[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 104 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29824-29826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14365]
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Part IV
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Notices of Funding Availability for Community Planning and Development,
Public and Indian Housing, Housing, and Lead Hazard Control Programs;
Introduction; Notice
Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 104 / Monday, June 1, 1998 /
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4371-N-01]
Notices of Funding Availability for Community Planning and
Development, Public and Indian Housing, Housing, and Lead Hazard
Control Programs; Introduction
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.
ACTION: Notices of Funding Availability for Community Planning and
Development, Public and Indian Housing, Housing, and Lead Hazard
Control Programs; Introduction.
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SUMMARY: HUD is publishing in today's Federal Register its remaining
notices announcing the availability of funding for Fiscal Year (FY)
1998. These notices announce the availability of approximately
$188,465,605 in HUD program funds covering seven (7) programs operated
and managed by the following HUD offices: Community Planning and
Development (CPD), Housing--Federal Housing Administration (FHA),
Public and Indian Housing (PIH), and the Office of Lead Hazard Control
(OLHC). Today's notices are being published separately from the three
SuperNOFAs published by HUD on March 31, 1998 and April 30, 1998 due to
the distinctive application selection procedures used by these
programs. This document introduces the HUD notices being published in
today's Federal Register, and briefly describes HUD's FY 1998 funding
process. The individual notices that follow this introduction contain a
description of the specific programs for which funding is made
available and the procedures and requirements that are applicable to
each program.
DUE DATES, ADDRESSES, APPLICATION SUBMISSION PROCEDURES, APPLICATION
KITS, AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: For the convenience of readers, this
notice contains a chart that sets forth application due date for each
program and the address to which applications must be submitted.
However, applicants should refer to the individual notices published in
today's Federal Register for specific information regarding due dates,
addresses, application submission procedures, application kits, and
technical assistance.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. The SuperNOFA Process
HUD is publishing in today's Federal Register its remaining notices
announcing the availability of funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998. The
publication of these notices marks the final stage in HUD's dramatic
reinvention of its competitive funding process. This reinvention,
conducted under the leadership of Secretary Andrew Cuomo, improves
customer service and provides the necessary tools for revitalizing
communities and improving the lives of people within those communities.
As part of this process, HUD has published three Super Notices of
Funding Availability (SuperNOFAs) in 1998, which coordinate program
funding for over forty competitive programs and cut across traditional
program lines. The first was the SuperNOFA and consolidated application
process for Housing and Community Development Programs, covering
nineteen Housing and Community Development programs, published in the
Federal Register on March 31, 1998 (63 FR 15490). The second SuperNOFA
and consolidated application process, which covered ten of HUD's
Economic Development and Empowerment Programs, was published in the
Federal Register on April 30, 1998 (63 FR 23876). The third SuperNOFA
and consolidated application process, also published in the Federal
Register on April 30, 1998 (63 FR 23988), covered six of HUD's Targeted
Housing and Homeless Assistance Programs.
HUD believes the SuperNOFAs represent a significant improvement
over HUD's past approach to the funding process. The SuperNOFA approach
is designed to simplify the application process; promote effective and
coordinated use of program funds in communities; reduce duplication in
the delivery of services and economic development and empowerment
programs; allow interested applicants to seek to deliver a wider, more
integrated array of services; and improve the system for potential
grantees to be aware of, and compete for program funds.
The three SuperNOFAs together offer a ``menu'' of approximately 40
programs from which communities can select those that best meet their
needs. The SuperNOFAs also encourage nonprofits, public housing
agencies, local and State governments, tribal governments and tribally
designated housing entities, veterans service organizations and others
to cooperatively work together to form a comprehensive approach which
builds on community assets and addresses community needs.
In addition to the three SuperNOFAs, HUD also published in the
Federal Register on April 30, 1998 (63 FR 23958) a consolidated NOFA
and application process for three national competition programs: the
Fair Housing Initiatives Program National Competition; the National
Lead Hazard Awareness Campaign; and the Housing Counseling National
Competition.
Interested readers should consult the March 31, 1998 and April 30,
1998 editions of the Federal Register or the HUD website at www://
hud.gov for additional information regarding HUD's SuperNOFAs and the
SuperNOFA process.
II. HUD's Notices Published in Today's Federal Register
The remaining HUD notices published in today's Federal Register
announce the availability of approximately $188,465,605 in HUD program
funds covering seven (7) programs. These notices include six (6) NOFAs
and one Request for Expressions of Interest (REI). The seven notices
being published today are identified in the chart below, along with the
approximate funding available for each program. The chart also includes
the application due date for each program and the address to which
applications must be submitted.
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HUD determined that the seven notices identified in the chart above
should be published separately from the SuperNOFAs due to the
distinctive application selection procedures used in each of these
programs. The funding under several of these programs is being made
available on a non-competitive basis. For example, HOPE VI demolition
projects that meet the specified threshold eligibility criteria will be
funded on a first-come, first-serve basis within the three priority
groups established by the NOFA. Other notices (including those for the
Service Coordinator Program and the Family Unification Program) include
the use of lotteries to select applications for funding. Therefore, in
order to avoid confusion on the part of potential applicants between
the funding procedures used for these programs and the approximately
forty programs included in the SuperNOFAs, HUD has decided to issue
these notices independently of the SuperNOFA process.
III. Future HUD Funding Processes
In FY 1997, Secretary Cuomo took the first step at changing HUD's
funding process to better promote comprehensive, coordinated approaches
to housing and community development. In FY 1997, the Department
published related NOFAs on the same day or within a few days of each
other. In the individual NOFAs published in FY 1997, HUD advised that
additional steps on NOFA coordination might be considered for FY 1998.
The SuperNOFA process represents the additional steps taken by HUD in
1998 to improve HUD's funding process and assist communities to make
better use of available resources through a coordinated approach. This
new funding process was developed based on comments received from HUD
clients, and the Department believes it represents a significant
improvement over HUD's approach to the funding process in prior years.
For FY 1999, HUD may take even further steps to enhance this
process. HUD welcomes comments from applicants and other members of the
public on this process and how it may be improved in future years.
Comments and suggestions may be submitted electronically to the
SuperNOFA mailbox at www://hud.gov or by regular mail to the following
address: Rules Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel, Room 10276,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20410.
Dated: May 22, 1998.
Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Secretary.
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