[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 24CFR50.17]



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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 50_PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY--Table of 

Contents

 

                Subpart C_General Policy: Decision Points

 

Sec.  50.17  Decision points for projects.



    Either an EA and FONSI or an EIS for individual projects shall be 

completed before the applicable program decision points below for 

projects not meeting the criteria of Sec.  50.20. Compliance with 

applicable authorities cited in Sec.  50.4 shall be completed before the 

applicable program decision points below unless the project meets the 

criteria for exclusion under Sec.  50.19.

    (a) New Construction. (1) Project mortgage insurance or other 

financial assistance for multifamily housing projects (including 

sections 202 and 811), nursing homes, hospitals, group practice 

facilities and manufactured home parks: Issuance of Site Appraisal and 

Market Analysis (SAMA) Letter or initial equivalent indication of HUD 

approval of a specific site;

    (2) Public Housing: HUD approval of the proposal.

    (3) Loan Guarantee Recovery Fund Program (24 CFR part 573). HUD 

issuance of a letter of commitment or initial equivalent indication of 

HUD approval.

    (b) Rehabilitation projects. Use the decision points under ``new 

construction'' for HUD programs cited in paragraph (a) of this section; 

otherwise the decision point is the HUD project approval.

    (c) Public housing modernization programs. HUD approval of the 

modernization grants.

    (d) Property Disposition. Multifamily structures, college housing, 

nursing homes, manufactured homes and parks, group practice facilities, 

vacant land and one to four family structures: HUD approval of the 

Disposition Program.

    (e) HUD programs subject to 24 CFR part 58. For cases in which HUD 

exercises environmental responsibility under this part where a recipient 

lacks legal capacity to do so or HUD determines to do so in place of a 

nonrecipient responsible entity under 24 CFR part 58 (see Sec.  

50.1(d)), the decision point is: HUD's execution of an agreement or 

contract, whichever comes first, or in the case of Section 8 Project-

Based Certificate Assistance and Moderate Rehabilitation, HUD 

notification to the Public Housing Agency to proceed with execution of 

an Agreement to Enter into Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) Contract.



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    (f) Section 50.3(h). Notwithstanding the other paragraphs of this 

section, the decision point for grant programs in which HUD approval of 

funding for an applicant's program must occur before the applicant's 

selection of properties for use in its program is: HUD approval of 

specific properties.

    (g) Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Programs. Where the 

recipients are nonprofit organizations or governmental entities with 

special or limited purpose powers, the decision point is: HUD project 

approval.

    (h) Programs not specifically covered in this section. Consult with 

the AS/CPD for decision points.