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FY 2000 Mainstream NOFA as provided

in the FY 2000 SuperNOFA, or revise

any other aspect of that NOFA. The

application due date for the FY 2000

Mainstream NOFA remains July 18,

2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You

may contact George C. Hendrickson,

Housing Program Specialist, Room

4216, Office of Public and Assisted

Housing Delivery, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, 451

Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC

20410; telephone (202) 708–1872, ext.

4064, or you may contact the Grants

management Center at (202) 358–0338.

(These are not toll-free numbers.)

Persons with hearing or speech

impairments may access these numbers

via TTY (text telephone) by calling the

Federal Information Relay Service at 1–

800–877–8339 (this is a toll-free

number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

February 24, 2000 (65 FR 9322), HUD

published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2000

Super Notice of Funding Availability

(SuperNOFA) for HUD’s Housing,

Community Development, and

Empowerment Programs and Section 8

Housing Voucher Assistance. The FY

2000 SuperNOFA announced the

availability of approximately $2,424

billion in HUD program funds covering

39 grant categories within programs

operated and administered by HUD

offices and Section 8 housing voucher

assistance. The SuperNOFA included an

announcement of funding availability

under the Mainstream Housing

Opportunities for persons with

Disabilities Program (Mainstream

Program) (see 65 FR at 9963).

This document provides notification

to the public that as a result of an

administrative error in the processing of

the FY 1999 NOFA for the Mainstream

Program (64 FR 11302) (which was

published separately; the FY 1999

NOFA was not part of the FY 1999

SuperNOFA), five public housing

agencies (PHAs) were inadvertently

omitted from the FY 1999 Mainstream

NOFA lottery.

The five PHAs are the following: The

Housing Authority of Rockville,

Maryland; the Housing Authority of

Prince Georges County, Largo,

Maryland; the Virginia Housing

Authority Development Agency,

Richmond, VA; the Fairfax County

Regional Housing Authority, Fairfax,

Virginia; and the District of Columbia

Housing Authority, Washington, DC.

These five PHAs will be automatically

entered into the FY 2000 Mainstream

NOFA lottery without further

application submission.

Dated: June 9, 2000.

Harold Lucas,

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing.

[FR Doc. 00–15341 Filed 6–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–33–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Public and Indian Housing

[Docket No. FR–4570–C–03]

Notice of Funding Availability for Fair

Share Allocation of Incremental

Voucher Funding Fiscal Year 2000;

Correction to NOFA Regarding

Residency Preference and Extension

of Application Period

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Fund Availability

(NOFA); Correction of NOFA and

Extension of Application Period.

SUMMARY: On March 10, 2000, HUD

published its FY 2000 NOFA for Fair

Share Allocation of Incremental

Voucher Funding (‘‘Fair Share NOFA’’).

The selection criteria of the NOFA were

amended by notice published on May

18, 2000, to better reflect the

appropriate weight in points that should

have been assigned to the ‘‘housing

needs’’ selection criterion so that need

is the most important basis for

allocating incremental voucher funding.

The May 18, 2000 amendatory notice

also reopened the application period for

the Fair Share NOFA. The May 18, 2000

notice provided for a new application

due date of June 19, 2000. This notice

corrects the percentage listed in the

residency preference subcategory of

Selection Criterion 2. The percentage

listed in the May 18, 2000, notice was

15% and the percentage should have

been inserted was 50%. This document

makes that correction, and also extends

the application due date further—30

days from the date of publication of this

notice.

DATES: Applications are due on July 19,

2000. Applicants that already submitted

applications need not resubmit a new

application, and need not amend their

applications. Applicants that already

submitted applications, however, may

submit new or amended applications if

they so choose.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background—March 10, 2000 NOFA

If you are interested in applying for

funding under the Fair Share NOFA,

and did not apply earlier, please review

the entire Fair Share NOFA, published

on March 10, 2000 (65 FR 13222), as

amended by the notice published on

May 18, 2000 (65 FR 31584). Except for

the additional correction made by this

document and the extension of the

application due, all other provisions of

the March 10, 2000, Fair Share NOFA,

as amended on May 18, 2000, are

unchanged and remain applicable.

The March 10, 2000 Fair Share NOFA

will provide you with detailed

information regarding the submission of

an application, Section 8 program

requirements, the application selection

process to be used by HUD in selecting

applications for funding, and other

valuable information relative to a PHA’s

application submission and

participation in the program covered by

this NOFA. The March 10, 2000 Fair

Share NOFA is also available on HUD’s

internet site at http://www.hud.gov

under ‘‘Funds Available.’’ This Federal

Register notice amending the March 10,

2000 Fair Share NOFA is also available

at the same HUD web site.

Correction Made by this Notice

This notice corrects an error made in

the publication of the May 18, 2000,

notice. The May 18, 2000 notice

amended the selection criteria in

Section IV of the March 10, 2000 Fair

Share NOFA primarily to better reflect

the appropriate weight in points that

should have been assigned to the

‘‘housing needs’’ selection criterion so

that need is the most important basis for

allocating incremental voucher funding.

Weights of other criteria were reduced

accordingly. The May 18, 2000, notice

also revised or removed two selection

criteria that do not assess a public

housing agency’s housing needs and are

otherwise problematic. The revision

made by the May 18, 2000 notice was

to the residency preference subcategory

in selection criterion 2 of the NOFA.

That subcategory was altered to provide

for the assignment of points to PHAs

that will limit applicability of residency

preferences to 15% of all new

admissions to the program, as well as to

those PHAs that do not have a residency

preference or agree to eliminate one.

This change was made in recognition

that some PHAs with legally adopted

residency preferences and great housing

needs would have been penalized by the

language provided in the March 10,

2000, Fair Share NOFA. The

applicability of residency preferences to

15% of all new admissions was

incorrect. The percentage limitation was

intended to be 50%.

This notice published in today’s

edition of the Federal Register makes

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that correction and provides for an

additional extension of the application

due date, which is 30 days from the date

of today’s publication.

This notice does not repeat the

application submission information.

That information was set out in the

March 10, 2000 NOFA (64 FR 13222)

and also the May 18, 2000 amendatory

notice (65 FR 31584).

As noted earlier, applicants that

already submitted applications by the

original application due date of April

24, 2000, or the extended due date of

June 19, 2000, need not resubmit a new

application, and need not amend their

applications. Applicants that have

provided a certification which would

have entitled them to points with

respect to residency preferences, and

that still will comply with the

certification they provided, need not

submit a further certification to receive

the points. Applicants that already

submitted applications, however, may

submit new or amended applications if

they so choose.

Submission of new or amended

applications should clearly identify the

name of the applicant, the applicant HA

code (e.g. CA002), and whether the

information submitted is new and

replaces a previously submitted

application in its entirety or is an

addendum to the previously submitted

application.

Accordingly, in the FY 2000 NOFA

for Fair Share Allocation of Incremental

Voucher Funding, notice document 00–

6027, beginning at 65 FR 13222, in the

issue of Friday, March 10 2000, as

amended by the notice published on

May 18, 2000, beginning at 65 FR 31584,

the following correction is made to

Selection Criterion 2 (Efforts of PHA to

Provide Area-Wide Housing

Opportunities for Families), the second

full paragraph under paragraph (b) of

Selection Criterion 2:

IV. Fair Share Application Rating

Process

* * * * *

(2) Selection Criterion 2: Efforts of

PHA to Provide Area-Wide Housing

Opportunities for Families (30 points).

* * * * *

• 5 Points—Assign 5 points if the

PHA certifies that (i) its administrative

plan does not include a ‘‘residency

preference’’ for selection of families to

participate in its voucher program, or

(ii) it will eliminate immediately any

‘‘residency preference’’ currently in its

administrative plan, or (iii) it will limit

applicability of residency preferences to

50% of all new admissions to the

voucher program.

* * * * *

Dated: June 13, 2000.

Harold Lucas,

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing.

[FR Doc. 00–15365 Filed 6–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–33–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Availability of a Draft Environmental

Assessment and Preliminary Finding

of No Significant Impact, and Receipt

of an Application for an Incidental Take

Permit for a Proposed Commercial

Development Called Bella Vista Retail

Center Located in Highlands County,

Florida

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

The 81 + 3 Florida, Inc. company

(Applicant) requests an incidental take

permit (ITP) pursuant to section

10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species

Act of 1973 (U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as

amended (Act). The Applicant

anticipates taking 20.7 acres of sand

skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) and bluetail

mole skink (Eumeces egregius lividus)

habitat, incidental to the development

of a commercial retail center in section

23, Township 34 South, Range 28 East,

Sebring, Highlands County, Florida. The

Applicant proposes to mitigate the

taking of skinks through fee title

acquisition of at least 41.4 acres of

suitable skink habitat within the range

of the species.

Land clearing, infrastructure

installation and commercial

construction will destroy 20.7 acres of

habitat known to be occupied by sand

and bluetail mole skinks. A more

detailed description of the mitigation

and minimization measures to address

the effects of the Project to the protected

species are outlined in the Applicant’s

Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), the

Service’s draft Environmental

Assessment (EA), and in the

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section

below.

The Service also announces the

availability of a draft EA and HCP for

the incidental take application. Copies

of the draft EA and/or HCP may be

obtained by making a request to the

Regional Office (see ADDRESSES).

Requests must be in writing to be

processed. This notice also advises the

public that the Service has made a

preliminary determination that issuing

the ITP is not a major Federal action

significantly affecting the quality of the

human environment within the meaning

of Section 102(2)(C) of the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as

amended (NEPA). The preliminary

Finding of No Significant Impact

(FONSI) is based on information

contained in the draft EA and HCP. The

final determination will be made no

sooner than 30 days from the date of

this notice. This notice is provided

pursuant to Section 10 of the Act and

NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).

The Service specifically requests

information, views, and opinions from

the public via this Notice on the federal

action, including the identification of

any other aspects of the human

environment not already identified in

the Service’s draft EA. Further, the

Service is specifically soliciting

information regarding the adequacy of

the HCP as measured against the

Service’s ITP issuance criteria found in

50 CFR Parts 13 and 17.

If you wish to comment, you may

submit comments by any one of several

methods. Please reference permit

number TE026107–0 in such comments,

or in requests of the documents

discussed herein. You may mail

comments to the Service’s Regional

Office (see ADDRESSES). You may also

comment via the internet to

‘‘david_dell@fws.gov’’. Please submit

comments over the internet as an ASCII

file avoiding the use of special

characters and any form of encryption.

Please also include your name and

return address in your internet message.

If you do not receive a confirmation

from the Service that we have received

your internet message, contact us

directly at either telephone number

listed below (see FURTHER INFORMATION).

Finally, you may hand deliver

comments to either Service office listed

below (see ADDRESSES). Our practice is

to make comments, including names

and home addresses of respondents,

available for public review during

regular business hours. Individual

respondents may request that we

withhold their home address from the

administrative record. We will honor

such requests to the extent allowable by

law. There may also be other

circumstances in which we would

withhold from the administrative record

a respondent’s identity, as allowable by

law. If you wish us to withhold your

name and address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comments. We will not; however,

consider anonymous comments. We

will make all submissions from

organizations or businesses, and from

individuals identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of