§ 576.35 - Deadlines for using grant amounts.

(a)(1) States. Each State must make available to its State recipients all emergency shelter grant amounts that it was allocated under § 576.5 within 65 days of the date of the grant award by HUD. Funds set aside by a State for homeless prevention activities under § 576.21(a)(4) must be made available to State recipients within 180 days of the grant award by HUD.

(2) State recipients—(i) Obligation of grant funds. Each State recipient must have its grant amounts obligated (as that term is defined at § 576.3) within 180 days of the date on which the State made the grant amounts available to the State recipient. In the case of grants for homeless prevention activities under § 576.21(a)(4), State recipients are required to obligate grant amounts within 30 days of the date on which the State made the grant amounts available to the State recipient.

(ii) Expenditure of grant funds. Each State recipient must spend all of its grant amounts within 24 months of the date on which the State made the grant amounts available to the State recipient. In the case of grants for homeless prevention activities, State recipients must spend such sums within 180 days of the date on which the State made the grant amounts available to the recipient.

(b) Formula cities and counties, territories and Indian tribes—Expenditure of grant funds. Each formula city or county, territory, and Indian tribe must spend all of the grant amounts it was allocated or awarded under § 576.5 or 576.31 within 24 months of the date of the grant award by HUD.

(c) Failure to meet deadlines. (1) Any emergency shelter grant amounts that are not made available or obligated within the applicable time periods specified in paragraph (a)(1) or (b) of this section will be reallocated under § 576.45.

(2) The State must recapture any grant amounts that a State recipient does not obligate and spend within the time periods specified in paragraph (a)(2) of this section. The State, at its option, must make these amounts and other amounts returned to the State (except amounts referred to in § 576.22(b)(6) available as soon as practicable to other units of general local government for use within the time period specified in paragraph (a)(2) of this section or to HUD for reallocation under § 576.45.