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HUD/HUDSEC RIN: 2501-AD31 Publication ID: Fall 2008 
Title: Pet Ownership for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities (FR-5127) 
Abstract: This rule would revise HUD's regulations that apply to service animals in HUD-assisted housing serving elderly and disabled families. Assistance animals work, provide assistance, or perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability or are animals that provide support to an individual with an emotional-related disability. These animals, often referred to as service animals, support animals, or therapy animals, provide disability-related functions including, but not limited to, guiding individuals who are vision or hearing-impaired to sounds or noises, providing protection or rescue assistance, pulling a wheelchair, obtaining items, alerting individuals to impending seizures and providing emotional support to persons who have a disability-related need for such support. This rule would conform the assistance animal provisions for HUD-assisted housing that serves elderly and disabled families to the same requirements and procedures that apply to HUD's other public housing programs. 
Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 24 CFR 5   
Legal Authority: 42 USC 1701r-1    42 USC 3535(d)   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  10/15/2007  72 FR 58448   
NPRM Comment Period End  12/14/2007    
Final Rule  10/27/2008  73 FR 63834   
Final Action Effective  11/26/2008    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Bryan Greene
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Phone:202 619-8046