578 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 3 / Wednesday, January 5, 2011 / Notices 

SUMMARY: On October 21, 2010, HUD 

posted on http://www.Grants.gov, its 

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 

for the FY2010 Resident Opportunity 

and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Service 

Coordinators Program. The NOFA 

establishes an application due date of 

Monday, February 21, 2011, which 

inadvertently falls on the federal 

holiday of Washington’s Birthday 

(commonly referred to as Presidents 

Day). To help ensure that applicants 

have sufficient time to submit their 

applications, are not deprived, this 

notice announces that HUD has posted 

an extension of the application due date 

on http://www.Grants.gov. The new 

deadline for submission of applications 

is Wednesday, February 23, 2011. 

Applicants do not need to download a 

new application or resubmit their 

applications as a result of this notice. 

DATES: The application deadline date is 

February 23, 2011. Applications 

submitted through http:// 

www.grants.gov must be received by 

Grants.gov no later than 11:59:59 p.m. 

eastern time on the application deadline 

date. Applications submitted to 

Grants.gov go through a validation 

process before they are accepted by the 

Grants.gov system. Please allow time for 

this process to ensure that you meet the 

timely receipt requirements. Please see 

the 2010 General Section for 

instructions for timely receipt, 

including actions to take if the 

application is rejected. Applicants 

should carefully read the section titled 

‘‘APPLICATION and SUBMISSION 

INFORMATION’’ in the 2010 General 

Section for electronic application 

submission and receipt requirements. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding specific program 

requirements should be directed to the 

agency contact identified in Section VII 

of this program NOFA. Prior to the 

application deadline, program staff will 

be available to provide general 

guidance, but not guidance with 

actually preparing the application. 

Questions regarding the 2010 General 

Section should be directed to the Office 

of Departmental Grants Management 

and Oversight at 202–708–0667 (this is 

not a toll-free number) or the NOFA 

Information Center at 800–HUD–8929 

(toll-free). Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access these 

numbers via TTY by calling the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. The NOFA Information Center is 

open between the hours of 10 a.m. and 

6:30 p.m. eastern time, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Dated: December 29, 2010. 

Milan Ozdinec, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing 

and Indian Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33302 Filed 1–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5415–C–35] 

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 

for Fiscal Year 2010; Rural Innovation 

Fund Program; Correction 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, CPD. 

ACTION: Notice of technical correction. 

SUMMARY: On December 22, 2010, HUD 

posted on http://www.Grants.gov its 

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 

for HUD’s FY 2010 Rural Innovation 

Fund Program, ‘‘Rural Fund.’’ Today’s 

Federal Register publication announces 

that HUD has posted on http:// 

www.Grants.gov a technical correction 

that, most significantly, corrects the 

application due date and corrects the 

maximum funding amounts for Category 

1 proposals. HUD has also corrected an 

incorrect reference to a ‘‘Revolving Fund 

grant’’ rather than a ‘‘Rural Fund grant.’’ 

The revised NOFA can be found and 

downloaded from http:// 

www.Grants.gov, using the CFDA 

number for that program, 14.263. 

DATES: The correct application deadline 

date is February 23, 2011. Applications 

must be received by Grants.gov by 

11:59:59 p.m. eastern time on the 

deadline date. See the General Section 

for timely receipt requirements. All 

information required to complete the 

application is in the General Section 

and this NOFA. Applicants may 

download the application and 

instructions from the Grants.gov Web 

site at http://www07.grants.gov/ 

applicants/apply_for_grants.jsp. Please 

carefully read the Notice of HUD’s 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Notice of Funding 

Availability (NOFA) Policy 

Requirements and General Section to 

HUD’s FY 2010 NOFAs for 

Discretionary Programs, posted on 

Grants.gov on June 7, 2010. Applicants 

need to be aware that following receipt, 

applications go through a validation 

process in which the application may be 

accepted or rejected. Please allow time 

for this process to ensure that you meet 

the timely receipt requirements. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information concerning the HUD Rural 

Fund program, contact Robert Duncan, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Economic Development, Office of 

Community Planning and Development, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20410–7000; telephone 

202–402–4681 (this is not a toll-free 

number) or 1–877–787–2526 (this is a 

toll-free number). Questions regarding 

the 2010 General Section should be 

directed to the Office of Departmental 

Grants Management and Oversight at 

(202) 708–0667 (this is not a toll-free 

number) or the NOFA Information 

Center at (800) HUD–8929 (toll-free). 

Persons with speech or hearing 

impairments may access these numbers 

via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 

Relay Service at 800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

NOFA for HUD’s FY 2010 Rural 

Innovation Fund Program, ‘‘Rural Fund’’ 

has been corrected as follows: 

1. On pages 1 and 2, the application 

deadline date has been corrected to 

read: ‘‘February 23, 2011.’’ 

2. On page 5, under the heading ‘‘5. 

Consortium,’’ a phrase in the third full 

paragraph has been corrected to read: ‘‘If 

the consortium is awarded a Rural Fund 

grant, within 120 days after the grant 

award, the consortium members must 

execute a formal funding agreement.’’ 

3. On page 32, section d.(1) has been 

corrected to read as follows: 

(1) Maximum amount established for 

Category 1 proposals is $20,750,000. For 

Category 1, Single Purpose and 

Comprehensive, HUD will select Single 

Purpose applications that score 75 

points or more in rank order until 

selections totaling $7,500,000 have been 

reached. If there are an insufficient 

number of Single Purpose applications 

to utilize the full $7,500,000 then the 

remaining amount funds will be 

available for Category 1 Comprehensive 

grants. If all $7,500,000 is utilized for 

the Single Purpose grants, then of the 

remaining $13,250,000 funds, HUD will 

evaluate the total number of unfunded 

Category 1 applications that rated above 

75 points, the comparative scores of the 

unfunded Single Purpose and 

Comprehensive applications and 

determine what total amounts will be 

awarded to the remaining unfunded 

Single Purpose grants and 

Comprehensive grants. If the total 

number of Single Purpose grant 

applications that rank 75 points or more 

totals $7,500,000 or less, HUD will 

allocate all of the remaining balance to 

Category 2 applications that rank 75 

points or higher. HUD, in its sole 

discretion, may decide not to utilize the 

full amount of funds available. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 3 / Wednesday, January 5, 2011 / Notices 579 

Dated: December 29, 2010. 

Clifford Taffet, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development 

(Acting). 

[FR Doc. 2010–33299 Filed 1–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5386–N–16] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer 

Matching Program Between the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD) and the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS): Matching Tenant Data 

in Assisted Housing Programs 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of a New Computer 

Matching Agreement between HUD and 

HHS. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988, as amended, HUD is providing 

notice of its intent to execute a new 

computer matching agreement with 

HHS for a recurring matching program 

with HUD’s Office of Public and Indian 

Housing (PIH) and Office of Housing, 

involving comparisons of information 

provided by participants in any 

authorized HUD rental housing 

assistance program with the 

independent sources of income 

information available through the 

National Directory of New Hires 

(NDNH) maintained by HHS. 

Specifically, the HUD–HHS computer 

matching program will now include 

program participants of HUD’s new 

Disaster Housing Assistance Program 

(DHAP), in addition to participants of 

previously authorized HUD rental 

housing assistance programs and 

conditions requiring HUD’s annual 

Quality Control for Rental Assistance 

Subsidy Determinations (‘‘QC’’) study to 

provide a statistical measurement of 

subsidy error within HUD rental 

housing assistance programs. The most 

recent renewal of the current matching 

agreement expires on January 5, 2011. 

DATES: HUD will file a report of the 

subject matching program with the 

Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform of the House of 

Representatives, the Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs of the Senate, and Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB), 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs. The matching program will 

become effective as cited in Section V 

of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice to the Rules Docket Clerk, 

Office of General Counsel, Room 10276, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Communications should refer to the 

above docket number and title. 

Facsimile (FAX) comments are not 

acceptable. A copy of each 

communication submitted will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

weekdays at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

Privacy Act Inquires: Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, contact the Chief 

Privacy Officer, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 

Street, SW., Room 2256, Washington, 

DC 20410, telephone number (202) 402– 

8073. For program information: Office of 

Public and Indian Housing, contact 

Nicole Faison, Program Advisor for the 

Real Estate Assessment Center, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Room PCFL1, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone number (202) 475–7963; and 

for the Office of Housing, contact 

Catherine M. Brennan, Director of the 

Housing Assistance Policy Division, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, 

Room 6160, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone number (202) 402–6732. 

(These are not toll-free numbers.) A 

telecommunications device for hearingand speech-impaired individuals (TTY) 

is available at (800) 877–8339 (Federal 

Information Relay Service). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

11, 2009, Section 239 of HUD’s 2009 

Appropriations Act modified Section 

904 of the Stewart B. McKinney Act of 

1988, as amended, to include the 

Disaster Housing Assistance Program 

(DHAP) as a ‘‘program’’ of HUD for the 

purpose of income verifications and 

computer matching. Computer matching 

for participants of the Disaster Housing 

Assistance Program is expected to begin 

no sooner than January 2, 2011. As 

such, pursuant to the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act 

(CMPPA) of 1988, as amended, OMB’s 

guidance on this statute entitled ‘‘Final 

Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of 

Public Law 100–503’’, and OMB Circular 

No. A–130, Appendix 1 to OMB’s 

Revisions of Circular No. A–130, 

‘‘Transmittal Memorandum No. 4, 

Management of Federal Information 

Resources,’’ prescribes agencies 

responsibilities for maintaining records 

about individuals, HUD is providing the 

public with notice of a new computer 

matching agreement with HHS 

(previous notice of a computer matching 

program between HUD and HHS was 

previously published at 73 FR 10046 on 

February 25, 2008). The first HUD–HHS 

computer matching program was 

conducted in September 2005, with 

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian 

Housing. The scope of the HUD–HHS 

computer matching program was 

extended to include HUD’s Office of 

Housing in December 2007. This notice 

supersedes the previous notice and 

changes the scope of the existing 

computer matching program to now 

include participants of HUD’s DHAP. 

The matching program will be carried 

out only to the extent necessary to: (1) 

Verify the employment and income of 

individuals participating in programs 

identified in Section I below, to 

correctly determine the amount of their 

rent and assistance, (2) identify, 

prevent, and recover improper 

payments made on behalf of tenants, 

and (3) after removal of personal 

identifiers, to conduct analyses of the 

employment and income reporting of 

individuals participating in any HUD 

authorized rental housing assistance 

program. 

HUD will make the results of the 

computer matching program available to 

public housing agencies (PHAs), private 

housing owners and management agents 

(O/As) administering HUD rental 

assistance programs to enable them to 

verify employment and income and 

correctly determine the rent and 

assistance levels for individuals 

participating in those programs, and 

contract administrators (CAs) overseeing 

and monitoring O/A operations. This 

information also may be disclosed to the 

HUD Inspector General (HUD/IG) and 

the Attorney General in detecting and 

investigating potential cases of fraud, 

waste, and abuse of the above named 

programs. 

In addition to the above noted 

information disclosures, limited 

redisclosure of reports containing 

NDNH information may be redisclosed 

to the following persons and/or entities: 

(1) independent auditors for the sole 

purpose of performing an audit of 

whether these HUD authorized entities 

verified tenants’ employment and/or 

income and calculated the subsidy and 

rent correctly; and (2) entities and/or 

individuals associated with grievance 

procedures and judicial proceedings 

(i.e. lawyers, court personnel, agency 

personnel, grievance hearing officers, 

etc.) relating to independently verified 

unreported income identified through 

this matching program. 


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