Public Housing Cap Grant Guidance on Buy American Exception Provisions.

The guidance HERE, to be published tomorrow in the Federal Register seems pretty straightforward on first read.

However, in the guidance HUD's Public Housing cylinder has set a policy of accepting a determination by ANY other federal agency but says it MAY accept a determination by another HUD program area, but only with a separate "analysis".

Seems like a little lack of trust, no?

If another HUD Program Office (e.g., Office of Community Planning and
Development) has determined that an exception to the Buy American requirement is applicable under section 1605(b) for a project, and an analysis supports its application to another request, HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) may accept that determination and permit the PHA to apply that exception to the remainder of the CFRFC grant work in that project.

Created and posted by the Oregon Housing Blog.