Redelegation of Authority for the Office of Field Policy and Management
| Published date | 31 August 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 48748 |
| Record Number | 2021-18722 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Housing And Urban Development Department |
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Dated: August 25, 2021.
David W. Freeman,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2021–18726 Filed 8–30–21; 8:45 am]
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Dated: August 25, 2021.
David W. Freeman,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6280–D–01]
Redelegation of Authority for the
Office of Field Policy and Management
AGENCY
: Office of Field Policy and
Management, Housing and Urban
Development (HUD).
ACTION
: Notice of redelegation of
authority.
SUMMARY
: Through this notice, the
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field
Policy and Management and the
Director for Field Policy and
Management redelegate certain
operational management authority to
the HUD Regional Administrators
located in Region I (Boston, MA);
Region II (New York, NY); Region III
(Philadelphia, PA); Region IV (Atlanta,
GA); Region V (Chicago, IL); Region VI
(Fort Worth, TX); Region VII (Kansas
City, KS); Region VIII (Denver, CO);
Region IX (San Francisco, CA); and
Region X (Seattle, WA).
DATES
: Applicable Date: August 25,
2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
: John
B. Shumway, Assistant General
Counsel, Administrative Law Division,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, at 451 7th Street SW,
Room 9262; Washington, DC 20410–
0500 or telephone number 202–402–
5190 (this is not a toll-free number).
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the Federal
Relay Service at 800–877–8339 (this is
a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: In October
2020, the Secretary of HUD delegated to
the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field
Policy and Management and the
Director for Field Policy and
Management authority for the
management and oversight of the
Department’s field operations, which
was published in the Federal Register at
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85 FR 62753. In that notice, the
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field
Policy and Management and Director for
Field Policy and Management were
authorized to redelegate such authority.
Through this notice, the Assistant
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and
Management and the Director for Field
Policy and Management redelegate
certain operational management
authority to the HUD Regional
Administrators. This notice supersedes
all prior redelegations to the HUD
Regional Administrators.
Section I: Authority Redelegated
A. Cross-Program Coordination. Each
Regional Administrator is redelegated
the following duties:
1. Develop and implement place-
based Regional and Field Operating
Plans in consultation with field Program
Directors.
2. To develop, approve, track, and
oversee the Regional Operating Plan
priority projects and initiatives that
cross program office lines.
3. Prepare briefing papers and hot
issue reports.
4. Lead disaster relief efforts.
5. Convene on-site program teams
(e.g., Community Planning and
Development, Office of General
Counsel, Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity, Public and Indian
Housing, etc.), as necessary and in
consultation with field Program
Directors, to review proposed major
projects or initiatives for place-based
impact.
6. Assist state and local housing
officials in assessing the impact of
housing foreclosures.
7. Convene place-based teams, as
necessary and in consultation with field
program directors, to review
Consolidated Plans during the 45-day
review period.
8. Provide comments to Public and
Indian Housing field directors on public
housing disposal and/or demolition
applications.
9. Review with other program leaders
the status of the HUD–VASH program to
maximize utilization.
10. Consult with Program Directors
regarding implementation of
departmental management goals,
Secretarial and Presidential initiatives,
and Annual Performance Plan
commitments. Regional Administrators
can request review by Headquarters of
decisions made by Program Directors.
Where the Regional Administrator and
relevant Program Director disagree on a
major program decision, the Regional
Administrator may report the
disagreement to the Assistant Deputy
Secretary for Field Policy and
Management, who may then raise the
matter with the relevant Assistant
Secretary or equivalent. The relevant
Assistant Secretary or equivalent makes
the final determination, subject to
review by the Deputy Secretary, as
necessary.
B. Administrative Management. Each
Regional Administrator is delegated the
following administrative duties:
1. Manage administrative field
operations, applicable to all employees
at a duty location, including out-
stationed personnel, through
coordination with Program Directors
administrative offices, and supervisors
of out stationed personnel.
Administrative field operations include,
but are not limited to:
•Determining official local office
hours of operation.
•Determining emergency office
closings due to weather, disaster, or
local events.
•Providing effective customer
service.
•Working with Program Directors
and all employees to foster a positive
working environment.
•Coordinating with the Office of
Administration (and its Office of
Administration Regional Support
Manager) to develop and manage an
administrative budget that meets the
needs of programs and staff in each
office.
•Managing internal office
communications of a general nature.
2. Regional Administrators may
request a waiver of specific directives
and handbook provisions pertaining to
programs in the offices of Housing,
Public and Indian Housing, Community
Planning and Development, and Fair
Housing and Equal Opportunity. Waiver
is not authorized for the HUD Litigation
Handbook and regulations, or those
departmental directives and handbook
provisions mandated by or directly
predicated on a statute, Executive
Order, or regulation. Waiver requests by
a Regional Administrator will be
forwarded to the Assistant Deputy
Secretary for Field Policy and
Management, who will forward the
requests to the respective program
Assistant Secretary for final decision.
All waiver requests must be in writing
and specify the grounds for requesting
the waiver. Regional Administrators
will be notified in writing of the
program Assistant Secretary’s decision,
through the Office of Field Policy and
Management leadership. Only the
program Assistant Secretary, or other
program office officials with delegated
authority to do so, may grant waivers or
make a specific delegation of waiver
authority.
C. Representation. Each Regional
Administrator is redelegated the
following duties:
1. Serve as the lead point of contact
for non-tribal local elected or appointed
officials.
2. Serve as one of the principal points
of contact with industry groups with the
support of and in consultation with
field Program Directors.
3. Oversee labor/management
relations in the region in coordination
with the assigned Employee and Labor
Relations representative.
•Based on information provided by
the Office of the Chief Human Capital
Officer/Employee and Labor Relations
Division and with input by the Office of
General Counsel, the Regional
Administrator will provide the Assistant
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and
Management with regular reports on all
open and active labor/management
cases that are in process.
4. Work with Headquarters offices,
including the Office of Congressional
and Intergovernmental Relations, to
ensure that federal, state, local, and
tribal elected officials within a
jurisdiction receive responsive and
coordinated customer service. This in
no way supersedes the Secretary’s
delegation of authority to the Assistant
Secretary for Congressional and
Intergovernmental Relations on October
7, 2011 (Federal Register Docket No.
FR–5515–D–01), in which the Secretary
delegates to the Assistant Secretary for
Congressional and Intergovernmental
Relations authority and responsibility
for coordinating congressional and
intergovernmental relations activities.
5. Manage all field-controlled
congressional and intergovernmental
correspondence, in consultation with
field Program Directors and in
coordination with the Executive
Secretariat (Office of Administration)
and the Office of Congressional and
Intergovernmental Relations.
6. Respond to all media inquiries in
conjunction with Headquarters’ Office
of Public Affairs and field Program
Directors.
7. Administer the local office’s web
page and internet sources, in
coordination with the Office of Public
Affairs.
8. Monitor and evaluate customer
service.
9. Enter into co-sponsorship
agreements, with the concurrence of the
General Counsel and the relevant
program Assistant Secretary or
equivalent.
Section II: Authority To Redelegate
Except for those authorities
specifically excluded in Section III of
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this notice, this authority may be
redelegated, as appropriate, from
Regional Administrators to Field Office
Directors and Deputy Regional
Administrators within the respective
jurisdictions.
Section III: Authority Nonredelegable
The following authorities may not be
redelegated from the Regional
Administrators to the Field Office
Directors or to any other employee:
1. The authority to enter into co-
sponsorship agreements.
2. The authority to request waivers as
provided by section I.B.2. above.
3. The authority to sign local, area-
wide, or center-wide negotiated impact
and implementation or memorandum of
understanding agreements with unions
representing smaller units consisting of
either Headquarters and/or field
employees on issues confined to a single
program area and within the Regional
Administrators’ own budget authority,
including the resolution of unfair labor
practice charges and bargaining
impasses.
Section IV: Authority Superseded
This notice supersedes all prior
redelegations of authority to the
Regional Administrators from the
Secretary of HUD, the Assistant Deputy
Secretary for Field Policy and
Management, or the Director for Field
Policy and Management.
Authority: Section 7(d) of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).
Michele Perez,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy
and Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7034–N–49]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Local Appeals to Single-
Family Mortgage Limits; OMB Control
No.: 2502–0302
AGENCY
: Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Housing and Urban
Development (HUD).
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: HUD has submitted the
proposed information collection
requirement described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review, in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for an
additional 30 days of public comment.
DATES
: Comments Due Date: September
30, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
Start Printed Page 15501PRAMain. Find
this particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW,
Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410–
5000; telephone 202–402–3400 (this is
not a toll-free number) or email at
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339
(this is a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: This
notice informs the public that HUD has
submitted to OMB a request for
approval of the information collection
described in Section A. The Federal
Register notice that solicited public
comment on the information collection
for a period of 60 days was published
on May 7, 2021, at 86 FR 24654.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Local
Appeals to Single-Family Mortgage
Limits.
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0302.
Type of Request: Extension.
Form Number: N/A.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: Any
interested party may submit a request
for the mortgage limits to be increased
in a particular area if they believe that
the present limit does not accurately
reflect the higher sales prices in that
area. Any request for an increase must
be accompanied by sufficient housing
sales price data to justify higher limits.
This allows HUD the opportunity to
examine additional data to confirm or
adjust the set loan limit for a particular
area.
Respondents: Business and other for-
profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
182.
Estimated Number of Responses: 182.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Hours per Response: 7.
Total Estimated Burdens: 1274.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond; including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
(5) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[FR–6280–D–02]
Order of Succession for the Office of
Field Policy and Management
AGENCY
: Office of Field Policy and
Management, HUD.
ACTION
: Notice of order of succession.
SUMMARY
: In this notice, the Assistant
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and
Management for the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
designates the Order of Succession for
the Office of Field Policy and
Management. This Order of Succession
supersedes all prior orders of succession
for the Office of Field Policy and
Management, including the Order of
Succession published in the Federal
Register on October 19, 2012.
DATES
: Applicable Date: August 31,
2021.
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