00-22352. Announcement of Funding Awards for the HUD Rural Housing and Economic Development Program for Fiscal Year 1999

AGENCY:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION:

Announcement 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 W. Mitchell, Director, Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development, Office of Economic Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410; 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 Website at http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Rural Housing and Economic Development Program was enacted in The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (Pub. L. 105-276, approved October 21, 1998; 112 Stat. 2461, 2475) (the “FY 1999 HUD Appropriations Act”) made $24 million in FY 1999 funds available for competitive funding under the Rural Housing and Economic Development program. The FY 1999 HUD Appropriations Act also specifies that certain unobligated funds authorized by the FY 1998 HUD Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 105-65, approved October 27, 1997; 111 Stat. 1344, 1357) shall be made available under the Rural Housing and Economic Development program. The amount of unobligated funds from this source is $3 million. Therefore, the total amount of funding made available under the NOFA was $27 million. The competition was announced in the NOFA published in the Federal Register on March 8, 1999 (64 FR 4483). 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. The funds made available under this program were awarded competitively, through a selection process conducted by HUD in consultation with the United States Department of Agriculture.

A total of $27 million was awarded to 91 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 23, 2000.

Cardell Cooper,

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.

Appendix A—FY 1999 Rural Housing and Economic Development Competitive Grants

Applicant	State	City	Grant
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund	AL	Epes	$207,800
Design Corps	AL	Newbern	224,190
Upper Sand Mountain United Methodist	AL	Sylvania	47,300
Metlakatla Indian Community	AK	Metlakatla	500,000
Alaska Native Village of Tanacross	AK	Tanacross	600,000
Community Resource Group, Inc	AR	Fayetteville	467,500
Community Resource Group, Inc	AR	Fayetteville	222,000
White Mountain Apache CDC	AZ	McNary	250,000
Comite de Bien Estar	AZ	San Luis	600,000
Housing America Corporation	AZ	Somerton	75,000
Fort Defiance Housing Corporation	AZ	Window Rock	200,000
Bishop Indian Tribal Council	CA	Bishop	88,201
Community Housing Improvement Program, Inc	CA	Chico	451,397
Yurok Tribe	CA	Eureka	200,000
South County Housing Corporation	CA	Gilroy	500,000
Coachella Valley Housing Coalition	CA	Indio	200,000
Coachella Valley Housing Coalition	CA	Indio	600,000
I-5 Social Services Corporation	CA	Mendota	509,500
Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians	CA	Redwood Valley	32,345
Peoples' Self-Help Housing Corporation	CA	San Luis Obispo	500,000
Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation	CA	Ukiah	194,877
Everglades Community Association, Inc	FL	Homestead	500,000
Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc	ID	Boise	200,000
Lincoln Hills Development Corporation	IN	Tell City	160,000
Iowa Finance Authority	IA	Des Moines	600,000
Mid-America Housing Partnership, Inc	IA	Cedar Rapids	500,000
Kentucky Farmworker Programs, Inc	KY	Bowling Green	209,519
Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises	KY	Berea	482,374
Kentucky Highlands Investments Corporation	KY	London	461,854
Kentucky Mountain Housing Development Corporation, Inc	KY	Manchester	200,000
Pendleton County Industrial Authority	KY	Falmouth	200,000
Northlake Community Development Corporation	LA	Hammond	176,008
Garrett County, Maryland Community Action Committee	MD	Oakland	504,000
Eastern Maine Development Corporation	ME	Bangor	129,500
Five-Cap Inc	MI	Scottsville	500,000
Bi-County Community Action Programs, Inc	MN	Bemidji	500,000
Three Rivers Community Action, Inc	MN	Zumbrota	150,000
Blackfeet Tribe	MT	Browning	600,000
Blackfeet Tribe	MT	Browning	200,000
Action for Eastern Montana, Inc	MT	Glendive	126,766
Fort Belknap College	MT	Harlem	200,000
Rocky Mountain Development Council	MT	Helena	109,369
Montana Community Development Corporation	MT	Missoula	199,058
Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes	MT	Poplar	148,633
The Heritage Institute	MT	Poplar	501,219
North Central NE Resource Conservation Development and Planning Council	NE	Bassett	237,800
Central Nebraska Community Services, Inc	NE	Loup City	195,632
Native Council on Economic and Community Development Corporation	NE	Walthill	150,000
Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe	NC	Hollister	250,000
WREN-Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network	NH	Bethlehem	150,000
New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority	NM	Albuquerque	600,000
Housing and Economic Rural Opportunities	NM	Las Cruces	165,445
Pojoaque Housing Corporation	NM	Santa Fe	500,000
Citizens for Affordable Homes, Inc	NV	Carson City	69,075
Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development	NY	Monticello	150,000
Partnership for Economic Development	NY	Monticello	500,000
Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc	NY	Rochester	150,000
Rural Opportunities, Inc	NY	Rochester	390,065
Adirondack Economic Development Corporation	NY	Saranac Lake	150,000
Portage Area Development Corporation	OH	Ravena	137,860
Portage Area Development Corporation	OH	Ravena	500,000
Wa-Ro-Ma-Tri-County Action Foundation, Inc	OK	Claremore	225,710
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma	OK	Anadarko	143,660
Little Dixie Community Action Agency	OK	Hugo	199,700
Langston Community Development Corporation	OK	Langston	200,000
Otoe-Missouria Tribe	OK	Red Rock	97,805
Citizen Potawatomi Nation	OK	Shawnee	198,928
Casa of Oregon	OR	Newberg	200,000
Technical College of the Low Country Foundation, Inc	SC	Beaufort	193,000
Catawba Indian Nation	SC	Catawba	600,000
Catawba Indian Nation	SC	Catawba	250,000
Oti Kaga, Inc	SD	Eagle Butte	188,796
The Lakota Fund	SD	Kyle	538,266
Cangleska, Inc	SD	Kyle	211,764
Rosebud Sioux Tribe	SD	Rosebud	500,000
Rosebud Sioux Tribe	SD	Rosebud	196,800
Rio Valle Rainbow, Inc	TX	El Paso	44,960
El Paso Collaborative for Comm. & Economic Development	TX	El Paso	200,000
Amigos Del Valle, Inc	TX	Mission	600,000
ACCION Texas, Inc	TX	San Antonio	600,000
The Center for Economic Opportunities, Inc	TX	San Juan	500,000
Virginia Eastern Shore Economic Empowerment & Housing Corporation	VA	Nassawadox	115,000
Virginia Eastern Shore Economic Empowerment & Housing Corporation	VA	Nassawadox	175,000
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community	WA	La Conner	150,000
Okanogan County Community Action Council	WA	Okanogan	196,665
Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development	WA	Olympia	600,000
Community Health Center La Clinica	WA	Pasco	600,000
Institute for Washington's Future	WA	Renton	199,500
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe	WA	Sequim	117,702
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc	WI	Superior	200,000
Mountain Partners in Community Development	WV	Elkins	151,701