[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 4]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR791.102]

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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
 CHAPTER VII--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
 DEVELOPMENT (HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
                                PROGRAMS)
 
PART 791--ALLOCATIONS OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE FUNDS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 791.102  Definitions.

    Act. The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.D. 
1437), as amended.
    Allocation area. A municipality, county, or group of municipalities 
or counties identified by the HUD field office for the purpose of 
allocating housing assistance.
    Assistant Secretary. The Assistant Secretary for Housing or the 
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, as appropriate to the 
housing assistance under consideration.
    Budget authority. The maximum amount authorized by the Congress for 
payments over the term of assistance contracts.
    Fiscal year. The official operating period of the Federal 
government, beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30.
    Metropolitan area. See MSA.
    MSA. A metropolitan statistical area established by the Office of 
Management and Budget. The term also includes primary metropolitan 
statistical areas (PMSAs), which are the component parts of larger 
urbanized areas designated as consolidated metropolitan statistical 
areas (CMSAs). Where an MSA is divided among two or more field offices, 
references to an MSA mean the portion of the MSA within the State/Area 
Office jurisdiction.
    Public housing agency (PHA). (1) Any State, county, municipality, or 
other governmental entity or public body which is authorized to 
administer a program under the 1937 Act (or an agency or instrumentality 
of such an entity).
    (2) In addition, for purposes of the program of Section 8 tenant-
based assistance under part 982 of this title, the term PHA also 
includes any of the following:
    (i) A consortia of housing agencies, each of which meets the 
qualifications in paragraph (1) of this definition, that HUD determines 
has the capacity and capability to efficiently administer the program 
(in which case, HUD may enter into a consolidated ACC with any legal 
entity authorized to act as the legal representative of the consortia 
members);
    (ii) Any other public or private non-profit entity that was 
administering a Section 8 tenant-based assistance program pursuant to a 
contract with the contract administrator of such program (HUD or a PHA) 
in effect on October 21, 1998; or
    (iii) For any area outside the jurisdiction of a PHA that is 
administering a tenant-based program, or where HUD determines that such 
PHA is not administering the program effectively, a

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private non-profit entity or a governmental entity or public body that 
would otherwise lack jurisdiction to administer the program in such 
area.

[61 FR 10849, Mar. 15, 1996, as amended at 64 FR 26639, May 14, 1999]

Subparts B-C [Reserved]