Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 178 / Wednesday, September 16, 2009 / Notices 47599 

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 2,772. 

Status: Extension of a currently 

approved collection. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as 

amended. 

Dated: September 10, 2009. 

Lillian Deitzer, 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5300–C–13] 

Notice of Funding Availability for 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2009; Self-Help 

Homeownership Opportunity Program 

(SHOP); Clarifications and Technical 

Corrections 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of corrections and 

clarifications. 

SUMMARY: On July 13, 2009, HUD posted 

its FY2009 SHOP NOFA on the 

Grants.gov website. The FY2009 SHOP 

NOFA makes $26.5 million in assistance 

to national and regional nonprofit 

organizations and consortia which 

facilitate and encourage innovative 

homeownership opportunities for lowincome individuals and families. 

Through this document, HUD 

announces that it has posted a notice 

that corrects and clarifies a number of 

provisions in the FY2009 SHOP NOFA 

posted on July 13, 2009. Specifically, 

the notice: (1) Clarifies the requirement 

for applicants to reduce energy costs, (2) 

clarifies the requirement for font size; 

(3) clarifies the requirement that the 

page limit is four pages for rating factor 

2, and (4) corrects a posting error that 

resulted in the Tables 1 and 2 being 

misprinted in the posted document. The 

notice making these corrections is 

available on Grants.gov Web site http:// 

apply07.grants.gov/apply/ 

forms_apps_idx.html. A link to 

Grants.gov is also available on the HUD 

Web site at http://www.hud.gov/offices/ 

adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm. 

To permit applicants time to prepare 

applications that take into account these 

changes, HUD is extending the 

application submission deadline for the 

FY2009 SHOP NOFA until September 

28, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information concerning the 

Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity 

Program (SHOP), contact Lou 

Thompson, Office of Affordable 

Housing Programs, Office of Community 

Planning and Development, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7168, 

Washington DC 20410–7000; telephone 

202–402–4594 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Persons with speech or 

hearing impairments may access this 

telephone number via TTY by calling 

the toll-free Federal Information Relay 

Service during working hours at 800– 

877–8339. 

Dated: September 10, 2009. 

Mercedes Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

and Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–22349 Filed 9–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5324–N–02] 

Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests 

Granted for the Second Quarter of 

Calendar Year 2009 

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, 

HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 106 of the Department 

of Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform 

Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly 

Federal Register notices of all 

regulatory waivers that HUD has 

approved. Each notice covers the 

quarterly period since the previous 

Federal Register notice. The purpose of 

this notice is to comply with the 

requirements of section 106 of the HUD 

Reform Act. This notice contains a list 

of regulatory waivers granted by HUD 

during the period beginning on April 1, 

2009 and ending on June 30, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information about this notice, 

contact Camille E. Acevedo, Associate 

General Counsel for Legislation and 

Regulations, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, 

SW., Room 10282, Washington, DC 

20410–0500, telephone 202–708–1793 

(this is not a toll-free number). Persons 

with hearing- or speech-impairments 

may access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Information 

Relay Service at 800–877–8339. 

For information concerning a 

particular waiver that was granted and 

for which public notice is provided in 

this document, contact the person 

whose name and address follow the 

description of the waiver granted in the 

accompanying list of waivers that have 

been granted in the second quarter of 

calendar year 2009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

106 of the HUD Reform Act added a 

new section 7(q) to the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development Act 

(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides 

that: 

1. Any waiver of a regulation must be 

in writing and must specify the grounds 

for approving the waiver; 

2. Authority to approve a waiver of a 

regulation may be delegated by the 

Secretary only to an individual of 

Assistant Secretary or equivalent rank, 

and the person to whom authority to 

waive is delegated must also have 

authority to issue the particular 

regulation to be waived; 

3. Not less than quarterly, the 

Secretary must notify the public of all 

waivers of regulations that HUD has 

approved, by publishing a notice in the 

Federal Register. These notices (each 

covering the period since the most 

recent previous notification) shall: 

a. Identify the project, activity, or 

undertaking involved; 

b. Describe the nature of the provision 

waived and the designation of the 

provision; 

c. Indicate the name and title of the 

person who granted the waiver request; 

d. Describe briefly the grounds for 

approval of the request; and 

e. State how additional information 

about a particular waiver may be 

obtained. 

Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act 

also contains requirements applicable to 

waivers of HUD handbook provisions 

that are not relevant to the purpose of 

this notice. 

This notice follows procedures 

provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy 

on Waiver of Regulations and Directives 

issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337). 

In accordance with those procedures 

and with the requirements of section 

106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of 

regulations are granted by the Assistant 

Secretary with jurisdiction over the 

regulations for which a waiver was 

requested. In those cases in which a 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary 

granted the waiver, the General Deputy 

Assistant Secretary was serving in the 

absence of the Assistant Secretary in 

accordance with the office’s Order of 

Succession. 

This notice covers waivers of 

regulations granted by HUD from April 

1, 2009 through June 30, 2009. For ease 

of reference, the waivers granted by 

HUD are listed by HUD program office 

(for example, the Office of Community 


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