E5-527. Announcement of Funding Awards For the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program Fiscal Year 2004

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, Ph.D., 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 800-877-8339. For general information on this and other HUD programs, call Community Connections at 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 NOFA published April 23, 2004 (69 FR 22320). 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 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 the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 applications, Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma, Inc. in Durant, Oklahoma, was awarded $150,000, and Eastern Shore of Virginia, Habitat for Humanity, in Exmore, Virginia, was awarded $149,683 as a result of funding errors during the previous year's funding. For the FY2004 competition, a total of $24,619,153 was awarded to 105 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 5, 2004.

Nelson R. Bregon,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.

Appendix A Fiscal Year 2004 Funding Awards for the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program

Recipient	City	State	Award
Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc	Anchorage	AK	$150,000
Collaborative Solutions, Inc	Birmingham	AL	400,000
The Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization (HERO)	Greensboro	AL	138,168
Ark of Love Ministries, Inc	Hayneville	AL	146,150
Health Services Center, Inc	Anniston	AL	50,000
Alabama Rural Heritage Foundation, Inc	Thomaston	AL	150,000
Mississippi County Arkansas E.O.C.	Blytheville	AR	101,087
Chicot Housing Assistance Corporation	Lake Village	AR	125,000
Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council, Inc	Fort Smith	AR	150,000
South Arkansas Community Development	Arkadelphia	AR	150,000
Navajo Partnership for Housing, Inc	Saint Michaels	AZ	400,000
Arizona Department of Housing	Phoenix	AZ	400,000
Moenkopi Developers Corporation	Tuba City	AZ	121,900
Hualapal Indian Tribe	Peach Springs	AZ	150,000
White Mountain Apache Tribe	Whiteriver	AZ	150,000
Housing Assistance Corporation	Fresno	CA	400,000
Self-Help Enterprises	Visalia	CA	400,000
Imperial Valley Habitat For Humanity	El Centro	CA	400,000
Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Indians	Santa Ysabel	CA	400,000
Cultural Marketing Center	Fresno	CA	150,000
Relational Culture Institute	Fresno	CA	150,000
Bishop Paiute Tribe	Bishop	CA	142,212
Yolo Housing Foundation	Woodland	CA	69,872
Intertribal Economic Alliance	Boulder	CO	400,000
Everglades Community Association, Inc	Florida City	FL	400,000
Clay County Habitat for Humanity/Middleburg	Middleburg	FL	73,186
Florence Villa Community Development Corporation	Winter Haven	FL	150,000
Seminole Tribe of Florida	Hollywood	FL	150,000
Southwest United Empowerment Zone, Inc	Vienna	GA	400,000
JCVISION and Associates, Inc	Hinesville	GA	398,028
Crisp Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc	Cordele	GA	21,826
Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc	Wailuku	HI	150,000
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes	Fort Hall	ID	380,310
Coeru d'Alene Tribe	Plummer	ID	150,000
Original Town of Liberal Revitalization, Incorporated (OTLR), Inc	Liberal	KS	150,000
Frontier Housing, Inc	Morehead	KY	400,000
Southern Kentucky Economic Development Corporation (SKED)	Somerset	KY	400,000
Kentucky Housing Corporation	Frankfort	KY	400,000
Hazard Perry County Housing Development Alliance, Inc	Hazard	KY	150,000
Purchase Area Housing Corporation	Mayfield	KY	150,000
Owsley County Action Team	Booneville	KY	150,000
Low Income Housing Coalition East Kentucky, Inc	Prestonsburg	KY	84,000
Louisiana Technical College Tallulah Foundation	Tallulah	LA	150,000
Seventh District Pavilion, Inc	Crowley	LA	150,000
Growth Council of Oxford Hills	South Paris	ME	150,000
Penobscot Indian Nation	Old Town	ME	87,350
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians	Dowagiac	MI	150,000
Choctaw Housing Authority	Choctaw	MS	400,000
Life Renewal Ministries, Inc	Starkville	MS	400,000
Mississippi Homebuyer Education Center-Mississippi Housing Initiative	Jackson	MS	150,000
Action for Eastern Montana, Inc	Glendive	MT	393,033
Kootenai River Development Council, Inc	Libby	MT	150,000
Native American Development Corporation	Billings	MT	150,000
Anaconda Local Development Corporation	Anaconda	MT	145,418
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians	Cherokee	NC	400,000
Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, Inc	Hollister	NC	399,580
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa	Abercrombie	ND	150,000
Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation	Walthill	NE	350,000
West Central Nebraska Development District, Inc	Ogallala	NE	150,000
Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network-WREN	Bethlehem	NH	400,000
Eastern Plains Housing Development Corporation	Clovis	NM	400,000
Dona Ana County Colonias Development Council	Las Cruces	NM	400,000
Pueblo of San Juan	San Juan Pueblo	NM	400,000
Las Cruces Affordable Housing, Inc	Las Cruces	NM	150,000
Centro Fuerza y Unidad, Dona Ana County, NM (CFU)	Mesquite	NM	139,920
Pueblo de Cochiti	Cochiti Pueblo	NM	150,000
Sandoval County Economic Development Corporation	Bernalillo	NM	150,000
Housing & Economic Rural Opportunity, Inc	Las Cruces	NM	150,000
Akwesasne Indian Housing Authority	Hogansburg	NY	395,034
Albany County Rural Housing Alliance, Inc	Voorheesville	NY	150,000
Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc	Rochester	NY	100,000
WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc	Fremont	OH	150,000
Jackson-Vinton Community Action, Inc	Wellston	OH	150,000
Citizen Potawatomi Nation	Shawnee	OK	400,000
Rural Enterprise of Oklahoma, Inc	Durant	OK	400,000
Umpqua Community Development Corporation	Roseburg	OR	65,000
Mennonite Economic Development Associates	Lancaster	PA	150,000
Waccamaw Regional Council of Governments	Georgetown	SC	150,000
South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families	Columbia	SC	150,000
Central South Dakota Enhancement District	Pierre	SD	146,423
Miner County Community Revitalization	Howard	SD	150,000
West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc	Jackson	TN	400,000
LeMoyne-Owen College Community Development Corporation	Memphis	TN	149,955
Douglass-Cherokee Economic Authority, Inc	Morristown	TN	149,237
Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties, Inc. (ADFAC)	Oak Ridge	TN	65,665
Proyecto Azteca	San Juan	TX	400,000
Azteca Community Loan Fund	San Juan	TX	400,000
Neighborhood Housing Services of Dimmit County, Inc	Carrizo Springs	TX	400,000
Community Development Corporation of South Texas, Inc. (CDCST)	McAllen	TX	400,000
El Paso Empowerment Zone Corporation	El Paso	TX	400,000
ACCION Texas, Inc	San Antonio	TX	150,000
Statewide Consolidated CDC	Beaumont	TX	149,717
Community Development Corporation of Utah	Salt Lake City	UT	400,000
Northwestern Band of Shoshone	Brigham City	UT	150,000
Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corporation	Logan	UT	150,000
Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, Inc	Roanoke	VA	150,000
Southern Puget Sound Inter-Tribal Housing Authority	Shelton	WA	395,012
World Vision, Inc	Federal Way	WA	400,000
The Alesek Institute	Fife	WA	136,070
Spokane Tribe of Indians	Wellpinit	WA	150,000
Red Cliff ABND of Lake Superior Chippewas	Bayfield	WI	400,000
West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency, Inc. (West CAP)	Glenwood City	WI	250,000
Northwoods Niijii Enterprise Community, Inc	Crandon	WI	150,000
Southern Appalachian Labor School	Kincaid	WV	400,000
Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action, Inc. (KISRA)	Dunbar	WV	150,000
Total			24,619,153.