1882 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 9 / Friday, January 12, 2018 / Unified Agenda 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

24 CFR Subtitles A and B 

[Docket No. FR–6028–N–02] 

Semiannual Regulatory Agenda 

AGENCY: Department of Housing and 

Urban Development. 

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

4(b) of Executive Order 12866, 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review,’’ as 

amended, HUD is publishing its agenda 

of regulations already issued or that are 

expected to be issued during the next 

several months. The agenda also 

includes rules currently in effect that 

are under review and describes those 

regulations that may affect small 

entities, as required by section 602 of 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The 

purpose of publication of the agenda is 

to encourage more effective public 

participation in the regulatory process 

by providing the public with advance 

information about pending regulatory 

activities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aaron Santa Anna, Assistant General 

Counsel for Regulations, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW, Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500; telephone 

number 202–708–3055. (This is not a 

toll-free number.) A 

telecommunications device for hearingand speech-impaired individuals (TTY) 

is available at 800–877–8339 (Federal 

Relay Service). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive 

Order 12866, ‘‘Regulatory Planning and 

Review’’ (58 FR 51735), as amended, 

requires each department or agency to 

prepare semiannually an agenda of: (1) 

Regulations that the department or 

agency has issued or expects to issue, 

and; (2) rules currently in effect that are 

under departmental or agency review. 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 

601–612) requires each department or 

agency to publish semiannually a 

regulatory agenda of rules expected to 

be proposed or promulgated that are 

likely to have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of 

‘‘small entities,’’ meaning small 

businesses, small organizations, or small 

governmental jurisdictions. Executive 

Order 12866 and the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act permit incorporation of 

the agenda required by these two 

authorities with any other prescribed 

agenda. 

HUD’s regulatory agenda combines 

the information required by Executive 

Order 12866 and the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. As in the past, HUD’s 

complete Unified Agenda will be 

available online at www.reginfo.gov, in 

a format that offers users a greatly 

enhanced ability to obtain information 

from the Agenda database. 

The Department is subject to certain 

rulemaking requirements set forth in the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3531 et 

seq.). Section 7(o) of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development Act 

(42 U.S.C. 3535(o)) requires that the 

Secretary transmit to the congressional 

committees having jurisdictional 

oversight of HUD (the Senate Committee 

on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

and the House Committee on Financial 

Services), a semiannual agenda of all 

rules or regulations that are under 

development or review by the 

Department. A rule appearing on the 

agenda cannot be published for 

comment before or during the first 15 

calendar days after transmittal of the 

agenda. Section 7(o) provides that if, 

within that period, either committee 

notifies the Secretary that it intends to 

review any rule or regulation that 

appears on the agenda, the Secretary 

must submit to both committees a copy 

of the rule or regulation, in the form that 

it is intended to be proposed, at least 15 

calendar days before it is to be 

published for comment. The semiannual 

agenda posted on www.reginfo.gov is the 

agenda transmitted to the committees in 

compliance with the above 

requirements. 

HUD has attempted to list in this 

agenda all regulations and regulatory 

reviews pending at the time of 

publication, except for minor and 

routine or repetitive actions, but some 

may have been inadvertently omitted, or 

may have arisen too late to be included 

in the published agenda. There is no 

legal significance to the omission of an 

item from this agenda. Also, where a 

date is provided for the next rulemaking 

action, the date is an estimate and is not 

a commitment to act on or by the date 

shown. 

In some cases, HUD has withdrawn 

rules that were placed on previous 

agendas for which there has been no 

publication activity. Withdrawal of a 

rule does not necessarily mean that 

HUD will not proceed with the 

rulemaking. Withdrawal allows HUD to 

assess the subject matter further and 

determine whether rulemaking in that 

area is appropriate. Following such an 

assessment, the Department may 

determine that certain rules listed as 

withdrawn under this agenda are 

appropriate. If that determination is 

made, such rules will be included in a 

succeeding semiannual agenda. 

In addition, for a few rules that have 

been published as proposed or interim 

rules and which, therefore, require 

further rulemaking, HUD has identified 

the timing of the next action stage as 

‘‘undetermined.’’ These are rules that 

are still under review by HUD for which 

a determination and timing of the next 

action stage have not yet been made. 

Since the purpose of publication of 

the agenda is to encourage more 

effective public participation in the 

regulatory process by providing the 

public with early information about the 

Department’s future regulatory actions, 

HUD invites all interested members of 

the public to comment on the rules 

listed in the agenda. 

Beth Zorc, 

Principal Deputy General Counsel. 

OFFICE OF HOUSING—LONG-TERM ACTIONS

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

285 .................... 24 CFR 3280 Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards 3rd Set (FR–5739) ......................... 2502–AJ34 


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) 

Office of Housing (OH) 

Long-Term Actions 

285. Manufactured Home Construction 

and Safety Standards 3RD SET (FR– 

5739) 

E.O. 13771 Designation: Regulatory. 

Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5401 et 

seq.; 42 U.S.C. 3535(d) 

Abstract: This proposed rule would 

amend the Federal Manufactured Home 

Construction and Safety Standards by 

adopting certain recommendations 

made to HUD by the Manufactured 

Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC). 

The National Manufactured Housing 

Construction and Safety Standards Act 

of 1974 (the Act) requires HUD to 

publish all proposed revised 

construction and safety standards 

submitted by the MHCC. This proposed 

rule is based on the third set of MHCC 

recommendations to update and 

improve various aspects of the 

Manufactured Housing Construction 

and Safety Standards. HUD has 

reviewed those proposals and has made 

several editorial revisions to the 

proposals which were reviewed and 

accepted by the MHCC. This rule 

proposes to add new standards that 

would establish requirements for carbon 

monoxide detection, stairways, fire 

safety considerations for attached 

garages, and for duplexes. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 11/00/18 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Richard Mendlen, 

Structural Engineer, Office of 

Manufactured Housing Programs, Office 

of Housing, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, Office of Housing, 

451 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 

20410, Phone: 202–708–6423. 

RIN: 2502–AJ34 

[FR Doc. 2017–28214 Filed 1–11–18; 8:45 am] 

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