Notice of Availability: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Capital Fund Recovery Competition Grants; Corrections, Changes, and Clarifications, 27340 [E9-13525]

Download as PDF 27340 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 109 / Tuesday, June 9, 2009 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR–5311–N–02] Notice of Availability: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Capital Fund Recovery Competition Grants; Corrections, Changes, and Clarifications AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: On May 7, 2009, HUD posted on its website its Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for HUD’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Capital Fund Recovery Competition (CFRC) Grants. Through this document, HUD announces that it has posted on its Web site a revised NOFA that corrects, changes and clarifies a number of criteria established in the document posted on May 7, 2009. The corrections, changes, and clarifications to the NOFA include, among other items, the following: adding threshold funding caps in Categories 1, 2 and 3 for public housing agencies (PHAs) designated as High Performers; adding a rating factor on High Performer status to Category 4; amending the Capacity threshold requirement relating to the Capital Fund; clarifying the threshold requirement of Category 2, Public Housing Transformation, that deals with the census tract and the concentration of poverty; adding definitions of leverage and match and adding tie-breaking criteria based on leverage and match; amending the leverage ratio criteria in Category 1 required for Round 1 consideration; amending the Category 3 threshold requirement to require that any demolition and/or disposition applications had to be submitted to HUD no later than the date of the publication of the revised NOFA; and clarifying certain other Category 4 rating factors and funding limits. Please see the revised NOFA document for all the corrections, changes, and clarifications made. To permit applicants time to prepare applications that take into account these and other changes incorporated in the revised NOFA, HUD is revising the application deadline dates for each funding category: For Threshold-Based applications (Categories 1, 2 and 3), the Department will assign the first Ordinal on July 6, 2009; but will begin accepting applications on June 22, 2009. For Rated and Ranked applications (Category 4), the deadline date for applications is July 29, 2009, but HUD will begin accepting VerDate Nov<24>2008 14:45 Jun 08, 2009 Jkt 217001 applications on June 22, 2009. The NOFA which reflects these changes, corrections and clarifications is available on the HUD Web site at: https://www.hud.gov/recovery (which connects to the Office of Capital Improvements Web site, https://www. hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/ capfund/ocir.cfm). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have a question or need a clarification, you may contact the Office of Capital Improvements by sending an email message to PIHOCI@hud.gov. Please see https://www.hud.gov/offices/ pih/programs/ph/capfund/ocir.cfm, which can be accessed from https:// www.hud.gov/recovery/, for additional information. Dated: June 3, 2009. Dominique G. Blom, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments. [FR Doc. E9–13525 Filed 6–5–09; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 4210–67–P DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR–5300–N–06A] Notice of Availability: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program; Technical Correction AGENCY: Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, HUD. ACTION: Notice of technical correction. SUMMARY: On May 22, 2009, HUD posted on its Web site its Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for HUD’s FY2009 Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program. Today’s Federal Register publication announces that HUD has posted on its Web site a revised NOFA that corrects Appendix A of the NOFA and extends the deadline for submitting waiver requests to reduce the statutory match. Specifically, HUD inadvertently omitted a number of jurisdictions that are eligible for the FY2009 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program from part A of Appendix A, entitled ‘‘Cities, Towns, Counties, and States Having at Least One Place or County with 3,500 or More Occupied Rental Housing Units Built Before 1940, and Eligible States and Tribes.’’ The revised Appendix A is available at https://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/ 09NOFA/leadcombo.cfm. In addition, in order to provide equal opportunity to all PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 eligible applicants, the deadline for submitting waiver requests to reduce the statutory match amount from 25% to 10% is being extended from June 10, 2009 to June 23, 2009. The period for HUD to review the requests is extended from June 22, 2009 to June 30, 2009. The deadline for receipt of the applications in HUD headquarters remains 5:00 PM eastern time July 20, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program, contact Warren Friedman, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 8236, Washington, DC 20410–3000; telephone number 202–402–7574 (this is not a tollfree number). Persons with speech or hearing impairments may access this telephone number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service during working hours at 800– 877–8339. Dated: June 3, 2009. Jon L. Gant, Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control. [FR Doc. E9–13527 Filed 6–5–09; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 4210–67–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of the Secretary Office of Policy Analysis; Proposed Information Collection; Non-use Valuation Survey, Klamath Basin U.S. Department of the Interior. Notice; request for comments. AGENCY: ACTION: SUMMARY: We (The Department of the Interior) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the Information Collection (IC) described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on this IC. 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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 9, 2009)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5311-N-02]


Notice of Availability: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Capital Fund Recovery 
Competition Grants; Corrections, Changes, and Clarifications

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On May 7, 2009, HUD posted on its website its Notice of 
Funding Availability (NOFA) for HUD's American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act Capital Fund Recovery Competition (CFRC) Grants. 
Through this document, HUD announces that it has posted on its Web site 
a revised NOFA that corrects, changes and clarifies a number of 
criteria established in the document posted on May 7, 2009. The 
corrections, changes, and clarifications to the NOFA include, among 
other items, the following: adding threshold funding caps in Categories 
1, 2 and 3 for public housing agencies (PHAs) designated as High 
Performers; adding a rating factor on High Performer status to Category 
4; amending the Capacity threshold requirement relating to the Capital 
Fund; clarifying the threshold requirement of Category 2, Public 
Housing Transformation, that deals with the census tract and the 
concentration of poverty; adding definitions of leverage and match and 
adding tie-breaking criteria based on leverage and match; amending the 
leverage ratio criteria in Category 1 required for Round 1 
consideration; amending the Category 3 threshold requirement to require 
that any demolition and/or disposition applications had to be submitted 
to HUD no later than the date of the publication of the revised NOFA; 
and clarifying certain other Category 4 rating factors and funding 
limits. Please see the revised NOFA document for all the corrections, 
changes, and clarifications made. To permit applicants time to prepare 
applications that take into account these and other changes 
incorporated in the revised NOFA, HUD is revising the application 
deadline dates for each funding category: For Threshold-Based 
applications (Categories 1, 2 and 3), the Department will assign the 
first Ordinal on July 6, 2009; but will begin accepting applications on 
June 22, 2009. For Rated and Ranked applications (Category 4), the 
deadline date for applications is July 29, 2009, but HUD will begin 
accepting applications on June 22, 2009. The NOFA which reflects these 
changes, corrections and clarifications is available on the HUD Web 
site at: https://www.hud.gov/recovery (which connects to the Office of 
Capital Improvements Web site, https://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/capfund/ocir.cfm).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have a question or need a 
clarification, you may contact the Office of Capital Improvements by 
sending an email message to PIHOCI@hud.gov. Please see https://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/capfund/ocir.cfm, which can be 
accessed from https://www.hud.gov/recovery/, for additional information.

    Dated: June 3, 2009.
Dominique G. Blom,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments.
[FR Doc. E9-13525 Filed 6-5-09; 11:15 am]
BILLING CODE 4210-67-P
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