United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States National Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register author aut Government Organization text government publication eng FR Regulatory Information 2016_register executive 2018-02-14 article Rules and Regulations D09002ee1c7f31375 D09002ee1c7f31416 United States Department of Housing and Urban Development originator org United States Government Agency or Subagency HUD's Consolidated Plan is a planning mechanism designed to help States and local governments to assess their affordable housing and community development needs and to make data-driven, place-based investment decisions. The Consolidated Planning process serves as the framework for a community-wide dialogue to identify housing and community development priorities that align and focus funding from HUD's formula block grant programs. This rule amends HUD's Consolidated Plan regulations to require that jurisdictions consider two additional concepts in their planning efforts. The first concept is how to address the need for broadband access for low- and moderate-income residents in the communities they serve. Broadband is the common term used to refer to a high-speed, always-on connection to the Internet. Such connection is also referred to as high-speed broadband or high-speed Internet. Specifically, the rule requires that States and localities that submit a Consolidated Plan describe the broadband access in housing occupied by low- and moderate- income households. If low-income residents in the communities do not have such access, States and jurisdictions must consider providing broadband access to these residents in their decisions on how to invest HUD funds. The second concept added to the Consolidated Plan process requires jurisdictions to consider incorporating resilience to natural hazard risks, taking care to anticipate how risks will increase due to climate change, into development of the plan in order to begin addressing impacts of climate change on low- and moderate-income residents. 81 FR 90997 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-12-16/2016-30421 2016-30421 fr16de16-15 RIN 2506-AC41 4210-67-P Docket No. FR 5891-F-02 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-12-16/2016-30421 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-12-16/html/2016-30421.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-12-16/pdf/2016-30421.pdf Aged Grant Programs-Housing and Community Development Homeless Individuals with Disabilities Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements 16 p. 90997 91012 81 FR 90997 Title 24 Part 91 24 CFR Part 91 RIN 2506-AC41 Modernizing HUD's Consolidated Planning Process To Narrow the Digital Divide and Increase Resilience to Natural Hazards; Federal Register Vol. 81, Issue RULE 2016-30421 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2017-01-17 Docket No. FR 5891-F-02 4210-67-P 2016-30421 Final rule.

HUD's Consolidated Plan is a planning mechanism designed to help States and local governments to assess their affordable housing and community development needs and to make data-driven, place-based investment decisions. The Consolidated Planning process serves as the framework for a community-wide dialogue to identify housing and community development priorities that align and focus funding from HUD's formula block grant programs. This rule amends HUD's Consolidated Plan regulations to require that jurisdictions consider two additional concepts in their planning efforts. The first concept is how to address the need for broadband access for low- and moderate-income residents in the communities they serve. Broadband is the common term used to refer to a high-speed, always-on connection to the Internet. Such connection is also referred to as high-speed broadband or high-speed Internet. Specifically, the rule requires that States and localities that submit a Consolidated Plan describe the broadband access in housing occupied by low- and moderate- income households. If low-income residents in the communities do not have such access, States and jurisdictions must consider providing broadband access to these residents in their decisions on how to invest HUD funds. The second concept added to the Consolidated Plan process requires jurisdictions to consider incorporating resilience to natural hazard risks, taking care to anticipate how risks will increase due to climate change, into development of the plan in order to begin addressing impacts of climate change on low- and moderate-income residents.

Effective Date: January 17, 2017. Lora Routt, Senior Advisor, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 7th Street SW., Suite 7204, Washington, DC 20410 at 202-402-4492 (this is not a toll-free number). Individuals with speech or hearing impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339 (this is a toll-free number). Aged Grant Programs-Housing and Community Development Homeless Individuals with Disabilities Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Modernizing the Consolidated Planning Process To Narrow the Digital Divide and Increase Resilience to Natural Hazards , https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2015/ https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=750383 https://www.hudexchange.info/onecpd/assets/File/HOME-FAQs-Broadband.pdf https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4420/htf-faqs/ https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4891/cdbg-broadband-infrastructure-faqs/ www.HUDExchange.info/get-assistance Vol. 81, no. 242 Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration 2016-12-16 continuing daily deposited born digital 705 p. Table of Contents: AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: KF70.A2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-12-16 P0b002ee198681e3a 0097-6326 0042-1219 0364-1406 769-004-00000-9 000582072 f:fr16de16 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2016-12-16 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-12-16/pdf/FR-2016-12-16.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-12-16/xml/FR-2016-12-16.xml fdlp 90949 91642 DGPO 2018-02-14 2024-06-01 FR-2016-12-16 machine generated eng FR FR-2016-12-16 81 242