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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 4686-4687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00981]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

24 CFR Parts 5, 91, 92, 93, 570, 574, 576, 903, and 983

[Docket No. FR-6250-N-03]
RIN 2529-AB05

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing; Withdrawal

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: This document informs the public that HUD has determined not 
to pursue the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on 
February 9, 2023, entitled ``Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing''. 
HUD will proceed to formally withdraw the rule from HUD's upcoming 
Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.

ADDRESSES: Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 
SW, Room 10282, Washington, DC 20410.

DATES: The proposed rule published at 88 FR 8516, February 9, 2023, is 
withdrawn as of January 16, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Santa Anna, Associate General 
Counsel for Legislation and Regulations, Office of General Counsel, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 
10282, Washington, DC 20410; telephone number 202-402-5138 (this is not 
a tollfree number). HUD welcomes and is prepared to receive calls from 
individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as individuals 
with speech or communication disabilities. To learn more about how to 
make an accessible telephone call, please visit https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 9, 2023 (88 FR 8516), HUD 
published a proposed rule in the Federal Register entitled 
``Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing'' that included, among others, 
provisions reestablishing a formal AFFH planning process and creating 
an enforcement mechanism to ensure program participants comply with the 
duty to affirmatively further fair housing.
    The Department has determined to withdraw the proposed rule at this 
time and to terminate this rulemaking proceeding. HUD does not intend 
for a final rule to be issued on this NPRM. If, in the future, HUD 
decides it is appropriate to issue regulations on this topic, HUD will 
do so through a new notice of proposed rulemaking, subject to the 
requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 551, et seq. 
and 24 CFR part 10.

HUD's Withdrawal of Proposed Rule

    Accordingly, HUD will proceed to formally withdraw the following 
proposed rule from its Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and 
Deregulatory Actions: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (88 FR 
8516, February 9, 2023) (RIN 2529-AB05). HUD's Unified Agenda of 
Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions is available on Reginfo.gov and can 
be accessed at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain.

Benjamin Klubes,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2025-00981 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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