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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). Hearingor speech-impaired individuals may 

access this number through TTY by 

calling the Federal Information Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339 (this is a tollfree number). 

John Gibbs, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

Appendix A—Detailed Methodology 

Allocation of CDBG–MIT Funds to Most 

Impacted and Distressed Areas Due to 2018 

Federally Declared Disasters 

According to Public Law 116–20: 

Provided further, That any funds made 

available under this heading and under the 

same heading in Public Law 115–254 that 

remain available, after the funds under such 

headings have been allocated for necessary 

expenses for activities authorized under such 

headings, shall be allocated to grantees, for 

mitigation activities in the most impacted 

and distressed areas resulting from a major 

disaster that occurred in 2018: Provided 

further, That such allocations shall be made 

in the same proportion that the amount of 

funds each grantee received under this Act 

and the same heading in division I of Public 

Law 115–254 bears to the amount of all funds 

provided to all grantees that received 

allocations for disasters that occurred in 

2018: 

The Table below shows the total unmet 

needs for each 2018 grantee as calculated by 

HUD, each grantee’s share of the unmet 

needs for all 2018 disasters, and the amounts 

allocated to each 2018 grantee which are 

proportional to the total amount each of the 

grantees has been allocated for unmet needs 

from the aggregate of Public Law 116–20 and 

Public Law 115–254. 

FEMA 

disaster No. Grantee 

Combined 

allocation for 

unmet needs 

(Pub. L. 115–254 

and Pub. L. 116–20) 

Proportional 

share of 2018 

unmet needs 

(%) 

2018 

Mitigation grants 

(Pub. L. 116–20) 

4357 .............. American Samoa .......................................................................... $23,039,000 0.7869 $1,470,000 

4413 .............. State of Alaska ............................................................................. 35,856,000 1.2247 2,288,000 

4407, 4382 .... State of California ........................................................................ 1,017,399,000 34.7504 64,907,000 

4399 .............. State of Florida ............................................................................. 735,553,000 25.1236 46,926,000 

4400 .............. State of Georgia ........................................................................... 41,837,000 1.4290 2,669,000 

4365 .............. Kauai County, HI .......................................................................... 9,176,000 0.3134 585,000 

4366 .............. Hawaii County, HI ........................................................................ 107,561,000 3.6739 6,862,000 

4396, 4404 .... Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ........................ 254,324,000 8.6867 16,225,000 

4393 .............. State of North Carolina ................................................................ 542,644,000 18.5346 34,619,000 

4394 .............. State of South Carolina ................................................................ 72,075,000 2.4618 4,598,000 

4377 .............. State of Texas .............................................................................. 72,913,000 2.4904 4,652,000 

4402 .............. State of Wisconsin ....................................................................... 15,355,000 0.5245 980,000 

2018 Disasters ............................................................................. 2,927,732,000 100.0000 186,781,000 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6182–N–02] 

Allocations, Common Application, 

Waivers, and Alternative Requirements 

for Disaster Community Development 

Block Grant Disaster Recovery 

Grantees; Second Allocation 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice allocates a total of 

$85,291,000 in Community 

Development Block Grant disaster 

recovery (CDBG–DR) funds 

appropriated by the Additional 

Supplemental Appropriations for 

Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (the Act). The 

$85,291,000 in CDBG–DR funds 

allocated by this notice is for the 

purpose of assisting in long-term 

recovery from major disasters that 

occurred in 2018 and 2019. The 

allocations in this notice add to the 

funding previously allocated in the 

January 27, 2020 notice for these 

disasters. The Act requires HUD to 

allocate any funds not identified for 

long-term recovery from major disasters 

to be allocated for mitigation activities 

for 2018 disasters. Accordingly, under a 

separate notice, HUD will allocate the 

remaining $185,730,000 of funds 

available under the Act for mitigation 

activities in the most impacted and 

distressed areas resulting from a major 

disaster that occurred in 2018. This 

notice also contains a waiver and 

alternative requirement addressing the 

income limits applicable to the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for its 

CDBG–DR and CDBG–MIT grants. 

Additionally, this notice also provides 

additional flexibility to CDBG–DR 

grantees as they continue their disaster 

recovery efforts while also responding 

to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 

(COVID–19) pandemic. 

DATES: Applicability Date: January 11, 

2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessie Handforth Kome, Acting Director, 

Office of Block Grant Assistance, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 

7282, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

number 202–708–3587. Persons with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the Federal Information Relay Service at 

800–877–8339. Facsimile inquiries may 

be sent to Ms. Kome at 202–708–0033. 

(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. Allocations 

II. Use of Funds 

III. Overview of Grant Process 

A. Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 116–20) 

Action Plan Process 

B. Action Plan Substantial Amendment 

Process To Incorporate Additional Funds 

IV. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, and 

Alternative Requirements 

A. Grant Administration 

B. Waiver and Alternative Requirement 

Related to Adjusted Income Limits for 

Grants Under Public Laws 115–56, 115– 

123, and 116–20 (Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico only) 


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1The Federal Register published minor 

corrections to Table 1 of the January 27, 2020 notice 

in a notice published on February 21, 2020, at 85 

FR 10182. 

C. Waiver and Alternative Requirement 

Related to Tourism and Business 

Marketing (Commonwealth of Puerto 

Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Only) 

V. Duration of Funding 

VI. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

VII. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Appendix A: Allocation Methodology 

I. Allocations 

The Additional Supplemental 

Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 

2019 (Pub. L. 116–20, approved June 6, 

2019) (Appropriations Act) made 

$2,431,000,000 in CDBG–DR funds 

available for major disasters occurring 

in 2017, 2018, or 2019, of which 

$431,000,000 was for grantees that 

received funds in response to disasters 

occurring in 2017. In the January 27, 

2020 Federal Register notice (‘‘January 

2020 Notice’’) HUD allocated 

$2,153,928,000 in CDBG–DR funds in 

accordance with the Appropriations Act 

for major disasters occurring in 2018 

and 2019, and for unmet infrastructure 

needs for 2017 disasters, as well as 

$1,677,500,000 in accordance with the 

Supplemental Appropriations for 

Disaster Relief Act, 2018 (Pub. L. 115– 

254, approved October 5, 2018) (Prior 

Appropriation) for major disasters 

occurring in 2018. 

This notice allocates an additional 

$85,291,000 from the Appropriations 

Act to address unmet disaster recovery 

needs through activities authorized 

under title I of the Housing and 

Community Development Act of 1974 

(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) (HCDA) related 

to disaster relief, long-term recovery, 

restoration of infrastructure and 

housing, economic revitalization, and 

mitigation in the ‘‘most impacted and 

distressed’’ areas resulting from a 

qualifying major disaster in 2018 and 

2019. Qualifying major disasters are 

those declared by the President 

pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5121 

et seq.) (Stafford Act) and identified in 

Table 1. 

HUD has described the applicable 

waivers and alternative requirements, 

relevant statutory and regulatory 

requirements, the grant award process, 

criteria for action plan approval, 

updates to duplication of benefits 

requirements, and eligible disaster 

recovery activities associated with 

grants for 2017, 2018, and 2019 disasters 

in the following Federal Register 

notices (‘‘Prior Notices’’): February 9, 

2018 at 83 FR 5844, August 14, 2018 at 

83 FR 40314, February 19, 2019 at 84 FR 

4836, June 20, 2019 at 84 FR 28848, 

January 27, 2020 at 85 FR 4681,1 August 

17, 2020 at 85 FR 50041, and September 

28, 2020 at 85 FR 60821. CDBG–DR 

funds allocated pursuant to this notice 

are subject to the requirements of the 

Prior Notices, as amended by provisions 

in this notice. 

The Appropriations Act provides that 

grants shall be awarded directly to a 

state, unit of general local government, 

or Indian tribe at the discretion of the 

Secretary. Unless noted otherwise, the 

term ‘‘grantee’’ refers to the entity 

receiving a grant from HUD under this 

notice. 

Pursuant to the Prior Notices, each 

grantee receiving an allocation for a 

2018 or 2019 disaster is required to 

primarily consider and address its 

unmet housing recovery needs. These 

grantees may, however, propose the use 

of funds for unmet economic 

revitalization and infrastructure needs 

unrelated to the grantee’s unmet 

housing needs if the grantee 

demonstrates in its needs assessment 

that there is no remaining unmet 

housing need or that the remaining 

unmet housing need will be addressed 

by other sources of funds. 

Table 1 (below) shows the major 

disasters that grants under this notice 

may address and the minimum amount 

of funds from the Appropriations Act 

and Prior Appropriations that must be 

expended in the HUD-identified most 

impacted and distressed (MID) areas. 

The information in this table is based on 

HUD’s review of the impacts from the 

qualifying disasters and estimates of 

unmet need. 

TABLE 1—ALLOCATIONS UNDER PUBLIC LAWS 115–254 AND 116–20 FOR 2018 & 2019 DISASTERS

Disaster 

year 

Disaster 

Nos. Grantee 

Allocation 

under 

Public Law 

115–254 

(covered by 

the January 

27, 2020 

notice) 

Allocation 

under 

Public Law 

116–20 

(covered by 

the January 

27, 2020 

notice) 

Unmet needs 

allocation 

under 

Public Law 

116–20 

(covered by 

this notice) 

Combined 

allocation 

for unmet 

needs 

(Pub. L. 

115–254 

and 116–20) 

Minimum combined amount from Public Law 115–254 and 

Public Law 116–20 that must be expended for unmet needs 

recovery in the HUD identified ‘‘most impacted and distressed’’ areas listed herein 

2018 .......... 4366 Hawaii County, HI .................. $66,890,000 $16,951,000 $23,720,000 $107,561,000 ($107,561,00) Hawaii County. 

2018 .......... 4396 & 4404 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.188,652,000 55,294,000 10,378,000 254,324,000 (No less than 203,459,200) Saipan and Tinian Municipalities. 

2019 .......... 4454 & 4466 State of Texas ....................... 0 212,741,000 14,769,000 227,510,000 (No less than 182,008,000) Cameron, Chambers, Harris, 

Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery, and Orange Counties; 

78570 (Hildalgo) Zip Code. 

2019 .......... 4473 Commonwealth of Puerto 

Rico.

0 0 36,424,000 36,424,000 (No less than 29,139,200) Guanica Municipio; Zip Codes: 

00656 (Guayanilla Municipio), 00698 (Yauco Municipio), 

and 00728 (Ponce Municipio). 

Totals ........................ ................................................ 255,542,000 284,986,000 85,291,000 625,819,000 

Pursuant to the Appropriations Act, 

HUD has identified the MID areas based 

on the best available data for all eligible 

affected areas. A detailed explanation of 

HUD’s allocation methodology is 

provided in Appendix A of this notice. 

In some instances, HUD has identified 

the entire jurisdiction of a grantee as the 

HUD-identified MID area. For all other 

grantees, at least 80 percent of the total 

funds provided to a grantee under this 

notice must address unmet disaster 

needs within the HUD-identified MID 

areas, as identified in the last column in 

Table 1. Note that if HUD designates a 

zip code as a MID area for purposes of 

allocating funds, the grantee may carry 

out activities within the whole county 

(county is indicated in parentheses next 

to the zip code) as a MID area. The 

grantee should indicate the decision to 

carry out activities throughout the 

whole county in its action plan. 

A grantee may use up to 5 percent of 

the total grant award for grant 

administration and no more than 15 

percent of the total grant award for 

planning activities. Therefore, HUD will 

include 80 percent of a grantee’s 

expenditures for grant administration in 

its determination that 80 percent of the 

total award has been expended in the 


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MID areas identified in Table 1. 

Additionally, expenditures for planning 

activities may be counted towards a 

grantee’s 80 percent expenditure 

requirement, provided that the grantee 

describes in its action plan how those 

planning activities benefit the HUDidentified MID areas. 

A grantee may determine where to use 

the remaining 20 percent of the 

allocation, but that portion of the 

allocation may only be used to address 

unmet disaster needs in those areas that 

the grantee determines are ‘‘most 

impacted and distressed’’ and that 

received a presidential major disaster 

declaration pursuant to the disaster 

numbers listed in Table 1. 

II. Use of Funds 

Funds allocated under this notice are 

subject to the requirements of the Prior 

Notices, as amended by this notice or 

subsequent notices. This notice outlines 

additional requirements imposed by the 

Appropriations Act that apply to funds 

allocated under this notice. 

The Appropriations Act requires that 

prior to the obligation of CDBG–DR 

funds a grantee shall submit a plan 

detailing the proposed use of all funds. 

The plan must include criteria for 

eligibility, and how the use of these 

funds will address long-term recovery 

and restoration of infrastructure and 

housing, economic revitalization, and 

mitigation in the MID areas. Therefore, 

the action plan submitted in response to 

this notice must describe uses and 

activities that: (1) Are authorized under 

title I of the HCDA or allowed by a 

waiver or alternative requirement; and 

(2) respond to a disaster-related impact 

to infrastructure, housing, or economic 

revitalization in the MID areas, and if 

the grantee chooses to do so, how 

mitigation will be incorporated into 

recovery activities. To inform the plan, 

each grantee must conduct an 

assessment of community impacts and 

unmet needs and guide the 

development and prioritization of 

planned recovery activities, pursuant to 

section VI.A.2.a. of the February 9, 2018 

notice (83 FR 5849). 

While CDBG–DR funding is a valuable 

resource for long-term recovery and 

mitigation in the wake of major 

disasters, HUD expects that grantees 

will take steps to set in place substantial 

state and local governmental policies to 

enhance the impact of HUD-funded 

investments and limit damage from 

future disasters. The Federal Register 

notice published on February 9, 2018 

requires all grantees to describe how 

they plan to promote sound, sustainable 

long-term planning (83 FR 5850). To 

maximize the impact of all available 

funds, grantees are encouraged to 

coordinate and align CDBG–DR funds 

under this notice with activities funded 

with other CDBG–DR and CDBG–MIT 

funds, as well as other disaster recovery 

activities funded by the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA), the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE), the U.S. Forest 

Service, and other agencies as 

appropriate. 

For convenience, Table 2 (below) 

identifies clarifications and 

modifications to the requirements in the 

February 9, 2018 notice. 

TABLE 2—RULES, WAIVERS, AND ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED IN THE PRIOR NOTICES

Citation Rules, waivers, and alternative requirements 

August 14, 2018 notice 

83 FR 40314 .... Allowing for unmet economic revitalization and infrastructure needs; also addressed in section I of this notice.

83 FR 40317 .... Use of terminology around an evaluation of the cost or price of a product or service. 

83 FR 40317 .... Additional requirements for the comprehensive disaster recovery website. 

83 FR 40317 .... Working capital to aid in recovery. 

83 FR 40317 .... Underwriting requirements. 

83 FR 40317 .... Limitation of use of funds for eminent domain. 

83 FR 40318 .... Increased minimum public comment period for action plans and substantial amendments. 

83 FR 40318 .... Cost verification. 

83 FR 40318 .... Additional specific criteria and conditions to mitigate risk. 

83 FR 40319 .... Waiver of Section 414 of the Stafford Act, as amended and addressed in section IV.C.2. of the January 27, 2020 notice (85 

FR 4687). 

83 FR 40319 .... Clarification of the environmental review requirements. 

83 FR 40320 .... Modification of affordability periods for rental properties. 

83 FR 40320 .... CDBG–DR housing assistance and FEMA’s permanent and semi-permanent housing programs. 

83 FR 40321 .... Rehabilitation and reconstruction cost-effectiveness. 

83 FR 40321 .... Infrastructure planning and design. 

83 FR 40321 .... Discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting of infrastructure projects. 

83 FR 40321 .... CDBG–DR funds as match for FEMA 428 Public Assistance projects. 

June 20, 2019 notice 

84 FR 28836 .... Updates to Duplication of Benefits Requirements Under the Stafford Act for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 

Disaster Recovery Grantees (entire notice). 

84 FR 28848 .... Applicability of Updates to Duplication of Benefits Requirements Under the Stafford Act for Community Development Block 

Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery Grantees (only portions described in the January 27, 2020 notice (85 FR 4687). 

February 19, 2019 notice 

84 FR 4844 ...... Clarification of green building standards. 

January 27, 2020 notice 

85 FR 4685 ...... HUD will condition the availability of funds for unmet infrastructure needs for 2017 disasters allocated to grantees that have 

entered into alternative procedures under section 428 of the Stafford Act. 

85 FR 4685 ...... Incorporation of waivers and alternative requirements for local government grantees. 

85 FR 4686 ...... Use of administrative funds across multiple grants. 

One-for-one replacement housing, relocation and real property acquisition requirements for multiple grants. 

85 FR 4687 ...... Duplication of benefits changes. 


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2Revisions to 2 CFR part 200 became effective on 

November 12, 2020 (85 FR 49506). In the Prior 

Notices, the references to requirements for the 

review of grantee risk and specific conditions were 

in 2 CFR 200.205 and 200.207, respectively. The 

revised 2 CFR part 200 regulations apply to funds 

allocated by this notice. 

TABLE 2—RULES, WAIVERS, AND ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED IN THE PRIOR NOTICES—Continued 

Citation Rules, waivers, and alternative requirements 

85 FR 4687 ...... Consolidated plan consistency requirements. 

85 FR 4687 ...... Clarification on affordability periods. 

85 FR 4687 ...... Clarification and amendment on section 414 of Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. 

85 FR 4688 ...... Clarification on procurement requirements. 

85 FR 4688 ...... Clarification on acquisition of real property, flood and other buyouts to include wildfire-impacted grantees. 

August 17, 2020 notice 

85 FR 50042 .... Extension of administrative deadlines to provide flexibility to CDBG–DR grantees as they respond to the impacts of the 

COVID–19 pandemic. 

September 28, 2020 notice 

85 FR 60822 .... Waiver and Alternative Requirements for Use of FEMA-Approved Elevation Standards for Nonresidential Structures. 

85 FR 60823 .... Use of the ‘‘Upper Quartile’’ or ‘‘Exception Criteria’’ for Low- and Moderate-Income Area Benefit Activities (State of Texas 

only). 

85 FR 60824 .... Use of Standardized Area Median Income (State of Texas only). 

85 FR 60827 .... Authorizing Tourism and Business Marketing Assistance Activities (The Northern Mariana Islands only). 

85 FR 60827 .... Financial Certification Requirements under Public Laws 115–254 and 116–20. 

III. Overview of Grant Process 

III.A. Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 116– 

20) Action Plan Process 

A grantee receiving an allocation 

under this notice for disasters occurring 

in 2019 (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) 

must submit an action plan per the 

requirements in section VI.A.2 of the 

February 9, 2018 notice (83 FR 5849), as 

modified by the requirements of the 

August 14, 2018 notice (83 FR 40314), 

not later than 210 days after the 

applicability date of this notice, unless 

the grantee has requested, and HUD has 

approved an extension of this 

submission deadline. All requirements 

of the Prior Notices related to the action 

plan submission shall apply, including 

the public comment period which was 

extended to not less than 30 calendar 

days under the August 14, 2018 notice 

(83 FR 40318), and the manner of 

publication which must include 

prominent posting on the grantee’s 

official website (83 FR 40317). Posting 

information online may not always be 

an effective way to solicit public 

comment, particularly in areas with 

extensive damage limiting the public’s 

access to electricity, internet, and 

cellular service as a result of the 

disaster. Grantees should consider other 

ways to effectively solicit public 

comment, in addition to posting 

information. Each grantee must publish 

the action plan in a manner that affords 

citizens, affected local governments, and 

other interested parties a reasonable 

opportunity to examine the contents 

and provide feedback. Plan publication 

efforts must meet the effective 

communications requirements of 24 

CFR 8.6 and other fair housing and civil 

rights requirements, such as the 

effective communication requirements 

under the Americans with Disabilities 

Act. 

The grantee must submit an 

Implementation Plan and a Capacity 

Assessment that satisfies the 

requirements of paragraphs VI.A.1.b.(1) 

and (2) of the February 9, 2018 notice 

(83 FR 5848) titled Implementation Plan 

and Capacity Assessment. 

The grantee must submit information 

to support the Secretary’s certification 

of proficient financial controls and 

procurement processes and adequate 

procedures for proper grant 

management required by the 

Appropriations Act. The grantee can 

submit all of the information required 

by section VI.A.1.a. of the February 9, 

2018 notice (83 FR 5847), paragraphs 

(1)–(6), as updated and amended by 

section IV.B.1. of the January 2020 

Notice to impose additional 

requirements related to the duplication 

of benefits (85 FR 4686) using the ‘‘Pub. 

L. 116–20 and 115–254 CDBG–DR 

Financial Management and Grant 

Compliance Certification Checklist’’ 

posted on HUD’s website. Alternatively, 

the grantee may request that HUD rely 

on the submissions made in response to 

section V.A.1.a. in the August 30, 2019 

Main CDBG–MIT Notice (84 FR 45844), 

as modified by the January 27, 2020 

CDBG–MIT Notice allocating funds to 

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (85 

FR 4676), to support a new HUD 

certification for purposes of this 

allocation, provided, however, that 

HUD’s approval will be conditioned on 

the requirement that the grantee must 

update its previous submissions to 

reflect any material changes. The 

grantee can use the ‘‘Pub. L. 116–20 and 

115–254 CDBG–DR Financial 

Management and Grant Compliance 

Certification Checklist’’ Addendum A 

and B posted on HUD’s website to notify 

HUD of its intention to rely on previous 

submissions. 

For purposes of the Implementation 

Plan and Capacity Assessment and 

submissions to support the Secretary’s 

certification, the submission deadlines 

were amended by section II of the 

August 17, 2020 notice to provide 

flexibility to CDBG–DR grantees as they 

also respond to the impacts of the 

COVID–19 pandemic. Grantees must 

submit the required information within 

150 days of the applicability date of this 

notice. 

In the Prior Notices, the Department 

stated its intention to establish special 

grant conditions for individual CDBG– 

DR grants based upon the risks posed by 

the grantee, including risks related to 

the grantee’s capacity to carry out the 

specific programs and projects proposed 

in its action plan. As described in the 

Prior Notices, these conditions will be 

designed to provide additional 

assurances that programs are 

implemented in a manner to prevent 

waste, fraud, and abuse and that the 

Department has established specific 

criteria and conditions for each grant 

award as provided for at 2 CFR 200.206 

and 200.208,2 respectively, to mitigate 

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III.B. Action Plan Substantial 

Amendment Process To Incorporate 

Additional Funds 

Each grantee that received an 

allocation for 2018 or 2019 disasters 

under the January 2020 Notice and this 

notice (Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands; Hawaii County, HI; 

and the State of Texas) is required to 

submit a substantial amendment to the 

action plan that was submitted in 

response to the January 2020 Notice. 

The substantial amendment must be 

submitted not later than 180 days after 

the initial action plan is approved in 

whole or in part by HUD or not later 

than 180 days after the applicability 

date of this notice, whichever is later, 

unless the grantee has requested, and 

HUD has approved an extension of this 

submission deadline. The substantial 

amendment must include the additional 

allocation of funds and address the 

requirements of this notice. 

Grantees that received allocations 

under the January 2020 Notice for 2018 

and 2019 disasters submitted 

information described in section VI.A.1. 

of the February 9, 2018 notice (as 

amended and updated by section IV.B.1. 

of the January 27, 2020 notice, 85 FR 

4686). These submissions supported the 

Secretary’s evaluation of grantee 

capacity and the Secretary’s certification 

of proficient financial controls and 

procurement processes and adequate 

procedures for proper grant 

management required by the 

Appropriations Act. Rather than 

resubmit the same information for 

allocations under this notice, grantees 

receiving a second allocation for 2018 

and 2019 disasters are required to 

update submissions for their first 

allocations to reflect any material 

changes. This includes updates to: (a) 

The information required by section 

VI.A.1.a. of the February 9, 2018 notice 

(83 FR 5847), paragraphs (1)–(6), as 

updated and amended by section IV.B.1. 

of the January 2020 Notice (85 FR 4686); 

and (b) to the Implementation Plan and 

Capacity Assessment that satisfies 

paragraphs (1) and (2) in section 

VI.A.1.b. of the February 9, 2018 notice 

(83 FR 5848). HUD will consider these 

updates before granting funds allocated 

by this notice. The submission 

deadlines were amended by section II of 

the August 17, 2020 notice to provide 

flexibility to CDBG–DR grantees as they 

also respond to the impacts of the 

COVID–19 pandemic. Grantees must 

submit the required information within 

150 days of the applicability date of this 

notice. 

III.B.1. Timeline for Action Plan 

Substantial Amendment. Additionally, 

each grantee that received an allocation 

under the January 2020 Notice for 2018 

and 2019 disasters must meet the 

following requirements to substantially 

amend its action plan. These steps are 

only applicable to this substantial 

amendment process to add the 

additional allocation under this notice. 

• Grantee must consult with affected 

citizens, stakeholders, local 

governments, and public housing 

authorities to determine updates to its 

needs assessment (as described in 

paragraph A.7 of section VI of the 

February 9, 2018 Notice (83 FR 5854)). 

• Grantee must amend its action plan 

to update its impact and needs 

assessment, modify or create new 

activities, or reprogram funds in 

accordance with requirements for 

substantial amendments in the Prior 

Notices. Each amendment must be 

highlighted, or otherwise identified 

within the context of the entire action 

plan. The beginning of every substantial 

amendment must include a: (1) Section 

that identifies exactly what content is 

being added, deleted, or changed; (2) 

chart or table that clearly illustrates 

where funds are coming from and where 

they are moving to; and (3) a revised 

budget allocation table that reflects all 

funds. 

• Grantee must publish the 

substantial amendment to its previously 

approved action plan for disaster 

recovery in a manner that affords 

citizens, affected local governments, and 

other interested parties a reasonable 

opportunity to examine the 

amendment’s contents and provide 

feedback, in accordance with 

requirements published in paragraph 

IV.A.3. of the August 14, 2018 Notice 

(83 FR 40318). The manner of 

publication must include, at a 

minimum, prominent posting on the 

grantee’s official website for not less 

than 30 calendar days for public 

comment. 

• Grantee must respond to public 

comment and submit its substantial 

amendment to HUD (together with SF– 

424 and certifications required by 

Section VI.E. of the February 9, 2018 

Notice) no later than 180 days after the 

grantee’s action plan is approved in 

whole or in part by HUD or not later 

than 180 days after the applicability 

date of this notice, whichever comes 

later. 

• HUD will review the substantial 

amendment within 45 days from date of 

receipt and determine whether to 

approve the substantial amendment per 

criteria identified in this notice and the 

Prior Notices. 

• HUD will send a substantial 

amendment approval letter, revised 

grant conditions, and an unsigned grant 

agreement to the grantee. If the 

substantial amendment is not approved, 

HUD will send a letter identifying the 

substantial amendment deficiencies; the 

grantee must then re-submit the 

substantial amendment within 45 days 

of the notification letter. 

• Grantee must ensure that the HUDapproved substantial amendment and 

HUD-approved action plan are posted 

prominently on its official website. Each 

grantee’s current version of its entire 

action plan (including amendments) 

must be accessible for viewing as a 

single document at any given point in 

time, rather than the public or HUD 

having to view and cross-reference 

changes among multiple amendments. 

• Grantee must enter the activities 

from its published substantial 

amendment into the Disaster Recovery 

Grant Reporting (DRGR) system and 

submit the updated DRGR action plan 

(revised to reflect the HUD-approved 

substantial amendment) to HUD within 

the DRGR system. 

• Grantee must sign and return the 

grant agreement to HUD. 

• HUD will sign the grant agreement 

and establish the grantee’s CDBG–DR 

line of credit amount to reflect the total 

amount of available funds. 

• Grantee may draw down CDBG–DR 

funds from its line of credit after the 

Responsible Entity completes applicable 

environmental review(s) pursuant to 24 

CFR part 58, or adopts another Federal 

agency’s environmental review as 

authorized under the Appropriations 

Act and the Prior Appropriation, and, as 

applicable, receives from HUD or the 

state the Authority to Use Grant Funds 

(AUGF) form and certification. 

• Grantee must amend and submit its 

projection of CDBG–DR expenditures 

and performance outcomes with the 

substantial amendment. 

IV. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, 

and Alternative Requirements 

This section of the notice describes 

rules, statutes, waivers, and alternative 

requirements that apply to each grantee 

receiving an allocation under this notice 

(unless otherwise noted). The Secretary 

has determined that good cause exists to 

apply each waiver and alternative 

requirement established in the Prior 

Notices to grantees receiving funds 

under this notice and that such waivers 

and alternative requirements are not 

inconsistent with the overall purpose of 

title I of the HCDA. The Secretary’s 

determination of good cause extends to 

each waiver or alternative requirement 

as amended by this notice. Grantees are 

reminded that all fair housing and 

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as environmental and labor 

requirements, continue to apply. The 

following requirements apply only to 

the CDBG–DR funds appropriated under 

the Appropriations Act (unless 

otherwise noted) and not to funds 

provided under the annual formula 

State or Entitlement CDBG programs, 

the Indian Community Development 

Block Grant program, or those provided 

under any other component of the 

CDBG program, such as the Section 108 

Loan Guarantee Program, or any 

previous CDBG–DR appropriations, 

unless otherwise noted. 

A grantee may request additional 

waivers and alternative requirements 

from the Department as needed to 

address specific needs related to its 

recovery activities, accompanied by data 

to support the request. Grantees are 

reminded that requirements related to 

nondiscrimination cannot be waived. 

Grantees should work with the assigned 

Community Planning and Development 

representatives to request any additional 

waivers or alternative requirements 

from HUD. Except where noted, the 

waivers and alternative requirements 

described below apply to all grantees 

under this notice. Pursuant to the 

requirements of the Appropriations 

Acts, waivers and alternative 

requirements are effective five days after 

they are published in the Federal 

Register. 

Except as described in this notice or 

the Prior Notices, statutory and 

regulatory provisions governing the 

State CDBG program shall apply to state 

grantees receiving a CDBG–DR grant and 

statutory and regulatory provisions 

governing the entitlement CDBG 

program shall apply to any local 

government receiving a CDBG–DR grant. 

State and Entitlement CDBG regulations 

can be found at 24 CFR part 570. 

References to the action plan in these 

regulations shall refer to the action plan 

for disaster recovery required by this 

notice and the Prior Notices. 

HUD amends the Prior Notices and 

waives the provisions of 24 CFR part 

570, subpart F to authorize the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands and American Samoa to 

administer its CDBG–DR allocation in 

accordance with the regulatory and 

statutory provisions governing the State 

CDBG program, as modified by rules, 

statutes, waivers, and alternative 

requirements made applicable by 

Federal Register notices. This includes 

the requirement that the aggregate total 

for administrative and technical 

assistance expenditures by the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands and American Samoa must not 

exceed 5 percent of any CDBG–DR grant 

made pursuant to the Appropriations 

Act, plus 5 percent of program income 

generated by the grant. Also, HUD 

extends the waivers and alternative 

requirements in the Prior Notices to 

Hawaii County, which is subject to 

requirements imposed in 24 CFR part 

570, subpart F. However, because the 

Prior Notices do not include waivers 

and alternative requirements to the 

provisions in 24 CFR part 570, subpart 

F, HUD amends the Prior Notices and 

waives 24 CFR 570.420(c), 24 CFR 

570.431(a), and 24 CFR 570. 431(b) for 

Hawaii and Kauai Counties. The 

Department has determined that good 

cause exists for these waivers and that 

such waivers are not inconsistent with 

the overall purposes of title I of the 

HCDA. 

Additionally, the February 9, 2018 

notice required state grantees and 

subrecipients to attend fraud-related 

training provided by HUD OIG to assist 

in the proper management of CDBG–DR 

grant funds. With this notice, HUD is 

applying this provision to local 

government grantees allocated funds 

under the Prior Notices or this notice. 

All references in this notice 

pertaining to timelines and/or deadlines 

are in terms of calendar days unless 

otherwise noted. The date of this notice 

shall mean the applicability date of this 

notice unless otherwise noted. 

IV.A. Grant Administration 

IV.A.1. Use of administrative funds 

across multiple grants. The 

Appropriations Act authorizes special 

treatment of grant administrative funds 

for grantees that received awards under 

certain CDBG–DR grants. Grantees that 

received awards under Public Laws 

114–113, 114– 223, 114–254, 115–31, 

115–56, 115–123, and 115–254, or any 

future act may use eligible 

administrative funds (up to 5 percent of 

each grant award plus up to 5 percent 

of program income generated by the 

grant) appropriated by these acts for the 

cost of administering any of these grants 

without regard to the particular disaster 

appropriation from which such funds 

originated. If the grantee chooses to 

exercise this authority, the grantee must 

ensure that it has appropriate financial 

controls to ensure that the amount of 

grant administration expenditures for 

each of the aforementioned grants will 

not exceed 5 percent of the total grant 

award for each grant (plus 5 percent of 

program income), review and modify its 

financial management policies and 

procedures regarding the tracking and 

accounting of administration costs, as 

necessary, and address the adoption of 

this treatment of administrative costs in 

the applicable portions of its 

submissions described in sections III.A. 

or III.B. of this notice that meet the 

requirements of section VI.A.1.a. of the 

February 9, 2018 notice (83 FR 5847), 

paragraphs (1)–(6), as updated and 

amended by section IV.B.1. of the 

January 2020 Notice (85 FR 4686). 

Grantees can address this through the 

submission of the ‘‘Pub. L. 116–20 and 

115–254 CDBG–DR Financial 

Management and Grant Compliance 

Certification Checklist’’ Addendum B 

available on HUD’s website. Grantees 

are reminded that all costs incurred for 

administration must still qualify as an 

eligible administration expense. 

IV.B. Waiver and Alternative 

Requirement Related to Adjusted 

Income Limits for Grants Under Public 

Laws 115–56, 115–123, and 116–20 

(Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Only) 

In the August 14, 2018 notice (83 FR 

40320), HUD provided the following 

adjustment to Puerto Rico’s income 

limits in accordance with section 

102(a)(20)(B) of the HCDA: 

‘‘Section 102(a)(20) of the HCDA 

defines ‘persons of low- and moderateincome’ and ‘low- and moderate-income 

persons.’ Subparagraph (B) of this 

definition authorizes the Secretary to 

establish for any area percentages of 

median income that are higher or lower 

than the percentages defined as ‘lowand moderate-income’ under 

102(a)(20)(A), if the Secretary finds such 

variations to be necessary because of 

unusually high or low family incomes 

in such areas. Due to the unusually low 

incomes in Puerto Rico, residents that 

meet the CDBG program definition of 

‘low- and moderate-income’ by having 

incomes of 80 percent AMI or less, also 

remain below the Federal poverty level. 

Therefore, the Department is increasing 

the income limits for low- and 

moderate-income persons in Puerto 

Rico, which will be listed in income 

tables posted on HUD’s website. Under 

this adjustment, Puerto Rico may use 

these alternative income limits when 

determining that activities undertaken 

with CDBG–DR funds meet the low- and 

moderate-income benefit CDBG national 

objective criteria. These income limits 

apply only to the use of CDBG–DR 

funds under this notice and the Prior 

Notice.’’ 

In order to ensure consistency with 

the use of CDBG–DR funds that are 

governed by alternative income limits 

authorized by the Department, the 

Department is extending the income 

limit adjustments of the August 14, 2018 

notice to all CDBG–DR funds allocated 

under Public Laws 115–56, 115–123, 

and 116–20 and to CDBG–MIT funds 

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activities under Public Law 115–123. 

Under this extension, Puerto Rico may 

use these alternative income limits 

when determining that activities 

undertaken with CDBG–DR or CDBG– 

MIT funds meet the low- and moderateincome benefit CDBG national objective 

criteria. HUD will continue to post the 

applicable income tables online. 

In addition, Puerto Rico may 

currently choose to take advantage of 

the waiver HUD issued in the February 

9, 2018 notice (83 FR 5861) and the 

August 30, 2019 notice (84 FR 45863) to 

provide homeownership assistance for 

households earning up to 120 percent of 

the area median income (AMI). For 

consistency with HUD’s alternative 

income limits because of the unusually 

low incomes in Puerto Rico, the 

Department finds that good cause exists 

to make similar adjustments to the 

income limits for homeownership 

assistance activities authorized by the 

waiver in the February 9, 2018 notice. 

Therefore, HUD waives 42 U.S.C. 

5302(a)(20) to the extent necessary to 

add the following alternative 

requirement. When HUD establishes 

percentages of median income that are 

higher or lower than the percentages 

defined as ‘low- and moderate-income’ 

under section 102(a)(20)(A) of the 

HCDA, HUD may also apply the same 

adjustments to revise other income 

limits that apply to the use of grant 

funds (with adjustments for smaller and 

larger families). For Puerto Rico, this 

alternative requirement authorizes HUD 

to annually publish adjusted income 

limits that apply whenever grant 

requirements necessitate the calculation 

of 120 percent of AMI. This waiver 

applies to Puerto Rico’s allocation of 

funds under the Prior Notices under 

Public Laws 115–56 and 115–123, 

funding for mitigation activities under 

Public Law 115–23, and funding 

allocated under this notice or any other 

notice under Public Law 116–20. 

IV.C. Waiver and Alternative 

Requirement Related to Tourism and 

Business Marketing (Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands 

Only) 

In the August 14, 2018 notice (83 FR 

40322), the Department granted the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico a waiver 

and alternative requirement to create a 

new eligible tourism and marketing 

activity to use up to $15,000,000 of 

CDBG–DR funds to promote the 

Commonwealth in general or specific 

communities, consistent with the 

amount allocated by the Commonwealth 

to promote travel and to attract new 

businesses to disaster-impacted areas in 

the action plan submitted to HUD 

pursuant to the February 9, 2018 notice. 

Additionally, in the August 14, 2018 

notice (83 FR 40322), HUD granted the 

U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) a waiver and 

alternative requirement to spend up to 

$5,000,000 of CDBG–DR funds on 

tourism marketing activities to promote 

the Territory in general or specific 

components of the islands, consistent 

with the amount allocated by the USVI 

in the action plan submitted to HUD 

pursuant to the February 9, 2018 notice. 

HUD granted these waivers and 

alternative requirements to support 

economic recovery in areas that depend 

on the tourism industry following 

Hurricanes Irma and Maria. HUD 

increased each grantee’s cap on 

allowable tourism marketing activities 

to $25 million to benefit disasterimpacted areas in a notice published 

February 19, 2019 (84 FR 4844–45).’’ 

Both of these waivers and alternative 

requirements expire two years after the 

grantees’ first draw of CDBG–DR funds 

under the respective allocations. For 

both Puerto Rico and USVI, it is two 

years after their first draw of funds 

allocated in the February 9, 2018 notice. 

HUD has determined that the rapidly 

emerging needs of states and local 

governments in responding to the 

COVID–19 pandemic provides good 

cause to allow extensions of the 

expiration date for these waivers and 

alternative requirements established in 

Federal Register notices published on 

August 14, 2018 (83 FR 40322) and 

February 19, 2019 (84 FR 4844–45), as 

referenced above. In response to the 

COVID–19 pandemic, HUD is providing 

a one-year extension of the previously 

established expiration deadlines for 

these two grantees. 

V. Duration of Funding 

The Appropriations Act makes the 

funds available for obligation by HUD 

until expended. This notice requires 

each grantee to expend 100 percent of 

its CDBG–DR grant on eligible activities 

within 6 years of HUD’s initial 

obligation of funds under Public Laws 

115–254 and 116–20 for a 2018 or 2019 

disaster pursuant to an executed grant 

agreement. HUD may extend the period 

of performance administratively, if good 

cause for such an extension exists at 

that time, as requested by the grantee 

and approved by HUD. When the period 

of performance has ended, HUD will 

close out the grant and any remaining 

funds not expended by the grantee on 

appropriate programmatic purposes will 

be recaptured by HUD. 

VI. Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance 

The Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance numbers for the disaster 

recovery grants under this notice are as 

follows: 14.228 for State CDBG grantees 

and 14.218 for Entitlement CDBG 

Grantees. 

VII. 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 

online on HUD’s website and 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). Hearingor speech-impaired individuals may 

access this number through TTY by 

calling the Federal Information Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339 (this is a tollfree number). 

John Gibbs, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

Appendix A—Detailed Methodology 

Allocation of CDBG–DR Funds to Most 

Impacted and Distressed Areas Due to 2018 

and 2019 Federally Declared Disasters 

Background 

Public Law 116–20 appropriated 

$2,431,000,000 through the Community 

Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery 

(CDBG–DR) program. The funds were to be 

used to address specific infrastructure needs 

of select 2017 disasters and remaining unmet 

disaster recovery needs for disasters in 2018 

and 2019, and then provide any remaining 

funds to support mitigation activities for 

2018 disasters. On December 3rd, HUD 

announced allocations for all but $272 

million of available funds. 

The remaining $272 million have been 

held pending complete data for the 

remaining disasters of 2019 as well as 

updates to other select disasters of 2018 and 

2019 due to extraordinary circumstances. 

Methodology 

Using data received from FEMA and the 

Small Business Administration (SBA) on 

May 11, 2020, HUD updated unmet needs for 

a select set of disasters in 2018 and 2019. The 

updated unmet needs are only for 

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• Hawaii County, HI (DR 4366, an 

additional $23,720,000). Extraordinary 

circumstance: At the time of the December 

2019 allocation FEMA Public Assistance (PA) 

estimates were still being discussed with 

state officials. The PA estimate at the time of 

the 2019 allocation was just $1.5 million 

with local match (‘‘unmet need’’) of 

$378,000. The updated data from FEMA is 

that DR 4366 has $96 million in Category C 

to G needs with a $24 million match 

requirement which substantially increases 

unmet needs. 

• Northern Marianas (DR 4396 and DR 

4404, an additional $10,378,000). 

Extraordinary circumstance: FEMA’s 

Permanent Housing Construction (PHC) 

program is seldom activated by FEMA so it 

requires a special consideration for HUD’s 

calculation of unmet needs. In HUD’s 

December 3rd allocation announcement we 

had reduced the housing needs estimate for 

the Northern Marianas based on a FEMA 

early estimate that 455 homes would be 

repaired or replaced by the PHC program and 

thus would not need CDBG–DR assistance. 

At the time, the program was in its early 

implementation and the number of homes 

served was expected to change. Due to the 

unusual nature of this FEMA program, HUD 

requested from FEMA in May 2020 a revised 

estimate of how many homes would be 

served. That revised FEMA PHC estimate is 

that 300 homes are now expected to be 

served by PHC instead of the previously 

estimated 455 homes. This reduction in the 

FEMA PHC leads to an increase in the 

Northern Marianas unmet CDBG–DR need 

estimate by 155 homes. 

• Texas (DR 4466, an additional 

$14,769,000). Extraordinary circumstance: 

This disaster was declared on October 4th 

and the data used for the December 3rd 

allocation had been extracted from FEMA’s 

systems on November 15, 2019. In general, 

HUD’s experience is that FEMA data is most 

complete for the purpose of calculating 

CDBG–DR unmet needs approximately 90 

days after a disaster declaration. DR 4466 was 

the only disaster in 2019 that had been 

declared within 90 days of the November 

15th data extraction. For this reason, HUD 

requested a refresh of the FEMA data for DR 

4466 which identified 252 additional homes 

with serious damage than had been identified 

in the prior allocation leading to the 

increased estimate of need. 

• Puerto Rico (DR 4473, $36,424,000). 

Extraordinary circumstance: On December 

28, 2019, Puerto Rico experienced a major 

disaster (DR 4473) that has continued for 

some months with continuing after-shocks. 

This is a disaster occurring in both 2019 and 

2020. Because it initially occurred in 2019 it 

is eligible for funding from Public Law 116– 

20. However, this disaster is on-going. FEMA 

had closed the application period for the IHP 

program but due to a serious after-shock on 

May 2, 2020, FEMA reopened the application 

period for this disaster. This allocation is 

based on the data before FEMA reopened the 

application period. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX21EE000101100] 

Call for Nominations to the National 

Geospatial Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Call for Nominations. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Interior (DOI) is seeking nominations to 

serve on the National Geospatial 

Advisory Committee (NGAC). The 

NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee 

authorized through the Geospatial Data 

Act of 2018 (GDA), which operates in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). The Committee 

provides advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary of the Interior through 

the Federal Geographic Data Committee 

(FGDC) related to management of 

Federal geospatial programs, 

development of the National Spatial 

Data Infrastructure, and the 

implementation of the GDA. The 

Committee reviews and comments on 

geospatial policy and management 

issues and provides a forum for views 

of non-Federal stakeholders in the 

geospatial community. 

DATES: Nominations to participate on 

this Committee must be received by 

February 22, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send nominations 

electronically to ngacnominations@

fgdc.gov, or by mail to John Mahoney, 

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), DOI, 

909 First Avenue, Suite 800, Seattle, 

WA 98104. Nominations may come 

from employers, associations, 

professional organizations, or other 

geospatial organizations. Nominations 

should include a resume providing an 

adequate description of the nominee’s 

qualifications, including information 

that would enable the DOI to make an 

informed decision regarding meeting the 

membership requirements of the 

Committee and permit the DOI to 

contact a potential member. Nominees 

are strongly encouraged to include 

supporting letters from employers, 

associations, professional organizations, 

and/or other organizations that indicate 

support by a meaningful constituency 

for the nominee. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Mahoney, USGS, (206–220–4621). 

Additional information about the NGAC 

and the nomination process is posted on 

the NGAC web page at www.fgdc.gov/ 

ngac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee conducts its operations in 

accordance with the provisions of the 

GDA and the FACA. It reports to the 

Secretary of the Interior through the 

FGDC and functions solely as an 

advisory body. The Committee provides 

recommendations and advice to the DOI 

and the FGDC on policy and 

management issues related to the 

effective operation of Federal geospatial 

programs. 

The NGAC includes up to 30 

members, selected to generally achieve 

a balanced representation of the 

viewpoints of the various stakeholders 

involved in national geospatial 

activities. NGAC members are 

appointed for staggered terms, and 

nominations received through this call 

for nominations may be used to fill 

vacancies on the Committee that will 

become available in 2021 and 2022. 

Nominations will be reviewed by the 

FGDC and additional information may 

be requested from nominees. Final 

selection and appointment of 

Committee members will be made by 

the Secretary of the Interior. 

The Committee meets approximately 

3–4 times per year. Committee members 

will serve without compensation, but 

travel and per diem costs will be 

provided by USGS. The USGS will also 

provide necessary support services to 

the Committee. 

Committee meetings are open to the 

public. Notice of committee meetings 

are published in the Federal Register at 

least 15 days before the date of the 

meeting. The public will have an 

opportunity to provide input at these 

meetings. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. 

Kenneth Shaffer, 

Deputy Executive Director, Federal 

Geographic Data Committee. 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Receipt of Complaint; 

Solicitation of Comments Relating to 

the Public Interest 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has received a complaint 

entitled Certain Batteries and Products 

Containing the Same DN 3519; the 

Commission is soliciting comments on 

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