04-5200. Announcement of Funding Awards for the Assisted Living Conversion Program Fiscal Year 2003

AGENCY:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing Commissioner, 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 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for the Assisted Living Conversion Program. This announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Willie Spearmon, Director, Office of Housing Assistance and Grant Administration, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-8000; 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, visit the HUD Web site at http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Assisted Living Conversion Program is authorized by Section 202(b) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q-2). The competition was announced in the SuperNOFA published in the Federal Register on April 25, 2003 (68 FR 21793). 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 14.314.

The Assisted Living Conversion Program is designed to provide funds to private nonprofit owners to convert their projects (that is, projects funded under Section 202, Section 8 project-based (including Rural Housing Services' Section 515), Section 221(d)(3) BMIR, Section 236, and unused and underutilized commercial properties) to assisted living facilities. Grant funds are used to convert the units and related space for the assisted living facility.

A total of $15,371,991 was awarded to nine projects for 178 units 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 of this document.

Dated: February 19, 2004.

John C. Weicher,

Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner.

Appendix A

FY2003 Grantees for the Assisted Living Conversion Program

Grantees	Amount
Lutheran Senior, 1201 N. Harrison St., Wilmington, DE 19806	$2,709,721.00
Immanuel House, 15 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT 06105	408,850.00
The Bernardine, 700 East Brighton, Syracuse, NY 13205	1,087,987.00
Allamakee Housing Inc., 607 2nd St. SW, Waukon, IA 52172	1,217,714.00
Mercy Manor Inc., 334 Golf View Drive, Albany, MN 56307	1,169,465.00
New Hope Volunteers, 1660 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314	1,568,208.00
Kivel Manor, 3020 North 36th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85018	3,540,574.00
Menorah Plaza Housing, 4925 Minnetonka Blvd, St. Louis Park, MN 55416	1,391,850.00
Jewish Apartments, 15100 West Ten Mile, Oak Park, MI 48237	2,277,622.00