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governments, the purpose, total cost, 

and rationale of the agency for funding 

the infrastructure investment with funds 

made available under the Recovery Act 

and name of the person to contact at the 

agency if there are concerns with the 

infrastructure investment. Recipients 

must also report detailed information on 

any subcontracts or subgrants awarded 

by the recipient to include the data 

elements required to comply with the 

Federal Funding Accountability and 

Transparency act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109– 

282), allowing aggregate reporting on 

awards below $25,000 or to individuals, 

as prescribed by the Director of OMB. 

Not later than 30 calendar days after the 

end of each calendar quarter, each 

agency that made Recovery Act funds 

available to any recipient shall make the 

information in reports submitted 

publicly available by posting the 

information on a Web site. 

Agency Form Numbers: None. 

Members of the Affected Public: 

Eligible NSP 2 grantees (States, units of 

local government, non-profit 

organizations and consortia that may 

include for-profit entities). 

Estimation of the total numbers of 

hours needed to prepare the information 

collection including number of 

responses, frequency of responses, and 

hours of responses: The number of 

respondents is estimated at 80. The 

proposed frequency of the response to 

the collection is on a quarterly basis. 

The total estimated burden is 10,240 

annual hours. 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: This submission is an 

extension of a previously approved 

emergency information collection. The 

current OMB approval expires on 

November 30, 2009. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended. 

Dated: September 16, 2009. 

Mercedes Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community, Planning 

and Development. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5275–N–03] 

Native American Housing Assistance 

and Self-Determination 

Reauthorization Act of 2008: Notice of 

Proposed Membership of Negotiated 

Rulemaking Committee 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On March 2, 2009, HUD 

published a Federal Register notice 

requesting nominations for membership 

on the negotiated rulemaking committee 

that will develop regulatory changes to 

programs authorized under the Native 

American Housing Assistance and SelfDetermination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA). 

Changes to these programs were made 

by the Native American Housing 

Assistance and Self-Determination 

Reauthorization Act of 2008, which also 

directs that HUD undertake negotiated 

rulemaking to implement the statutory 

revisions. In accordance with section 

564 of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act, 

this notice establishes the committee, 

announces the names and affiliations of 

the committee’s proposed members, 

requests public comment on the 

committee and its proposed 

membership, explains how additional 

nominations for committee membership 

may be submitted, and provides other 

information regarding the negotiated 

rulemaking process. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: October 23, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice to the Regulations Division, 

Office of General Counsel, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications must refer to the above 

docket number and title. There are two 

methods for submitting public 

comments. All submissions must refer 

to the above docket number and title. 

1. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

2. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments electronically through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http:// 

www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, ensures timely 

receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to 

make them immediately available to the 

public. Comments submitted 

electronically through the http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site can be 

viewed by other commenters and 

interested members of the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Note: To receive consideration as public 

comments, comments must be submitted 

through one of the two methods specified 

above. Again, all submissions must refer to 

the docket number and title of the rule. 

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile 

(FAX) comments are not acceptable. 

Public Inspection of Public 

Comments. All properly submitted 

comments and communications 

submitted to HUD will be available for 

public inspection and copying between 

8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above 

address. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled by calling 

the Regulations Division at 202–708– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

Individuals with speech or hearing 

impairments may access this number 

via TTY by calling the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. Copies of all comments submitted 

are available for inspection and 

downloading at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rodger Boyd, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Native American 

Programs, Room 4126, Office of Public 

and Indian Housing, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20410, telephone number: 202–401– 

7914 (this is not a toll-free number). 

Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals 

may access this number via TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Information 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Native American Housing 

Assistance and Self-Determination Act 

of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.) 

(NAHASDA) changed the way that 

housing assistance is provided to Native 

Americans. NAHASDA eliminated 

several separate assistance programs 

and replaced them with a single block 

grant program, known as the Indian 

Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program. In 

addition, title VI of NAHASDA 

authorizes Federal guarantees for 

financing of certain tribal activities 

(Title VI Loan Guarantee Program). The 

regulations governing the IHBG and 

Title VI Loan Guarantee programs are 

located in part 1000 of HUD’s 

regulations in title 24 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations. In accordance with 

section 106 of NAHASDA, HUD 

developed the regulations with active 

tribal participation and using the 

procedures of the Negotiated 

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Rulemaking Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 561– 

570). 

The Native American Housing 

Assistance and Self-Determination 

Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 

110–411, approved October 14, 2008) 

(2008 Reauthorization Act) reauthorizes 

NAHASDA through 2013 and makes a 

number of amendments to the statutory 

requirements governing the IHBG and 

Title VI Loan Guarantee programs. The 

2008 Reauthorization Act amends 

section 106 of NAHASDA to provide 

that HUD shall ‘‘initiate a negotiated 

rulemaking in accordance with this 

section by not later than 90 days after 

enactment of the’’ 2008 Reauthorization 

Act. 

On January 12, 2009 (74 FR 1227), 

HUD published a notice in the Federal 

Register announcing the initiation of the 

negotiated rulemaking required by the 

2008 Reauthorization Act. On March 2, 

2009 (74 FR 9100), HUD published 

another notice in the Federal Register 

soliciting nominations for membership 

on the negotiated rulemaking 

committee. The notice provided that the 

negotiated rulemaking committee must 

consist of representatives of interests 

that are potentially affected by the 

rulemaking, such as tribally designated 

housing entities, elected officials of 

tribal governments, and HUD 

representatives. It is not required that 

each potentially affected organization or 

entity necessarily have its own 

representative. However, HUD must be 

satisfied that the group as a whole 

reflects a geographically diverse crosssection of small, medium, and large 

Indian tribes. 

II. The Negotiated Rulemaking 

Committee 

This notice establishes the negotiated 

rulemaking committee, as required by 

section 105 of the 2008 Reauthorization 

Act, and announces the proposed 

membership of the negotiated 

rulemaking committee. In making its 

proposed selections for membership on 

the negotiated rulemaking committee, 

HUD’s goal was to establish a committee 

whose membership reflects a balanced 

representation of Indian tribes. 

Selections were based on those 

nominees who met the eligibility 

criteria for membership contained in the 

March 2, 2009, Federal Register notice, 

and HUD is satisfied that the proposed 

membership reflects a geographically 

diverse cross-section of small, medium, 

and large Indian tribes. In addition to 

the tribal members of the committee, 

there will be one or more HUD 

representatives on the negotiated 

rulemaking committee. After careful 

consideration of all the public 

comments received on the two notices, 

HUD has made the following selections 

for proposed tribal membership on the 

negotiated rulemaking committee: 

Steven Angasan, King Salmon Tribe, 

Naknek, Alaska. 

Carol Gore, President/CEO, Cook Inlet 

Housing Authority, Anchorage, 

Alaska. 

Blake Kazama, President, Tlingit-Haida 

Regional Housing Authority, Juneau, 

Alaska. 

Marty Shuravloff, Executive Director, 

Kodiak Island Housing Authority, 

Kodiak, Alaska. 

Michael Cook, Executive Director, 

United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., 

Nashville, Tennessee. 

Ray DePerry, Housing Director, Red Cliff 

Chippewa Housing Authority, 

Bayfield, Wisconsin. 

Robert Durant, Executive Director, 

White Earth Reservation Housing 

Authority, Waubun, Minnesota. 

Leon Jacobs, Lumbee Tribe of North 

Carolina, Mystic, Connecticut. 

Susan Wicker, Executive Housing 

Director, Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians, Atmore, Alabama. 

Jason Adams, Executive Director, Salish 

Kootenai Housing Authority, Pablo, 

Montana. 

Lafe Haugen, Executive Director, 

Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing 

Authority, Lame Deer, Montana. 

Rebecca Phelps, Development 

Specialist, Turtle Mountain Housing 

Authority, Belcourt, North Dakota. 

S. Jack Sawyers, Paiute Indian Tribe of 

Utah, Cedar City, Utah. 

Marguarite Becenti, Interim Director, 

Umatilla Reservation Housing 

Authority, Pendleton, Oregon. 

Henry Cagey, Chairman, Lummi Nation, 

Bellingham, Washington. 

Larry Coyle, Executive Director, Cowlitz 

Indian Tribal Housing, Chehalis, 

Washington. 

Karin Foster, Legal Counsel, Yakama 

Nation Housing Authority, 

Toppenish, Washington. 

Marvin Jones, Manager, Housing 

Oversight, Cherokee Nation, 

Tahlequah, Oklahoma. 

Thomas McGeisey, Director, Seminole 

Nation Housing Authority, Wewoka, 

Oklahoma. 

Shawna Pickup, Secretary, Eastern 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, 

Wyandotte, Oklahoma. 

Russell Sossamon, Executive Director, 

Choctaw Nation Housing Authority, 

Hugo, Oklahoma. 

Ervin Keeswood, Member, Navajo 

Housing Authority Board of 

Commissioners, Window Rock, 

Arizona. 

Judith Marasco, Executive Director, 

Yurok Indian Housing Authority, 

Klamath, California. 

Alvin Moyle, The Honorable Chairman, 

Fallon Business Council, Fallon 

Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Fallon, 

Nevada. 

Darlene Tooley, Executive Director, 

Northern Circle Indian Housing 

Authority, Ukiah, California. 

III. Request for Comments and 

Committee Nominations 

Persons may submit comments on 

HUD’s establishment of the negotiating 

rulemaking committee and may submit 

additional nominations for committee 

membership in accordance with the 

ADDRESSES section above. Nominations 

for membership on the Committee must 

include: 

1. The name of your nominee and a 

description of the interests the nominee 

would represent; 

2. Evidence that your nominee is 

authorized to represent a tribal 

government, which may include the 

tribally designated housing entity of a 

tribe, with the interests the nominee 

would represent, so long as the tribe 

provides evidence that it authorizes 

such representation; 

3. A written commitment that the 

nominee will actively participate in 

good faith in the development of the 

rule; and 

4. The reasons that the persons 

proposed above do not adequately 

represent the interests of the person 

submitting the nomination. 

IV. Committee Meetings 

At this time, HUD has not finalized 

the schedule and agenda for the 

committee meetings. HUD will provide 

administrative support to the 

committee. Notice of committee 

meetings will be published in the 

Federal Register. Meetings of the 

negotiated rulemaking committee will 

be open to the public without advance 

registration. Public attendance may be 

limited to the space available. Members 

of the public will be provided with an 

opportunity to make statements during 

the meeting, to the extent that time 

permits, and to file written statements 

with the committee for its 

consideration. In the event that the 

logistics of the committee meetings are 

changed, HUD will advise the public 

through Federal Register notice. 

Dated: September 15, 2009. 

Sandra B. Henriquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing. 

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