[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 184 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49700-49701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25184]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4182-N-04]
Fiscal Year 1997 Notice of Funding Availability for Continuum of
Care Homeless Assistance; Supportive Housing Program (SHP); Shelter
Plus Care (S+C); Sec 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy
Program for Homeless Individuals (SRO)
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of funding availability (NOFA); Revision concerning
receipt of applications.
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SUMMARY: On April 8, 1997 (62 FR 17024), HUD published a notice
announcing the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funding for three
of its programs that assist communities in combatting homelessness.
Since the issuance of the April 8, 1997 NOFA, HUD has published two
revisions, on May 5, 1997 (62 FR 24501) and on June 5, 1997 (62 FR
30873). The application deadline provided that an application would be
considered received in a timely fashion if mailed to HUD Headquarters
and postmarked on or before the application deadline of August 18,
1997, and received within ten (10) days after that date. Because of
delays in mail delivery occasioned by the United Parcel Service strike
in August, some applications took longer than the 10-day period
provided. Therefore, this notice announces that the April 8, 1997 NOFA,
as revised on May 5 and June 5, is revised to treat as timely
applications those applications that were mailed before the deadline
and were received within 30 days of the deadline.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 8, 1997 (62 FR 17024), HUD published a notice announcing
the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funding for three of its
programs that assist communities in combatting homelessness. The three
programs are: (1) Supportive Housing; (2) Shelter Plus Care; and (3)
Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation for Single Room Occupancy Dwellings
for Homeless Individuals.
On May 5, 1997 (62 FR 24501), HUD published a notice announcing
that the application deadline for the April 8, 1997 Continuum of Care
Homeless Assistance notice of funding availability (NOFA) was extended
to July 31, 1997.
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HUD extended the deadline since the FY 1997 Continuum of Care NOFA
introduced new procedures for awarding project renewal funds, which
could require, in certain communities, additional time for reanalyzing
the gaps that exist in continuum of care systems within the
communities, and for reformulating plans and priorities for filling
those gaps.
On June 5, 1997 (62 FR 30873), HUD published a notice announcing
that the application deadline for the April 8, 1997 Continuum of Care
Homeless Assistance NOFA was extended to August 18, 1997 to permit the
local process to have the flexibility to request full funding for
existing well-run projects that have limited ability to obtain other
resources and to permit communities to revise their continuum of care
priority lists to take into account this change being made to the NOFA
provisions on project renewals.
Current Revision
Now, it has become evident that the United Parcel Service strike
during August 1997 had an impact on the capacity of the U.S. Postal
Service to deliver mail, delaying the delivery of applications that
were postmarked on or before the August 18, 1997 deadline but were not
delivered to HUD Headquarters until after the 10-day delivery period
specified in the last revision of the April 8, 1997 NOFA. Therefore,
this notice announces the revision to the portion of the Deadline Dates
section of the NOFA that addressed applications submitted by regular
mail to permit delivery to HUD Headquarters within 30 days after
postmarked submission to the USPS by the deadline date to qualify as a
timely submission.
Accordingly, FR Doc. 97-9034, the Fiscal Year 1997 Notice of
Funding Availability for Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance;
Supportive Housing Program (SHP); Shelter Plus Care (S+C); Sec. 8
Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program for Homeless
Individuals (SRO), published in the Federal Register on April 8, 1997
(62 FR 17024), is amended on page 17024, column 2, in the Deadline Date
section, by revising the text under the subheading ``Applications
Mailed.'' to read as follows:
Deadline Date
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Applications Mailed. Applications will be considered timely filed
if postmarked before midnight on August 18, 1997, and received by HUD
Headquarters within thirty (30) days after that date.
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Dated: September 17, 1997.
Jacquie Lawing,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development.
[FR Doc. 97-25184 Filed 9-22-97; 8:45 am]
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