[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 4]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

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]