[Federal Register: February 15, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 31)]
[Notices]               
[Page 7992]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5031-C-02]

 
Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program--Contract Rent 
Annual Adjustment Factors, Fiscal Year 2006: Correction

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of revised contract rent Annual Adjustment Factors, 
correction.

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SUMMARY: This notice makes corrections to the revised Annual Adjustment 
Factors (AAFs) published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2005 
(70 FR 72168), for two areas: the Midwest region and the South region. 
The numbers for these two areas were reversed. The correct numbers were 
used in calculating Fair Market Rents (FMRs) and in other publications 
that used FMRs or AAFs.

DATES: Effective Date: December 1, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Contact: David Vargas, Senior Advisor, Housing 
Voucher Management and Operations Division, Office of Public Housing 
and Voucher Programs, (202) 708-0477 can respond to questions relating 
to the Section 8 Voucher, Certificate, and Moderate Rehabilitation 
programs; Mark Johnston, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, 
Office of Community Planning and Development, (202) 708-1234, for 
questions regarding the Single Room Occupancy Moderate Rehabilitation 
program; Willie Spearmon, Director, Office of Housing Assistance and 
Grant Administration, Office of Housing, (202) 708-3000, for questions 
relating to all other Section 8 programs. Marie L. Lihn, Economic and 
Market Analysis Division, Office of Policy Development and Research 
(202) 708-0590, is the contact for technical information regarding the 
development of the factors for specific areas or the methods used for 
calculating the AAFs. Mailing address for above persons: Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 
20410. Hearing- or speech-impaired persons may contact the Federal 
Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 (TTY). (Other than the 
``800'' TTY number, the above-listed telephone numbers are not toll-
free.)

Correction

    Accordingly, in FR Doc 02-5031, a document published on December 1, 
2005 (70 FR 72168), is corrected as follows:
    1. On page 72170, Schedule C, Table 1, the entries for Midwest 
region and South region are corrected to read as follows:

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                                                    Highest Cost Utility
           2006 Contract Rents, Table 1            ---------------------
                                                     Included   Excluded
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Midwest Region....................................      1.022      1.013
South Region......................................      1.029      1.024
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    1. On page 72175, Schedule C, Table 2, the entries for the Midwest 
region and the South region are corrected to read as follows:

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                                                    Highest Cost Utility
           2006 Contract Rents, Table 2            ---------------------
                                                     Included   Excluded
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Midwest Region....................................      1.012      1.003
South Region......................................      1.019      1.014
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    These changes only affect the report as published in the Federal 
Register. The correct factors were used to update Fair Market Rents. 
The PHA-designated AAFs do not include this error. It is only an error 
in the report printed for the Federal Register Notice.

    Dated: February 9, 2006.
Harold L. Bunce,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.
 [FR Doc. E6-2148 Filed 2-14-06; 8:45 am]

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