83 FR 48647 - Redelegation of Authority for the Office of Field Policy and Management
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 187 (September 26, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 26, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 48647-48649] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-20960] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR-6081-D-02] Redelegation of Authority for the Office of Field Policy and Management AGENCY: Office of Field Policy and Management, HUD. ACTION: Notice of Redelegation of Authority. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management and the Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management redelegate certain operational management authority to the HUD regional administrators located in Region I (Boston, MA); Region II (New York, NY); Region III (Philadelphia, PA); Region IV (Atlanta, GA); Region V (Chicago, IL); Region VI (Fort Worth, TX); Region VII (Kansas City, KS); Region VIII (Denver, CO); Region IX (San Francisco, CA); and Region X (Seattle, WA). DATES: Applicable Date: September 19, 2018. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John B. Shumway, Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Law Division, Department of Housing and Urban Development at 451 7th Street SW, Room 9262; Washington, DC 20410-0500 or at telephone number, 202-402-3502 (this is not a toll-free number). This number may be accessed through TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service, toll-free, at 800-877-8339. [[Page 48648]] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By separate notice published in today's Federal Register, the Secretary of HUD delegates to the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management and the Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management authority for the management and oversight of the Department's field operations, and further authorizes the Assistant Deputy Secretary and Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary to redelegate such authority. Through this notice, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management and the Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management redelegate certain operational management authority to the HUD regional administrators. This notice supersedes these and all prior redelegations to the HUD regional administrators. Section I: Authority Redelegated A. Cross-Program Coordination. Each regional administrator is redelegated the following duties: 1. Develop and implement place-based Regional and Field Operating Plans in consultation with field program directors. 2. To develop, approve, track, and oversee the Regional Operating Plan priority projects and initiatives that cross program office lines. 3. Prepare briefing papers and hot issue reports. 4. Lead disaster relief efforts. 5. Convene on-site program teams (e.g., Community Planning and Development, Office of General Counsel, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Public and Indian Housing, etc.), as necessary and in consultation with field program directors, to review proposed, major projects or initiatives for place-based impact. 6. Assist state and local housing officials in assessing the impact of housing foreclosures. 7. Convene place-based teams, as necessary and in consultation with field program directors, to review Consolidated Plans during the 45-day review period. 8. Provide comments to Public and Indian Housing field directors on public housing disposal and/or demolition applications. 9. Review with other program leaders the status of the HUD-VASH program to maximize utilization. 10. Consult with program directors regarding implementation of departmental management goals, secretarial and presidential initiatives, and Annual Performance Plan commitments. Regional administrators can request review by Headquarters of decisions made by program directors. Where the regional administrator and relevant program director disagree on a major program decision, the regional administrator may report the disagreement to the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management, who may then raise the matter with the relevant Assistant Secretary or equivalent. The relevant Assistant Secretary or equivalent makes the final determination, subject to review by the Deputy Secretary, as necessary. B. Administrative Management. Each regional administrator is delegated the following administrative duties: 1. Manage administrative field operation, applicable to all employees at a duty location, including outstationed personnel, through coordination with program directors administrative offices, and supervisors of outstationed personnel. Administrative field operations include, but are not limited to:Determining official local office hours of operation. Determining emergency office closings due to weather, disaster, or local events. Providing effective customer service. Working with program directors and all employees to foster a positive working environment; Coordinating with the Office of Administration (and its Office of Administration Regional Support Manager to develop and manage an administrative budget that meets the needs of programs and staff in each office. Managing internal office communications of a general nature. 2. Regional administrators may request a waiver of specific directives and handbook provisions pertaining to programs in the offices of Housing, Public and Indian Housing, Community Planning and Development, and Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Waiver is not authorized for the HUD Litigation Handbook and regulations, or those departmental directives and handbook provisions mandated by or directly predicated on a statute, Executive order, or regulation. Waiver requests by the regional administrator will be forwarded to the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management, who will forward the requests to the respective program Assistant Secretary for final decision. All waiver requests must be in writing and specify the grounds for requesting the waiver. Regional administrators will be notified in writing of the program Assistant Secretary's decision, through the Office of Field Policy and Management leadership. Only the program Assistant Secretary, or other program office officials with delegated authority to do so, may grant waivers or make a specific delegation of waiver authority. C. Representation. Each regional administrator is redelegated the following duties: 1. Oversee labor/management relations in the region in coordination with the assigned Employee and Labor Relations representative. Based on information provided by the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer/Employee and Labor Relations Division and with input by the Office of General Counsel, the regional administrator will provide the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management with regular reports on all open and active labor/management cases that are in process. 2. Work with Headquarters offices, including the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, to ensure that Federal, state, local and tribal elected officials within a jurisdiction receive responsive and coordinated customer service. This in no way supersedes the Secretary's delegation of authority to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations on October 7, 2011 (Federal Register Docket No. FR-5515-D-01), in which the Secretary delegates to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations authority and responsibility for coordinating congressional and intergovernmental relations activities. 3. Manage all field-controlled congressional and intergovernmental correspondence, in consultation with field program directors and in coordination with the Executive Secretariat (Office of Administration) and the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. 4. Respond to all media inquiries in conjunction with Headquarters' Office of Public Affairs and field program directors. 5. Administer the local office's web page and internet sources, in coordination with the Office of Public Affairs. 6. Monitor and evaluate customer service. 7. Enter into cosponsorship agreements, with the concurrence of the General Counsel and the relevant program Assistant Secretary or equivalent. [[Page 48649]] Section II: Authority To Redelegate Except for those authorities specifically excluded in Section III of this notice, this authority may be redelegated, as appropriate, from regional administrators to field Office directors within the respective jurisdictions. Section III: Authority Nonredelegable The following authorities may not be redelegated from the regional administrators to the field office directors or to any other employee: 1. The authority to enter into co-sponsorship agreements. 2. The authority to request waivers as provided by section I.B.3. above. 3. The authority to sign local, areawide, or centerwide negotiated impact and implementation or memorandum of understanding agreements with unions representing smaller units consisting of either Headquarters and/or field employees on issues confined to a single program area and within the regional administrators' own budget authority, including the resolution of unfair labor practice charges and bargaining impasses. Section IV: Delegations Superseded This notice supersedes all prior delegations of authority to the regional directors/administrators from the Secretary of HUD or the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management. Authority: Section 7(d)(q) of the Department of HUD Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d). Dated: September 19, 2018. Matthew F. Hunter, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management. [FR Doc. 2018-20960 Filed 9-25-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210-67-P
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transferred to the National Archives and When an individual is seeking records
Records Administration 15 years after about himself or herself from this
cut-off date, in accordance with system of records or any other DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
National Archives and Records Departmental system of records, the URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Administration (NARA) General individual’s request must conform with [Docket No. FR–6081–D–02]
Schedule DAA–0563–2013–0005–0003. the Privacy Act regulations set forth in
Public correspondence and 6 CFR part 5. The individual must first Redelegation of Authority for the
communication that require no formal verify his/her identity, meaning that the Office of Field Policy and Management
response or action are temporary and individual must provide his/her full
name, current address, and date and AGENCY: Office of Field Policy and
are destroyed when 90 days old, unless
place of birth. The individual must sign Management, HUD.
longer retention is authorized when
required for business use, in accordance the request, and the individual’s ACTION: Notice of Redelegation of
with NARA General Records Schedule signature must either be notarized or Authority.
(GRS) 6.4, item 20. Correspondence submitted under 28 U.S.C. 1746, a law SUMMARY: Through this notice, the
relating to a specific case or action is not that permits statements to be made Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field
considered public correspondence and under penalty of perjury as a substitute Policy and Management and the
will be filed and maintained with the for notarization. While no specific form Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for
appropriate case or action file under its is required, an individual may obtain Field Policy and Management redelegate
specific retention schedule. DHS forms for this purpose from the Chief certain operational management
Components may create their own Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of authority to the HUD regional
retention schedules for correspondence Information Act Officer, http:// administrators located in Region I
received. NARA GRS 4.1, item 010, www.dhs.gov/foia or 1–866–431–0486. (Boston, MA); Region II (New York, NY);
covers when a Department, Component, In addition, the individual should: Region III (Philadelphia, PA); Region IV
office, or individual is tasked to review • Explain why the individual believes
(Atlanta, GA); Region V (Chicago, IL);
the correspondence or inquiry. Actual the Department would have information
Region VI (Fort Worth, TX); Region VII
assignments and any reminder emails on him/her;
(Kansas City, KS); Region VIII (Denver,
that an action is required are destroyed • Identify which component(s) of the
CO); Region IX (San Francisco, CA); and
immediately, or when no longer needed Department the individual believes may
Region X (Seattle, WA).
for reference. have the information about him/her;
• Specify when the individual DATES: Applicable Date: September 19,
ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL believes the records would have been 2018.
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DHS safeguards records in this system • Provide any other information that B. Shumway, Assistant General
according to applicable rules and will help the FOIA staff determine Counsel, Administrative Law Division,
policies, including all applicable DHS which DHS component agency may Department of Housing and Urban
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automated systems security and access have responsive records. Development at 451 7th Street SW,
policies. DHS has imposed strict If an individual’s request is seeking Room 9262; Washington, DC 20410–
controls to minimize the risk of records pertaining to another living 0500 or at telephone number, 202–402–
compromising the information that is individual, the first individual must 3502 (this is not a toll-free number).
being stored. Access to any paper files include, in accordance with 6 CFR part This number may be accessed through
or computer systems containing the 5.21, a statement from the second TTY by calling the Federal Relay
records in this system is limited to those individual certifying his/her agreement Service, toll-free, at 800–877–8339.
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Section II: Authority To Redelegate DATES: Applicable Date: September 19, Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and
Except for those authorities 2018. Management and the Associate
specifically excluded in Section III of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field
this notice, this authority may be B. Shumway, Assistant General Policy and Management all power and
redelegated, as appropriate, from Counsel, Administrative Law Division, authority for the day-to-day operations
regional administrators to field Office Department of Housing and Urban and administrative functions related to
directors within the respective Development, at 451 7th Street SW, the Promise Zone Initiative. The
jurisdictions. Room 9262; Washington, DC 20410– Promise Zone Initiative supports the
0500 or telephone number 202–402– Department’s responsibilities under
Section III: Authority Nonredelegable 5190 (this is not a toll-free number). sections 2 and 3 of the HUD Act, 42
The following authorities may not be Persons with hearing or speech U.S.C. 3531–32, to assist the President
redelegated from the regional impairments may access this number in achieving maximum coordination of
administrators to the field office through TTY by calling the Federal the various Federal activities that have
directors or to any other employee: Relay Service, toll-free, at 1–800–877– a major effect upon urban community,
1. The authority to enter into co- 8339. suburban, or metropolitan development;
sponsorship agreements. to develop and recommend to the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Previous President policies for fostering orderly
2. The authority to request waivers as delegations of authority from the
provided by section I.B.3. above. growth and development of the Nation’s
Secretary of HUD to the Assistant urban areas; and to exercise leadership,
3. The authority to sign local,
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and at the direction of the President, in
areawide, or centerwide negotiated
Management are hereby revoked and coordinating Federal activities affecting
impact and implementation or
superseded, including the delegations housing and urban development. This
memorandum of understanding
published on October 19, 2012 (77 FR authority includes coordination of the
agreements with unions representing
64394). selection process and the development
smaller units consisting of either
Headquarters and/or field employees on Section A. Authority of resulting recommendations.
issues confined to a single program area The delegated authority related to the
1. Field Operations. The Secretary of Promise Zone Initiative does not
and within the regional administrators’ HUD hereby delegates to the Assistant
own budget authority, including the include the authority to issue or waive
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Notices of Funding Availability or the
resolution of unfair labor practice Management and the Associate
charges and bargaining impasses. equivalent, regulations, or statutes, but
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field does include the authority to redelegate
Section IV: Delegations Superseded Policy and Management authority for the authority provided.
the management and oversight of the 3. Davis-Bacon and Labor Standards.
This notice supersedes all prior
Department’s field operations. In The Secretary delegates to the Assistant
delegations of authority to the regional
carrying out this authority, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and
directors/administrators from the
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management and the Associate
Secretary of HUD or the Assistant
Management and the Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field
Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management all authority
Management.
Policy and Management shall, among with respect to Davis-Bacon and Labor
Authority: Section 7(d)(q) of the other duties: Standards administration and
Department of HUD Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d). a. Coordinate the implementation of enforcement vested in, or delegated or
Dated: September 19, 2018. the Department’s policies and programs assigned to, the Secretary under statutes
Matthew F. Hunter, in the field in consultation with field and other authorities relating to Davis-
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy program directors. Program Bacon and Labor Standards, including,
and Management. coordination does not mean program but not limited to, the Davis-Bacon Act
[FR Doc. 2018–20960 Filed 9–25–18; 8:45 am] decision-making but, rather, collecting (40 U.S.C. 3141 et seq.), the Copeland
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local information, measuring Act (40 U.S.C. 3145), the Contract Work
community impact, initiating cross- Hours and Safety Standards Act (40
program communication and U.S.C. 3701 et seq.), Reorganization Plan
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND coordination, and facilitating the No. 14 of 1950 (5 U.S.C. App. 1 Reorg.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT resolution of potential program Plan 14), the National Housing Act (12
differences through the appropriate U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), Section 202 of the
[Docket No. FR–6081–D–01] channels, if necessary. National Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C.
b. Manage and assess field resources 1701q), the National Affordable Housing
Delegation of Authority for the Office
to ensure that operations are efficient Act (42 U.S.C. 12704 et seq.), the United
of Field Policy and Management
and effective. States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD. c. Coordinate and convey the Strategic 1437), the Housing and Community
ACTION: Notice of delegation of Plan and Regional or Local Operating Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.
authority. Plans with the field. 5301 et seq.), the Native American
d. Advise the Secretary on policy and Housing Assistance and Self-
SUMMARY: Through this notice, the management of the field. Determination Act (25 U.S.C. 4101 et
Secretary of the Department of Housing e. Consult with program directors seq.), Executive Order 13502 (74 FR
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
and Urban Development delegates to the regarding implementation of 6985), and certain Department of Labor
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field departmental management goals, regulations (29 CFR parts 1, 3, 5, 6,
Policy and Management and to the secretarial and presidential initiatives, and 7).
Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary for and Annual Performance Plan The authority delegated includes the
Field Policy and Management authority commitments. authority to determine or adopt
for the management and oversight of the 2. Promise Zone Initiative. The prevailing wage rates, which is vested in
Department’s field operations. Secretary delegates to the Assistant the Secretary by certain statutes,
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| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of Redelegation of Authority. | |
| Dates | Applicable Date: September 19, 2018. | |
| Contact | John B. Shumway, Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Law Division, Department of Housing and Urban Development at 451 7th Street SW, Room 9262; Washington, DC 20410-0500 or at telephone number, 202-402-3502 (this is not a toll-free number). This number may be accessed through TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service, toll-free, at 800-877-8339. | |
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