This rule amends the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) regulation at 24 CFR part 902 to provide additional information and revise certain procedures and establish others for the assessment of the physical condition, financial health, management operations and resident services and satisfaction with PHA services in public housing, including the technical review of physical inspection results and resident survey results, and appeals of PHAS scores. The rule also implements certain recently enacted statutory amendments. The rule takes into consideration public comments received on the June 22, 1999, proposed rule, as well as additional input HUD sought on this proposed rule through informal meetings with representatives of PHAs and public housing residents, and an analysis of PHAS advisory scores issued in calendar years 1998 and 1999. The purpose of the PHAS is to function as a management tool that effectively and fairly measures a PHA's performance based on standards that are objective, uniform and verifiable.