[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-22682]
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[Federal Register: September 14, 1994]
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Part III
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
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Public and Indian Housing Youth Apprenticeship Program; Notice of
Demonstration; Notice
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
[Docket No. N-94-3800; FR-3649-N-03]
Public and Indian Housing Youth Apprenticeship Program; Notice of
Demonstration
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of demonstration program.
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SUMMARY: This Notice announces the Department's intention to contribute
up to $1.5 million from the Youth Apprenticeship Program to the
Philadelphia Housing Authority to demonstrate ways of promoting,
through Youth Corps and a joint labor/management/community consortium,
the long-term welfare of youths living in public and assisted housing.
This demonstration will provide Youth Corps and joint labor/management/
community consortium initiatives designed to focus on job training and
ensured employment opportunities that lead to self-sufficiency. The
Department advised in a Notice of Funding Availability published on
August 18, 1994, that it would be publishing a notice of this
demonstration. This notice provides guidelines for the use of these
funds and invites comments on the proposed demonstration.
DATES: Comments due date: October 14, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel, Room
10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street,
SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Communications should refer to the
above docket number and title. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not
acceptable. A copy of each communication submitted will be available
for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
weekdays at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paula Blunt, Office of Resident
Initiatives, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street SW., Room 4112, Washington, DC 20410, Telephone Number (202)
708-4214 (This is not a toll free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired
persons may use the Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD) by
contacting the Federal Information Relay Service on (202) 708-9300 or
1-800-877-8339) for information on the program.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Paperwork Reduction Act Statement
The information collection requirements contained in this notice
have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1990 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), and assigned
OMB control number 2577-0199.
Authority
The Youth Apprenticeship Program is funded under the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Act for 1994 (Pub.L. 103-124, approved October
28, 1993) (the 1994 Appropriations Act).
On August 18, 1994 (59 FR 42740), the Department published a Notice
of Funding Availability (NOFA) announcing the first competition for
grant funds under the program. In the August 18, 1994 NOFA, the
Department stated as follows:
The Department intends to use $1.5 million for purposes of
demonstrating ways of promoting, through Youth Corps and a joint
labor/management community consortium, the long-term welfare of
youths living in public and assisted housing. The funding will be
awarded to a HOPE VI grantee with a distressed public housing
community undergoing a concentrated effort of local revitalization
to train public and assisted housing residents to participate in the
rehabilitation of distressed and vacant public housing units with
guaranteed employment in construction jobs. The Department expects
that this funding will demonstrate the importance of job training,
followed by assured employment, in contributing to the local
neighborhood revitalization. FR-3649-N-01 (August 18, 1994, 59 FR
42741).
In accordance with the requirements of section 470(a) of the
Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 3542), this
notice describes the proposed demonstration and invites public comment.
Any changes made in this demonstration as a result of the Department's
consideration of public comments, and any extension of time for the
commitment of funds that may be necessary because of these changes,
also will be published in the Federal Register.
The Department will not commit funds for the proposed demonstration
until after the latest of: (1) the date the Department has considered
any comments received in response to this notice; (2) November 14,
1994, which is 60 days after today's publication date; and (3) the date
the Department has received and approved an application that meets the
requirements set forth in this notice and any subsequent notice
announcing changes in the demonstration.
Background of Demonstration
The City of Philadelphia is experiencing a serious housing crisis
with an estimated sixty thousand (60,000) families in need of housing
assistance. The city's biggest landlord--the Philadelphia Housing
Authority--currently has fifteen thousand (15,000) families on its
conventional public housing waiting list, and has closed its waiting
list to future applicants.
Further compounding this housing crisis is the dual designation of
the Philadelphia Housing Authority as a ``troubled housing authority''
and a ``troubled modernization authority,'' which suggests among other
things an inability to repair and modernize its units. In fact, the
housing authority has several thousand units that are vacant and in
need of major repair and rehabilitation. The scope of the needed
rehabilitation project is substantial; many of the vacant units are
abandoned shells, or otherwise unfit for human habitation. Repairing or
renovating these units can play an important role in abating the
housing crisis in Philadelphia, perhaps even enabling the Philadelphia
Housing Authority to re-open its waiting list to new applicants who
seek decent and affordable public housing.
Through a labor/management/community consortium involving the
Philadelphia Housing Authority, the Laborers' International Union of
North America (``LIUNA''), the Housing Association of Delaware Valley,
Youth Corps through the National Association of Service and
Conservation Corp (NASCC,) and experienced construction contractors, a
demonstration project will be developed involving the rehabilitation of
one thousand (1,000) distressed and vacant public housing units of the
Philadelphia Housing Authority. An important element of this
demonstration will be the recruitment, training, mentoring and job
placement of public and assisted housing residents in the
rehabilitation of these public housing units.
For purposes of this demonstration, the Department will make up to
$1.5 million available to the Philadelphia Housing Authority for use in
establishing a Youth Apprenticeship Program in Philadelphia. The
funding will be used in accordance with the statutory requirements of
the Youth Apprenticeship program for youth apprenticeship training
activities for joint labor-management organizations in HOPE VI
communities. This demonstration will bring together the skills needed
for the successful operation of a program that will restore distressed
units to the housing inventory in a cost-effective manner, while
providing skills training and work opportunities to public and assisted
housing residents.
Under this demonstration, LIUNA will have responsibility for
coordinating manpower needs for the project and providing skills
training; management expertise will be provided through experienced
construction contractors; community participation, and outreach and
training for public and assisted housing residents will be coordinated
by the Housing Association of Delaware Valley; life and work skills
development along with training and community service will be provided
through Youth Corps; and the housing authority will have major
responsibility in the area of community relations and recruitment of
public and assisted housing residents for the training programs
implemented as part of the demonstration.
This demonstration will be a new and innovative approach to solving
long-standing problems in the public housing system. The demonstration
combines the construction talents of LIUNA's existing membership with
the union's social commitment to recruiting, training and placing
women, minorities, public and assisted housing residents, and other
disadvantaged persons in construction jobs. By joining forces with
experienced construction management and established community leaders,
this initiative will serve as a model for accomplishing solid results
in housing rehabilitation (returning currently vacant, uninhabitable
public housing units to the inventory of usable housing in a timely,
efficient and cost effective manner) while also promoting the long-term
welfare of public and assisted housing residents.
Following initial basic skills training under this program, program
participants will be enrolled in an apprenticeship program for
construction laborers. LIUNA will provide the facilities of the
Philadelphia regional training center and its tools and equipment as an
in-kind contribution to this project. It will also supply journeymen
laborers to contractors who will be engaged to perform the
rehabilitation work. They also will work in close coordination with
other building trades organizations that are deemed necessary for the
rehabilitation project. LIUNA laborers and apprentices will perform
work traditionally performed by construction craft laborers, including
demolition, lead paint abatement and asbestos removal work. They also
will perform any other work that is deemed necessary for the successful
completion of the rehabilitation project.
The Department will allocate up to $1.5 million to the Philadelphia
Housing Authority to carry out this demonstration, pending receipt and
approval of an application that is consistent with program and
submission requirements as established in this notice and any
subsequent notice issued after the comment period has closed.
Applicable Requirements
In order to receive the funding proposed in this notice, the
Philadelphia Housing Authority will be required to meet the applicable
programmatic and application requirements set forth in the NOFA for the
Public Housing Youth Apprenticeship Program published on August 18,
1994 (59 FR 42740) and any subsequent notice that is published after
the comment period has closed.
When applicable, the certifications, findings, determinations, and
requirements listed by the Department under the ``Other Matters''
section of that NOFA also apply to this notice.
Dated: September 7, 1994.
Joseph Shuldiner,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 94-22682 Filed 9-13-94; 8:45 am]
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