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Management Agency, 500 C Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2833. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA) hereby gives notice that 

pursuant to the authority vested in the 

Administrator, under Executive Order 

12148, as amended, Brian Schiller, of 

FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal 

Coordinating Officer for this disaster. 

This action terminates the 

appointment of Steven W. Johnson as 

Federal Coordinating Officer for this 

disaster. 

The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 

97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, 

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 

97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 

97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to 

Individuals and Households In Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, 

Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance— 

Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals 

and Households; 97.050, Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals 

and Households—Other Needs; 97.036, 

Disaster Grants—Public Assistance 

(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, 

Hazard Mitigation Grant. 

Pete Gaynor, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA–4575– 

DR; Docket ID FEMA–2020–0001] 

Oklahoma; Major Disaster and Related 

Determinations 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for the State of Oklahoma 

(FEMA–4575–DR), dated December 21, 

2020, and related determinations. 

DATES: The declaration was issued 

December 21, 2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dean Webster, Office of Response and 

Recovery, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, 500 C Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2833. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that, in a letter dated 

December 21, 2020, the President issued 

a major disaster declaration under the 

authority of the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. 

(the ‘‘Stafford Act’’), as follows: 

I have determined that the damage in 

certain areas of the State of Oklahoma 

resulting from a severe winter storm during 

the period of October 26 to October 29, 2020, 

is of sufficient severity and magnitude to 

warrant a major disaster declaration under 

the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et 

seq. (the ‘‘Stafford Act’’). Therefore, I declare 

that such a major disaster exists in the State 

of Oklahoma. 

In order to provide Federal assistance, you 

are hereby authorized to allocate from funds 

available for these purposes such amounts as 

you find necessary for Federal disaster 

assistance and administrative expenses. 

You are authorized to provide Public 

Assistance in the designated areas and 

Hazard Mitigation throughout the State. 

Consistent with the requirement that Federal 

assistance be supplemental, any Federal 

funds provided under the Stafford Act for 

Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation will 

be limited to 75 percent of the total eligible 

costs. 

Further, you are authorized to make 

changes to this declaration for the approved 

assistance to the extent allowable under the 

Stafford Act. 

The Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that 

pursuant to the authority vested in the 

Administrator, under Executive Order 

12148, as amended, Traci L. Brasher, of 

FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal 

Coordinating Officer for this major 

disaster. 

The following areas of the State of 

Oklahoma have been designated as 

adversely affected by this major disaster: 

Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Dewey, 

Grady, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Logan, Noble, 

Oklahoma, Payne, Pottawatomie, and Roger 

Mills Counties for Public Assistance. 

All areas within the State of Oklahoma are 

eligible for assistance under the Hazard 

Mitigation Grant Program. 

The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 

97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, 

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 

97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 

97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to 

Individuals and Households In Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, 

Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance— 

Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals 

and Households; 97.050, Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals 

and Households—Other Needs; 97.036, 

Disaster Grants—Public Assistance 

(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, 

Hazard Mitigation Grant. 

Pete Gaynor, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6191–N–04] 

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers: 

Implementation of the Housing Choice 

Voucher Mobility Demonstration, 

Restrictions on Participating in the 

Mobility Demonstration and the 

Moving to Work Demonstration 

Expansion 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 

(PIH), Department of Housing and 

Urban Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice of restrictions. 

SUMMARY: On July 15, 2020, HUD 

published a notice (‘‘HCV Mobility 

Demonstration Notice’’) implementing 

the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) 

mobility demonstration (‘‘HCV mobility 

demonstration’’) authorized by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019. 

Through that Notice, HUD is making 

available up to $50,000,000 to 

participating Public Housing Agencies 

(‘‘PHAs’’) throughout the country to 

implement housing mobility programs 

by offering mobility-related services to 

increase the number of voucher families 

with children living in opportunity 

areas. HUD now supplements the July 

15, 2020 notice to partially restrict 

participation in both the HCV mobility 

demonstration program and the Moving 

to Work demonstration expansion 

(‘‘MTW expansion’’) program. These 

restrictions are necessary to ensure the 

integrity of the Congressionallymandated evaluations of both 

demonstrations. This notice also 

provides two minor technical 

corrections to definitions provided in 

the July 15, 2020, HCV Mobility 

Demonstration Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Primeaux, Director, Housing 

Voucher Management and Operations 

Division, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street 

SW, Room 4214, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone number (202) 708–1112. (This 

is not a toll-free number.) Individuals 

with hearing or speech impediments 

may access this number via TTY by 

calling the Federal Relay during 

working hours at 800–877–8339. (This 


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is a toll-free number). HUD encourages 

submission of questions about the 

demonstration be sent to: 

HCVmobilitydemonstration@hud.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Additional Requirements 

On July 15, 2020, HUD published its 

HCV Mobility Demonstration Notice in 

the Federal Register (85 FR 42890), 

implementing the HCV mobility 

demonstration. Through that Notice, 

HUD is making available approximately 

$50,000,000 for grants to Public Housing 

Authorities (PHAs) under a 

demonstration program authorized by 

statute. HUD has been directed by 

Congress to evaluate the demonstration. 

On August 28, 2020, HUD published 

the ‘‘Operations Notice for the 

Expansion of the Moving to Work 

Program’’ (‘‘MTW Operations Notice’’) 

in the Federal Register (85 FR 53444). 

HUD intends to designate 100 PHAs for 

the expansion of the MTW 

demonstration in five separate and 

distinct cohorts. For each cohort of the 

MTW expansion, HUD will conduct a 

rigorous evaluation of a specific policy 

change. 

HUD issued PIH Notices for the first 

two of the five cohorts to solicit 

applications from eligible PHAs for 

participation in the MTW expansion. 

The PIH Notices describe specific 

application submission requirements, 

evaluation criteria, and the process HUD 

will use when selecting PHAs for 

cohorts one and two of the MTW 

expansion. PIH Notices for the 

remaining three cohorts will be issued 

at a later date. 

The evaluation of the first cohort, 

MTW flexibility on small PHAs, will 

evaluate the overall impact of MTW 

flexibilities on PHAs with less than 

1,000 units. The evaluation of the 

second cohort, rent reform, will evaluate 

the impacts of different rent structures. 

The third cohort will focus on work 

requirements and the fourth cohort will 

examine landlord incentives. The fifth 

cohort, MTW flexibility on PHAs with 

fewer than 27,000 units, will be similar 

to the first cohort. 

After careful consideration, HUD’s 

office of Policy Development and 

Research (PD&R), which has been 

directed by Congress to evaluate both 

the HCV mobility demonstration and 

the MTW expansion, has determined 

that the Congressionally mandated 

rigorous evaluation of the 

demonstrations create significant 

barriers for PHAs to participate fully in 

both programs. More specifically, 

without these reasonable and tailored 

restrictions of MTW participation, the 

evaluations could become so skewed 

that it would defeat the legislative 

mandate to conduct an objective 

analysis of the mobility demonstration. 

This is because MTW agencies already 

have flexibility to engage in their own 

directed mobility programs that nonMTW PHAs are currently unlikely to be 

able to implement with their existing 

federal funds. Therefore, HUD is 

establishing additional requirements for 

participation in the HCV mobility 

demonstration. 

Restrictions on Participation in the 

MTW Expansion and the HCV Mobility 

Demonstration 

PHAs may apply to all cohorts the 

MTW expansion and also apply to the 

HCV mobility demonstration. However, 

HUD will restrict participation for PHAs 

selected for both the MTW expansion 

and the HCV mobility demonstration 

programs as follows: 

• PHAs selected for cohorts one and 

five (MTW flexibilities) may participate 

in both the HCV mobility demonstration 

and the MTW expansion. However, they 

must agree to limit the adoption of 

certain MTW flexibilities, for the HCV 

program only, during the term of HCV 

mobility demonstration participation 

described in the initial HCV Mobility 

Demonstration Notice. HUD will 

document these limitations in the HCV 

mobility demonstration memorandum 

of understanding (‘‘MOU’’) to be 

executed between the PHA and HUD. 

There will be no restriction on the 

public housing activities the PHA may 

undertake. 

• PHAs may not participate in both 

the HCV mobility demonstration and 

cohorts two (rent reform), three (work 

requirements) or four (landlord 

incentives) of the MTW expansion. 

Æ Applications for cohort two (rent 

reform) are due on January 8, 2021. If a 

PHA is selected for both cohort two 

(rent reform) and the HCV mobility 

demonstration, the PHA must choose 

which demonstration to participate in 

and withdraw from the other 

demonstration within 21 calendar days 

after notifications of selection have been 

made for both programs. 

Æ For cohorts three and four, if a PHA 

has already been selected for the HCV 

mobility demonstration, it may not 

apply for cohort three (work 

requirements) or cohort four (landlord 

incentives) of the MTW expansion. In 

the unlikely event that selection 

notifications for the HCV mobility 

demonstration have not been made by 

the application due date for cohorts 

three and four, PHAs may submit an 

application for those MTW expansion 

cohorts. If a PHA is selected for either 

cohort three (work requirements) or 

cohort four (landlord incentives) and 

the HCV mobility demonstration, the 

PHA must choose which demonstration 

to participate in and withdraw from the 

other demonstration within 21 calendar 

days after notifications of selection have 

been made for both programs. 

Restrictions on MTW Expansion Cohorts 

One and Five (MTW Flexibilities) 

PHAs participating in cohorts one and 

five of the MTW expansion are allowed 

to adopt MTW flexibilities as outlined 

in the MTW Operations Notice. HUD is 

restricting certain MTW flexibilities for 

PHAs participating in both the HCV 

mobility demonstration and cohorts one 

and five (MTW flexibilities) of the MTW 

expansion for three primary reasons: 

• Potential for offering additional 

services to families in the HCV mobility 

demonstration treatment and control 

groups that would result in a 

noncomparable intervention when 

compared to other HCV mobility 

demonstration sites; 

• Potential to influence residential 

locational choices for families based on 

unit rents and required family rent 

share; and 

• Potential for interfering with the 

PHA being able to meet the minimum 

enrollment requirements for the HCV 

mobility demonstration treatment and 

control groups. 

For PHAs participating in MTW 

expansion cohorts one and five and in 

the HCV mobility demonstration, the 

following MTW flexibilities may not be 

implemented without the express 

written permission of HUD: Work 

requirements, vacancy loss, damage 

claims, other landlord incentives, prequalifying unit inspections, and 

reasonable penalty payments for 

landlords may not be implemented due 

to the potential for the offering of 

additional services to families and 

landlords in the HCV mobility 

demonstration treatment and control 

groups that would result in 

noncomparable intervention when 

compared to other HCV mobility 

demonstration sites. 

Additionally, PHAs may not make 

Family Self-Sufficiency (‘‘FSS’’) 

programs mandatory under ‘‘alternative 

family selection procedures’’ for MTW 

self-sufficiency programs or FSS 

programs with MTW flexibility for 

similar reasons. PHAs that operate a 

mandatory FSS program also will not be 

allowed to waive operating the FSS 

program for the HCV program. However, 

service provision under local nontraditional activities could potentially 

be implemented with prior approval by 

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PHAs participating in the HCV 

mobility demonstration and the MTW 

expansion cohort one or cohort five may 

not implement the following MTW 

flexibilities without the express written 

permission of HUD: Term limits, tenant 

payment as a modified percentage of 

income, fixed subsidy, initial rent 

burden, and imputed income activities. 

This is due to the potential to influence 

residential locational choices for 

families based on unit rents and 

required family rent share. HUD has not 

fully determined whether PHAs would 

be able to limit portability for projectbased voucher (‘‘PBV’’) units and will 

work with the research team to make a 

final determination. 

MTW flexibilities related to short 

term assistance and increasing the PBV 

program cap may be implemented as 

long as HUD provides prior approval. 

These activities may be restricted due to 

the potential for interfering with the 

PHA being able to meet the minimum 

enrollment requirements for the HCV 

mobility demonstration. 

Restrictions on Cohorts Two (Rent 

Reform), Three (Work Requirements), 

and Four (Landlord Incentives) 

PHAs may not participate in cohorts 

two (rent reform), three (work 

requirements), or four (landlord 

incentives) of the MTW expansion and 

the HCV mobility demonstration. The 

evaluation in cohorts two (rent reform) 

and three (work requirements) will 

require family level randomization, 

which will create significant conflicts 

for the integrity of the HCV mobility 

demonstration evaluation, which also 

requires family level randomization. 

Inclusion of PHAs in the MTW 

expansion cohort four (landlord 

incentives) and the mobility 

demonstration would also create 

significant research complications, due 

to the HCV mobility demonstration 

requiring a standard set of landlord 

incentives which would likely differ 

from the landlord incentive research 

requirements of the MTW expansion. 

New Policy Changes for PHAs After 

Selection in the HCV Mobility 

Demonstration 

After selection, and for the duration of 

participation in the HCV mobility 

demonstration, PHAs that participate in 

cohorts one and five of the MTW 

expansion, legacy MTW PHAs, and all 

non-MTW PHAs, must also work closely 

with HUD and the evaluator before any 

new policy changes can be 

implemented. The process and terms for 

adoption of new policy changes will be 

described in the HCV mobility 

demonstration MOU executed between 

HUD and the PHA. This is consistent 

with the initial HCV Mobility 

Demonstration Notice, which asked 

PHAs to identify any potential conflicts 

between their programs and the HCV 

mobility demonstration. The initial HCV 

Mobility Demonstration Notice states, 

‘‘After the program and research design 

is finalized, HUD will draft a 

memorandum of understanding (MOU) 

that outlines roles, responsibilities, the 

program and research design, services to 

be offered, and descriptions of 

administrative policies, among other 

things. HUD also will draft a 

performance standards agreement that 

outlines programmatic goals, recapture 

and reallocation terms, a budget, and a 

payment schedule for mobility-related 

services.’’ 

In other words, and similar to other 

evaluations conducted by HUD, PHAs 

that participate in the HCV mobility 

demonstration will not be permitted to 

adopt any policy changes during the 

duration of their participation that 

conflict with the HCV mobility 

demonstration implementation and 

research. 

Selection for MTW Expansion Cohorts 

One (MTW Flexibilities) and Two (Rent 

Reform) 

HUD anticipates that the 

announcement of the selection of PHAs 

for the HCV mobility demonstration and 

the first and second cohorts of the MTW 

expansion will happen around the same 

time in early 2021. PHAs that are 

selected for the HCV mobility 

demonstration and cohort one of the 

MTW expansion will be required to 

limit certain MTW flexibilities in order 

to participate in both programs. HUD 

will document these limitations in the 

HCV mobility demonstration 

memorandum of understanding to be 

executed between the PHA and HUD. 

PHAs selected for cohort two (rent 

reform) of the MTW expansion and the 

HCV mobility demonstration will be 

asked to decide which program the PHA 

will participate in and withdraw from 

the other program. The PHA must 

choose which demonstration to 

participate in and withdraw from the 

other demonstration within 21 calendar 

days after notifications of selection have 

been made for both programs. 

If a PHA applied as a single PHA or 

as part of a joint application to the HCV 

mobility demonstration and decides to 

participate in cohort two (rent reform) of 

MTW expansion, the application to the 

HCV mobility demonstration will be 

withdrawn. Given the extensive nature 

of both applications, HUD strongly 

encourages PHAs that are part of a joint 

HCV mobility demonstration 

application to discuss whether any of 

the PHAs intend to participate in the 

MTW expansion. 

However, PHAs submitting a joint 

application to the HCV mobility 

demonstration with a PHA that also is 

applying for cohort two (rent reform) of 

the MTW expansion may submit a 

second application for the HCV mobility 

demonstration if they otherwise qualify 

under one of the statutory eligibility 

categories. HUD will score second 

applications along with the rest of the 

applications, but would only consider 

the score of the second application 

(which may be different than the score 

of the first application) if a PHA as part 

of a joint application chooses to 

participate in cohort two (rent reform) of 

the MTW expansion rather than the 

HCV mobility demonstration. No 

applications will be considered after the 

application deadline. 

Technical Corrections 

In FR Notice 6191–N–01, published in 

the Federal Register on July 15, 2020 

(85 FR 42890) Section VII Application 

Format, Part K, Category A of the HCV 

Mobility Demonstration Notice, HUD 

inadvertently defined ‘‘an adequate 

number of moderately priced rental 

units in high-opportunity areas’’ 

incorrectly. The correct definition is ‘‘a 

selected service area where at least 20 

percent of the standard-quality rental 

stock within that service area is located 

in [zip code tabulated areas] ZCTAs 

where the [small area fair market rent] 

SAFMR is more than 110 percent of the 

Metropolitan Area FMR.’’ The data tool 

provided by HUD to calculate this for 

PHAs is correct and has been using this 

correct definition. 

In FR Notice 6191–N–01, Section VII 

Application Format, Part 3, Capacity of 

the Organization of the Mobility 

Demonstration Notice, HUD requested 

PHAs to submit, ‘‘Number of 

recertifications completed for families 

with children between January 1, 2010 

and December 31, 2019.’’ PHAs should 

submit the number of recertifications 

completed for families with children 

between January 1, 2019 and December 

31, 2019. 

R. Hunter Kurtz, 

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing. 

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