[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 225 (Monday, November 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72983-72984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29812]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5884-N-01]
Notice of Annual Factors for Determining Public Housing Agency
Administrative Fees for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher,
Mainstream, 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 that HUD has posted on its Web site the
monthly per unit fee rates for use in determining the on-going
administrative fees for housing agencies administering the Housing
Choice Voucher (HCV), 5-Year Mainstream, and Moderate Rehabilitation
programs, including Single Room Occupancy, during calendar year (CY)
2015.
DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2015.
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 202-708-2934. (This is not
a toll-free number). Hearing or speech impaired individuals may call
TTY number 1 (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
This Notice announces that HUD has posted on its Web site the CY
2015 administrative fee rates and provides the Department's methodology
used to determine the fee rates by area, which the Office of Housing
Voucher Programs (OHVP) will use to compensate public housing agencies
(PHAs) for administering the HCV programs. PIH Notice 2015-03, entitled
``Implementation of the Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Funding
Provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher Program,'' (2015 HCV Funding
Implementation Notice) issued on February 27, 2015, describes the
advance and settlement processes for this compensation, which are a
result of the mandate enacted in the ``Consolidated and Further
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015'' (Pub. L. 113-235), referred to
hereinafter as ``the Act','' enacted on December 16, 2014. PIH Notice
2015-03 can be found at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=15-03pihn.pdf.
B. CY 2015 Methodology
For CY 2015, in accordance with the Act, administrative fees will
be earned on the basis of vouchers 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 and validated prior to use.
Two fee rates are provided for each PHA. The first rate, Column A,
applies to the first 7200 voucher unit months leased in CY 2015. The
second rate, Column B, applies to all remaining voucher unit months
leased in CY 2015. In years prior to 2010, a Column C rate was also
established, which applied to all voucher unit months leased in
dwelling units owned by the PHA. For CY 2015, as in recent years, there
are no Column C administrative fee rates. Fees for leasing HA-owned
units will be earned in the same manner and at the
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same Column A and Column B rates as for all other Voucher leasing.
The fee rates established for CY 2015, using the standard
procedures, in some cases resulted in fee rates lower than those
established for CY 2014. In those cases, the affected PHAs are being
held harmless at the CY 2014 fee rates.
The fee rates for each PHA are generally those rates covering the
fee areas in which each PHA has the greatest proportion of its
participants, based on Public Housing Information Center (PIC) data
submitted by the PHA. In some cases, PHAs have participants in more
than one fee area. If such 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 established, it will be used to determine the
PHA's fee eligibility for all months in CY 2015. The PHAs were advised
via the 2015 HCV Funding Implementation Notice to apply for blended fee
rate by March 31, 2015. These applications were already reviewed and
determinations were announced.
PHAs that operate over a large geographic area, defined as multiple
counties, may request a higher administrative fee rate if eligible
under the circumstance described in the CY 2015 implementation notice.
The PHAs were advised via the 2015 HCV Funding Implementation Notice to
apply for higher fee rates by March 31, 2015. These applications were
already reviewed and determinations will be announced during early
September 2015.
Accordingly, the Department issues the monthly per voucher unit fee
rates to be used to determine PHA administrative fee eligibility for
the programs identified in this Notice. These fee rates are posted on
HUD's Web site at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv, under Program
Related Information.
Any questions concerning this Notice should be directed to the
PHA's assigned representative at the Financial Management Center or to
the Financial Management Division at
[email protected].
C. MTW Agencies
Where MTW Agencies have alternative formula for calculating HCV
Administrative Fees in Attachment A of their MTW Agreements, HUD will
continue to calculate the HCV Administrative Fees in accordance with
that MTW Agreement provision.
Dated: November 8, 2015.
Lourdes Castro Ram[iacute]rez,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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