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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices
MHAOK to provide rapid re-housing rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to program participants who have chosen units that MHAOK owns, which would require that MHAOK will have to enter into a rental assistance agreement with its property management division. MHAOK
is required to comply with the Conflict of Interest requirements as stated in 24
CFR 576.404.
Nature of Requirement: Section 576.106e of the Emergency Solutions Grants ESG Program Interim rule requires recipients to have a rental assistance agreement with the owner of any property for which they will provide rental assistance payments. The rental assistance agreement must include the terms under which rental assistance will be provided. It also requires the owner to give the recipient or subrecipient a copy of any notice to the program participant to vacate the housing unit or any complaint used under State or local law to commence an eviction action against the program participant. Also, each rental assistance agreement that is executed or renewed on or after December 16, 2016 must include all protections that apply to tenants and applicants under 24 CFR
part 5, subpart L, as supplemented by 576.409, except for the emergency transfer plan requirements under 24
CFR 5.2005e and 576.409d. If the housing is not assisted under another covered housing program, as defined in 24 CFR 5.2003, the agreement may provide that the owners obligations under 24 CFR part 5, subpart L
Protection for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking, expire at the end of the rental assistance period.
Granted By: John Gibbs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: January 6, 2021.
Reason Waived: HUD granted the waiver to increase housing options for ESG program participants in Tulsa, OK
being assisted by the citys subrecipient, MHAOK. Homelessness in the City of Tulsa increased 27% from 2015 to 2020.
MHAOK has been awarded rapid rehousing funding to provide rapid rehousing rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services for up to 140 households. MHAOK owns 40
properties in the community, which are included in the available pool of units from which an eligible program participant may choose to live. If a program participant selects one of their own housing units, MHAOK requires a waiver of the rental assistance agreement requirements in order to enter an agreement with its property
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management division Eastoak Property Management.
Contact: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7262, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202 7084300.
Regulation: 24 CFR 576.203a1.
Project/Activity: HUD granted a waiver of 24 CFR 576.203a1 to Oregon Housing and Community Services OHCS, to extend its obligation date to March 31, 2021 to provide time to evaluate new applications, award funds, and account for unforeseen delays due to the implementation of a new funding approach to meet the unprecedented need during the COVID19 pandemic and identify new subrecipients with the capacity to administer ESGCV funds.
Nature of Requirement: Section 24
CFR 576.203a1 requires states to obligate funds within 60 days from the date that it signs the grant agreement with HUD. HUD further waived this requirement in CPD2008 Notice:
Waivers and Alternative Requirements for the Emergency Solutions Grants ESG Program Under the CARES Act ESGCV Notice so long as states obligated funds within 180 days for activities it will carry out itself and 240
days for activities it will obligate to subrecipients.
Granted By: John Gibbs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: January 7, 2021.
Reason Waived: HUD granted the waiver to extend OHCSs obligation deadline from February 18, 2021 to March 31, 2021 to provide additional time to implement a new competitive process for allocating funds and identifying new subrecipients with the capacity to administer ESG CARES Act funds. The waiver provides OHCS with time needed to complete their funding process.
Contact: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7262, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202 7084300.
Regulation: 24 CFR
578.103a7iv.
Project/Activity: The waiver of the requirement at 24 CFR 578.103a7iv that the recipient or subrecipient may only rely on program participant selfcertification of income if the other permitted types of documentation are
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unobtainable when conducting the initial or subsequent rent or occupancy charge calculations is in effect until June 30, 2021. During this time, 24 CFR
578.103a7iv is waived to the extent necessary to allow recipients or subrecipients to document annual income with the written certification by the program participant of the amount of income that the program participant is reasonably expected to receive over the 3-month period following the evaluation, even if source documents and third-party verification, are obtainable.
Nature of Requirement: 24 CFR
578.103a7 requires the recipient or subrecipient to keep records of the program participants income and the back-up documentation they relied on to determine income. The regulation establishes an order of preference for the type of documentation that recipients can rely upon. Only if source documents and third-party verification are unobtainable is a written certification from the program participant acceptable documentation of income. HUD is waiving To the extent that source documents and third-party verification are unobtainable in 578.103a7iv.
Granted By: James A. Jemison, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: March 31, 2021.
Reason Waived: On September 30, 2020, HUD waived the requirement to attempt to document that third-party verification of income was unobtainable in order for recipients and subrecipients to a program participants own selfcertification of income until December 31, 2020 because that documentation may be difficult to obtain as a result of COVID19 pandemic and housing program participants quickly was important to prevent the spread of COVID19. On December 30, 2020, HUD
extended this waiver to March 31, 2021.
It continues to be important to move people into their own housing quickly to enable social distancing and prevent the spread of COVID19; therefore, waiving the requirement that source documents and third-party documentation be unobtainable in order for recipients or subrecipients to rely on a program participants own certification of their income.
Contact: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7262, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202 7084300.

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