in the Federal Register. The Final 
Determination provides compliance dates for HUD programs covered by the 
Final Determination. On March 10, 2025, HUD published a Notice of 
Extension of Compliance Dates in the Federal Register for covered 
projects in the following HUD programs: Federal Housing Administration-
Insured (FHA-Insured) Multifamily, FHA-Insured Single Family, Public 
Housing Capital Fund, and Competitive Grants (Choice Neighborhoods, 
Section 202, Section 811) and Section 8 Project Based Vouchers (PBV). 
This notice provides an additional extension of the compliance dates 
for these programs as specified below.

DATES: Applicable November 10, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bryan Horne, Acting Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Office of Community Planning and Development, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 
7272, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202-402-4270 (this is not 
a toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is prepared to receive calls from 
individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as individuals 
with speech or communication disabilities. To learn more about how to 
make an accessible telephone call, please visit: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    On April 26, 2024, HUD and the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
published the Final Determination (89 FR 33112), which adopted the 2021 
edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and the 
2019 edition of ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1: Energy Standard for 
Buildings, Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings (ASHRAE 90.1) as the 
minimum energy standards for new construction of buildings in programs 
covered by section 109 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12709), as amended by the Energy 
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) (Pub. L. 110-140).
    In Section VI of the Final Determination, the Departments provided 
Table 32, which lists compliance dates for the updated energy 
efficiency standards, also available with further guidance for HUD 
programs at https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/minimum-energy-standards/.
    On March 10, 2025, HUD published ``Final Determination: Adoption of 
Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-
Financed Housing; Extension of HUD Compliance Dates'' (90 FR 11622), 
which extended the compliance dates for the following HUD programs:

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Federal Housing Administration-Insured (FHA-Insured) Multifamily, FHA-
Insured Single Family, Public Housing Capital Fund, and Competitive 
Grants (Choice Neighborhoods, Section 202, Section 811), and Section 8 
Project Based Vouchers. As explained in the March 10 extension notice, 
HUD did not extend the compliance dates for HOME and Housing Trust Fund 
because those dates had already passed.
    On July 7, 2025, HUD and USDA published ``Adoption of Energy 
Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed 
Housing; Notice for Comment'' (90 FR 29882), in which the agencies 
announced that they intend to review the analysis contained in the 
Final Determination and requested additional public comment to inform 
such review. The agencies received nearly 100 public comments in 
response to the notice.

II. Additional Delay of Compliance Dates

    HUD is providing an additional delay of the HUD compliance dates 
that have not yet passed. The compliance dates for the following HUD 
programs are extended until May 28, 2026: Federal Housing 
Administration-Insured (FHA-Insured) Multifamily, FHA-Insured Single 
Family, Public Housing Capital Fund, and Section 8 Project Based 
Vouchers. The deadline for the Competitive Grants (Choice 
Neighborhoods, Section 202, Section 811) is extended until the 
publication of the respective program NOFOs for FY2026.
    The additional delay provided by this notice will provide time for 
the agencies to fully consider the public comments received in response 
to the July 7 Notice for Comment. In this regard, the Department notes 
the request from a national building industry advocacy organization for 
an additional extension of the compliance dates. The additional delay 
for Section 8 Project Based Vouchers will allow time for HUD to solicit 
comment and develop and publish further guidance on compliance for 
Section 8 PBV.
    As with the March 10 extension, HUD is not by this notice amending 
the compliance date for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) 
and the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Program, which has already passed. As 
stated on HUD Exchange, if HOME and HTF projects receive layered 
funding with other HUD funds covered by this notice as listed in the 
table below, the later compliance date applies. HUD confirms that HOME 
and HTF projects with funding from a program covered by this compliance 
date extension do not have to comply with the Final Determination until 
the new extended date. See https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/minimum-energy-standards/ for more information. Program participants 
who may have difficulty meeting compliance dates that have already 
passed should contact HUD.
    The updated compliance dates are as follows:

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           Program              Initiation event       Compliance date
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HOME and HTF (If HOME/HTF     Participating         November 28, 2024.
 funding is layered with       Jurisdiction (PJ)
 other HUD funds, the later    or HTF Grantee
 program compliance date       Funding Commitment.
 applies).
Federal Housing               Pre-application       May 28, 2026.
 Administration-Insured (FHA-  Submitted to HUD.
 Insured) Multifamily.
FHA-Insured Single Family...  Building Permit       May 28, 2026.
                               Application.
Public Housing Capital Fund.  HUD approvals of      May 28, 2026.
                               development
                               proposals for new
                               Capital Fund or
                               mixed financed
                               projects.
Project Based Vouchers......  To be determined in   May 28, 2026.
                               further guidance.
Competitive Grants (Choice    Notice of Funding     Upon publication of
 Neighborhoods, Section 202,   Opportunity (NOFO)    FY2026 NOFO for
 Section 811).                 Publication.          each respective
                                                     program.
All programs, persistent      Based on program-     May 28, 2026.
 poverty rural areas.          specific event,
                               above.
Rental Assistance             N/A.................  Already effective by
 Demonstration (RAD).                                Federal Register
                                                     Notice and program
                                                     notice.
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III. Findings and Certifications

Environmental Impact

    This notice provides updated compliance deadlines for the Final 
Determination. A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was prepared 
for the preliminary determination that preceded the Final Determination 
and remained applicable to the Final Determination. That FONSI is also 
applicable to this notice. Accordingly, under 24 CFR 50.19(c)(4) this 
notice is categorically excluded from environmental review under the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321).

Scott Turner,
Secretary.
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