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AGENCY:
Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION:
Notice of final issuance.
SUMMARY:
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Service (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance announces that $17,260,985 of funds from the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2022 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) were reallotted to states, territories, tribes, and tribal organizations that received FFY 2023 direct LIHEAP grants.
DATES:
This notice became effective on Sep. 29, 2023, which is the date on which ACF awarded these reallotments.
Start Further InfoFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Megan Meadows, Director, Division of Energy Assistance, Office of Community Services, 330 C Street SW, 5th Floor; Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC 20201. Telephone: 202–401–1149; email: Megan.Meadows@acf.hhs.gov.
End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental InformationSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In accordance with section 2607(b)(1) of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act (the Act), title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(1)), as amended, ACF published a notice in the Federal Register on Sep. 26, 2023, 88 FR 66005, announcing the Secretary's preliminary determination that $21,985,238 of FFY 2022 funds for LIHEAP may be available for reallotment. ACF received one comment. It came from a member of the public who appeared to seek the program's benefits. ACF advised the inquirer of the resources through which to seek information about such benefits. After such publication, ACF reduced this amount to $17,260,985 because of (1) reporting revisions made by grant recipient; and (2) insufficient Payment Management System balances.
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Name of grant recipient that returned funds for reallotment FFY 2022 reallotment amount Alabama $2,378,088 Alaska 1,590,037 Delaware 199,360 Idaho 6,505,338 Michigan 2,087,677 American Samoa 2,828 Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma 512 Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes 60,493 Berry Creek Rancheria 747 Bishop Paiute Tribe 13,779 Blackfeet Tribe 264,815 Catawba Indian Nation 789 Cherokee Nation 134,641 Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes 4,032 Cocopah Indian Tribe 3,403 Colorado River Indian Tribes 6,166 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation 10,879 Comanche Nation 26,315 Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon 28,859 Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon 8,000 Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs 11,141 Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 77,905 Delaware Nation 275 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians 6,466 Eastern Shoshone Tribe 27,049 Fort Belknap Indian Community 109,264 Gila River Indian Community 14,178 Hoh Tribe 4,404 Hoopa Valley Tribe 45,051 Inter-Tribal Council of MI, Inc. 1,363 Jicarilla Apache Nation 2,153 Kalispel Tribe of Indians 657 Kaw Nation 419 Little River Band of Ottawa Indians 159,939 Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe 1,928 Makah Tribe 1,890 Narragansett Indian Tribe 447 Navajo Nation 1,153,394 Nooksack Indian Tribe 18,243 Northern Arapaho Tribe 8,741 Oglala Sioux Tribe 831,158 Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians 241 Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma 5,866 Poarch Band of Creek Indians 35,069 Pueblo of Jemez 5,372 Pueblo of Zuni 28,762 Quapaw Nation 5,616 Quileute Tribe 5,009 Quinault Indian Nation 3,026 Round Valley Indian Tribes 28,912 Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma 17,639 Seldovia Village Tribe 11,278 Seneca Nation of Indians 2,453 South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency 739 Spirit Lake Nation 38,342 Standing Rock Sioux Tribe 396,242 Thlopthlocco Tribal Town 7,914 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians 67,861 Ute Indian Tribe 1,672 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation 551,163 Yankton Sioux Tribe 244,986 Total 17,260,985 The list of grant recipients that were awarded these funds was published in a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), which is posted to ACF's website at LIHEAP DCL 2023–15 Reallotment of LIHEAP Funds FFY 2022.
Pursuant to the statute cited above, these funds were reallotted on Sep. 29, 2023 to all three types of FFY 2023 LIHEAP grant recipients by distributing them under the formula that Congress set for FFY 2023 funding. The three types of recipients that did not receive funds were (1) those whose allocations would have been less than $25; (2) tribes or tribal organizations that agreed with their co-territorial states to receive set amounts for the entire fiscal year; Start Printed Page 84145 and (3) states or territories that were held to the additional minimum floor required by the FFY 2023 appropriations act after including the reallotment amount. No sub-recipients of these recipients or other entities may apply for these funds.
The reallotted funds may be used for any purpose authorized under LIHEAP. Grant recipients must add these funds to their total LIHEAP funds payable for FFY 2023 for purposes of calculating statutory caps on administrative costs, carryover, Assurance 16 activities, and weatherization assistance. Grant recipients must also (1) ensure that these funds are included in the amounts that ACF pre-populated on Line 1.1 of their FFY 2023 Carryover and Reallotment Reports; (2) reconcile these funds, to the extent that they received them, with the other sources described in LIHEAP DCL 2023–05 that used the grant number ending in “LIEA” on the associated Federal Financial Report; and (3) record, on their FFY 2023 Household Reports, households that receive benefits at least partly from these funds. State recipients must also ensure that these funds are included in the Grantee Survey sections of their FFY 2023 LIHEAP Performance Data Forms.
OCS recommends that, after receiving them, grant recipients obligate these funds before obligating any other federal LIHEAP funds.
Statutory Authority:42 U.S.C. 8626(b).
Start SignatureKaren D. Shields,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy, Office of Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023–26503 Filed 12–1–23; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Published:
- 12/04/2023
- Department:
- Children and Families Administration
- Entry Type:
- Notice
- Action:
- Notice of final issuance.
- Document Number:
- 2023-26503
- Dates:
- This notice became effective on Sep. 29, 2023, which is the date on which ACF awarded these reallotments.
- Pages:
- 84143-84145 (3 pages)
- Docket Numbers:
- CFDA Number: 93.568
- PDF File:
- 2023-26503.pdf