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 Department of Housing and Urban Development [Docket No. FR-5200-FA-04]
 AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD.
 ACTION: Notice of funding awards.
 SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102 (a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program. This announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the awards made available by HUD.
 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jackie L. Williams, PhD, Director, Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7137, Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone (202) 708-2290 (this is not a toll free number). Hearing- and- speech impaired persons may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339. For general information on this and other HUD programs, call Community Connections at 1-800-998-9999 or visit the HUD Web site at 
                        *http://www.hud.gov.*


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Rural Housing and Economic Development program was authorized by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1999. The competition was announced in the NOFA published April 28, 2008 (73 FR 23052). Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria contained in that notice. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program is 14.250. The Rural Housing and Economic Development Program is designed to build capacity at the State and local level for rural housing and economic development and to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas. Eligible applicants are local rural non-profit organizations, community development corporations, federally recognized Indian tribes, State housing finance agencies, and State community and/or economic development agencies. The funds made available under this program were awarded competitively, through a selection process conducted by HUD. Prior to the rating and ranking of this year's applications, Southern Financial Partners in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for the Fiscal year 2008 competition, was awarded a total of $149,683 as a result of funding errors during the previous year's funding. For the Fiscal year 2008 competition, a total of $16,889,633 was awarded to 60 projects nationwide. In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987. 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the grantees and amounts of the awards in Appendix A to this document. Dated: August 10, 2009. Mercedes Márquez, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning Development.
 FY 2008 Rural Housing and Economic Development Program Grantees
Tribal Government of St. Paul Island
AK
$300,000.00Organized Village of Kasaan
AK
300,000.00Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization, Inc
AL
300,000.00Collaborative Solutions, Inc.
AL
300,000.00Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council, Inc.
AR
250,344.00Moenkopi Developers Corporation, Inc.
AZ
298,626.00Comite de Bien Estar, Inc.
AZ
300,000.00Hopi Tribe
AZ
296,800.00International Sonoran Desert Alliance
AZ
300,000.00White Mountain Apache Housing Authority
AZ
300,000.00Nogales Community Development Corporation (NCD)
AZ
300,000.00Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria
CA
300,000.00Timbisha Shoshone Tribe
CA
124,000.00Karuk Tribe of California
CA
300,000.00Bishop Paiute Tribe
CA
296,410.00The Relational Culture Institute
CA
300,000.00Big Pine Paiute Tribe
CA
284,968.00( print page 45467)Tule River Tribal Council
CA
300,000.00Empowerment Alliance of SW Florida, CDC
FL
300,000.00Young Adult Development in Action, Inc.
KY
300,000.00People's Self-Help Housing, Inc.
KY
300,000.00Low Income Housing Coalition of East Kentucky, Inc.
KY
300,000.00McCreary County Community Housing Development Corporation
KY
300,000.00Frontier Housing, Inc.
KY
300,000.00Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation
KY
300,000.00Louisiana Technical College Tallulah Foundation
LA
300,000.00START Corporation
LA
300,000.00SEVENTH DISTRICT PAVILION, INC.
LA
300,000.00Four Directions Development Corporation
ME
299,367.00Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation
MN
200,000.00Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
MN
300,000.00Northcountry Cooperative Foundation
MN
250,000.00Community Developers of Beaufort-Hyde, Inc.
NC
210,400.00Hollister R.E.A.C.H., Inc.
NC
299,850.00Dawson County Area Economic Development Council
NE
287,724.00Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority
NM
300,000.00New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority
NM
300,000.00TIERRA DEL SOL HOUSING CORPORATION
NM
300,000.00Community Area Resource Enterprise
NM
300,000.00Picuris Pueblo
NM
300,000.00Habitat for Humanity of Taos, Inc.
NM
300,000.00Center of Southwest Culture, Inc.
NM
65,714.00Little Dixie Community Action Agency, INC
OK
300,000.00Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
OR
299,871.00Umatilla Reservation Housing Authority
OR
300,000.00Community And Shelter Assistance Corp.
OR
300,000.00Ceiba Housing and Economic Development Corporation
PR
300,000.00Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation d/b/a NWBRV
RI
300,000.00The Lakota Funds
SD
300,000.00Thunder Valley CDC
SD
299,775.00Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing, Inc.
SD
136,000.00Volunteer Housing Development Corporation
TN
289,864.00Community Development Corporation of Brownsville
TX
300,000.00La Fe Community Development Corporation
TX
300,000.00Community Development Corporation of Utah
UT
300,000.00Aneth Community Development Corporation
UT
299,920.00Makah Indian Tribe
WA
300,000.00Southern Puget Sound Inter-tribal Housing Authority
WA
300,000.00NiiJii Small Business Loan Fund, Inc.
WI
300,000.00St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
WI
100,000.0016,889,633.00


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