Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Opportunity To Register and Other Important Information for Electronic Application Submission for Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Programs, 23483-23486 [E8-9540]
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Organization (CHDO) Housing for LowIncome Families. Section 92.452 of
HOME Program regulations states that
HUD will reallocate any CHDO funds
reduced or recaptured by HUD from a
participating jurisdiction’s HOME
Investment Trust Fund by competition,
in accordance with criteria in Section
92.453, to other participating
jurisdictions for affordable housing
developed, sponsored, or owned by
CHDOs.
This Notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed
collection of information to (1) Evaluate
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; (3) Enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
Minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond; including through the use of
appropriate automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
This Notice also lists the following
information:
Title of Proposal: HOME Program
Competitive Reallocation of Funds.
Description of Information Collection:
This is a new information collection.
The competitive reallocation of funds to
provide for energy-efficient and
environmentally-friendly (green) CHDO
housing for low-income families will be
announced in a Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA). These grants are to
fund CHDO set-aside projects that are
permitted under the regular HOME
regulations, and that qualify for and will
receive Energy Star Certification by an
independent Home Energy Rater (HER)
upon completion. An eligible CHDO setaside project is one where a CHDO
owns, develops or sponsors the housing
produced. To earn the Energy Star
Certification, the housing must meet
guidelines for energy efficiency set by
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA). These housing units are
at least 15% more energy efficient than
units built to the 2004 International
Residential Code (IRC), and include
additional energy-saving features that
typically make them 20–30% more
efficient than standard houses.
OMB Control Number: Pending.
Agency Form Numbers: HUD–424,
HUD–2880 and HUD–2993.
Members of Affected Public: State and
local government.
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Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of responses,
and hours of responses: An estimation
of the total number of hours needed to
prepare the information collection is
2,600, number of respondents is 65,
frequency of response is one time, and
the total hours per respondent is 40.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: April 24, 2008.
Lillian Deitzer,
Departmental Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5214–N–01]
Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008
Opportunity To Register and Other
Important Information for Electronic
Application Submission for Continuum
of Care Homeless Assistance
Programs
Office of Community Planning
and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: For fiscal year (FY) 2008,
HUD will require Continuums of Care to
submit their applications electronically,
using e-snaps, an electronic system
separate from Grants.gov. This Notice
provides detailed instructions on
completing the Continuum of Care
(CoC) registration process for e-snaps.
This Notice also provides applicants
important information, including
definitions and the necessary CoC
planning process, that CoC and project
applicants should be familiar with prior
to applying for FY2008 CoC Homeless
Assistance funding. Finally, today’s
Notice provides information about the
major changes that HUD will make to
the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance
competition.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
HUD Field Office serving your area.
This information can be found at
https://www.hud.gov/localoffices.cfm.
Full Text of Announcement
HUD will make approximately $1.423
billion available through the FY2008
CoC Homeless Assistance NOFA. For
FY2008, HUD is transitioning the CoC
program from a paper process to an
electronic process. Today’s Notice
provides detailed instructions on
completing the CoC registration process
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for e-snaps, an electronic system
separate from Grants.gov. The uniform
resource identifier/locater (URL) for
e-snaps is https://www.hud.gov/esnaps.
Today’s Notice also provides applicants
important information, including
necessary definitions and the CoC
planning process, that CoC and project
applicants should be familiar with prior
to applying for FY2008 CoC Homeless
Assistance funding and important
information about the major changes
that HUD will make to the FY2008 CoC
Homeless Assistance competition. HUD
anticipates publishing its FY2008 CoC
NOFA in the Federal Register no earlier
than July 1, 2008.
As noted herein, applicants for project
funding will continue to be required to
register with Dun and Bradstreet (D&B)
and complete or renew their registration
in the Central Contractor Registration
(CCR). For more information regarding
registering with D&B and CCR, HUD
encourages applicants to closely review
HUD’s March 10, 2008, FY2008 Notice
of Early Registration, (72 FR 12751) and
HUD’s FY2008 General Section,
published March 19, 2008 (73 FR
14882).
This Notice is divided into three
sections. Section I describes the
important overview information that
CoCs and project applicants should be
familiar with prior to applying for
FY2008 Homeless Assistance funding.
This includes pertinent definitions and
the CoC planning process. Section II of
this Notice provides detailed
information on completing the CoC
registration process in e-snaps. Finally,
Section III provides information about
the major changes that HUD will make
to the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance
competition. HUD hopes that this will
assist CoCs in better planning their
FY2008 CoC application.
I. Overview Information
A. Program Description
Approximately $1.423 billion is
available for funding through the
FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance
Competition. The purpose of the CoC
Homeless Assistance Program is to
reduce the incidence of homelessness in
CoC communities by assisting homeless
individuals and families to move to selfsufficiency and permanent housing.
B. Definitions
The only definitions contained in this
Notice are those necessary for CoCs to
understand in order to complete the
FY2008 CoC registration process. A
complete list of definitions will be
provided in the FY2008 CoC NOFA.
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1. Annual Renewal Amount. The
maximum amount that a Supportive
Housing Program (SHP) grant can
receive on an annual basis when
renewed. It includes funds for only
those eligible activities (operating,
supportive services, leasing, Homeless
Management Information System
(HMIS) and administration) that were
funded in the original grant (or the
original grant as amended), less the
nonrenewable activities (acquisition,
new construction, rehabilitation, and
any administration costs related to these
activities). It is used to calculate a CoC’s
Hold Harmless Need amount.
To calculate the Annual Renewal
Amount (ARA) for SHP grants, add up
the amount of the renewable budget line
items (i.e., operating, supportive
services, leasing, HMIS, and
administration) for all the years of the
most recent grant, and divide by the
number of years in the grant term. Any
funding for acquisition, rehabilitation,
new construction—and any
administration costs related to those
activities—is not renewable and
therefore should not be calculated in the
ARA. If the initial grant included these
activities, administrative costs may only
be calculated up to 5 percent of the total
of leasing, operating, HMIS, and
supportive services costs contained in
the initial grant.
For example, if the initial three-year
grant was for $472,500 ($150,000 for
new construction, $150,000 for
operating costs, $150,000 for supportive
services, and $22,500 for
administration), the new construction
costs, and any administration costs
associated with it, would not be eligible
for renewal. Thus, the total renewable
amount would be $315,000 ($150,000
for operating costs, $150,000 for
supportive services, and $15,000 for
administration) and the ARA is
$105,000 ($315,000 divided by the
three-year grant term).
If the initial three-year grant was
$315,000 and did not include
acquisition, rehabilitation or new
construction costs, ($150,000 for
operating costs, $150,000 for supportive
services, and $15,000 for
administration), the ARA would be
$105,000 ($315,000 divided by the
three-year grant term).
2. Continuum of Care. A collaborative
funding and planning approach that
helps communities plan for and
provide, as necessary, a full range of
emergency, transitional, and permanent
housing and other service resources to
address the various needs of homeless
persons. HUD also refers to the group of
stakeholders involved in the decision
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making processes as the ‘‘Continuum of
Care.’’
3. Continuum of Care Lead Agency.
Agency or organization designated by
the CoC primary decision making body
to be the entity that submits the CoC
application.
4. Continuum of Care Lead Agency
Contact. Person(s) with the authority to
submit the Continuum of Care Homeless
Assistance Competition application on
behalf of the CoC, usually the Executive
Director or CEO of the CoC Lead
Agency.
5. Continuum of Care Need Amounts
a. Continuum of Care Preliminary Pro
Rata Need (PPRN). Amount of funds a
CoC could receive based upon the
geography that HUD approves as
belonging to that CoC. To determine the
homeless assistance need of a particular
jurisdiction, HUD will use nationally
available data, including the following
factors as used in the Emergency Shelter
Grants (ESG) program formula: data on
poverty, housing overcrowding,
population, age of housing, and growth
lag. Applying those factors to a
particular jurisdiction provides an
estimate of the relative need index for
that jurisdiction compared to other
jurisdictions applying for assistance
under the FY2008 CoC NOFA. Each year
HUD publishes the PPRN for each
jurisdiction. A CoC’s PPRN is
determined by adding the published
PPRN of each jurisdiction within the
HUD-approved CoC. The list of
geographic areas and CoC Names and
Numbers can be found at https://
www.hudhre.info or at https://
www.hud.gov.
b. Continuum of Care Hold Harmless
Need (HHN). The amount of funds a
CoC is eligible to receive where the ARA
of all SHP grants expiring in that CoC
during the period beginning January 1,
2009 and ending December 31, 2009
exceeds the PPRN for that CoC. The
HHN is the amount needed to fund the
expiring renewal grants for one year. To
provide communities with maximum
flexibility in addressing current needs,
CoCs have the discretion to not fund or
to reduce one or more SHP renewal
project applications through the HHN
Reallocation process and still receive
the benefit of the hold harmless need
amount if the CoC proposes to use that
amount of reduced renewal funds for
new permanent supportive housing or
new dedicated HMIS SHP projects.
c. Continuum of Care Final Pro Rata
Need (FPRN). The higher amount of: (1)
PPRN and (2) HHN.
6. Continuum of Care Primary
Decision Making Group. This group
manages the overall planning effort for
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the CoC, including, but not limited to,
the following types of activities: setting
agendas for full Continuum of Care
meetings, project monitoring,
determining project priorities, and
providing final approval for the CoC
application submission. This body is
also responsible for the implementation
of the CoC’s HMIS, either through direct
oversight or through the designation of
an HMIS implementing agency. This
group may be the CoC Lead Agency or
may authorize another entity to be the
CoC Lead Agency under its direction.
7. Continuum of Care Registration. A
step in the electronic application
process that requires a CoC to claim
geography and appoint a CoC Lead
Agency that will be responsible for the
submission of the electronic application
to HUD.
C. CoC Planning Process
HUD will evaluate CoCs on the
following criteria:
• CoC Housing, Services, and
Structure;
• Homeless Needs and Data
Collection;
• CoC Strategic Planning;
• CoC Performance; and
• Housing Emphasis.
These criteria are not significantly
changed from prior years. Therefore,
CoCs are encouraged to continue
planning for the FY2008 CoC Homeless
Assistance competition in the same
manner that they have in past years.
This includes:
1. Community-wide or region-wide
participation. A CoC system is
developed through a community-wide
or region-wide process involving the
coordination of nonprofit organizations
(including those representing persons
with disabilities), state and local
government agencies, public housing
agencies, community and faith-based
organizations, other homeless providers,
service providers, housing developers,
private health care associations, law
enforcement and corrections agencies,
school systems, private funding
providers, and homeless or formerly
homeless persons to successfully
address the complex and interrelated
problems related to homelessness. As in
the past, this year HUD emphasizes its
determination to integrate and align
plans including jurisdictional, state, and
city ten-year plans (jurisdictional tenyear plans) encouraged by the U.S.
Interagency Council on Homelessness
and Consolidated Plans, into the CoC
plans. These plans serve as a vehicle for
a community to comprehensively
identify each of its needs and to
coordinate a plan for addressing them.
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A CoC should address the specific
needs of each homeless subpopulation:
those experiencing chronic
homelessness, veterans, persons with
serious mental illnesses, persons with
substance abuse issues, persons with
HIV/AIDS, persons with co-occurring
diagnoses (these may include diagnoses
of multiple physical disabilities or
multiple mental disabilities or a
combination of these two types), victims
of domestic violence, youth, and any
others. To ensure that the CoC system
addresses the needs of homeless
veterans, it is particularly important that
CoCs involve veteran service
organizations with specific experience
in serving homeless veterans.
2. CoC Geographic Area. In deciding
what geographic area a CoC will cover
as part of its CoC strategy, CoCs should
be aware that a key factor in being
awarded funding will be the strength of
a CoC process when measured against
the CoC rating factors described in the
FY2008 CoC NOFA. When a CoC
determines what jurisdictions to include
in its CoC strategy area, it should
include only those jurisdictions that are
fully involved in the development and
implementation of the CoC strategy.
The more jurisdictions a CoC includes
in the CoC, the larger the pro rata need
share that will be allocated to the
strategy area. If a CoC is located in a
rural county, it may wish to consider
working with larger groups of
contiguous counties to develop a regionwide or multi-county CoC strategy
covering the combined service areas of
these counties. The areas covered by
CoC strategies should not overlap.
3. CoC Components. A CoC system
typically consists of five basic elements,
as follows:
a. A system of outreach, engagement,
and assessment for determining the
needs and conditions of individuals or
families who are homeless, and
necessary support to identify, prioritize,
and respond to persons who are
chronically homeless;
b. Emergency shelters with
appropriate supportive services to help
ensure that homeless individuals and
families receive adequate emergency
shelter and referral to necessary service
providers or housing search counselors;
c. Transitional housing with
appropriate supportive services to help
homeless individuals and families
prepare to make the transition to
permanent housing and independent
living;
d. Permanent housing, or permanent
supportive housing, to help meet the
long-term needs of homeless individuals
and families; and,
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e. Prevention strategies, which play
an integral role in a community’s plan
to eliminate homelessness by effectively
intervening for persons at risk of
homelessness or those being discharged
from public systems—e.g., corrections,
foster care, mental health, and other
institutions—so that they do not enter
the homeless system. By law,
prevention activities are ineligible
activities in the three programs included
in this Notice but are eligible for
funding under the Emergency Shelter
Grants (ESG) program and many other
programs.
4. Once the CoC application has been
submitted and scored, the CoC will
receive its conditional award. This is
the total amount of monies awarded to
a CoC’s eligible projects including new
and renewal SHP and S+C projects, new
SRO Moderate-Rehabilitation projects,
Samaritan Housing Initiative and Rapid
Re-Housing for Families Demonstration
projects.
II. Completing the Registration Process
for CoCs
A. Overview of Information Required for
Registration
Regardless of the CoC structure and
planning process, the FY2008 electronic
registration/application process will
require that each CoC select up to two
persons, from the CoC Lead Agency,
who are authorized to submit the CoC
application and project applications to
HUD, known as the CoC Lead Agency
Contact(s). Before the CoC Lead Agency
Contact(s) enters e-snaps (s)he should
know the following information:
• The CoC’s Lead Agency
• CoC contact person for receiving
messages from HUD
• The CoC Name and Number
• The CoC’s geographic areas
B. Submitting the Electronic
Registration
In order to be eligible to submit an
application through e-snaps for the
FY2008 Homeless Assistance
competition, CoCs must register in the
electronic database, e-snaps, prior to the
beginning of the FY2008 CoC
competition. The CoC registration
process will begin on or about May 1,
2008 and close at 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on or about June 15, 2008. HUD
will notify potential applicants of the
exact registration opening and closing
dates via the HUD Homeless Assistance
listserv and through its Web sites
located at https://www.hud.gov and
https://www.hudhre.info. During the
registration phase, CoCs will be asked to
identify the CoC lead agency, contact
information for lead agency staff, and
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the geography that the CoC is claiming.
This process will not be part of
www.grants.gov. CoCs will receive
confirmation from HUD concerning
claimed geography, PPRN and HHN
Amounts. The CoC Lead Agency
Contact may access e-snaps beginning
on or about May 1, 2008 at https://
www.hud.gov/esnaps.
HUD held a broadcast regarding the
CoC registration process on April 22,
2008. This broadcast may be viewed at
https://www.hud.gov/webcasts/archives/.
On-line training for CoC Registration
may be accessed at https://
www.hudhre.info. To assist CoCs with
the registration process, HUD has set up
a Help Desk, which can be accessed toll
free via phone at 1–877–6eSNAPS (1–
877–637–6277) or via e-mail at
esnaps@hudhre.info.
In addition, HUD has the HUDdefined CoC names and numbers as well
as a list of each geographic area with its
pro-rata need amount on https://
www.hud.gov and https://
www.hudhre.info/
index.cfm?do=viewCoCGrantMaterials.
Existing and proposed CoCs must
register their HUD-defined CoC and
claimed geography with HUD through esnaps. If a CoC does not have a HUDdefined name it should contact the HUD
Field Office serving its area.
In the instance that one or more CoC
planning bodies claim one or more of
the same geographies, HUD shall
determine which CoC has the best claim
for the geography based upon past
experience and the participation and
desires of the predominant number of
homeless service providers in the
disputed geography. The HUD decision
on allocating geography is final and
competing CoCs shall be notified of
HUD’s determination prior to the release
of the FY2008 CoC application.
III. Changes for FY2008 CoC NOFA
The following is a list of major
changes to the FY2008 CoC NOFA:
1. CoCs and project applicants will be
required to apply for the FY2008 CoC
competition electronically through
https://www.hud.gov/esnaps.
2. CoCs will be required to register
their CoCs in the new homeless
electronic application system, e-snaps,
prior to the beginning of the
competition. For more information see
Section II of this Notice.
3. A CoC may create multiple
Samaritan Housing Initiative projects as
long as the total amount of funding
requested for all initiative projects does
not exceed 15 percent of the CoC’s
Preliminary Pro Rata Need.
4. HUD will continue to score
Homeless Assistance applications on a
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100-point scale; however, the 40 Need
points previously allocated to projects
will be redistributed into the existing
point structure. The exact redistribution
of points will be announced in the
FY2008 CoC NOFA. Need will continue
to be accounted for through the formula
that determines Preliminary Pro Rata
Need or the Hold Harmless Need
amounts for the CoC.
5. As directed by Congress in the
FY2008 HUD Appropriation
(Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008,
H.R. 2764), HUD will implement a
Rapid Re-Housing for Families
Demonstration Program through the
FY2008 CoC NOFA. This demonstration
program will serve homeless
households with dependent children.
6. Safe Havens (SH) will no longer be
given Transitional Housing (TH) or
Permanent Housing (PH) classifications
and grantees will have an opportunity
through the FY2008 CoC NOFA to
change the classification of their project
without a grant amendment. Under the
newly defined Safe Haven SHP program
type, any chronically homeless person
entering a Safe Haven will maintain his/
her status as chronically homeless and
will therefore be eligible to enter a
funded Samaritan Housing Initiative
project.
7. HUD is aware that there has been
some confusion over Shelter Plus Care
(S+C) and new SRO grant amounts and
is reminding grantees and applicants
that S+C and new SRO grants may not
exceed 100 percent of the Fair Market
Rent (FMR) for the Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA) and unit size.
8. CoCs that are in ‘‘Hold Harmless
Need Status’’ may now use the
reallocation process to create new
dedicated HMIS projects.
9. HUD will allow only one applicant
for HMIS dedicated grants within a CoC.
10. HMIS funds contained in the
Training and Technical Assistance line
item of the HMIS budget may be used
for travel, hotel, and per diem costs
associated with the provision of
technical assistance and training
sessions by local HMIS staff; attendance
at training sessions provided by local
HMIS staff and/or outside trainers;
attendance at HUD-sponsored HMIS
training sessions or symposiums;
attendance at HMIS vendor-sponsored
user meetings; and attendance at other
HMIS-related events as qualified and
pre-approved by HUD Headquarters.
Applicants may be asked to identify the
number and type of HMIS training
sessions for which they are requesting
SHP funds during the technical
submission process. Payments will be
limited to the reasonableness of travel
expenses as listed in 24 CFR Parts 84
and 85.
Dated: April 25, 2008.
´
Nelson R. Bregon,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Community Planning and Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control
Number 1018–0101; Monitoring
Recovered Species After Delisting–
American Peregrine Falcon
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. The ICR, which is
summarized below, describes the nature
of the collection and the estimated
burden and cost. This information
collection is scheduled to expire on
April 30, 2008. We may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
Number of annual
respondents
Activity
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to
conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before May 30, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this ICR to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the
Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395–6566
(fax) or OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov
(e-mail). Please provide a copy of your
comments to Hope Grey, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 222–ARLSQ, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail); (703) 358–2269 (fax); or
hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail, fax,
or e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0101.
Title: Monitoring Recovered Species
After Delisting–American Peregrine
Falcon.
Service Form Number(s): FWS Forms
3–2307, 3–2308, and 3–2309.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Professional
biologists employed by State agencies
and other organizations, and volunteers
that have been involved in past
peregrine falcon conservation efforts.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Monitoring is conducted every 3 years.
For eggs and feathers, 15 to 20 of each
are collected over a period of no more
than 5 years.
Estimated Nonhour Cost Burden: We
estimate the total nonhour burden cost
to be $156.00 for expenses incurred
when contaminants samples must be
shipped to designated labs for analysis
and storage.
Number of annual
responses
Completion time
per response
Annual burden
hours
214
8
8
638
8
8
2.5 hours .........
2.5 hours .........
2.5 hours .........
1,595
20
20
Totals ................................................................................
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FWS Form 3–2308 ..................................................................
FWS Form 3–2309 ..................................................................
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Abstract: This information collection
(IC) implements the requirements of the
Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C.
1539). There are no corresponding
Service regulations for the ESA’s postdelisting monitoring requirement. This
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IC also implements the Migratory Bird
Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 704) contained in
Service regulations in Chapter I,
Subchapter B of Title 50 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR).
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The American peregrine falcon was
removed from the List of Endangered
and Threatened Wildlife on August 25,
1999. Section 4(g) of the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) requires that all
species that are recovered and removed
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5214-N-01]
Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Opportunity To Register and Other
Important Information for Electronic Application Submission for
Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Programs
AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: For fiscal year (FY) 2008, HUD will require Continuums of Care
to submit their applications electronically, using e-snaps, an
electronic system separate from Grants.gov. This Notice provides
detailed instructions on completing the Continuum of Care (CoC)
registration process for e-snaps. This Notice also provides applicants
important information, including definitions and the necessary CoC
planning process, that CoC and project applicants should be familiar
with prior to applying for FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance funding.
Finally, today's Notice provides information about the major changes
that HUD will make to the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance competition.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The HUD Field Office serving your
area. This information can be found at https://www.hud.gov/
localoffices.cfm.
Full Text of Announcement
HUD will make approximately $1.423 billion available through the
FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance NOFA. For FY2008, HUD is transitioning
the CoC program from a paper process to an electronic process. Today's
Notice provides detailed instructions on completing the CoC
registration process for e-snaps, an electronic system separate from
Grants.gov. The uniform resource identifier/locater (URL) for e-snaps
is https://www.hud.gov/esnaps. Today's Notice also provides applicants
important information, including necessary definitions and the CoC
planning process, that CoC and project applicants should be familiar
with prior to applying for FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance funding and
important information about the major changes that HUD will make to the
FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance competition. HUD anticipates publishing
its FY2008 CoC NOFA in the Federal Register no earlier than July 1,
2008.
As noted herein, applicants for project funding will continue to be
required to register with Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) and complete or
renew their registration in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR).
For more information regarding registering with D&B and CCR, HUD
encourages applicants to closely review HUD's March 10, 2008, FY2008
Notice of Early Registration, (72 FR 12751) and HUD's FY2008 General
Section, published March 19, 2008 (73 FR 14882).
This Notice is divided into three sections. Section I describes the
important overview information that CoCs and project applicants should
be familiar with prior to applying for FY2008 Homeless Assistance
funding. This includes pertinent definitions and the CoC planning
process. Section II of this Notice provides detailed information on
completing the CoC registration process in e-snaps. Finally, Section
III provides information about the major changes that HUD will make to
the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance competition. HUD hopes that this
will assist CoCs in better planning their FY2008 CoC application.
I. Overview Information
A. Program Description
Approximately $1.423 billion is available for funding through the
FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance Competition. The purpose of the CoC
Homeless Assistance Program is to reduce the incidence of homelessness
in CoC communities by assisting homeless individuals and families to
move to self-sufficiency and permanent housing.
B. Definitions
The only definitions contained in this Notice are those necessary
for CoCs to understand in order to complete the FY2008 CoC registration
process. A complete list of definitions will be provided in the FY2008
CoC NOFA.
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1. Annual Renewal Amount. The maximum amount that a Supportive
Housing Program (SHP) grant can receive on an annual basis when
renewed. It includes funds for only those eligible activities
(operating, supportive services, leasing, Homeless Management
Information System (HMIS) and administration) that were funded in the
original grant (or the original grant as amended), less the
nonrenewable activities (acquisition, new construction, rehabilitation,
and any administration costs related to these activities). It is used
to calculate a CoC's Hold Harmless Need amount.
To calculate the Annual Renewal Amount (ARA) for SHP grants, add up
the amount of the renewable budget line items (i.e., operating,
supportive services, leasing, HMIS, and administration) for all the
years of the most recent grant, and divide by the number of years in
the grant term. Any funding for acquisition, rehabilitation, new
construction--and any administration costs related to those
activities--is not renewable and therefore should not be calculated in
the ARA. If the initial grant included these activities, administrative
costs may only be calculated up to 5 percent of the total of leasing,
operating, HMIS, and supportive services costs contained in the initial
grant.
For example, if the initial three-year grant was for $472,500
($150,000 for new construction, $150,000 for operating costs, $150,000
for supportive services, and $22,500 for administration), the new
construction costs, and any administration costs associated with it,
would not be eligible for renewal. Thus, the total renewable amount
would be $315,000 ($150,000 for operating costs, $150,000 for
supportive services, and $15,000 for administration) and the ARA is
$105,000 ($315,000 divided by the three-year grant term).
If the initial three-year grant was $315,000 and did not include
acquisition, rehabilitation or new construction costs, ($150,000 for
operating costs, $150,000 for supportive services, and $15,000 for
administration), the ARA would be $105,000 ($315,000 divided by the
three-year grant term).
2. Continuum of Care. A collaborative funding and planning approach
that helps communities plan for and provide, as necessary, a full range
of emergency, transitional, and permanent housing and other service
resources to address the various needs of homeless persons. HUD also
refers to the group of stakeholders involved in the decision making
processes as the ``Continuum of Care.''
3. Continuum of Care Lead Agency. Agency or organization designated
by the CoC primary decision making body to be the entity that submits
the CoC application.
4. Continuum of Care Lead Agency Contact. Person(s) with the
authority to submit the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance
Competition application on behalf of the CoC, usually the Executive
Director or CEO of the CoC Lead Agency.
5. Continuum of Care Need Amounts
a. Continuum of Care Preliminary Pro Rata Need (PPRN). Amount of
funds a CoC could receive based upon the geography that HUD approves as
belonging to that CoC. To determine the homeless assistance need of a
particular jurisdiction, HUD will use nationally available data,
including the following factors as used in the Emergency Shelter Grants
(ESG) program formula: data on poverty, housing overcrowding,
population, age of housing, and growth lag. Applying those factors to a
particular jurisdiction provides an estimate of the relative need index
for that jurisdiction compared to other jurisdictions applying for
assistance under the FY2008 CoC NOFA. Each year HUD publishes the PPRN
for each jurisdiction. A CoC's PPRN is determined by adding the
published PPRN of each jurisdiction within the HUD-approved CoC. The
list of geographic areas and CoC Names and Numbers can be found at
https://www.hudhre.info or at https://www.hud.gov.
b. Continuum of Care Hold Harmless Need (HHN). The amount of funds
a CoC is eligible to receive where the ARA of all SHP grants expiring
in that CoC during the period beginning January 1, 2009 and ending
December 31, 2009 exceeds the PPRN for that CoC. The HHN is the amount
needed to fund the expiring renewal grants for one year. To provide
communities with maximum flexibility in addressing current needs, CoCs
have the discretion to not fund or to reduce one or more SHP renewal
project applications through the HHN Reallocation process and still
receive the benefit of the hold harmless need amount if the CoC
proposes to use that amount of reduced renewal funds for new permanent
supportive housing or new dedicated HMIS SHP projects.
c. Continuum of Care Final Pro Rata Need (FPRN). The higher amount
of: (1) PPRN and (2) HHN.
6. Continuum of Care Primary Decision Making Group. This group
manages the overall planning effort for the CoC, including, but not
limited to, the following types of activities: setting agendas for full
Continuum of Care meetings, project monitoring, determining project
priorities, and providing final approval for the CoC application
submission. This body is also responsible for the implementation of the
CoC's HMIS, either through direct oversight or through the designation
of an HMIS implementing agency. This group may be the CoC Lead Agency
or may authorize another entity to be the CoC Lead Agency under its
direction.
7. Continuum of Care Registration. A step in the electronic
application process that requires a CoC to claim geography and appoint
a CoC Lead Agency that will be responsible for the submission of the
electronic application to HUD.
C. CoC Planning Process
HUD will evaluate CoCs on the following criteria:
CoC Housing, Services, and Structure;
Homeless Needs and Data Collection;
CoC Strategic Planning;
CoC Performance; and
Housing Emphasis.
These criteria are not significantly changed from prior years.
Therefore, CoCs are encouraged to continue planning for the FY2008 CoC
Homeless Assistance competition in the same manner that they have in
past years. This includes:
1. Community-wide or region-wide participation. A CoC system is
developed through a community-wide or region-wide process involving the
coordination of nonprofit organizations (including those representing
persons with disabilities), state and local government agencies, public
housing agencies, community and faith-based organizations, other
homeless providers, service providers, housing developers, private
health care associations, law enforcement and corrections agencies,
school systems, private funding providers, and homeless or formerly
homeless persons to successfully address the complex and interrelated
problems related to homelessness. As in the past, this year HUD
emphasizes its determination to integrate and align plans including
jurisdictional, state, and city ten-year plans (jurisdictional ten-year
plans) encouraged by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and
Consolidated Plans, into the CoC plans. These plans serve as a vehicle
for a community to comprehensively identify each of its needs and to
coordinate a plan for addressing them.
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A CoC should address the specific needs of each homeless
subpopulation: those experiencing chronic homelessness, veterans,
persons with serious mental illnesses, persons with substance abuse
issues, persons with HIV/AIDS, persons with co-occurring diagnoses
(these may include diagnoses of multiple physical disabilities or
multiple mental disabilities or a combination of these two types),
victims of domestic violence, youth, and any others. To ensure that the
CoC system addresses the needs of homeless veterans, it is particularly
important that CoCs involve veteran service organizations with specific
experience in serving homeless veterans.
2. CoC Geographic Area. In deciding what geographic area a CoC will
cover as part of its CoC strategy, CoCs should be aware that a key
factor in being awarded funding will be the strength of a CoC process
when measured against the CoC rating factors described in the FY2008
CoC NOFA. When a CoC determines what jurisdictions to include in its
CoC strategy area, it should include only those jurisdictions that are
fully involved in the development and implementation of the CoC
strategy.
The more jurisdictions a CoC includes in the CoC, the larger the
pro rata need share that will be allocated to the strategy area. If a
CoC is located in a rural county, it may wish to consider working with
larger groups of contiguous counties to develop a region-wide or multi-
county CoC strategy covering the combined service areas of these
counties. The areas covered by CoC strategies should not overlap.
3. CoC Components. A CoC system typically consists of five basic
elements, as follows:
a. A system of outreach, engagement, and assessment for determining
the needs and conditions of individuals or families who are homeless,
and necessary support to identify, prioritize, and respond to persons
who are chronically homeless;
b. Emergency shelters with appropriate supportive services to help
ensure that homeless individuals and families receive adequate
emergency shelter and referral to necessary service providers or
housing search counselors;
c. Transitional housing with appropriate supportive services to
help homeless individuals and families prepare to make the transition
to permanent housing and independent living;
d. Permanent housing, or permanent supportive housing, to help meet
the long-term needs of homeless individuals and families; and,
e. Prevention strategies, which play an integral role in a
community's plan to eliminate homelessness by effectively intervening
for persons at risk of homelessness or those being discharged from
public systems--e.g., corrections, foster care, mental health, and
other institutions--so that they do not enter the homeless system. By
law, prevention activities are ineligible activities in the three
programs included in this Notice but are eligible for funding under the
Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) program and many other programs.
4. Once the CoC application has been submitted and scored, the CoC
will receive its conditional award. This is the total amount of monies
awarded to a CoC's eligible projects including new and renewal SHP and
S+C projects, new SRO Moderate-Rehabilitation projects, Samaritan
Housing Initiative and Rapid Re-Housing for Families Demonstration
projects.
II. Completing the Registration Process for CoCs
A. Overview of Information Required for Registration
Regardless of the CoC structure and planning process, the FY2008
electronic registration/application process will require that each CoC
select up to two persons, from the CoC Lead Agency, who are authorized
to submit the CoC application and project applications to HUD, known as
the CoC Lead Agency Contact(s). Before the CoC Lead Agency Contact(s)
enters e-snaps (s)he should know the following information:
The CoC's Lead Agency
CoC contact person for receiving messages from HUD
The CoC Name and Number
The CoC's geographic areas
B. Submitting the Electronic Registration
In order to be eligible to submit an application through e-snaps
for the FY2008 Homeless Assistance competition, CoCs must register in
the electronic database, e-snaps, prior to the beginning of the FY2008
CoC competition. The CoC registration process will begin on or about
May 1, 2008 and close at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on or about June 15,
2008. HUD will notify potential applicants of the exact registration
opening and closing dates via the HUD Homeless Assistance listserv and
through its Web sites located at https://www.hud.gov and https://
www.hudhre.info. During the registration phase, CoCs will be asked to
identify the CoC lead agency, contact information for lead agency
staff, and the geography that the CoC is claiming. This process will
not be part of www.grants.gov. CoCs will receive confirmation from HUD
concerning claimed geography, PPRN and HHN Amounts. The CoC Lead Agency
Contact may access e-snaps beginning on or about May 1, 2008 at https://
www.hud.gov/esnaps.
HUD held a broadcast regarding the CoC registration process on
April 22, 2008. This broadcast may be viewed at https://www.hud.gov/
webcasts/archives/. On-line training for CoC Registration may be
accessed at https://www.hudhre.info. To assist CoCs with the
registration process, HUD has set up a Help Desk, which can be accessed
toll free via phone at 1-877-6eSNAPS (1-877-637-6277) or via e-mail at
esnaps@hudhre.info.
In addition, HUD has the HUD-defined CoC names and numbers as well
as a list of each geographic area with its pro-rata need amount on
https://www.hud.gov and https://www.hudhre.info/
index.cfm?do=viewCoCGrantMaterials. Existing and proposed CoCs must
register their HUD-defined CoC and claimed geography with HUD through
e-snaps. If a CoC does not have a HUD-defined name it should contact
the HUD Field Office serving its area.
In the instance that one or more CoC planning bodies claim one or
more of the same geographies, HUD shall determine which CoC has the
best claim for the geography based upon past experience and the
participation and desires of the predominant number of homeless service
providers in the disputed geography. The HUD decision on allocating
geography is final and competing CoCs shall be notified of HUD's
determination prior to the release of the FY2008 CoC application.
III. Changes for FY2008 CoC NOFA
The following is a list of major changes to the FY2008 CoC NOFA:
1. CoCs and project applicants will be required to apply for the
FY2008 CoC competition electronically through https://www.hud.gov/
esnaps.
2. CoCs will be required to register their CoCs in the new homeless
electronic application system, e-snaps, prior to the beginning of the
competition. For more information see Section II of this Notice.
3. A CoC may create multiple Samaritan Housing Initiative projects
as long as the total amount of funding requested for all initiative
projects does not exceed 15 percent of the CoC's Preliminary Pro Rata
Need.
4. HUD will continue to score Homeless Assistance applications on a
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100-point scale; however, the 40 Need points previously allocated to
projects will be redistributed into the existing point structure. The
exact redistribution of points will be announced in the FY2008 CoC
NOFA. Need will continue to be accounted for through the formula that
determines Preliminary Pro Rata Need or the Hold Harmless Need amounts
for the CoC.
5. As directed by Congress in the FY2008 HUD Appropriation
(Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, H.R. 2764), HUD will implement
a Rapid Re-Housing for Families Demonstration Program through the
FY2008 CoC NOFA. This demonstration program will serve homeless
households with dependent children.
6. Safe Havens (SH) will no longer be given Transitional Housing
(TH) or Permanent Housing (PH) classifications and grantees will have
an opportunity through the FY2008 CoC NOFA to change the classification
of their project without a grant amendment. Under the newly defined
Safe Haven SHP program type, any chronically homeless person entering a
Safe Haven will maintain his/her status as chronically homeless and
will therefore be eligible to enter a funded Samaritan Housing
Initiative project.
7. HUD is aware that there has been some confusion over Shelter
Plus Care (S+C) and new SRO grant amounts and is reminding grantees and
applicants that S+C and new SRO grants may not exceed 100 percent of
the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
and unit size.
8. CoCs that are in ``Hold Harmless Need Status'' may now use the
reallocation process to create new dedicated HMIS projects.
9. HUD will allow only one applicant for HMIS dedicated grants
within a CoC.
10. HMIS funds contained in the Training and Technical Assistance
line item of the HMIS budget may be used for travel, hotel, and per
diem costs associated with the provision of technical assistance and
training sessions by local HMIS staff; attendance at training sessions
provided by local HMIS staff and/or outside trainers; attendance at
HUD-sponsored HMIS training sessions or symposiums; attendance at HMIS
vendor-sponsored user meetings; and attendance at other HMIS-related
events as qualified and pre-approved by HUD Headquarters. Applicants
may be asked to identify the number and type of HMIS training sessions
for which they are requesting SHP funds during the technical submission
process. Payments will be limited to the reasonableness of travel
expenses as listed in 24 CFR Parts 84 and 85.
Dated: April 25, 2008.
Nelson R. Breg[oacute]n,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development.
[FR Doc. E8-9540 Filed 4-29-08; 8:45 am]
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