E9-21207. Announcement of Funding Awards for the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program Fiscal Year 2008

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, PhD, 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 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 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 28, 2008 (73 FR 23052). 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 this year's applications, Southern Financial Partners in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for the Fiscal year 2008 competition, was awarded a total of $149,683 as a result of funding errors during the previous year's funding. For the Fiscal year 2008 competition, a total of $16,889,633 was awarded to 60 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: August 10, 2009.

Mercedes Márquez,

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning Development.

FY 2008 Rural Housing and Economic Development Program Grantees

Tribal Government of St. Paul Island	AK	$300,000.00
Organized Village of Kasaan	AK	300,000.00
Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization, Inc	AL	300,000.00
Collaborative Solutions, Inc.	AL	300,000.00
Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council, Inc.	AR	250,344.00
Moenkopi Developers Corporation, Inc.	AZ	298,626.00
Comite de Bien Estar, Inc.	AZ	300,000.00
Hopi Tribe	AZ	296,800.00
International Sonoran Desert Alliance	AZ	300,000.00
White Mountain Apache Housing Authority	AZ	300,000.00
Nogales Community Development Corporation (NCD)	AZ	300,000.00
Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria	CA	300,000.00
Timbisha Shoshone Tribe	CA	124,000.00
Karuk Tribe of California	CA	300,000.00
Bishop Paiute Tribe	CA	296,410.00
The Relational Culture Institute	CA	300,000.00
Big Pine Paiute Tribe	CA	284,968.00
Tule River Tribal Council	CA	300,000.00
Empowerment Alliance of SW Florida, CDC	FL	300,000.00
Young Adult Development in Action, Inc.	KY	300,000.00
People's Self-Help Housing, Inc.	KY	300,000.00
Low Income Housing Coalition of East Kentucky, Inc.	KY	300,000.00
McCreary County Community Housing Development Corporation	KY	300,000.00
Frontier Housing, Inc.	KY	300,000.00
Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation	KY	300,000.00
Louisiana Technical College Tallulah Foundation	LA	300,000.00
START Corporation	LA	300,000.00
SEVENTH DISTRICT PAVILION, INC.	LA	300,000.00
Four Directions Development Corporation	ME	299,367.00
Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation	MN	200,000.00
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa	MN	300,000.00
Northcountry Cooperative Foundation	MN	250,000.00
Community Developers of Beaufort-Hyde, Inc.	NC	210,400.00
Hollister R.E.A.C.H., Inc.	NC	299,850.00
Dawson County Area Economic Development Council	NE	287,724.00
Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority	NM	300,000.00
New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority	NM	300,000.00
TIERRA DEL SOL HOUSING CORPORATION	NM	300,000.00
Community Area Resource Enterprise	NM	300,000.00
Picuris Pueblo	NM	300,000.00
Habitat for Humanity of Taos, Inc.	NM	300,000.00
Center of Southwest Culture, Inc.	NM	65,714.00
Little Dixie Community Action Agency, INC	OK	300,000.00
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians	OR	299,871.00
Umatilla Reservation Housing Authority	OR	300,000.00
Community And Shelter Assistance Corp.	OR	300,000.00
Ceiba Housing and Economic Development Corporation	PR	300,000.00
Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation d/b/a NWBRV	RI	300,000.00
The Lakota Funds	SD	300,000.00
Thunder Valley CDC	SD	299,775.00
Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing, Inc.	SD	136,000.00
Volunteer Housing Development Corporation	TN	289,864.00
Community Development Corporation of Brownsville	TX	300,000.00
La Fe Community Development Corporation	TX	300,000.00
Community Development Corporation of Utah	UT	300,000.00
Aneth Community Development Corporation	UT	299,920.00
Makah Indian Tribe	WA	300,000.00
Southern Puget Sound Inter-tribal Housing Authority	WA	300,000.00
NiiJii Small Business Loan Fund, Inc.	WI	300,000.00
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin	WI	100,000.00
		16,889,633.00