[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39006-39007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19121]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4180-C-02]
Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and
Alaska Native Villages Fiscal Year 1997 Notice of Funding Availability;
Amendment
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability for Fiscal Year 1997; amendment.
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SUMMARY: On April 11, 1997 (62 FR 17976), HUD published a notice
announcing the availability of $67,453,491 in Fiscal Year (FY) 1997
funds for the Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian
Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (ICDBG Program). The April 11, 1997
notice provided that $2 million of the available FY 1997 ICDBG Program
funds would be retained for grants to alleviate or remove imminent
threats to health and safety that require an immediate
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solution. This notice increases the amount retained to meet the funding
needs of imminent threat applications to $2,450,000. Further, the
amounts allocated to the Area Offices of Native American Programs for
single purpose grant funding have been proportionately reduced to
reflect the increase in the retained amount.
DATES: This notice does not affect the deadline date provided in the
June 6, 1997 NOFA. Applications must still be received by the
appropriate Area ONAP of the HUD Office of Native American Programs no
later than 3:00 p.m. (local time) on Friday, July 25, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Barth, Office of Native
American Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, P.O. Box 36003, 450 Golden Gate Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94102; telephone (415) 436-8122 (this is not a toll-
free number). Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access this
number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay
Service at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 11, 1997 (62 FR 17976), HUD
published a notice announcing the availability of $67,453,491 in Fiscal
Year (FY) 1997 funds for the Community Development Block Grant Program
for Indian Tribes and Alaska native Villages (the ICDBG Program). The
primary objective of the ICDBG Program is the development of viable
Indian and Alaskan native communities, including decent housing, a
suitable living environment, and economic opportunities principally for
persons of low- and moderate-income. In the body of the April 11, 1997
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) is information concerning the
following: (1) The purpose of the NOFA; (2) eligible applicants and
activities; (3) available funding amounts; (4) application submission
requirements; (5) the selection criteria; and (6) how applicants will
be notified of results.
The April 11, 1997 NOFA announced that $2 million of the available
FY 1997 ICDBG Program funds would be retained to alleviate or remove
imminent threats to health and safety that require an immediate
solution. Given the unusually severe weather conditions experienced by
Indian tribes in the upper Midwest last winter and spring, requests for
imminent threat assistance resulting from these conditions have
substantially exceeded earlier estimates based on historical
experience.
In order to have funds available for the possibility of additional
imminent threat requests prior to the availability of FY 1998 ICDBG
Program funds, HUD is increasing the amount retained under the FY 1997
NOFA from $2,000,000 to $2,450,000. The amounts allocated to the HUD
Area Offices of Native American Programs for single purpose grant
funding have been proportionately reduced to reflect the increase in
the retained imminent threat amount.
Accordingly, FR Doc. 97-9307, the Community Development Block Grant
Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages Fiscal Year 1997
Notice of Funding Availability, published in the Federal Register on
April 11, 1997 (62 FR 17976), is amended as follows:
1. On page 17978, first and middle columns, under Section III,
paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(4)(i), are revised to read as follows:
III. Funding and Eligibility
(a) * * *
(2) Allocations. The requirements for allocating funds to Area
ONAPs responsible for program administration are found at 24 CFR
953.101. Following these requirements, the allocations for FY 1997 are
as follows:
Eastern/Woodlands--$5,146,792
Southern Plains--$12,168,709
Northern Plains--$10,264,775
Southwest--$27,990,710
Northwest--$3,932,269
Alaska--$5,500,236
Total--$65,003,491
The total allocation includes $453,491 in unused funds from the
amount reserved by the Assistant Secretary in Fiscal Year 1996 for
imminent threat grants. As indicated in Section III.(a)(4) below,
$2,450,000 will be retained to fund imminent threat grants.''
* * * * *
(4) Imminent Threats. (i) The criteria for grants to alleviate or
remove imminent threats to health or safety that require an immediate
solution are described at 24 CFR part 953, subpart E. Please note that
the problem to be addressed must be such that an emergency situation
would exist if it were not addressed. In accordance with the provisions
of 24 CFR part 953, subpart E, $2,450,000 will be retained to meet the
funding needs of imminent threat applications submitted to any of the
Area ONAPs. The grant ceiling for imminent threat applications for FY
1997 is $ 350,000. This ceiling is established pursuant to the
provisions of Sec. 953.400(c).
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Dated: July 16, 1997.
Kevin Emanuel Marchman,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 97-19121 Filed 7-18-97; 8:45 am]
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