Meetings: Operating Fund Allocation Negotiated Rulemaking Committee,

[Federal Register: August 11, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 154)]

[Proposed Rules]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

24 CFR Part 990

[Docket No. FR-4425-N-05]

Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Operating Fund Allocation; Cancellation August Meeting and Announcement of September Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee meetings.

SUMMARY: This document announces the cancellation of the meeting of the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Operating Fund Allocation, which had been scheduled to take place on August 11 and August 12, 1999. This document also announces the dates, time, and location of the September committee meeting. These ongoing meetings are sponsored by HUD for the purpose of discussing and negotiating a proposed rule that would change the current method of determining the payment of operating subsidies to public housing agencies (PHAs).

DATES: The committee meeting scheduled to take place on August 11 and August 12, 1999 has been cancelled.

The September committee meeting will be held on September 14 and September 15, 1999.

The first day of the September committee meeting will begin at approximately 9:30 am and end at approximately 5:00 pm. The second day of the September committee meeting will begin at approximately 9:00 am and end at approximately 4:00 pm.

ADDRESSES: The September committee meeting will take place at the Hilton Washington Dulles Hotel, 13869 Park Center Road, Herndon, VA 20171.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joan DeWitt, Director, Funding and Financial Management Division, Public and Indian Housing, Room 4216, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410-0500; telephone (202) 708-1872 ext. 4035 (this telephone number is not toll-free). Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary of HUD has established the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Operating Fund Allocation to negotiate and develop a proposal that would change the current method of determining the payment of operating subsidies to PHAs.

This document announces the cancellation of the meeting of the committee, which had been scheduled to take place on August 11 and August 12, 1999. The cancellation will allow HUD to more fully develop a subsidy allocation proposal for committee consideration.

This document also announces the dates, time, and location of the September committee meeting, which will take place as described in the DATES and ADDRESSES section of this document.

The agenda planned for the committee meeting includes: (1) Workgroup sessions to discuss various issues related to the implementation of an operating fund formula; (2) full committee discussions of the work-products developed by the workgroups; (3) development of draft regulatory language; and (4) the scheduling of future meetings, if necessary.

The meeting will be open to the public without advance registration. Public attendance may be limited to the space available. Members of the public may make statements during the meeting, to the extent time permits, and file written statements with the committee for its consideration. Written statements should be submitted to the address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION section of this notice. Summaries of committee meetings will be available for public inspection and copying at the address in the same section.

Dated: August 6, 1999. Deborah Vincent, General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

[FR Doc. 99-20836Filed8-9-99; 11:04 am]

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