Extension and Expansion of HUD's Implementation Guidance for Section 901 of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations To Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006, as Revised by Section 11003 of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 To Include Calendar Years 2008 and 2009 Program Funds

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This notice supplements four earlier notices published in the Federal Register that provided guidance to public housing agencies (PHAs) on implementing the authority provided to HUD by section 901 of the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006" (Pub. L. 109-148, December 30, 2005) to allow PHAs in the most heavily impacted areas of Louisiana and Mississippi affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to combine Housing Choice Voucher and public housing operating and capital funds to assist families who were receiving housing assistance under the U.S. Housing of 1937 immediately prior to Hurricanes Katrina or Rita and were displaced from their housing by the hurricanes. Section 901 assists PHAs to flexibly and efficiently facilitate disaster recovery in those areas to benefit the formerly assisted and displaced families. Such authority was initially provided for calendar years 2006 and 2007, and later extended through calendar years 2008 and 2009 by section 11003 of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (Pub. L. 110-329). On December 17, 2008, HUD published a Fed