83 FR 45649 - Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Moving To Work Research Advisory Committee

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 175 (September 10, 2018)

This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda for a meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee (Committee). The Committee meeting will be held via conference call on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. The meeting is open to the public and is accessible to individuals with disabilities.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 175 (Monday, September 10, 2018)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19646]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-6127-N-01]


Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Moving To Work 
Research Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development 
and Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of a federal advisory committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda for a 
meeting of the Moving to Work (MTW) Research Advisory Committee 
(Committee). The Committee meeting will be held via conference call on 
Wednesday, October 10, 2018. The meeting is open to the public and is 
accessible to individuals with disabilities.

DATES: The teleconference meeting will be held on October 10, 2018 from 
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Fontheim, Office of Public and 
Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW, Room 5143, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 402-3461 
(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 Relay Service at (800) 877-8339 or can email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is provided in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5. U.S.C. App. 
10(a)(2). The

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Committee was established on May 2, 2016 to advise HUD on specific 
policy proposals and methods of research and evaluation related to the 
expansion of the MTW demonstration to an additional 100 Public Housing 
Authorities (PHAs), see Federal Register, 81 FR 24630. HUD has 
previously convened two conference call meetings of the Committee on 
July 26 and 28, 2016, a two-day in-person meeting on September 1 and 2, 
2016, and follow-up conference call meetings on December 13, 2016 and 
January 25, 2018. The minutes of these meetings are available on the 
HUD website at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.
    HUD is now convening a conference call to explore the evaluation of 
work requirements under the Third Cohort policy. HUD will convene the 
meeting on Wednesday, October 10, 2018 via teleconference from 1 p.m. 
to 3:30 p.m. (EST). The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Wednesday, October 2018, From 1-3:30 p.m. EST

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Summary of 2016-2018 Meetings
    a. Revisit Guiding Principles
    b. Confirm Committee Recommendations
III. Goal for this Meeting
    a. Discuss and provide recommendations on Third Cohort: Work 
Requirements for Public Housing and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher 
residents (including research design, random assignment, and specific 
policies).
IV. BREAK
V. Policy Framework and Research Methodology--MTW Statutory Objective 
#2: Give Incentives to Families with Children Whose Heads of Household 
are Either Working, Seeking Work, or Participating in Job Training, 
Educational, or Other Programs that Assist in Obtaining Employment and 
Becoming Economically Self-Sufficient.
    a. Third Cohort: Work Requirements for Public Housing and Section 8 
Housing Choice Voucher residents--Select research design, random 
assignment, and specific policies.
VI. Update on the MTW Expansion
VII. Public Input
VIII. Summary of Discussion
IX. Discuss Next Steps and Adjourn

    The public is invited to call in to the meeting by using the 
following Conference Toll-Free Number in the United States: 1-800-230-
1059 or the following International number for those outside the United 
States: (612) 234-9959. Please be advised that the operator will ask 
callers to provide their names and their organizational affiliations 
(if any) prior to placing callers into the conference line. Callers can 
expect to incur charges for calls they initiate over wireless lines and 
for international calls, and HUD will not refund any incurred charges. 
Callers will incur no charge for calls they initiate over land-line 
connections to the toll-free phone number. Persons with hearing 
impairments may also follow the discussion by first calling the Federal 
Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 and providing the FRS operator 
with the Conference Call Toll-Free Number: 1-800-230-1059.
    Members of the public will have an opportunity to provide feedback 
during the call. The total amount of time for such feedback will be 
limited to ensure pertinent Committee business is completed. Further, 
the amount of time allotted to each individual commenter will be 
limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis by 
HUD. If the number of comments exceeds the available time, HUD may ask 
for the submission of comments via email.
    Records and documents discussed during the meeting, as well as 
other information about the work of this Committee, will be available 
for public viewing as they become available at: http://www.facadatabase.gov/committee/committee.aspx?t=c&cid=2570&aid=77 by 
clicking on the ``Committee Meetings'' link.
    These materials will also be available on the MTW Demonstration's 
expansion web page at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion. 
Records generated from this meeting may also be inspected and 
reproduced at the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Headquarters in Washington, DC as they become available, both before 
and after the meeting.
    Outside of the work of this Committee, information about HUD's 
broader implementation of the MTW expansion, as well as additional 
opportunities for public input, can be found on the MTW Demonstration's 
expansion web page at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/expansion.

    Dated: September 5, 2018.
Dominique Blom,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
Todd Richardson,
 Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research.
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