2011-3740. Announcement of Funding Awards for the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program; Fiscal Year 2009

AGENCY:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION:

Notice 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 funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program. This announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jackie L. Williams, PhD, Director, Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7137, Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone [phone] (this is not a toll free number). Hearing- and- speech impaired persons may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339. For general information on this and other HUD programs, call Community Connections at 1-800-998-9999 or visit the HUD Web site at http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Rural Housing and Economic Development program was authorized by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1999. The competition was announced in the Federal Register (FR Doc. E9-10186) on May 4, 2009. Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria contained in that notice.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this the Rural Housing and Economic Development program is 14.250. The Rural Housing and Economic Development Program is designed to build capacity at the State and local level for rural housing and economic development and to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas. Eligible applicants are local rural non-profit organizations, community development corporations, Federally recognized Indian Tribes, State housing finance agencies, and State community and/or economic development agencies. The funds made available under this program were awarded competitively, through a selection process conducted by HUD. Prior to the rating and ranking of this year's applications, Youthbuild McLean County in Bloomington, Illinois, for the Fiscal year 2009 competition, was awarded a total of $300,000.00 as a result of funding errors during the previous year's funding. For the Fiscal year 2009 competition, a total of $25,030,464.75 was awarded to 86 projects nationwide.

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 grantees and amounts of the awards in Appendix A to this document.

Dated: December 17, 2010.

Mercedes Márquez,

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning Development.

Appendix A

FY 2009 Rural Housing and Economic Development Program Grantees

Grantee	State	Amount awarded
Organized Village of Kasaan	AK	$300,000.00
Chilkoot Indian Association	AK	238,000.00
Ketchikan Indian Community	AK	300,000.00
Collaborative Solutions, Inc	AL	300,000.00
Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization, Inc	AL	300,000.00
Health Services Center, Inc	AL	300,000.00
Moenkopi Developers Corporation, Inc	AZ	257,280.00
The Primavera Foundation, Inc	AZ	300,000.00
Bik'eh Hozho Community Development Corporation	AZ	298,900.00
International Sonoran Desert Alliance	AZ	300,000.00
Nogales Community Development Corporation	AZ	300,000.00
Hopi Tribe	AZ	299,000.00
Elfrida Citizens Alliance, Inc	AZ	300,000.00
Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc	AZ	300,000.00
Pascua Yaqui Tribe	AZ	300,000.00
Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria	CA	300,000.00
Big Pine Paiute Tribe	CA	300,000.00
Community Assistance Network	CA	300,000.00
Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development	CA	300,000.00
Hoopa Valley Housing Authority	CA	300,000.00
Quechan Tribally Designated Housing Authority	CA	300,000.00
Walking Shield, Inc	CA	300,000.00
Bishop Paiute Tribe	CA	299,640.00
Self-Help Enterprises	CA	300,000.00
Yurok Tribe	CA	300,000.00
Florida Non-Profit Services, Inc	FL	300,000.00
DeSoto County Homeless Coalition	FL	300,000.00
YouthBuild McLean County (YBMC, Inc.)	IL	300,000.00
Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation	KY	300,000.00
Young Adult Development in Action, Inc. dba YouthBuild Hazard	KY	300,000.00
WestCare Kentucky, Inc	KY	300,000.00
Beattyville Housing and Development Corporation, Inc	KY	150,000.00
Housing Development Alliance, Inc	KY	300,000.00
KCEOC Community Action Partnership	KY	300,000.00
Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc	KY	300,000.00
Partnership Housing, Inc	KY	300,000.00
Macon Ridge Community Development Corporation	LA	300,000.00
Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana	LA	242,000.00
NHA Properties, Inc	MA	300,000.00
Global Community Investment Strategies, Inc	MD	300,000.00
Four Directions Development Corporation	ME	298,234.00
Chippewa-Luce-Mackinac Community Action Human Resource Authority, Inc	MI	300,000.00
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	MI	293,933.00
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community	MI	300,000.00
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians	MI	238,349.00
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians	MI	300,000.00
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa	MN	170,000.00
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa	MN	298,073.00
Esther Stewart Buford Foundation	MS	180,000.00
County Housing, Education & Community Services, Inc	MS	300,000.00
Richland Affordable Housing	MT	300,000.00
Blackfeet Tribe	MT	300,000.00
Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority	MT	200,000.00
North Carolina Housing Finance Agency	NC	300,000.00
Coalition of Indian Housing Authorities in North Dakota	ND	300,000.00
Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation	NE	298,754.00
High Plains Community Development Corp., Inc	NE	254,855.00
New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority	NM	300,000.00
Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority	NM	300,000.00
Community Area Resource Enterprise	NM	300,000.00
Mescalero Apache Housing Authority	NM	300,000.00
Muscogee (Creek) Nation	OK	300,000.00
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma	OK	296,496.00
Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Organization	OK	300,000.00
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians	OR	190,000.00
Allendale County Alive, Inc	SC	300,000.00
Catawba Indian Nation	SC	273,608.75
The Lakota Fund, Inc	SD	300,000.00
Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial, Inc	SD	160,000.00
Sicangu Wicoti Awayankapi Corporation	SD	300,000.00
First Nations Oweesta Corporation	SD	1,000,000.00
Buffalo Valley, Inc	TN	300,000.00
West Tennessee Legal Service, Inc	TN	300,000.00
Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority, Inc	TN	214,038.00
Neighborhood Housing Services of Dimmit County, Inc	TX	300,000.00
Motivation Education & Training, Inc	TX	300,000.00
Upper Rio Grande Workforce Development Board	TX	300,000.00
Proyecto Azteca, Inc	TX	300,000.00
Makah Tribe	WA	300,000.00
Lummi Indian Nation	WA	279,304.00
Spokane Tribe of Indians	WA	300,000.00
Quinault Indian Nation	WA	300,000.00
Neighborhood Housing Services of Richland Center	WI	300,000.00
Lau Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin	WI	300,000.00
Southern Appalachian Labor School	WV	300,000.00
		25,030,464.75