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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 137 / Wednesday, July 21, 2021 / Notices
profits, state, local and tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
37,800.
Estimated Number of Responses:
61,800.
Frequency of Response: 3.
Average Hours per Response: .8.
Total Estimated Burdens: 56,000 no change.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT

B. Solicitation of Public Comment
SUMMARY:

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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 agencys 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.

Docket No. FR6265N01

Notice of Waivers and Alternative Requirements for the Pilot Recovery Housing Program Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This Updated Program Notice describes the program rules, waivers, and alternative requirements that apply to any and all appropriations authorized under Section 8071 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act SUPPORT Act, entitled Pilot Program to Help Individuals in Recovery From a Substance Use Disorder Become Stably Housed, herein referred to as the Recovery Housing Program, or RHP. This pilot program authorizes assistance to grantees states and the District of Columbia to provide stable, temporary housing to individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder. The assistance is limited, per individual, to a period of not more than two years or until the individual secures permanent housing, whichever is earlier. This notice also extends the deadline for submission of fiscal year FY 2020 RHP Action Plans provided in HUDs November 25, 2020, notice entitled, Notice of FY 2020
Allocations, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements for the Pilot Recovery Housing Program Program Notice and provides instructions for submitting RHP Action Plans for FYs 2020 and 2021.

C. Authority
DATES:

Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, James A. Jemison II, having reviewed and approved this document, is delegating the authority to electronically sign this document to submitter, Aaron Santa Anna, who is the Federal Register Liaison for HUD, for purposes of publication in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Aaron Santa Anna, Federal Register Liaison for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Applicable Date: July 13, 2021.

Jessie Handforth Kome, Director, Office of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 7282, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 2027083587 this is not a tollfree number. Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 8008778339 this is a toll-free number. Facsimile inquiries may be sent to Ms. Kome at 202708
0033 this is not a toll-free number.
Email inquiries may be sent to RecoveryHousing@hud.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
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A. Authorization and Appropriations Section 8071 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act Pub. L.

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SUPPORT Act authorizes the appropriation of funds, as may be necessary, for each fiscal year of 2019 to 2023 for assistance to states to provide stable, temporary housing to individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder. The SUPPORT Act requires amounts appropriated or amounts otherwise made available to grantees for RHP be treated as though such funds are CDBG funds under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 42 U.S.C. 5302 HCD Act and authorizes the Secretary of HUD to waive or specify alternative requirements to any provision of title I
of the HCD Act necessary to facilitate or expedite the use of RHP funds, except for requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, the environment, and requirements that activities benefit persons of lowand moderate-income.
The SUPPORT Act authorized HUD to establish a funding formula based on specific factors listed in section 8071 of the SUPPORT Act and to allocate funds appropriated or otherwise made available for RHP according to the established funding formula. HUD
published the funding formula in the Federal Register on April 17, 2019 84
FR 16027 the Formula Notice. In accordance with the SUPPORT Act, HUD distributes amounts appropriated for RHP according to the Formula Notice unless the appropriation act directs HUD to do otherwise. Following an appropriation of funds, HUD
determines the RHP grantees and publishes their allocation amounts online at https www.hud.gov/
program_offices/comm_planning/
budget in accordance with the Formula Notice and requirements of the appropriation. Congress appropriated $25,000,000 for RHP in fiscal year FY
2020 and $25,000,000 for RHP in FY
2021. HUD allocated the RHP funds to 25 grantees in FY 20 and 27 grantees in FY 21.
B. Notice of Program Rules, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements HUD published the Notice of FY2020 Allocations, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements for the Pilot Recovery Housing Program 85 FR
75361 the Program Notice on its website on November 4, 2020, and in the Federal Register on November 25, 2020. The Program Notice imposed the rules, waivers, and alternative requirements and provided specific program deadlines that apply for fiscal year 2020 FY 20. The Program Notice describes requirements on the use of RHP funds and the applicable waivers
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