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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5696–N–04]
Additional Waivers and Alternative
Requirements for Hurricane Sandy
Grantees in Receipt of Community
Development Block Grant Disaster
Recovery Funds
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Previously, the Department
allocated $5.4 billion of Community
Development Block Grant disaster
recovery (CDBG–DR) funds
appropriated by the Disaster Relief
Appropriations Act, 2013 for the
purpose of assisting recovery in the
most impacted and distressed areas
declared a major disaster due to
Hurricane Sandy (see 78 FR 14329,
published in the Federal Register on
March 5, 2013). This notice provides
additional waivers and alternative
requirements.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
This notice is effective: August 6,
2013.
Stan
Gimont, Director, Office of Block Grant
Assistance, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Room 7286, Washington, DC 20410,
telephone number 202–708–3587.
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
via TTY by calling the Federal Relay
Service at 800–877–8339. Facsimile
inquiries may be sent to Mr. Gimont at
202–401–2044. (Except for the ‘‘800’’
number, these telephone numbers are
not toll-free.) Email inquiries may be
sent to disaster_recovery@hud.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Table of Contents
I. Background
II. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, and
Alternative Requirements
III. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
IV. Finding of No Significant Impact
I. Background
The Disaster Relief Appropriations
Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113–2, approved
January 29, 2013) (Appropriations Act)
makes available $16 billion in
Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) funds for necessary expenses
related to disaster relief, long-term
recovery, restoration of infrastructure
and housing, and economic
revitalization in the most impacted and
distressed areas resulting from a major
disaster declared pursuant to the Robert
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46999
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act of 1974 (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) (Stafford Act), due
to Hurricane Sandy and other eligible
events in calendar years 2011, 2012, and
2013.
On March 1, 2013, the President
issued a sequestration order pursuant to
section 251A of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as
amended (2 U.S.C. 901a), and reduced
funding for CDBG disaster recovery
(CDBG–DR) grants under the
Appropriations Act to $15.18 billion. In
a Federal Register notice published
March 5, 2013 (78 FR 14329), the
Department allocated $5.4 billion after
analyzing the impacts of Hurricane
Sandy and identifying unmet needs. A
subsequent notice, providing additional
guidance, waivers, and alternative
requirements for Hurricane Sandy
grantees was published by the
Department on April 19, 2013 (78 FR
23578). This notice provides additional
waivers and alternative requirements to
several Hurricane Sandy grantees—the
State of New York and the State of New
Jersey.
II. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers,
and Alternative Requirements
The Appropriations Act authorizes
the Secretary to waive, or specify
alternative requirements for any
provision of any statute or regulation
that the Secretary administers in
connection with the obligation by the
Secretary or the use by the recipient of
these funds (except for requirements
related to fair housing,
nondiscrimination, labor standards, and
the environment). Waivers and
alternative requirements are based upon
a determination by the Secretary that
good cause exists and that the waiver or
alternative requirement is not
inconsistent with the overall purposes
of Title I of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.
5301 et seq.) (HCD Act). Regulatory
waiver authority is also provided by 24
CFR 5.110, 91.600, and 570.5.
This section provides additional
waivers and alternative requirements to
several Hurricane Sandy grantees. For
each waiver and alternative requirement
described in this notice, the Secretary
has determined that good cause exists
and the action is not inconsistent with
the overall purpose of the HCD Act.
Grantees may request additional waivers
and alternative requirements from the
Department as needed to address
specific needs related to their recovery
activities. Under the requirements of the
Appropriations Act, regulatory waivers
must be published in the Federal
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Register no later than five days before
the effective date of such waiver.
1. Waiver to permit some activities in
support of the tourism industry (State of
New York only). In the notice published
on April 19, 2013, the Department
granted the State of New York a waiver
to allow the State to fund certain
tourism activities within the counties
most impacted and distressed by
Hurricane Sandy. This notice broadens
that waiver to allow the State to fund
certain tourism activities within
counties receiving a Presidential
disaster declaration in response to
Hurricane Irene and/or Tropical Storm
Lee.
Tourism in Irene/Lee-impacted
counties generates approximately $14
billion each year. In the 30 counties
affected by Hurricane Irene and Tropical
Storm Lee, 11,000 businesses were
impacted, accounting for 138,000 jobs.
During this same time period, 13 of the
impacted counties (located in the
Adirondacks, Southern Tier and Central
New York) experienced an economic
loss of approximately $108 million in
direct visitor spending and positive
impact on state and local taxes. Without
this waiver, the State estimates that the
economic recovery in these areas will
continue to significantly lag behind the
pre-storm average growth rates,
resulting in job loss and business
closures.
Thus, HUD is broadening its previous
waiver: 42 U.S.C. 5305(a) and 24 CFR
570.489(f) are waived only to the extent
necessary to allow the State to expend
up to $3 million (of the $30 million
already approved by the Department) for
the tourism industry to promote tourism
in counties in receipt of a Presidential
disaster declaration in response to
Hurricane Irene and/or Tropical Storm
Lee. Thus, this notice allows CDBG–DR
funds to be used to promote a
community or communities in general,
provided the assisted activities are
designed to support tourism within
areas designated major disaster areas as
a result of Hurricane Irene or Tropical
Storm Lee. In addition, per the April 19,
2013, notice, the State of New York may
use CDBG–DR funds to promote a
community or communities in general,
provided the assisted activities are
designed to support tourism to the most
impacted and distressed areas related to
the effects of Hurricane Sandy. This
waiver will expire at the end of the
State’s two-year expenditure period.
2. Use of ‘‘uncapped’’ income limits
(State of New Jersey only). The State of
New Jersey plans to initially target
disaster recovery funds to low- and
moderate-income households and has
enaged in targeted outreach to ensure
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these households, particularly in high
cost areas, can receive recovery funding.
To ensure that all eligible households
that are low- and moderate-income have
equal access to resources, the State
requested a waiver to allow all of the
nine most impacted counties within the
State to use HUD’s ‘‘uncapped income
limits’’ to better reflect the population of
low- and moderate-income households
in those areas.
The Quality Housing and Work
Responsibility Act of 1998 (Title V of
Pub. L. 105–276) enacted a provision
that directed the Department to grant
exceptions to at least 10 jurisdictions
that are currently ‘‘capped’’ under
HUD’s low and moderate-income limits.
Under this exception, a number of
CDBG entitlement grantees may use
‘‘uncapped’’ income limits that reflect
80 percent of the actual median income
for the area. Typically, average incomes
(and thus the cost of living, including
home values) in these entitlement
grantees are significantly higher than in
surrounding areas. By using uncapped
income limits, grantees are better able to
identify and assist those households
considered to be low- to moderateincome for that particular area.
In the Federal Register notice dated
March 5, 2013, the Department noted
that the uncapped limits apply to
disaster recovery activities funded
pursuant to this notice in jurisdictions
covered by the uncapped limits,
including jurisdictions that receive
disaster recovery funds from the State.
While there are New Jersey counties that
were most impacted by Hurricane
Sandy that currently use the
‘‘uncapped’’ income limits, there are
several that do not use the uncapped
limits. The State’s efforts to target CDBG
resources to low- and moderate-income
households means that those counties
that already have the uncapped income
limits (and thus more households that
may be designated as low- and
moderate-income) have a greater
likelihood of receiving funding than
counties that do not have the uncapped
income limits despite having similar
income demographics.
This notice imposes an alternative
requirement to the applicable U.S.
median family income cap on income
limits that will apply to the State of
New Jersey. The alternative requirement
extends the exemption permitting the
use of the uncapped income limits to all
of the nine most impacted counties that
were impacted by Hurricane Sandy
within the State of New Jersey to ensure
that households that are low- and
moderate-income have equal
opportunities to access funds. More
information about this exemption can be
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found on HUD’s Web site at https://
www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/systems/
census/lowmod/uncapped.cfm.
III. Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance
The Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance number for the disaster
recovery grants under this notice is
14.269.
IV. Finding of No Significant Impact
A Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI) with respect to the
environment has been made in
accordance with HUD regulations at 24
CFR part 50, which implement section
102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
4332(2)(C)). The FONSI is available for
public inspection between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. weekdays in the Regulations
Division, Office of General Counsel,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room
10276, Washington, DC 20410–0500.
Due to security measures at the HUD
Headquarters building, an advance
appointment to review the docket file
must be scheduled by calling the
Regulations Division at 202–708–3055
(this is not a toll-free number). Hearing
or Speech-impaired individuals may
access this number through TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Relay
Service at 800–877–9339.
Dated: July 26, 2013.
Mark Johnston,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs
Programs.
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ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This Notice identifies
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5696-N-04]
Additional Waivers and Alternative Requirements for Hurricane
Sandy Grantees in Receipt of Community Development Block Grant Disaster
Recovery Funds
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Previously, the Department allocated $5.4 billion of Community
Development Block Grant disaster recovery (CDBG-DR) funds appropriated
by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 for the purpose of
assisting recovery in the most impacted and distressed areas declared a
major disaster due to Hurricane Sandy (see 78 FR 14329, published in
the Federal Register on March 5, 2013). This notice provides additional
waivers and alternative requirements.
DATES: This notice is effective: August 6, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stan Gimont, Director, Office of Block
Grant Assistance, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street SW., Room 7286, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202-708-
3587. Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number
via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339. Facsimile
inquiries may be sent to Mr. Gimont at 202-401-2044. (Except for the
``800'' number, these telephone numbers are not toll-free.) Email
inquiries may be sent to disaster_recovery@hud.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Background
II. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, and Alternative
Requirements
III. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
IV. Finding of No Significant Impact
I. Background
The Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113-2,
approved January 29, 2013) (Appropriations Act) makes available $16
billion in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for necessary
expenses related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of
infrastructure and housing, and economic revitalization in the most
impacted and distressed areas resulting from a major disaster declared
pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) (Stafford Act), due to
Hurricane Sandy and other eligible events in calendar years 2011, 2012,
and 2013.
On March 1, 2013, the President issued a sequestration order
pursuant to section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act, as amended (2 U.S.C. 901a), and reduced funding for CDBG
disaster recovery (CDBG-DR) grants under the Appropriations Act to
$15.18 billion. In a Federal Register notice published March 5, 2013
(78 FR 14329), the Department allocated $5.4 billion after analyzing
the impacts of Hurricane Sandy and identifying unmet needs. A
subsequent notice, providing additional guidance, waivers, and
alternative requirements for Hurricane Sandy grantees was published by
the Department on April 19, 2013 (78 FR 23578). This notice provides
additional waivers and alternative requirements to several Hurricane
Sandy grantees--the State of New York and the State of New Jersey.
II. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements
The Appropriations Act authorizes the Secretary to waive, or
specify alternative requirements for any provision of any statute or
regulation that the Secretary administers in connection with the
obligation by the Secretary or the use by the recipient of these funds
(except for requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimination,
labor standards, and the environment). Waivers and alternative
requirements are based upon a determination by the Secretary that good
cause exists and that the waiver or alternative requirement is not
inconsistent with the overall purposes of Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) (HCD Act).
Regulatory waiver authority is also provided by 24 CFR 5.110, 91.600,
and 570.5.
This section provides additional waivers and alternative
requirements to several Hurricane Sandy grantees. For each waiver and
alternative requirement described in this notice, the Secretary has
determined that good cause exists and the action is not inconsistent
with the overall purpose of the HCD Act. Grantees may request
additional waivers and alternative requirements from the Department as
needed to address specific needs related to their recovery activities.
Under the requirements of the Appropriations Act, regulatory waivers
must be published in the Federal
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Register no later than five days before the effective date of such
waiver.
1. Waiver to permit some activities in support of the tourism
industry (State of New York only). In the notice published on April 19,
2013, the Department granted the State of New York a waiver to allow
the State to fund certain tourism activities within the counties most
impacted and distressed by Hurricane Sandy. This notice broadens that
waiver to allow the State to fund certain tourism activities within
counties receiving a Presidential disaster declaration in response to
Hurricane Irene and/or Tropical Storm Lee.
Tourism in Irene/Lee-impacted counties generates approximately $14
billion each year. In the 30 counties affected by Hurricane Irene and
Tropical Storm Lee, 11,000 businesses were impacted, accounting for
138,000 jobs. During this same time period, 13 of the impacted counties
(located in the Adirondacks, Southern Tier and Central New York)
experienced an economic loss of approximately $108 million in direct
visitor spending and positive impact on state and local taxes. Without
this waiver, the State estimates that the economic recovery in these
areas will continue to significantly lag behind the pre-storm average
growth rates, resulting in job loss and business closures.
Thus, HUD is broadening its previous waiver: 42 U.S.C. 5305(a) and
24 CFR 570.489(f) are waived only to the extent necessary to allow the
State to expend up to $3 million (of the $30 million already approved
by the Department) for the tourism industry to promote tourism in
counties in receipt of a Presidential disaster declaration in response
to Hurricane Irene and/or Tropical Storm Lee. Thus, this notice allows
CDBG-DR funds to be used to promote a community or communities in
general, provided the assisted activities are designed to support
tourism within areas designated major disaster areas as a result of
Hurricane Irene or Tropical Storm Lee. In addition, per the April 19,
2013, notice, the State of New York may use CDBG-DR funds to promote a
community or communities in general, provided the assisted activities
are designed to support tourism to the most impacted and distressed
areas related to the effects of Hurricane Sandy. This waiver will
expire at the end of the State's two-year expenditure period.
2. Use of ``uncapped'' income limits (State of New Jersey only).
The State of New Jersey plans to initially target disaster recovery
funds to low- and moderate-income households and has enaged in targeted
outreach to ensure these households, particularly in high cost areas,
can receive recovery funding. To ensure that all eligible households
that are low- and moderate-income have equal access to resources, the
State requested a waiver to allow all of the nine most impacted
counties within the State to use HUD's ``uncapped income limits'' to
better reflect the population of low- and moderate-income households in
those areas.
The Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Title V of
Pub. L. 105-276) enacted a provision that directed the Department to
grant exceptions to at least 10 jurisdictions that are currently
``capped'' under HUD's low and moderate-income limits. Under this
exception, a number of CDBG entitlement grantees may use ``uncapped''
income limits that reflect 80 percent of the actual median income for
the area. Typically, average incomes (and thus the cost of living,
including home values) in these entitlement grantees are significantly
higher than in surrounding areas. By using uncapped income limits,
grantees are better able to identify and assist those households
considered to be low- to moderate-income for that particular area.
In the Federal Register notice dated March 5, 2013, the Department
noted that the uncapped limits apply to disaster recovery activities
funded pursuant to this notice in jurisdictions covered by the uncapped
limits, including jurisdictions that receive disaster recovery funds
from the State. While there are New Jersey counties that were most
impacted by Hurricane Sandy that currently use the ``uncapped'' income
limits, there are several that do not use the uncapped limits. The
State's efforts to target CDBG resources to low- and moderate-income
households means that those counties that already have the uncapped
income limits (and thus more households that may be designated as low-
and moderate-income) have a greater likelihood of receiving funding
than counties that do not have the uncapped income limits despite
having similar income demographics.
This notice imposes an alternative requirement to the applicable
U.S. median family income cap on income limits that will apply to the
State of New Jersey. The alternative requirement extends the exemption
permitting the use of the uncapped income limits to all of the nine
most impacted counties that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy within the
State of New Jersey to ensure that households that are low- and
moderate-income have equal opportunities to access funds. More
information about this exemption can be found on HUD's Web site at
https://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/systems/census/lowmod/uncapped.cfm.
III. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for the disaster
recovery grants under this notice is 14.269.
IV. Finding of No Significant Impact
A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with respect to the
environment has been made in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR
part 50, which implement section 102(2)(C) of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)). The FONSI is
available for public inspection between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays in
the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410-0500. Due to security measures at the HUD
Headquarters building, an advance appointment to review the docket file
must be scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at 202-708-3055
(this is not a toll-free number). Hearing or Speech-impaired
individuals may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at 800-877-9339.
Dated: July 26, 2013.
Mark Johnston,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs Programs.
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