# Exception Payment Standard to Offset Increase in Utility Costs in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
> **US Department of Housing and Urban Development** · Final rule. · Published 2002-09-04 · Effective 2002-10-04 · 67 FR 56688
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-22327
- **Category:** hud-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 56688
- **CFR reference:** 24 CFR 982
- **Publication date:** 2002-09-04
- **Effective date:** 2002-10-04
- **Docket:** Docket No. FR 4672-F-02
## Abstract

This final rule withdraws the interim rule that temporarily increased FMRs in areas affected by increased utility prices, and restores the regulatory language to that which was in effect before the issuance of the interim rule.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/09/04/02-22327/exception-payment-standard-to-offset-increase-in-utility-costs-in-the-housing-choice-voucher-program)
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