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1The Act applies to ‘‘any authority of the United 

States that is an ‘‘agency’’’ as defined in 44 U.S.C. 

3502. Public Law 117–58, section 70912(3). 

2The Act defines ‘‘deficient programs’’ as ‘‘any 

Federal financial assistance program for 

infrastructure . . . for which a domestic content 

procurement preference requirement does not apply 

in a manner consistent with section 70914 of the 

law; or is subject to a waiver of general applicability 

not limited to the use of specific products for use 

in a specific project.’’ Id. at section 70913(c). 

3Section 70912(4) of the Act defines ‘‘Federal 

financial assistance’’ and provides that the 

definition is consistent with the definition in 2 CFR 

200.1 and includes ‘‘all expenditures by a Federal 

agency to a non-Federal entity for an infrastructure 

project, except that it does not include expenditures 

for assistance authorized under section 402, 403, 

404, 406, 408, or 502 of the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 

U.S.C. 5170a, 5170b, 5170c, 5172, 5174, or 5192) 

relating to a major disaster or emergency declared 

by the President under section 401 or 501, 

respectively, of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5170, 5191) or 

pre and post disaster or emergency response 

expenditures.’’ 

4Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2021/12/M-22-08.pdf. 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: The estimated total number of 

respondents for the information 

collection I–765V is 350 and the 

estimated hour burden per response is 

3.75 hours; the estimated total number 

of respondents for the information 

collection Biometric Processing is 350 

and the estimated hour burden per 

response is 1.17 hours. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total estimated annual 

hour burden associated with this 

collection is 1,723 hours. 

(7) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in cost) associated with the 

collection: The estimated total annual 

cost burden associated with this 

collection of information is $87,500. 

Dated: January 11, 2022. 

Samantha L. Deshommes, 

Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, 

Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship 

and Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00940 Filed 1–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–97–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6310–N–01] 

Identification of Federal Financial 

Assistance Infrastructure Programs 

Subject to the Build America, Buy 

America Provisions of the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 

AGENCY: Office of Chief Financial 

Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD, the Department) 

has conducted an initial review required 

by the Build America, Buy America Act 

(the Act) to identify and evaluate its 

Federal financial assistance programs 

for infrastructure to determine whether 

they are inconsistent with the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 

(the IIJA). The Act imposes domestic 

content procurement preference 

requirements on Federal financial 

assistance programs for infrastructure 

that do not currently have such a 

requirement and requires Federal 

agencies to evaluate each financial 

assistance program for infrastructure 

administered by the agency to identify 

programs inconsistent with the Act’s 

requirements for application of a 

domestic procurement preference. Each 

Federal agency must submit its report 

on the agency’s programs and related 

determinations to Congress and to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) and publish its report in the 

Federal Register. Today’s notice 

complies with the Act’s publication and 

reporting requirements and contains 

HUD’s list of identified Federal 

financial assistance programs for 

infrastructure. HUD has determined that 

none of the programs it has reviewed to 

date are consistent with the Act. HUD’s 

initial analysis errs on the side of overinclusiveness based on the Department’s 

current understanding of information 

contained in the Act and the imminent 

timing requirements for reporting. 

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: J. 

Malcom Smith, Management and 

Program Analyst, Grants Management 

and Oversight Division, Office of the 

Assistant Chief Financial Officer of 

Systems, Office of the Chief Financial 

Officer, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20410–8000; telephone 

number 202–402–6472 (this is not a tollfree number), or email AskGMO@

hud.gov with the subject line ‘‘Build 

America, Buy America’’. Persons with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access this number through TTY by 

calling the Federal Relay Service at 800– 

877–8339 (this is a toll-free number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 15, 2021, the President 

signed into law the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117– 

58) (the IIJA), which includes the Build 

America, Buy America Act at sections 

70911 through 70927 (the Act). The Act 

ensures that Federal financial assistance 

programs for infrastructure require the 

use of materials produced in the United 

States, increases requirements for 

American-made content, and 

strengthens the waiver process 

associated with Buy American 

provisions. Section 70913 of the Act 

requires, within 60 days of the 

enactment of the IIJA, that each Federal 

agency, including HUD,1 file a report 

with Congress and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) which 

identifies and evaluates all financial 

assistance programs for infrastructure to 

determine whether the program is 

inconsistent with section 70914 of the 

Act. The report must be published in 

the Federal Register. The reports must 

identify and provide a list of which of 

these programs are ‘‘deficient,’’ as 

defined in section 70913(c) of the Act.2

Section 70914 of the Act requires that 

no later than 180 days after enactment 

of the IIJA (which would be May 14, 

2022), Federal agencies ‘‘shall ensure 

that none of the funds made available 

for a Federal financial assistance 

program for infrastructure, including 

each deficient program, may be 

obligated for a project unless all of the 

iron, steel, manufactured products, and 

construction materials used in the 

project are produced in the United 

States.’’ 3 Federal agencies must identify 

all infrastructure programs and 

determine whether a program is 

inconsistent with section 70914 of the 

Act, regardless of whether the program 

received funding from IIJA. (HUD did 

not receive funding.) Pursuant to the 

Act, an infrastructure program is 

considered inconsistent with section 

70914 if: (1) It does not require that all 

the iron, steel, manufactured products, 

and construction materials used in the 

project are produced in the United 

States; (2) it does not issue waivers and 

written justifications as specified in 

section 70914; or (3) it is subject to a 

waiver of general applicability under 

section 70914(b) of the Act. On 

December 20, 2021, OMB issued a 

memorandum titled ‘‘Identification of 

Federal Financial Assistance 

Infrastructure Programs Subject to the 

Build America, Buy America Provisions 

of the Infrastructure Investment and 

Jobs Act,’’ M–22–08, to implement these 

requirements and provide guidance to 

Federal agencies.4

HUD awards discretionary funding 

through over 20 Grant programs and 10 

formula programs in support of HUD’s 

mission. These programs generally meet 

the definition of ‘‘Federal financial 

assistance’’ as defined in the Act. HUD 

has evaluated these programs and they 

are included in this report, but a full 

assessment of whether they fund 

infrastructure as described by the Act 

has not yet been completed. HUD has 


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determined that no programs reviewed 

to date fully meet the requirements 

outlined in section 70914 of the Act. 

Details on each of these programs and 

the programs are listed below are 

included on a spreadsheet that can be 

accessed at: https://www.hud.gov/ 

program_offices/spm/gmomgmt/ 

grantsinfo/fundingopps. HUD’s initial 

analysis errs on the side of overinclusiveness, as recommended by OMB 

Memorandum M–22–08, based on the 

Department’s current understanding of 

information contained in the Act and 

the imminent timing requirements for 

reporting. 

Discretionary Programs 

Office of Community Planning and 

Development 

• Self-Help Homeownership 

Opportunity Program (SHOP) 

• Community Development Technical 

Assistance 

• Section 4 Capacity Building for 

Community Development and 

Affordable Housing. 

• Tribal HUD–VASH Program for 

Community Development and 

Affordable Housing 

• Office of Fair Housing and Equal 

Opportunity 

• Fair Housing Assistance Program 

(FHAP) State and Local 

• Fair Housing Initiatives Program for 

Education and Outreach 

• Fair Housing Initiatives Program for 

Private Enforcement Initiatives 

• Fair Housing Initiatives Program for 

Fair Housing Organization Initiatives 

Office of Healthy Homes Lead Hazard 

Control 

• Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control in 

Privately Owned Housing 

• Lead and Healthy Homes Technical 

Studies 

• Healthy Homes and Weatherization 

Cooperation Demonstration 

• Healthy Homes Production Grant 

Program 

• Lead Hazard Reduction 

Demonstration Grant Program 

• Older Adults Modification Grant 

Program 

Office of Housing 

• Multifamily Housing Service 

Coordinator Grant Program 

• Congregate Housing Services Program 

• Project Rental Assistance 

Demonstration (PRA Demo) Program 

of Section 811 Supportive Housing for 

Persons with Disabilities 

• Supportive Service Demonstration 

Program for Elderly Housing 

Office of Policy Development and 

Research 

• Research and Evaluations, 

Demonstrations, and Data Analysis 

and Utilization 

Office of Public and Indian Housing 

• Family Self Sufficiency 

• Resident Self Sufficiency Service 

Coordinators 

• Juvenile Re-entry Assistance Program 

• Choice Neighborhood Planning 

• Community Development Block Grant 

Indian Tribes and Alaska Native 

Villages 

• Jobs Plus Pilot 

• Choice Neighborhoods 

Implementation 

Non-Discretionary Programs 

Office of Community Planning and 

Development 

• Community Development Block 

Grants/Entitlement Grants 

• Community Development Block 

Grants/State’s program and NonEntitlement Grants in Hawaii 

• Emergency Solutions Grant Program 

• Home Investment Partnerships 

Program 

• Housing Opportunities for Persons 

with AIDS 

• Housing Trust Fund 

Office of Public and Indian Housing 

• Tribal HUD–VASH Program 

• Indian Housing Block Grants 

• Public Housing Capital Fund 

George Tomchick, 

Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Office of the 

Chief Financial Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01071 Filed 1–14–22; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–CONC–32679; PPWOBSADC0, 

PPMVSCS1Y.Y00000] 

Notice of Intent To Award a SoleSource Concession Contract for Fire 

Island National Seashore 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed award of 

sole-source concession contract for Fire 

Island National Seashore. 

SUMMARY: Public notice is hereby given 

that the National Park Service proposes 

to award a sole-source concession 

contract for the conduct of certain 

visitor services within Fire Island 

National Seashore. The visitor services 

include marina operations, campground 

operations, food and beverage, and 

retail. 

DATES: The term of the sole-source 

concession contract will commence (if 

awarded) no earlier than sixty (60) days 

from the publication of this notice, but 

the National Park Service intends for the 

term to begin January 1, 2022 

(estimated) and end December 31, 2026. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt 

Rausch, Program Chief, Commercial 

Services Program, National Park 

Service, 1849 C Street NW, Mail Stop 

2410, Washington, DC 20240; 

Telephone: 202–513–7156. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 36 CFR 51.25, the Director of the 

National Park Service (Service) may 

award a concession contract noncompetitively upon a determination that 

extraordinary circumstances exist under 

which compelling and equitable 

considerations require the award of the 

concession contract to a particular 

qualified person in the public interest 

and that such an award is otherwise 

consistent with the requirements of part 

51. Contracts that are awarded noncompetitively under this authority are 

commonly referred to as ‘‘sole-source’’ 

contracts. The Service has determined 

that the proposed award of a sole-source 

contract to Love Watch Hill and Sailors 

Haven, Inc. is necessary based on the 

following information. 

The extraordinary circumstances in 

this instance occurred after the Service 

issued a prospectus for a long-term 

contract and are a combination of the 

unanticipated failure of the docks’ 

electrical system, the complete loss of 

the restaurant in the Watch Hill area, 

and the COVID–19 pandemic. The 

Service exhausted the time allowed for 

temporary contracts authorized under 

36 CFR 51.24 while addressing these 

complications and recognized that the 

loss of the restaurant, combined with 

the COVID–19 pandemic, altered the 

financial assumptions for any long-term 

contract compared with those used to 

develop the prospectus to the extent 

that the Service no longer could award 

the draft 10-year contract offered in the 

prospectus. 

The Service has determined that Love 

Watch Hill and Sailors Haven, Inc. is a 

‘‘qualified person’’ as defined by 36 CFR 

51.3, and has determined that 

compelling and equitable considerations 

exist with Love Watch Hill and Sailors 

Haven, Inc.’s continued provision of 

visitor services under stresses that 

would have deterred or even driven 

away many operators. Additionally, 

Love Watch Hill and Sailors Haven, Inc. 

holds the insurance proceeds to be used 

for the construction of the new 

restaurant. 


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