---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 985.1"
title: "24"
number: "985.1"
heading: "Purpose and applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/985.1"
---

# §985.1. Purpose and applicability.

- (a) **Purpose.** The [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) is designed to assess whether the [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) tenant-based assistance programs operate to help eligible families afford decent rental units at the correct subsidy cost. SEMAP also establishes a system for HUD to measure PHA performance in key [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) program areas and to assign performance ratings. SEMAP provides procedures for HUD to identify PHA management capabilities and deficiencies in order to target monitoring and program assistance more effectively. PHAs can use the SEMAP performance analysis to assess and improve their own program operations.
- (b) **Applicability.** This rule applies to PHA administration of the tenant-based [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) rental program ([part 982](/cfr/24/part982.md) of this chapter), the project-based voucher program ([part 983](/cfr/24/part983.md) of this chapter) to the extent that PBV family and unit data are reported and measured under the stated HUD verification method, and enrollment levels and contributions to escrow accounts for [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) participants under the family self-sufficiency program (FSS) ([part 984](/cfr/24/part984.md) of this chapter).
- (c) **Small rural PHA assessments.** [Subpart D](/cfr/24/subpartD.md) of this part covers the HCV and PBV assessment for a small rural PHA as defined in [§ 902.101](/cfr/24/902.101.md) of this chapter. [Section 985.3](/cfr/24/985.3.md) and subparts [B](/cfr/24/subpartB.md) and [C](/cfr/24/subpartC.md) of this part do not apply to small rural PHAs.

## Notes

### Amendments

[63 FR 48555, Sept. 10, 1998, as amended at 64 FR 40497, July 26, 1999; 88 FR 30505, May 11, 2023]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437f, 1437z-10, and 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 63 FR 48555, Sept. 10, 1998, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[63 FR 48555, Sept. 10, 1998, as amended at 64 FR 40497, July 26, 1999; 88 FR 30505, May 11, 2023]