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and an average of 11.5 hours per 

respondent for appeals. 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: Extension of an existing 

collection. 

Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, 

as amended. 

Dated: August 28, 2009. 

Bessy Kong, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, Program 

and Legislative Initiatives. 

[FR Doc. E9–21206 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5327–N–01] 

Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 

Opportunity To Register and Other 

Important Information for Electronic 

Application Submission for Continuum 

of Care Homeless Assistance 

Programs 

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning 

and Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

instructions to potential Continuums of 

Care (CoCs) applying for the 

approximately $1.43 billion of funding 

under HUD’s Continuum of Care 

Homeless Assistance Competition in FY 

2009. The CoC competition uses an 

electronic system outside of Grants.gov 

for CoC registration, as well as for 

submission of the CoC application, 

called e-snaps. Notification of the 

availability of the 2009 CoC application 

will be released via HUD’s Homeless 

Assistance listserv. To join HUD’s 

listserv, go to http://www.hud.gov/ 

subscribe/mailinglist.cfm and click on 

‘‘Homeless Assistance Program.’’ 

This notice provides information to 

help applicants better understand the 

CoC registration and electronic 

application submission process through 

e-snaps, which is located at http:// 

www.hud.gov/esnaps. Applicants for 

project funding are also required to 

register with Dun and Bradstreet, if they 

have not already done so, and complete 

or renew their registration in the Central 

Contractor Registration (CCR). More 

information on this can be found in the 

General Section to HUD’s FY 2009 

NOFAs for Discretionary Programs 

published in the Federal Register 

December 29, 2008 (73 FR 79548), as 

amended April 16, 2009 (73 FR 17685). 

In an effort to streamline the renewal 

award process in 2009, HUD has 

modified the selection process. Eligible 

Supportive Housing Program (SHP) and 

Shelter Plus Care (S+C) renewal projects 

will be conditionally awarded as 

quickly as possible. New projects will 

be awarded after the project threshold 

review and the scoring of the CoC 

application have been completed. A 

project application must be submitted 

for each project that is eligible for 

renewal in the 2009 competition, in 

order for it to be considered for funding, 

Projects are considered eligible for 

renewal in the 2009 competition if they 

expire in Calendar Year 2010 and have 

met all of the performance and capacity 

requirements that will be outlined in the 

2009 CoC Notice of Funding 

Availability (NOFA). HUD reserves the 

right to not renew grants where the 

grantee has exhibited serious capacity 

issues in prior grants, including 

performance and financial problems, or 

unresolved monitoring findings for 

which there is no evidence that the 

grantee is working toward appropriate 

resolution. CoCs and project applicants 

should read all sections of this notice, 

as well as the upcoming 2009 NOFA, to 

help identify these types of issues and 

work with their local field office to 

resolve the issues prior to the 2009 CoC 

Application due date. Grantees and 

project sponsors are responsible for 

keeping grant files and for knowing the 

beginning and ending dates of their 

grants. If a grantee fails to apply for a 

renewal project in the appropriate year, 

the project will not be eligible for 

renewal in the next funding 

competition. Please Note: Under the 

2002 and 2003 Appropriation Acts, 

funds for all grants awarded in those 

years will be available for use until 

September 30, 2009, and September 30, 

2010, respectively. Projects that were 

awarded in 2002 and expire in 2009 

were required to apply for renewal in 

the 2008 competition and, therefore, 

will not be eligible for renewal in the 

2009 competition. Although the terms of 

all grants awarded in 2002 and 2003 

should have expired before September 

30, 2009, and September 30, 2010, 

respectively, HUD has discovered that, 

due to delays in signing the grant 

agreements or extensions, some grants 

have an expiration date in 2010 or later. 

Funds will not be available for 

expenditure after September 30, 2009, 

and September 30, 2010, respectively, 

for these grants. Recipients may not 

accelerate their spending rate. Field 

offices will monitor draws for affected 

grants, to ensure that funds will be 

drawn only to reimburse the affected 

recipients for actual costs incurred in 

accordance with the project budget on, 

or before, funds are no longer available. 

Notwithstanding the expiration date of 

your SHP or S+C grant, if the grant was 

awarded in 2002 or 2003, but has an 

expiration date of 2010 or later, the 

applicant must apply for renewal in 

2009. 

As stated previously, HUD will rate 

new project applications separately 

from renewal project submissions. The 

determination of leveraging and housing 

emphasis scores in Exhibit 1 will be 

calculated only with data from new 

project applications. For more 

information on this and other significant 

changes to the 2009 CoC competition, 

please see Section III of this notice. 

HUD advises potential applicants to 

read this notice in its entirety and 

complete the training offered at http:// 

www.hudhre.info. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

CoCs may contact the HUD Field Office 

serving their area, at the telephone 

number shown in the General Section. 

In addition, applicants are strongly 

encouraged to send questions regarding 

this notice to the e-snaps Virtual Help 

Desk at http://www.hudhre.info/ 

helpdesk. 

Full Text of Announcement 

This notice is divided into three 

sections. Section I describes important 

information that CoCs and project 

applicants should be familiar with prior 

to applying for 2009 Homeless 

Assistance funding. This includes 

pertinent definitions and an overview of 

the necessary CoC planning process. 

Section II provides detailed information 

on completing the CoC registration 

process in e-snaps. Finally, Section III 

provides information about the major 

changes that HUD will make to the 2009 

CoC Homeless Assistance competition. 

HUD hopes that this will assist CoCs in 

better planning their 2009 CoC 

application. 

I. Overview Information 

A. Program Description 

Approximately $1.43 billion is 

available for funding through the 

FY2009 CoC Homeless Assistance 

Competition. Carried over or recaptured 

funds from previous fiscal years, if 

available, may be added to this amount. 

The purpose of the CoC Homeless 

Assistance Program is to reduce the 

incidence of homelessness in CoC 

communities by assisting homeless 

individuals and families move to selfsufficiency and permanent housing. 

The 2009 CoC NOFA will be 

published separately in the Federal 

Register no earlier than August 15, 

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B. Definitions 

The definitions contained in this 

notice are only those that are necessary 

for CoCs to understand in order 

complete the 2009 CoC registration 

process. A complete list of definitions 

will be provided in the 2009 CoC 

NOFA. 

1. Annual Renewal Amount. This is 

the maximum amount that an SHP grant 

can receive on an annual basis when 

renewed. It includes funds for only 

those eligible activities (operating, 

supportive services, leasing, Homeless 

Management Information System 

(HMIS), and administration) that were 

funded in the original grant (or the 

original grant as amended), less the 

nonrenewable activities (acquisition, 

new construction, and rehabilitation). It 

is used to calculate a CoC’s ‘‘hold 

harmless’’ need amount. 

To calculate the Annual Renewal 

Amount (ARA) for SHP grants, add up 

the amount of the renewable budget line 

items (i.e., operating, supportive 

services, leasing, HMIS, and 

administration) for all the years of the 

most recent grant, and divide by the 

number of years in the grant term. Any 

funding for acquisition, rehabilitation, 

new construction—and any 

administration costs related to those 

activities—is not renewable and, 

therefore, should not be calculated in 

ARA. If the initial grant included these 

activities, administrative costs must be 

recalculated and must not exceed 5 

percent of the total of leasing, operating, 

HMIS, and supportive services costs 

contained in the initial grant. 

For example, if the initial 3-year grant 

was for $472,500 ($150,000 for new 

construction, $150,000 for operating 

costs, $150,000 for supportive services, 

and $22,500 for administration), the 

new construction costs, and any 

administration costs associated with it, 

would not be eligible for renewal. Thus, 

the total renewable amount would be 

$315,000 ($150,000 for operating costs, 

$150,000 for supportive services, and 

$15,000 for administration) and the 

ARA is $105,000 ($315,000 divided by 

the 3-year grant term). 

If the initial 3-year grant was $315,000 

and did not include acquisition, 

rehabilitation, or new construction 

costs, ($150,000 for operating costs, 

$150,000 for supportive services, and 

$15,000 for administration), the ARA 

would be $105,000 ($315,000 divided 

by the 3-year grant term). 

2. Continuum of Care. This is a 

collaborative funding and planning 

approach that helps communities plan 

for and provide, as necessary, a full 

range of emergency, transitional, and 

permanent housing and other service 

resources to address the various needs 

of homeless persons. HUD also refers to 

the group of service providers involved 

in the decision-making processes as the 

‘‘Continuum of Care.’’ 

3. Continuum of Care Lead Agency. 

This is the agency or organization 

designated by the CoC primary decisionmaking body to be the entity that 

submits the CoC application. The CoC 

lead agency should be responsible for 

the coordination and oversight of the 

CoC planning efforts, and has the 

authority to certify and submit the CoC 

homeless assistance funding 

application. A state governmental entity 

is the only acceptable organization that 

may serve as the Lead Agency for 

multiple CoCs, due to the level of 

involvement and possible conflict of 

interest that comes with serving 

multiple CoCs. Under no other 

circumstance should one entity be 

identified as the Lead Agency for 

multiple CoCs. 

4. Continuum of Care Lead Agency 

Contact. This is the person(s) with the 

authority to submit the Continuum of 

Care Homeless Assistance Grants 

Competition application on behalf of the 

CoC, usually the Executive Director or 

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the 

CoC Lead Agency. 

5. Continuum of Care Need Amounts. 

a. Continuum of Care Preliminary Pro 

Rata Need (PPRN). This is the amount 

of funds a CoC could receive based 

upon the geography that HUD approves 

as belonging to that CoC. To determine 

the homeless assistance need of a 

particular jurisdiction, HUD will use 

nationally available data, including the 

following factors as used in the 

Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) 

program formula: Data on poverty, 

housing overcrowding, population, age 

of housing, and growth lag. Applying 

those factors to a particular jurisdiction 

provides an estimate of the relative need 

index for that jurisdiction compared to 

other jurisdictions applying for 

assistance under the 2009 CoC NOFA. 

Each year, HUD publishes the PPRN for 

each jurisdiction. A CoC’s PPRN is 

determined by adding the published 

PPRN of each jurisdiction within the 

HUD-approved CoC. 

b. Continuum of Care Hold Harmless 

Need (HHN). This is the amount of 

funds a CoC is eligible to receive where 

the total ARA of all SHP grants expiring 

in that CoC during the period beginning 

January 1, 2010, and ending December 

31, 2010, exceeds the PPRN for that 

CoC. The HHN is the amount needed to 

fund the expiring renewal grants for one 

year. 

c. Continuum of Care Final Pro Rata 

Need (FPRN). This is the higher amount 

of: (1) The PPRN or (2) the HHN. In the 

case of CoCs that are eligible and 

approved by HUD for CoC Hold 

Harmless Merger, the FPRN will be 

based on the summation of the FPRN of 

each merging CoC. For more 

information, see Section I.B.5.d. 

d. Continuum of Care Hold Harmless 

Merger. This is a process where two or 

more CoCs that registered separately in 

the 2008 competition, at least one of 

which has a 2009 FPRN based on the 

HHN and another of which has a 2009 

FPRN based on the PPRN, register 

together in the 2009 competition. Under 

this process, HUD will calculate the 

newly merged CoC’s FPRN based on the 

higher FPRN for each CoC. This 

calculation is completed during CoC 

registration. The newly merged CoC 

may use this process for calculating 

FPRN for the 2009 competition only. 

6. Continuum of Care Primary 

Decision-Making Group. This group 

manages the overall planning effort for 

the CoC, including, but not limited to, 

the following types of activities: Setting 

agendas for full Continuum of Care 

meetings, project monitoring, 

determining project priorities, and 

providing final approval for the CoC 

application submission. This body is 

also responsible for the implementation 

of the CoC’s HMIS, either through direct 

oversight or through the designation of 

an HMIS-implementing agency. This 

group may be the CoC Lead Agency or 

may authorize another entity to be the 

CoC Lead Agency under its direction. 

7. Continuum of Care Registration. 

The initial step in the electronic 

application process requires a CoC to 

claim geography and appoint a CoC 

Lead Agency that will be responsible for 

the submission of the electronic 

application to HUD. This process 

establishes the CoC’s FPRN amount, as 

well as the bonus amounts that CoCs are 

eligible to request. 

8. Funding Category. A funding 

category is a project submission 

category subject to NOFA selection 

priorities. There are four funding 

categories in the 2009 competition: 

(1) The Shelter Plus Care Renewal 

Funding Category includes eligible S+C 

renewal projects. 

(2) The Supportive Housing Program 

Renewal Funding Category includes 

eligible SHP renewals approved by the 

CoC. 

(3) The Permanent Housing Bonus 

Funding Category covers one or more 

new SHP, S+C, and Section 8 SRO 

projects that, in total, may be no more 

than 15 percent of a CoC’s Preliminary 

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(4) The FPRN Funding Category 

covers new SHP, Section 8 SRO, and 

S+C projects submitted by CoCs that are 

in PPRN status and that have funds 

available in their FPRN. A CoC in PPRN 

status will only be able to submit new 

projects equal to the difference between 

the renewal amounts claimed in the 

SHP renewal funding category (2) above 

and these CoCs’ FPRN. 

Projects that are submitted in the 

Permanent Housing Bonus and FPRN 

Funding Categories that exceed the 

limits of the funding category in part 

will be reduced by HUD and projects 

that are totally outside the funding 

category limit will be automatically 

rejected. 

9. Grant Inventory Worksheet. This is 

an inventory of all grants that are 

eligible for renewal in a particular year. 

In 2009, CoCs will be responsible for 

attaching the SHP and S+C grant 

inventory worksheets into e-snaps 

during the CoC registration process. 

HUD will use the grant inventories to 

determine the renewal projects that are 

eligible for award and the funding 

amount that they are eligible to receive. 

Therefore, CoCs must work with their 

local HUD field office to ensure that all 

eligible projects are included on these 

lists. For SHP projects, the correct 

annual renewal amounts must be 

recorded. For S+C, the correct total 

number of units must be included. CoCs 

will be asked to provide, at a minimum, 

the following information for each of its 

renewal projects: 

• Name of Project 

• Project Number 

• Grant Term 

• Expiration Date 

• Component Type 

• Previously approved budget amounts 

by activity/Unit Distribution (S+C) 

• Annual Renewal Amount (SHP)/Total 

Number of Units (S+C) 

C. CoC Planning Process 

HUD will evaluate CoCs on the 

following criteria: 

• CoC Housing, Services, and Structure; 

• Homeless Needs and Data Collection; 

• CoC Strategic Planning; 

• CoC Performance; and 

• Housing Emphasis. 

There are several significant changes 

to these evaluation criteria from prior 

years. These changes are outlined in this 

Notice and will be discussed in detail in 

the 2009 NOFA. CoCs are encouraged to 

continue planning for the 2009 CoC 

Homeless Assistance competition in the 

same manner that they have in past 

years. This includes: 

1. A CoC planning system is 

developed through a community-wide 

or region-wide process involving the 

coordination of nonprofit organizations 

(including those representing persons 

with disabilities), state and local 

government agencies, public housing 

agencies, community and faith-based 

organizations, other homeless providers, 

service providers, housing developers, 

private health care associations, law 

enforcement and corrections agencies, 

school systems, private funding 

providers, and homeless or formerly 

homeless persons, to successfully 

address the complex and interrelated 

problems related to homelessness. As in 

the past, this year HUD emphasizes its 

determination to integrate and align 

plans, including jurisdictional, state, 

and city 10-year plans (jurisdictional 10- 

year plans) encouraged by the U.S. 

Interagency Council on Homelessness, 

as well as, Consolidated Plans, into the 

CoC plans. These plans serve as a 

vehicle for a community to 

comprehensively identify all of its 

needs and to coordinate a plan for 

addressing them. 

A CoC should address the specific 

needs of each homeless subpopulation: 

Those experiencing chronic 

homelessness, veterans, persons with 

serious mental illnesses, persons with 

substance abuse issues, persons with 

HIV/AIDS, persons with co-occurring 

diagnoses (these may include diagnoses 

of multiple physical disabilities or 

multiple mental disabilities or a 

combination of these two types), victims 

of domestic violence, youth, and any 

others. To ensure that the CoC system 

addresses the needs of homeless 

veterans, it is particularly important that 

CoCs involve veteran service 

organizations with specific experience 

in serving homeless veterans. 

Through the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act, Congress designated 

$1.5 billion for HUD’s Homelessness 

Prevention and Rapid Re-housing 

Program (HPRP). Through this new 

program, funds for prevention activities 

and rapid re-housing of individuals and 

families have been made available to 

eligible grantees, including states, 

territories, metropolitan cities, and 

urban counties. HPRP Grantees are 

required to coordinate with CoCs in the 

development of HPRP program and 

activities, including HMIS. CoCs will be 

required to describe the level of 

coordination between HPRP grantees 

and CoC leadership and/or members. 

2. CoC Geographic Area. In deciding 

what geographic area a CoC will cover 

as part of its CoC strategy, CoCs should 

be aware that a key factor in being 

awarded funding will be the strength of 

a CoC process, when measured against 

the CoC rating factors described in the 

2009 CoC NOFA. When a CoC 

determines what jurisdictions to include 

in its CoC strategy area, it should 

include only those jurisdictions that are 

fully involved in the development and 

implementation of the CoC strategy. 

The more jurisdictions a CoC includes 

in the CoC, the larger the pro-rata need 

share that will be allocated to the 

strategy area. If a CoC is located in a 

rural county, it may wish to consider 

working with larger groups of 

contiguous counties to develop a 

regional or multi-county CoC strategy 

covering the combined service areas of 

these counties. The boundaries of 

identified CoC areas may not overlap. 

HUD has determined that the merger 

of one or more existing CoCs into a new 

larger CoC can result in improved 

coordination of services, effective HMIS 

implementation, more efficient resource 

allocation and planning, and improved 

competitiveness for new resources. 

Merging smaller CoCs into a larger CoC 

also reduces the administrative burden 

of applying for funding at the local level 

and reviewing funding applications at 

the national level. HUD strongly 

encourages CoCs to merge where it is 

appropriate. 

In recognition of these advantages, 

HUD has adopted a new CoC Hold 

Harmless Merger policy for calculating 

Final Pro Rata Need (FPRN) that ensures 

CoCs will not lose FPRN by merging. 

Please note, where two or more CoCs 

that are in the same need status (i.e., 

both in Hold Harmless Need status or 

both in Preliminary Pro Rata Need 

status) decide to merge, their FPRN will 

be calculated on the sum of the FPRN 

for all. 

The new CoC Hold Harmless Merger 

procedure is applicable only when two 

or more CoCs registered in 2008 and 

whose 2009 FPRN separate calculation 

results in at least one CoC’s FPRN being 

based upon Preliminary Pro Rata Need 

(PPRN) and at least one CoCs FPRN 

being based upon Hold Harmless Need 

(HHN). The following tables illustrate 

how FPRN would be calculated for four 

CoCs merging before and after the 

introduction of the new CoC Hold 

Harmless Merger policy. The new 

calculation method would provide the 

newly merged CoCs with additional 

funds in their FPRN to create new 

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TABLE A—COC CONSOLIDATION WITHOUT HOLD HARMLESS MERGER CONCEPT

[FPRN = the greater of: (1) the CoC’s combined PPRN or (2) the CoC’s combined HHN] 

Individual continuums 

2009 Hold 

harmless need 

amount 

2009 Preliminary program 

rata need 

amount 

I ................................................................................................................................................................................ $100,000 $150,000 

II ............................................................................................................................................................................... 50,000 200,000 

III .............................................................................................................................................................................. 350,000 150,000 

IV .............................................................................................................................................................................. 750,000 250,000 

Merged CoC Total (I–II–III–IV) ......................................................................................................................... 1,250,000 750,000 

Step 1: Total all of the original CoC’s 2009 HHN Amounts. 

Step 2: Total all of the original CoC’s 2009 PPRN Amounts. 

Step 3: The higher amount from Step 1 and Step 2 becomes the FPRN for the Merged CoC. 

TABLE B—COC CONSOLIDATION WITH HOLD HARMLESS MERGER CONCEPT

[FPRN = the combined CoC’s FPRN amounts] 

Individual continuums 2009 Hold harmless 

need amount 

2009 Preliminary pro rata 

need amount 

2009 Final pro 

rata need 

amount 

I ..................................................................................................................................... $100,000 ....................... $150,000 $150,000 

II .................................................................................................................................... 50,000 ........................... 200,000 200,000 

III ................................................................................................................................... 350,000 ......................... 150,000 350,000 

IV ................................................................................................................................... 750,000 ......................... 250,000 750,000 

Merged CoC Total ................................................................................................. 1,250,000 ...................... 750,000 1,450,000 

Step 1: Identify the original CoC’s FPRN (the greater of PPRN or HHN). 

Step 2: Total the original CoC’s FPRNs. 

Step 3: The total of the original CoC’s FPRNs becomes the FPRN for the Merged CoC. 

To determine whether CoCs may 

benefit from merging under this option, 

HUD will make available a Worksheet 

and Guidance on CoC Hold Harmless 

Merger eligibility and procedures. This 

guidance will be posted at http:// 

www.hudhre.info. 

3. CoC Components. A CoC system 

typically consists of five basic elements, 

as follows: 

a. A system of outreach, engagement, 

and assessment for determining the 

needs and conditions of individuals or 

families who are homeless, and 

necessary support to identify, prioritize, 

and respond to persons who are 

chronically homeless; 

b. Emergency shelters with 

appropriate supportive services to help 

ensure that homeless individuals and 

families receive adequate emergency 

shelter and referral to necessary service 

providers or housing search counselors; 

c. Transitional housing with 

appropriate supportive services to help 

homeless individuals and families 

prepare to make the transition to 

permanent housing and independent 

living; 

d. Permanent housing, or permanent 

supportive housing, to help meet the 

long-term needs of homeless individuals 

and families; and, 

e. Prevention strategies, which play 

an integral role in a community’s plan 

to eliminate homelessness by effectively 

intervening for persons at risk of 

homelessness or those being discharged 

from public systems—e.g., corrections, 

foster care, mental health, and other 

institutions—so that they do not enter 

the homeless system. By law, 

prevention activities are ineligible 

activities in the three programs included 

in this notice, but are eligible for 

funding under the Emergency Shelter 

Grants (ESG) program, the new 

Homelessness Prevention and Rapid ReHousing Program, and other programs. 

4. CoC Lead Person. Regardless of the 

CoC structure and planning process, the 

2009 electronic registration/application 

process will require that each CoC select 

two persons from the CoC Lead Agency 

who are authorized to submit the CoC 

application and the project applications 

to HUD. 

5. CoC Award. In recognition of the 

need to announce and process renewal 

awards as quickly as possible to avoid 

hardship to grantees, HUD will 

implement a modified selection process. 

Under the modified selection process, 

the CoC will receive its renewal funding 

for all eligible renewal projects shortly 

after the CoC application has been 

submitted to HUD in a two-step process. 

CoC scores will determine the new 

project applications to be selected for 

award. The sum of funds awarded to a 

CoC renewal and new projects is the 

total amount of monies awarded to a 

CoC’s eligible projects. 

II. Completing the Registration Process 

for CoCS 

In order to be eligible to submit an 

application in the FY 2009 Homeless 

Assistance competition, CoCs must 

register in the electronic database, esnaps, prior to the beginning of the 2009 

CoC competition. CoCs that applied for 

funds in 2008 will merely have to 

update registration information in esnaps. The CoC registration process will 

begin no earlier than July 21, 2009, and 

close no earlier than August 31, 2009, at 

4 p.m. ET. HUD will notify potential 

applicants of the exact registration 

opening and closing dates via the HUD 

Homeless Assistance listserv and 

through its websites located at http:// 

www.hud.gov and http:// 

www.hudhre.info. During the 

registration phase, CoCs will be asked to 

identify the CoC lead agency, contact 

information for lead agency staff, and 

the geography that the CoC is claiming. 

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their SHP and S+C grant inventory 

worksheets. This process will not be 

part of www.Grants.gov. CoCs will 

receive confirmation from HUD 

concerning claimed geography, and 

PPRN and HHN amounts. 

Through the CoC Registration process, 

CoCs will use the SHP and S+C grant 

inventory worksheets to establish those 

projects that are eligible for renewal in 

2009. Projects will be considered 

eligible for renewal in the 2009 CoC 

competition if they expire in Calendar 

Year 2010 and if they meet all other 

HUD requirements regarding 

performance and capacity. It will be at 

HUD’s discretion to award or not award 

any renewal project that has any 

significant capacity issues related to 

performance and/or financial problems 

or has unresolved monitoring findings. 

In 2009, CoCs will be required to 

verify that all renewals are correctly 

included on the grant inventory 

worksheet, and will be required to add 

missing projects as needed. In 2009, it 

will be critical for CoCs to pay close 

attention to any grants that were 

originally awarded in 2002 or 2003 that 

have not yet been renewed. As stated 

previously, the funds associated with 

these grants will be available only for 

use through the end of Federal Fiscal 

Years (FFY) 2009 and 2010, 

respectively. After that date, these funds 

will automatically be returned to the 

U.S. Treasury and will no longer be 

available for expenditure, even if the 

end date established in the grant 

agreement is later. More specific 

instructions will be provided to local 

HUD field offices for the following 

situations: 

• 2002 grant expires in 2009 but did 

not renew in 2008 competition and did 

not extend into 2010 or later—The grant 

will not be renewed. 

• 2002 grant expires in, or has been 

extended to, 2010 or beyond–Renewal 

must be requested in 2009. To be 

eligible for renewal in this year’s 

competition, recipient must operate the 

grant into 2010 using their own funds, 

until the renewal grant agreement is 

signed. Renewal grant agreements must 

be signed no later than March 31, 2010, 

or the renewal award will be deselected. 

The renewal grant will authorize 

reimbursement of the recipient’s 

expenditures for eligible costs incurred 

between September 30, 2009, and the 

date the renewal grant agreement is 

signed. The Operating Start Date in 

LOCCS for each of these renewal grant 

agreements will be adjusted to October 

1, 2009. 

• 2003 grant expires in, or has been 

extended to, 2010 or beyond–Renewal 

must be requested in 2009. Renewal 

grant agreements must be signed no 

later than September 30, 2010 or the 

renewal award will be deselected. The 

Operating Start Date in LOCCS for each 

of these renewal grant agreements will 

be adjusted to October 1, 2010. 

It is imperative that grantees adhere to 

the time limitation on the funds 

contained in the law. No extensions will 

be approved beyond the statutory 

availability of the funds for the grant. 

In 2009, CoCs that are in PPRN status 

will be permitted to request one, 2, or 

3 years of funding for SHP renewal 

projects, up to the maximum amount of 

available pro rata need. HUD reserves 

the right to not allow multi-year grant 

term requests for renewal projects in 

future competitions; therefore, CoCs 

may want to consider moving to oneyear renewals, to maximize funding. 

HUD will hold a satellite broadcast 

regarding the CoC registration process 

on July 15, 2009, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Eastern Time. This broadcast may be 

viewed at http://www.hud.gov/webcasts. 

This broadcast will also be archived on 

this website. On-line training for CoC 

Registration may be accessed at http:// 

www.hudhre.info. 

HUD will post the HUD-defined CoC 

names and numbers as well as a list of 

each geographical area with its 

Preliminary Pro-Rata Need amount on 

http://www.hud.gov and http:// 

www.hudhre.info/ 

index.cfm?do=viewCoCGrantMaterials. 

Existing and proposed CoCs must 

register their HUD-defined CoC and 

claimed geography with HUD through esnaps. If a CoC does not have a HUDdefined name, it should contact the 

HUD Field Office serving its area. 

In the instance that one or more CoC 

planning bodies claim one or more of 

the same geographies, HUD shall 

determine which CoC has the best claim 

for the geography, based upon past 

experience, as well as the participation 

and desires of the predominant number 

of homeless service providers in the 

disputed geography. The HUD decision 

on allocating geography is final, and 

competing CoCs shall be notified of 

HUD’s determination. If a CoC omits 

geography, HUD will not add it back in. 

III. Changes for 2009 CoC NOFA 

The following is a list of major 

changes to the 2009 CoC NOFA: 

1. In an effort to streamline the 

renewal award process in 2009, HUD 

has modified the selection process so 

that eligible SHP and S+C renewal 

projects will be awarded as quickly as 

possible. New projects will be awarded, 

after the completion of project threshold 

review and the scoring of the project 

and the CoC applications. A project 

application will be required for new and 

renewal projects. However, for renewal 

projects, applicants will only be 

verifying basic project and budget 

information, selecting grant term 

request, and certifying request of 

renewal. 

2. In 2009, CoCs in HHN status will 

not be able to reallocate funds to new 

projects. New project applications to be 

submitted must be either new projects 

within FPRN for CoCs in PPRN status or 

projects that will be funded with 

permanent housing bonus funds. HUD 

reserves the right to allow HHN 

Reallocation in future competitions (see 

Section I.B.5.d of this notice for a 

detailed explanation). 

3. HUD has determined that the 

merger of one or more existing CoCs 

into a new merged, larger CoC can result 

in effective and efficient planning, 

program delivery, HMIS 

implementation, and CoC 

competitiveness. In recognition of these 

advantages, HUD has adopted a new 

CoC Hold Harmless Merger policy for 

calculating FPRN that ensures CoCs will 

not lose FPRN by merging (see Section 

I.B.5.d of this notice). 

4. The Certification of Consistency 

with the Consolidated Plan is a statutory 

form that must be submitted as part of 

the application. Previously, project 

applicants were responsible for 

submitting the associated Consolidated 

Plan certification along with their 

project application. New this year, CoCs 

will be responsible for attaching the 

certification for all projects, new and 

renewal, that are requesting funding to 

the CoC portion of the application. CoCs 

will attach a signed form for each 

jurisdiction that includes the list of all 

associated new and renewal projects. 

5. HUD encourages all projects to 

utilize Neighborhood Stabilization 

Program (NSP) and any HUD-managed 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act (ARRA) programs, i.e., Community 

Development Block Grant-Recovery 

(CDBG–R), Tax Credit Assistance 

Program (TCAP), NSP1, NSP2, etc., as a 

source of leveraging. CoCs that identify 

coordination with NSP and any HUDmanaged ARRA programs may receive 

extra points during the CoC application 

review process. 

6. As part of the CoC application, 

CoCs will be required to address how 

they are participating in the new HPRP, 

as indicated in the substantial 

amendment to the Consolidated Plan. 

7. As a reminder, HUD will assess, as 

part of the project review process, 

applicant eligibility, capacity, and 

quality. This review also considers an 

applicant’s spending history on current 

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applicable. HUD expects that grantees 

should be making draw-downs at least 

quarterly. HUD will be looking at this 

for both new project applications and as 

a condition of renewal awards. 

8. Also as a reminder, up to 8 percent 

of an S+C grant may be used for eligible 

incurred administrative costs associated 

with administration of housing 

assistance. These funds must be drawn 

down at least quarterly. Draws must be 

for eligible expenses already incurred in 

the period immediately preceding the 

draw or to be incurred during the period 

immediately following the draw. HUD 

will recapture all unspent funds at the 

end of the grant term. If administrative 

costs exceed 8 percent, recipients must 

pay for these costs from another source. 

9. Beginning in 2009, applicants for 

the S+C program will be permitted to 

apply only for 100 percent of the Fair 

Market Rent (FMR) and will no longer 

be permitted to request any amount that 

is greater or less than the local FMR. 

10. The calculation of housing 

emphasis and leveraging for the CoC 

score will be calculated using only new 

project requests. 

11. For 2009, the Samaritan Bonus 

Initiative will be replaced with a 

Permanent Housing Bonus. CoCs will be 

able to use funds for homeless disabled 

individuals and families or for 

chronically homeless individuals. As 

creating new permanent housing beds 

for chronically homeless individuals is 

still a HUD priority, HUD strongly 

encourages CoCs to use at least a portion 

of available bonus funds to create a 

project that will exclusively serve the 

chronically homeless. 

Dated: August 20, 2009. 

Mercedes Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

and Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–21211 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5200–FA–04] 

Announcement of Funding Awards for 

the Rural Housing and Economic 

Development Program Fiscal Year 

2008 

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 Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

Development. 

FY 2008 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM GRANTEES

Tribal Government of St. Paul Island ............................................................................................................................... AK ..... $300,000.00 

Organized Village of Kasaan ............................................................................................................................................ AK ..... 300,000.00 

Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization, Inc ................................................................................................ AL ..... 300,000.00 

Collaborative Solutions, Inc. ............................................................................................................................................. AL ..... 300,000.00 

Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council, Inc. ........................................................................................... AR .... 250,344.00 

Moenkopi Developers Corporation, Inc. ........................................................................................................................... AZ ..... 298,626.00 

Comite de Bien Estar, Inc. ................................................................................................................................................ AZ ..... 300,000.00 

Hopi Tribe ......................................................................................................................................................................... AZ ..... 296,800.00 

International Sonoran Desert Alliance .............................................................................................................................. AZ ..... 300,000.00 

White Mountain Apache Housing Authority ...................................................................................................................... AZ ..... 300,000.00 

Nogales Community Development Corporation (NCD) .................................................................................................... AZ ..... 300,000.00 

Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria ...................................................................................................................... CA .... 300,000.00 

Timbisha Shoshone Tribe ................................................................................................................................................. CA .... 124,000.00 

Karuk Tribe of California ................................................................................................................................................... CA .... 300,000.00 

Bishop Paiute Tribe .......................................................................................................................................................... CA .... 296,410.00 

The Relational Culture Institute ........................................................................................................................................ CA .... 300,000.00 

Big Pine Paiute Tribe ........................................................................................................................................................ CA .... 284,968.00 


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