03-29327. Announcement of Funding Award-FY 2003 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program

AGENCY:

Office of the Secretary—Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, HUD.

ACTION:

Announcement of funding awards.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of additional funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for funding under the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). The purpose of the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program is to assist areas with the highest lead paint abatement needs in undertaking programs for abatement, inspections, risk assessments, temporary relocations, and interim control of lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately-owned, single-family housing units, and multi-family buildings that are occupied by low-income families. This announcement contains the name, address of the award recipient and the amount of award.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Matthew E. Ammon, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, Room P3206, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone [phone] ext. 158. Hearing- and speech-impaired persons may access the number above via TTY by calling the toll free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

HUD's authority for making funding available under the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program NOFA is the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution of 2003, Pub. L. 108-7, approved February 20, 2003.

These awards were the result of a competition announced in a Federal Register NOFA published on July 1, 2003 (68 FR 39400). The purpose of the competition was to award grant funding of approximately $49,675,000 for grants and cooperative agreements for the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program. Applications were scored and selected on the basis of selection criteria contained in that NOFA.

A total of $49,675,000 was awarded to 20 grantees. In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the names, addresses, and amounts of this awards as follows:

Awardee	Address	Award amount
City of Cleveland	1925 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114	$2,713,421
City of Baltimore	210 Guilford Avenue—2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202	2,600,000
City of Rochester	30 Church Street, Room 028B, Rochester, NY 14614	2,568,248
Westchester County	148 Martine Avenue, Room 414, White Plains, NY 10601	2,000,000
City of Boston	38 Winthrop Street, Hyde Park, MA 02136	2,600,000
City of Memphis	701 North Main Street, Memphis, TN 38107	2,599,715
City of St. Louis	1015 Locust Street, Suite 1200, St. Louis, MO 63101	2,600,000
State of Connecticut	25 Sigourney Street, Hartford, CT 06106	2,600,000
City of New York	100 Gold Street, Room 9-08, New York, NY 10038	2,600,000
City of Philadelphia	2100 West Girard Avenue, PNH, Bldg. 3, Philadelphia, PA 19130-1400	2,599,998
City of Milwaukee	841 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202	2,600,000
District of Columbia	801 North Capitol Street, NE, Room 320 Washington, DC 20002	2,000,000
City of Los Angeles	1200 W. Olympic, 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017	2,593,618
San Bernadino County	351 North Mountain View Avenue, Room 305 San Bernardino, CA 92415	2,600,000
Hennepin County	417 North 5th Street, Room 320, Hennepin, MN 55401-1362	2,000,000
Mahoning County	21 West Boardman Street, Youngstown, OH 44503	$2,600,000
City of Grand Rapids	300 Monroe Avenue, NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503	2,000,000
City & County of SF	25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94012	2,600,000
City of Chicago	333 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60604	2,600,000
City of Syracuse	201 East Washington Street, Syracuse, NY 13202	2,600,000

(The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program is 14.905.)

Dated: November 4, 2003.

Joseph F. Smith,

Deputy Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.