E6-13381. Announcement of Funding Awards for the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) Fiscal Years 2003, 2004, and 2005

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 past funding decisions made by the Department in competitions for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI). This announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert Duncan, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Economic Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7140, 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 Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) is administered by the Office of Economic Development under the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development. The Office of Economic Development administers HUD's ongoing grant programs to assist local governments, nonprofit organizations and the private sector in economic development efforts.

BEDI was enacted in section 108(q) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. Eligible applicants include units of general local government eligible for assistance under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, as well as urban counties that are eligible under the CDBG program. Each unit of general local government or CDBG-eligible urban county must use its BEDI award to enhance the security of a loan guaranteed by HUD under section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, for the same project, or to improve the viability of a project financed with the section 108-guaranteed loan. The BEDI program provides each grantee up to $2,000,000 for the redevelopment of abandoned, idled or underutilized industrial or commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by environmental contamination as defined by the NOFA in each fiscal year.

On April 25, 2003 (67 FR 14135) HUD published a Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) announcing the availability of approximately $29,500,000 in FY 2003 funds for the BEDI program. On May 14, 2004 (69 FR 27331) HUD published a SuperNOFA announcing the availability of approximately $25,352,500 in FY 2004 funds for the BEDI program. On March 21, 2005 (70 FR 13950) HUD published a SuperNOFA announcing the availability of approximately $24,458,130 for the BEDI program, an amount subsequently reduced by $10,000,000 in the Congressional appropriation for BEDI in FY 2006. The Department reviewed, evaluated and scored the applications received based on the criteria in the SuperNOFA. As a result, HUD funded the applications announced below, and, in accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing details concerning the recipients of funding awards, as set forth below.

Dated: August 3, 2006.

Nelson R. Bregon,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.

Fiscal Year 2003 Funding Awards for the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative Program

Recipient	State	Amount
Anchorage	AK	$2,000,000
Tempe	AZ	1,000,000
El Monte	CA	1,300,000
Los Angeles	CA	750,000
Montebello	CA	2,000,000
Sacramento	CA	2,000,000
San Diego	CA	700,000
Stockton	CA	2,000,000
Whittier	CA	750,000
Lawrence	MA	2,000,000
Springfield	MO	1,200,000
Greensboro	NC	2,000,000
Perth Amboy	NJ	1,374,285
Geneva	NY	500,000
New York	NY	1,670,000
Syracuse	NY	750,000
Pittsburgh	PA	900,000
Pittsburgh	PA	1,100,000
Burrillville	RI	910,000
Memphis	TN	2,000,000
Danville	VA	500,000
Milwaukee	WI	2,000,000
Total		29,404,285

Fiscal Year 2004 Funding Awards for the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative Program

Recipient	State	Amount
Alameda	CA	$800,000
Los Angeles	CA	1,050,000
San Diego	CA	225,000
Sacramento	CA	2,000,000
San Jose	CA	2,000,000
Berkeley	CA	2,000,000
Alameda County	CA	300,000
Attleboro	MA	1,900,000
Dutchess County	NY	300,000
Cuyahoga County	OH	2,000,000
Portland	OR	2,000,000
Chester County (Coatesville)	PA	1,000,000
Harrisburg	PA	1,500,000
Montgomery County	PA	1,500,000
Allentown	PA	2,000,000
Chester County (E. Whiteland)	PA	2,000,000
Seattle	WA	2,000,000
Total		24,575,000

Fiscal Year 2005 Funding Awards for the Brownfields Economic Development Intiative Program

Recipient	State	Amount
Bakersfield	CA	$750,000
Los Angeles	CA	950,000
Berkeley	CA	1,767,630
Denver	CO	937,130
Denver	CO	1,062,870
Cocoa	FL	347,500
Hillsborough County (Tampa)	FL	1,500,000
Concord	NC	1,000,000
Camden	NJ	2,000,000
Eugene	OR	2,000,000
Reading	PA	1,000,000
Charleston County (N. Charleston)	SC	1,430,000
Total		14,745,130