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triggering the effective date for buildings 

described in Section 42(h)(4)(B) of the 

IRC (the two events being bonds issued 

and buildings placed in service) took 

place on January 30, 2023, within the 

910-day period after a complete 

application for tax-exempt bond 

financing was filed, (2) the application 

was filed during a time when the 

location of Project D was in a DDA, and 

(3) both the issuance of the bonds and 

placement in service of Project D 

occurred after the application was 

submitted. 

Findings and Certifications 

A. Environmental Impact 

This notice involves the 

establishment of fiscal requirements or 

procedures that are related to rate and 

cost determinations and do not 

constitute a development decision 

affecting the physical condition of 

specific project areas or building sites. 

Accordingly, under 40 CFR 1508.4 of 

the regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality and 24 CFR 

50.19(c)(6) of HUD’s regulations, this 

notice is categorically excluded from 

environmental review under the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321). 

B. Federalism Impact 

Executive Order 13132 (entitled 

‘‘Federalism’’) prohibits an agency from 

publishing any policy document that 

has federalism implications if the 

document either imposes substantial 

direct compliance costs on state and 

local governments and is not required 

by statute, or the document preempts 

state law, unless the agency meets the 

consultation and funding requirements 

of section 6 of the executive order. This 

notice merely designates DDAs and 

QCTs as required under IRC Section 42, 

as amended, for the use by political 

subdivisions of the states in allocating 

the LIHTC. As a result, this notice is not 

subject to review under the order. 

Kurt G. Usowski, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic 

Affairs. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7038–N–11; OMB Control 

No. 2502–0554] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Request for Prepayment of 

Section 202 or 202/8 Direct Loan 

Project 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: August 31, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number and should be sent to: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, 

Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410– 

5000; telephone 202–402–3400 (this is 

not a toll-free number) or email at 

Colette.Pollard@hud.gov for a copy of 

the proposed forms or other available 

information. 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). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410; email 

Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@

hud.gov or telephone 202–402–3400 

(this is not a toll-free number). 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). 

Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Pollard. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: 

Request for Prepayment of Section 202 

or 202/8 Project. OMB Approval 

Number: 2502–0554. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement, with 

change, of previously approved 

collection for which approval has 

expired. 

Form Number: HUD–9808. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: The 

Owner must execute the Section 202 

Prepayment Use Agreement provided as 

Attachment 1 to this Notice that will 

ensure the continued operation of the 

project until at least 20 years following 

the maturity date of the original loan 

under terms at least as advantageous to 

existing and future tenants as the terms 

required by the original loan agreement. 

The Use Agreement must be executed 

by the Owner and the Department and 

recorded upon HUD’s approval of the 

prepayment transaction. 

Respondents (i.e., affected public): 

Business, Not for profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,566. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

1,566. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hours. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 1,566. 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond; including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 


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C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507. 

Janet M. Golrick, 

Acting, Chief of Staff for the Office of 

Housing—Federal Housing Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6268–N–01] 

Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests 

Granted for the First Quarter of 

Calendar Year 2021 

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, 

HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 106 of the Department 

of Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform 

Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly 

Federal Register notices of all 

regulatory waivers that HUD has 

approved. Each notice covers the 

quarterly period since the previous 

Federal Register notice. The purpose of 

this notice is to comply with the 

requirements of section 106 of the HUD 

Reform Act. This notice contains a list 

of regulatory waivers granted by HUD 

during the period beginning on January 

1, 2021 and ending on March 31, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information about this notice, 

contact Aaron Santa Anna, Associate 

General Counsel for Legislation and 

Regulations, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street 

SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC 

20410–0500, telephone 202–708–3055 

(this is not a toll-free number). Persons 

with hearing- or speech-impairments 

may access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339. 

For information concerning a 

particular waiver that was granted and 

for which public notice is provided in 

this document, contact the person 

whose name and address follow the 

description of the waiver granted in the 

accompanying list of waivers that have 

been granted in the first quarter of 

calendar year 2021. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

106 of the HUD Reform Act added a 

new section 7(q) to the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development Act 

(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides 

that: 

1. Any waiver of a regulation must be 

in writing and must specify the grounds 

for approving the waiver; 

2. Authority to approve a waiver of a 

regulation may be delegated by the 

Secretary only to an individual of 

Assistant Secretary or equivalent rank, 

and the person to whom authority to 

waive is delegated must also have 

authority to issue the particular 

regulation to be waived; 

3. Not less than quarterly, the 

Secretary must notify the public of all 

waivers of regulations that HUD has 

approved, by publishing a notice in the 

Federal Register. These notices (each 

covering the period since the most 

recent previous notification) shall: 

a. Identify the project, activity, or 

undertaking involved; 

b. Describe the nature of the provision 

waived and the designation of the 

provision; 

c. Indicate the name and title of the 

person who granted the waiver request; 

d. Describe briefly the grounds for 

approval of the request; and 

e. State how additional information 

about a particular waiver may be 

obtained. 

Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act 

also contains requirements applicable to 

waivers of HUD handbook provisions 

that are not relevant to the purpose of 

this notice. 

This notice follows procedures 

provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy 

on Waiver of Regulations and Directives 

issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337). 

In accordance with those procedures 

and with the requirements of section 

106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of 

regulations are granted by the Assistant 

Secretary with jurisdiction over the 

regulations for which a waiver was 

requested. In those cases in which a 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary 

granted the waiver, the General Deputy 

Assistant Secretary was serving in the 

absence of the Assistant Secretary in 

accordance with the office’s Order of 

Succession. 

This notice covers waivers of 

regulations granted by HUD from 

January 1, 2021 through March 31, 2021. 

For ease of reference, the waivers 

granted by HUD are listed by HUD 

program office (for example, the Office 

of Community Planning and 

Development, the Office of Fair Housing 

and Equal Opportunity, the Office of 

Housing, and the Office of Public and 

Indian Housing, etc.). Within each 

program office grouping, the waivers are 

listed sequentially by the regulatory 

section of title 24 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) that is being waived. 

For example, a waiver of a provision in 

24 CFR part 58 would be listed before 

a waiver of a provision in 24 CFR part 

570. 

Where more than one regulatory 

provision is involved in the grant of a 

particular waiver request, the action is 

listed under the section number of the 

first regulatory requirement that appears 

in 24 CFR and that is being waived. For 

example, a waiver of both § 58.73 and 

§ 58.74 would appear sequentially in the 

listing under § 58.73. 

Waiver of regulations that involve the 

same initial regulatory citation are in 

time sequence beginning with the 

earliest-dated regulatory waiver. 

Additionally, this notice includes 

waivers made pursuant to the 

Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic 

Security Act (CARES Act), not 

previously published in the Federal 

Register. These waivers are listed 

separately from other individual 

waivers within each program office 

grouping, as CARES Act waivers 

broadly covered all affected parties 

rather than individual, case-by-case 

situations. The lists include additional 

Memoranda and Notices issued 

regarding broad CARES Act waivers 

provided by HUD since the enactment 

of the Act on March 27, 2020. In 

addition, the lists provide a short, twoor three-line description of each memo 

or notice, identifying the specific 

CARES Act authority and purpose of the 

waivers addressed therein. 

Should HUD receive additional 

information about waivers granted 

during the period covered by this report 

(the first quarter of calendar year 2021) 

before the next report is published (the 

second quarter of calendar year 2021), 

HUD will include any additional 

waivers granted for the first quarter in 

the next report. 

Accordingly, information about 

approved waiver requests pertaining to 

HUD regulations is provided in the 

Appendix that follows this notice. 

Sasha Samberg-Champion, 

Deputy General Counsel for Enforcement and 

Fair Housing. 

Appendix 

Listing of Waivers of Regulatory 

Requirements Granted by Offices of the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development January 1, 2021 Through 

March 31, 2021 

Note to Reader: More information about 

the granting of these waivers, including a 

copy of the waiver request and approval, may 

be obtained by contacting the person whose 

name is listed as the contact person directly 

after each set of regulatory waivers granted. 

The regulatory waivers granted appear 

in the following order: 

I. Regulatory Waivers Granted by the Office 

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