HUD publie les plans d’action de reprise réservés à Porto Rico

On September 13, 2026, CDBG-DR transparency does not start with an expenditure PDF (cousin 756) but with the page that HUD titles CDBG-DR Laws, Regulations, and Federal Register Notices. There the Department explains the legal pipeline: the funding is authorized under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; the Public Laws are the appropriations that allocate money for each disaster; CDBG regulations in 24 CFR 570 apply; and CDBG-DR appropriations usually give HUD broad authority for waivers and alternative requirements. Those exceptions do not live in a tweet. They live in three mechanisms that the page itself names: the Allocation Announcement Notice (AAN), the OMNI Notice, and, for recent grants, the Memorandum published on the site instead of the Federal Register.

The AAN "outlines requirements from the specific Public Law(s) providing the funds, and any additional waivers HUD has granted for that specific allocation." The OMNI "grants additional waivers and alternative requirements, and provides clarification and/or corrections to specific grantees or an entire grantee disaster class"; it can also change a previous AAN or OMNI. The Memorandum appears because "Recent Public Laws allow HUD to publish waivers, alternative requirements, and clarifications on its website rather than in a Federal Register Notice to expedite recovery needs." Funds subject to the Consolidated Notice (Disaster Events in 2020–2023) use memorandums. On top of that, the CPD Notices "explain how the program regulations should be interpreted or applied." For the Puerto Rican journalist, the lesson is plain: a waiver "Puerto Rico ONLY" is not presumed; the FR or the memorandum is cited.

In the 2017 Disaster Events table, HUD lists an entry that does not allow analogy with Texas or Florida: 89 FR 22736, April 2, 2024, OMNI (Puerto Rico ONLY). In the same table appears 86 FR 32681, June 22, 2021, AAN: CDBG-DR Electrical Power Systems Allocation Public Law 115-123 (Puerto Rico and USVI ONLY). Also 86 FR 569, January 6, 2021, waiver of Adjusted Income Limits (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ONLY) and waiver of Tourism and Business Marketing (PR and USVI). These three citations are the regulatory framework that a Housing Action Plan must incorporate. This note does not invent the dollar amount of the Electrical Power Systems Allocation: the hub cites the AAN, not the grant award. For the award, one must go to the Grant History or to the Expenditure Report, not extrapolate from the Federal Register number.

In CDBG-Mitigation, the page cites 85 FR 4676, January 27, 2020, AAN: Third CDBG-Mitigation Allocation Public Law 115-123 (Puerto Rico ONLY), and 84 FR 45838, August 30, 2019, Initial CDBG-Mitigation Allocation Public Law 115-123 (2017, 2016, 2015 Disasters). Public Law 115-123 is the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (February 9, 2018); Public Law 116-20 is the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019. The checklists that HUD posts at the bottom — CDBG-MIT Action Plan Checklist, CDBG-MIT Financial Management and Grant Compliance Certification Checklist, and addenda A/B/C — are the template with which a grantee demonstrates controls before HUD certifies. Certification of controls ≠ approved Action Plan ≠ opened line of credit ≠ drawn.

The Action Plan is the document that the grantee (in Puerto Rico, the Department of Housing) submits to indicate which activities it will carry out with each grant. HUD provides templates and checklists: Optional State Grantee Action Plan Template, HUD Checklist: Action Plan Review, Substantial Amendment Action Plan Review, and, for early administration, an Admin Action Plan that allows requesting administration funds “prior to the Secretary’s certification of financial controls” if the Universal Notice authorizes it. The DRGR fact sheet that the same page links to reminds the order: first the “paper” Admin Action Plan, then the project and activities in the Action Plan module of DRGR, then the approval in the system. “CDBG-DR administration funds can be drawn from the line of credit only for activities that are established and approved in the DRGR system.” Drawn from line of credit ≠ expended in the street ≠ beneficiary paid.

The other transparency piece that the hub names is the Duplication of Benefits (84 FR 28836 and 84 FR 28848, June 20, 2019; policy bulletins 2022-02 and 2025-01; FAQs 2023-03 and 2024-01). A household cannot be paid twice for the same loss. The HUD–FEMA Data Matching Program, renewed on September 9, 2025, and described in 89 FR 8693 (February 8, 2024), includes a Second Batch (89 FR 8698) that explicitly names the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico alongside Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Oregon. That is not a total of matches nor a dollar amount of duplication: it is the notice that the data cross-check exists and that PR is in the batch. Whoever covers R3 or roofs has to ask the Housing department how that match runs, not invent a 'fraud percentage'.

How to read this page without turning it into an editorial. (1) Separate Public Law (Congress appropriates) from AAN (HUD allocates and issues waivers) from Action Plan (the grantee proposes activities) from DRGR (the system records projects/activities and allows draws). (2) When a notice says Puerto Rico ONLY, cite the FR. (3) Do not take the title “Electrical Power Systems Allocation” as if it were already the $13 billion from the OIG on FEMA's grid: they are different buckets — HUD’s CDBG-DR versus FEMA’s Public Assistance. (4) Cross-check the grant number from the Expenditure Report (B-18-DP-72-0001, B-18-DE-72-0001) with the current Action Plan and the QPRs. (5) Remember that October 2025 did not have monthly reports due to lapse of appropriations, according to the reports hub. Cousin: 756. Topic: politics. Primary source: hud.gov/hud-partners/community-cdbg-dr-regulations.