§ 102-75.1160 What definitions apply to this subpart? *Applicant* means any representative of the homeless that has submitted an application to the Department of Health and Human Services to obtain use of a particular suitable property to assist the homeless.
*Checklist or property checklist* means the form developed by HUD for use by landholding agencies to report the information to be used by HUD in making determinations of suitability.
*Classification* means a property's designation as unutilized, underutilized, excess, or surplus.
*Day* means one calendar day, including weekends and holidays.
*Eligible organization* means a State, unit of local government, or a private, non-profit organization that provides assistance to the homeless, and that is authorized by its charter or by State law to enter into an agreement with the Federal Government for use of real property for the purposes of this subpart. Representatives of the homeless interested in receiving a deed for a particular piece of surplus Federal property must be section 501(c)(3) tax exempt.
*Excess property* means any property under the control of any Executive agency that is not required for the agency's needs or the discharge of its responsibilities, as determined by the head of the agency pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 524.
*GSA* means the United States General Services Administration.
*HHS* means the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
*Homeless* means— ( 1 ) An individual or family that lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; or
( 2 ) An individual or family that has a primary nighttime residence that is— ( i ) A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);
( ii ) An institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
( iii ) A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. This term does not include any individual imprisoned or otherwise detained under an Act of Congress or a State law.
*HUD* means the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
*ICH* means the Interagency Council on the Homeless.
*Landholding agency* means a Federal department or agency with statutory authority to control real property.
*Lease* means an agreement between either HHS for surplus property, or landholding agencies in the case of non-excess properties or properties subject to the Base Closure and Realignment Act (Pub. L. 100-526, 10 U.S.C. 2687), and the applicant, giving rise to the relationship of lessor and lessee for the use of Federal real property for a term of at least one year under the conditions set forth in the lease document.
*Non-profit organization* means an organization, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any member, founder, contributor, or individual; that has a voluntary board; that has an accounting system or has designated an entity that will maintain a functioning accounting system for the organization in accordance with generally accepted accounting procedures; and that practices nondiscrimination in the provision of assistance.
*Permit* means a license granted by a landholding agency to use unutilized or underutilized property for a specific amount of time under terms and conditions determined by the landholding agency.
*Property* means real property consisting of vacant land or buildings, or a portion thereof, that is excess, surplus, or designated as unutilized or underutilized in surveys by the heads of landholding agencies conducted pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 524.
*Regional Homeless Coordinator* means a regional coordinator of the Interagency Council on the Homeless.
*Representative of the Homeless* means a State or local government agency, or private non-profit organization that provides, or proposes to provide, services to the homeless.
*Screen* means the process by which GSA surveys Federal agencies, or State, local and non-profit entities, to determine if any such entity has an interest in using excess Federal property to carry out a particular agency mission or a specific public use.
*State Homeless Coordinator* means a State contact person designated by a State to receive and disseminate information and communications received from the Interagency Council on the Homeless in accordance with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, as amended (42 U.S.C. 11320).
*Suitable property* means that HUD has determined that a particular property satisfies the criteria listed in § 102-75.1185.
*Surplus property* means any excess real property not required by any Federal landholding agency for its needs or the discharge of its responsibilities, as determined by the Administrator of GSA.
*Underutilized* means an entire property or portion thereof, with or without improvements, which is used only at irregular periods or intermittently by the accountable landholding agency for current program purposes of that agency, or which is used for current program purposes that can be satisfied with only a portion of the property.
*Unsuitable property* means that HUD has determined that a particular property does not satisfy the criteria in § 102-75.1185.
*Unutilized property* means an entire property or portion thereof, with or without improvements, not occupied for current program purposes for the accountable Executive agency or occupied in caretaker status only.