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| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.1.59.1 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | A | Subpart A—General Provisions | § 75.1 Purpose. | HUD | This part establishes the requirements to be followed to ensure the objectives of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u) (Section 3) are met. The purpose of Section 3 is to ensure that economic opportunities, most importantly employment, generated by certain HUD financial assistance shall be directed to low- and very low-income persons, particularly those who are recipients of government assistance for housing or residents of the community in which the Federal assistance is spent. | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.1.59.2 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | A | Subpart A—General Provisions | § 75.3 Applicability. | HUD | (a) General applicability. Section 3 applies to public housing financial assistance and Section 3 projects, as follows: (1) Public housing financial assistance. Public housing financial assistance means: (i) Development assistance provided pursuant to section 5 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (the 1937 Act); (ii) Operations and management assistance provided pursuant to section 9(e) of the 1937 Act; (iii) Development, modernization, and management assistance provided pursuant to section 9(d) of the 1937 Act; and (iv) The entirety of a mixed-finance development project as described in 24 CFR 905.604, regardless of whether the project is fully or partially assisted with public housing financial assistance as defined in paragraphs (a)(1)(i) through (iii) of this section. (2) Section 3 projects. (i) Section 3 projects means housing rehabilitation, housing construction, and other public construction projects assisted under HUD programs that provide housing and community development financial assistance when the total amount of assistance to the project exceeds a threshold of $200,000. The threshold is $100,000 where the assistance is from the Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes programs, as authorized by Sections 501 or 502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 or 1701z-2), the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (42 U.S.C 4801 et seq. ); and the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 4851 et seq. ). The project is the site or sites together with any building(s) and improvements located on the site(s) that are under common ownership, management, and financing. (ii) The Secretary must update the thresholds provided in paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this section not less than once every 5 years based on a national construction cost inflation factor through Federal Register notice not subject to public comment. When the Secretary finds it is warranted to ensure compliance with Section 3, the Secretary may adjust, regardless of the natio… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.1.59.3 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | A | Subpart A—General Provisions | § 75.5 Definitions. | HUD | The terms HUD, Public housing, and Public Housing Agency (PHA) are defined in 24 CFR part 5. The following definitions also apply to this part: 1937 Act means the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq. Contractor means any entity entering into a contract with: (1) A recipient to perform work in connection with the expenditure of public housing financial assistance or for work in connection with a Section 3 project; or (2) A subrecipient for work in connection with a Section 3 project. Labor hours means the number of paid hours worked by persons on a Section 3 project or by persons employed with funds that include public housing financial assistance. Low-income person means a person as defined in Section 3(b)(2) of the 1937 Act. Material supply contracts means contracts for the purchase of products and materials, including, but not limited to, lumber, drywall, wiring, concrete, pipes, toilets, sinks, carpets, and office supplies. Professional services means non-construction services that require an advanced degree or professional licensing, including, but not limited to, contracts for legal services, financial consulting, accounting services, environmental assessment, architectural services, and civil engineering services. Public housing financial assistance means assistance as defined in § 75.3(a)(1). Public housing project is defined in 24 CFR 905.108. Recipient means any entity that receives directly from HUD public housing financial assistance or housing and community development assistance that funds Section 3 projects, including, but not limited to, any State, local government, instrumentality, PHA, or other public agency, public or private nonprofit organization. Section 3 means Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701u). Section 3 business concern means: (1) A business concern meeting at least one of the following criteria, documented within the last six-month period: (i) It is at least 51 percent owned and cont… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.1.59.4 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | A | Subpart A—General Provisions | § 75.7 Requirements applicable to HUD NOFAs for Section 3 covered programs. | HUD | All notices of funding availability (NOFAs) issued by HUD that announce the availability of funding covered by § 75.3 will include notice that this part is applicable to the funding and may include, as appropriate for the specific NOFA, points or bonus points for the quality of Section 3 plans. | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.2.59.1 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | B | Subpart B—Additional Provisions for Public Housing Financial Assistance | § 75.9 Requirements. | HUD | (a) Employment and training. (1) Consistent with existing Federal, state, and local laws and regulations, PHAs or other recipients receiving public housing financial assistance, and their contractors and subcontractors, must make their best efforts to provide employment and training opportunities generated by the public housing financial assistance to Section 3 workers. (2) PHAs or other recipients, and their contractors and subcontractors, must make their best efforts described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section in the following order of priority: (i) To residents of the public housing projects for which the public housing financial assistance is expended; (ii) To residents of other public housing projects managed by the PHA that is providing the assistance or for residents of Section 8-assisted housing managed by the PHA; (iii) To participants in YouthBuild programs; and (iv) To low- and very low-income persons residing within the metropolitan area (or nonmetropolitan county) in which the assistance is expended. (b) Contracting. (1) Consistent with existing Federal, state, and local laws and regulations, PHAs and other recipients of public housing financial assistance, and their contractors and subcontractors, must make their best efforts to award contracts and subcontracts to business concerns that provide economic opportunities to Section 3 workers. (2) PHAs and other recipients, and their contractors and subcontractors, must make their best efforts described in paragraph (b)(1) of this section in the following order of priority: (i) To Section 3 business concerns that provide economic opportunities for residents of the public housing projects for which the assistance is provided; (ii) To Section 3 business concerns that provide economic opportunities for residents of other public housing projects or Section-8 assisted housing managed by the PHA that is providing the assistance; (iii) To YouthBuild programs; and (iv) To Section 3 business concerns that provide economic opportunities to Section… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.2.59.2 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | B | Subpart B—Additional Provisions for Public Housing Financial Assistance | § 75.11 Targeted Section 3 worker for public housing financial assistance. | HUD | (a) Targeted Section 3 worker. A Targeted Section 3 worker for public housing financial assistance means a Section 3 worker who is: (1) A worker employed by a Section 3 business concern; or (2) A worker who currently fits or when hired fit at least one of the following categories, as documented within the past five years: (i) A resident of public housing or Section 8-assisted housing; (ii) A resident of other public housing projects or Section 8-assisted housing managed by the PHA that is providing the assistance; or (iii) A YouthBuild participant. (b) [Reserved] | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.2.59.3 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | B | Subpart B—Additional Provisions for Public Housing Financial Assistance | § 75.13 Section 3 safe harbor. | HUD | (a) General. PHAs and other recipients will be considered to have complied with requirements in this part, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, if they: (1) Certify that they have followed the prioritization of effort in § 75.9; and (2) Meet or exceed the applicable Section 3 benchmarks as described in paragraph (b) of this section. (b) Establishing benchmarks. (1) HUD will establish Section 3 benchmarks for Section 3 workers or Targeted Section 3 workers or both through a document published in the Federal Register. HUD may establish a single nationwide benchmark for Section 3 workers and a single nationwide benchmark for Targeted Section 3 workers, or may establish multiple benchmarks based on geography, the type of public housing financial assistance, or other variables. HUD will update the benchmarks through a document published in the Federal Register, subject to public comment, not less frequently than once every 3 years. Such notice shall include aggregate data on labor hours and the proportion of PHAs and other recipients meeting benchmarks, as well as other metrics reported pursuant to § 75.15 as deemed appropriate by HUD, for the 3 most recent reporting years. (2) In establishing the Section 3 benchmarks, HUD may consider the industry averages for labor hours worked by specific categories of workers or in different localities or regions; averages for labor hours worked by Section 3 workers and Targeted Section 3 workers as reported by recipients pursuant to this section; and any other factors HUD deems important. In establishing the Section 3 benchmarks, HUD will exclude professional services from the total number of labor hours as such hours are excluded from the total number of labor hours to be reported per § 75.15(a)(4). (3) Section 3 benchmarks will consist of the following two ratios: (i) The number of labor hours worked by Section 3 workers divided by the total number of labor hours worked by all workers funded by public housing financial assistance in the PHA's or other recip… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.2.59.4 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | B | Subpart B—Additional Provisions for Public Housing Financial Assistance | § 75.15 Reporting. | HUD | (a) Reporting of labor hours. (1) For public housing financial assistance, PHAs and other recipients must report in a manner prescribed by HUD: (i) The total number of labor hours worked; (ii) The total number of labor hours worked by Section 3 workers; and (iii) The total number of labor hours worked by Targeted Section 3 workers. (2) Section 3 workers' and Targeted Section 3 workers' labor hours may be counted for five years from when their status as a Section 3 worker or Targeted Section 3 worker is established pursuant to § 75.31. (3) The labor hours reported under paragraph (a)(1) of this section must include the total number of labor hours worked with public housing financial assistance in the fiscal year of the PHA or other recipient, including labor hours worked by any contractors and subcontractors that the PHA or other recipient is required, or elects pursuant to paragraph (a)(4) of this section, to report. (4) PHAs and other recipients reporting under this section, as well as contractors and subcontractors who report to PHAs and recipients, may report labor hours by Section 3 workers, under paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of this section, and labor hours by Targeted Section 3 workers, under paragraph (a)(1)(iii) of this section, from professional services without including labor hours from professional services in the total number of labor hours worked under paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section. If a contract covers both professional services and other work and the PHA, other recipient, contractor, or subcontractor chooses not to report labor hours from professional services, the labor hours under the contract that are not from professional services must still be reported. (5) PHAs and other recipients may report on the labor hours of the PHA, the recipient, a contractor, or a subcontractor based on the employer's good faith assessment of the labor hours of a full-time or part-time employee informed by the employer's existing salary or time and attendance based payroll systems, unless the project or activ… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.2.59.5 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | B | Subpart B—Additional Provisions for Public Housing Financial Assistance | § 75.17 Contract provisions. | HUD | (a) PHAs or other recipients must include language in any agreement or contract to apply Section 3 to contractors. (b) PHAs or other recipients must require contractors to include language in any contract or agreement to apply Section 3 to subcontractors. (c) PHAs or other recipients must require all contractors and subcontractors to meet the requirements of § 75.9, regardless of whether Section 3 language is included in contracts. | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.3.59.1 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | C | Subpart C—Additional Provisions for Housing and Community Development Financial Assistance | § 75.19 Requirements. | HUD | (a) Employment and training. (1) To the greatest extent feasible, and consistent with existing Federal, state, and local laws and regulations, recipients covered by this subpart shall ensure that employment and training opportunities arising in connection with Section 3 projects are provided to Section 3 workers within the metropolitan area (or nonmetropolitan county) in which the project is located. (2) Where feasible, priority for opportunities and training described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section should be given to: (i) Section 3 workers residing within the service area or the neighborhood of the project, and (ii) Participants in YouthBuild programs. (b) Contracting. (1) To the greatest extent feasible, and consistent with existing Federal, state, and local laws and regulations, recipients covered by this subpart shall ensure contracts for work awarded in connection with Section 3 projects are provided to business concerns that provide economic opportunities to Section 3 workers residing within the metropolitan area (or nonmetropolitan county) in which the project is located. (2) Where feasible, priority for contracting opportunities described in paragraph (b)(1) of this section should be given to: (i) Section 3 business concerns that provide economic opportunities to Section 3 workers residing within the service area or the neighborhood of the project, and (ii) YouthBuild programs. | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.3.59.2 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | C | Subpart C—Additional Provisions for Housing and Community Development Financial Assistance | § 75.21 Targeted Section 3 worker for housing and community development financial assistance. | HUD | (a) Targeted Section 3 worker. A Targeted Section 3 worker for housing and community development financial assistance means a Section 3 worker who is: (1) A worker employed by a Section 3 business concern; or (2) A worker who currently fits or when hired fit at least one of the following categories, as documented within the past five years: (i) Living within the service area or the neighborhood of the project, as defined in § 75.5; or (ii) A YouthBuild participant. (b) [Reserved] | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.3.59.3 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | C | Subpart C—Additional Provisions for Housing and Community Development Financial Assistance | § 75.23 Section 3 safe harbor. | HUD | (a) General. Recipients will be considered to have complied with requirements in this part, in the absence of evidence to the contrary if they: (1) Certify that they have followed the prioritization of effort in § 75.19; and (2) Meet or exceed the applicable Section 3 benchmark as described in paragraph (b) of this section. (b) Establishing benchmarks. (1) HUD will establish Section 3 benchmarks for Section 3 workers or Targeted Section 3 workers or both through a document published in the Federal Register. HUD may establish a single nationwide benchmark for Section 3 workers and a single nationwide benchmark for Targeted Section 3 workers, or may establish multiple benchmarks based on geography, the nature of the Section 3 project, or other variables. HUD will update the benchmarks through a document published in the Federal Register, subject to public comment, not less frequently than once every 3 years. Such notice shall include aggregate data on labor hours and the proportion of recipients meeting benchmarks, as well as other metrics reported pursuant to § 75.25 as deemed appropriate by HUD, for the 3 most recent reporting years. (2) In establishing the Section 3 benchmarks, HUD may consider the industry averages for labor hours worked by specific categories of workers or in different localities or regions; averages for labor hours worked by Section 3 workers and Targeted Section 3 workers as reported by recipients pursuant to this section; and any other factors HUD deems important. In establishing the Section 3 benchmarks, HUD will exclude professional services from the total number of labor hours as such hours are excluded from the total number of labor hours to be reported per § 75.25(a)(4). (3) Section 3 benchmarks will consist of the following two ratios: (i) The number of labor hours worked by Section 3 workers divided by the total number of labor hours worked by all workers on a Section 3 project in the recipient's program year. (ii) The number of labor hours worked by Targeted Section 3… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.3.59.4 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | C | Subpart C—Additional Provisions for Housing and Community Development Financial Assistance | § 75.25 Reporting. | HUD | (a) Reporting of labor hours. (1) For Section 3 projects, recipients must report in a manner prescribed by HUD: (i) The total number of labor hours worked; (ii) The total number of labor hours worked by Section 3 workers; and (iii) The total number of labor hours worked by Targeted Section 3 workers. (2) Section 3 workers' and Targeted Section 3 workers' labor hours may be counted for five years from when their status as a Section 3 worker or Targeted Section 3 worker is established pursuant to § 75.31. (3) The labor hours reported under paragraph (a)(1) of this section must include the total number of labor hours worked on a Section 3 project, including labor hours worked by any subrecipients, contractors and subcontractors that the recipient is required, or elects pursuant to paragraph (a)(4) of this section, to report. (4) Recipients reporting under this section, as well as subrecipients, contractors and subcontractors who report to recipients, may report labor hours by Section 3 workers, under paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of this section, and labor hours by Targeted Section 3 workers, under paragraph (a)(1)(iii) of this section, from professional services without including labor hours from professional services in the total number of labor hours worked under paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section. If a contract covers both professional services and other work and the recipient or contractor or subcontractor chooses not to report labor hours from professional services, the labor hours under the contract that are not from professional services must still be reported. (5) Recipients may report their own labor hours or that of a subrecipient, contractor, or subcontractor based on the employer's good faith assessment of the labor hours of a full-time or part-time employee informed by the employer's existing salary or time and attendance based payroll systems, unless the project or activity is otherwise subject to requirements specifying time and attendance reporting. (b) Additional reporting if Section 3 benchmark… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.3.59.5 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | C | Subpart C—Additional Provisions for Housing and Community Development Financial Assistance | § 75.27 Contract provisions. | HUD | (a) Recipients must include language applying Section 3 requirements in any subrecipient agreement or contract for a Section 3 project. (b) Recipients of Section 3 funding must require subrecipients, contractors, and subcontractors to meet the requirements of § 75.19, regardless of whether Section 3 language is included in recipient or subrecipient agreements, program regulatory agreements, or contracts. | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.4.59.1 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | D | Subpart D—Provisions for Multiple Funding Sources, Recordkeeping, and Compliance | § 75.29 Multiple funding sources. | HUD | (a) If a housing rehabilitation, housing construction or other public construction project is subject to Section 3 pursuant to § 75.3(a)(1) and (2), the recipient must follow subpart B of this part for the public housing financial assistance and may follow either subpart B or C of this part for the housing and community development financial assistance. For such a project, the following applies: (1) For housing and community development financial assistance, a Targeted Section 3 worker is any worker who meets the definition of a Targeted Section 3 worker in either subpart B or C of this part; and (2) The recipients of both sources of funding shall report on the housing rehabilitation, housing construction, or other public construction project as a whole and shall identify the multiple associated recipients. PHAs and other recipients must report the following information: (i) The total number of labor hours worked on the project; (ii) The total number of labor hours worked by Section 3 workers on the project; and (iii) The total number of labor hours worked by Targeted Section 3 workers on the project. (b) If a housing rehabilitation, housing construction, or other public construction project is subject to Section 3 because the project is assisted with funding from multiple sources of housing and community development assistance that exceed the thresholds in § 75.3(a)(2), the recipient or recipients must follow subpart C of this part, and must report to the applicable HUD program office, as prescribed by HUD. | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.4.59.2 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | D | Subpart D—Provisions for Multiple Funding Sources, Recordkeeping, and Compliance | § 75.31 Recordkeeping. | HUD | (a) HUD shall have access to all records, reports, and other documents or items of the recipient that are maintained to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of this part, or that are maintained in accordance with the regulations governing the specific HUD program by which the Section 3 project is governed, or the public housing financial assistance is provided or otherwise made available to the recipient, subrecipient, contractor, or subcontractor. (b) Recipients must maintain documentation, or ensure that a subrecipient, contractor, or subcontractor that employs the worker maintains documentation, to ensure that workers meet the definition of a Section 3 worker or Targeted Section 3 worker, at the time of hire or the first reporting period, as follows: (1) For a worker to qualify as a Section 3 worker, one of the following must be maintained: (i) A worker's self-certification that their income is below the income limit from the prior calendar year; (ii) A worker's self-certification of participation in a means-tested program such as public housing or Section 8-assisted housing; (iii) Certification from a PHA, or the owner or property manager of project-based Section 8-assisted housing, or the administrator of tenant-based Section 8-assisted housing that the worker is a participant in one of their programs; (iv) An employer's certification that the worker's income from that employer is below the income limit when based on an employer's calculation of what the worker's wage rate would translate to if annualized on a full-time basis; or (v) An employer's certification that the worker is employed by a Section 3 business concern. (2) For a worker to qualify as a Targeted Section 3 worker, one of the following must be maintained: (i) For a worker to qualify as a Targeted Section 3 worker under subpart B of this part: (A) A worker's self-certification of participation in public housing or Section 8-assisted housing programs; (B) Certification from a PHA, or the owner or property manager of project-ba… | ||||||
| 24:24:1.1.1.1.35.4.59.3 | 24 | Housing and Urban Development | 75 | PART 75—ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME PERSONS | D | Subpart D—Provisions for Multiple Funding Sources, Recordkeeping, and Compliance | § 75.33 Compliance. | HUD | (a) Records of compliance. Each recipient shall maintain adequate records demonstrating compliance with this part, consistent with other recordkeeping requirements in 2 CFR part 200. (b) Complaints. Complaints alleging failure of compliance with this part may be reported to the HUD program office responsible for the public housing financial assistance or the Section 3 project, or to the local HUD field office. (c) Monitoring. HUD will monitor compliance with the requirements of this part. The applicable HUD program office will determine appropriate methods by which to oversee Section 3 compliance. HUD may impose appropriate remedies and sanctions in accordance with the laws and regulations for the program under which the violation was found. |
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