[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 128 (Thursday, July 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38053-38054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15712]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5793-N-01]
Notice of Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Annual Factors for Determining
Public Housing Agency Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing
Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation Programs
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This Notice announces the monthly per unit fee amounts for use
in determining the on-going administrative fee for housing agencies
administering the rental voucher and moderate rehabilitation programs,
including Single Room Occupancy during CY 2014.
DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Miguel Fontanez, Director, Housing
Voucher Financial Management Division, Office of Public Housing and
Voucher Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, Room 4222, 451 Seventh Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410-8000, telephone number 202-402-2934. (This is not
a toll-free number). Hearing or speech impaired individuals may call
TTY number 1 (800) 877-8337.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose and Substantive Description
This Notice provides the Department's methodology to determine the
CY 2014 administrative fees rates by area, which the Office of Housing
Voucher Program (OHVP) will utilize to compensate public housing
authorities (PHAs) for administering the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)
programs. The PIH Notice 2014-05, Implementation of the Federal Fiscal
Year (FY) 2014 Funding Provision for the Housing Choice Voucher
Program,\1\ issued on March 18, 2014, describes the settlement process
for this compensation, which will be a result of the mandate enacted in
the ``Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014'' (Pub. L. 113-76), signed
on January 17, 2014.
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\1\ PIH Notice 2014-05 can be found at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/administration/hudclips/notices/pih.
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B. FY 2014 Methodology
For CY 2014, in accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2014, administrative fees will be paid on the basis of units
leased as of the first day of each month; this data will be extracted
from the Voucher Management System (VMS) at the close of each reporting
cycle.
As noted in the attachment to this notice, two fee rates are
provided for each public housing authority (PHA). The first rate,
Column A, applies to the first 7200 unit months leased in CY 2014. The
second rate, Column B, applies to all remaining unit months leased in
CY 2014. In years prior to CY 2010, a Column C rate was also provided,
which applied to all unit months leased in units owned by the PHA. For
CY 2014 there are no Column C administrative fee rates. Fees for
leasing PHA-owned units will be earned in the same manner and at the
same Column A and Column B rates as for all other leasing.
Administrative fees are updated annually using the change in
average wages for local government workers in each State metropolitan
and non-metropolitan portion. Data on average wages come from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and
Wages (QCEW) program.
The fee rates calculated for CY 2014, using the standard procedure
described above, in many cases resulted in rates lower than those
provided for CY 2013. In those cases, the affected PHAs are being held
harmless at the CY 2013 rates.
The fee rates for each PHA are generally those rates covering the
areas in which each PHA has the greatest proportion of its
participants, based on Public Housing Information Center (PIC) data. In
some cases, PHAs have participants in more than one fee area. If a PHA
so chooses, the PHA may request that the Department establish a blended
fee rate schedule that will consider proportionately all areas in which
participants are located. Once a blended rate schedule is calculated,
it will be used to determine the PHA's fee eligibility for all months
of CY 2014. A PHA that received a blended fee rate schedule for 2013
will not receive it automatically for 2014; it must be requested.
Requests for blended fee rates for CY 2014 were due on April 15, 2014,
per instructions provided in the CY 2014 HCV Funding Implementation
Notice, PIH 2014-05, published on March 18, 2014. HUD will evaluate the
requests and will notify housing agencies of the results during the
month of July, 2014.
These fee rates also apply to the Moderate Rehabilitation program
and the 5-Year Mainstream Program.
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Paperwork Reduction Act Statement
The information collection requirements contained in this document
are pending the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520), and have been assigned OMB control number 2502-0348. In
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of
information unless the collection displays a currently valid control
number.
Accordingly, the Department publishes the monthly per unit fee
amount to be used for determining PHA administrative fees under the
Housing Choice Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation programs as set
forth on the schedule appended to this notice.
The fee rates are posted on HUD's Web site at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv.
Dated: June 26, 2014.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 2014-15712 Filed 7-2-14; 8:45 am]
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