Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2008: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Meeting

Federal Register: March 19, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 53)

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 24 CFR Part 1000

Docket No. FR-5275-N-06

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination

Reauthorization Act of 2008: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of negotiated rulemaking committee meeting.

SUMMARY: This document announces a meeting of the negotiated rulemaking committee that was established pursuant to the Native American Housing

Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2008. The primary purpose of the committee is to discuss and negotiate a proposed rule that would change the regulations for the Indian Housing Block

Grant (IHBG) program and the Title VI Loan Guarantee program.

DATES: The committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 30, 2010,

Wednesday, March 31, and Thursday, April 1, 2010. On all three days the meeting will begin at 8 am and is scheduled to end at 5 pm.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the Doubletree Paradise

Valley Resort, 5401 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85250; telephone number 480-946-1524 (this is not a toll-free number).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rodger J. Boyd, Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Native American Programs, Office of Public and Indian

Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh

Street, SW., Room 4126, Washington, DC 20410; telephone number 202-401- 7914 (this is not a toll-free number). 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:

1. Background

   The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination

   Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-411, approved October 14, 2008) (NAHASDA Reauthorization) reauthorizes The Native American

   Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.) (NAHASDA) through September 30, 2013, and makes a number of amendments to the statutory requirements governing the Indian Housing

   Block Grant Program (IHBG) and Title VI Loan Guarantee programs. For more information on the IHBG and Title VI of NAHASDA, please see the background section of the Notice of Negotiated Rulemaking Committee

   Meeting published on February 22, 2010 at (75 FR 7579). The NAHASDA

   Reauthorization amends section 106 of NAHASDA to provide that HUD shall initiate a negotiated rulemaking in order to implement aspects of the 2008 Reauthorization Act that require rulemaking. On January 5, 2010

   (75 FR 423), HUD published a Federal Register notice announcing the final list of members of the negotiated rulemaking committee (the

   Native American Housing Assistance & Self-Determination Negotiated

   Rulemaking Committee). On February 22, 2010 (75 FR 7559), HUD published a Federal Register notice announcing the first meeting of the negotiated rulemaking committee.

2. Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Meeting

   This document announces the second meeting of the Native American

   Housing Assistance & Self-Determination Negotiated Rulemaking

   Committee. The committee meeting will take place as described in the

   DATES and ADDRESSES sections of this document. The agenda planned for the meeting includes the discussion of protocols and the scope of the rulemaking process, as well as setting of future meetings. 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 be allowed to make statements during the meeting, to the extent time permits, and to file written statements with the committee for its consideration. Written statements should be submitted to the address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

   Dated: March 12, 2010.

   Sandra B. Henriquez,

   Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

   FR Doc. 2010-6003 Filed 3-18-10; 8:45 am

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