Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 43— - NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND SELF-DETERMINATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - BLOCK GRANTS AND GRANT REQUIREMENTS › § 4116
The Secretary must publish a notice in the Federal Register within 90 days after October 26, 1996 that sets out how to move from the old housing assistance rules to the new chapter. That notice must ask for public comments and include a general notice of proposed rulemaking. The Secretary must issue final rules needed to carry out the chapter by September 1, 1997, and those rules must be effective by the chapter’s effective date, October 26, 1996. All rules under this chapter, including future changes after October 26, 1996, must be made using a negotiated rulemaking process under the federal negotiated-rulemaking law. For any reauthorization (including the 2008 reauthorization), the Secretary must set up a negotiated rulemaking committee within 180 days after that law is enacted, adapt the process to the government-to-government relationship with tribes, and make sure the committee has only federal and geographically diverse tribal representatives (small, medium, and large). Tribally designated housing entities may join if tribes choose them. The Secretary must start negotiated rulemaking within 90 days after such reauthorization and finish proposed regulations within 2 years. The Secretary must review these rules with tribes at least once every 7 years. Effective date: October 26, 1996.
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25 U.S.C. § 4116
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