The Secretary may waive rules, but not fair housing, labor, or environmental ones
What the document says“the Secretary may waive, or specify alternative requirements for, any provision of any statute or regulation that the Secretary administers in connection with the obligation by the Secretary or the use by the grantee of those funds”
The new section 124 lets the Secretary waive or set alternative requirements for any law or regulation the Secretary administers in connection with these funds, on a public finding of good cause, except for requirements about fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, the environment, and provisions of the section that do not expressly allow modification. A waiver may not take effect until five days after it is published on the Department website or the effective date of a published regulation, and the Secretary must notify the public of every waiver.
What the document actually says“the Secretary may waive, or specify alternative requirements for, any provision of any statute or regulation that the Secretary administers in connection with the obligation by the Secretary or the use by the grantee of those funds”
The housing agency may set aside its own rules for this money. It may put other rules in their place. It must first say in public why there is good cause.
Fair housing, equal treatment, worker pay and safety, and nature are off limits. So is any part of this section that does not allow a waiver. A waiver waits five days after it is posted.
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