4090 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 17 /Tuesday, January 27, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4290–N–01]

Notice of Annual Factors for

Determining Public Housing Agency

Administrative Fees for the Section 8

Rental Voucher, Rental Certificate and

Moderate Rehabilitation Programs

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of factors for determining

public housing agency administrative

fees for operation of the Section 8 rental

voucher, rental certificate and moderate

rehabilitation (including moderate

rehabilitation single room occupancy

and shelter plus care single room

occupancy) programs.

SUMMARY: This Notice transmits the

schedule of monthly per unit fee

amounts for use in determining the ongoing administrative fee for housing

agencies (HAs) administering the rental

voucher, rental certificate and moderate

rehabilitation programs during Federal

Fiscal Year 1998. The procedures for

calculating the earned administrative

fees will be issued in an ensuing Notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Procedures in this

Notice will be used to review and

approve the administrative fees stated in

the HA’s year-end financial statements

for appropriateness for HA fiscal years

ending on December 31, 1997; March

31, 1998; June 30, 1998; and September

30, 1998. These procedures may also be

used to project earned administrative

fees in the annual HA budget. This

Notice applies to that portion of the HA

fiscal year that falls within Federal

Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 (October 1, 1997

to September 30, 1998).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gerald J. Benoit, Senior Program

Advisor, Office of Public and Assisted

Housing Program Delivery, Department

of Housing and Urban Development,

Room 4220, 451 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20410–8000, telephone

number (202) 708–0477. Hearing or

speech impaired individuals may call

HUD’s TDD number (202) 708–4594.

(These numbers are not toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

The information collection

requirements contained in this notice

have been approved by the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB), under

section 3204 (h) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3501–

3520), and have been assigned OMB

control number 2577–0149. An agency

may not conduct or sponsor, and a

person is not required to respond to, a

collection of information unless the

collection displays a valid control

number.

I. Purpose and Substantive Description

(a) The HUD-Independent Agencies

Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1997

(P.L. 104–204) changed the method to

be used in calculating HA

administrative fees (see PIH Notice 97–

11 issued March 11, 1997). The HA

earns an administrative fee for the rental

voucher, rental certificate, and moderate

rehabilitation programs based on the

total number of units under a housing

assistance payments contract. This

includes the moderate rehabilitation

single room occupancy and shelter plus

care single room occupancy programs.

The law also provides that HUD may

approve preliminary fees of $500 per

unit for the initial funding increment for

the cost of expenses the HAs incur in

the first year an HA administers a

tenant-based rental voucher or rental

certificate program. This provision

applies to HAs that did not administer

a tenant-based rental voucher or

certificate program before September 26,

1996. The law does not provide for

preliminary fees for the regular

moderate rehabilitation program or the

moderate rehabilitation single room

occupancy program or the moderate

rehabilitation shelter plus care single

room occupancy program.

Additional administrative fees may be

approved by HUD Headquarters for

costs incurred in assisting families who

experience difficulty in obtaining

appropriate housing and for

extraordinary costs as determined by

HUD Headquarters.

II. Method to Determine Per Unit OnGoing Administrative Fee

(a) Published Fee Amounts

The following is a schedule of

monthly per unit fee amounts to be used

by HAs in preparing annual operating

budgets and by HUD in approving fiscal

year-end financial statements. The

tables are organized by the HUD

established fair market rent areas and

show the monthly fee amounts a HA

will earn for each unit under a housing

assistance payments contract on the first

day of the applicable month.

HUD determined the per-unit

monthly fee amounts using Bureau of

Labor Statistics (BLS) data on local

government wages (ES 202 Series). HUD

adjusted the FY 97 monthly

administrative fee per unit to develop

the FY 98 administrative fee, effective

for units assisted during the period from

October 1, 1997 through September 30,

1998. The FY 98 administrative fee is

calculated by multiplying the

administrative fee amounts published in

the Federal Register on March 12, 1997,

by the percentage of change in the

government wages using the most recent

BLS data.

III. Monthly Fee Schedule

(a) Column A: Fees for 600 Units or Less

The amount in column A is the

monthly per unit fee amount to be

applied to the first 7,200 unit months

(600 units) for the rental certificate and

rental voucher programs combined and

the first 7,200 unit months (600 units)

for housing assistance payment

contracts a HA has executed for

moderate rehabilitation, including the

moderate rehabilitation single room

occupancy program and the shelter plus

care single room occupancy program,

during Federal FY 98 (October 1, 1997

to September 30, 1998).

Based on the applicable fiscal year

end (FYE), a HA must use the following

number of unit months to calculate its

ongoing administrative fee for FY 98:

FYE December 31—1st quarter FY 98—

Up to 1,800 unit months

FYE March 31—2nd quarter FY 98—Up

to 3,600 unit months

FYE June 30—3rd quarter FY 98—Up to

5,400 unit months

FYE September 30—4th quarter FY 98—

Up to 7,200 unit months

(b) Column B: Fees for Units in Excess

of 600 Units

The amount in column B must be

used to determine the administrative fee

for FY 98 unit months in excess of the

administrative fees for the first 600

units, for which fees were calculated in

accordance with paragraph (a). The

excess unit months, based on the HA’s

FYE and the number of rental voucher,

rental certificate, and moderate

rehabilitation units under housing

assistance payment contracts during FY

98, are multiplied by the monthly fee

per unit in column B. Column A and

column B are not used for HA-owned

units.

(c) Column C: Fees for HA-Owned Units

The monthly per unit fee amount in

column C will be multiplied by the

number of unit months available for the

rental voucher, rental certificate, and

moderate rehabilitation units owned by

the HA and that are under housing

assistance payments contracts during

Federal FY 98. Column A and column

B fee amounts are not used for HAowned units.
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(d) Future Year Publication Date

For subsequent fiscal years, HUD will

publish an annual Notice in the Federal

Register establishing the monthly per

unit fee amounts for use in determining

the on-going administrative fees for HAs

operating the rental voucher, rental

certificate and moderate rehabilitation

programs in each metropolitan and each

non-metropolitan fair market rent area

for that Federal fiscal year. The annual

change in the per-unit-month fee

amounts will be based on changes in

wage data or other objectively

measurable data, as determined by

HUD, that reflect the costs of

administering the program.

The amounts shown on the attached

schedule do not reflect the authority

given to HUD to approve additional fees

if necessary to reflect extraordinary

expenses such as the higher costs of

administering small programs and

programs operating over large

geographic areas or expenses incurred

because of difficulties some categories

of families are having in finding

appropriate housing. HUD will consider

HA requests for such increased Section

8 administrative fees. Furthermore, the

amounts shown do not include

preliminary fees.

Accordingly, the Department

publishes the monthly per unit fee

amounts to be used for determining HA

administrative fees under the rental

voucher, rental certificate and moderate

rehabilitation programs as set forth on

the following schedule:

IV. Findings and Certifications

Environmental Impact

In accordance with 24 CFR 50.19(c)(6)

of the HUD regulations, the policies and

procedures contained in this notice set

forth rate determinations and related

external administrative requirements

and procedures which do not constitute

a development decision that affects the

physical condition of specific project

areas or building sites, and therefore are

categorically excluded from the

requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act.

Executive Order 12612, Federalism

The General Counsel, as the

Designated Official under section 6(a) of

Executive Order 12612, Federalism, has

determined that the policies contained

in this notice will not have substantial

direct effects on States or their political

subdivisions, or the relationship

between the Federal government and

the States, or on the distribution of

power and responsibilities among the

various levels of government. As a

result, the notice is not subject to review

under the Order. The notice pertains to

the determination of administrative fees

for HAs administering the rental

voucher, rental certificate and moderate

rehabilitation programs during Federal

FY 98, and does not alter the established

roles of the Department, the States, and

local governments.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number for this program is

14.850.

Dated: January 13, 1998.

Kevin Emanuel Marchman,

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing.

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