[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 4]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR941.608]

[Page 386-387]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
CHAPTER IX--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, 
 
PART 941_PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT--Table of Contents
 
Subpart F_Public/Private Partnerships for the Mixed Finance Development 
                         of Public Housing Units
 
Sec.  941.608  Technical processing and approval.

    (a) Initial screening. HUD shall perform an initial screening to 
determine that all documentation required as part of the proposal under 
Sec.  941.606 has been submitted. HUD will advise the

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PHA of any deficiencies in the proposal and indicate that additional 
information will be accepted if it is received by a specified date.
    (b) Technical processing. Upon determining that a proposal is 
acceptable for technical processing, HUD will evaluate the proposal to 
determine:
    (1) Whether the PHA has the legal authority necessary to develop 
public housing units through the establishment of an owner entity and 
the use of mixed-finance strategies in accordance with this subpart;
    (2) Whether the proposed sources and uses of funds set forth in the 
proposal are eligible and reasonable, and whether HUD's preliminary 
assessment of the financing and other documentation establishes to HUD's 
satisfaction that the mixed-finance development is viable and is 
structured so as to adequately protect the Federal investment of funds 
in the development. For this purpose, HUD will consider (among other 
factors) the PHA's proposed methodology for allocating operating 
subsidies on behalf of the public housing units; the projected revenues 
to be generated by any non-public housing units in a mixed-finance 
development; and the l0-year operating pro forma and other information 
contained in the proposal;
    (3) If applicable, whether the public housing units in the proposed 
development will be comparable in size, location, external appearance 
and distribution within the development to the non-public housing units;
    (4) If public housing development funds are to be used to pay for 
more than the pro rata cost of common area improvements, whether the 
proposal ensures that:
    (i) On a per unit basis (taking into consideration the number of 
public housing units for which funds have been reserved) the PHA will 
not exceed TDC limits; and
    (ii) Any common area improvements will benefit all residents of the 
development;
    (5) Whether the proposal complies with all program requirements 
including, if applicable, any comments received from the unit of general 
local government pursuant to section 213 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 1439) (see 24 CFR part 791, subpart 
C); and
    (6) Whether the proposal is approvable following completion by HUD 
of an environmental review in accordance with the requirements of 24 CFR 
part 50.
    (c) Proposal approval. HUD shall send a notification letter to the 
PHA stating that the proposal has been approved or disapproved. For 
approved proposals, the letter shall indicate the approved total 
development cost of the public housing units in the development. HUD 
will also send to the PHA for execution an ACC amendment and/or a grant 
agreement. If the PHA has already executed a front-end ACC amendment, 
HUD will send to the PHA for execution a special ACC amendment for the 
mixed-finance development (and/or a grant agreement). The PHA shall 
execute these documents and return them to HUD for execution.