Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 21 / Monday, February 3, 2025 / Rules and Regulations 8781 

1The HOME program is authorized by title II of 

the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing 

Act (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.) and has been in 

operation since 1992. 

2The memorandum is available on the White 

House’s website, https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freezepending-review/. 

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: 

I. Background 

On January 6, 2025 (90 FR 746), HUD 

published the HOME Final Rule in the 

Federal Register. The HOME Final Rule 

revises the HOME Investment 

Partnerships Program (HOME program) 

regulations to update, simplify, or 

streamline requirements, better align the 

program with other Federal housing 

programs, and implement recent 

amendments to the HOME program 

statute.1 The HOME Final Rule also 

includes minor revisions to the 

regulations for the Community 

Development Block Grant and Section 8 

Housing Choice Voucher Programs 

consistent with the implementation of 

the changes to the HOME program. The 

January 6, 2025, HOME Final Rule 

provides for the rule to take effect on 

February 5, 2025. 

On January 20, 2025, the President 

issued a memorandum titled 

‘‘Regulatory Freeze Pending Review’’ to 

executive departments and agencies.2

The memorandum, among other things, 

asks executive departments and 

agencies to consider postponing for 60 

days from the date of the memorandum 

the effective date of rules that have been 

published in the Federal Register but 

that have not yet taken effect. This 

postponement of the effective date of 

rules that have not yet taken effect is to 

allow executive departments and 

agencies time to review any questions of 

fact, law, and policy that the rules may 

raise. 

II. Delayed Effective Date of HOME 

Final Rule 

HUD is delaying the effective date of 

the HOME Final Rule by 90 days from 

January 20, 2025. With this delay, the 

effective date for the HOME Final Rule 

is now April 20, 2025. 

This delay will provide HUD time to 

review the HOME Final Rule for any 

questions of fact, law, and policy that 

the HOME Final Rule may raise, as 

directed by the memorandum. 

Accordingly, the HOME Final Rule 

published on January 6, 2025, at 90 FR 

746 will take effect on April 20, 2025. 

Matthew Ammon, 

Acting Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

45 CFR Part 5b 

[Docket Number ACF–2024–0015] 

RIN 0970–AD15 

Privacy Act; Implementation 

AGENCY: Administration for Children 

and Families (ACF), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Direct final rule; delay of 

effective date and reopening of public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS or Department) 

published a direct final rule in the 

Federal Register on December 23, 2024, 

which was to become effective February 

6, 2025. As a result of administrative 

technical issues, including an incorrect 

email address, HHS is reopening the 

public comment period with a new 

email address for the public to submit 

comments and delaying the effective 

date to March 21, 2025. The purpose of 

the direct final rule was to exempt a 

new Privacy Act system of records 

maintained by the Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), Office of 

Refugee Resettlement (ORR), 

Unaccompanied Children Bureau 

(UCB), System No. 09–80–0323, ‘‘ORR 

Unaccompanied Children Bureau (UCB) 

Child Abuse or Neglect Investigation 

Records and Central Registry,’’ from 

certain requirements of the Privacy Act, 

in accordance with subsection (k)(2) of 

the Privacy Act. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

direct final rule published at 89 FR 

104450 on December 23, 2024, is 

reopened. Comments should be received 

on or before March 5, 2025. As of 

February 3, 2025, the effective date for 

the direct final rule published at 89 FR 

104450 on December 23, 2024, is 

delayed to March 21, 2025, without 

further action, unless adverse comments 

are received. If adverse comments are 

received, a timely notification of 

withdrawal will be published in the 

Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by agency name and Docket 

No. ACF–2024–0015, by any of the 

following methods: 

Electronic Submissions 

Submit electronic comments in the 

following way: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Written Submissions 

Submit written submissions in the 

following ways: 

• Mail: ORR UC Bureau Regulatory 

Affairs, at Administration for Children 

and Families, Mary E. Switzer Building, 

330 C Street SW, Washington, DC 

20201. 

• Email: ORR UC Bureau Regulatory 

Affairs, at ucpolicy-regulatoryaffairs@

acf.hhs.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

Docket No. for this rulemaking. All 

comments received may be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to https://

www.regulations.gov and follow the 

instructions provided for conducting a 

search, using the docket number(s) 

found in brackets in the heading of this 

document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Toby Biswas, ORR UC Bureau 

Regulatory Affairs, by phone at 202– 

205–4440 or by email at ucpolicyregulatoryaffairs@acf.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department published a direct final rule 

in the Federal Register at 89 FR 104450 

on December 23, 2024. For the reasons 

stated in the SUMMARY, HHS is 

reopening the public comment period 

and delaying the effective date for the 

direct final rule. 

Dorothy A. Fink, 

Acting Secretary, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

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