Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Negotiated Rulemaking Committee; Meetings

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

24 CFR Parts 1000, 1003, and 1005

[Docket No. FR-4170-N-14]

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination

Negotiated Rulemaking Committee; Meetings

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the final implementation meetings

sponsored by HUD to develop the regulations necessary to carry out the

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996

(NAHASDA) (Pub. L. 104-330, approved October 30, 1996).

DATES: The meetings will be held on October 27, 28 and 29, 1997. The

October 27 and 28, 1997 meetings will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m.

and end at approximately 5:00 p.m., local time. The October 29, 1997

meeting will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. and end at approximately

noon, local time.

ADDRESS: The meetings will be held at the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel,

480 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW, Washington, DC 20024; telephone 1-800-635-

5065 or (202) 484-1000; FAX (202) 863-4497 (With the exception of the

``800'' telephone number, these are not toll-free numbers).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Garner-Wing, Acting Deputy

Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Denver, CO; telephone

(303) 675-1600 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing or speech-

impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the

toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary of HUD established the Native

American Housing Assistance & Self-Determination Negotiated Rulemaking

Committee (Committee) to negotiate and develop a proposed rule

implementing NAHASDA. The proposed rule was published on July 2, 1997

(62 FR 35718) and provided for a 45-day public comment period. The

public comment deadline was August 18, 1997.

The Committee met from August 22-29, 1997 in Denver, Colorado and

from September 21-26, 1997 in Arlington, Virginia to consider the

public comments submitted on the proposed rule. The Committee is

meeting for a final time to discuss issues left unresolved and to reach

consensus on the Committee's final report to the Secretary of HUD.

The meeting dates are: October 27, 28, and 29 1997. The agenda

planned for the meetings includes: (1) discussion of the draft

Committee report; (2) discussion of issues left unresolved; and (3)

approval of a final Committee report for submission to the Secretary of

HUD.

The meetings will be open to the public without advance

registration. Public attendance may be limited to the space available.

Members of the public may make statements during the meetings, to the

extent time permits, and file written statements with the Committee for

its consideration. Written statements should be submitted to the

address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION section of this notice.

Summaries of Committee meetings will be available for public inspection

and copying at the address in the same section.

Dated: October 14, 1997.

Kevin Emanuel Marchman,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

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