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Research. The open session will be on 

September 13th and the start time will 

be 10:00 a.m. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Advisory 

Council for Human Genome Research. 

Date: September 13–14, 2021. 

Open: September 13, 2021, 10:00 a.m. to 

3:00 p.m. 

Agenda: Report from Institute Director and 

Program Staff. 

Place: National Human Genome Research 

Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6700B 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Closed: September 13, 2021, 3:00 p.m. to 

6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Human Genome Research 

Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6700B 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Closed: September 14, 2021, 8:30 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Human Genome Research 

Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6700B 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Rudy O. Pozzatti, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Branch, National Human Genome Research 

Institute, 5635 Fishers Lane, Suite 4076, MSC 

9306, Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 402–0838, 

pozzattr@mail.nih.gov. 

This notice is being published less than 15 

days prior to the meeting due to the timing 

limitations imposed by the review and 

funding cycle. 

Information is also available on the 

Institute’s/Center’s home page: http://

www.genome.gov/council, where an agenda 

and any additional information for the 

meeting will be posted when available. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.172, Human Genome 

Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: August 25, 2021. 

David W. Freeman, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of 

Closed Meetings 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflict: Bioengineering, Cellular and Circuit 

Neuroscience. 

Date: October 1, 2021. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Jyothi Arikkath, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5215, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435–1042, 

arikkathj2@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; RFA–RM– 

21–020: Cutting Edge Informatics Tools for 

Illuminating the Druggable Genome (U01). 

Date: October 5, 2021. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Noffisat Oki, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (240) 627–3648, 

noffisat.oki@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Integrative, 

Functional and Cognitive Neuroscience 

Integrated Review Group; Neuroscience of 

Basic Visual Processes Study Section. 

Date: October 6–7, 2021. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Kirk Thompson, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5184, 

MSC 7844, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435– 

1242, kgt@mail.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 

93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 

93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844, 

93.846–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: August 25, 2021. 

David W. Freeman, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18728 Filed 8–30–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6280–D–01] 

Redelegation of Authority for the 

Office of Field Policy and Management 

AGENCY: Office of Field Policy and 

Management, Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice of redelegation of 

authority. 

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field 

Policy and Management and the 

Director for Field Policy and 

Management redelegate certain 

operational management authority to 

the HUD Regional Administrators 

located in Region I (Boston, MA); 

Region II (New York, NY); Region III 

(Philadelphia, PA); Region IV (Atlanta, 

GA); Region V (Chicago, IL); Region VI 

(Fort Worth, TX); Region VII (Kansas 

City, KS); Region VIII (Denver, CO); 

Region IX (San Francisco, CA); and 

Region X (Seattle, WA). 

DATES: Applicable Date: August 25, 

2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

B. Shumway, Assistant General 

Counsel, Administrative Law Division, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, at 451 7th Street SW, 

Room 9262; Washington, DC 20410– 

0500 or telephone number 202–402– 

5190 (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). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In October 

2020, the Secretary of HUD delegated to 

the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field 

Policy and Management and the 

Director for Field Policy and 

Management authority for the 

management and oversight of the 

Department’s field operations, which 

was published in the Federal Register at 


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85 FR 62753. In that notice, the 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field 

Policy and Management and Director for 

Field Policy and Management were 

authorized to redelegate such authority. 

Through this notice, the Assistant 

Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and 

Management and the Director for Field 

Policy and Management redelegate 

certain operational management 

authority to the HUD Regional 

Administrators. This notice supersedes 

all prior redelegations to the HUD 

Regional Administrators. 

Section I: Authority Redelegated 

A. Cross-Program Coordination. Each 

Regional Administrator is redelegated 

the following duties: 

1. Develop and implement placebased Regional and Field Operating 

Plans in consultation with field Program 

Directors. 

2. To develop, approve, track, and 

oversee the Regional Operating Plan 

priority projects and initiatives that 

cross program office lines. 

3. Prepare briefing papers and hot 

issue reports. 

4. Lead disaster relief efforts. 

5. Convene on-site program teams 

(e.g., Community Planning and 

Development, Office of General 

Counsel, Fair Housing and Equal 

Opportunity, Public and Indian 

Housing, etc.), as necessary and in 

consultation with field Program 

Directors, to review proposed major 

projects or initiatives for place-based 

impact. 

6. Assist state and local housing 

officials in assessing the impact of 

housing foreclosures. 

7. Convene place-based teams, as 

necessary and in consultation with field 

program directors, to review 

Consolidated Plans during the 45-day 

review period. 

8. Provide comments to Public and 

Indian Housing field directors on public 

housing disposal and/or demolition 

applications. 

9. Review with other program leaders 

the status of the HUD–VASH program to 

maximize utilization. 

10. Consult with Program Directors 

regarding implementation of 

departmental management goals, 

Secretarial and Presidential initiatives, 

and Annual Performance Plan 

commitments. Regional Administrators 

can request review by Headquarters of 

decisions made by Program Directors. 

Where the Regional Administrator and 

relevant Program Director disagree on a 

major program decision, the Regional 

Administrator may report the 

disagreement to the Assistant Deputy 

Secretary for Field Policy and 

Management, who may then raise the 

matter with the relevant Assistant 

Secretary or equivalent. The relevant 

Assistant Secretary or equivalent makes 

the final determination, subject to 

review by the Deputy Secretary, as 

necessary. 

B. Administrative Management. Each 

Regional Administrator is delegated the 

following administrative duties: 

1. Manage administrative field 

operations, applicable to all employees 

at a duty location, including outstationed personnel, through 

coordination with Program Directors 

administrative offices, and supervisors 

of out stationed personnel. 

Administrative field operations include, 

but are not limited to: 

• Determining official local office 

hours of operation. 

• Determining emergency office 

closings due to weather, disaster, or 

local events. 

• Providing effective customer 

service. 

• Working with Program Directors 

and all employees to foster a positive 

working environment. 

• Coordinating with the Office of 

Administration (and its Office of 

Administration Regional Support 

Manager) to develop and manage an 

administrative budget that meets the 

needs of programs and staff in each 

office. 

• Managing internal office 

communications of a general nature. 

2. Regional Administrators may 

request a waiver of specific directives 

and handbook provisions pertaining to 

programs in the offices of Housing, 

Public and Indian Housing, Community 

Planning and Development, and Fair 

Housing and Equal Opportunity. Waiver 

is not authorized for the HUD Litigation 

Handbook and regulations, or those 

departmental directives and handbook 

provisions mandated by or directly 

predicated on a statute, Executive 

Order, or regulation. Waiver requests by 

a Regional Administrator will be 

forwarded to the Assistant Deputy 

Secretary for Field Policy and 

Management, who will forward the 

requests to the respective program 

Assistant Secretary for final decision. 

All waiver requests must be in writing 

and specify the grounds for requesting 

the waiver. Regional Administrators 

will be notified in writing of the 

program Assistant Secretary’s decision, 

through the Office of Field Policy and 

Management leadership. Only the 

program Assistant Secretary, or other 

program office officials with delegated 

authority to do so, may grant waivers or 

make a specific delegation of waiver 

authority. 

C. Representation. Each Regional 

Administrator is redelegated the 

following duties: 

1. Serve as the lead point of contact 

for non-tribal local elected or appointed 

officials. 

2. Serve as one of the principal points 

of contact with industry groups with the 

support of and in consultation with 

field Program Directors. 

3. Oversee labor/management 

relations in the region in coordination 

with the assigned Employee and Labor 

Relations representative. 

• Based on information provided by 

the Office of the Chief Human Capital 

Officer/Employee and Labor Relations 

Division and with input by the Office of 

General Counsel, the Regional 

Administrator will provide the Assistant 

Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and 

Management with regular reports on all 

open and active labor/management 

cases that are in process. 

4. Work with Headquarters offices, 

including the Office of Congressional 

and Intergovernmental Relations, to 

ensure that federal, state, local, and 

tribal elected officials within a 

jurisdiction receive responsive and 

coordinated customer service. This in 

no way supersedes the Secretary’s 

delegation of authority to the Assistant 

Secretary for Congressional and 

Intergovernmental Relations on October 

7, 2011 (Federal Register Docket No. 

FR–5515–D–01), in which the Secretary 

delegates to the Assistant Secretary for 

Congressional and Intergovernmental 

Relations authority and responsibility 

for coordinating congressional and 

intergovernmental relations activities. 

5. Manage all field-controlled 

congressional and intergovernmental 

correspondence, in consultation with 

field Program Directors and in 

coordination with the Executive 

Secretariat (Office of Administration) 

and the Office of Congressional and 

Intergovernmental Relations. 

6. Respond to all media inquiries in 

conjunction with Headquarters’ Office 

of Public Affairs and field Program 

Directors. 

7. Administer the local office’s web 

page and internet sources, in 

coordination with the Office of Public 

Affairs. 

8. Monitor and evaluate customer 

service. 

9. Enter into co-sponsorship 

agreements, with the concurrence of the 

General Counsel and the relevant 

program Assistant Secretary or 

equivalent. 

Section II: Authority To Redelegate 

Except for those authorities 

specifically excluded in Section III of 


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this notice, this authority may be 

redelegated, as appropriate, from 

Regional Administrators to Field Office 

Directors and Deputy Regional 

Administrators within the respective 

jurisdictions. 

Section III: Authority Nonredelegable 

The following authorities may not be 

redelegated from the Regional 

Administrators to the Field Office 

Directors or to any other employee: 

1. The authority to enter into cosponsorship agreements. 

2. The authority to request waivers as 

provided by section I.B.2. above. 

3. The authority to sign local, areawide, or center-wide negotiated impact 

and implementation or memorandum of 

understanding agreements with unions 

representing smaller units consisting of 

either Headquarters and/or field 

employees on issues confined to a single 

program area and within the Regional 

Administrators’ own budget authority, 

including the resolution of unfair labor 

practice charges and bargaining 

impasses. 

Section IV: Authority Superseded 

This notice supersedes all prior 

redelegations of authority to the 

Regional Administrators from the 

Secretary of HUD, the Assistant Deputy 

Secretary for Field Policy and 

Management, or the Director for Field 

Policy and Management. 

Authority: Section 7(d) of the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d). 

Michele Perez, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy 

and Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7034–N–49] 

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Local Appeals to SingleFamily Mortgage Limits; OMB Control 

No.: 2502–0302 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD has submitted the 

proposed information collection 

requirement described below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review, in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow for an 

additional 30 days of public comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: September 

30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

Start Printed Page 15501PRAMain. Find 

this particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

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). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD has 

submitted to OMB a request for 

approval of the information collection 

described in Section A. The Federal 

Register notice that solicited public 

comment on the information collection 

for a period of 60 days was published 

on May 7, 2021, at 86 FR 24654. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: Local 

Appeals to Single-Family Mortgage 

Limits. 

OMB Approval Number: 2502–0302. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: Any 

interested party may submit a request 

for the mortgage limits to be increased 

in a particular area if they believe that 

the present limit does not accurately 

reflect the higher sales prices in that 

area. Any request for an increase must 

be accompanied by sufficient housing 

sales price data to justify higher limits. 

This allows HUD the opportunity to 

examine additional data to confirm or 

adjust the set loan limit for a particular 

area. 

Respondents: Business and other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

182. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 182. 

Frequency of Response: 1. 

Average Hours per Response: 7. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 1274. 

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. 

(5) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

Colette Pollard, 

Department Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[FR–6280–D–02] 

Order of Succession for the Office of 

Field Policy and Management 

AGENCY: Office of Field Policy and 

Management, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of order of succession. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the Assistant 

Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and 

Management for the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

designates the Order of Succession for 

the Office of Field Policy and 

Management. This Order of Succession 

supersedes all prior orders of succession 

for the Office of Field Policy and 

Management, including the Order of 

Succession published in the Federal 

Register on October 19, 2012. 

DATES: Applicable Date: August 31, 

2021. 


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