80 FR 76705 - Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards; Request for Recommended Changes

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 237 (December 10, 2015)

Consistent with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as amended, this notice invites interested persons to submit proposed changes to update and revise HUD's Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. These proposed changes will be submitted to the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) for review and consideration as part of its responsibility to provide periodic recommendations to HUD to adopt, revise, and interpret the HUD standards.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 237 (Thursday, December 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76705-76706]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31202]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5906-N-01]


Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards; Request for 
Recommended Changes

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing 
Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Consistent with the National Manufactured Housing Construction 
and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as amended, this notice invites 
interested persons to submit proposed changes to update and revise 
HUD's Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. These 
proposed changes will be submitted to the Manufactured Housing 
Consensus Committee (MHCC) for review and consideration as part of its 
responsibility to provide periodic recommendations to HUD to adopt, 
revise, and interpret the HUD standards.

DATES: To ensure consideration, the deadline for submitting proposed

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changes from the public for the 2016-2017 review is March 31, 2016. Any 
Proposals received after March 31, 2016 will be held until the 2018-
2019 review period.

ADDRESSES: Proposed changes to the Manufactured Home Construction and 
Safety Standards are to be submitted to the following URL address: 
mhcc.homeinnovation.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pamela Beck Danner, Administrator and 
Designated Federal Official (DFO), Office of Manufactured Housing 
Programs, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 
SW., Room 9168, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202-708-6423 
(this is not a toll-free number). Persons who have difficulty hearing 
or speaking may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free 
Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 604(a) of the National Manufactured 
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as amended by 
the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et 
seq.) (the Act) establishes the MHCC. Among other things, the MHCC is 
responsible for providing periodic recommendations to HUD to adopt, 
revise, and interpret the manufactured housing construction and safety 
standards. HUD's Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards 
are codified at 24 CFR part 3280. According to Section 604(a)(4) of the 
Act, the MHCC is required to consider revisions not less than once 
during each 2-year period.
    Today's notice requests that interested persons provide proposed 
changes for revising or updating HUD's Manufactured Home Construction 
and Safety Standards. Consistent with the Act, recommendations are 
requested that further HUD's efforts to increase the quality, 
durability, safety and affordability of manufactured homes; facilitate 
the availability of affordable manufactured homes and increase 
homeownership for all Americans; and encourage cost-effective and 
innovative construction techniques for manufactured homes. To permit 
the MHCC to fully consider the proposed changes, commenters are 
encouraged to provide at least the following information:
     The specific section of the current Manufactured Home 
Construction and Safety Standards that require revision or update; or 
whether the recommendation would require a new standard;
     Specific detail regarding the recommendation including a 
statement of the problem intended to be corrected or addressed by the 
recommendation, how the recommendation would resolve or address the 
problem, and the basis of the recommendation; and
     Information regarding whether the recommendation would 
result in increased costs to manufacturers or consumers and the value 
of the benefits derived from HUD's implementation of the 
recommendation, should be provided and discussed to the extent 
feasible.
    The Act requires that an administering organization administer the 
process for the MHCC's development and interpretation of the Federal 
Standards and Procedural and Enforcement Regulations. The administering 
organization that has been selected by HUD to administer this process 
is Home Innovation Research Labs, Inc. This Notice requests that 
proposed revisions to the Federal standards be submitted to the MHCC 
for consideration through the administering organization, Home 
Innovation Research Labs, Inc. at the following URL address: 
mhcc.homeinnovation.com. This organization will be responsible for 
ensuring delivery of all appropriately prepared proposed changes to the 
MHCC for its review and consideration.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    The information collection requirements contained in this notice 
have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), and assigned 
OMB Control Number 2535-0116. In accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is 
not required to respond to, a collection of information, unless the 
collection displays a currently valid OMB control number.

    Dated: December 4, 2015.
Pamela Beck Danner,
Administrator, Office of Manufactured Housing Programs.
[FR Doc. 2015-31202 Filed 12-9-15; 8:45 am]
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