RICPS, No. 76

Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas:

Fiscal Year 2003

Compiled by M. Louise Reynnells 

Rural Information Center

Rural Information Center Publication Series, No. 76

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ................. ................. ................. ................. ........... xix

FUNDING PROGRAMS BY DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

http://www.usda.gov/

10.167 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES ................. ................. ................. ............... 1

10.212 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR Program) ................. ................. ...... 1

10.215 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ................. ................. .... 1

10.221 TRIBAL COLLEGES EDUCATION EQUITY GRANTS ................. ................. .............. 2

10.222 TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM (TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM) .......... 2

10.225 COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS (Community Food Project Program) ................. ................. . . 3

10.405 FARM LABOR HOUSING LOANS AND GRANTS (Labor Housing) ................. ................. .... 3

10.406 FARM OPERATING LOANS ................. ................. ................. ................. . 3

10.407 FARM OWNERSHIP LOANS ................. ................. ................. ................. . 4

10.410 VERY LOW TO MODERATE INCOME HOUSING LOANS (Section 502 Rural Housing Loans) ................ 4

10.411 RURAL HOUSING SITE LOANS AND SELF HELP HOUSING LAND DEVELOPMENT LOANS 

(Section 523 and 524 Site Loans) ................. ................. ................. ................. ..... 5

10.415 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING LOANS ................. ................. ................. ............ 5

10.417 VERY LOW-INCOME HOUSING REPAIR LOANS AND GRANTS 

(Section 504 Rural Housing Loans and Grants) ................. ................. ................. ............ 6

10.420 RURAL SELF-HELP HOUSING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (Section 523 Technical Assistance) ............... 6

10.421 INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL CORPORATION LOANS ................. ................. ............ 7

10.427 RURAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS (Rental Assistance) ................. ................. ...... 7

10.433 RURAL HOUSING PRESERVATION GRANTS ................. ................. ................. ... 7

10.438 SECTION 538 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING GUARANTEED LOANS ................. ................. ... 8

10.441 TECHNICAL AND SUPERVISORY ASSISTANCE GRANTS ................. ................. ......... 8

10.442 HOUSING APPLICATION PACKAGING GRANTS (Section 509 Grants) ................. ................. 9

10.443 OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS ......... 9

10.444 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER LOANS AND GRANTS 

(SECTION 504, Rural Housing Loans and Grants) ................. ................. ................. ........ 10
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10.445 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER (Section 502 Very Low and Low Income Loans) ................. . 10

10.446 RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE ................. ................. ............. 10

10.557 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN 

(WIC Program) ................. ................. ................. ................. ................. . . 11

10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. . . 11

10.567 FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS ................. ................. ... 11

10.570 NUTRITION SERVICES INCENTIVE (NSIP) ................. ................. ................. .... 12

10.664 COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ................. ................. ................. ..... 12

10.665 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO STATES (25 Percent Payments to States) ................. .......... 13

10.666 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO COUNTIES (Payments to Counties) ................. .............. 13

10.670 NATIONAL FOREST DEPENDENT RURAL COMMUNITIES (Economic Recovery) ................. ....... 13

10.671 SOUTHEAST ALASKA ECONOMIC DISASTER FUND ................. ................. ............ 13

10.672 RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES (RURAL DEVELOPMENT) ................. 14

10.760 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES ................. ............ 14

10.761 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING GRANTS ................. ................. ............. 15

10.762 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS ................. ................. ................. ...... 15

10.763 EMERGENCY COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE GRANTS ................. ................. ...... 15

10.766 COMMUNITY FACILITIES LOANS AND GRANTS ................. ................. ................ 16

10.767 INTERMEDIARY RE-LENDING PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. .... 16

10.768 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOANS ................. ................. ................. .......... 17

10.769 RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RBEG) (TDG) ................. ................. ................ 18

10.770 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 306C) ................. ............ 18

10.771 RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RTDG) ................. ................. ........ 18

10.772 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities) ................. . . 19

10.773 RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (RBOG) ................. ................. ............. 20

10.850 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES ( RUS) ................. .............. 20

10.851 RURAL TELEPHONE LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES (RUS) ................. ................. .... 20

10.852 RURAL TELEPHONE BANK LOANS (Rural Telephone Bank) ................. ................. ........ 20

10.854 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS AND GRANTS ................. ................. ...... 21

10.855 DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE LOANS AND GRANTS ................. ................ 21

10.859 ASSISTANCE TO HIGH ENERGY COST RURAL COMMUNITIES ................. ................. ... 21

10.901 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ................. ................. ............. 22
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10.910 RURAL ABANDONED MINE PROGRAM (RAMP) ................. ................. ................ 23

10.912 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM (EQIP) ................. ................. .... 23

10.913 FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. ........ 24

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

http://www.arc.gov/

23.001 APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT(SEE INDIVIDUAL APPALACHIAN PROGRAMS) 

(Appalachian Program) ................. ................. ................. ................. ............ 25

23.002 APPALACHIAN SUPPLEMENTS TO FEDERAL GRANT-IN-AID (AREA DEVELOPMENT)

(Supplemental Grants) ................. ................. ................. ................. ............. 26

23.003 APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM (Appalachian Corridors) ................. ......... 26

23.008 APPALACHIAN LOCAL ACCESS ROADS ................. ................. ................. ...... 27

23.009 APPALACHIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ASSISTANCE (LDD) ................. ............ 27

23.011 APPALACHIAN STATE RESEARCH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

 (State Research) ................. ................. ................. ................. ................. . 27

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

http://www.doc.gov/

11.300 GRANTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES ................. ....... 29

11.302 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT– SUPPORT FOR PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS 

(ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND INDIAN PLANNING ................ 29

11.303 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

 (National, University Center and Local Technical Assistance) ................. ................. ................ 29

11.307 SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SUDDEN 

AND SEVERE ECONOMIC DISLOCATION AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DETERIORATION 

(Economic Adjustment Program) ................. ................. ................. ................. ..... 30

11.550 PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES--PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (PTFP) ............. 30

11.552 TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES (TOP) ................. ................. ................. ....... 31

11.801 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM (NAP) ................. ................. ................. ........ 32

11.806 MINORITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE ................. ................. ............. 32

 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/

12.600 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ................. ................. ................. ..... 33

12.607 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE (Community Planning Assistance) ...... 33

12.611 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE FOR REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE

INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT ................. ................. ................. ................. ....... 33
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12.612 COMMUNITY BASE REUSE PLANS (Community Planning Assistance) ................. ................. 34

DENALI COMMISSION

http://www.denali.gov/

90.100 DENALI COMMISSION PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. ........... 35

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

http://www.ed.gov/

84.002 ADULT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM ................. ................. ................ 36

84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES (Title I Basic, Concentration, and Targeted Grants) . . 36

84.011 MIGRANT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM ................. ................. .............. 36

84.048 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BASIC GRANTS TO STATES ................. ................. ......... 37

84.060 INDIAN EDUCATION GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES ................. .............. 37

84.101 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INDIANS SET-ASIDE ................. ................. ............... 37

84.141 MIGRANT EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM (HEP) ................. ........... 38

84.144 MIGRANT EDUCATION COORDINATION PROGRAM ................. ................. ............ 38

84.149 MIGRANT EDUCATION COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM (CAMP) ................. ...... 38

84.169 INDEPENDENT LIVING STATE GRANTS ................. ................. ................. ...... 39

84.184 SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES NATIONAL PROGRAMS ................. .... 39

84.203 STAR SCHOOLS ................. ................. ................. ................. ........... 40

84.213 EVEN START STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES ................. ................. ................ 40

84.214 EVEN START MIGRANT EDUCATION ................. ................. ................. ........ 41

84.215 FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION (FIE) ................. ................. .......... 41

84.216 CAPITAL EXPENSES ................. ................. ................. ................. ...... 42

84.221 NATIVE HAWAIIAN SPECIAL EDUCATION ................. ................. ................. .... 42

84.250 REHABILITATION SERVICES AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES ................. ............ 42

84.258 EVEN START INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS ................. ................. ... 43

84.259 NATIVE HAWAIIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ................. ................. ................ 43

84.286 READY TO CHANGE ................. ................. ................. ................. ...... 43

84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS ................. ................. . . 44

84.295 READY-TO-LEARN TELEVISION ................. ................. ................. ............. 44

84.296 NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION LEARNING CENTERS ................. ...... 45

84.297 NATIVE HAWAIIAN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT ....... 45
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84.298 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM STRATEGIES ................. ................. ............ 45

84.316 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM ................. ................. ........... 46

84.320 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER 

TRAINING, AND RECRUITMENT PROGRAM (ANE) ................. ................. ................. ... 46

84.322 ALASKA NATIVE STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

(Alaska Native Education) ................. ................. ................. ................. .......... 46

84.341 COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS ................. ................. ................. ...... 47

84.352 SCHOOL RENOVATION GRANTS ................. ................. ................. ............ 47

84.356 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ................. ................. ................. 47

84.358 RURAL EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM (REAP) ................. ................. ......... 48

84.360 DROPOUT PREVENTION PROGRAMS ................. ................. ................. ........ 48

84.362 NATIVE HAWAIIAN EDUCATION ................. ................. ................. ............ 49

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

http://www.doe.gov/

81.042 WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME PERSONS ................. ................. . . 50

81.106 TRANSPORT OF TRANSURANIC WASTES TO THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT: STATES AND TRIBAL

CONCERNS, PROPOSED SOLUTIONS ................. ................. ................. ............... 50

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

http://www.epa.gov/

66.418 CONSTRUCTION GRANTS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS ................. .............. 51

66.458 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR STATE REVOLVING FUNDS State Revolving Fund) ................. ... 51

66.461 WETLANDS PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ................. ................. ............ 51

66.468 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND (Drinking Water State

Revolving Fund) ................. ................. ................. ................. ................. . 52

66.471 STATE GRANTS TO REIMBURSE OPERATORS OF SMALL WATER SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING AND

CERTIFICATION COSTS (Operator Certification Expense Reimbursement Grants) ................. ............... 52

66.473 DIRECT IMPLEMENTATION TRIBAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS (DITCA) ................. ........ 52

66.604 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS TO SMALL COMMUNITY GROUPS (EJGSC) ................. ... 53

66.709 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR STATES AND TRIBES ........ 53

66.715 CHILDHOOD BLOOD-LEAD SCREENING AND LEAD AWARENESS (EDUCATIONAL)

 OUTREACH FOR INDIAN TRIBES (Tribal Lead Grants) ................. ................. ................. . 54

66.806 SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR CITIZEN GROUPS AT PRIORITY SITES 

(SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS) ................. ................. ................. ... 54

66.808 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE ................. ................. ................. . . 55
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66.811 BROWNFIELD PILOTS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS ................. ................. ........... 55

66.812 HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS FOR TRIBES ................. ................. ..... 56

66.926 INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

 (General Assistance Program (GAP) for Tribes) ................. ................. ................. .......... 56

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

http://www.fema.gov/

83.010 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ................. ................. ......... 58

83.012 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ................. ................. ............. 58

83.105 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM STATE SUPPORT SERVICES ELEMENT (CAP-SSSE) ............ 58

83.537 COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS ................. ................. ................. ............. 59

83.544 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE GRANTS ................. ................. ................. .............. 59

83.552 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANTS (EMPG) ................. ................. . 59

83.553 STATE FIRE TRAINING SYSTEMS GRANTS (National Fire Academy Training Grants) ................. .... 60

83.554 ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT(FIRE GRANTS) ................. ................. ......... 60

83.556 FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE GRANT ................. ................. ................. ... 61

DEPARTM ENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

http://www.dhhs.gov/

93.005 PROJECT GRANTS FOR FACILITIES TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF

 MINORITY POPULATIONS ................. ................. ................. ................. ....... 62

93.045 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE III, PART C NUTRITION SERVICES ................. .... 62

93.047 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE VI, PART A, GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES 

PART B, GRANTS TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS ................. ................. ................. .......... 62

93.110 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH FEDERAL CONSOLIDATED PROGRAMS 

(Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS)) ................. ................. ........... 63

93.127 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN (EMS for Children) ................. .............. 63

93.129 TECHNICAL AND NON-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH CENTERS AND NATIONAL HEALTH

SERVICE CORPS (NHSC) DELIVERY SITES ................. ................. ................. .......... 64

93.130 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES RESOURCE COORDINATION AND DEVELOPMENT 

(STATE PRIMARY CARE OFFICES) ................. ................. ................. ................. 64

93.151 HEALTH CENTER GRANTS FOR HOMELESS POPULATIONS ................. ................. ..... 65

93.155 RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERS ................. ................. ................. ....... 65

93.162 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM (NHSC Loan Repayment Program) . . 66

93.164 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE EDUCATIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT (IHS Loan Repayment Program) .......... 67

93.191 ALLIED HEALTH SPECIAL PROJECTS ................. ................. ................. ........ 67
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93.192 QUENTIN N. BURDICK PROGRAMS FOR RURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING 

(Interdisciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas) ................. ................. ................. . 68

93.202 CAPACITY BUILDING AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES ................. ................. ...... 68

93.210 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM: PLANNING AND NEGOTIATION

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND IHS COMPACTS (Tribal Self-Governance) ................. ............... 69

93.211 RURAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS (Rural Telemedicine Grant Program) ................. ................ 69

93.219 MATCHING GRANTS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIAN TRIBES

 (Health Professions Scholarships) ................. ................. ................. ................. .... 70

93.223 DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION OF RURAL HEALTH SERVICES ................. ............. 70

93.224 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ................. ................. ................. ............ 71

93.226 RESEARCH ON HEALTHCARE COSTS, QUALITY AND OUTCOMES ................. ................ 71

93.228 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (Indian Health) ........ 72

93.241 STATE RURAL HOSPITAL FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM ................. ................. ............. 72

93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS ................. ................. ................. ...... 72

93.244 MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL AND AIDS SERVICE-RELATED TRAINING GRANTS ................. ... 73

93.246 HEALTH CENTERS GRANTS FOR MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS ................. ..... 74

93.252 COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. ........... 74

93.259 RURAL ACCESS TO EMERGENCY DEVICES GRANT (RURAL ACCESS TO AEDS) ................. .... 75

93.268 IMMUNIZATION GRANTS (Section 301 and 317, Public Health Service Act; Immunization Program) ........... 75

93.284 INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKAN 

NATIVES–COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS ................. ................. ................. ........... 76

93.288 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (NHSC Scholarship Program) ........... 76

93.301 SMALL RURAL HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS ................. ................. ............ 77

93.441 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION ................. ................. ................. ............. 77

93.558 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 

Programs; State Family Assistance Grants; Tribal Family Assistance Grants; Assistance Grants to Territories; Matching 

Grants to Territories; Supplemental Grants for Population Increases; Contingency Fund; High Performance Bonus;

Decrease in Illegitimacy Bonus) ................. ................. ................. ................. ...... 77

93.568 LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE ................. ................. ................. . . 78

93.569 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT ................. ................. ................. ..... 79

93.570 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT DISCRETIONARY AWARDS ................. .............. 79

93.575 CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 

(Discretionary Fund of the Child Care and Development Fund) ................. ................. ............... 80

93.581 IMPROVING THE CAPABILITY OF INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS TO REGULATE 

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ................. ................. ................. ................. ..... 80
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93.582 MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS TO INDIAN LANDS DUE TO DEPARTMENT OF 

DEFENSE ACTIVITIES ................. ................. ................. ................. ........... 80

93.590 COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY RESOURCE AND SUPPORT GRANTS ................. ............... 81

93.593 JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS (JOLI Program) ................. ............. 81

93.594 TRIBAL WORK GRANTS Native Employment Works (NEW) Grants (Grants for Indian tribes and 

Alaska Native organizations that Received Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) Funds) ................. 81

93.595 WELFARE REFORM RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS AND NATIONAL STUDIES (Welfare Reform Research) ... 82

93.596 CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE AND 

DEVELOPMENT FUND (Child Care and Development Fund) ................. ................. ............... 82

93.600 HEAD START (Head Start) ................. ................. ................. ................. ... 82

93.612 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS ................. ................. ................. ............ 83

93.667 SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (Social Services) ................. ................. .............. 83

93.671 FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES/GRANTS FOR BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTERS

GRANTS TO STATES AND INDIAN TRIBES ................. ................. ................. ......... 84

93.674 CHAFEE FOSTER CARE INDEPENDENT LIVING (CFCIP) ................. ................. ......... 84

93.779 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATIONS AND

EVALUATIONS (CMS RESEARCH) ................. ................. ................. ................. 84

93.910 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM (Family Life Centers) ................. 85

93.912 RURAL HEALTH OUTREACH AND RURAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ................. . . 85

93.913 GRANTS TO STATES FOR OPERATION OF OFFICES OF RURAL HEALTH ................. ........... 86

93.926 HEALTHY START INITIATIVE (Targeted Infant Mortality Initiative) ................. ................. ... 86

93.932 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH SYSTEMS ................. ................. ................. ...... 87

93.933 DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR INDIAN HEALTH ................. ................. ............ 87

93.952 IMPROVING EMS/TRAUMA CARE IN RURAL AREAS (RURAL EMS/TRAUMA CARE) ................. . 87

93.954 TRIBAL RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTO INDIAN HEALTH

PROGRAMS (Tribal Recruitment) ................. ................. ................. ................. ... 88

93.956 AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMS Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research,

Education, and Prevention; Community Partners for Healthy Farming (CPHF); Deep-South Center for Agricultural 

Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention ................. ................. ................. ... 88

93.958 BLOCK GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CMHS Block Grant) ................ 89

93.959 BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Prevention and Treatment

(SAPT) Block Grant)

................. ................. ................. ................. ................. ............... 90

93.960 SPECIAL MINORITY INITIATIVES ................. ................. ................. ............ 90

93.970 HEALTH PROFESSIONS RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR INDIANS (Recruitment Program) ............... 91

93.971 HEALTH PROFESSIONS PREPARATORY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR INDIANS ................. ... 91
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93.972 HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ................. ................. ............. 92

93.991 PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (PHHS Block Grants) ................. 92

93.994 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT TO THE STATES ................. ...... 93

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

http://www.hud.gov/

14.110 MANUFACTURED HOME LOAN INSURANCE FINANCING PURCHASE OF MANUFACTURED 

HOMES AS PRINCIPAL RESIDENCES OF BORROWERS (Title I) ................. ................. ......... 94

14.121 MORTGAGE INSURANCE HOMES IN OUTLYING AREAS (203(i)) ................. ................. . . 94

14.157 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY (202) ................. ................. ............... 94

14.219 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM (Small Cities) ............... 94

14.227 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS/

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. .............. 95

14.228 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM ................. ............... 95

14.239 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME Program) ................. ................. 96

14.243 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH, YOUTH BUILD PROGRAM (YOUTH BUILD Program) ................. . . 96

14.244 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities) ................. . . 97

14.246 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (Section 108) . . 97

14.250 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ................. ................. ............ 98

14.313 DOLLAR HOME SALES ................. ................. ................. ................. .... 98

14.511 COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM ................. ................. ... 98

14.512 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK-STUDY PROGRAM ................. ................. ........ 99

14.515 ALASKA NATIVE/NATIVE HAWAIIAN INSTITUTIONS ASSISTING COMMUNITIES ................. ... 99

14.519 TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM ................. ................. ............. 99

14.850 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING ................. ................. ................. ............ 100

14.862 INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM ................. ............... 100

14.865 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING INDIAN LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM 

(Loan Guarantees for Indian Housing) ................. ................. ................. ................. 100

14.867 INDIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS ................. ................. ................. ......... 101

14.869 TITLE VI FEDERAL GUARANTEES FOR FINANCING TRIBAL HOUSING ACTIVITIES ................. 101

14.870 RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES (ROSS) ................. ................. 101

14.872 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND (CFP) ................. ................. ................. ..... 101

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15.020 AID TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ................. ................. ................. ........... 103

15.022 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE ................. ................. ................. ............... 103

15.024 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT SUPPORT (CONTRACT SUPPORT) ................. .... 103

15.025 SERVICES TO INDIAN CHILDREN, ELDERLY AND FAMILIES (SOCIAL SERVICES) ................. . . 103

15.026 INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION ................. ................. ................. ............... 104

15.027 ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ........... 104

15.028 TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS ................. ............... 104

15.029 TRIBAL COURTS ................. ................. ................. ................. ......... 104

15.030 INDIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT (LAW ENFORCEMENT) ................. ................. .......... 105

15.031 INDIAN COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION (COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION) ................. ...... 105

15.032 INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ................. ................. ................. ........ 105

15.033 ROAD MAINTENANCE INDIAN ROADS ................. ................. ................. ...... 105

15.034 AGRICULTURE ON INDIAN LANDS ................. ................. ................. ......... 106

15.035 FORESTRY ON INDIAN LANDS ................. ................. ................. ............. 106

15.036 INDIAN RIGHTS PROTECTION ................. ................. ................. .............. 106

15.037 WATER RESOURCES ON INDIAN LANDS ................. ................. ................. .... 107

15.038 MINERALS AND MINING ON INDIAN LANDS ................. ................. ................. . 107

15.039 FISH, WILDLIFE, AND PARKS PROGRAMS ON INDIAN LANDS (WILDLIFE AND PARKS) ............. 107

15.040 REAL ESTATE PROGRAMS INDIAN LANDS ................. ................. ................. . . 107

15.041 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INDIAN PROGRAMS ................. ................. ....... 108

15.042 INDIAN SCHOOL EQUALIZATION PROGRAM (ISEP) ................. ................. ........... 108

15.043 INDIAN CHILD AND FAMILY EDUCATION (FACE) ................. ................. ............. 108

15.044 INDIAN SCHOOLS STUDENT TRANSPORTATION (Student Transportation) ................. ........... 109

15.045 ASSISTANCE FOR INDIAN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES (Institutionalized Handicapped) ..... 109

15.046 ADMINISTRATIVE COST GRANTS FOR INDIAN SCHOOLS ................. ................. ...... 109

15.047 INDIAN EDUCATION FACILITIES, OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE ................. ............ 109

15.058 INDIAN POST SECONDARY SCHOOLS (Haskell and SIPI) ................. ................. ........ 109

15.061 INDIAN JOB PLACEMENT UNITED SIOUX TRIBES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION UNITED SIOUX

TRIBES) ................. ................. ................. ................. ................. ...... 110

15.062 REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR OF INDIAN SCHOOLS ................. ................. ........... 110

15.063 CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF INDIAN DETENTION FACILITIES ................. .............. 110
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15.064 STRUCTURAL FIRE PROTECTION BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FACILITIES (Fire Protection) ......... 111

15.108 INDIAN EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (Employment Assistance Program) ................. ............. 111

15.113 INDIAN SOCIAL SERVICES GENERAL ASSISTANCE ................. ................. ............ 112

15.114 INDIAN EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM (Higher Education) ................. ... 112

15.124 INDIAN LOANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Loan Guaranty Program) ................. .............. 112

15.130 INDIAN EDUCATION ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS (Johnson-O'Malley) ................. ............... 112

15.141 INDIAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE ................. ................. ................. ............ 113

15.144 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT TITLE II GRANTS ................. ................. .............. 113

15.225 RECREATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ................. ................. ................. ... 113

15.228 WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE COMMUNITY AND RURAL FIRE ASSISTANCE ................. .... 114

15.850 INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS DEVELOPMENT ................. ................. ................. . 114

15.875 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIES AND THE FREELY

ASSOCIATED STATES ................. ................. ................. ................. .......... 115

15.904 HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND GRANTS-IN-AID ................. ................. ............. 115

15.916 OUTDOOR RECREATION ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING 

(Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants) ................. ................. ................. ............ 116

15.918 DISPOSAL OF FEDERAL SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY FOR PARKS, RECREATION, AND HISTORIC

MONUMENTS (Surplus Property Program; Federal Lands-to-Parks Program; Historic Surplus Property Program) ....... 116

15.921 RIVERS, TRAILS AND CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE (RTCA) ................. ................. ... 117

15.922 NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT (NAGPRA) ................. . . 117

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

http://www.usdoj.gov/

16.308 INDIAN COUNTRY INVESTIGATIONS ................. ................. ................. ....... 119

16.563 LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY SUPPORT ................. ................. ................. .... 119

16.579 BYRNE FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. ....... 119

16.583 CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ACT PARTNERSHIPS FOR INDIAN COMMUNITIES ................. .......... 119

16.587 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DISCRETIONARY GRANTS FOR INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ...... 120

16.589 RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD VICTIMIZATION ENFORCEMENT GRANT PROGRAM ..... 120

16.590 GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES ................. ................. ................. 121

16.592 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOCK GRANTS PROGRAM ................. ................. ...... 121

16.596 CORRECTIONAL GRANT PROGRAM FOR INDIAN TRIBES ................. ................. ...... 122

16.607 BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM ................. ................. ............... 122
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16.608 TRIBAL COURT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. .... 122

16.614 STATE AND LOCAL ANTI-TERRORISM TRAINING (SLATT) ................. ................. ..... 122

16.615 PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS’ EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE (PSOEA) ................. ............... 123

16.616 INDIAN COUNTRY ALCOHOL AND DRUG PREVENTION ................. ................. ....... 123

16.710 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS ("Cops" Grants) .............. 123

16.726 JUVENILE MENTORING PROGRAM (JUMP) ................. ................. ................. . . 124

16.731 Tribal Youth Program(TYP) ................. ................. ................. ................. . 124

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

http://www.dol.gov/

17.253 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO STATES AND LOCALITIES

 (WELFARE-TO-WORK (WTW) GRANTS) ................. ................. ................. ........... 127

17.254 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES AND ALASKA NATIVES (INDIAN

AND NATIVE AMERICAN WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANT PROGRAM; INA WTW GRANTS) ................. . . 127

17.263 YOUTH OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (YOG) ................. ................. ................. ...... 127

17.264 MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM) ........... 128

17.265 NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING (SECTION 166 PROGRAM; INDIAN PROGRAM) ... 128

17.805 HOMELESS VETERANS REINTEGRATION PROJECT ................. ................. ............ 128

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION

http://www.ncua.gov/

44.002 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN PROGRAM FOR CREDIT UNIONS (CDCU) ......... 130

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND

HUMANITIES

http://www.arts.endow.gov

http://www.neh.gov/

45.024 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ................. .... 131

45.025 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS ................. ................. ...... 132

45.026 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES ................. ................. ......... 132

45.027 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS - CHALLENGE AMERICA GRANTS ................. ................. . . 133

45.164 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES PUBLIC PROGRAMS ................. ................. ....... 133

45.166 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES-- EXTENDING THE REACH GRANTS TO UNDERSERVED AREAS . . 134

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES

http://www.imls.fed.gov/

45.301 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT) .............. 135
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45.311 NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICES ................. ................. ................. .... 135

45.312 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS ............... 135

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

http://www.sba.gov/

59.007 MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY 

DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES (7(J) Development Assistance Program) ................. ................. ... 137

59.011 SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANIES (SBIC; SSBIC) ................. ................. .... 137

59.012 SMALL BUSINESS LOANS (Regular Business Loans 7 (a) Loans) ................. ................. .... 137

59.041 CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LOANS (504 LOANS) (504 Loans) ................. .......... 138

59.043 WOMEN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE ................. ................. ............... 138

59.044 VETERANS ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND COUNSELING (VET Program) ................. ..... 138

59.046 MICROLOAN DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. . 139

59.049 OFFICE OF SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CERTIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY (OSDBC&E) ..... 139

59.050 MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (PRIME) ................. ................. ........ 139

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

http://www.dot.gov/

20.106 AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP) ................. ................. ................. . . 141

20.205 HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (Federal-Aid Highway Program) ................. ........ 142

20.219 RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM ................. ................. ................. ........ 142

20.500 FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (Capital Grants) ................. ............ 143

20.509 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR NONURBANIZED AREAS (Nonurbanized Area Formula Program) ........ 143

20.513 CAPITAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR ELDERLY PERSONS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 

(Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Program) ................. ................. ................. ......... 144

20.516 JOB ACCESS - REVERSE COMMUTE ................. ................. ................. ......... 144

20.518 CAPITAL AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR OVER-THE-ROAD BUS ACCESSIBILITY ...... 144

20.600 STATE AND COMMUNITY HIGHWAY SAFETY ................. ................. ................ 145

20.801 DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF PORTS AND INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION

(Ports and Domestic Shipping and Intermodal Development) ................. ................. ................ 145

20.901 PAYMENTS FOR ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICES ................. ................. ................. . 146

20.905 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES SHORT TERM LENDING PROGRAM (Short Term Lending

Program) ................. ................. ................. ................. ................. ...... 146

20.907 HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING 

AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ETTAP) ................. ................. ................. ........... 147

20.908 TRIBAL COLLEGES - ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ETTAP) ........ 147
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 CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

http://www.cns.gov/

94.004 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS ................. ... 149

94.005 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA HIGHER EDUCATION ................. ................. ........... 149

94.006 AMERICORPS ................. ................. ................. ................. ........... 149

94.007 PLANNING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ................. ................. .......... 150

SUBJECT INDEX ................. ................. ................. ................. ............... 151
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INTRODUCTION

The federal funding programs available to rural areas included in this document were selected

from the Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance 2002.

This information was obtained from the online system known as FAPRS (Federal Assistance

Programs Retrieval System) and the print version of this database known as the Catalog Of

Federal Domestic Assistance, which was compiled and edited for the Executive Office of the

President by the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration. 

Both of these services are provided by the Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Staff of the

General Services Administration.

The Catalog is an annual that provides extensive listings of federal assistance programs; national,

regional, and local office contacts; and grant application procedures. For further information on

the FAPRS database write the Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Staff (WKU), General

Services Administration (GSA), Reporter’s Bldg, Room 101, 300 7th Street, S.W., Washington,

D.C. 20407 or call 1-800-669-8331. For obtaining printed copies of the Catalog Of Federal

Domestic Assistance, write the Superintendent of Documents, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA

15250-7954. The approximate price is $63.00. For more information on FAPRS and federal

programs, consult the GSA Web site: <http://www.cfda.gov/>.

Local governments should check with their state or regional offices about programs in this

document. Many federal programs that are developed to provide assistance to local governments,

are distributed through state or regional offices. State, local or regional office information is not

provided in this document, but can be obtained in your local telephone directory, in the Catalog

of Federal Domestic Assistance or by contacting the Rural Information Center at

1-800-633-7701 or <http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/>. If you have any specific questions about

any of these programs, use the Information Contact section of the listed program for the

appropriate office. Federal offices have their own INTERNET Web site. In the Table of Contents

of this publications, next to each department, is an address of the general federal home pages

available over the World Wide Web. This publication supersedes all previous issues and is

available full-text and keyword searchable via the Internet on the Rural Information Center web

site at: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/funding/federalfund/ff.html
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

10.167 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGRICULTURAL MARKETING

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES:TheTransportationServices program develops

and promotes efficient agriculture transportation systems to

help improve farm income, expand exports and meet the needs

of rural America. The program provides technical and

administrative direction, coordination, and leadership in the

development and execution of agricultural transportation

policies. Transportation Services provides a basis for

Federal-State decision-makers in regulatory, policy and

legislative matters in order to assure the transportation needs of

rural communities and agriculture. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and

Counseling; Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance provided

where it is determined that there is a significant regional impact

at stake or significant policy at issue with potentially broad

implications.

Applicant Eligibility: Any State government, public and

private organization and institution, business and industry, or

individual may apply for technical assistance or service. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Director, Transportation and Marketing

Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA, Washington,

DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-1300. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

10.212 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION

RESEARCH (SBIR Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE

RESEARCH,EDUCATION AND EXTENSIONSERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To stimulate technological innovation in the

private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in

meeting Federal research and development needs, increase

private sector commercialization of innovations derived from

USDA-supported research and development efforts, and foster

and encourage participation, by women-owned and socially

disadvantaged small business firms in technologicalinnovation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The selected areas for

research are forests and related resources; plant production and

protection; animal production and protection; air, water, and

soils; food science and nutrition; rural and community

development; aquaculture; industrial applications; and

marketing and trade. The Small Business Innovation Research

Program will be carried out in three separate phases: Phase I,

USDA anticipates making awards during fiscal year 1998 to

small businesses in amounts ranging up to $65,000 over periods

normally not to exceed six months each. Phase I is to determine

the scientific or technical feasibility of ideas submitted by

proposers on the selected research areas; Phase II awards will

be made during fiscal year 1998 to firms with approaches that

appear sufficiently promising as a result of phase I studies. Only

those small businesses previously receiving phase I awards in

either fiscal years 1996 or 1997 are eligible to submit phase II

proposals in fiscal year 1998. Phase II projects are limited to

$250,000 with the average award being about $200,000, for a

period normally not to exceed 24 months; phase III is to be

conducted by the small business concern (including joint

ventures and limited partnerships), and will be non-SBIR

funded through the exercising of a follow-on funding

commitment. The purpose of phase III is to stimulate

technological innovation and the national return on investment

from research through the pursuit of commercialization

objectivesresulting from the USDA-supported work carried out

in phases I and II. 

Applicant Eligibility: Small businesses which: (a) Are

organized for profit, independently owned or operated, are not

dominant in the proposed research field, have their principal

places of business located in the United States, have a number

of employees not exceeding 500 in all affiliated firms owned or

controlled by a single parent concern, and meet the other

regulatory requirements outlined in 13 CFR Part 121, as

amended; (b) are at least 51 percent owned, or in the case of a

publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of its voting stock

is owned, by U.S. citizens or lawfully admitted permanent

resident aliens; (c) are the primary source of employment for

the principal investigator of the proposed effort at the time of

award and during the actual conduct of proposed research; (d)

are the primary performer of the proposed research effort.

Because this program is intended to increase the use of small

business firms in Federal research or research and development,

the term "primary performer" means that a minimum of

two-thirds of the research or analytical work, as determined by

budget expenditures, must be performed by the proposing

organization under phase I grants. For phase II awards, a

minimum of one-half of the research or analytical effort must be

conducted by the proposing firm.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: SBIR Director, Cooperative State

Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department of

Agriculture, Ag Box 2243, 14th and Independence Ave., SW.,

Washington, DC 20250-2243. Telephone: (202) 401-4002. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Needleless Jet

Injection System for Use in Cattle Injection Programs; A

Comprehensive Model of Biomass Pyrolysis; Marketing

Resources for Rural Enterprise Development; Practical

Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens Utilizing Biochemically

Stable Bacteriophage. 

10.215 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE

RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To facilitate and increase scientific

investigation and education in order to reduce the use of

chemical pesticides, fertilizers and toxic materials in

agricultural production; to improve management of on-farm

resources to enhance productivity, profitability and

competitiveness; to promote crop, livestock and enterprise

diversification and to facilitate the conduct of research projects

in order to study agricultural production systems that are

located, in areas that possess various soil, climatic, and physical
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characteristics; to study farms that have been and continue to be

managed using farm production practices that optimize the use

of on-farm resources and conservation practices; to take

advantage of the experience and expertise of farmers and

ranchers through their direct participation and leadership in

projects; to transfer practical, reliable and timely information to

farmers and ranchers concerning sustainable practices and

systems; and to promote a partnership between farmers,

nonprofit organizations, agribusiness and public and private

research and extension institutions. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may not be used

to pay indirect costs or tuition. Funds may be used for

transportation, per diem, salaries, office supplies, printing, and

other direct costs for conducting approved activities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Land-grant colleges or universities,

other universities, State agricultural experiment stations, State

cooperative extension services, nonprofit organizations, and

individuals with demonstrable expertise, or Federal or State

governmental entities. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Cooperative State Research, Education,

and Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, Ag Box

2201, Washington, DC 20250-2201. Contact: Acting

Administrator. Telephone: (202) 720-4423.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A funded project

has helped farms use rotations to boost corn profits by $30 to

$115 per acre, while protecting the environment. The rotation

systems eliminate the need for corn rootworm insecticide,

saving $15 to $20 per acre. When farmers used a 3-year rotation

of soybeans, winter wheat with clover, and corn, the corn yields

were boosted by 20 to 25 bushels per acre. This approach also

reduced the need for commercial nitrogen fertilizer by an

average of 30 percent.

10.221 TRIBAL COLLEGES EDUCATION

EQUITY GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE

RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EXTENSION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To enhance educational opportunities at the

29 Tribal Colleges designated as the 1994 Land-Grant

Institutions by strengthening their teaching programs in the

food and agricultural sciences in targeted need areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Public Law 103-382

targeted funds to benefit those schools specifically listed as the

1994 Land-Grant Institutions. Funds may be used to support

teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in the

targeted need areas of: 1) Curricula design and instructional

materials development; 2) faculty development and preparation

for teaching; 3) instruction delivery systems; 4) student

experiential learning; 5) equipment and instrumentation for

teaching, and 6) student recruitment and retention. 

Applicant Eligibility: Bay Mills Community College,

Blackfeet Community College, Cankdeska Cikana Community

College, Cheyenne River Community College, Dine

Community College, D-Q University, Dullknife Memorial

College, Fond Du Lac Community College, Fort Belknap

Community College, Fort Berthold Community College, Fort

Peck Community College, LacCourte Orielles Ojibwa

Community College, Little Big Horn Community College,

Nebraska Indian Community College, Northwest Indian

College, Oglala Lakota College, Salish Kootenai College, Sinte

Gleska University, Sisseton Wahpeton Community College,

Sitting Bull College, Stonechild Community College, Turtle

Mountain Community College, United Tribes Technical

College, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, Institute of

American Indian Arts, Crownpoint Institute of Technology,

Haskell Indian Nations University, Leech Lake Tribal College,

and College of the Menominee Nation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Higher Education Programs, Science

and Education Resources Development, CSREES, USDA,

Room 3912-S, Washington,DC 20250-2251. Telephone:

(202) 720-7854. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Center for

Integrated Rural Development Studies; Agricultural Degree

Development Project; Implementation of a Comprehensive

Horticulture Program; Educational Program in Nutrition;

Strengthening Curricula and Services for Students in the Food

and Agricultural Sciences.

10.222 TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWM ENT

PROGRAM (TRIBAL COLLEGES

EN DO WM EN T PR OG RAM)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE

RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EXTENSION SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES:To enhance educational opportunities atthe30

Tribal colleges designated as the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions

by strengthening their teaching programs in the food and

agricultural sciences in targeted need areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Public Law 103-382

established an endowment fund corpus, the interest of which

was to be used to benefit the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions.

Funds may be used to support teaching programs in the food

and agricultural sciences in the targeted need areas of: 1)

Curricula design and instructional materials development; 2)

facultydevelopment and preparation for teaching; 3) instruction

delivery systems; 4) student experiential learning; 5) equipment

and instrumentation for teaching; and, 6) student recruitment

and retention.

Applicant Eligibility: Bay Mills Community College,

Blackfeet Community College, Cankdeska Cikana Community

College, Cheyenne River Community College, Dine

Community College, D-Q University, Dullknife Memorial

College, Fond Du Lac Community College, Fort Belknap

Community College, Fort Berthold Community College, Fort

Peck Community College, LacCourte Orielles Ojibwa

Community College, Little Big Horn Community College,

Nebraska Indian Community College, Northwest Indian

College, Oglala Lakota College, Salish Kootenai College, Sinte

Gleska University, Sisseton Wahpeton Community College,

Sitting Bull College, Stonechild Community College, Turtle

Mountain Community College, United Tribes Technical

College, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, Institute of

American Indian Arts, Crownpoint Institute of Technology,

Haskell Indian Nations University, Leech Lake Tribal College,

College of the Menominee Nation; and Little Priest College.
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INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Higher Education Programs, Science

and Education Resources Development, CSREES, USDA,

Room 3912-S, Washington DC 20250-2251. Telephone:

(202) 720-7854.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.225 COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS

(Community Food Project Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE

RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To support the development of community

food projects designed to meet the food needs of low-income

people; increase the self-reliance of communities in providing

for their own needs; and promote comprehensive responses to

local food, farm, and nutrition issues.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Community food

projects are intended to take a comprehensive approach to

developing long-term solutions that help to ensure food security

in communities by linking the food sector to community

development, economic opportunity, and environmental

enhancement. Comprehensive solutions may include elements

such as: (1)Improved access to high quality, affordable food

among low-income households; (2) support for local food

systems, from urban gardening to local farms that provide high

quality fresh food, ideally with minimal adverse environmental

impact; and (3) expanded economic opportunities for

community residents through local business or other economic

development, improved employmentopportunities, job training,

youth apprenticeship, school-to-work transition, and the like.

Any solution proposed must tie into community food needs.

Successful applicants must provide matching funds, either in

cash or in-kind amounting to at least 50 percent of the total cost

of the project during the term of the grant award.

Applicant Eligibility: Proposals may be submitted by private

nonprofit entities. Because projects must promote

comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and nutrition

issues, applicants are encouraged to seek and create partnership

among public, private nonprofit and private for-profit

organizations or firms. To be further eligible for a grant, a

private nonprofit applicant must meet three mandatory

requirements: 1. Have experience in the area of: (a)

community food work, particularly concerning small and

medium-sized farms, including the provision of food to people

in low-income communities and the development of new

markets in low-income communities for agricultural producers;

or (b) job training and business development activities in

low-income communities; 2. demonstrate competency to

implement a project, provide fiscal accountability and

oversight, collect data, and prepare reports and other

appropriate documentation; and 3. demonstrate a willingness to

share information with researchers, practitioners, and other

interested parties. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Cooperative State

Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department of

Agriculture, Stop 2201, Washington, DC 20250-2201.

Telephone: (202) 720-4423. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Connecting Small

Farmers with Low- Income Communities of Color; Garden City

Harvest Project; New Farmers/New Farms Project;

Urban/Rural Community Food Project.

10.405 FARM LABOR HOUSING LOANS AND

GRANTS (Labor Housing)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide decent, safe, and sanitary low-rent

housing and related facilities for domestic farm laborers. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants;

Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USERESTRICTIONS: The loans and grants may

be used for construction, repair, or purchase of year-round or

seasonal housing; acquiring the necessary land and making

improvements on land for housing; and developing related

support facilities including central cooking and dining facilities,

small infirmaries, laundry facilities, day care centers, other

essential equipment and facilities or recreation areas. Funds

may also be used to pay certain fees and interest incidental to

the project. Restrictions on the use of funds are: The housing

must be of a practical type and must be constructed in an

economical manner and not of elaborate material or extravagant

design. Housing financed with labor housing loan or grant

funds must be occupied by domestic farm laborers and their

families. 

Applicant Eligibility: Loans are available to farmers, family

farm partnership, family farm corporation, or an association of

farmers. Loans and grants are available to States, Puerto Rico,

the U.S. Virgin Islands, political subdivisions of States,

broad-based public or private nonprofit organizations, federally

recognized Indian Tribes and non-profit corporations of farm

workers. Grants are available to eligible applicants only when

there is a pressing need and when it is doubtful that such

facilities could be provided unless grant assistance is available.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD District Office number. 

Headquarters Office: Multi-Family Housing Processing

Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202) 720-1604.

EXAMPLESOFFUNDEDPROJECTS: Examples of funded

projects are the projects sponsored by the Homestead Housing

Authority in Homestead, Florida, or The Boulder County

Housing Authority, Boulder, Colorado. 

10.406 FARM OPERATING LOANS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FARM SERVICE AGENCY,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To enable operators of not larger than family

farms through the extension of credit and supervisory

assistance, to make efficient use of their land, labor, and other

resources, and to establish and maintain financially viable

farming and ranching operations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:DirectLoans;Guaranteed/Insured

Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used
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to: (1) Purchase livestock, poultry, fur bearing and other farm

animals, fish, and bees;(2) purchase farm equipment; (3)

provide operating expenses for farm enterprise; (4) meet family

subsistence needs and purchase essential home equipment; (5)

refinance secured and unsecured debts subject to certain

restrictions; (6) pay property taxes; (7) pay insurance premiums

on real estate and personal property; and (8) finance youth

projects. Use restrictions are shown under Applicant Eligibility.

Applicant Eligibility: Except for youth loans, individual

applicants must: 1) Have the necessary education and/or farm

experience or training (1 year's complete production and

marketing cycle within the last 5 years) 2) Do not exceed the

limitation on the number of years that assistance may be

received; 3) possess the legal capacity to incur the obligations

of the loan; 4) be unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere at

reasonable rates, and terms; 5) project the ability to repay the

loan; 6) be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States;

7) after the loan is closed, be an owner/tenant operator of a

family farm; and 8) comply with the highly erodible land and

wetland conservation provisions of Public Law 99-198 of the

Food Security Act of 1985 (FSA); Certain corporations,

cooperatives, partnerships and joint operations ("entities")

operating family-sized farms are also eligible for farm operating

loans. In brief, entity applicants must meet some of the same

eligibility requirements as individual applicants. In addition, if

members, stockholders or shareholders of the entity are related

by blood or marriage, at least one stockholder, shareholder

partner or joint operator must operate the family-sized farm. In

the case when members are not related by blood or marriage,

the majority interest holders in the entity must actually operate

the family-sized farm to be eligible. The entity must be

authorized to operate a farm in the State in which it is located.

Limited resource applicants must meet the above requirements.

In addition, they must have a low income and show a need for

increased farm income. In the case of limited resource entities,

all the partners, joint operators, members, or stockholders must

be citizens and the entity must be the owner-operator of the

family farm with at least one partner, joint operator, member or

stockholder operating the farm. Assistance is authorized for

eligible applicants in the 50 States, the Commonwealth of

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam,

American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, and to the extent the Secretary determines it to be

feasible and appropriate, the Trust Territories of the Pacific

Islands. To be eligible to obtain a direct or guaranteed loan, a

borrower must agree to abide by any "borrower training"

requirements.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate FSA State

Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Farm

Service Agency, Director, Loan Making Division, Ag Box

0522, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1632.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

10.407 FARM OWNERSHIP LOANS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FARM SERVICE AGENCY

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To assist eligible farmers, ranchers, and

aquaculture operators, including farming cooperatives,

corporations, partnerships, and joint operations, through the

extension of credit and supervisory assistance to: Become

owner-operators of not larger than family farms; make efficient

use of the land, labor, and other resources; carry on sound and

successful farming operations; and enable farm families to have

a reasonable standard of living. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:DirectLoans;Guaranteed/Insured

Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used

to: (1) Enlarge, improve, and buy family farms; (2) provide

necessary water and water facilities; (3) provide basic soil

treatment and land conservation measures; (4) construct, repair,

and improve essential buildings needed in the operation of a

family farm; (5) construct or repair farm dwellings; (6) provide

facilities to produce fish under controlled conditions. 

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant must: (1) Be unable to

obtain suitable credit from other sources at reasonable rates and

terms; (2) be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and possess

the legal capacity to incur the obligations of the loan; (3) have

the necessary education and/or experience, training, and

managerial ability to operate a family farm; (4) realistically

project the ability to repay the loan; (5) be the owner-operator

of a not larger than family farm after the loan is closed; and (6)

if an individual, the applicant must not have a combined farm

ownership, soil and water, and recreation loan indebtedness to

FSA of more than $200,000, for direct loans; and $300,000 for

a guaranteed loan(s), or a combination of direct and guaranteed

indebtedness; or a total indebtedness against the property

securing the loan(s) of more than the market value of the

security, whichever is the lesser amount. If a cooperative,

corporation, joint operation or partnership, the entity must be

controlled by farmers or ranchers engaged primarily and

directly in farming in the U.S., after the loan is made, and must

consist of members, stockholders, partners, or joint operators

(7) have a minimum of 3 years farming experience. Assistance

is authorized for eligible applicants in the 50 States, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United

States, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands, and, to the extent the Secretary

determines it to be feasible and appropriate, the Trust

Territories of the Pacific Islands. Applicants must also comply

with the highly erodible land and wetland conservation

provisions of Public Law 99-198 of the Food Security Act of

1985 (FSA). To be eligible to obtain a direct or guaranteed

loan, a borrower must abide by the Agency's borrower training

requirements. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate FSA State

Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Farm

Service Agency, Director, Loan Making Division, Ag Box

0522, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1632. 

10.410 VERY LOW TO MODERATE INCOME

HOUSING LOANS (Section 502 Rural Housing

Loans)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist lower-income rural families through

direct loans to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve and to
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provide the applicant with modest, decent, safe, and sanitary

dwellings and related facilities as a permanent residence.

Subsidized funds are available only on direct loans for low and

very low-income applicants. Nonsubsidized funds (loan

making) are available for very low and low-income applicants

who are otherwise eligible for subsidy, but at the present time,

the subsidy is not needed. Loan guarantees are also available to

assist moderate income rural families in home acquisition.

TYPESOFASSISTANCE:Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured

Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Direct loans may be used

for construction, repair or purchase of housing; to provide

adequate sewage disposal facilities and/or safe water supply for

the applicant's household; for weatherization; to purchase or

install essential equipment if the equipment is normally sold

with dwellings in the area; to buy a minimum adequate site on

which to place a dwelling for the applicant's own use; and under

certain conditions to finance a manufactured home and its site.

Housing debts may under certain circumstances be refinanced

with direct loans. Dwellings financed must be modest, decent

safe and provide sanitary housing. Cost of dwelling financed

cannot exceed the maximum dollar limitation established under

section 2036(b) of the National Housing Act for the area in

which the property is located. The property must be located in

a place that is rural in character and does not exceed 10,000

population or in certain cases a place whose population exceeds

10,000 but is not in excess of 25,000, provided the place has a

serious lack of mortgage credit for low and moderate-income

families as determined by the Secretary of agriculture and the

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Assistance is

available in the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the

Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, and the Trust Territories

of the Pacific Islands. Loans are made at the interest rate(s)

specified in RD Instruction 440.1, Exhibit B (available in any

RD local office) for the type of assistance involved, and are

repaid over an amortization period of up to 33 years for regular

loans and 38 years for loans to applicants whose adjusted

annual income do not exceed 60 percent of the area median

income, if necessary to show repayment ability. Payment

assistance is granted annually which would reduce the monthly

installment on the note to an amount equal to what it would be

if the note were amortized to as low as one percent, depending

on the loan amount, the size and income of the family. Payment

assistance is subject to recapture by the government upon

liquidation of the account. The Deferred Mortgage

Demonstration Program was available during fiscal years

1991-1995 however, there was no funding provided for

deferred mortgage authority or loans for deferred mortgage

assumptions. Deferred mortgagepayment assistance is available

to make home ownership affordable for a greater number of

very low-income families who lack repayment for the mortgage

when a mortised at 1 percent for a 38 year period, or 30 years

for a manufactured home. The guaranteed program is an

acquisition only program. Guaranteed loans are amortized over

30 years. The interest rate is negotiated with the lender. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must be without adequate

resources to obtain housing, or related facilities. The applicants

must be unable to secure the necessary credit from other

sources at prevailing terms and conditions for residential type

financing; be a natural person (individual) who resides as a

citizen in the United States or its Territories after having been

legally admitted for permanent residence or on indefinite

parole; have adequate and dependable available income to meet

family living expenses, including taxes, insurance and

maintenance, and repayments on debts including the proposed

loan. For direct loans, applicants must be eligible for payment

assistance and income may not exceed the low-income limits set

forth in RD Instructions. The income limits are according to the

size of household as is established by the Department of

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the county or

MSA where the property is or will be located. For a guaranteed

loan the applicant's income may not exceed the moderate

income limit.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory under United States Department of Agriculture for RD

county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Housing,

ProcessingDivision, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department

of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202)

720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.411 RURAL HOUSING SITE LOANS AND

SELF HELP HOUSING LAND DEVELOPMENT

LOANS (Section 523 and 524 Site Loans)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist public or private nonprofit

organizations interested in providing sites for housing; to

acquire and develop land in rural areas to be subdivided as

adequate building sites and sold on a cost development basis to

families eligible for low and very low income loans,

cooperatives, and broadly based nonprofit rural rental housing

applicants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For the purchase and

development of adequate sites, including necessary equipment

which becomes a permanent part of the development; for water

and sewer facilities if not available; payment of necessary

engineering, legal fees, and closing costs; for needed

landscaping and other necessary facilities related to buildings

such as walks, parking areas, and driveways. Restrictions: loan

limitation of $200,000 without national office approval; loan

funds may not be used for refinancing of debts, payment of any

fee, or commission to any broker, negotiator, or other person

for the referral of prospective applicant or solicitation of a loan;

no loan funds will be used to pay operating costs or expenses of

administration other than actual cash cost of incidental

administrative expenses if funds to pay those expenses are not

otherwise available. Repayment of loan is expected within two

years.

Applicant Eligibility: A private or public nonprofit

organization that will provide the developed sites to qualified

borrowers on a cost of development basis in open country and

towns of 10,000 population or less and places up to 25,000

population under certain conditions. Applicants from towns of

10,000 to 25,000 population should check with local RD office

to determine if agency can serve them. Assistance is available

to eligible applicants in States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,

Guam, and the Northern Marianas.
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INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single-Family Housing

Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)

720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Caver County

Housing and Redevelopment Agency, Chanhassen, Minnesota.

10.415 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide economically designed and

constructed rental and cooperative housing and related facilities

suited for rural residents. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans can be used to

construct, purchase and substantially rehabilitate rental or

cooperative housing or to develop manufactured housing

projects. Housing as a general rule will consist of multi-units

with two or more family units and any appropriately related

facilities. Funds may also be used to provide approved

recreational and service facilities appropriate for use in

connection with the housing and to buy and improve the land

on which the buildings are to be located. Loans may not be

made for nursing, special care, or institutional-type homes.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants may be individuals,

cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, State or local public

agencies, profit corporations, trusts, partnerships, limited

partnerships, and be unable to finance the housing either with

their own resources or with credit obtained from private

sources. However, applicants must be able to assume the

obligations of the loan, furnish adequate security, and have

sufficient income for repayment. They must also have the

ability and intention of maintaining and operating the housing

for purposes for which the loan is made. Loans may be made in

communities up to 10,000 people in MSA areas and some

communities up to 20,000 population in non-MSA areas.

Applicants in towns of 10,000 to 20,000 should check with

their local Rural Development; office to determine if the agency

can serve them. Assistance is available to eligible applicants in

States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American

Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and the Trust Territory of the

Pacific Islands. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD county or district office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Multi-Family Housing

Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202)

720-1604. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

10.417 VERY LOW-INCOM E HOUSING REPAIR

LOANS AND GRANTS (Section 504 Rural Housing

Loans and Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS) DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To give very low-income rural homeowners an

opportunity to make essential repairs to their homes to make

them safe and to remove health hazards to the family or the

community. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist very

low-income owner occupants in rural areas to repair or improve

their dwellings. Grant funds may only be used to make such

dwellings safe and sanitary and to remove health and safety

hazards. This includes repairs to the foundation, roof or basic

structure as well as water and waste disposal systems, and

weatherization. Loans bear an interest rate of one percent and

are repaid over a period of up to 20 years. In addition to the

above purpose, loan funds may be used to modernize the

dwelling. Maximum loan amount cannot exceed a cumulative

total of $20,000 to any eligible person and maximum lifetime

grant assistance is $7,500 to any eligible person 62 years of age

or older for home improvement. The house must be located in

a place which is rural in character and does not exceed 10,000

population. Some places with population between 10,000 and

25,000 may be eligible if not within a Metropolitan Statistical

Area (MSA) and has a serious lack of mortgage credit for low

and moderate-income families as determined by the Secretary

of Agriculture and the Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development. Assistance is available in States, the

commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,

American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas,

and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must own and occupya home

in a rural area; and be a citizen of the United States or reside in

the United States after having been legally admitted for

permanent residence or on indefinite parole. Loan recipients

must have sufficient income to repay the loan. Grant recipients

must be 62 years of age or older and be unable to repay a loan

for that part of the assistance received as a grant. Applicant's

income may not exceed the very low-income limit set forth in

RD Instructions. Very low-income limits range from $6,300

to$22,650 for a single person household, depending on an

area's median income. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single-Family Housing

Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202)

720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

10.420 RURAL SELF-HELP HOUSING

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (Section 523

Technical Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial support for programs of

technical and supervisory assistance that will aid needy very

low and low-income individuals and their families in carrying

out mutual self-help housing efforts in rural areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not-for-profit
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organizations may use technical assistance funds to hire the

personnel to carry out a program of technical assistance for

self-help housing in rural areas; to pay necessary and reasonable

office and administrative expenses; to purchase or rent

equipment such as power tools for use by families participating

in self-help housing construction; and to pay fees for training

self-help group members in construction techniques or for other

professional services needed. Funds will not be used to hire

personnel to perform any construction work, to buy real estate

or building materials, or pay any debts, expenses or costs other

than previously outlined for participating families in self-help

projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Must be a State or political subdivision,

public nonprofit corporation or a private nonprofit corporation.

Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the United

States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern

Marianas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single-Family Housing

ProcessingDivision,RuralHousing Service (RHS), Department

of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202)

720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: An example of a

funded project is Self-Help Enterprises, Visalia, California and

the City of Casa Grande, Casa Grande, and Arizona. 

10.421 INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL

CORPORATION LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FARM SERVICE AGENCY,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To enable federally recognized Indian tribes

and tribal corporations to acquire land within tribal reservations

and Alaskan communities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used

to acquire land for the use of the tribe or its members for

purposes such as rounding out farming and ranching units or

elimination of fractional heirships. Funds may also be used for

incidental costs connected with land purchase such as

appraisals, title clearance, legal services, land surveys, and loan

closing. Loan funds cannot be used for any improvement or

development purposes, acquisition or repair of buildings or

personal property, payment of operating costs, refinancing of

debts, payment of finder's fees, or similar costs.

Applicant Eligibility: Limited to any Indian tribe recognized

by the Secretary of the Interior or tribal corporation established

pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act or community in

Alaska incorporated by the Secretary of Interior pursuant to the

Indian Reorganization Act which does not have adequate

uncommitted funds to acquire lands within the tribe's

reservation or in a community in Alaska. The tribe must be

unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere at reasonable rates

and terms and must be able to show reasonable prospects of

repaying the loan as determined by an acceptable repayment

plan and a satisfactory management plan for the land being

acquired.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate FSA State

office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Farm

Service Agency, Director, Loan Making Division, Ag Box

0522, Washington, DC 0250. Telephone: (202) 720-1632. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

10.427 RURAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE

PAYMENTS (Rental Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To reduce the tenant contribution paid by

low-income families occupying eligible Rural Rental Housing

(RRH), Rural Cooperative Housing (RCH), and Farm Labor

Housing (LH) projects financed by the Rural Housing Service

(RHS) through its Sections 515, 514 and 516 loans and grants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Assesses.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Rental assistance may be

used to reduce the rents paid by low-income senior citizens or

families and domestic farm laborers and families whose rents

exceed 30 percent of an adjusted annual income which does not

exceed the limit established for the State as indicated in 7 CAR

Exhibit C to Part 1944, Sub part A (RD Instruction 1944-A,

Exhibit C).Tenants who may be eligible must occupy units

ineligible RRH, RCH and LH projects financed by RNS. 

Applicant Eligibility: To be eligible to participate in the rental

assistance program, borrowersmusthave an eligible project. All

projects must convert to Interest Credit Plan II before they are

eligible, except direct RRH and insured RRH loans approved

prior to August 1, 1968, and LH loans and grants. For a

borrower to have an eligible project, the loan must be an RRH

insured or direct loan made to a broad-based nonprofit

organization, or State or local agency or; an RRH insured loan

made to an individual or organization who has or will agree to

operate the housing on a limited profit basis as defined in CAR

1944.215(l) or; an RCH insured or direct loan or; an LH loan,

or an LH loan and grant combination made to a broad-based

nonprofit organization or nonprofit organization of farm

workers or a State or local public agency. New construction

and/or rehabilitation projects, utilizing the Section 8 program

from HUD will not be considered eligible projects, although it

may be used for eligible families in existing projects utilizing

Section 8 for part of the units.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD district office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Multi-family Housing

Portfolio Management Division, Rural Housing Service,

Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:

(202) 720-1600. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

10.433 RURAL HOUSING PRESERVATION

GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist very low- and low-income rural

residents individual homeowners, rental property owners

(single/multi-unit) or by providing the consumer cooperative
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housing projects (co-ops) the necessary assistance to repair or

rehabilitate their dwellings. These objectives will be

accomplished through the establishmentofrepair/rehabilitation,

projects run by eligible applicants. This program is intended to

make use of and leverage any other available housing programs

which provide resources to very low and low-income rural

residents to bring their dwellings up to development standards.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Organizations may use

less than 20 percent of the Housing Preservation Grant funds

for program administration purposes, such as to hire the

personnel to carry out a project of housing rehabilitation to

meet the needs of very low and low-income persons in rural

areas; to pay necessary and reasonable office and administrative

expenses; and to pay reasonable fees for training of

organization personnel. Eighty percent or more of funds must

be used for loans, grants or other assistance on individual

homes, homeowners, rental properties or co-ops to pay any part

of the cost for repair or rehabilitation of structures; funds may

not be used to hire personnel to perform construction or to pay

any debts, expenses or costs other than previously outlined and

approved in the project application.

Applicant Eligibility: Must be a State or political subdivision,

public nonprofit corporation, Indian tribal corporations,

authorized to receive and administer housing preservation

grants, private nonprofit corporation, or a consortium of such

eligible entities. Applicants must provide assistance under this

program to persons residing in open country and communities

with a population of 10,000 that are rural in character and

places with a population of up to 25,000 under certain

conditions. Applicants in towns with population of 10,000 to

25,000 should check with local RD office to determine if the

Agency can serve them. Assistance is authorized for eligible

applicants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and

the territories and possessions of the United States.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate RD State

office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Multiple Family Housing Processing

Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1660. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects

generally provide financial assistance to very low-income

persons for bringing their dwellings up to local code standards

through an HPG grant combined with other Federal funding,

such as HUD's community development block grants or HHS's

weatherization program. Other variations funded includes using

HPG funds to establish a revolving loan fund that provides

homeowners a long term, interest subsidized loan; "lending

homeowners the money and "forgiving" 20 percent per year

until the loan becomes a grant after five years; using the

grantee's own employees to perform the rehabilitation work to

reduce the costs; and, in a few instances, leveraging State

resources for repair loans or grants. In most cases, grantees that

are currently active in home repair and rehabilitation were

selected and were able to leverage their existing programs with

the new HPG funds.

10.438 SECTION 538 RURAL RENTAL

HOUSING GUARANTEED LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: This program has been designed to increase

the supply of affordable multifamily housing through

partnerships between RHS and major lending sources, as well

as State and local housing finance agencies and bond insurers.

The program provides effective new forms of Federal credit

enhancement for the development of affordable multifamily

housing by lenders.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The guarantee will

encourage the construction of new rural rental housing and

appropriate related facilities. Housing as a general rule will

consist of multi-units with two or more family units. The

guarantee may not be made for nursing, special care or

industrial type housing.

Applicant Eligibility: The applicant in this program is the

lender that will use the guarantee as a credit enhancement and

therefore be more likely to make the loan. The lender must be

approved by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD or be a State

Housing Finance Agency. The projects must be located in rural

areas as defined by the Agency.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD country or district office number. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Multi-Family Housing

Processing Division, Rural Housing, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone (202)

720-1604. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.441 TECHNICAL AND SUPERVISORY

ASSISTANCE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist low-income rural families in

obtaining adequate housing to meet their family's needs and/or

to provide the necessary guidance to promote their continued

occupancy of already adequate housing. These objectives will

be accomplished through the establishment or support of

housing delivery and counseling projects run by eligible

applicants. This program is intended to make use of any

available housing program that provides the low-income rural

resident access to adequate rental properties or home

ownership.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant purposes: Grant

funds are to be used for a housing delivery system and

counseling program to include a comprehensive program of

technical and supervisory assistance as set forth in the grant

agreement and any other special conditions as required by RHS.

Uses of grant funds may include, but are not limited to:(a) The

development and implementation of a program of technical and

supervisory assistance as defined in RD Instruction

1944-K,1944.506(h) and (i); (b) payment of reasonable salaries

of professional, technical, and clerical staff actively assisting in

the delivery of the TA project; (c) payment of necessary and

reasonable office expenses such as office supplies and office

rental, office utilities, telephone services, and office equipment

rental; (d) payment of necessary and reasonable administrative

costs such as workers' compensation, liability insurance, audit
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reports, travel to and attendance at RD approved training

sessions, and the employer's share of Social Security and health

benefits. Payments to private retirement funds are prohibited

unless prior written authorization is obtained from the

Administrator;(e) payment of reasonable fees for necessary

training of grantee personnel. This may include the cost of

travel and per diem to attend regional training sessions when

authorized by the State Director; and(f) other reasonable travel

and miscellaneous expenses necessary to accomplish the

objectives of the specific TA grant which were anticipated in

the individual TA grant proposal and which were included as

eligible expenses at the time of grant approval. Ineligible

activities: Grant funds may not be used for:(1) Acquisition

construction, repair, or rehabilitation ofstructures or acquisition

of land, vehicles, or equipment; (2) replacement of or

substitution for any financial support which would be available

from any other source; (3)duplication of current services in

conflict with the requirements of RD Instruction 1944-k,

1944.514(c);(4) hiring personnel to perform construction; (5)

buying property of any kind from families receiving technical

or supervisory assistance from the grantee under the terms of

the TA grant; (6) paying for or reimbursing the grantee for any

expenses or debts incurred before RHS/RD executes the grant

agreement;(7) paying any debts, expenses or costs which should

be the responsibilities of the individual families receiving

technical and supervisory assistance; (8) any type of political

activities, and (9)other costs including contributions and

donations, entertainment, fines and penalties, interest and other

financial costs, legislative expenses and any excess of cost from

other grant agreements. Advice and assistance may be obtained

from the national office where ineligible costs are proposed as

part of the TA project or where a proposed cost appears

ineligible. The grantee may not change fees or accept

compensation or gratuities from TA recipients for the grantee's

assistance under the program.

Applicant Eligibility: Technical and Supervisory Assistance

Grants may be made to public or private nonprofit corporations,

agencies, institutions, organizations, Indian Tribes, and other

associations. Listed below are a description and definition of

eligible applicants: 1.Sponsored organization - A public

purpose group other than a unit of government that is a

beneficiary under a plan or program administered by a State, or

political subdivision of a State or local government, and which

is subject to approval by a Federal agency. Usually organized

to work for a specific purpose. Examples: Community

development agencies, model cities, and community action

agencies; 2.public nonprofit institution/organization - A public

owned agency or organization established to perform

specialized functions or services for the benefit of all or part of

the general public either without charge or at cost, making no

profits and having no shareholders or receive dividends,

includes institutions of higher education and hospitals.3.

Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Government - the

governing body or a governmental agency of an Indian tribe,

nation, pueblo, or other organized group or community

(including native village as defined in the Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act) certified by the Secretary of the Interior as

eligible for the special programs and services provided through

the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and 4.private nonprofit

institution/organization privately owned organization or

institution which represent community service networks, public

information, technical assistance, and public education.

Operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary or

educational purposes such that no part of its earnings is for the

benefit of any private shareholder or individual, includes

private institutions of higher education and hospitals.

Examples: Girl Scouts, American Civil Liberties Union. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Rural Development (RD)

Community Program manager of the area to be served by the

Technical Supervisory Assistance project. If the Technical and

Supervisory Assistance area encompasses more than one

District office, the preapplication will be filed at the district

office which serves the area in which the grantees will provide

the greatest amount of Technical Supervisory Assistance.

Headquarters Office: Rural Housing Service (RHS), USDA,

14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC

20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.442 HOUSING APPLICATION PACKAGING

GRANTS (Section 509 Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To package single familyhousing applications

for very low and low-income rural residents in colonials and

designated counties who wish to buy, build, or repair houses for

their own use and to package applications for organizations

wishing to develop rental units for lower income families.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:Grants reimburse eligible

organizations for part or all of the costs of conducting,

administering, and coordinating an effective housing

application packaging program in colonials and designated

counties. Eligible organizations aid very low and low-income

individuals and families in obtaining benefit from federal, State,

and local housing programs. The following are restrictions

under the housing application packaging grants:(1) These funds

are available only in the areas defined in Exhibit D of RD

Instruction 1944-B; (2) the packager may not charge fees or

accept compensation or gratuities directly or indirectly from the

very low and low-income families being assisted under this

program; (3) the packager may not represent or be associated

with anyone else, other than the applicant, who may benefit in

any way in the proposed transaction; (4) if the packager is

compensated for this service from other sources, then the

packager is not eligible for compensation from this source

except as permitted by RHS; (5) grantees who are funded to do

self-help housing effort; and (6) the authorized representatives

must have no pecuniary interest in the award of the architectural

or construction contracts, the purchase of equipment, or the

purchase of the land for the housing site.

Applicant Eligibility: An eligible grantee is an organization

which is defined as any of the following entities which are

legally authorized to work in designated counties and/or

colonials and are: (1)A State, State agency, or unit of general

local government; or (2) a private nonprofit organization or

corporation that is owned and controlled by private persons or

interests, is organized and operated for purposes other than

making gains or profits for the corporation, and is legally

precluded from distributing any gains or profits to its member.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:
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Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory under United States Department ofAgriculture for RD

county office number. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Housing

Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)

720-1474. 

10.443 OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR

SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND

RANCHERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF OUTREACH 

OBJECTIVES: To reverse the decline of socially

disadvantaged farmers and ranchers across the United States.

The intended outcome is to encourage and assist socially

disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate their

own farms and ranches, participate in agricultural programs,

and thus allow them to become an integral part of the

agricultural community and strengthen the rural economy. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide outreach,

training and technical assistance to socially disadvantaged

farmers and ranchers on agricultural programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, including

Tuskegee University, Indian Tribal Community Colleges,

Alaska Native cooperative colleges, Hispanic serving postsecondary educational institutions, other post-secondary

educational institutions providing Agricultural education or

other agriculturally-related services to socially disadvantaged

farmers and ranchers in their region and community-based

organizations that: (1) Have demonstrated experience in

providing agricultural education or other agriculturally related

services to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in their

region; (2) provides documentary evidence of its past

experience in working with socially disadvantaged farmers and

ranchers during the 2 years preceding its application for

assistance; and (3) does not engage in activities prohibited

under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate USDA State

Office listed in your local telephone directory

. 

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, USDA

Office of Outreach, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., AG

STOP 1710, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)720-

6350. Fax: (202) 720-7489. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Under the current

funded projects, the grantees proposed a one-year plan for

outreach and technical assistance to encourage and assist

socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate

farms and ranches and to participate in agricultural programs.

10.444 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER

LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 504, Rural

Housing Loans and Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist qualified recipients to meet

emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster.

Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not

provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency

(FEMA).For the purpose of administering these funds, natural

disaster will only include those counties identified by a

Presidential declaration. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist very-low

income owner occupants to repair or replace damaged property

as a direct result of a natural disaster. Loans are made in

counties named by the Federal Management Agency as being

eligible for Federal assistance under an emergency declaration

by the President. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must own and occupy the

home in a rural area. Loan recipients must have sufficient

income to repay the loan. Grant recipients must be 62 years of

age or older and be unable to repay a loan for that part of the

assistance received as a grant. The applicant's income for a loan

may not exceed the very low-income limit set forth in Appendix

9 of the Direct Single Family Housing Programs Handbook

which can be located in any Rural Development (RD) field

office. Very low-income limits range from $6,300 to $22,650

for a single person household, depending on an area's median

income. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directoryunder United States Department of Agriculture for RD

county office number. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Processing

Division, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202)

720-1474. 

10.445 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER

(Section 502 Very Low and Low Income Loans)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist qualified lower income rural families

to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural

disaster to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve dwellings in rural

areas. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not

provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency

(FEMA).For the purpose of administering these funds, natural

disaster will only include those areas identified by a

Presidential declaration.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Direct loans may be used

for construction, repair, or purchase of housing. Payment

subsidy is available to eligible low and very low-income

applicants. The term payment subsidy refers to either payment

assistance or interest credit. A payment subsidy reduces the

borrower's scheduled payment to an amount equal to what it

would be if the note were amortized to as low as one percent.

Payment subsidies are subject to recapture by the government

when the borrower transfers title or ceases to occupy the

property.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must be without adequate

resources to obtain housing or related facilities. Applicants

must be unable to secure the necessary credit from other
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sources at prevailing terms and conditions for residential

financing.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory under United States Department ofAgriculture for RD

county office number. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Processing

Division, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202)

720-1474. 

10.446 Rural Community Development Initiative

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To develop the capacity and ability of private,

nonprofit community-based housing and community

development organizations, and low income rural communities

to improve housing, community facilities, community and

economic development projects in rural areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Rural Community

Development Initiative grants may be used for but are not

limited to (a) training sub-grantees to conduct a program on

home-ownership education; (b) training sub- grantees to

conduct a program for minority business entrepreneurs; (c)

providing technical assistance to sub-grantees on how to

effectively prepare a strategic plan; (d) provide technical

assistance to sub- grantees on how to access alternative funding

sources; (e) building organizational capacity through board

training; (f) developing training tools, such as videos,

workbooks, and reference guides to be used by the sub-grantee;

(g) providing technical assistance and training on how to

develop successful child care facilities; and (h) providing

training on effective fund raising techniques. 

Applicant Eligibility: Rural Community Development

Initiative grants may be made to a qualified private or public

(including tribal) organization that provides technical assistance

to nonprofit community-based housing and community

development organizations, and low income rural communities.

The grantee must provide a program of technical assistance to

the sub-grantee. The grantee must have at least three years prior

experienceworkingwith nonprofit organizations or low-income

rural communities in the areas of housing, community facilities,

or community and economic development. Assistance is

authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the States,

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the

commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall

Islands, the Republic of Palaw, and the Federated States of

Micronesia. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for Rural Development field office numbers.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Administrator, Community

Programs, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250- 3222. Telephone: (202) 720-1490.

Community Programs, Rural Housing Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250- 0787. Telephone: (202)

720-1498. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grants were made

to (a) hire a staff person to provide technical assistance to the

sub-grantee; (b) the sub-grantee organization hires a staff

person, under the supervision of the grantee, to carry out the

technical assistance; (c) develop the capacity of sub-grantees to

conduct community development programs; (d) develop the

capacity of sub-grantees to conduct home-ownership education

programs; and (e) develop the capacity of sub-grantees to

conduct training for minority business entrepreneurs.

10.557 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION

PROGRAM FOR WOM EN, INFANTS, AND

CHILDREN (WIC Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide, at no cost, supplemental nutritious

foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health care to

low-income pregnant, breast-feeding and postpartum women,

infants, and children to age five determined to be at nutritional

risk. TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are made to State

health departments or comparable agencies, Indian tribes,

bands, or intertribal councils, or groups recognized by the

Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, or the

Indian Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services. These agencies distribute funds to

participating local public or nonprofit private health or welfare

agencies. Funds are expended to pay for supplemental foods,

nutrition education and health care referrals for participants, as

well as specified administrative costs, including certification

services. State agencies are provided Federal funds according

to legislative and regulatory formulae. Only local agencies

qualifying under State agency applications may operate WIC

programs.

Applicant Eligibility: A local agency is eligible to apply to

locally deliver the services of the WIC program provided: 1) it

serves a population of low-income women, infants, and children

at nutritional risk; 2) it is a public or private nonprofit health or

human service agency. All local agencies must apply through

the responsible State or U.S. Territory agency. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Food and Nutrition Service

regional offices listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Supplemental Food Programs Division,

Food and Consumer Service, Department of Agriculture,

Alexandria, VA 22302. Telephone:(703) 305-2746.

10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD

PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist States, through grants-in-aid and

other means, to initiate and maintain nonprofit food service

programs for children, elderly or impaired adults in

nonresidential day care facilities and children in emergency

shelters.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are made available

for disbursement to eligible institutions to reimburse their costs

in providing meals and snacks to homeless children in

emergency shelters and children and adults receiving

nonresidential day care, including after school programs.
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Disbursement is made on the basis of the number of lunches,

suppers, breakfasts, and snacks served, using annually adjusted

reimbursement rates specified by law. Program institutions may

receive reimbursement for not more than three meals per day,

per participant. The program in child care institutions and

homeless emergency shelters is limited to children 12 years old

and younger, except for children of migrant workers, who may

participate if aged 15 years and younger, and individuals with

disabilities, who if over 12 years of age would be eligible to

participate only in a center or home where the majority of those

enrolled are 18 and younger. In after school care programs,

reimbursement is available for snacks served to children aged

18 and under In adult day care centers, functionally impaired

adults 18 years of age and older and adults 60 years of age and

older who are not residents of an institution are eligible. Meals

must meet minimum requirements of the United States

Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

Applicant Eligibility: The State or U.S. Territory agency

applies for, and signs an annual agreement to receive Federal

funds for disbursement. In Virginia, where the State does not

administer the program, institutions may receive funds directly

from USDA.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director,ChildNutrition Division, Food

and NutritionService, United States Department of Agriculture,

Alexandria, VA. Telephone: (703) 305- 2590.

10.567 FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ON

INDIAN RESERVATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To improve the diets of needy persons in

households on or near Indian reservations through the

distribution of commodities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Sale, Exchange,

or Donation of Property and Goods. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Indian Tribal

Organizations and State Distributing Agencies make food

available for distribution to qualifying households. Households

may not be charged. Donated foods may not be sold,

exchanged, or otherwise disposed of (authorized distribution

excepted) without prior, specific approval of the Department.

FNS administrative funds must be expended to meet expenses

incurred in operating the Food Distribution Program on Indian

Reservations. These funds may not be used to purchase real

property(land or buildings).

Applicant Eligibility: Authorized Indian Tribal Organizations

and State agencies designated by the Governor, legislature, or

other authority may receive and distribute donated foods. State

agencies that administer the program are eligible to receive

Federal cash assistance (administrative funds) to assist in

meeting operating expenses incurred in administering the

program. Indian tribal organizations may be their own State

agency for the administration of the program on reservations if

determined capable by FNS. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Food and Nutrition Service

Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Food Distribution Division,

Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture,

Alexandria, VA 22302. Telephone: (703) 305-2680.

10.570 Nutrition Services Incentive (NSIP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION

SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To improve the diets of the elderly and to

increase the market for domestically produced foods acquired

under surplus removal or price support operations. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Food is made available

for use in the preparation of congregate or home-delivered

meals by nutrition programs for the elderly. Each provider may

solicit voluntary contributions for meals furnished in

accordance with guidelines established by the Commissioner,

taking into consideration the income ranges of eligible

individuals in local communities and other sources of income

to the provider. However, each individual participant decides

what he or she will contribute toward the cost of the meal;

meals are free to eligible persons who do not make any

contribution. Donated foods may not be sold, exchanged, or

otherwise disposed of (authorized distribution excepted)

without prior, specific approval of the Department. 

Applicant Eligibility: Such State, Trust Territories and Federal

agencies that are designated as distributing agencies by the

Governor, legislature, or other authority may receive and

distribute donated foods. Elderly nutrition programs that are

funded under Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 must

apply to their State Agency on Aging for commodities or cash

in lieu thereof; elderly nutrition programs for Indians on

reservations that are funded under Title VI of the Older

Americans Act must apply to FNS Regional Offices for food

assistance after receiving approval from the Department of

Health and Human Services.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Food and Nutrition Service

Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Food Distribution Division, Food and

Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture, Alexandria, VA

22302. Telephone: (703) 305-2680. Contact: Les Johnson,

Director. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Programs 93.045

and 93.047 Special Programs for the Aging relating to nutrition

services and Indian programs respectively are examples of

projects that have been funded under this program. Both of

these programs supply supportive services including nutrition

services to older Americans. 

10.664 COOPERATIVE FORESTRY

ASSISTANCE

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: With respect to nonfederal forest and other

rural lands to assist in the advancement of forest resources

management; the encouragement of the production of timber;

the control of insects and diseases affecting trees and forests;

the control of rural fires; the efficient utilization of wood and

wood residues, including the recycling of wood fiber; the

improvement and maintenance of fish and wildlife habitat; and

the planning and conduct of urban and community forestry
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programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants;

Use of Property, Facilities, and Equipment.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist State Forester

or equivalent agencies in forest stewardship programs on

private, State, local, and other nonfederal forest and rural

lands. Programs may include production of timber and efficient

processing and use of wood products; developing genetically

improved tree seeds; producing and distributing tree seeds and

seedlings; reforestation; timber stand improvement; improving

wildlife habitat; assisting private woodland owners in

harvesting, processing, and marketing activities; conversion of

wood to energy; protection and improvement of forest soil

fertility; forest insect and disease management; urban and

community forestry; Development and transfer of new and

improved fire control technologies; organization of shared fire

suppression resources, and achievement of more efficient State

fire protection; provision of financial, technical and related

assistance to local rural fire fighting forces; acquisition and loan

of Federal excess property; organizational improvement;

forestry resources planning; conservation of forest land; and

technology transfer. 

Applicant Eligibility: State Forestry or equivalent State

agencies are eligible. All States, the District of Columbia,

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands,

the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the territories and

possessions of the United States are eligible. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for Regional and Area State and Private Forestry

offices of the Forest Service and for addresses and telephone

numbers of Regional Foresters and Area Director of the Forest

Service.

Headquarters Office: State and Private Forestry, Forest

Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 96090,

Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (202) 205-1657.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funding is for State

Forestry Agency programs as set forth in USES AND USE

RESTRICTIONS. 

10.665 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO

STATES (25 Percent Payments to States) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To share receipts from the National Forests

with the States in which the National Forests are situated.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To be used for the

benefit of public schools and public roads of the county or

counties in which the National Forest is situated. 

Applicant Eligibility: Grant recipients must be States

(including commonwealths) or territories of the United States

containing National Forest land. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Fiscal branch of appropriate Forest

Service Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director of Acquisitions Management,

Forest Service, USDA, Room 706 RPE, P.O. Box 96090,

Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (703) 235-8007.

10.666 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO

COUNTIES (Payments to Counties)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To share receipts from National Grasslands

and Land Utilization Projects with the counties in which the

National Grasslands and Land Utilization Projects are situated.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To be used for school or

road purposes or both.

Applicant Eligibility: Counties within the States of the United

States containing National Grasslands or Land Utilization

Projects. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Fiscal Branch of appropriate Forest

Service Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director of Procurement and Property,

Forest Service, USDA, Room 706 RPE, P.O. Box 96090,

Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (703) 235-8007. 

10.670 NATIONAL FOREST DEPENDENT

RURAL COM MUNITIES (Economic Recovery)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Provide accelerated assistance to communities

faced with acute economic problems associated with Federal,

State or private sector resource management decisions and

policies and that are located in or near a national forest and are

economically dependent upon forest resources. Aid is extended

to these communities to help them develop strategic action

plans to diversify their economic base and to improve the

economic, social, and environmental well-being of rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Use of Property,

Facilities, and Equipment; Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Eligible economically

disadvantaged rural communities may request assistance in

identifying opportunities that will promote economic

improvement, diversification and revitalization. Assistance is

coordinated through a community action team and plan.

Programs may include upgrade of existing industries,

development of new economic activity in non-forest related

industries, technical assistance, training and education directed

towards meeting the community's planned goals. Assistance

requested will be coordinated with other USDA agencies and

targeted to provide immediate help to those rural communities

in greatest need. Grants and technical assistance are available

to those communities meeting the eligibility requirements.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicant must be a general purpose

local government or area represented by a nonprofit corporation

or institution under State or Federal law to promote broad based

economic development having a population of not more than

10,000; or any county that is not contained within a

metropolitan statistical area. In both cases, the county must

derive 15 percent or greater primary and secondary labor and

proprietary income from forestry and forest related industries,

such as recreation and tourism, range, minerals, and wildlife. In
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all cases, the community or county must also be within 100

miles of the boundary of a national forest. Communities or

counties associated solely with national grasslands are not

eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for Regional and Area State and Private Forestry

offices of the Forest Service and for addresses and telephone

numbers of Regional Foresters and Area Director of the Forest

Service. 

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief, State and Private

Forestry, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box

96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (202)

205-1657. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training and

placing out-of-workloggers into environmental restoration jobs

in northern California, Oregon and Washington. Developing

and implementing an ecosystem management plan which

includes commercial opportunities for utilizing small diameter,

second-growth pine in Montezuma, Delores, and La Plata

counties in southwestern Colorado. Strategic planning resulting

in maintaining the rural character, yet enhancing social and

economic benefits of community change in Wakulla County,

Florida. Local development and construction of a riverfront

park in Libby, Montana. Establishment of the Forest

Technology and Training Institute in Clallum County,

Washington. Increasing awareness and development of

non-farm industries in the historically agriculturally based area

around Rust College, Mississippi, with a special emphasis on

recreation and tourism opportunities as well as value added

forest products. Eco-tourism training and small business

management in Newton County, Arkansas. Establishing

state-of-the-art computer technology in Wasatch County, Utah,

to help revise the master plan. 

10.671 SOUTHEAST ALASKA ECONOMIC

DISASTER FUND

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To counter the effects of the declining timber

program of the Tongass National Forest.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To employformer timber

workers and for related community development projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Local communities/boroughs named in

Public Law 104-134.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: USDA Forest Service, 3301 C

Street, Suite 522, Anchorage, Alaska 99503-3956, Telephone:

(907) 271- 2519.

Headquarters Office: Not applicable.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.672 RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FORESTRY

AND COMM UNITIES (RURAL

DEVELOPM ENT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To identify, assist and support local strategic

planning objectives by joining State Foresters, tribal, State and

Federal agencies, local governments, not-for-profit

organizations and others in finding, developing and sustaining

rural development activities that extend and diversify natural

resource use. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Use of Property,

Facilities, and Equipment; Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funding may be

allocated for such things as technical assistance, training and

education, technology transfer, marketing and all costs

associated with making these services available to State

Foresters, tribal State and Federal agencies, local governments,

not-for-profit organizations, and others working with

communities. 

Applicant Eligibility: State Foresters, tribal, State and Federal

agencies (matching programs), local governments,

not-for-profit organizations and others. Forest Service

Region/Area/Institute policies will further define and focus

resources to meet the needs of communities that these

administrative units serve.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for Regional and Area State and Private Forestry

offices of the Forest Service.

Headquarters Office: USDA Forest Service, Washington

DC. Telephone: (202) 205-1657.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not availableatthis

time. This is a new program. 

10.760 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL

SYSTEMS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide basic human amenities, alleviate

health hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas

of the nation by meeting the need for new and improved rural

water and waste disposal facilities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans;

Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

the installation, repair, improvement, or expansion of a rural

water facility including distribution lines, well pumping

facilities and costs related thereto, and the installation, repair,

improvement, or expansion of a rural waste disposal facility

including the collection, and treatment of sanitary, storm, and

solid wastes. Grant funds may not be used to pay: Interest on

loans, operation and maintenance costs, or to acquire or

refinance an existing system. No maximum loan amount is

established by statute. The maximum term on all loans is 40

years. However, no repayment period will exceed any statutory

limitation or the organization's borrowing authority nor the

useful life of the improvement or facility to be financed. There

are currently three interest rates for direct loans: A 4.5 percent

rate when the loan is required to meet health or sanitary

standards and the median household income of the service area

is below the higher of the poverty line or 80 percent of the

statewide Non-metropolitan median household income; the

intermediate rate, halfway between 4.5 percent and market rate,

if the median household income of the service area is not more
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than 100 percent of the Non-metropolitan median household

income of the State; and market rate for those applicants that do

not qualify for 4.5 percent or intermediate rate. The interest rate

on guaranteed loans is negotiable between the applicant and the

lender. 

Applicant Eligibility: Municipalities, counties, and other

political subdivisions of a State, such as districts and

authorities, associations, cooperatives, corporations operated on

a not-for-profit basis, Indian tribes on Federal and State

reservations and other federally recognized Indian tribes.

Facilities shall primarily serve rural residents and rural

businesses. The service area shall not include any area in any

city or town having a population in excess of 10,000 inhabitants

according to the latest decennial census of the United States.

The applicant must: (1) Be unable to finance the proposed

project from its own resources or through commercial credit at

reasonable rates and terms; and (2) have the legal authority

necessary for constructing, operating, and maintaining the

proposed facility or service, and for obtaining, giving security

for, and repaying the proposed loan. Plans and specifications

must be developed to comply with State and local health and

pollution regulations and other requirements. Grants are made

only when necessary to reduce the average annual benefitted

user charges to a reasonable level. Normally, grants are

considered only when the debt service portion of the cost to

grant eligible users exceeds the following percentages of

median household incomes (MHI) for the applicant service

area; 0.5 percent when the MHI of the service area is below the

poverty line or below 80 percent (whichever is higher) of the

State's non-metropolitan household income (NMHI); 1.0

percent when the NMHI of the service area exceeds the 0.5

percent requirement but is not more than 100 percent of the

State's NMHI; no RUS grant funds will be used in any project

when the MHI of the service area is above the poverty line and

more than 100 percent of the State's NMHI. The RUS grant

may not exceed 75 percent of the eligible project development

cost when the MHI of the service area is below the poverty line

or below 80 percent (whichever is higher) of the State's NMHI

and the project is necessary to alleviate a health or sanitary

problem; 45 percent when the MHI of the service area exceeds

the 75 percent requirements, but is not more than 100 percent

of the State's NMHI. Assistance is authorized for eligible

applicants in rural areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, the

Virgin Islands, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana

Islands, American Samoa, and to the extent the Secretary

determines feasible and appropriate, the Trust Territory of the

Pacific Islands. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD local number. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and

Environmental Programs RuralUtilities Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)

690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following areas

received funds for specified projects: Construct new water

system consisting of water lines, pumping stations, wells,

storage tanks and treatment plants; water system improvements

consisting of additional water lines, new water treatment facility

and booster pump; renovation of existing water system which

includes new distribution lines, wells and pressure tanks;

construct new waste water collection and treatment systems;

replace waste water treatment plant and improve waste water

collection lines; rehabilitate waste water collection lines and

construct lift station; purchase site for landfill; and purchase

trucks and equipment for solid waste disposal. 

10.761 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND

TRAINING GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To identifyand evaluate solutions to water and

waste disposal problems in rural areas; to assist applicants in

preparing applications made in accordance with 7 CFR 1780;

to improve operation and maintenance of water and waste

disposal facilities in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to

pay expenses associated with providing technical assistance

and/or training (TAT) to identify and evaluate solutions to

water problems relating to source, storage, treatment, and

distribution, and to waste disposal problems relating to

collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants that have

filed a preapplication with RUS in the preparation of water

and/or waste disposal loan and/or grant applications; and to

provide training that will improve the management, operation

and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Grant

funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current

services such as those performed by a consultant in developing

a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets,

purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office

space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay

construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior to the

effective date of grants made.

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofitorganizations that have

been granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service

of the United States. Applicants must have proven ability,

background, experience, legal authority and actual capacity to

provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis

to associations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD district office number. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and

Waste Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Recipients of this

program received funds to administer technical assistance and

training to small communities experiencing water and waste

disposal problems. 

10.762 SOLID WASTE MANAGEM ENT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To reduce or eliminate pollution of water

resources and improve planning and management of solid waste

disposal facilities in rural areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to:
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Evaluate current landfill conditions to determine threats to

water resources in rural areas; provide technical assistance

and/or training to enhance operator skills in the maintenance

and operation of active landfills in rural areas; provide technical

assistance and/or training to help associations reduce the solid

waste stream; and provide technical assistance and/or training

for operators of landfills in rural areas which are closed or will

b e closed in the near future with t h e

development/implementation of closure plans, future land use

plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling

within permit requirements. Grant funds may not be used to:

Recruit preapplications/applications for any loan and/or grant

program including RUS Water and Waste Disposal Loan and/or

Grant Program; duplication of current services, replacement or

substitution of support previously provided such as those

performed by an association's consultant in developing a

project; fund political activities; pay for capital assets, the

purchase of real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office

space, or repair and maintain privately-owned property; pay for

construction or operation and maintenance costs of water and

waste facilities; and pay costs incurred prior to the effective

date of grants made under this sub-part.

Applicant Eligibility: Entities eligible for grants are nonprofit

organizations, including: Private nonprofit organizations that

have been granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue

Service (IRS); and public bodies including local

governmental-based multi-jurisdictional organizations.

Applicants must have the proven ability, background,

experience, legal authority, and actual capacity to provide

technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to

eligible beneficiaries.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and

Waste Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-2670. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Recipients of this

program received funds to administer technical assistance in

areas of solid waste management to small communities.

10.763 EMERGENCY COMMUNITY WATER

ASSISTANCE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Through the Emergency Community Water

Assistance Grant Program, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is

authorized to help rural residents who have experienced a

significant decline in quantity or quality of water to obtain

adequate quantities of water that meet the standards of the Safe

Drinking Water Act. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used

to extend waterlines on existing systems; to construct new water

lines; to repair existing systems; to perform significant

maintenance on existing systems; to construct new wells,

reservoirs, transmission lines, treatment plants, storage tanks,

etc.; to replace equipment; to provide connection and/or tap

fees; to pay costs incurred within six months of the date an

application was filed with USDA to correct an emergency

situation that would have been eligible for funding under this

program; to provide funds for any other appropriate related

purposes, such as, legal fees; engineering fees; recording costs;

environmental impact analyses; archaeological surveys;

possible salvage or other mitigation measures; planning,

establishing, or acquiring rights associated with developing

sources of treating, storing, or distributing water; and to assist

rural water systems in complying with the requirements of the

Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking

Water Act, when failure to comply is directly related to a recent

decline in quality of potable water. Grants provided under this

program shall not be used to assist a rural area or community

with a population in excess of 10,000; to assist a rural area that

has a median household income in excess of the statewide Nonmetropolitan median household income according to the most

recent decennial census of the U.S.; to finance facilities which

are not modest in size, design, and cost; to pay loan or grant

finder's fees; to pay any annual recurring costs considered to be

operational expenses; to pay rental for the use of equipment or

machinery owned by the rural community; to purchase existing

systems; to refinance existing indebtedness; and to make

reimbursement for projects developed with other grant funds.

Grants made to alleviate a significant decline in quantity or

quality of water available from the water supplies in rural areas

that occurred within two years of filing an application with

USDA cannot exceed $500,000. Grants for repairs, partial

replacement, or significant maintenance on an established

system cannot exceed $75,000. 

Applicant Eligibility: Rural Utilities Service may make grants

to public bodies, private nonprofit corporations, and political

subdivisions of a State, as well as Indian tribes.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory under United States Government, Department of

Agriculture for RD District Office number. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and

Environmental Programs, Rural Utilities Service, Department

of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)

690-2670. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Rural communities

can use these funds to correct drinking water problems that

have been created by a significant decline in quantity or quality

of their water supply. The communities use the funds for new

systems, waterline extensions, construction of water sources

and treatment facilities, storage tanks, and repairs or renovation

of existing systems.

10.766 COMM UNITY FACILITIES LOANS AND

GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE

(RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise

improve community facilities providing essential services to

rural residents.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:DirectLoans;Guaranteed/Insured

Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Community facilities

include but are not limited to those providing or supporting

overall community development such as fire and rescue

services, transportation, community, social, cultural, and health
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benefits: industrial park sites, access ways, and utility

extensions. All facilities financed in whole or in part with RHS

funds shall be for public use. 

Applicant Eligibility: City, county, and State agencies,

political and quasi-political subdivisions of States and

associations including corporations, Indian tribes on Federal

and State reservations and other Federally Recognized Indian

tribes and existing private corporations which: (1) Are operated

on a not-for-profit basis; (2) have or will have the legal

authority necessary for constructing, operating, and maintaining

the proposed facility or service and for obtaining, giving

security for, and repaying the loan; and (3) are unable to finance

the proposed project from its own resources or through

commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms. Assistance is

authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the States,

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa. The

commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall

Islands, the Republic of Palaw, and the Federated States of

Micronesia. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for Rural Development numbers.

Headquarters Office: Director, Community Facilities

Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250-3222. Telephone: (202) 720-1490. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Loans were made

to: (1) Establish rural health clinics in medically undeserved

areas; (2) purchase fire fighting equipment for rural towns; (3)

construct new municipal buildings; (4) build new schools to

serve rural counties; and (5)renovate hospitals to meet current

life/safety codes. 

10.767 INTERMEDIARY RE-LENDING

PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESSCOOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To finance business facilities and community

development. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: An entity that receives an

IntermediaryRE-LENDING Program (IRP) loan from the Rural

Business-Cooperative Service(RBS) is referred to as an

intermediary. Intermediaries must re-lend all of the loan funds

received from the IRP loan, for business facilities or community

development in rural areas. An entity that receives a loan from

an intermediary is referred to as an ultimate recipient. The

maximum loan to any one intermediary is $2 million. The

maximum term is 30 years and the interest rate is one percent

per annum. Intermediaries may not use IRP funds to finance

more than 75 percent of the cost of an ultimate recipient's

project or for a loan of more than $150,000 to one ultimate

recipient.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible intermediaries may include:

Private nonprofit organizations, State or local governments, and

Federally recognized Indian tribes and cooperatives.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

REGIONAL or Local Office: RBS State Office listed in your

local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Rural Business-Cooperative Service,

Room 6321, South Agriculture Building, Washington, DC

20250-0700. Telephone: (202) 690-4100. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDEDPROJECTS: (1) $1,560,000 loan

to a nonprofit corporation to re-lend to businesses within a

State; (2) $1,300,000 loan to a nonprofit corporation to re-lend

to businesses within six counties in two States; (3) $2,120,000

loan to a nonprofit corporation with a nationwide service area,

for RE-LENDING to rural transportation facilities; and (4)

$510,000 loan to a nonprofit corporation serving an

eight-county area for RE-LENDING to businesses.

10.768 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESSCOOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist public, private, or cooperative

organizations (profit or nonprofit), Indian tribes or individuals

in rural areas to obtain quality loans for the purpose of

improving, developing or financing business, industry, and

employment and improving the economic and environmental

climate in rural communities including pollution abatement and

control.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/

Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Direct loans may be

extended for: (a) modernization, development costs; (b)

purchasing and development of land, easements, rights-of-way,

buildings, facilities, leases or materials; purchasing equipment,

leasehold improvements, machinery and supplies; and (d)

pollution control and abatement. Maximum loan size is$10

million and maximum time allowable for final maturity is

limited to 30 years for land and buildings, the usable life of

machinery and equipment purchased with loan funds, not to

exceed 15 years, and 7 years for working capital. Interest rates

for direct loans change quarterly and are equal to the prime

interest rate in effect on the first day of the quarter. Loans may

not be made (a) to pay off a creditor in excess of the value of

the collateral; (b) for distribution or payment to the owner,

partners, shareholders, or beneficiaries of the applicant or

members of their families when such persons shall retain any

portion of their equity in the business; for projects involving

agricultural production; (d) for the transfer of ownership of a

business unless the loan will keep the business from closing, or

prevent the loss of employment opportunities in the area, or

provide expanded job opportunities; (e) for financing

community antenna television services or facilities; (f) for

charitable and educational institutions, churches, fraternal

organizations, hotels,motels,tourist homes, convention centers,

tourist, recreation or amusement facilities, lending and

investment institutions and insurance companies; (g) for any

legitimate business activity where more than 10 percent of the

annual gross income is derived from legalized gambling; and

(h) for any project which is likely to result in the transfer of

business or employment from one area to another or cause

production which exceeds demand. Guaranteed loans may be

extended for: (a) modernization, development costs;

(b)purchasing and development of land, easements,

rights-of-way, buildings, facilities, leases or materials;

purchasing equipment,leaseholdimprovements, machinery and

supplies; (d) projects involving agricultural production, when
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not eligible for Farm Service Agency farmer program assistance

and when it is part of an integrated business also involved in the

processing of agricultural products and the agricultural

production portion of the loan does not exceed the lessor of 50

percent of the total loan or $1 million; and (e) pollution control

and abatement. Maximum loan size is $25 million and

maximum time allowable for final maturity is limited to 30

years for land and buildings, the usable life of machinery and

equipment purchased with loan funds, not to exceed 15 years,

and 7 years for working capital. Interest rates for guaranteed

loans are negotiated between the lender and the borrower. For

loans of $5 million or less, the maximum percentage of

guarantee is 80 percent. For loans over $5 million but not over

$10 million, the maximum percentage of guarantee is 70

percent. For loans in excess of $10 million up to $25 million,

the maximum percentage of guarantee is 60 percent. Losses on

principal advanced, including protective advances, and accrued

interest, may be guaranteed by the Agency, but the maximum

loss paid by RBS will never exceed the original principal plus

accrued interest. Loans may not be made for: (a) distribution or

payment to the owner, partners, shareholders, or beneficiaries

of the applicant or members of their families when such persons

shall retain any portion of their equity in the business; (b) the

transfer of ownership of a business unless the loan will keep the

business from closing, or prevent the loss of employment

opportunities in the area, or provide expanded job

opportunities; the guarantee of lease payments; (d) charitable

institutions, churches, fraternal organizations, lending and

investment institutions and insurance companies; (e) any

legitimate business activity where more than 10 percent of the

annual gross income is derived from legalized gambling;(f) the

guarantee of loans made by other Federal agencies except those

made by Banks for Cooperatives, Federal Land Bank or

Production Credit Associations; (g) golf courses; (h) racetracks

where individual prizes are awarded in the amount of $500 or

more; (I) owner-occupied housing;(j) projects eligible for the

Rural Rental Housing and Rural Cooperative Housing loans

under sections 515, 521, and 538 of the Housing Act of 1949,

as amended; and (I) any project which is likely to result in the

transfer of business or employment from one area to another or

cause production which exceeds demand. Interested parties

should contact the Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS)

or the nearest Rural Development State Office which

administers the programs at the local level.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be a cooperative,

corporation, partnership, trust, or other legal entity organized

and operated on a profit or nonprofit basis; an Indian tribe; a

municipality, county, or other political subdivision of a State;

or individuals in rural areas. Applicants for direct loans must be

located in one of the fifty States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands,

Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern

Mariana Islands, in rural areas other than a city, town, or an

unincorporated area that has population of 50,000 inhabitants

or less, other than an urbanized area immediately adjacent to a

city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population in

excess of 50,000 inhabitants. In addition to the eligible

locations for direct loans, applicants for guaranteed loans may

also be located in the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of

Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Preference is given to loans in open country, rural communities

and towns with populations of 25,000 or less, and, on

applications of equal priority, to veterans. Applicants must be

U.S. citizens or reside in the U.S. after being legally admitted

for permanent residence and, if corporations, at least 51 percent

owned by such individuals.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for appropriate Rural Development State Office.

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural

Business-Cooperative Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC. 20250-3201. Telephone: (202) 690-4730.

FAX: (202)690-4737.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Loans made and

guaranteed by RBS have been in order to assist a wide variety

of manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and service businesses.

Some recent loans and loan guarantee shave assisted an

agribusiness in expanding its service area, helped a radio station

begin operations, provided access to capital for a catfish farm,

assisted a textile firm in modernizing and expanding its

operations, and provided working capital and financing for

machinery and equipment for a printing company. 

10.769 RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

(RBEG) (TDG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESSCOOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To facilitate the development of small and

emerging private business, industry, and related employment

for improving the economy in rural communities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USESANDUSE RESTRICTIONS: Rural business enterprise

grant (RBEG)funds may be used to establish revolving funds,

provide operating capital and finance industrial sites in rural

areas including the acquisition and development of land and

construction, conversion, enlargement, repair or modernization

of buildings, plants, machinery, equipment, access streets and

roads, parking areas, transportation serving the site, utility

extensions, necessary water supply and waste disposal facilities,

pollution control and abatement incidental to site development,

provide technical assistance, pay fees, and refinancing.

Television demonstration grant (TDG) funds may be used for

television programming to demonstrate the effectiveness of

providing information on agriculture and other issues of

importance to farmers and other rural residents.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants eligible for RBE grants are

public bodies and nonprofit corporations serving rural areas

such as States, counties, cities, townships, and incorporated

towns and villages, boroughs, authorities, districts and Indian

tribes on Federal and State reservations which will serve rural

areas. Applicants eligible for TD grants are statewide, private,

nonprofit, public television systems whose coverage is

predominantly rural. Rural area for this program is defined as

a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population of

50,000 inhabitants or less, other than an urbanized area

immediately adjacent to a city, town, or unincorporated area

that has a population in excess of 50,000 inhabitants. Priority

for such grants will be given to areas having a population of not

more than 25,000. Priority for such grants will be given to areas

having a population of not more than 25,000.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

REGIONAL or Local Office: Consult your local telephone
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directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Specialty Lenders Division,

Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-3222. Telephone: (202)

720-1400.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grant funds were

used to assist rural communities in developing small industrial

parks or sites by acquiring land, the purchase of necessary

equipment, construction of buildings, to provide water and

waste disposal facilities, and to pay for costs of streets, parking

areas and access roads. Also, grant funds were utilized to

establish/capitalize revolving loan funds to assist in the

development of small and emerging private business enterprises

in rural areas, and provided technical assistance (i.e., a problem

solving function) to qualifying small businesses in rural areas.

10.770 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL LOANS

AND GRANTS (SECTION 306C)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Provide water andwaste disposal facilities and

services to low income rural communities whose residents face

significant health risks.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

100 percent of costs to: Construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise

improve a community water or waste system; extend service

lines and connect individual residences to a system. Allow

applicant to make grants directly to individuals to: Extend

service lines, connect resident's plumbing to system, pay

reasonable charges and fees for connecting to system,

installation of plumbing and related fixtures, and construction

indwelling of a bathroom. 

Applicant Eligibility: Local level governments, federally

recognized Indian tribes, U.S. Territories and possessions, and

nonprofit associations can receive assistance under this

program. Except for rural areas known as "Colonia" along the

U.S./Mexico border, the projects funded under this program

must primarily provide water and/or waste disposal services to

residents of a county where the per capita income of the

residents is not more than 70 percent of the most recent national

average per capita income, as determined by the U.S.

Department of Commerce, and unemployment rate of the

residents is not less than 125 percent of the most recent national

average unemployment rate, as determined by the Bureau of

Labor Statistics. Also the residents must face significant health

risks due to not having access to an affordable community water

and/or waste disposal system. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

REGIONAL or Local Office: Consult local telephone

directory under United States Government, Department of

Agriculture, for RD office number. 

Headquarters Office: Water and Environmental Programs,

RuralUtilitiesService, Department of Agriculture, Washington,

DC 20250-3200. Telephone: (202) 690-2670. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

10.771 RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT

GRANTS (RTDG) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESSCOOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To establish and operate centers for rural

cooperative development to improve economic conditions in

rural areas by promoting the development of new cooperatives

and/or improvement of existing cooperatives.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:Grant funds may be used,

among other things, for applied research, and basic feasibility

studies, providing technical assistance or advisory services; to

individuals, small businesses, cooperatives, or rural industries

in efforts to develop new cooperatives or improve existing

cooperatives. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants eligible are nonprofit

corporations and institutions of higher education. Rural area for

this program is defined as all territories of a State, that is not

within the outer boundary of any city having a population of

50,000 or more according to the latest decennial census of the

United States. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate RD State

Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Deputy Administrator,

Cooperative Services, Rural Business-Cooperative Service,

Departmentof Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone:

(202) 720-8460.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grant funds were

used to provide technical assistance, applied research, technical

training, and cooperative education activities for rural

cooperatives. 

10.772 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM

(Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this program is to provide for

the establishment of empowerment zones and enterprise

communities in rural areas to stimulate the creation of new jobs,

particularly for the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed,

and to promote revitalization of economically distressed areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Empowerment Zone

and Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) program is the first step in

rebuilding communities in America's poverty-stricken inner

cities and rural heartlands. It is designed to empower people

and communities all across this Nation by inspiring Americans

to work together to create jobs and opportunity. Under this

program the Federal government has designated 104 areas that

meet certain poverty and distress criteria and which have

prepared creative strategic plans for revitalization, as Ezs and

Ecs (Round I).The Secretaries of Housing and Urban

Development and Agriculture will designate up to fifteen

additional urban empowerment zones and five additional rural

empowerment zones by January 1, 1999 (Round II). All

designations will be made in consultation with the Community

Enterprise Board, which the President established on September

9, 1993. Designation as an Enterprise Community: Enterprise

communities are eligible for privateactivity tax exempt bonding

authority for qualifying enterprises and facilities. These issues

are subject to State private activity bond caps and special limits
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on issue size. Enterprise communities are eligible for employer

wage credits, with a phase out beginning in year 2002.

Enterprise communities are eligible for accelerated section 179

expending for eligible property. Certain environmental

remediation expenditures for cleaning up sites in enterprise

communities may be deducted in the year incurred by

taxpayers, where those expenseswouldordinarily be capitalized

and depreciated over time. Enterprise communities are also

eligible for qualified academy zone taxable bonding authority,

where the holder receives a tax credit, which is a function of the

face amount of the bond. The benefits described above may or

may not be all inclusive. Enterprise communities may be the

objects of additional legislated benefits in the future. Enterprise

communities receive special consideration in competition for

funding under numerous Federal programs, including the

National Service and Community Policing initiatives. The

Federal government will focus special attention on working

cooperatively with designated enterprise communities to

overcome regulatory impediments, to permit flexible use of

existing Federal Funds, and to assist these communities in

meeting essential mandates. Designation as an Empowerment

Zone: With one exception, Empowerment zones receive all the

benefits provided to enterprise communities and other

communities with innovative visions for change. In addition,

Round II Empowerment Zones have authority to issue private

activity bonds for qualified enterprises and facilities, which are

not subject to State private activity bond caps, and enjoy a

greater allowance for section 179 expending. Round II

Empowerment Zones will not enjoy the employer wage credits

mentioned above. All EC and EZ employers, however, may

avail themselves of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, as such

credit may be extended. Historic Grants: Round I Ezs and Ecs

received Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Social

Services Block Grants pursuant to Title XX of the Social

Security Act.

Applicant Eligibility:(Note: This eligibility is for the"Rural

Zone and Community" applicants. See the Department of

Housing and Urban Development section for "Urban Zone and

Community" applicant eligibility.) Applicants on behalf of

nominated beneficiary areas may include, but are not limited to,

State governments, local governments, regional planning

agencies, non-profit organizations, community-based

organizations, or a partnership of community members and

other entities. Applications must be nominated by one or more

local governments and the State(s) in which a nominated rural

area is located. Nominations can be considered for designation

only if: (1) the area meets the beneficiary eligibility

requirements, (2) the area is within the jurisdiction of the

nominating local and State governments, (3) the State and local

governments provide assurances that the required strategic plan

submitted by the applicant will be implemented, (4) all

information furnished by the nominating State and local

governments is determined by the Secretary of USDA to be

reasonably accurate, (5) the State and local government certify

that no portion of a nominated rural area is already in an

empowerment zone or enterprise community or an area

otherwise nominated for designation (however, an existing EC

may apply for Round II EZ designation); and (6) the State and

local governments certify that they possess the legal authority

to make the nomination. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for the USDA Rural Development County or District

Office number.

Headquarters Office: USDA, Office of Community

Development, 3007th Street SW., Reporters Building, Room

701, Washington, DC, 20024,Deputy Administrator.

Telephone: (202) 619-7980. Web Site: www.ezec.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples of

previous projects are available, upon request, from the

Headquarters Office. 

10.773 RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

GRANTS (RBOG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESSCOOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To promote sustainable economic

development in rural communities with exceptional needs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used

to assist in the economic development of rural areas by

providing technical assistance, training, and planning for

business and economic development.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants may be made to public bodies,

nonprofit corporations, Indian tribes on Federal or State

reservations or other Federally recognized tribal groups, and

cooperatives with members that are primarily rural residents

and that conduct activities for the mutual benefit of the

members. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Rural Development

State Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Rural Business-Cooperative Service,

USDA, Specialty Lenders Division, STOP 1521, Room 6767,

1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-1521.

Telephone: (202) 720-1400.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

10.850 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION LOANS

AND LOAN GUARANTEES ( RUS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assure that people in eligible rural areas

have access to electric services comparable in reliability and

quality to the rest of the Nation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Long-term, direct loans

to qualified organizations for the purpose of supplying central

station electric services on a continuing basis in rural areas.

RUS also makes loan guarantees primarily for generation and

transmission projects.

Applicant Eligibility:Rural electric cooperatives, public utility

districts, power companies, municipalities, and other qualified

power suppliers including those located in the U.S. Territories.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:
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Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural Utilities Service,

Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-1500.

Telephone: (202)720-9540. 

10.851 RURAL TELEPHONE LOANS AND LOAN

GUARANTEES (RUS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assure that people in eligible rural areas

have access to Telecommunications services comparable in

reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans;Guaranteed/Insured

Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Long-term direct and

guaranteed loans to qualified organizations for the purpose of

financing the improvement, expansion, construction,

acquisition, and operation of telephone lines, facilities, or

systems to furnish and improve Telecommunications service in

rural areas. "Rural area" is defined as any area of the United

States, its territories and insular possessions (including any

areas within the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic

of Palau) not included within the boundaries of any

incorporated or unincorporated city, village, or borough having

a populationexceeding 5,000 inhabitants. The population figure

is obtained from the most recent data available, such as from

the Bureau of Census and Rand McNally and Company. For

purposes of the "rural area" definition, the character of an area

is determined at the time the initial loan for the system is made.

Applicant Eligibility: Telephone companies or cooperatives,

nonprofit associations, limited dividend associations, mutual

associations or public bodies including those located in the U.S.

TERRITORIES and countries included in the Compact of Free

Association Act of 1985, providing or propose to provide the

basic local exchange telephone service needs of rural areas, and

it must be incorporated. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Rural Utilities

Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

Telephone: (202) 720-9554.

10.852 RURAL TELEPHONE BANK LOANS

(Rural Telephone Bank)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide supplemental financing to extend

and improve telecommunications services in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Long-term loans to

qualified organizations for the purpose of supplying and

improving telecommunications services in rural areas.

Applicant Eligibility: Borrowers, including those located in

the U.S. Territories, or possessions which have received a loan

or loan commitment under Section 201 of Rural Electrification

Act or which have been certified by the Administrator as

qualified to receive such a loan, are eligible to borrow from the

Rural Telephone Bank. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Governor, Rural Telephone

Bank, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

Telephone: (202)720-9554. 

10.854 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

LOANS AND GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESSCOOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To promote rural economic development and

job creation projects, including funding for project feasibility

studies, start-up costs, incubator projects, and other reasonable

expenses for the purpose of fostering rural development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects which promote

rural economic development and job creation. For fiscal year

1998, maximum amount of grant is $330,000; maximum

amount of loan is $750,000. Maximum term of loan is ten years

at zero interest rate. 

Applicant Eligibility: Electric and telephone utilities that have

current loans with the rural Utilities Service (RUS) or Rural

Telephone Bank loans or guarantees outstanding and are not

delinquent on any Federal debt or in bankruptcy proceedings.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone

directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Specialty Lenders Division,

Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)

720-1400.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Establishment or

expansion of factories or businesses, medical facilities, water

and sewer industrial development parks, business incubatorsfor

rural economic development activities and other job creation

projects. Grants were used to establish revolving loan funds. 

10.855 DISTANCE LEARNING AND

TELEMEDICINE LOANS AND GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: To encourage and improve the use of

telemedicine, telecommunications, computer networks, and

related advanced technologies to provide educational and

medical benefits through distance learning and telemedicine

projects to people living in rural areas and to improve rural

opportunities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Telecommunications,
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computer networks and related advanced technologies that

provide educational and/or medical benefits to students,

teachers, medical professionals and rural residents. Grants are

limited up to 70 percent of the eligible costs of a project. Cost

of money loans may be provided up to 90 percent of the eligible

costs. No funding will be provided for the following:

Telecommunication transmission facilities if the localtelephone

company will provide service through the use of expedited RUS

loans; or other means for medical equipment, except that

required for encoding and decoding data such as images for

transmission over a telecommunications or computer network;

for salaries, wages, or employee benefits of medical or

educational personnel providing medical or educational

services; for salaries or administrative expenses of the applicant

for the project; to purchase equipment to be owned by the local

exchange carrier or other telecommunications service provider,

to provide duplicate current services or to refinance

indebtedness prior to receipt of the completed application; or

for projects in areas covered by the Coastal Barrier Resources

Act, or projects that would adversely affect the environment;

the costs of preparing the application; use to solely link

personnel in the same facility; purchased land, buildings or

building construction; when success of the project depends on

other financing; any purpose not specifically approved by the

Administrator.

Applicant Eligibility: Organizations such as schools, libraries,

hospitals, medical centers, or other eligible organizations that

will be users of a telecommunications, computer network, or

related advanced technology system to provide educational

and/or medical benefits to rural residents. The applicant must

not be delinquent on any Federal debt.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator,

Telecommunications, Rural Utilities Service, Room 4056,

South Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400

Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 202500-1500.

Telephone: (202) 720-9554. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Interactive rural

education networks, remote health care units linkups, computer

terminals video and audio equipment, and other medical link or

distance learning projects.

10.859 ASSISTANCE TO HIGH ENERGY COST

RURAL COMMUNITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE,

(RUS) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

OBJECTIVES: Assistance to rural communities with

extremely high energy costs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds must be used to

acquire, construct, extend, upgrade, and otherwise improve

energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities

serving communities in which the average residential

expenditure for home energy is at least 275 percent of the

national average residential expenditure for home energy. Not

more than 4 percent of amounts made available in grant funds

may be used for planning and administrative expenses. 

Applicant Eligibility: Persons, States, subdivisions of States,

and other entities organized under the laws of States are

eligible, including, but not limited to, corporations,

partnerships, associations, cooperatives, public bodies, and

tribal entities. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural Utilities Service,

Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250-1500.

Telephone: (202) 720-9540.

10.901 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND

DEVELOPMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To encourage and improve the capability of

State and local units of government and local nonprofit

organizations in rural areas to plan, develop and carry out

programs for resource conservation and development. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and

Counseling; Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Technical and limited

financial assistance is available only to RC&D sponsors within

areas authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture for assistance.

Grants are not available to individuals or businesses. Technical

and limited financial assistance is available for the planning and

installation of approved projects specified in RC&D area plans,

for land conservation, water management, community

development and environmental enhancement elements.

Applicant Eligibility: State and local governments and

nonprofit organizations with authority to plan or carry out

activities relating to resource use and development in multi

jurisdictional areas. This program is also available in Puerto

Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Mariana Islands. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: State and field offices of the Natural

Resources Conservation Service are listed in your local

telephone directory. For loans, contacts should be made with

the Rural Economic and Community Development office

serving the county in which the RC&D project is located. 

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief for Programs, RC&D

Division, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department

of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890, Washington, DC 20013.

Telephone:(202) 720-2241.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following

examples reflect the concepts that make RC&D a truly unique

government program. These concepts include: The value of

public/private partnerships in making the best use of limited

resources; the value of grass-roots involvement in making

decisions about local issues; bringing USDA agencies together

to focus on the same problems and opportunities; the ability to

leverage limited federal dollars with private funds to

accomplish goals; and achieving a balance between rural
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economic development and natural resource protection. The

Potomac Headwaters RC&D Council in West Virginia helped

two soil conservation districts, a county, and several fire

departments plan and implement a project to improve safety and

reduce fire insurance rates. These partners have invested just

over $40,000 into the installation of 76 dry fire hydrants. This

has resulted in over 5,000 home owners annually saving more

than $875,000 on insurance premiums. The increased safety due

to quicker response time will be measured in reduced property

losses. The Trailblazer RC&D has helped over 60 percent of

Louisiana reach what is commonly called the"superhighway" or

Internet. They negotiated local access dates that are affordable

to all people in the area. They also provided eight free

workshops on how to use the Internet. Approximately 500

people have participated. Complimentary subscriptions have

been offered to the other RC&Ds in the State. Trailblazer has

also placed a home page on the Internet with connections with

several home pages of foundations, agencies, databases, and

other RC&Ds. The Cherokee Hills RC&D in Oklahoma

organized a business development program that includes

services of a business planner that assists the person with

development of a business plan and other needed records. This

helps them when they apply to the loan pool that has been

established. The loan pool of $236,000 was established by a

partnership of the Cherokee Hills RC&D, Rural Development,

Banc First of Oklahoma, Forest Service, and Natural Resources

Conservation Service. One hundred, twenty applications for

assistance have resulted in 18 loans (16 to Native Americans)

from the loan pool and two from conventional sources. This has

created 12 new and six expanded businesses resulting in 31 new

jobs. Almost 1,000 hours of time have been invested by

volunteers such as council members, banking institutions, and

the Loan Review Committee to develop the pool and implement

the project. The Two Rivers RC&D in Illinois is helping

landowners develop alternate sources of income with a pilot

project entitled: "Access Illinois Outdoors." They partnered

with the Rural Development and the Illinois Department of

Natural Resources to provide three field coordinators and an

office administrator who match the landowner profiles to the

land user profiles. The landowner is provided three to four land

user profiles to select from to arrange for goods and services.

This has resulted in 140 landowners with 42,000 acres taking

part in the program. Profiles of 450 land users have led to 140

of them reaching agreement with 50 landowners. This has

resulted in landowners forming 50 alternate business that

generate over $250,000 of income per year. The Cocopai

RC&D in Arizona has helped the Kaibab-Paiute Reservation

improve the quality of the natural resources on the reservation.

The council helped develop agreements that made it possible

for the reservation and the Arizona Department of

Environmental Quality to utilize $141,000 of 319(h)

Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) program funds from

Arizona's allocation for a demonstration. The project included

planting 47,000 trees that control stream bank erosion and will

provide resources for weaving baskets. A complete range

management plan was developed for 30,000 acres. The needed

improvements have created six jobs that will last three years on

this project and then move to other ranches as the increased

income is shown. The demonstration will keep over 500 tons of

sediment from damaging property on the reservation each year.

The Tennessee Valley RC&D identified the problem of

unsuitable soils for septic drain fields causing limitations for

many businesses and residential homes. The council working

with the Tri-County Health Department, NRCS, Tennessee

Valley Authority (TVA),and the Alabama A&M developed a

demonstration of wetlands to treat effluent from septic tanks to

assist businesses comply with health needs. Three companies

were selected for the demonstration; a dairy queen restaurant,

a sign company, and a tree stand manufacturer. The State

Department of Health developed standards, the NRCS Plant

Materials Center provided wetland plants, the Tri-County

Health Department provided technical assistance, TVA and

Alabama A&M monitored the project, and the businesses paid

the cost with some assistance from the NRCS. The

demonstration resulted in the acceptance of wetlands for

treating septic tank effluent, bringing three businesses into

compliance with Health Department regulations, and saving the

jobs associated with the businesses. Twenty part-time jobs were

saved at the dairy queen wile six jobs were saved at the tree

stand company. The demonstration resulted in the sign

company not only retaining twenty-five jobs, but the business

actually expanded and added 17 new jobs. The wetland was

approved for treating effluent in the area. An additional six

businesses and forty residences are now installing systems. Job

creation, a healthy environment, and the rural setting are

providing for a quality life for the Tennessee Valley RC&D

people. The Big Country RC&D in Texas initiated a

demonstration project to provide an alternate to placing paper

in sanitary landfills, to address nonpoint source pollution, wind

erosion, and to improve productivity of cropland soils.

News-paper was pelleted and applied to cropland at the rate of

five tons per acre to achieve a 30 percent ground cover on the

five acre plots. One site was on sandy loan soil designated as a

Highly Erodible Soil due to wind erosion and the second site

was on a clay loan soil subject to water erosion. EPA, NRCS,

National Soil Dynamics Laboratory of Auburn, Alabama,

Mitchell County Economic Development Board, and the Scurry

County Board of County Development cooperated with the

RC&D on the project. The analysis of the project shows that

soil loss from sediment was reduced 41 percent surface runoff

reduced 20 percent and wind erosion reduced 50 percent. At the

same time, cotton yield increased 32 percent. Samples of cotton

collected at mid-bloom on cotton showed no accumulations of

heavy metals. The Golden Sands RC&D has conducted trials in

the vegetable growing area of Central Wisconsin demonstrating

ways to control wind erosion. When the trials were complete

they held the "Wind Erosion Control at a Crossroads

Conference" to discuss what should be done now. One result

was the formation of the Central Wisconsin Windshed Board

which has representatives from the Wisconsin Potato and

Vegetable Growers Association, County Conservation

Commission, and RC&D. They established a program to help

fund the planting and maintenance of field windbreaks. The

fund is provided by the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable
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Growers Association, the State of Wisconsin, and the involved

counties. The first year goal is 95 percent survival of 22 miles

of windbreaks. The windbreak will be expanded to 40 miles in

1997. The Black River-St. Lawrence RC&D, in partnership

with regional development groups, studied the demand for

wood products in the furniture industry in Canada. They also

studied the limitations of the Northern New York forest

industries. Cooperating with NRCS, the New York State

Departments of Environmental Conservation and Economic

Development, Key Bank, and other forest industry development

groups, a series of workshops was conducted. Over 300 people

representing 198 forest industries attended the workshops. This

resulted in an increase of 200 portable bandsaw mills and kilns.

One firm indicated that their profits have increased over 30

percent. Another firm has established an export market in

Milan, Italy.

10.910 RURAL ABANDONED MINE PROGRAM

(RAMP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To protect people and the environment from

the adverse effects of past coal mining practices, and to promote

the development of soil and water resources of unreclaimed

mined lands. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use; Advisory Services and Counseling.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Cost-share funds are

available only for conservation practices determined to be

needed for the reclamation, conservation, and development of

up to 320 acres per owner of rural abandoned coal mine land or

lands and waters affected by coal mining activities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Individuals, groups, or units of

government who own or control the surface or water rights of

abandoned coal land or lands, and water affected by coal

mining practices before August 3, 1977. These areas are not

eligible if: (1) There is continuing reclamation responsibility on

the part of the mine operator or The State; (2) the lands are in

Federal ownerships; and (3) the surface rights are under

easement or lease to be remined.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or LocalOffice: See Natural Resources Conservation

Service State offices listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief for Programs, Natural

Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture,

P.O. Box 2890, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202)

720-2847. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A 70 acre site near

a small community exposed approximately 125 residents to

health and safety hazards. Reclamation includes eliminating

subsidence holes through filling and grading to eliminate

dangerous water pits and illegal trash dumps; surface water

control; wildlife plantings; firebreaks; fencing for exclusion of

grazing animals; and stabilizing the site by planting pine

seedlings. A 40 acre site near a small borough presented a

constant hazard to life and property. Reclamation consists of

shaping and stabilization of eroding and unsightly "refuse"

piles; disposal of "red dog" boulders; removal of a hazardous

tipple; filling open mine shafts; back filling to reduce height of

"high walls"; removal of acid debris and soil deposition in

streams; establishment of diversions, rock and grass waterways;

establishing permanent vegetation on the site; and stabilization

of stream banks.

10.912 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

INCENTIVES PROGRAM (EQIP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Technical, educational, and financial

assistance to eligible farmers and ranchers to address soil,

water, and related natural resource concerns on their lands in an

environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner. This

program provides assistance to farmers and ranchers in

complying with Federal, State, and tribal environmental laws,

and encourages environmental enhancement. The purpose of

this program are achieved through the implementation of

structural, vegetative, and land management practices on

eligible land. This program is funded through the Commodity

Credit Corporation (CCC). NRCS provides overall program

management and implementation leadership for conservation

planning and implementation. The Farm Service Agency

providesleadership for administrative processes and procedures

for the program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Technical assistance is

provided in conservation planning for eligible participants.

Education and financial assistance is provided for

implementation of structural, vegetative, and land management

practices. Cost-share payments may be made to implement one

or more eligible structural or vegetative practices. Incentive

payments can be made to implement one or more land

management practices. Fifty percent of the funding available for

technical, cost-share payments, incentive payments, and

education shall be targeted at practices relating to livestock

production.

Applicant Eligibility: Individual/family farmers and ranchers

who face serious threats to soil, water, and related natural

resources, or who need assistance with complying with Federal

and State environment laws. A participant may be an owner,

landlord, operator, or tenant of eligible agricultural lands.

Limited resource producers, small-scale producers, producers

of minority groups, Federally recognized Indian tribal

governments, Alaska natives, and Pacific Islanders are

encouraged to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Use your local telephone directory

for NRCS, FSA, contact listings.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief for Natural Resource

conservation Programs, Natural Resources Conservation
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Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890,

Washington, DC 20013. Attn: Deputy Chief, Natural Resources

Conservation Programs. Telephone: (202)720-1845. FAX:

(202) 720-4265.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: No projects were

funded at the time of publication.

10.913 FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To purchase conservation easements or other

interests on lands to limit conversion to non-agricultural uses of

farmland with prime, unique, or other productive soils. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are provided to

establish partnerships with States, Tribes, or local government

entities to leverage their purchase of development rights

programs. Federal share for any easement acquisition is limited

to a maximum of 50 percent of the fair market easement value.

A conservation plan is required for each easement acquired.

Acquisition of an easement or other interests on land is for a

minimum duration of 30 years, preferably, in perpetuity. A

contingent remainder right would be incorporated in the

easement deed for the protection of the Federal investment. A

failure of title would require the cooperating entity to reimburse

the United States for the Federal share of the easement value. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any local or State agency, county or

groups of counties, municipality, town or township, soil and

water conservation district, or Indian tribe or tribal

organization, that has a farmland protection program that

purchases conservation easements for the purpose of protecting

topsoil by limiting conversion to non-agricultural uses of land,

and that has pending offers may apply for funds. This program

is available in all 50 States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,

Guam, American Samoas, the Mariana Islands, and the Trust

Territories of the Pacific Islands. Individuals must apply

through their local agency that handles purchase of

development rights programs. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: NRCS State Office telephone

numbers and addresses, see your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Community Assistance and Rural

Development Division, Natural Resources Conservation

Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, P. O. Box 2890,

Washington, D. C. 20013. Telephone: (202)720-2847, fax:

(202) 690-0639. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 1) California

Department of Conservation's Agricultural Land Stewardship

Program; 2) Florida St. Johns River Water Management

District's Georgia-Pacific Project; 3)MassachusettsDepartment

of Food and Agriculture's Agricultural Preservation Restriction

Program; 4) Rhode Island Department of Environmental

Management's Farmland Purchase of Development Rights

Program; and 5) Vermont Housing and Conservation Board's

Farmland Conservation Easement Program. The Farmland

Protection Program provides an opportunity to expand the

Federal partnerships with States, Tribes, and local government

entities to preserve farmland for future generations; to protect

strategic farmland from urbanization; maintain, restore, and

enhance ecosystem; protect historic landscapes, scenic beauty,

and open space; and sustain rural economic stability and

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APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

23.001 APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

DEVELOPMENT(SEE INDIVIDUAL

APPALACHIAN PROGRAM S) (Appalachian

Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To create opportunities for self-sustaining

economic development and an improved quality of life for the

people of Appalachia through joint Federal-State-local

efforts; to stimulate investments in public services and

facilities that will attract private sector investments and result

in accelerated social and economic development; to help

establish a set of institutions in Appalachia capable of

permanently directing the long-term development of the

Region; and on a joint Federal-State-local basis, to develop

comprehensive plans and programs to help accomplish the

overall objectives of Appalachian development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Appalachian funds

enable the States and local areas to develop networks of

facilities and services. The individual programs following this

description illustrate the types of investments that can be

made. In considering programs and projects to be given

assistance under this Act, and in establishing a priority

ranking of the requests for assistance presented to the

Commission, the Commission follows procedures insuring

consideration of the following factors: (1) the relationship of

the project or class of projects to overall regional

development, including its location in an area determined by

the State as having a significant potential for growth;(2) the

population and area to be served by the project or class of

projects including the relative per capita income and the

unemployment rates in the area; (3) the relative financial

resources available to the State or political subdivision or

instrumentalities thereof which seek to undertake the project;

(4) the importance of the project or class of projects in

relation to other projects or classes of projects which maybe

in competition for the same funds; (5) the prospects that the

project for which assistance is sought will improve, on a

continuing rather than a temporary basis, the opportunities for

employment, the average level of income, or the economic

and social development of the area served by the project; and

(6) the degree and manner of private sector involvement. No

financial assistance can be used: (a) to assist establishments

relocating from one area to another; (b) to finance the cost of

facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of

electric energy; (c) to finance the cost of facilities for the

production, transmission, distribution of gas (natural,

manufactured, or mixed); or (d) to finance non-capital

projects with no prior year obligations. Each State is required

by the Commission to file a State Appalachian development

plan, appraising prospects for development in its Appalachian

area and relating to them all projects for which Appalachian

funding is requested in that year. All projects proposed for

funding must be included in an annual Strategy Statement and

Investment Program. Once an application is submitted for the

individual projects and given final approval, the grant is

generally administered by the basic Federal agency involved

in that type of program. Certain grants are administered

directly by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The

counties (including any political subdivision located within

such area)in which investment under the Appalachian Act (40

App. U.S.C.A. 403) can be made are: in Alabama, the

counties of Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee,

Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert, Coosa, Cullman, DeKalb,

Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson,

Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion,

Marshall, Morgan, Pickens, Randolph, Saint Clair, Shelby,

Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston; in

Georgia, the counties of Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll,

Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson, Douglas,

Fannin, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnet,

Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Heard, Jackson, Lumpkin,

Madison, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Rabun, Stephens,

Towns, Union, Walker, White, and Whitfield; in Kentucky,

the counties of Adair, Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter,

Casey, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Elliott, Estill,

Fleming, Floyd, Garrard, Green, Greenup, Harlan, Jackson,

Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie,

Letcher, Lewis, Lincoln, McCreary, Madison, Magoffin,

Martin, Menifee, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Owsley,

Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan, Russell,

Wayne, Whitley, and Wolfe; in Maryland, the counties of

Allegany, Garrett, and Washington; in Mississippi, the

counties of Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw,

Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe,

Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah,

Tishomingo, Union, Webster, and Winston; in New York, the

counties of Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqa,

Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego,Schoharie,

Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins; in North Carolina,

the counties of Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery,

Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay,Davie, Forsyth,

Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon,

Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Stokes, Surry, Swain,

Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yancey; in

Ohio, the counties of Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown,

Carroll, Clermont, Columbiana, Coshocton,Gallia,Guernsey,

Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson,

Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble,

Perry, Ross, Scioto,Tuscarawas, Vinton, and Washington; in

Pennsylvania, the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver,

Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria,Cameron, Carbon,

Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford,

Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon,

Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Luzerne,

Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour,

Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder,
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Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Venango,

Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, and Wyoming;

in South Carolina, the counties of Anderson, Cherokee,

Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg; in Tennessee,

the counties of Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley,

Campbell, Cannon, Carter, Claiborne, Clay, Cocke, Coffee,

Cumberland, De Kalb, Fentress, Franklin, Grainger, Greene,

Grundy, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jackson,

Jefferson,Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Macon, Marion,

Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Overton, Pickett, Polk, Putman,

Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Smith, Sullivan,

Unicoi, Union, Van Buren, Warren, Washington, and White;

in Virginia, the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Bland,

Botetourt,Buchanan, Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles,

Garyson, Highland,Lee, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth,

Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Wythe; all the counties of

West Virginia. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, and through the States, public

bodies and private nonprofit organizations. All proposed

projects must meet the requirements of the State Appalachian

plan and the annual State strategy statement and investment

program, all of which must be approved annually by the

Commission. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects

should be submitted to the Appalachian State office

designated by the Governor. Address other inquiries to:

Executive Director,Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666

Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20235.

Telephone: (202) 884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND

USE RESTRICTIONS. 

23.002 APPALACHIAN SUPPLEM ENTS TO

FEDERAL GRANT-IN-AID (AREA

DEVELOPMENT) (Supplemental Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To help the regional economy become more

competitive by putting in place the building blocks for

self-sustaining economic development, while continuing to

provide special assistance to the Region's most distressed and

underdeveloped counties. This program focuses on activities

which support ARC's mission to create opportunities for

self-sustaining economic development and improved quality

of life for the people of Appalachia. Activities funded must

advance ARC's strategic plan. Specific goals for this program

are: (1)Appalachian residents will have the skills and

knowledge necessary to compete in the world economy in the

21st century; (2) Appalachian communities will have the

physical infrastructure necessary for self-sustaining economic

development and improved quality of life; (3) The people of

Appalachia will have the vision and capacity to mobilize and

work together for sustained economic progress and

improvement of their communities; (4) Appalachian residents

will have access to financial and technical resources to help

build dynamic and self-sustaining local economies; and (5)

Appalachian residents will have access to affordable, quality

health care. Specific objectives were developed for each goal.

Grants may supplement other Federal grants or, when

sufficient Federal funds are unavailable funds may be

provided entirely by this program. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The grants may be

used for providing supplemental funds under any Federal

grant-in-aid programs authorized on or before December 31,

1980. To be eligible for special basic grants, projects must be

of high priority in the State's Appalachian development plan

and be either of critical importance to a phased investment

and development program for a multi-county area, or of

unusual economic benefit to such area. Refer to "General

Provisions for Area Development Program" of the

Appalachian Regional Commission Code for additional use

restrictions.

Applicant Eligibility: States, their subdivisions and

instrumentalities and private nonprofit agencies.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects

should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office

designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be

addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional

Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND

USE RESTRICTIONS. 

23.003 APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT

HIGHWAY SYSTEM (Appalachian Corridors)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To provide a highway system which, in

conjunction with other federally-aided highways, will open

up areas with development potential within the Appalachian

region where commerce and communication have been

inhibited by lack of adequate access. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The grants may be

used for preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and

construction of highways meeting the objectives stated above.

Total highway construction may not exceed 3,025 miles for

the 13-State system. The highways must be accepted and

maintained as a Federal-aid highway. Refer to general use

restrictions stated in the Appalachian Regional Development

program (23.001).

Applicant Eligibility:State governments only are eligible for

development highways within their Appalachian portions.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:
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Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects

should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office

designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be

addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional

Commission, 1666 Connecticut Ave., NW., Washington, DC

20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND

USE RESTRICTIONS. 

23.008 APPALACHIAN LOCAL ACCESS

ROADS

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To provide access to industrial, commercial,

educational, recreational, residential, and related

transportation facilities which directly or indirectly relate to

the improvement of the areas determined by the States to have

significant development potential, and to meet the objectives

stated under the program entitled Appalachian Regional

Development (23.001).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The grant may be used

for engineering, right-of-way, relocation, and construction of

projects relating to the objectives stated above, and those

identified in the State Appalachian Development Plan as

submitted to, and accepted by the Commission. Total access

road construction may not exceed 1,400 miles and the roads

must be accepted by the Federal Highway Administration and

the State. The State is responsible to see that they are properly

maintained. Refer to the Appalachian Regional Development

Program (23.001).

Applicant Eligibility: States, and through the States, public

bodies and private groups within Appalachia. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects

should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office

designated by the State Member. Other inquiries may be

addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional

Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND

USE RESTRICTIONS. 

23.009 APPALACHIAN LOCAL

DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ASSISTANCE

(LDD)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To provide planning and development

resources in multi-county areas; to help develop the technical

competence essential to sound development assistance; and

to meet the objectives stated under the program entitled

Appalachian Regional Development (23.001). 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For administrative

expenses, including technical services of certified local

development districts; in addition to the uses and use

restrictions detailed in the Appalachian Development

Program (23.001), the local development district may use

grant funds for the purchase of real estate and vehicles; and

for space improvement and construction only with the express

approval of ARC. Funds may be used only in the performance

of grantees program and in accord with the budget, and

amendments thereto, as approved by the Commission.

Applicant Eligibility: Multi-county organizations certified

by the State.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects

should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office

designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be

addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional

Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20235. Telephone: (202)884-7700. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND

USE RESTRICTIONS. 

23.011 APPALACHIAN STATE RESEARCH,

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND

DEM ONSTRATION PROJECTS (State

Research)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL

COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To expand the knowledge of the region to

the fullest extent possible by means of State-sponsored

research (including investigations, studies, technical

assistance and demonstration projects) in order to assist the

Commission in accomplishing the objectives of the Act, and

implementation of the ARC strategic plan. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To research or

demonstrate the feasibility of plans and programs for

concerted economic and social development. Priority will be

given to technical assistance related to job creation projects.

States can carry out investigations, research, studies,

evaluations, and assessments of needs, potentials, or

attainments of the people of the region, technical assistance,

training programs, demonstrations and the construction of

necessary facilities incident to such activities. All

developments resulting from such research, and

demonstration projects must be made freely available to the

general public. Existing research by other agencies is to be

utilized as much as possible. State research projects are also

subject to the uses and use restrictions described under the

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Applicant Eligibility: Appalachian States, alone or in

combination with other Appalachian States, local public

bodies and State instrumentalities. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects

should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office

designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be

addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional

Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20235. Telephone: (202)884-7700. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND

USE RESTRICTIONS.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

11.300 GRANTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENTOFCOMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To promote long-term economic

development and assist in the construction of public works

infrastructure and economic development facilities needed to

support the creation or retention of high-skill, high wage

private-sector jobs in areas experiencingsubstantial economic

distress.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Investments in

facilities such as water and sewer system improvements,

industrial access roads, industrial and business parks, port

facilities, railroad sidings, distance learning facilities, skilltrainingfacilities, business incubator facilities,redevelopment

of brownfields, eco-industrial facilities, and

telecommunications infrastructure improvements needed for

business retention and expansion. Eligible activities include

the acquisition, rehabilitation, design and engineering, or

improvement of public landor publically-owned and operated

development facilities, including machinery and equipment.

Projects may also include infrastructure for broadband

deployment and other types of telecommunications-enabling

projects and other kinds of technology infrastructure. Eligible

projects must fulfill a pressing need of the area and must: 1)

improve the opportunities for the successful establishment or

expansion of industrial or commercial plants or facilities; 2)

assist in the creation of additional long-term employment

opportunities; or 3) benefit the unemployed/underemployed

residents of the area or members of low-income families. In

addition, all proposed investmentsmustbe consistent with the

currently approved Comprehensive Economic Development

Strategy for the area in which the project will be located, and

the applicant must have the required local share of funds

committed and available. Also, the project must be capable of

being started and completed in a timely manner. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, counties, an institution

of higher education or a consortium of institutions of higher

education, and other political subdivisions, Indian tribes, the

Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall

Islands, Commonwealths and territories of the U.S. flag,

Economic Development Districts, and private or public

nonprofit organizations or associations acting in cooperation

with officials of a Political Subdivision of a State or Indian

Tribe. Individuals, companies, corporations, and associations

organized for profit are not eligible. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for EDA Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Director, Public Works Division,

Economic Development Administration, Room H7326,

Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of Commerce,

Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-5265. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 

1) Infrastructure for industrial park development; 2) port

development and expansion; 3) infrastructure necessary for

economic development (e.g. water/sewer facilities); 4)

renovation and recycling of old industrial buildings; 5)

construction of vocational-technical facilities and skill

centers; 6) construction of incubator facilities; 7)

redevelopment of brownfields and 8) Eco- industrial

development. 

11.302 ECONOM IC DEVELOPMENT–

SUPPORT FOR PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS

(ECONOM IC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT,

REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND INDIAN

PLANNING 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENTOFCOMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To assist in providing administrative aid to

multi- county Economic Development Districts,

Redevelopment Areas and Indian Tribes to establish and

maintain economic development planning and

implementation capability and thereby promote effective

utilization of resources in the creation of full-time permanent

jobs for the unemployed and the underemployed in areas of

high distress. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are used for

staff salaries and other planning and administrative expenses

of the economic development organization. 

Applicant Eligibility: (1) Public bodies and other nonprofit

organizations representing groups of state-delineated and

EDA-approved adjoining counties, which include at least one

area designated as a Redevelopment Area by the Secretary of

Commerce and one or more growth centers not over 250,000

population; (2) Indian Tribes; and (3) counties designated as

Redevelopment Areas or nonprofit organizationsrepresenting

redevelopment areas or parts of such areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for EDA Regional Office addresses.

Headquarters Office: Director, Planning and Development

AssistanceDivision,Economic Development Administration,

Room H7317, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, DC

20230. Telephone: (202) 482-3027. Fax: (202) 482-0466. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Support to hire

professional staff or the following types of areas; a 10-county

rural planning organization; a 6-county rural/urban

organization; a 5-county rural organization that includes an

Indian reservation; and a 30,000-acre Indian reservation. 

11.303 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (National,

University Center and Local Technical Assistance)
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FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENTOFCOMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To promote economic development and

alleviate under-employment and unemployment in distressed

areas, EDA operates a technical assistance program. The

program provides funds to: (1) enlist the resources of

designated university centers in promoting economic

development; (2) support innovative economic development

projects; (3)disseminate information and studies of economic

development issues of national significance; and (4) finance

feasibility studies and other projects leading to local

economic development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Technical assistance is

used to provide information, data, and know-how in

evaluating, shaping and implementing specific projects and

programs that promote economic development in

economically depressed areas.

Applicant Eligibility: Most technical assistance recipients

are private or public nonprofit organizations, educational

institutions, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments, municipal, county or State governments and

U.S. Territories or entities thereof. Individuals and for profit

organizations are not eligible applicants under this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for EDA Regional Office addresses. 

Headquarters Office: Initial contact should be with

Economic Development Representatives except for projects

that are national in scope. For those projects the initial

contact should be with Headquarters Office, Director,

Research and National Technical Assistance Division,

Economic Development Administration, Room H7019,

Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of Commerce,

Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-4085. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDEDPROJECTS: University Center

projects provide management and technical assistance

services to communities, counties, districts, nonprofit

development groups, and technology transfer assistance to

firms. Many local technical assistance projects help to

determine the economic feasibility of various local

development projects involving industrial, commercial, and

other activities. National technical assistance projects fund

reports on innovative economic development and the

dissemination of economic development information. 

11.307 SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

AND ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

SUDDEN AND SEVERE ECONOM IC

DISLOCATION AND LONG-TERM

ECONOM IC DETERIORATION (Economic

Adjustment Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENTOFCOMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To assist State and local areas develop

and/or implement strategies designed to address structural

economic adjustment problems resulting from sudden and

severe economic dislocation such as plant closings, military

base closures and defense contract cutbacks, and natural

disasters (SSED), or from long-term economic deterioration

in the area's economy (LTED).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be made to

develop an economic adjustment strategy (Adjustment

Strategy Grant), or to implement such strategies (Adjustment

Implementation Grants).Implementation grants may be made

for the construction of public facilities, business development

and financing (including revolving loan funds (RLFs)),

technical assistance, training or any other activity that

addresses the economic adjustment problem. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, counties or other

political subdivisions of a State, consortia of such political

subdivisions, public or private nonprofit organizations

representingredevelopment areas designated under the Public

Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, Economic

Development Districts established under Title IV of the Act,

Indian tribes. Applicants/projects using EDA defense

appropriations are limited to defense-impacted areas.

Applicants/projects using EDA supplemental disaster

assistance will generally be restricted to disaster-impacted

areas. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone

directory for EDA regional office addresses. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Economic Adjustment

Division, Economic Development Administration, Room

H7327, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of

Commerce, Washington DC 20230. Telephone: (202)

482-2659. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grants received

under the Economic Adjustment Program: (1) develop

strategy for recovery from plant closure and major permanent

job loss; (2) rehabilitate vacant industrial facility for

multi-tenant use or as an incubator; (3) finance employee

buy-out to prevent plant closings, and (4) establishment of

revolving loan funds, and/or recapitalization of revolving

loan funds. 

11.550 PUBLIC TELECOMM UNICATIONS

FACILITIES--PLANNING AND

CONSTRUCTION (PTFP)

FEDERAL AGEN CY: NATIO N A L

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENTOFCOMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To assist in the planning, acquisition,

installation and modernization of public telecommunications

facilities, through planning grants and matching construction

grants, in order to: a) extend delivery of public

telecommunications services to as many citizens of the United
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States and territories as possible by the most efficient and

economical means, including the use of broadcast and

nonbroadcast technologies; b) increase public

telecommunications services and facilities available to,

operated by and owned by minorities and women; and c)

strengthen the capability of existing public television and

radio stations to provide public telecommunications service

to the public. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Provides grants for the

planning and construction of public telecommunications

facilities. Matching grants are given for apparatus necessary

for production, dissemination, interconnection, captioning,

broadcast, or other distribution of programmingand reception

of noncommercial educational, cultural radio and television

programs, and related noncommercial instructional or

informational material. Costs associated with filing for

Federal assistance, installation costs, and other

pre-operational costs are eligible to be included in requests

for matching funds. Buildings and renovations of buildings,

land, operational expenses, and indirect costs are ineligible.

Applicant Eligibility: A public or noncommercial

educational broadcast station; a noncommercial

telecommunications entity; a system of public

telecommunications entities; a nonprofit foundation,

corporation, institution or association organized primarily for

educational or cultural purposes; State, local, and Indian

Tribal governments (or an agency thereof); or a political or

special purpose subdivision of a state. Special consideration

is given to applications which would increase minority and

women's ownership of, operation of, and participation in

public telecommunications entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Public Telecommunications

Facilities Program, Office of Telecommunications and

Information Applications/NTIA, Room 4625, Department of

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482- 5802.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: To activate a new

noncommercial FM radio station on 88.5 MHz, in Owyhee,

Nevada. The new station will carry the signal of KNBA-FM,

Anchorage, Alaska, and programming from the American

Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network. These programs

will be delivered via satellite. Initially the station will have 4

hours/day of local programming. New station will provide a

first noncommercial FM service to about 1,550 Native

Americans. To convert public station KCET-TV, Channel 28

in Los Angeles, CA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 59 by

purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL,

encoder and test equipment. The station serves a population

of over 18 million people. To expand the distance learning

service provided by National Technological University

(NTU), by converting 41 universities with MPEG-2 digital

encoding equipment at their satellite uplinks and by placing

such equipment at the NTU headquarters in Ft. Collins, CO.

Conversion of the NTU system to MPEG-2 digital equipment

will permit NTU to provide distance learning directly to small

business and home viewers through the use of 90 cm antennas

and standard digital equipment. 

11.552 TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES

(TOP)

FEDERAL A GENCY: NATIONA L

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENTOFCOMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To promote the widespread use and

availability of advanced telecommunications and information

technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors. By providing

matching grants for information infrastructure projects, this

program will help develop a nationwide, interactive,

multimedia information infrastructure that is accessible to all

citizens, in rural areas as well as urban areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funding under the

TOP will be awarded to: support projects that improve the

quality of, and the public's access to, cultural, education, and

training resources; reduce the cost, improve the quality,

and/or increase the accessibility of health care and public

health services; promote responsive public safety services;

improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government

services; and foster communication, resource-sharing, and

economic development within communities, both rural and

urban. 

Applicant Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments,

universities and colleges; and nonprofit entities are eligible to

apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Director, Technology Opportunities

Program, Office of Telecommunications and Information

Applications/NTIA, Room 4092, Department of Commerce,

1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Telephone: (202) 482-2048.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Second Harvest

in Illinois will provide near real-time communication links

between food banks and organizations that feed the hungry to

help alleviate the nearly 60 million pounds of food that gets

wasted each year in the U.S.; the Georgia-based Shepherd

Center will place laptops with video-conferencing capability

in the homes of victims of spinal cord and brain injuries.

These victims, who face a lifetime of challenges, will have

greater access to their care givers as well as to clinics and

seminars that can help them in their recovery; the Cleveland

Housing Network in Ohio will use Internet-based technology

to let community based organizations share data resources

and collaborate on solutions for community revitalization.

The project addresses common national problems, such as

access to affordable housing, and allows those closest to the

problems to have the tools to address them. Dance partners,

a project of Ballet Arts Minnesota, will use interactive

telecommunicationstechnology to spread the reach of cultural
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dance to underserved communities, including the elderly and

disabled. Whereas the 50 largest dance companies are

concentrated in only ten of our largest cities, this project has

the potential to bring increased exposure to dance in rural

areas. The Southwest Navajo Nation Virtual Alliance will

implement a wireless community network to link five local

tribal government entities spread over a 5,000 square mile

region in southwest Arizona that suffers severe economic,

ecological, and health problems. 

11.801 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM (NAP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: MINORITY BUSINESS

DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF

COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To provide business development service to

Native Americans interested in entering, expanding or

improving their efforts in the marketplace. To help Native

Americanbusiness development centers and Native American

business consultants to provide a wide range of services to

Native American clients, from initial consultation to the

identification and resolution of specific business problems. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Minority Business

Development Agency (MBDA) competitively selects and

funds eight Native American Business Development Centers

(NABDC's) to provide management and technical assistance

to Native Americans located throughout the country.

Recipients of NAP funds provide clients with advice and

counseling in such areas as preparing financial packages,

business counseling, business information and management,

accounting guidance, marketing, business/industrial site

analysis, production, engineering, construction assistance,

procurement and identification of potential business

opportunities. MBDA does not have the authority to make

loans to Native American firms. Program funds are restricted

to providing management and technical assistance. 

Applicant Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions for

this program. Eligible applicants may include individuals,

nonprofit organizations, for-profit firms, local and State

governments, Native American Tribes, and educational

institutions. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the nearest Minority

Business Development Agency Regional Office listed in your

local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Business Development Specialist for

the Office of Operations, Room 5079, Minority Business

Development Agency, Department of Commerce, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Telephone: (202) 482-6022.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: An NABDC

located in Arizona received a $197,825 award to provide

one-to-one management and technical assistance to eligible

Native American clients to develop business plans and

promote the development and operation of businesses.

11.806 MINORITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

COMMITTEE

FEDERAL AGENCY: MINORITY BUSINESS

DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF

COMMERCE 

OBJECTIVES: Facilitate opportunities for minority

businesses through the utilization of Federal State and local

governmental entities and private sector organizations that

provide minority business owners/individuals with enhanced

access to the marketplace by identifying and facilitating

procurement and contract awards, marketing and sales

opportunities, financing resources, potential joint venture

partners, timely market leads and other current business

information; promote relationship building and sharing of

business information between organizations in a geographic

service area conducting substantial purchasing activity; assist

in the identification of sources of capital; conduct media

outreach, disseminate economic data, sponsors workshops,

conferences and seminars within service area; maintain

inventories of resources such as bid opportunities, sources of

debt and equity funds, business ownership possibilities such

as franchises, and prospective joint venture partners. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:

Funds will be used in support of the MBDA policy statement

on funding business development programs. MBDA is

charged under Executive Order 11625 with fostering new

minority business enterprises and maintaining and

strengthening existing firms to increase their opportunities to

participate and receive the benefits of our economic system.

MBDA uses a portion of its program funds to award

contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to public and

private sector entities which have the greatest potential for

developing access to capital, market, and other opportunities

on behalf of minority business. The performance of each

funded recipient is evaluated on a scheduled basis. Renewals

are based on Agency priorities, funding availability, and

performance of recipients. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants for this program are

Federal, State or local government entities or quasi

governmental entities American Indian Tribes, colleges,

universities, and nonprofit organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the nearest Minority

Business Development Agency Regional Office listed in your

local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Business Development Specialist,

Room 5079, Minority Business Development Agency,

Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-6022.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year

2002, the Los Angeles MBOC's is required to generate

through its partners, contract and procurement opportunities

to minority businesses totaling $750,000,000. strategic

outreach efforts can account for $1.1 billion in minority
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contracting, over 21,000 new jobs and will pave the way for

future competitive efforts to stimulate growth in a challenged

economy. 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

12.600 COMMUNITY ECONOM IC

ADJUSTMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ECONOMIC

ADJUSTMENT, DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF

DEFENSE (DUSD), INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS AND

INSTALLATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To help communities, regions and States

alleviate serious economic impacts that result from Defense

program changes, e.g., base openings, expansions and

closings, contract changes and personnel reductions and

increases. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Provision of Specialized

Services; Advisory Services and Counseling. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Economic

Adjustment Program helps alleviate serious community

economic impacts that result from changes in Defense

activities. The Executive Order designates the heads of 23

Federal Executive agencies as members of the Economic

Adjustment Committee (EAC) with the responsibility to

support, to the extent permitted by law, the economic

adjustment activities of the Secretary of Defense. The

following agencies are members of the EAC: Departments of

Agriculture; Commerce, Defense; Education; Energy; Health

and Human Services; Housing and Urban Development;

Interior; Labor; State; Transportation; Treasury; Veterans

Affairs; Justice; Office of Management and Budget; Council

of Economic Advisors; Office of Personnel Management;

Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Emergency

Management Agency; General Services Administration;

Small Business Administration; Postal Service; and the U.S.

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Economic

Adjustment assistance consists of assessment of the impact,

evaluation of specific needs, identification of alternative

courses of action, identification of resource requirements and

possible sources, and the preparation of the development

strategy and action plan. The resources of Federal agencies

(technical expertise and assistance programs) are utilized to

augment State, local, and private sector resources to develop

and implement a consensus plan. Federal agency participation

is governed by local requirements and needs for assistance

(e.g. DOED assists on educational projects, DOT on

transportation projects, etc.)

Applicant Eligibility: States and political subdivisions, other

public organizations, and responsible community leadership

groups. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment,

DUSD (IA&I) Western Regional Office, 1325 J Street, Suite

1500, Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone: (916) 557-7365. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic

Adjustment, DUSD (IA&I), 400 Army Navy Drive, Suite

200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884. Telephone: (703)604-6020.

12.607 COMMUNITY ECONOM IC

ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE

(Community Planning Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

OF DEFENSE, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT

SECRETARY (ECONOMIC SECURITY ),

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To assist local governments or States, on

behalf of local governments, to undertake community

economic adjustment planning activities to respond to

military base closures and realignments. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DOD funding may be

provided for military base reuse studies required for reuse of

former military property. DOD may also provide community

planning assistance funding to help a State, on behalf of a

local government, or local government to undertake

community economic adjustment planning activities to

support the closure or realignment of a military installation.

Activities include, but are not limited to: Staffing, operating

and administrative costs; and general or specialized

community economic adjustment studies. 

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be eligible for DOD

funding if the Secretary of Defense has announced that the

local military installation is a candidate for closure or

realignment; or that a final decision has been made that the

installation will be closed or realigned; and the Director,

OEA, has determined that the action will result in a direct and

significantly adverse consequence to the affected community.

State or local governments, regional organizations composed

of State or local governments, and Federally Recognized

Indian Tribes, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of

Puerto Rico and Guam 

are eligible if the above criteria are met. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment

ODASD Western Regional Office, 1325 J Street, Suite 1500,

Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone: (916) 557-7365.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic

Adjustment, OASD (ES), 400 Army Navy Drive, Suite 200,

Arlington, VA 22202-2884. Telephone: (703) 604-6020.FTS

is not available. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds were

provided for reuse planning to convert former military
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installations into airports, industrial parks, recreation,

education, training, and business centers, and

accommodations for the homeless. 

12.611 COMMUNITY ECONOM IC

ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE FOR

REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY

EMPLOYM ENT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ECONOMIC

ADJUSTMENT, OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY UNDER

SECRETARY (INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS AND

INSTALLATIONS), DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To assist States on behalf of local

governments and local governments to undertake economic

adjustment planning activities to respond to major reductions

in defense industry employment resulting from the

cancellation, termination or failure to proceed with a major

DOD acquisition.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DOD funding may be

provided for community economic adjustment planning

activities in response to publicly-announced planned

reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination

of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously

approved major Defense acquisition program. Planning

assistance funding may be provided through a cooperative

agreement or grant. Activities include, but are not limited to

staffing, operating and administrative costs, and general or

specific community adjustment studies. 

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be eligible for DOD

funding Defense industry adjusting planning if the

cancellation, termination, or failure to proceed with a major

weapons system involves the loss of: a) 2,500 or more

full-time contractor employee positions in a metropolitan

statistical area (MSA); b) 1,000 or more jobs in a labor

market area outside an MSA; and c) one percent of the total

number of civilian jobs in that area. Additionally, the

Secretary of Defense must make a determination that the

action is likely to impose a direct and significantly adverse

consequence. States on behalf of local governments or local

government, and Federally recognized Indian tribes located

within the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Guam are eligible if the

above criteria are met.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment,

DUSD(Industrial Affairs and Installations) Western Regional

Office, 1325 J Street, Suite 1500, Sacramento, CA 95814,

Telephone: (916)557-7365. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic

Adjustment, DUSD (Industrial Affairs and Installations), 400

Army Navy Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884.

Telephone: (703)604-5948. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Economic

adjustment strategies prepared for communities in Virginia,

Texas, Louisiana, and California. 

12.612 COMM UNITY BASE REUSE PLANS

(Community Planning Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, OFFICE OF THE

ASSISTANT SECRETARY (ECONOMIC

SECURITY), DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To assist local governments or States, on

behalf of local governments, to conduct community base

reuse plans at closing or realigning military installations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DOD funding may

be provided for development of the community base reuse

plan that is required as part of the Environmental Impact

Statement for disposal and reuse of military installations.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be eligible for

DOD funding if the Secretary of Defense announced in

1988, 1992, or 1993 or will announce in 1995 that the local

military installation is a candidate for closure or

realignment or that a final decision has been made that the

installation will be closed or realigned; and that a

community reuse plan is required for the DOD

Environmental Impact Statement or Environmental

Assessment. State or local governments, regional

organizations composed of State and local organizations,

and federally recognized Indian tribes located within the 50

States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of

Puerto Rico and Guam are eligible if the above criteria are

met. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic

Adjustment, ODASD Western Regional Office, 1325 J

Street, Suite 1500, Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone:

(916) 557-7365. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic

Adjustment, ODASD (Installation), 400 Army Nave Drive,

Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884 Telephone: (703)

604-5948. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds were

provided for community reuse plans for Pueblo Army

Depot Naval Station Puget Sound, Woodbridge Research

Laboratory, Hancock Field, and Hamilton Military

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DENALI COMMISSION

90.100 DENALI COMM ISSION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: DENALI COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: The Denali Commission is an Innovative

Federal and State partnership designed to provide critical

utilities and infrastructure throughout Alaska, particularly in

distressed communities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Infrastructure or utility

needs benefitting Alaskans.

Applicant Eligibility: Awards are available to State and local

governments, private, public, profit, nonprofit organizations

and institutions or individuals eligible in Alaska. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Denali Commission, 510 L Street,

Suite 410, Anchorage, AK 99501. Telephone: (907)

271-1414..

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Bulk Fuel

Tank Storage- Consolidation at isolated site to prevent

catastrophic failure of leaking facilities; (2) hydroelectric

generation at remote coastal community; (3) regional electric

intertie serving economically distressed communities not on

national grid; (4) water supply to community owned and

operated fish processing facility; and (5) statewide planning

and construction of health care infrastructure. 
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

84.002 ADULT EDUCATION STATE GRANT

PROGRAM

FEDERALAGENCY:OFFICEOFVOCATIONAL AND

ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To improve educational opportunities for

adults and to encourage the establishment of adult education

programs that will enable all adults to acquire basic

educational skills necessary to function in a literate society,

enable adults who so desire to complete secondary school,

and enable adults to benefit from job training and retraining

programs and obtain productive employment to more fully

enjoy the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Special emphasis is

given to programs of instruction in computational skills and

in speaking, reading, or writing English for those adults who

are educationally disadvantaged. Not less than 10 percent of

the State allocation must be used for corrections education

and education for other institutionalized adults. Not less than

15 percent of the State allocation must be used for special

experimental demonstration projects and teacher training

projects; at least 10 percent must be spent for teacher training.

From its allotment, States must use an amount of funds

(determined by the State) for competitive two-year grants to

public housing authorities for literacy programs and related

activities. State advisory councils may be established and

represent allowable expenditures under the Act. Not more

than 20 percent of the State allocation can be used for

programs of equivalency for a certificate of graduation from

a secondary school.

Applicant Eligibility: Formula grants aremade to designated

Stateeducational agencies. Local educational agencies, public

or private nonprofitagencies, correctional education agencies,

community-based organizations, post secondary educational

institutions, institutions that serve educationally

disadvantaged adults, and any other institutions that have the

ability to provide literacy services to adults and families, are

eligible for subgrants. A public or private nonprofit entity

may apply on behalf of a consortium that includes a for-profit

agency, organization, or institution. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of Adult Education and

Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S.

Department of Education, Washington, DC 20202-7320.

Telephone: (202) 205-8270.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL

EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES (Title I Basic,

Concentration, and Targeted Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help local education agencies (LEAs)

and schools improve the teaching and learning of children

failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet challenging State

academic standards. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Use of funds varies,

depending on whether a school is operating a school wide

program under Section 1114 of Title I or a targeted assistance

program under Section 1115. A participating school with at

least a 50 percent poverty rate may choose to operate a school

wide program that allows Title I funds to be combined with

other Federal, State, and local funds to upgrade the school's

overall instructional program. All other participating schools

must operate targeted assistance programs, and select children

deemed most needy for Title I services. Targeted assistance

programs must supplement, not supplant the regular

education program normally provide by State and local

educational agencies. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs) and

the Secretary of the Interior. Local educational agencies

(LEAs) and Indian tribal schools are subgrantees.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Compensatory Education Programs,

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Depart of

Education, 1250 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 4400,Portals

Bldg. Washington, DC 20202-6132. (202) 260-0826.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.011 MIGRANT EDUCATION STATE

GRANT PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist States to ensure that migratory

children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging

State content and performance standards that all children are

expected to meet. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Programfunds areused

to support high quality and comprehensive educational

programs that address the needs of migratory children. This

program is subject to non-supplanting requirements and must

use a restricted indirect cost rate which is referenced under 34

CFR 76-564-76.569. For assistance call the Office of the

Chief Financial Officer/Indirect Cost Group on 202-708-

7770. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies or consortia

of State educational agencies and other appropriate entities

may apply. 
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INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

HeadquartersOffice: Office of Migrant Education, Office of

Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., FB6-Room 3E341,

Washington, DC 20202-6135. Telephone: (202) 260-1334. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Program funds

are used to establish or improve programs to meet the special

educational needs of migratory children in such areas as

academic instruction;remedial and compensatory instruction;

bilingual and multicultural instruction; vocational instruction

and career education services; special guidance, counseling,

and testing services; health services; and preschool services.

84.048 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BASIC

GRANTS TO STATES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR VOCATIONAL AND ADULT

EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: Basic grants assist States and outlying areas

to expand and improve their programs of vocational

education and provide equal access in vocational education

to special needs populations. The populations assisted by

Basic Grants range from secondary students in pre-vocational

courses through adults who need retraining to adapt to

changing technological and labor market conditions. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Each State must

allocate its basic grant in the following manner: Up to 5

percent of the allotment or$250,000, whichever is greater, for

State Administration, including at least $60,000 for sex

equity leadership; and the remaining balance as follows: (1)

An amount equal to at least 75 percent of the allotment to be

distributed to eligible recipients; (2) an amount equal to 10.5

percent for the program for single parents, displaced

homemakers, and single pregnant women, and for individuals

participating in programs to eliminate sex bias and

stereotyping; (3) an amount not more than 8.5 percent for

State programs and State leadership; and (4) an amount equal

to one percent for programs for criminal offenders in

correctional institutions.

Applicant Eligibility: The Department of Education makes

formula grants to States. Eligible recipients for subgrants are

local educational agencies and post secondary institutions. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Vocational Technical

Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S.

Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW.,

Washington, DC 20202-7323. Telephone: (202) 205-9441. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.060 INDIAN EDUCATION GRANTS TO LOCAL

EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT

SECRETARYFORELEMENTARYANDSECONDARY

EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: Support local educational agencies in their

efforts to reform elementary and secondary school programs

that serve Indian students in order to ensure that programs are

based on challenging State content standards and student

performance standards that are used for all students, and are

designed to assist Indian students meet those standards in

reaching the National Education Goals. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants;FormulaGrants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grantees may use

funds for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of

supplementary projects specifically designed to assist Indian

students in meeting State content and student performance

standards. Projects must be designed in response to a locally

conducted needs assessment and with the full cooperation and

involvement of an elected committee representing parents of

the Indian students to be served. Permissible activities

include, but are not limited to: (1) Culturally related

activities; (2) early childhood and family programs

emphasizing school readiness; and (3)enrichment programs

that directly support the attainment of State content and

performance standards. 

Applicant Eligibility: Local educational agencies (LEAs)

that enroll at least 10 Indian children or in which Indians

constitute at least 25 percent of the total enrollment. These

requirements do not apply to LEAs serving Indian children in

Alaska, California, and Oklahoma or located on, or in

proximity to, an Indian reservation. Schools that receive

funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs under Section

1130 of the Education Amendments of 1978, 25 U.S.C. 2001,

are deemed to be eligible to participate in this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education, Office of

Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC

20202. Director,Division of Program Operations. Telephone:

(202)260-1441. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Instruction in

reading and mathematics; counseling and guidance; native

language and cultural education instruction; early childhood

and family programs emphasizing school readiness; and

school-to-work transition programs. 

84.101 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INDIANS

SET-ASIDE

FEDERALAGENCY:OFFICEOFVOCATIONAL AND

ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to or enter into contracts

with Indian tribes or tribal organizations and Bureau of

Indian Affairs funded schools to plan, conduct, and

administer programs or portions of programs authorized by

and consistent with the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
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Applied Technology Education Act. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements);Project Grants (Contracts). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide vocational

and technical education opportunitiesforIndians and Alaskan

Natives. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must either be eligible to

contract with the Secretary of the Interior for the

administration of programs under the Indian

Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act or under

the Act of April 16, 1934, or be Bureau-funded schools

offering a secondary education program. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Division of National Programs, Office

of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of

Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC

20202-7242. Telephone: (202) 205-5680.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Mississippi

Band of Choctaw Indians is conducting a three-year program

for basic skills, tribal manufacturing, tribal and local

business, and tribal enterprises. The project is housed and

operated out of Choctaw Vocational Center, Philadelphia,

Mississippi. The Salish Kootenai College is conducting a

three-year program in building trades secretarial science,

computer science, forest technology and basic skills. The

College also conducts a State licensed associate degree

nursing program. The project is located at Pablo, Montana. 

84.141 MIGRANT EDUCATION HIGH

SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM (HEP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICEOFELEMENTARY AND

SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist students who are engaged, or

whose parents are engaged, in migrant and other seasonal

farm work to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school

diploma and subsequently to gain employment or be placed

in an institution of higher education or other post secondary

education or training. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Project funds may be

used to recruit and provide academic and support services

(including counseling, health services, stipends, and

placement) to migrant students to obtain the equivalent of a

secondary school diploma and to subsequently gain

employment or be placed in an institution of higher education

or other post secondary education or training. 

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education or

private nonprofit agencies in cooperation with institutions of

higher education may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office

of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg.,

Room 4100, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202)

260-1164. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Project funds are

used for recruitment, instruction designed to help participants

pass an examination and obtain a high school equivalency

certificate, counseling, health services, housing for

on-campus residential programs, exposure to academic

programs, cultural events, and other activities not usually

available to migrant youth, and appropriate in-service training

activities for project staff members.

84.144 MIGRANT EDUCATION

COORDINATION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To encourage the interstate and intrastate

coordination of migrant education including consortium

arrangements to reduce the administrative costs of state

educational agencies (SEAs)receiving Title I Migrant

Education Program funds under 84.011.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary);

Project Grants (Contracts). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used to: (A)

Support activities to improve interstate and intrastate

coordination of migrant education among State and local

educational agencies; and (B) provide incentive grants to

SEAs that participate in an approved consortium under the

program. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies, local

educational agencies, institutions of higher education and

other public or nonprofit private entities may apply for funds

to improve interstate and intrastate coordination of migrant

education. SEAs participating in MEP consortium may apply

for incentive grant awards.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office

of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg.,

Room 4100, Washington, DC 20202-6135. Telephone: (202)

260-1164.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects

have included projects to increase the use of technology for

teaching and learning in the migrant community and

programs to increase services to students by reducing

administrative costs. 

84.149 MIGRANT EDUCATION COLLEGE

ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM (CAMP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION
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OBJECTIVES: To assist students that are engaged, or whose

parents are engaged in migrant and other seasonal farmwork,

and are enrolled or are admitted for enrollment on a full-time

basis in the first academic year at an institution of higher

education.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Project funds may be

used to provide supportive and instructional services,

including tutoring and counseling services and assistance in

obtaining student financial aid (including stipends, tuition,

and room and board) to first-year college students, assist

those students in obtaining financial aid for their remaining

undergraduate years, and provide follow-up services, such as

monitoring and reporting students first year and subsequent

year academic progress, and referrals to counseling services,

academic assistance or financial aid. 

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education or

private nonprofit agencies in cooperation with institutions of

higher education may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office

of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 600Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg.,

Room 4100, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202)

260-1164.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Project funds are

used to recruit potential participants and to provide services

to students in such areas as: tutoring; academic, career, and

personal counseling; health services; housing support;

exposure to academic programs, cultural events, and other

activities not usually available to migrant youth; and

appropriate in-service training activities for project staff

members. 

84.169 INDEPENDENT LIVING STATE

GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND

REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist States to promote a philosophy of

independent living, including a philosophy of consumer

control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal

access, and individual and system advocacy, in order to

maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence, and

productivity of individuals with disabilities, and the

integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities

into the mainstream American society, by providing financial

assistance for providing, expanding, and improving the

provision of independent living services. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds received under

this Part may be used to support the operation of the

Statewide Independent Living Councils, States may also use

funds received under this Part for one or more of the

following purposes: to provide independent living services to

individuals with significant disabilities; to demonstrate ways

to expand and improve independent living services; to

support the operations of centers for independent living; to

increase the capacities of public or nonprofit agencies and

organizations and other entities to develop comprehensive

approaches or systems for providing independent living

services; to conduct studies and analyses, gather information,

develop model polices and procedures, and present

information, approaches, strategies, findings, conclusions,

and recommendations to Federal, State, and local policy

makers in order to enhance independent living services for

individuals with disabilities; to train individuals with

disabilities and individuals providing services to individuals

with disabilities and other persons regarding the independent

living philosophy; and to provide outreach to populations that

are unserved or under served by programs under this title,

including minority groups and urban and rural populations.

Applicant Eligibility: State agencies (including

Territories)designated as the State unit to administer the

State's independent living rehabilitation services program

may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for a list of regional offices. 

Headquarters Office: Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Special Education andRehabilitative Services, Department of

Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, 600

Independence Ave., Independent Living Branch Office SW.,

Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 205-8937. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.184 SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS

AND COMM UNITIES NATIONAL

PR OG RAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT

OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To enhance the Nation's efforts to prevent

the illegal use of drugs and violence among, and promote

safety and discipline for, students at all educational levels. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Contracts);

Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements). Project Grants

(Discretionary). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects funded under

this program support drug and violence prevention and

education activities. The Secretary may fund applications that

address specific priorities published in the Federal Register.

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit

organizations, and individuals and institutions of higher

education. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 
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Headquarters Office: Director, Safe and Drug-Free Schools

Program, Department of Education, Office of Elementary and

Secondary Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20202-6123. Telephone: (202) 260-3954. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects that

replicate, with fidelity, a program or strategy that has

demonstrated sustained reductions in youth drug use, violent

behavior, or both, over at least a two-year period; projects

that develop, improve, expand, or enhance the collection of

data related to youth drug use and violence, and develop and

implement processes to ensure that high-quality data are used

to inform policy, assess needs, select interventions, and assess

success of drug and violence prevention activities funded

under the SDFSCA State Grants Program.

84.203 STAR SCHOOLS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND

IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To encourage improved instruction in

mathematics, science, and foreign languages as well as other

subjects, such as literacy skills and vocational education. To

serve under served populations, including the disadvantaged,

illiterate, limited-English proficient, and individuals with

disabilities. Grants are made to telecommunication

partnerships for telecommunications facilities and equipment,

educational and instructional programming, and technical

assistance in the use of such facilities and instructional

programming. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions and

priorities include: Eligible telecommunications partnerships

must be organized on a statewide or multi-state basis.

Partnerships must assure that a significant portion of the

facilities and equipment, technical assistance and

programming for which assistance is sought will be made

available to elementary and secondary schools of local

education agencies that have a high percentage of children

counted for purposes of Part A of Title I of the Elementary

Secondary Education Act. Priority is given to those

partnerships that provide services to meet the needs of

traditionally under served populations, individuals

traditionally excluded from careers in mathematics and

science because of discrimination or economically

disadvantaged backgrounds, areas with scarce resources, and

areas with limited access to courses in mathematics, science

and foreign languages. Funds through this grant may not

supplant funds otherwise available for these purposes. Not

less than 25 percent of the funds appropriated during any

fiscal year shall be used for the cost of instructional

programming. Not less than 50 percent of the funds

appropriated during any fiscal year shall be used for the cost

of facilities, equipment, teacher training or retraining,

technical assistance or programming for school districts

which are eligible to receive assistance under Part A of Title

I. No grant may exceed $10,000,000 in any single fiscal year.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible telecommunications

partnerships must be organized on a statewide or multistage

basis. Two types of partnerships are eligible: (1) A public

agency or corporation established for the purpose of

developing and operating telecommunications networks to

enhance educational opportunities provided by educational

institutions, teacher training centers, and other entities,

provided that the agency or corporation represents the

interests of elementary and secondary schools eligible to

participate under Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act of 1965; or (2) a partnership that will provide

telecommunications services and includes three or more of

the following entities, at least one of which shall be State or

local educational agency: (a) A local educational agency, that

serves a significant number of elementary and secondary

schools that are eligible for assistance under Part A, of Title

1 or elementary and secondary schools operated or funded for

Indian children by the Department of the Interior; (b) A State

educational agency; (c)adult and family education programs;

(d) an institution of higher education or a State higher

education agency; (e) a teacher training center or academy; (f)

a public or private entity with experience and expertise in the

planning and operation of a telecommunications network,

including entities involved in telecommunications through

satellite, cable, telephone, or computer; or a public

broadcasting entity with such experience; or (g) a public or

private elementary or secondary school. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and

Improvement, Department of Education, 600 Independence

Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20208-5644. Telephone: (202)

219-1919. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: TEAMS

(Telecommunications Education for Advances in

Mathematics and Science Education) is the project operated

by the Los Angeles County Office of Education. This was the

first Star Schools Program to specifically address the needs of

large urban districts. The partners in the project include the

Los Angeles County Educational Telecommunications

Network, the Los Angeles Unified School District, District of

Columbia Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, Atlanta

Public Schools and Salt Lake City public schools. Science

and technology experiences have been developed for grades

four and five, multi cultural mathematics and problem solving

were the focus for grades seven through ten, and

student-to-student teleconferences and career exploration

were emphasized for grades seven through twelve. Special

programs were also developed for students with limited

English proficiency. A parent education component and staff

development teleconference are key to enriching the

educational opportunities of students in these major cities.

Since its first award in 1990, TEAMS has added

Charlotte-Mecklenburg, and the States of Arizona, Missouri,

Georgia, and New Mexico to its partnership. 

84.213 EVEN START STATE EDUCATIONAL
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AGENCIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help break the cycle of poverty and

illiteracy, and improve the educational opportunities of

low-income families, by integrating early childhood

education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and

parenting education into a unified family literacy program. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Subgrants are used for

activities such as recruitment and screening of children and

parents, design of programs, instruction of children and

parents, support services, staff training, evaluation, and

coordination with other programs. Funds may not be used for

indirect costs. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs).

The subgrantees are partnerships of a local educational

agency (LEA) and a nonprofit community-based

organization, a public agency other than an LEA, an

institution of higher education or other public or private

nonprofit organizations. Any of the latter, with demonstrated

quality, may apply in collaboration with a LEA. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Department of Education,

Compensatory Education Programs,OfficeofElementary and

Secondary Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-0991.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Fiscal year 1995

projects include Project Even Start in Brooklyn, New York,

a family-centered education program to assist children in

reaching their potential as learners, to provide literacy

training for their parents, and to help parents become partners

with the schools in the education of their children. The

project includes pre-kindergarten programs and parent-child

home training. The Waterville Even Start Project, in

Waterville, Maine, provides instructional services that are

home based, with supplemental activities provided at an Even

Start Center. The adult element of the program provides

literacy education in the context of parenting. Early childhood

and primary education specialists work with families using a

curriculum developed in conjunction with the Head Start

program. At a monthly meeting adults attend parenting

workshops while children participate in educational

programs. 

84.214 EVEN START MIGRANT EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To improve the educational opportunities of

migrant families through family literacy programs that

integrate early childhood education, adult literacy or adult

basic education, and parenting education. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used for

activities such as recruitment and screening of children and

parents, design of programs, instruction for children and

parents, staff training, support services, evaluation, and

coordination with other programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Any entity may apply. The Secretary

specifically invites application from State educational

agencies (SEAs) that administer migrant programs; local

educational agencies (LEAs) that have a high percentage of

migrant students; and nonprofit community-based

organizations that work with migrant families. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and

Improvement, Department of Education, 555 New Jersey

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20208-5645. Telephone:

(202) 219-2147. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year

1997, under the specific FIE authority for the Partnerships in

Character Education Pilot Project, four new Character

Education Projects were funded in four States: Kentucky,

Missouri, New Jersey, and South Carolina. In South Carolina,

the State Department of Education has formed a partnership

with four school districts to serve as pilot sites for the

statewide transformation of South Carolina's schools. These

four represent urban, small rural, and large rural districts. The

districts plan to provide extensive professional development

opportunities for teachers, use published character education

materials innovatively, and have technology play a major role

in facilitating the exchange of information among the

districts. In New Jersey, the State Department of Education is

working with the Newark School District and the Newark Do

Something Fund, a community development agency, to

develop an urban pilot project in character education. The

program intends to infuse character education into the

curriculum renewal process in the 62 Newark schools that

have any combination of grades K-8. The project also plans

to establish the New Jersey Character Education Network that

will provide public and private schools a range of character

education strategies, procedures, and program designs. 

84.215 FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF

EDUCATION (FIE) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND

IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To conduct nationally significant programs

to improve the quality of education, assist all students to meet

challenging State content standards, and contribute to the

achievement of the National Education Goals. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to

support a wide range of projects under the FIE general

authority for programs, and additional specific program
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authorities. Each year competitions are announced in the

Federal Register. Specific limitations and restrictions for

each competition are provided in the Federal Register notice.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies, local

educational agencies, institutions of higher education, public

and private organizations and institutions may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and

Improvement, Department of Education, 555 New Jersey

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20208-5645. Telephone:

(202) 219-2147. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year

1997, under the specific FIE authority for the Partnerships in

Character Education Pilot Project, four new Character

Education Projects were funded in four States: Kentucky,

Missouri, New Jersey, and South Carolina. In South

Carolina, the State Department of Education has formed a

partnership with four school districts to serve as pilot sites for

the statewide transformation of South Carolina's schools.

These four represent urban, small rural, and large rural

districts. The districts plan to provide extensive professional

development opportunities for teachers, use published

character education materials innovatively, and have

technology play a major role in facilitating the exchange of

information among the districts. In New Jersey, the State

Department of Education is working with the Newark School

District and the Newark Do Something Fund, a community

development agency, to develop an urban pilot project in

character education. The program intends to infuse character

education into the curriculum renewal process in the 62

Newark schools that have any combination of grades K-8.

The project also plans to establish the New Jersey Character

Education Network that will provide public and private

schools a range of character education strategies, 

procedures, and program designs. 

84.216 CAPITAL EXPENSES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help local educational agencies (LEAs)

pay for capital expenses incurred as a result of implementing

alternative arrangements to provide equitable Title I services

to eligible private school children, in compliance with the

Aguilar v. Felton decision.

TYPESOFASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: LEAs use funds for

non-instructional expenses incurred as a result of

implementing alternative arrangements for providing Title I

services to private-school students, including the costs of

purchasing, leasing, and renovating portable classrooms and

vans, and transporting private-school students to and from

neutral classroom sites. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs).

Local educational agencies (LEAs) are subgrantees. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Department of Education,

Compensatory Education Programs,OfficeofElementary and

Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4400,

Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-0826.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds are used

for such costs as rental of classroom space in neutral sites;

rental or purchase of mobile vans; and transportation of

private school students to public schools or neutral sites. 

84.221 NATIVE HAWAIIAN SPECIAL

EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SPECIAL

EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES,

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To fund projects addressing the special

education needs of Native Hawaiian students

.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements or Contracts).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects may include:

(1) The identification of Native Hawaiian children that are

learning disabled, mentally or physically handicapped, or

require special education services; (2) the identification of the

emotional and psychosocial needs of these students and their

families; (3) the conduct of educational activities consistent

with Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

that hold reasonable promise of improving the provisions of

special education and related services to Native Hawaiian

children that are identified as being handicapped; (4) the

conduct of educational, psychosocial, and developmental

activities that may result in substantial progress with these

students, including the use of Native Hawaiian language and

cultural traditions; and (5) appropriate research, evaluation

and related activities pertaining to the needs of such children.

No more than seven percent of the funds appropriated to carry

out the provisions of this program for any fiscal year may be

used for administrative purposes. Each application for funds

under this program must be accompanied by the comments of

each local educational agency serving students participating

in the project. No more than seven percent of grant funds may

be used for administrative purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: State of Hawaii or Native Hawaiian

organizations may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Special Education and

Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education, 400

Maryland Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone:

(202) 205- 9805. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Hawaii State

Department of Education is currently receiving funds to

support preservice teacher training, pre-referral intervention

and mainstreaming, and promoting parent and community

involvement.
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84.250 REHABILITATION SERVICES

AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND

REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES:To providevocational rehabilitation services

to American Indians with disabilities that reside on Federal or

State reservations in order to prepare them for suitable

employment. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects provide

financial assistance for the establishment and operation of

tribal vocational rehabilitation service projects for American

Indians with disabilities residing on reservations. 

Applicant Eligibility: Governing bodies of Indian tribes or

consortia of those governing bodies on Federal and State

reservations may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: The RSA Regional Offices. See

your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Rehabilitation Services

Administration, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special

Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of

Education, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202)

205-8292. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects provide

vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with

disabilities who reside on reservations comparable to the

services provided under Title I to other individuals with

disabilities who reside in the State. These projects increase

the successful outreach and outcome of services to an under

served population. 

84.258 EVEN START INDIAN TRIBES AND

TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help break the cycle of poverty and

illiteracy and improve the educational opportunities of

low-income families through family literacy programs that

integrate early childhood education, adult basic education,

and parenting education. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used for

activities such as recruitment and screening of children and

parents, design of programs, instruction for children and

parents, staff training, support services, evaluation, and

coordination with other programs. Indirect costs are not an

allowable project cost unless a waiver is obtained from the

Secretary of Education. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes and

tribal organizations as defined in the Indian

Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, Section 4,

may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Department of Education,

CompensatoryEducation Programs, Office of Elementaryand

Secondary Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-0991.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Northwest

Indian College (NWIC) Even Start program has established

an ongoing relationship with the Lumni Tribal Headstart

Program for Even Start children. A parenting class has been

established on the NWIC campus where a wide range of

family activities are sponsored in addition to formal parenting

studies. 

84.259 NATIVE HAWAIIAN VOCATIONAL

EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY:OFFICEOFVOCATIONALAND

ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to organizations primarily

serving and representing Native Hawaiians for programs or

portions of programs authorized by, and consistent with, the

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology

Education Act. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide vocational

education opportunities for Native Hawaiians. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any organization primarily serving

and representing Native Hawaiians and recognized by the

Governor of Hawaii may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Division of National Programs, Office

of Vocational and Adult Education, Department of

Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC

20202.Tel ephone: (202) 205-556 3. Internet:

Katherine_Holmberg@ed.gov. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Computer

training centers, small business ownership project,

community college guidance and counseling, and tech-prep

projects have been funded with one grant award to Alu Like,

Inc.

84.286 READY TO CHANGE

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

EDUCATION RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT,

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To carry out a national telecommunicationsbased program to improve the teaching in core curriculum

areas. The program shall be designed to assist elementary

school and secondary school teachers in preparing all
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students to achieve challenging State academic standards in

core curriculum areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not more than five

percent of the amount received under the grant may be used

for administrative costs. 

Applicant Eligibility: A local public telecommunications

entity or partnership of such entities, as defined in section

397(12) of the Communications Act of 1934, that is able to

demonstrate a capacity for the development and distribution

of educational instructional television programming of high

quality. The applicant shall: (a) demonstrate that it will use

the public broadcasting infrastructure, the Internet, and

school digital networks, where available, to deliver video and

data in an integrated service to train teachers in the use of

materials and learning technologies; (b) ensure that the

project will be conducted in cooperation with appropriate

State educational agencies, local educational agencies and

State or local nonprofit public telecommunications entities;

and (c) ensure that a significant portion of the benefits from

the project will be available to schools of local educational

agencies that have a high percentage of children counted for

purpose of part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and

Improvement, Department of Education, 600 Independence

Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20208-5644. Telephone: (202)

219-2143.

84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

COMM UNITY LEARNING CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND

IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To enable rural and inner city public

elementary and secondary schools or consortia of such

schools to plan, 0implement, or expand projects that benefit

the educational, health, social service, cultural, and

recreational needs of their community.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects funded under

this program must be for the purpose of meeting the needs of

the residents of rural and inner city communities, through the

creation or expansion of community learning centers. Centers

must include not less than four of the activities listed in

Section 10905 of Elementary and Secondary Education Act

of 1965 (ESEA). Priority will be given to those applications

that provide expanded learning opportunities for children and

youth in a safe and drug-free environmental and engage the

support of citizens in those efforts.

Applicant Eligibility: Rural and inner city public elementary

and secondary schools or consortia of such schools. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Reform Assistance and

Dissemination, State and Local Service Division, Office of

Educational Research and Improvement, Department of

Education, Washington, DC 20208-5524. Telephone: (202)

219-2128.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects

include one center which expanded an existing community

center to provide education and support services to at-risk

families, in order to empower these families to become

economically self-sufficient. Another created a learning

center and six "satellite" centers, which provide information

about employment, education, and social service

opportunities. A third center provides services in the areas of

literacy, technology, parenting skills, and employment. All of

these centers are located in economically depressed areas.

84.295 READY-TO-LEARN TELEVISION

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND

IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To develop educational programming for

preschool an dearly elementary school children and their

families. To develop educational television, programmingand

ancillary materials to increase school readiness for young

children in limited English proficient households and to

increase family literacy. To develop support materials and

services that promote effective use of educational

programming. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants

(Contracts);Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Administrative costs

are limited by the authorizing statute. Entities receiving a

grant, contract, or cooperative agreement from the Secretary,

may not use more than five percent of the amounts received

under this Section for the normal and customary expenses of

administering the grant. 

Applicant Eligibility: To be eligible to receive a grant,

contract, or cooperative agreement under Subsection (a) an

entity shall be: 1) A nonprofit entity (including a public

telecommunications entity) able to demonstrate a capacity for

the development and distribution of educational and

instructional television programming of high quality for

preschool and elementary school children; and 2) able to

demonstrate a capacity to contract with the producers of

children's television programming for the purpose of

developing educational television programming of high

quality for preschool and elementary schoolchildren. In fiscal

year 1995, Congress required that funds be awarded to the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the amount that the

Secretary determines appropriate.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: National Institute on Early Childhood

Development and Education, Office of Education Research
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and Improvement, Department of Education, 600

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20208-5524.

Telephone: (202) 219-1596. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Corporation

for Public Broadcasting (CPB) awarded $4.2 million to the

Children's Television Workshop and Columbia TriStar

Television Distribution in 1995. They will use the funds to

develop and produce 40 episodes of Dragon Tales, a daily

animated half-hour preschool series which will help children

develop life skills necessary for learning. The series will

feature Max and his big sister Margarita whose parents came

to the U.S. from Latin America. The series will encourage

children to face new experiences with confidence by helping

them to pursue challenges, overcome fears, and make difficult

tasks easier through teamwork. Targeted to children between

2 to 5 years of age, it is anticipated that over 6 million

children will view the series on a regular basis. Show and Tell

Me, is a related weekly designed to educate parents to and

care givers about ways they can help children become ready

to learn. It is anticipated that 4.5 million adults will tune into

this series on PBS. Children's Television Workshop will also

produce an interactive Internet component for children,

parents, and other care givers. CPB is also providing $4.2

million to public broadcaster WGBH Boston, in partnership

with Sirius Thinking, Inc., to develop and co-produce 40

episodes of an innovative half-hour daily literacy series,

Between the Lions, for 4 to 7 year olds. WGBH will produce

a related 13 part weekly half-hour series Kids and How to

Grow Them for parents and care givers, along with an

interactive online component for the Internet. CPB has also

used funds to expand CPB's "First Book" a free book

program, from three PBS stations to 120 stations. These

stations have distributed more than 650,000 books to

disadvantaged children who would not otherwise own them.

In addition to providing a regular allotment for free books to

these stations on a monthly basis, a matching book fund has

been established to encourage the stations to purchase

additional books. Many stations have ordered these books in

Spanish, English, and other languages. The Educational

Publishing Group, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts, in

association with WBGH 

84.296 NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY-BASED

EDUCATION LEARNING CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To support collaborative efforts between

community- based Native Hawaiian organizations and

community colleges, to develop, establish, and operate a

minimum of three community-based education learning

centers. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used to

develop and operate community-based education learning

centers. To meet the needs of families and communities

through coordination of new and existing preschool,

after-school, and vocational and adult education programs.

No more than seven percent of grant funds may be used for

administrative purposes. 

Applicant Eligibility: Community-based Native Hawaiian

organizations and community colleges in Hawaii. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education, School Improvement Programs, 600 Maryland

Ave., SW.,Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202)

260-2502. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Centers have

been established at the following sites: (1) Halau Na`auao at

Hawaii Community College; (2) NHCBELC at Kaua`i

Community College; (3) NHCBELC at Leeward Community

College; and (4) Mohala Ka`ike Institute at Maui Community

College. The educational programs offered at each site

include culturally relevant learning experience for adult,

preschool, and elementary and secondary students. 

84.297 NATIVE HAWAIIAN CURRICULUM

DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND

RECRUITMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To fund native Hawaiian programs designed

to conduct instruction in the Native Hawaiian language for

curriculum development or teacher training. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects should

address one or more of the following: 1) To develop curricula

to address the needs of Native Hawaiian students in programs

of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language

and/or mathematics and science curricula incorporating the

relevant applications of Native Hawaiian culture and

traditions; 2) to develop and implement pre-teacher training

programs in order to ensure that student teachers are better

prepared to meet the needs of Native Hawaiian students; 3) to

develop and implement teacher recruitment programs to

enhance recruitment in Native Hawaiian communities to

increase the number of teachers that are of Native Hawaiian

ancestry; and 4) to develop and implement in service teacher

training programs to ensure that teachers are better prepared

to meet the unique educational needs of Native Hawaiian

students. Priority must be given to projects that focus on the

needs of at-risk youth or that employ a program of instruction

conducted in the Native Hawaiian language. No more than

seven percent of grant funds may be used for administrative

purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: Native Hawaiian education

organizations or education entities with experience in

developing or operating native Hawaiian programs or

programs of instruction conducted in the native Hawaiian
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language.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education, School Improvement Programs, 600 Maryland

Ave., SW.,Washington, DC 20202. Contact: Beth Baggett.

Telephone: (202) 260-2502.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: No examples. 

84.298 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM

STRATEGIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist State and local educational

agencies in the reform of elementary and secondary

education. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used

for:(1)Acquiring and use of instructional materials;(2)

technology and training in technology related to the

implementation of school-based reform;(3) promising

educational reform projects;(4) improving educational

services for disadvantaged students;(5) reforming activities

associated with Goals 2000; (6) education needs of gifted and

talented children;(7) combating illiteracy among children and

adults; an(8) implementing school improvement and parental

involvement activities authorized under ESEA, Title I. 

Applicant Eligibility: All States including the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

HeadquartersOffice:SchoolImprovement Programs, Office

of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC

20202-6140, Telephone: (202) 260-2551.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available. 

84.316 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER

EDUCATION PROGRAM

FEDERALAGENCY: OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY

EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To make direct grants to Native Hawaiian

education organizations or education entities with experience

in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or

programs of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian

language to enable them to provide a program of

baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate fellowship assistance to

Native Hawaiian students.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants must be used

to provide full or partial fellowship support for Native

Hawaiian students enrolled at two or four year degree

granting institutions of higher education. Awards are based

on: (1) Academic potential and (2) financial need. Full or

partial fellowship support for Native Hawaiian students

enrolled at post-baccalaureate degree granting institutions of

higher education will receive grants. Priority will be given to

providing fellowship support for professions that are

underrepresented in the Native Hawaiians community. Funds

may also be used for: (1) Counseling and support services for

students receiving fellowship assistance; (2) college

preparation and guidance counseling at the secondary level

for students who may be eligible for fellowship support; (3)

research, evaluation; and (4) implementation of faculty

developmentprograms for the improvement and matriculation

of Native Hawaiian students. No more than seven percent for

grant funds may be used for administrative purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: Native Hawaiian education

organizations or entities with experience in developing or

operating Native Hawaiian programs may apply

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: HigherEducation Programs, Office of

Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, 400

Maryland Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone:

(202) 260-3439.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

84.320 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL

PLANNING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPM ENT,

TEACHER TRAINING, AND RECRUITMENT

PROGRAM (ANE)

FEDERALAGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND

SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Alaska Native

organizations or educational entities to operate Alaska Native

programs or programs of instruction conducted in the Alaska

Native language, for the following purposes: (1) The

consolidation of existing educational plans,

recommendations, and research into implementation methods

and strategies to improve schooling for Alaska Natives; (2)

the adoption and implementation of specific educational

plans; (3) the development of curricula to address the needs

of elementary and secondary Alaska Natives students,

including innovative programs, pilots, and demonstration

programs that reflect cultural diversity or contributions of

Alaska Native people; (4) the development and

implementation of pre-teacher training programs to ensure

student teachers are prepared to address the cultural diversity

and unique needs of Alaska Native students; (5) the

development and implementations of teacher recruitment

programs; and (6) the development and implementation of in

service teacher training programs to ensure teachers are better

prepared to address the uniqueness of Alaska Native students.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not more than 10
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percent of grant funds may be used for administrative costs.

Applicant Eligibility: Alaska Native organizations or

educational entities with experience in developing or

operating Alaska Native programs or programs of instruction

conducted in Alaska Native languages, or to partnerships

involving Alaska Native organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education,SchoolImprovementPrograms, 600 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC Telephone: (202) 260-1431.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None. 

84.322 ALASKA NATIVE STUDENT

ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

(Alaska Native Education)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Alaska Native

organizations or educational entities with experience in

developing or operating Alaska Native programs, for

enrichment programs for Alaska Native students in the areas

of science and mathematic education. The program will be

designed to: (1) Prepare qualified students from rural areas

who are preparing to enter village high schools to excel in

sciences and mathematics; and (2) provide support services

to the families of such students to benefit from the program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not more than 10

percent of grant funds may be used for administrative cost. 

Applicant Eligibility: Alaska Native organizations or

educational entities with experience in developing or

operating Alaska Native programs or programs of instruction

conducted in Alaska Native languages, or to partnerships

involving Alaska Native organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education,SchoolImprovement Programs, 600 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone 

(202)260- 1431. 

84.341 COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION,

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To promote the use of technology in

education through the development of model programs that

demonstrate the educational effectiveness of technology in

urban and rural areas and economically distressed

communities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects funded under

this program must be for the purpose of meeting the needs of

residents of rural and urban areas and economically distressed

communities through development of community technology

centers. Application priorities, if any, will be published in a

notice in the Federal Register if awards are to be made during

a fiscal year. Contact the Headquarters Office listed below for

information on priorities. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies, local

educational agencies, institutions of higher education, other

public and private nonprofit or for-profit agencies and

organizations, or groups of such agencies, institutions or

organizations are eligible to receive grants under this

program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of Adult Education and

Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education,

Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW.,

Washington, DC 20202-7240. Telephone: (202) 205-8270.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects funded

under this program will be used to support community centers

that provide access to technology to residents of their local

communities. 

84.352 SCHOOL RENOVATION GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist local educational agencies (LEAs)

withurgent school repair and renovation, activities authorized

under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education

Act (IDEA), and technology activities related to school

renovation. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: State educational

agencies must use 75 percent of their allocations for

competitive grants to LEAs for specified urgent school

repairs. States must ensure that high poverty LEAs with 30

percent or greater poverty or with at least 10,000 poor

children receive, in the aggregate, an amount proportional to

the aggregate amount those LEAs receive under Title I, Part

A. In addition, States must ensure that rural LEAs receive, in

the aggregate, an amount proportional to the aggregate

amount they receive under Title I, Part A. States distribute the

remaining 25 percent to LEAs on a competitive basis for

activities authorized under Part B of the IDEA, technology

activities related to school renovation, or some combination

thereof, at the discretion of the State. LEAs that receive direct

grants from the Department based on their eligibility for

Impact Aid may use the funds to construct new school

facilities as well as for school renovation and repair. 

Applicant Eligibility: States and outlying areas are eligible

for grants. LEAs that are eligible for Impact Aid and at least

50 percent of children in average daily attendance reside on
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Indian lands are eligible for direct grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: State School Repair and Renovation

Grants - Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,

Department of Education, FB-6 Room 3E121, Washington,

DC 20202. E-mail address: Sylvia.Wright@ed.gov.

Telephone: (202) 260-3778; Native American School Repair

and Renovation Grants - Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education, Department of Education, FB-6, Room 3E105,

Washington, DC 20202. E-mail address:

Catherine.Schagh@ed.gov. Telephone: (202) 260-3858. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program; examples are not yet available. 

84.356 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL

PR OG RAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To support projects that recognize and

address the unique educational needs of Alaska Native

students, parents and teachers.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Successful applicants

must use these funds to carry out the activities described in

their approved applications. An eligible entity may use not

more than 10 percent of the funds received under this subpart

for the administrative costs of carrying out its responsibilities

under this Subpart.

Applicant Eligibility: Alaska Native educational

organizations or educational entities with experience in

developing or operating Alaska Native Programs, or

partnerships including Alaska Native organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

HeadquartersOffice: School Improvement Programs, Office

of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC

20202. Telephone: (202) 260-1541. E-mail:

lynn.thomas@ed.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program; examples are not yet available.

84.358 RURAL EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT

PROGRAM (REAP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to rural

districts to carry out activities to help improve the quality of

teaching and learning in their schools.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grantees under the

Small, Rural School Achievement Program component may

use program funds to carry out activities authorized under:

Title I-Part A (Grants to LEAs); Title II- Part A (Improving

Teacher Quality State Grants); Title II-Part D (Educational

Technology State Grants); Title III (Language Instruction for

Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students); Title

IV-Part A (Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

State Grants); Title IV-Part B (21st Century Community

Learning Centers); and Title V-Part A (State Grants for

Innovative Programs). Grantees under the Rural and LowIncome School Program component may use program funds

for: teacher recruitment and retention; teacher professional

development; educational technology; parental involvement

activities; activities authorized under ESEA Title IV-Part A

(Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities); activities

authorized under ESEA Title I-Part A (Grants to LEAs); and

activities authorized under ESEA Title III (Language

Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant

Students). Rural Education program funds must be used to

supplement not supplant other funding provided for programs

activities. 

Applicant Eligibility: For the Small, Rural School

AchievementProgram eligible recipients are local educational

agencies (LEAs) in which (1) the total number of students in

average daily attendance at all of the schools served by the

LEA is less than 600 or where each school in the LEA is

located in a county with a total population density of less than

10 persons per square mile; and (2) all of the schools served

by the LEA are designated with a School Locale Code of 7 or

8 under the U.S. Department of Education's National Center

for Education Statistics (NCES) locator system or the LEA is

located in an area of the State defined as a rural by a State

governmental agency. For the Rural and Low-Income School

Program eligible recipients are State educational agencies.

States then must distribute funds to local educational agencies

(LEAs) on a formula or competitive basis. An LEA is eligible

to receive a grant under this program only if (1) it is not

eligible for funds under the Small, Rural School Achievement

Program; (2) at least 20% of the school children ages 5-17 in

the LEA come from families with incomes below the poverty

line; and (3) all of the schools served by the LEA are

designated with a School Locale Code of 6, 7 or 8 under the

U.S. Department of Education's National Center for

Education Statistics (NCES) locator system. If an SEA

chooses not to participate in the program, the Secretary uses

the State's allocation to make direct grants to eligible LEAs

in the State. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Office of School Support and

Technology Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue,SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 401-

0039. E-mail: charles.lovett@ed.gov. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None. 
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84.360 DROPOUT PREVENTION PROGRAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To support programs that provide assistance

to help schools implement effective school dropout

prevention and reentry programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant recipients must

implement proven strategies for reducing the number of

students who drop out before completing secondary school

and for assisting youth to reenter school after they have

dropped out. These strategies may include: 1 identify students

at risk of dropping out; 2. providing at-risk students with

services designed to prevent them from dropping out; 3.

identifying and encouraging youth who already have dropped

out to reenter school; and 4. implementing other

comprehensive approaches, such as breaking large schools

into smaller learning communities. Specifically authorized

activities include: professional development; reduction in

pupil-teacher ratios; counseling and mentoring for at-risk

students; and implementing comprehensive school reform

models. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs) and

local educational agencies (LEAs) serving communities with

dropout rates above the State's average annual dropout rate

will be eligible to apply for funding. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Academic Improvement

Demonstration Programs, Office of Elementary and

Secondary Education, FOB-6, Room 2W114, 400 Maryland

Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202-6254. Internet:

Christine.Jackson@ed.gov. Telephone: (202) 260-2516. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program. No examples are available.

84.362 NATIVE HAWAIIAN EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

EDUCATION 

OBJECTIVES: To provide supplementary education

services to Native Hawaiians.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Program funds may be

used to carry a variety of authorized activities including, but

not limited to: the development and maintenance of a

statewide early childhood education system; operation of

family-based education centers; literacy and early reading

activities; educational activities for Native Hawaiian students

with disabilities; professional development; and the operation

of community-based learning centers. Not more than 5

percent of the funds received under this program may be used

for administrative costs. 

Applicant Eligibility: An eligible entity is-Native Hawaiian

educational organizations; Native Hawaiiancommunity-based

organizations; public and private nonprofit organizations,

agencies, and institutions with experience in developing or

operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs of

instruction in the Native Hawaiian language; and consortia of

the organizations, agencies, and institutions described in this

paragraph.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

HeadquartersOffice: School Improvement Programs, Office

of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington DC 20202.

Telephone: (202) 260-1541. E-mail: lynn.thomas@ed.gov. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

81.042 WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE FOR

LOW-INCOME PERSONS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENERGY

EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY,

DEPARTMENTOFENERGY OBJECTIVES:To insulate

the dwellings of low-income persons, particularly the elderly

and handicapped low-income, in order to conserve needed

energy and to aid those persons least able to afford higher

utility costs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Improvement of the

thermal efficiency of dwellings by the installation of

weatherization materials such as attic insulation, caulking,

weatherstripping and storm windows, furnace efficiency

modifications certain mechanical measures to heating and

cooling systems, and replacement furnaces and boilers. States

may average expenditures per dwelling unit for materials,

program support and labor costs not to exceed $2002 adjusted

annually for inflation. Up to 10 percent of each grant may be

spent by a State and its subgrantees for administrative

expenses (a State may not use more than 5 percent of the total

State grant for such purposes).

Applicant Eligibility: States, including the District of

Columbia, and in certain instances, Native American tribal

organizations. In the event a State does not apply, a unit of

general purpose local government, or community action

agencies and/or other nonprofit agencies within that State

becomes eligible to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Boston: Telephone: (617)

565-9710. Philadelphia: Telephone: (215) 656-6954.Atlanta:

Telephone: (404) 347-2888. Chicago: (312) 886-8575.

Denver: Telephone: (303) 275-4801. Seattle: Telephone:

(206) 553-1132. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of State and

Community Programs, Mail Stop EE-44, Office of Energy

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy,

ForrestalBuilding, Washington, DC 20585. Telephone: (202)

586-4074. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Statefunded local

action agencies install energy conservation measures in the

homes of low-income persons. 

81.106 TRANSPORT OF TRANSURANIC

WASTES TO THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT

PLANT: STATES AND TRIBAL CONCERNS,

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS 

FEDERALAGENCY:OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

OBJECTIVES: To enlist cooperation among the tribes, the

southern, western, and Midwestern States on the Waste

Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) shipping corridors, and DOE in

developing plans and procedures for the safe and uneventful

transportation of transuranic waste from current temporary

storage facilities to the WIPP. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The participating

States, tribes, and the DOE will work to develop, coordinate,

and implement activities in accident prevention, emergency

preparedness, and public information programs to help ensure

the safe transportation of transuranic waste to the WIPP site

and safe disposal operations. Financial assistance is provided

to support cooperation among the tribes, the southern,

western, and Midwestern States on the WIPP corridors, and

DOE in developing plans and procedures for the safe

uneventful transportation of transuranic waste from current

temporary storage facilities to WIPP. Restrictions on the use

of funds depends on the specific collaborative agreement.

Applicants must meet the guidelines established by DOE. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligibility is restricted by action of the

Western Governors' Association, Southern Governors'

Association, the State of New Mexico and tribal governments

along WIPP transportation routes. Southern governors

authorized the Southern States Energy Board to act as their

agent to negotiate and administer a cooperative agreement

between DOE, ten southern, and three Midwestern State

governments. The Western Governors' Association is the

negotiating body for nine western States on the WIPP

transportation route. The State of New Mexico has negotiated

a separate agreement. Each tribal government on the WIPP

transportation route will elected to represent themselves.

Participation in this program is restricted to the above list of

organizations and to the 10 affected tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: DOE Carlsbad Area Office,

Department of Energy, P.O. Box 3090, Carlsbad, NM

88221-3090. Contact: Telephone: (505) 234-7335. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Western Operations,

Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585. Contact:

Telephone: (301) 903-8466. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDEDPROJECTS: Details on funded

projects for transportation and emergency response planning

activities are contained in State and tribal work plans

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

66.418 CONSTRUCTION GRANTS FOR

WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To assist and serve as an incentive in

construction of municipal wastewater treatment works which

are required to meet State and/or Federal water quality

standards and improve the water quality in the waters of the

United States. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For construction of

municipal wastewater treatment works including privately

owned individual treatment systems, if a municipality applies

on behalf of a number of such systems. Such works may serve

all or portions of individual communities, metropolitan areas,

or regions. A project may include, but may not be limited to,

treatment of industrial wastes. The grantee must require

pretreatment of any industrial wastes which would otherwise

be detrimental to efficient operation and maintenance, or the

grantee must prevent the entry of such waste into the

treatment plant. The grantee must initiate an acceptable

system of user charges. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any municipality, intermunicipal

agency, State, or interstate agency, or Federally-recognized

Indian tribal government, having jurisdiction over waste

disposal. This program is available to each State, territory and

possession of the U.S., including the District of Columbia.

Title VI funds that are allotted as Title II to the District of

Columbia (DC), American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas

Islands and Virgin Islands can be utilized to award

construction grants in the same territories respectively, as per

the allotment formula of the Clean Water Act of 1987, as

amended. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Information regarding appropriate

waste treatment requirements andState and Federal assistance

may be obtained from the State water pollution control

agency. Individuals may also communicate with the

appropriate EPA Regional Office listed in Appendix IV of the

Catalog. Also, contact your State agency concerning possible

assistance under a State revolving fund (Title VI) of the 1987

Amendments of the Clean Water Act. 

Headquarters Office: Gajindar Singh, Municipal Assistance

Branch, MC-4204M, Municipal Support Division, Office of

WastewaterManagement, Environmental Protection Agency,

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

Telephone: (202) 564-0634. Fax: (202) 501-2396.

66.458 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR

STATE REVOLVING FUNDS State Revolving

Fund) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To create State Revolving Funds (SRFs)

through a program of capitalization grants to States which

will provide a long term source of State financing for

construction of wastewater treatment facilities and

implementation of other water quality management activities

(see 66.418). 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Capitalization grants

are available to each State for the purpose of establishing a

clean water State revolving fund for providing assistance for:

(1) construction of publicly owned wastewater treatment

works; (2) implementing nonpoint source management

activities included in State Plans developed pursuant to

Section 319; and (3) developing and implementing an estuary

conservation and management plan under Section 320. The

capitalization grant is deposited in the SRF, which is used to

provide loans and other types of financial assistance, but not

grants, to local communities and intermunicipal and interstate

agencies. Assistance may be provided to persons for

implementing nonpoint source and estuary management

activities if provided for in State Plans developed under

Sections 319 and 320. Up to 4 percent of the grant amounts

may be used for the cost of administering the SRF. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, territories and possessions of

the U.S., including the District of Columbia may use

allotments under Title II as grants for the construction of

municipal wastewater facilities. Indian tribes are eligible to

receive capitalization grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA Regional Offices listed in

your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: State Revolving Fund Branch,

Municipal Support Division, (4204), Office of Wastewater

Management, Environmental Protection Agency,

Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202)260-7366.

66.461 WETLANDS PROTECTION

DEVELOPM ENT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and Indian tribes in

developing new or enhancing existing wetlands protection

programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: These grants are

intended to encourage wetlands protection program

development or to enhance/augment existing effective

programs. The projects that will be funded under this program

should support the initial development of a wetlands

protection program or support enhancement/refinement of a

existing program. It is anticipated that funding will fall into

two broad categories of projects: (1) encouragement of
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developing new programs or (2) augmentation of ongoing,

effective wetlands programs. Grant funds cannot be used for

operational support of wetlands protection programs.Projects

must clearly demonstrate a direct link to increasing a State's

or tribe's ability to protect its wetlands resources. 

Applicant Eligibility: State or tribal agencies;

interstate/inter- tribal entities and associations; and local

governmental entities are eligible to receive funding. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA, Region I, Boston, MA

02203. Telephone: (617) 565-3227. Wetlands Protection

Section, EPA, Region II, New York, NY 10278. Telephone:

(212) 637-3801. Environmental Services Division, EPA,

Region III, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Telephone: (215)

566-2714. Wetlands Protection Section, EPA, Region IV,

Atlanta, GA 30365. Telephone: (404) 562-9414., EPA,

Region V, Chicago, IL 60604. Telephone: (312) 886-6115.

EPA, Region VI, Dallas, TX 75202. Telephone: (214)

655-8334. Water Resources Protection Branch, EPA, Region

VII, Kansas City, KS 66101. Telephone:(913) 551-7930.

EPA, Region VIII, Denver, CO 80202. Telephone: (303)

312-6223. Water Management Division, EPA, Region IX,

San Francisco, CA 94105. Telephone: (415) 974-1974.

Aquatic Resources Unit, EPA, Region X, Seattle, WA 98101.

Telephone: (206) 553-6221. 

Headquarters Office: Wetlands Division, Office of

Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (4502F), EPA, 401 M

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202)

260-5084. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None. 

66.468 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR

DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING

FUND (Drinking Water State Revolving Fund)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF GROUND WATER

AND DRINKING WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To create Drinking Water State Revolving

Funds (DWSRFs) through a program of capitalization grants

to States which will provide a long-term source of State

financing for the costs of infrastructure needed to achieve or

maintain compliance with SDWA requirements, and to

protect public health. State may also use the Federal funds to

establish new programs that emphasize preventing

contamination problems through source water protection and

enhanced water systems management. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Capitalization grants

are available to each State for the purpose of establishing a

DWSRF for providing assistance for construction of drinking

water and systems. The capitalization grant is deposited in the

DWSRF, which is used to provide loans and other types of

financial assistance to eligible public water systems. A State

may elect to use up to 31 percent of the capitalization grant

for other eligible activities, including 4 percent for

administration. States may also elect to transfer up to

one-third of the DWSRF capitalization grant to the Clean

Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) or an equivalent

amount from the CWSRF to the DWSRF one year after

establishing their program. 

Applicant Eligibility: States and Puerto Rico are eligible to

receive capitalization grants. The District of Columbia,

Territories, and Indian tribes are eligible for direct grants

from the program. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed

in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Implementation and Assistance

Division, Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460.

Telephone: (202) 260-5526. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Drinking Water

State Revolving Fund. 

66.471 STATE GRANTS TO REIMBURSE

OPERATORS OF SMALL WATER SYSTEMS FOR

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION COSTS (Operator

Certification Expense Reimbursement Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: The grants provide funds to States to

reimburse the costs of training, including an appropriate per

diem for unsalaried operators, and certification for persons

operating community and nontransient noncommunity

public water systems serving 3,300 persons or fewer that are

required to undergo training pursuant to EPA's operator

certification guidelines. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used by

States to reimburse operators of community and nontransient

noncommunity water systems serving 3,300 persons or fewer

for the costs of training and certification needed to meet EPA

guidelines. Unsalaried operators may also be reimbursed for

per diem costs. States are allowed to use a portion of their

grant to administer the program. If a State has reimbursed all

such costs, the State may, after notice to the Administrator of

EPA, use any remaining funds from the grant for any of the

other purposes authorized for Drinking Water State

Revolving Fund (DWSRF) capitalizationgrantsunder section

1452 of the 1996 SDWA Amendments. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, Puerto Rico and Territories are

eligible to receive grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed

in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Jenny Jacobs, Protection Branch

(4606), Drinking Water Protection Division, Office of

Groundwater and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone:

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EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

66.473 DIRECT IMPLEMENTATION TRIBAL

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS (DITCA)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

OBJECTIVES: Direct Implementation Tribal Cooperative

Agreements provide financial assistance to allow Tribes and

Intertribal Consortia to help the Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) implement Federal environmental programs

for Indian Tribes, notwithstanding the Federal Grant and

Cooperative Agreement Act. The program promotes Tribal

involvement in EPA direct implementation of Federal

environmental programs for Tribes depending upon each

Tribe's interest and ability. It will help Tribes build the

capacity to carry out EPA-approved Tribal programs in the

future if they wish to do so. EPA retains final decisionmaking authority and ultimate responsibility for the

environmental programs including all regulatory activities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DITCAs assist Tribes

in helping EPA directly implement Federal environmental

programs required or authorized by law in the absence of an

acceptable Tribal program, and may only be awarded to

Tribes to assist the Administrator in implementing Federal

environmental programs for Indian Tribes required or

authorized by law. 

Applicant Eligibility: Tribes and Intertribal Consortia are

eligible. An Intertribal Consortium is eligible to receive

cooperative agreements under this authority only if the

Consortium demonstrates that all members of the Consortium

are Federally recognized and authorize the Consortium to

apply for and receive a cooperative agreement on their behalf.

(See GuidelinesforDirectImplementation Tribal Cooperative

Agreements (DITCAs) for fiscal year 2002.) 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Grants AdministrationDivision, EPA.

Telephone: (202) 564-5084. Anthony Hanson, American

Indian Environmental Office. Telephone: (202)564-0286. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None. 

66.604 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS

TO SMALL COMMUNITY GROUPS (EJGSC)

FEDERALAGENCY:OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL

JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to grassroots

community-based groups to support projects to design,

demonstrate or disseminate practices, methods or techniques

related to environmental justice. Specifically, EPA will grant

funding assistance to be used for: 1. environmental justice

education and awareness programs; 2. environmental Justice

Programs (for example, river monitoring and pollution

prevention programs); 3. technical assistance in gathering and

interpreting existing environmental justice data; and 4.

technical assistance to access available public information. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds shall be

used to support projects, programs or activities that promote

environmental justice. Projects may include: 1. design,

demonstration, or dissemination of environmental justice

curricula, including development of education tools and

materials; 2. design and demonstration of field methods,

practices, and techniques, including assessment of

environmental and ecological conditions and analysis of

environmental and public health problems; 3. identification,

assessment or improvement of a specific local environmental

justice issue or a specific environmental problem; 4.

provision of environmental justice training or related

education for teachers, faculty, or related personnel in a

specific geographic area or region. Priority will be given to

community-based/grassroots organizations, tribes, and

organizations whose projects will help improve the

environmental quality of affected communities by a)

developing an environmental justice project, activity,method,

or technique that has wide application, b) enhancing the

community's skills in addressing environmental justice issues

and problems, and c) establishing or expanding

environmental and publichealthinformation systems for local

communities. No funds made available for this program shall

be used for the acquisition of real property (including

building) or the construction or substantial modification of

any building. Grant funds also are not available for use in

lobbying or underwriting legal actions, including the

preparation of court testimony and hiring of expert witnesses.

Applicant Eligibility: Community-based grassroots

organizations, other incorporated nonprofit organizations and

federally recognized Tribal Governments are eligible.

Individuals may have their organizations, institutions,

government or association apply. Organizations must be

incorporated to receive funds. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact EPA Regional Office

listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Environmental Justice,

(2201A), Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street,

SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 564-2515. 

Environmental Justice Hotline: 1-800-962-6215. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

66.709 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS AND

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR STATES

AND TRIBES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT

AND COMPL IANCE AS SURANCE ,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To build and improve the capacity of States,

multi-jurisdictional State organizations and federally

recognized tribes by providing assistance agreements to foster
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environmental enforcement and compliance assurance

activities and to improve compliance with environmental

laws. Such capacity building efforts may include economic,

social science, statistical research, development, studies,

surveys, demonstrations, investigations, public education,

training and fellowships to the extent authorized under the

Acts listed above.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Office of

Enforcement and Compliance Assurance identifies special

focus areas each funding cycle (approximately every 2 years).

Previous years have included calls for proposals for

innovative enforcement and compliance assurance projects

including performance measurement, data quality, and public

access to information 

Applicant Eligibility: State agencies, U.S. territories,

multi-jurisdictional State organizations, and federally

recognized tribes, including the District of Columbia, with

enforcement and compliance assurance responsibilities or

responsibilities that support enforcement and compliance

assurance including but not limited to data management or

research.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed

in Appendix IV of the Catalog. 

Headquarters Office: The Office of Compliance,

Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg., 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,DC20460.Telephone:

(202)564-2280. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The focus area

within enforcement and compliance assurance changes from

year to year. The focus area for a given year is announced in

a solicitation (Notice of Availability of Funds) which is

distributed by EPA Regions and posted on the OECA

web-site above. Previous focus areas included performance

measurement, data quality, and public access to information.

66.715 CHILDHOOD BLOOD-LEAD

SCREENING AND LEAD AWARENESS

(EDUCATIONAL) OUTREACH FOR INDIAN

TRIBES (Tribal Lead Grants) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF PREVENTION,

PESTICIDES AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To encourage Indian Tribes to recognize the

risks to children associated with lead exposure and address

them by conducting blood-lead screening for tribal children

and providing lead awareness activities to Indian Tribes. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance may be

available for activities which relate to blood-lead screening of

tribal children and outreach efforts to educate Indian families

about the dangers of exposure to lead-based paint hazards

among children. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible recipients are Federally

recognized Indian Tribes or Tribal consortiums (an

association or partnership with one or more Federally

recognized Indian Tribes) only.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed

in Appendix IV of the Catalog. 

Headquarters Office: For general information: Director,

National Program Chemicals Division, Office of Pollution

Prevention and Toxics (7404), Environmental Protection

Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg., 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,

Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-1866.

Information is also available on the EPA Home web page at

http://www.epa.gov/lead. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not Applicable.

66.806 SUPERFUND TECHNICAL

ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR CITIZEN

GROUPS AT PRIORITY SITES (SUPERFUND

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE

AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide resources under CERCLA,

Section 117(e) for community groups to hire technical

advisors who can assist them in interpreting technical

information concerning the assessment of potential hazards

and the selection and design of appropriate remedies at sites

eligible for cleanup under the Superfund program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USERESTRICTIONS: (a) Activities for which

Federal funds may be used: Federal funds may be used at

sites listed or proposed for listing on the NPL where cleanup

is underway to obtain technical assistance in interpreting

information with regard to the nature of the hazard, remedial

investigation and feasibility study, record of decision,

selection and construction of remedial action, operation and

maintenance, or removal action. (b) Limitations on the use of

Federal Funds: 1) Federal funds may not be used to develop

new information, such as conducting independent testing and

monitoring activities at a site. 2) Under CERCLA, as

amended, grant funds also are not available for use in

underwriting legal actions, including the preparation of court

testimony and hiring of expert witnesses. 3) Grant funds are

not available for any activities or expenditures for recipient

group members' travel. 4) Grant funds may not be used for

political activity and lobbying. 5) Grant funds may not be

used for epidemiological or health studies, such as blood or

urine testing. 6) Grant funds are not available for activities

inconsistent with the cost principles stated in OMB Circular

No. A-122.

Applicant Eligibility: EPA is authorized to make technical

assistance grants (TAG) available to any qualified group of

individuals which may be affected by a release or threatened

release at any Superfund facility. "Affected" individuals are

those who can demonstrate direct effects from the site, such

as actual or potential health or economic injury. The
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recipient group must incorporate to receive funds. EPA is

proposing to allow Tribes to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Check your local telephone

directory for a list of the Regions and their States.

Headquarters Office: Community Involvement and

Outreach Center, Office of Emergency and Remedial

Response, Mail code: 5204G, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency,Washington,DC20460. Telephone: (703) 603-8889.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Each project

provides funds to local groups of citizens active at Superfund

clean-up sites to hire independent technical advisors. The

grants help citizens acquire technical advisors to help them

understand proposed clean-up remedies, to better understand

the technical problem at the site, and respond to EPA actions.

66.808 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To promote use of integrated solid waste

management systems to solve municipal solid waste

generation and management problems at the local, regional

and national levels. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Available for the

allowable direct cost expenditures incident to program

performance plus allocable portions of allowable indirect

costs of the institution, in accordance with established EPA

policies. Projects can include the following types of activities:

training, surveys, education materials and programs, studies,

and demonstrations; assistance to such projects shall not

include any element of construction, or any acquisition of

land or interest in land, or any subsidy for the price of

recovered resources. Financial assistance to States, local,

regional, and interstate authorities for development and

implementation ofplans approved by the Administrator under

subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is not allowed. 

Applicant Eligibility: These funds can be awarded to the

following types of nonprofit entities: public authorities

(Federal, State, interstate, intrastate and local), public

agencies and institutions; private organizations and agencies,

institutions and individuals; and Indian Tribes. Profit-making

organizations are not eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Individuals are encouraged to

communicate with the appropriate EPARegionalOffice listed

in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: For information concerning grant

applications and procedures, contact the Environmental

Protection Agency, Grants Administration Division, 3903F,

Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-9266. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) National

Solid Waste Information Clearinghouse: Provides

information to the nation on solid waste management

alternatives. (2) Targeted Media Recycling Outreach: Funded

television and radio commercials that received over

$80,000,000 in free air play. (3) Peer Match Program:

Provides technical assistance to local government by

matching local government experts with local governments

requesting assistance. (4) Report on Scrap-Based

Manufacturing: funded production of a report to assist

communities in attracting scrap-based manufacturing. 

66.811 BROWNFIELD PILOTS COOPERATIVE

AGREEMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE

AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: Brownfield sites are abandoned, idled, or

under-used industrial and commercial facilities where

expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or

perceived environmental contamination. Theobjectives of the

Brownfield Pilot Cooperative Agreement are to: (1) generally

develop administrative, managerial, and technical models to

assist States or political subdivisions thereof or Indian Tribes

establish self-sustaining independent processes to assess and

respond to environmental conditions inhibiting

redevelopment of brownfield sites including development of

creative financing solutions for brownfield problems; (2)

specifically provide opportunities for creative two-year

demonstrations of site assessment activities leading to actions

to respond to environmental contamination and return

"brownfield" sites to productive use; and (3) provide financial

assistance for capitalization of revolving loan funds for

follow up brownfield response actions. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (1) Funds for

assessment pilot activities must show direct links to site

assessment, site identification, site investigation, planning

and or site characterization at sites which have an actual,

threatened, or suspected release of a hazardous substance,

pollutant, or contaminant, and may be used to develop

creative financing solutions (e.g. tax incentives, revolving

loan funds) for brownfield response actions. (2) Pilot funds

may only be used for activities associated with "removal

actions" as that term is defined at Section 101(23) of

CERCLA. Funds may not be used to pay for "remedial

actions" as that term is defined at Section 101(24) of

CERCLA. (3) Funds may not be used for actual development

activities (e.g. construction of a new facility) or to pay for job

training. (4) Funds for pilot activities may not be used at sites

contaminated by petroleum products except to the extent they

are believed to be co-mingled with a hazardous substance,

pollutant or contaminant. (5) Funds may not be used to match

any other Federal funds. (6) Funds awarded for capitalization

of revolving loan programs must be used for follow up

response actions at Brownfield assessment pilot sites that

have completed or have substantially completed assessment

activities, unless unique circumstances warrant an exception

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Applicant Eligibility: States and political subdivisions,

Commonwealths, and U.S. Territories and Possessions, and

Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA Regional Brownfield

Coordinators. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Outreach and Special

Projects Staff, OSWER, EPA, Washington, DC 20460.

Telephone: (202) 260-1223. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Developing

inventory of Brownfield sites; development of site response

and reuse program; coordination of response and reuse group

meetings; establishment of community involvement, public

participation, environmentaljustice components of a response

plan; development of communication strategies for

conveyance of technical information to communities; and

investigation of alternative funding strategies. 

66.812 HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT

GRANTS FOR TRIBES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the Hazardous Waste

Management Grant Program for Tribes is to provide financial

assistance to Tribal governments and Intertribal Consortia for

the development and implementation of programs to manage

hazardous waste; including building capacity to improve and

maintain regulatory compliance, and developing solutions to

address hazardous waste mismanagement impacting Tribal

lands. Fiscal year 2002 funding priorities include support for

Tribes potentially affected by regulated RCRA "Treatment

Storage and Disposal Facilities" and "Large Quantity

Generators."

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This grant program

will support Tribal programs to manage hazardous waste.

These programs should improve the applicant's ability to

properly identify, manage, or dispose of hazardous waste. All

hazardous waste management program activities that address

the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Subtitle C "cradle to grave" approach are eligible. Assistance

will be provided under this program only for activities which

the agency determines are appropriate to carry out the

purposes of RCRA.

Applicant Eligibility: The following are eligible to receive

financial assistance: (a) an Indian tribal government; and (b)

an intertribal consortium or consortia. An Indian tribal

government is any tribe, band nation, or other organized

group or community, including any Alaska Native village or

regional or village corporation (as defined in or established

pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43

U.S.C. 1601, et seq.), which is recognized by the U.S.

Department of the Interior as eligible for the special services

provided by the United States to Indians because of their

status as Indians. A consortium is a partnership between two

or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the

governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive

assistance under this program and that meet the requirements

of 40 CFR 35.504.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Designated Regional Tribal

Hazardous Waste Management Program Contacts may be

listed in local telephone directories or check headquarters

office.

Headquarters Office: Luke Jones, Office of Solid Waste,

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,

NW., (5303W) Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (703)

605-0728. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following

activities are suggestive and do not limit the range of

activities considered eligible under this grant program. These

activities are eligible only when they are performed in support

of developing and implementing a tribal program to manage

hazardous waste: (1) Develop and implement codes,

regulations, and ordinances to regulate hazardous waste

management activities including generators, transporters, and

treatment, storage and disposal facilities; and policies and

guidance consistent with national standards to direct

regulatory operations; (2) Develop and implement hazardous

waste program enforcement policies and procedures to ensure

regulatory compliance, including monitoring and inspection

schemes; (3) Develop legal and administrative infrastructure

adequate to implement and maintain regulatory and/or nonregulatory hazardous waste management programs. Includes

support for Tribal Emergency Response Committees(TERC);

(4) Identify and assess hazardous waste generation and

ongoing management of concern to the community,

including: (a) inventory active and inactive hazardous waste

dump/disposal sites and assess contamination potential; (b)

characterize hazardous waste stream, including illegal dumpsites; and (c) identify sensitive hazardous waste sites with

potential or actual impacts on water bodies, soil, air,

cultural/historic resources, threatened or endangered species,

etc. (5) Develop and implement tribal integrated hazardous

waste management plans (including, but not limited to, source

reduction/recycling, household hazardous waste collection

programs, pesticide container collection);(6) Implement used

oil collection/re- use and other programs to reduce the

mismanagement of hazardous waste in the community; (7)

Develop outreach/education documents and other resource

materials; (8) Plan and conduct hazardous waste management

training; (9) Establish qualifications for hazardous waste

management personnel relative to the tribe's needs and plan

for program implementation; (10) Establish a

communications plan for hazardous waste management

program activities; (11) Identify multi-jurisdictional

opportunities for hazardous waste management, including

feasibility for intergovernmental(Tribal, Federal, State, local)

cooperative efforts. 

66.926 INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL
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ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (General Assistance

Program (GAP) for Tribes)

FEDERAL AGENCY: AMERICAN INDIAN

ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICE, ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide general assistance grants (GAP)

to Indian tribal governments and intertribal consortia to build

capacity to administer environmental regulatory programs on

Indian lands; and provide technical assistance from EPA to

Indian tribal governments and intertribal consortia in the

development of multimedia programs to address

environmental issues on Indian lands. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Activities eligible for

funding under this program are those for planning,

developing, and establishing capability to implement

environmental protection programs includingdevelopment of

solid and hazardous waste programs. General assistance

agreements offer the opportunity for a tribe to develop an

integrated environmental program, develop the capability to

manage specific programs and establish a core program for

environmental protection. These assistance agreements

provide the opportunity for the tribes to define and develop

administrative and legal infrastructures; to conduct

assessments, monitoring, planning, and other actions; and to

undertake additional activities within a simplified

administrative framework. The primary purpose of these

assistance agreements is to support the development of

elements of a core environmental program, such as: providing

for tribal capacity-building to assure an environmental

presence for identifying programs and projects, including

developing proposals for environmental program grants and

managing environmental work; fostering compliance with

Federal environmental statutes by developing appropriate

tribal environmental programs, ordinances and services; and

establishing a communications capability to work with

Federal, State, local and other tribal environmental officials.

Restrictions: The principal focus of this program is on the

development of general tribal environmental capability.

Assistance will be provided under this program only for

activities which the agency determines are appropriate to

carry out the purposes of the Act. No single grant awarded

under this program may be for an amount exceeding ten

percent of the total annual funds appropriated under Section

(h) of the Act. As with many of EPA's grants to States and

Tribes, GAP grants may now be combined with one or more

other EP grants into a Performance Partnership Grant for

administrative savings and, with EPA concurrence,

programmatic flexibility. 

Applicant Eligibility: The following are eligible to receive

financial assistance: (a) an Indian tribal government; and (b)

an intertribal consortium or consortia. An Indian tribal

government is any tribe, band, nation, or other organized

group or community, including any Alaska Native village or

regional or village corporation (as defined in or established

pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43

U.S.C. 1601, et seq.), which is recognized by the U.S.

Department of the Interior as eligible for the special services

provided by the United States to Indians because of their

status as Indians. A consortium is a partnership between two

or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the

governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive

assistance under this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applicants are encouraged to

communicate with their Regional Indian Program

Coordinator listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: American Indian Environmental

Office (4104) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202)

260-7939. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Purpose: The

general assistance program is intended to provide general

assistance grants for planning, developing and establishing

the capability to implement programs administered by EPA

on Indian lands. Examples of past funded projects include:

establishment of a water quality assessment program; an

environmental assessment inventory; establishment of an

environmental code; establishment of a multi-media program

to address water quality, air quality, safe drinking water, solid

waste, hazardous waste and pesticides; establishment of a

management plan with emphasis on wastewater sludge

reclamation and tire recovery; establishment of a program to

address underground storage tanks, SARA Title III and radon.
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

83.010 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEM Y

ED UC ATIO NA L PR OG RAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY,

UNITEDSTATES FIRE ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To increase the professional level of the fire

service and others responsible for fire prevention and control.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Training is provided at

the resident facility in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and in the field

in cooperation with State or local fire training agencies on

specific subjects to specific audiences. The program is not open

to the general public or to individuals who do not have a need

for the information as part of their normal responsibilities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any individual who is a member of a

fire department or has significant responsibility for fire

prevention and control. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: National Emergency Training Center,

Educational and Technology Services Branch, 16825 S. Seton

Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: (301) 447-1000.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Students are

provided an opportunity to attend courses at the National Fire

Academy resident facility or at a convenient off-campus

location with a minimal cost to the individual or the fire

department represented.

83.012 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ASSISTANCE

PROGRAM

FEDE RAL AGENC Y: CHEMICAL AN D

RADIOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESS DIVISION,

PREPAREDNESS, TRAINING AND EXERCISES

DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

OBJECTIVES: Provide technical and financial assistance

through the States to support State, local and Indian tribal

governments in oil and hazardous materials emergency

planning and exercising. To encourage State, Tribal and local

governments to support the National Response System (NRS).

To support the Comprehensive Hazardous Materials

(HAZMAT) Emergency Response - Capability Assessment

Program (CHER-CAP) Activities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Equipment purchases

(e.g. ADP, facsimile), training and reimbursement of salaries

and benefits are restricted. Funding must be used for planning

and/or exercising projects that will serve to enhance emergency

management capability for dealing with oil and hazardous

materials releases. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, locals, tribes, U.S. territories,

State Emergency Response Committees (SERCs), and Local

Emergency Planning Commissions (LEPCs).

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: FEMA regional office responsible

for coordinating program activities.

Headquarters Office: Chemical andRadiological Preparedness

Division, 500 C St., S.W., Washington, DC 20472. Telephone:

(202) 646-4542.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Planning and/or

exercise projects.

83.105 COMM UNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

STATE SUPPORT SERVICES ELEMENT

(CAP-SSSE) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: MITIGATION DIRECTORATE,

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To ensure that communities participating in

the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are achieving

flood loss reduction measures consistent with program

direction. The CAP-SSSE is intended to identify, prevent and

resolve floodplain management issues in participating

communities before they develop into problems requiring

enforcement action. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The CAP-SSSE is a

product-oriented program directly related to the flood loss

reduction objectives oftheNFIP. Available CAP-SSSE funding

is provided on a 75 percent maximum Federal and 25 percent

minimum State cost-sharing basis. Both cash and in-kind

resources must be specificallyidentified to designated activities.

States estimate product completion as described in a mutually

negotiated cooperative agreement under FEMA's Performance

Partnership Agreement (PPA). 

Applicant Eligibility: FEMA's ten Regional Offices will

provide each State Governor's Office with the Cooperative

Agreement Performance Partnership Agreement (PPA)

Package. While all States receive copies of the solicitation

package, the Request for Application does not establish

eligibility to participate in the SSSE. FEMA annually informs

each State of its eligibility to participate in the SSSE under

notification separate from the solicitation package. The SSSE

is administered through the Mitigation Division of each FEMA

Regional Office. FEMA's Regional Offices will contact eligible

States to negotiate a mutually acceptable cooperative

agreement. Funding is made available when the cooperative

agreement is negotiated and agreed upon. Participation in the

SSSE is dependent upon the above described factors and

completing activities described in the cooperative agreement. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local telephone directory for list for

FEMA Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Mitigation Directorate, Program Implementation

Division, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472.
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Telephone: (202) 646-3121. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Community

Assistance Visits/Contacts (CAV/CAC),Ordinance Assistance,

CoordinationMeetingwithRegional Office, Community Rating

System Application Assistance and Review/Workshops, Flood

Loss Reduction Assistance and Publications, General Technical

Assistance. 

83.537 COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

OBJECTIVES: To provide loans to any local government that

has suffered substantial loss of tax and other revenue in an area

in which the President designates a major disaster exists. The

funds can only be used to maintain existing functions of a

municipal operating character and the local government must

demonstrate a need for financial assistance. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans are made only to

local governments or other political subdivisions of the State,

and are based on need, not to exceed 25 percent of the annual

operating budget of the local government for the fiscal year in

which the disaster occurs. The funds cannot be used to meet the

nonfederal share of any Federal program, finance capital

improvements, or repair or restore public facilities. FEMA may

cancel repayment of all or part of the loan. Cancellation

depends on the extent that revenues in the 3 full fiscal years

following fiscal year of the major disaster are insufficient to

meet the operating budget of the local government, as a result

of the disaster, including additional disaster-related operating

expenses. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must be in a designated

major disaster area and must demonstrate that they meet the

specific conditions of FEMA Disaster Assistance Regulations

44 CFR Part 206, Subpart K, Community Disaster Loans. To be

eligible the applicant must demonstrate: 1) a substantial loss of

tax and other revenues, as a result of a major disaster; and 2) a

need for financial assistance to perform its governmental

functions. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for a listing of addresses for FEMA's Regional Offices. 

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Response and Recovery Directorate, 500 C Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-3683. 

83.544 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide supplemental assistance to States,

local governments, and political subdivisions to the State,

Indian Tribes, Alaskan Native Villages, and certain nonprofit

organizations in alleviating suffering and hardship resulting

from major disasters or emergencies declared by the President.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Public Assistance is

awarded in the form of cost-sharing grants to States, local

governments, other political subdivisions such as special

districts, federally recognized Indian tribal governments and

Alaska Native villages or organizations, and certain eligible

Private Non-Profit organizations. A State is defined as any

State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto

Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust

Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Commonwealth of the

Northern Marianna Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia,

or the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Following a

Presidential declaration, grants may be made for: removal of

wreckage and debris; performance of emergency protective

measures on private and public lands; emergency transportation

assistance; emergency communications; and permanent

restoration of eligible facilities.

Applicant Eligibility: State and local governments, other

political subdivisions such as a special districts, federally

recognized Indian tribal governments, Alaska Native villages or

organizations, but not Alaska Native Corporations, and certain

Private Non-Profit organizations in designated emergency or

major disaster areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Use FEMA's Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Response and Recovery Directorate, Washington, DC

20472. Telephone: (202) 646-2751.

83.552 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

PERFORMANCE GRANTS (EMPG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF FINANCIAL

MANAGEMENT, FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

OBJECTIVES: To encourage the development of

comprehensive emergency management,including for terrorism

consequence management, at the State and local level and to

improve emergency planning, preparedness, mitigation,

response, and recovery capabilities. By combining several

funding streams into a consolidated Emergency Management

Performance Grant (EMPG),FEMA's purpose is to ensure that

recipients have the flexibility necessary to achieve measurable

results in key functional areas of emergency management.

Incorporated into EMPG are the following: 83.011, Hazardous

Materials Training Program for Implementation of the

Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of

1986; 83.505, State Disaster Preparedness Grants; and 83.535,

Mitigation Assistance. Indian tribal governments must still

apply under 83.011. This flexibility will be achieved within the

standard grant administration process. The thirteen key

functional areas of emergency management are: Laws and

Authorities; Hazard Identification andRiskAssessment; Hazard

Management; Resource Management; Planning; Direction,

Control, and Coordination; Communications and Warning;

Operations and Procedures; Logistics and Facilities; Training;
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Exercises; Public Education and Information; and Finance and

Administration. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: EMPGs may be used for

necessary and reasonable expenses to accomplish program

purposes consistent with statutory authorization. 

Applicant Eligibility: All States are eligible (including the

District of Columbia and territories and possessions of the

United States).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local telephone directory for a

listing of FEMA Regional Office addresses. State and local

government officials are encouraged to contact their State and

local emergency management departments or agencies.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-7057.

FAX: (202) 646-4157. E-mail: jonna.long@fema.gov.

83.553 STATE FIRE TRAINING SYSTEMS

GRANTS (National Fire Academy Training Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FIRE ADMINISTRATION,

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to State Fire

Training Systems for the delivery of a variety of National Fire

Academy courses/programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds are to be

used within each State to deliver NFA training

courses/programs and for marketing, administrative costs and

electronic feedback of student data. Each State shall spend at

least $20,000 in costs relating directly to the delivery of course

materials. Computer purchases are restricted. 

Applicant Eligibility: Representatives from the 50 State Fire

Training Systems.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: FEMA regional offices.

Headquarters Office: National Fire Academy, 16825 South

Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727. Attention: Field

Training Specialist. Telephone: (301) 447-1376.

83.554 ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS

GRANT(FIRE GRANTS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: UNITED STATES FIRE

ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide direct assistance, on a competitive

basis, to fire departments of a State or tribal nation for the

purpose of protecting the health and safety of the public and

firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Firefighting Operations

and Firefighter Safety, Eligible Uses: Training, Wellness and

Fitness, Firefighting Equipment, Personal Protective

Equipment, Other Equipment and Supplies; Restrictions: Oneyear Funds, Funding Restrictions and/or Limits on Certain

Equipment, Personnel, Construction, Vehicles. Protecting the

Public from Fire and Fire Related Hazards, Eligible Uses:

Public Awareness, Public Education, Inspector Certifications,

Building Code Development and Enforcement, Arson

Prevention and Detection, Emergency Medical Services,

Emergency Me dical Vehicles, Training ,

Equipment/Props/Suppl ies, Tr ansportation,

Contracts/Consultants, Program Personnel; Restrictions: Oneyear Funds, Funding Limits on Certain Equipment,

Construction. Firefighting Vehicles, Eligible Uses:

Pumpers/Engines, Tankers/Tenders, Brush Trucks/Attack

Pumpers, Rescue, Quints, Aerial Apparatus, Hazardous

Material, Ambulance/Transport, Communications/Command,

Foam Units, Boats, Equipment for the Vehicle; Restrictions:

Aircraft, Hazardous Material, Construction, Personnel, 1- year

Funding, Funding Limits on Certain Equipment. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants for this grantprogram

are limited to fire departments located in the fifty United States,

tribal nations, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S.

Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth

of the Northern Mariana Islands. A fire department is defined

as an agency or organization that has a formally recognized

arrangement with a State or local authority (city, county, parish,

fire district, township, town, or other governing body) to

provide fire suppression, fire prevention and rescue services

within a fixed geographical area. An emergency medical

services unit can apply for assistance provided the unit falls

organizationally under the auspices of a fire department as

defined above. Also, States, Tribal Nations, U.S. Territories,

and national, local, or community organizations, that currently

have a fire prevention or fire safety program or activity focused

on the prevention of injuries to children from fire, are eligible

for funding under this grant program expand or enhance their

existing fire prevention or fire safety program. Fire

departments, which are Federal or contracted by the Federal

government and whose sole responsibility is suppression of

fires on Federal installations, are not eligible for funding under

this grant program. Also not eligible for this program are

Ambulance Services, Rescue Squads, Auxiliaries, Dive Teams,

Urban, Search and Rescue Teams, Fire Service Organizations

and Associations, and State/local agencies such as Forest

Service, Fire Marshals, Hospitals, and Training Facilities.

Tribal fire departments are not eligible to apply for functions,

activities, or materials under this program that are funded by

other Federal agencies. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Detailed information about the

Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program can be obtained from

the FEMA Fire Liaisons in FEMA's regional offices. See your

local telephone directory for a listing of FEMA Regional

Offices or check with headquarters. 

Headquarters Office: Detailed information about the

Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program can also be obtained

from the National Fire Programs Division of the U.S. Fire

Administration. The specific contacts, addresses, and phone

numbers are as follows: Director, National Fire Programs
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Division, Room 307, N Building, National Emergency Training

Center, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD 21727.

Telephone: (301) 447-1362; Chief, Fire Grants Program

Branch, Room 304, Federal Center Plaza, 500 C Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-2821.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training: A fire

department where a high percentage of firefighting staff needs

basic firefighting training. Wellness and Fitness: A fire

department that wants to establish a wellness and fitness

program that offers an entry-level physical and a job-related

immunization program. Firefighting Vehicle: A fire department

that has few or no vehicles of the type for which they are

applying and whose existing fleet is old with high mileage

and/or high volume of calls. Firefighting Equipment: A fire

department that needs basic firefighting equipment to satisfy a

statutory requirement but has never been able to purchase such

equipment. Personal Protective Equipment: A fire department

where a high percentage of firefighting staff has never had

personal protective equipment and wants to purchase enough

equipment to protect all of the firefighting staff. Fire Prevention

Programs: A fire department that wants to establish a public

education program that focuses on children under 16 years of

age, seniors, and/or firefighters, in a community that has no

such program. 

83.556 FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE

GRANT

FEDERAL AGENCY: READINESS, RESPONSE AND

RECOVERYDIRECTORATE, FEDERALEMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to States, Indian tribal

governments and local governments for the mitigation,

management and control of any fire burning on publicly

(nonfederal) or privately owned forest or grassland that

threatens such destruction as would constitute a major disaster.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Provision of

Specialized Services. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Fire Management

Assistance Grants are made in the form of cost-sharing grants

for the mitigation, management, and control of any fire on

publicly (nonfederal) or privately owned forestland or grassland

that threatens such destruction as would constitute a major

disaster.

Applicant Eligibility: State governments and Indian tribal

governments are eligible for fire management assistance grants.

The State or Indian tribal government may be the Grantee. The

Grantee is the government to which a grant is awarded, and is

accountable for the use of funds provided.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for a listing of addresses for FEMA's Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Readiness, Response and Recovery Directorate,

Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-4535.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

93.005 PROJECT GRANTS FOR FACILITIES

TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF

MINORITY POPULATIONS

 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF MINORITY

HEALTH, OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND

SCIENCE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To construct, renovate, expand, repair, or

modernize facilities designed to promote the improvement of

the health status of minority under served communities and

populations. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded

should be expended solely for carrying out approved projects

in accordance with the provisions of the Omnibus

Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 1997 (Public Law

104-208). 

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact:, Office of Minority

Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the

Secretary, DHHS, Rockwall II Building, Suite 1000, 5515

Security Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Telephone: (301)

443-5084. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management

Officer, Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health

and Science, Rockwall II, Suite 1000, 5515 Security Lane,

Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 594-0758. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Construction of

National Primary Care Center; construction and renovation of

facility for the promotion of the wellness of

African-American women; construction of a facility to

enhance educational programs in the pre-health/health and

regulatory sciences programs. 

93.045 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE

AGING TITLE III, PART C NUTRITION

SERVICES 

FEDERALAGENCY:ADMINISTRATION ON AGING,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to States to support

nutrition services including nutritious meals, nutrition

education and other appropriate nutrition services for older

Americans in order to maintain health, independence and

quality of life. Meals may be served in a congregate setting or

delivered to the home. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Local projects must

provide a hot or other appropriate meal which provides

one-third of the "recommended dietary allowance" (RDA), at

least once per day, five or more days per week, except in rural

areas where a lesser frequency is determined feasible, to

eligible people aged 60 and over and their spouses. 

Applicant Eligibility: All States and Territories may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrator,

Administration on Aging, Office of the Secretary, Regional

Offices. (See your local telephone directory.) 

Headquarters Office: Office of State and Community

Programs, Administration on Aging, Department of Health

and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201. Telephone:

(202) 619-0011. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.047 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE

AGING TITLE VI, PART A, GRANTS TO

INDIAN TRIBES PART B, GRANTS TO

NATIVE HAWAIIANS

FEDERAL AGENCY:ADMINISTRATION ON AGING,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To promote the delivery of supportive

services, including nutrition services, to older Indians,

Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians and to enable tribal

organizations to provide multifaceted systems of support

services to family caregivers . Services are comparable to

services provided under Title III of the Older Americans Act

of 1965, as amended. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are available

through grants to eligible Indian Tribal Organizations for

services comparable to those provided under Title III.

Services must include nutrition services and information and

referral, and may include transportation and other services

authorized under Title III. Funds may be used for staffing the

center. Indian Tribes receive funds based on a formula that

considers the number of eligible elder Indians represented by

the tribal organizations with population ranges from 50-100;

101-200; 201-300; 301-400; 401-500; and 501 to 1,500 and

1,501 over. Grants also are available to private or nonprofit

organizations having the capacity to provide services to older

Native Hawaiians. 

Applicant Eligibility: Tribal organizations of Indian tribes

eligible for assistance under Section 4 of the Indian SelfDetermination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C.

450b) and public or nonprofit private organizations which

serve Native Hawaiian Elders, which represent at least 50

Indians or Hawaiians 60 years of age or older. Applicants

must document that they have or will have the ability to

deliver social and nutrition services. To receive a Part C

grant, the organization must have a Part A or Part B grant. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrator,

Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human
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Services Regional Offices in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of American Indian, Alaskan

Native, and Native Hawaiian Programs, Administration on

Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, 330

Independence Avenue, SW., Wilbur Cohen Building, Room

4743, Washington, DC 20201. Telephone: (202) 619-2713.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Supportive

and Nutrition Services for Older Indian Persons -

Passamaquoddy Tribe, Perry, Maine; (2) Supportive and

Nutrition Services to Older Indian Persons -San Carlos

Apache Tribe; (3) Supportive and Nutrition Services to Older

Indian Persons - Yakima Indian Nation; (4) Supportive and

Nutrition Services to Older Indian Persons - St. Croix Tribal

Council, Wisconsin; (5) Supportive and Nutrition Services to

Older Indians - Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. 

93.110 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

FEDERAL CONSOLIDATED PROGRAMS

(Special Projects of Regional and National

Significance (SPRANS)) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To carry out special maternal and child

health (MCH) projects of regional and national significance;

to conduct training and research; to conduct genetic disease

testing, counseling, and information development and

dissemination programs; and to support comprehensive

hemophilia diagnostic and treatment centers. These grants are

funded with a set-aside from the MCH Block grant program.

SPRANS grants are funded with 15 percent of the Block

Grant appropriation of up to $600 million, and when the

appropriation exceeds $600 million, an additional 12.75

percent is set aside for the Community Integrated Service

Systems grants. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Training grants are

made to institutions of higher learning for training personnel

for health care and related services for mothers and children.

Research grants are for the purpose of research activities

which show promise of a substantial contribution to the

advancement of maternal and child health services. Genetic

grants are for genetic disease testing, counseling and

information development and dissemination. Hemophilia

grants are for the support of centers which provide

hemophilia diagnostic and treatment services. Other special

project grants are designed to support activities of a

demonstration nature which are designed to improve services

for mothers and children. The grant program, the Community

Integrated Service Systems (CISS) program, is initiated

whenever the total appropriation for a year exceeds $600

million. The sum of 12.75 percent of the amount over $600

million is used to fund this program in which communities

employ a variety of strategies including: (1) Home visitation;

(2) increased participation of obstetricians and pediatricians;

(3) integrated service delivery systems; (4) maternal and child

health centers for women and infants, under the direction of

a not-for-profit hospital; (5) services for rural populations;

and (6) community-based services for children with special

health care needs in order to enhance or develop an integrated

services system. 

Applicant Eligibility: Training grants may be made to public

or private nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Research

grants may be made to public or private nonprofit institutions

of higher learning and public or private nonprofit private

agencies and organizations engaged in research or in

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) or Children with Special

Health Care Needs (CSHCN) programs. Any public or private

entity is eligible for hemophilia and genetics grants and other

special project grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Consult appropriate DHHS

Regional Office in your local telephone directory.

HeadquartersOffice: Central Office Contacts: Maternal and

Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, Room 18-05, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-2170. Grants

Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Room 18-12,

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1440. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Health

Professional Training Projects; (2) Schools of Public Health;

(3) Maternal and Child Health Research; (4) Genetic

Screening, Testingand Counseling; (5) Hemophilia diagnosis

and treatment centers; (6) Child and Adolescent Health

Services Demonstration Projects; (7) Healthy Tomorrows

Community Based Partnerships; and (8) Community

Integrated Service Systems (CISS) to develop comprehensive

community based systems to services. 

93.127 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

FOR CHILDREN (EMS for Children) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To support demonstration projects for the

expansion and improvement of emergency medical services

for children who need treatment for trauma or critical care. It

is expected that maximum distribution of projects among the

States will be made and that priority will be given to projects

targeted toward populations with special needs, including

Native Americans, minorities, and the disabled. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds granted

should be expended solely for carrying out the approved

project in accordance with Section 1910 of the Public Health

Service Act. 

Applicant Eligibility: State governments and schools of

medicine. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 
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Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Maternal and

Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, Room 18A-39, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-4026 or Office

of Emergency Enforcement Services, Traffic Safety Program,

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NTS-42,

400 7th Street, SW., Washington DC 20590. Telephone:

(202) 366-5440. Grants Management Contact: Maternal and

Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, Room 18-12, Parklawn Building, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-1440. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The project

funded at the Utah Department of Health is designed to

expand and improve a state-wide system of emergency

medical services for children. The project is regional in scope,

working closely with the Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

EMSC projects. Components include development of a

comprehensive inter-mountain pediatric EMS database,

reducing the morbidity and mortality of Native American

children living in the region, educating emergency care

providers within the region about the capability, availability

and response times of existing inter-mountain regional air

transport,and establishing regional protocols and educational

programs for the EMS systems through the region. 

93.129 TECHNICAL AND NON-FINANCIAL

ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH CENTERS AND

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS

(NHSC) DELIVERY SITES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to health centers and

NHSC delivery sites in the following areas: (1) Collaborative

activities on State, regional or market area levels; (2)

involvement of State agencies in assuring primary care to

medically underserved populations; (3) development of

shared services and joint purchasing arrangements; and (4)

provision of, or arrangement for, training, assessment and

technical assistance -- for purposes including, but not limited

to, primary care provider retention and recruitment, clinical

development, assessment of community health needs,

expertise in dealing with homeless, public housing,

farmworkers, children, rural health and other special

populations, and management and maximization of

nonfederal resources. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Recipients will be

expected to provide certain technical and non-financial

assistance to health centers and NHSC delivery sites. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants are private

nonprofit entities, including State and regional primary care

associations, and a limited number of public agencies. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HRSA

Field Office or the Director, Office of State and National

Partnerships of the Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA. 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Office of State and

National Partnerships, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350

East-West Highway, 3rd Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Telephone: (301) 594-4488. Grants Management, Office of

Grants Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350

East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Telephone: (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A grant to a State

regional primary care association for any or all of the

following activities: (1) Supporting the use of State resources

(including Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program,

Maternal and Child Health and Special Population funding)

for primary care purposes to medically underserved

populations; (2) assisting Health Centers in preparing their

applications for Federal, State and local funding; (3)

providing training and technical assistance in management

and governance; (4) developing shared services and joint

purchasing agreements; (5) assisting health centers, NHSC

delivery sites and other similar providers in retaining and

recruiting primary care providers; (6) promoting partnerships

with State and local health departments, State Offices of

Rural Health, Area Health Education Centers, Ryan White

programs, Maternal and Child Health programs, hospitals,

specialty and social service providers and residency

programs; (7) coordinating activities with National Health

Service Corps State loan repayment activities, and other State

health profession loan repayment/scholarship programs and

encouraging students to pursue careers in primary care; and

(8) planning and developing resources for activities in

support of pregnant women and children as well as activities

targeted towards special needs populations such as the

homeless, substance abusers, HIV-infected individuals, rural

populations, the elderly and migrant/seasonal farmworkers. 

93.130 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES

RESOURCE COORDINATION AND

DEVELOPMENT (STATE PRIMARY CARE

OFFICES)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To coordinate local, State, and Federal

resources contributing to primary care service delivery and

workforce issues in the State to meet the needs of medicallyunderserved populations through health centers and other

community-based providers of comprehensive primary care

and the retention, recruitment, and oversight of health

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TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Recipients will be

expected to perform State-wide primary care planning and

resource coordination, including Medicaid, Children's Health

Insurance program, State Offices of Rural Health, Ryan

White Area Health Education Centers, Maternal and Child

Health, etc.; support health systems development, primary

care practitioners retention and recruitment, National Health

Services Corps monitoring activities, as well as activities

relating to other special populations including rural

populations; and conduct operational and administrative

support activities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Cooperative agreements will be made

to a State, State agency, or other statewide public or nonprofit

entity that operates solely within one State. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HRSA Field

Office. 

Headquarters Office: Program Contacts: Director, Division

of State, Community and Public Health, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Public Health Service,

Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Room 9-105, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Telephone:

(301) 443-1648. Grants Management Contact: Office of

Grants Management, Bureau of Health Professions, Public

Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services,

5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8C-26, Rockville, Maryland

20857. Telephone 301-443-6880.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A State health

department was engaged in the following: statewide primary

care planning and resource coordination, including

coordination with Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance

Program, Ryan White Program Area Health Education

Centers, Maternal and Child Health and State Offices of

Rural health, health systems development; National Health

Service Corps monitoring activities, and perinatal activities.

93.151 HEALTH CENTER GRANTS FOR

HOMELESS POPULATIONS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF PRIMARY

HEALTH CARE, HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To award grants for the purpose of enabling

grantees, directly or through contracts, to provide for the

delivery of primary health services and substance abuse

(alcohol and/or illicit drugs) services to homeless individuals

including homeless children. The grants may be used to

continue to provide the services listed above for up to 12

months to individuals who have obtained permanent housing

if services were provided to these individuals when they were

homeless. For the purpose of this program, the term

"homeless individual" means an individual who lacks housing

(without regard to whether the individual is a member of a

family), including an individual whose primary residence

during the night is a supervised public or private facility that

provides temporary living accommodations or an individual

who is a resident in transitional housing. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds must be

used to provide the following services, directly or through

contract: (1) primary health care and substance abuse services

at locations accessible to homeless individuals; (2) 24-hour

emergency primary health and substance abuse services; (3)

referral, as appropriate to medical facilities, for necessary

hospital services; (4) referral of homeless individuals who are

mentally ill to entities that provide mental health services; (5)

outreach services to inform homeless individuals of the

availability of primary health and substance abuse services;

and (6) aid in establishing eligibility for assistance, and in

obtaining services under entitlement programs. Federal funds

may not supplant existing public or private resources that are

currently allocated to assist homeless populations. Separate

grants will be awarded to a limited number of organizations

to provide outreach, primary care services, and referral

exclusively to homeless children. These grants will be limited

to the same restrictions as the other grants. 

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit private organizations and

public entities, including State and local governmental

agencies. Grantees and other organizations with whom they

may contract for services under this program must have an

agreement with a State under its Medicaid program, Title

XIX of the Social Security Act (if they provide services that

are covered under the Title XIX plan for the State), and be

qualified to receive payments under the agreement. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Contact HRSA Field Offices. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Programs for

Special Populations, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350

East-West Highway, 9th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301)

594-4420. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants

Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350

East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301)

594-4235. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDED PROJECTS: A Health Care for

the Homeless Program formed a coalition of community

representatives and providers for the provision of primary

health, substance abuse, and mental health services to

homeless individuals. Health care provider teams will travel

to areas with heavy concentrations of homeless individuals.

Homeless persons will be provided with primary care

outpatient services either at a community health center or in

off-site locations, such as shelters for the homeless or welfare

hotels. The program will refer for inpatient hospitalization

services if necessary. Substance abuse services and mental

health services will be provided through existing facilities

within the community. The community coalition represents

organizations responsible for the provision of other services
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for homeless individuals such as food, clothing and shelter.

Through a system of case management, the program will

serve to guide homeless persons to these services.

Arrangements for 24-hour emergency services have been

made through a community hospital. 

93.155 RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH

CENTERS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To support the operation of rural health

research centers to provide an information base and policy

analysis capability on the full range of rural health services

issues, including financing, recruitment and retention of

health professionals, access to care, and rural delivery

systems. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded

should be expended solely for carrying out the approved

projects in accordance with the provisions of Public Law

102-170.

Applicant Eligibility: All public and private entities,

nonprofit and for-profit, are eligible to apply. Eligible entities

may include, but are not limited to, public and private

institutions for higher education, public or private health

research organizations, and foundations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Rural Health

Policy, Office of the Administrator, Health Resources and

Services Administration, Department of Health and Human

Services, Parklawn Building, Room 9-05, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management

Contact: Chief, Grant Award Operations Section, Grants

Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Public

Health Service, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Department of Health and Human Services,

4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814

(301) 594-4235. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) The Maine

Rural Health Research Center is based in the Muskie Institute

of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine. This

center's research focuses on issues in rural primary mental

health services, and rural aging and long-term care. (2) The

University of North Carolina Rural Health Research Program

is a multi-disciplinary health policy analytic unit in the Health

Services Research Center of the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill. This program addresses issues in rural

hospitals, including the expanded rural hospital and the

limited service hospital; collects and publishes data on rural

health care providers and the rural workforce; and produces

maps displaying the location of a variety of rural health

resources. (3) The Project HOPE Walsh Center for Rural

Health Analyses, located in Bethesda, Maryland prepares

issue analyses on a breadth of rural health issues of current

national interest such as proposed changes in Medicare and

Medicaid, and the health insurance coverage of rural children.

This center is creating a data base that will permit speedy

analyses of the impact of proposed changes in Federal health

programs. (4) The University of Minnesota Rural Health

Research Center focuses on rural networks and managed care,

the impact of the changing health care market on rural

providers and consumers, and implications of the diffusion of

health care technology in rural areas. (5) The WADI Rural

Health Research Center is based in the Department of Family

Medicine at the University of Washington School of

Medicine. It has close working relationships with the other

health science schools at the university as well as the other

major universities in the five WADI States (Washington,

Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho). This center focuses

on the rural health professions workforce, perinatal care in

rural areas, and health care restructuring and its influence on

clinical performance and outcomes. 

93.162 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS

LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM (NHSC Loan

Repayment Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To help assure an adequate supply of trained

health professionals for the National Health Service Corps

(NHSC) by providing for the repayment of educational loans

for participants who agree (by written contract) to serve an

applicable period of time in an approved loan repayment

program service site located in a health professional shortage

area. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Awards provide

payments of up to $25,000 a year plus a tax assistance

payment of 39% towards participants' qualified government

and commercial health professions undergraduate and

graduate education loans during the first 2 years of practice

at a selected NHSC Loan Repayment Service Site (2-year

service minimum and up to $35,000 plus a tax assistance

payment of 39% in the third year and beyond), under a

written agreement with this program. Health professions

given priority for selection are those determined by the

manpower needs of the NHSC. For fiscal year 1998, priority

for selection is given to: (1) primary care physicians; (2)

dentists; (3) certified nurse midwives; (4) certified nurse

practitioners; (5) physicians assistants; (6) clinical

psychologists; (7) clinical social workers; (8) psychiatric

nurse specialists; (9) marriage and family therapists; and (10)

dental hygienists. Contracts may be awarded to those who are

available for service during the period from October 1997 to

September 30, 1998. 

Applicant Eligibility: Individuals are eligible to apply if they

have (1) U.S. citizenship; (2) a health professions degree or

are in professional practice (they must hold an unrestricted
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health professions license in the State for which they will be

working, and be eligible for selection for a Federal civil

service appointment, or hold an appointment as a

commissioned officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the

U.S. Public Health Service); (3) not defaulted on any Federal

debt or do not have a court judgement against them; and (4)

no existing service obligation. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Chief, Loan Repayment Programs

Branch, Division of Scholarships and Loan Repayments,

Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and

Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department

of Health and Human Services, 10th Floor, 4350 East-West

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4400. 

Public Information Phone: 1-800-435-6464. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDEDPROJECTS:During fiscal year

1997, the program matched a total of 515 contracts to

students and graduates in health professions training or with

health professions degrees or licenses. 

93.164 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

EDUCATIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT 

(IHS Loan Repayment Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To insure that the Indian Health Service

(IHS) has an adequate supply of trained health professionals

for Indian health program facilities by providing for the

repayment of educational loans for participants who agree (by

written contract) to serve an applicable period of time at a

facility IHS has designated as a loan repayment priority site

or in a designated specialty at a site with an appropriate

position. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This program will

provide repayment of loans incurred for health professions

educational expenses in exchange for service in a designated

loan repayment priority site. Recipients must agree by written

contract to serve an applicable period of time in such a site;

individuals who have conflicting service obligations may not

participate in this program until those obligations are

satisfied. The minimum period of participation is 2 years.

Maximum payment to a program participant is $30,000 per

year and an additional 31 per cent of the $30,000 for tax

liability. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible individuals must be enrolled:

(1) in a course of study or program in an accredited

institution, as determined by the Secretary, within any State

and be scheduled to complete such course of study in the

same year such as individual applies to participate in such

program; (2) in an approved graduate training program in a

health profession; (3) have a degree in health profession and

a license to practice a health profession; (4) be eligible for, or

hold, an appointment as a commissioned officer in the

Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service

(PHS); (5) be eligible for selection for civilian service in the

Regular or Reserve Corps of the PHS; (6) meet the

professional standards for civil service employment in the

IHS; (7) be employed with an Indian health program funded

under Public Law 93-638, Indian Self-Determination, Title V

of Public Law 94-437 and its amendments or the Buy Indian

Act (25 U.S.C. 47); (8) submit an application to participate in

the IHS Loan Repayment Program; and (9) sign and submit

to the Secretary for Health and Human Services at the time of

such application, a written contract agreeing to accept loan

repayment of health professions educational loans and to

serve for an applicable period of service at loan repayment

priority site as determined by the Secretary. The term "State"

is defined in Section 331 (i)(4) of the PHS Act. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local IHS Area Offices.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Loan Repayment Program,

Indian Health Service, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite

100A, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-3369. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Physicians,

nurses, mental health, and other health professionals who

have agreed to provide full-time clinical services at an

appropriate site for an applicable period of time (2 years) in

return for repayment of their health profession education

loans. 

93.191 ALLIED HEALTH SPECIAL PROJECTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: Grants are awarded to assist eligible entities

inmeeting the costs associated with expanding or establishing

programs that will: (1) Expand enrollments in allied health

disciplines that are in short supply or whose services are most

needed by the elderly; (2) provide rapid transition training

programs in allied health fields to individuals who have

baccalaureate degrees in health-related sciences; (3) establish

community-based training programs that link academic

centers to rural clinical settings; (4) provide career

advancement training for practicing allied health

professionals; (5) expand or establish clinical training sites

for allied health professionals in medically underserved or

rural communities in order to increase the number of

individuals trained; (6) develop curriculum that will

emphasize knowledge and practice in the areas of prevention

and health promotion, geriatrics, long-term care, home health

and hospice care, and ethics; (7) expand or establish

interdisciplinary training programs that promote the

effectiveness of allied health practitioners in geriatric

assessment and the rehabilitation of the elderly; (8) expand or

establish demonstration centers to emphasize innovative

models to link allied health, clinical practice, education, and

research; and (9) meet the costs of projects to plan, develop,

and operate or maintain graduate programs in behavioral and

mental health practice. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.
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USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be

used for personnel, equipment, supplies, domestic travel,

consultants and guest lectures, rental of space, renovation and

other costs directly related to the project as described in the

approved application. Grant funds may not be used for

construction of facilities, acquisition of land, foreign travel or

support of students, including fellowships, stipends, tuition,

fees, or travel allowances. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible entities are health professions

schools, academic health centers, State or local governments

or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities.

Eligible academic institutions shall also be required to use

funds in collaboration with two or more disciplines. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Division of State,

Community and Public Health, Bureau of Health Professions,

Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Room 8C-02,ParklawnBuilding, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-3353. Grants

Management Contact: Grants ManagementOfficer, Bureau of

Health Professions, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Room 8C-26,

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-6857.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Multi-Tiered

Geriatric Education and Training Projects; Recruitment and

Development of Allied Health Professionals; Enhancement

and Expansion of Existing Allied Health Training Programs;

Enhancement of Faculty, Curriculum and Student

Recruitment;InterdisciplinaryTraining Programs; Video Disc

and Computer-Based Instructional Technologies

Development; Development of auto-tutorial teaching

materials; distance learning project using satellite

technologies; outcomes assessment projects; and Model

geriatric clinical education in Allied Health, Rural Health

Education Projects.

93.192 QUENTIN N. BURDICK PROGRAMS

FOR RURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY

TRAINING (Interdisciplinary Training for Health

Care for Rural Areas) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: The goal of this program is to provide or

improve access to health care in rural areas. Specifically,

projects funded under this authority shall be designed to: (a)

Use new and innovative methods to train health care

practitioners to provide services in rural areas; (b)

demonstrate and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary

methods and models designed to provide access to

cost-effective comprehensive health care; (c) deliver health

care services to individuals residing in rural areas; (d)

enhance the amount of relevant research conducted

concerning health care issues in rural areas; and (e) increase

the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners from

rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career

choice for health care practitioners. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds are

awarded to eligible applicants to carry out their

interdisciplinary training projects using various methods,

including student stipends, post-doctoral fellowships, faculty

training, and the purchase or rental of (transportation) and

(telecommunication) equipment where appropriate to the

rural area. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applications will be accepted from

health professions schools, academic health centers, State or

local governments or other appropriate public or private

nonprofit entities for funding and participation in health

professions and nursing training activities. Applications shall

be jointly submitted by at least two eligible entities with the

express purpose of assisting individuals in academic

institutions in establishing long-term collaborative

relationships with health care providers in rural areas.

Applicants must designate a rural health care agency or

agencies for clinical treatment or training hospitals,

community health centers, migrant health centers, rural health

clinics, community behavioral and mental health centers,

long-term care facilities, Native Hawaiian health centers or

facilities operated by the Indian Health Service or an Indian

Tribe organization or Indian organization under a contract

with the Indian Health Service under the Indian Self

Determination Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact:, CDR US Public

Health Service, Interdisciplinary, Geriatrics andAlliedHealth

Branch, Division of Associated, Dental and Public Health

Professions, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room

8C02, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-6867. Grants Management

Contact: Grants Management Officer, Bureau of Health

Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration,

Public Health Service, Room 8C26, Parklawn Building, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. (301) 443-6880.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded programs

were jointly sponsored, usually by academic and rural health

care entities; several programs had health department

sponsors. There was no preference as to whether academia

took the lead and worked with rural health care entity or vice

versa. Funded programs involved three or more of the eligible

health care disciplines. Emphasis was on opportunities for

providing clinical services in rural areas and efforts to

promote rural practice options. 

93.202 CAPACITY BUILDING AMONG

AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGENCY FOR TOXIC

SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

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OBJECTIVES: To address the Tribal public health issues

that result from hazardous substances in the environment by:

1) building Tribal environmental health capacity 2)

addressing health issues from releases of hazardous

substances into the environment, and 3) develop culturally

appropriate health education materials and/or vehicles to

engage Tribal community members in public health activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To enhance the Tribes

ability to collaborate with Agency for Toxic Substance and

Disease Registry (ATSDR) in conducting public health

activities related to potential human exposures from the

Hanford Nuclear Reservation. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized American Indian

Tribal Governments: Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Coville

Confederated Tribes; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla

Indian Reservation; Kalispel Tribe; Kootenai Tribe of Idaho;

Nez Perce Tribe; Spokane Tribe; Confederated Tribes of the

Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; and Yakama Indian

Nation. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Program contact, Division of Health

Assessment and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances

and Disease Registry; 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Mailstop

E32, Atlanta, GA 30333. Telephone: 404-498-0457. E-mail

address: zkg8@cdc.gov. Grants Management Contact:

Acquisition & Assistance Branch A, Procurement and Grants

Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2920

Brandywine Road., Room 3000, Atlanta, GA 30341.

Telephone: 770-488-2743. Fax: 770-488-2777.

ECG4@cdc.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects

include grants to American Indian Tribal governments to

conduct public health activities related to potential human

exposures from the Hanford Nuclear reservations. Examples

of funded projects are: Health assessments, health

consultations, community involvement and health education.

93.210 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM: PLANNING

AND NEGOTIATION COOPERATIVE

AGREEMENTS AND IHS COMPACTS (Tribal

Self-Governance) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To make financial assistance awards to

Indian tribes to enable them to assume programs, functions,

services, and activities (PFSA) of the Indian Health Service

(IHS), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),

and of the Department of Interior that are otherwise available

to Indian tribes or organizations. Such assumptions will be by

compact awards. The Self- Governance (SG) Demonstration

Projects initially limited the number of compacts that could

be awarded to 30. However, the 1994 Amendments authorize

the addition of up to 30 tribes per fiscal year for the 10 year

demonstration period not to exceed 18 years. In preparation

for additional tribes each fiscal year, the IHS will make

planning cooperative agreements available. The planning

cooperative agreement allows a tribe to gather information to

determine the current types and extent of PFSAs and funding

levels available within its service area and to plan for the

types and extent of PFSAs and funding to be made available

to the tribe under a compact. The IHS will also award funding

of negotiating cooperative agreements which allows tribes to

prepare to negotiate for compact status. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and

operating programs to provide planning and negotiation

resources to tribes interested in participating in the SGDP.

These cooperative agreements will be awarded on a one-time

basis. Compacts awarded as the result of the negotiation

cooperative agreements will be multi-year for the length of

the demonstration phase. 

Applicant Eligibility: For planning projects, any federally

recognized tribe which (1) formally requests, through a

governing body action, a planning cooperative agreement for

the purpose of participation in the SGDP (2) has operated two

or more mature contracts; and (3) has furnished organization

wide single audit reports as prescribed by Public Law 96-502,

the Single Audit Act of 1984, for the previous 3 years that

contain no significant or material audit exceptions. For each

fiscal year, an additional 30 tribes may be eligible for

selection to participate in the SGDP. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Office of Tribal Self-Governance,

Indian Health Service, Parklawn Building, Room 5A-55,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-7821.

Grants Management Contact Grants Management Branch,

Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian

Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100, 12300

Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-5204.

93.211 RURAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS

(Rural Telemedicine Grant Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this grant program is to

expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve

the quality of essential health care services, including

preventive and emergency services, through the development

of integrated health care delivery systems or networks in rural

areas and regions. Specifically the purpose of the Rural

Telemedicine Grant Program is to demonstrate how

Telemedicine can be used as a tool in developing integrated

systems of health care, improving access to health services for

rural citizens and reducing the isolation of rural health care

practitioners. The purpose is also to collect information for a

systematic evaluation on the feasibility, costs, appropriateness

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TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to

demonstrate the use of Telemedicine in facilitating the

development of rural health care networks and for improving

access to health care services for rural citizens; provide a

baseline of information for a systematic evaluation of

Telemedicine systems serving rural areas; purchase or lease

and install equipment; and to operate the Telemedicine

system and evaluate the Telemedicine system. Not more than

40 percent of grant funds may be expended for equipment.

Not more than 20 percent of grant funds may be expended for

indirect costs. Grant funds may not be used for purchasing

and installing telecommunications transmission equipment

(e.g., microwave towers, satellite dishes, amplifiers, digital

switching equipment or laying cable or telephone lines).

Constructions costs are allowable only for minor renovations

related to the installation of equipment. 

Applicant Eligibility: An entity that is a health care provider

and a member of an existing or proposed Telemedicine

network, or an entity that is a consortium of health care

providers that are members of an existing or proposed

Telemedicine network shall be eligible for a grant under this

section . An eligible network may include for-profit entities

so long as the network grantee is a nonprofit entity. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Office of Rural Health Policy, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-05, Rockville, MD,

20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management contact: Grants

Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, PHS, East-West

Building, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Rockville,

MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLESOFFUNDED PROJECTS: High Plains Rural

Health Network, Fort Morgan, Colorado: Lee Green,

303-867-6195. The High Plains Rural Health Network is a

consortium of hospitals, clinics, and physician practices in the

tri-state region encompassing Colorado, Nebraska, and

Kansas. Its telemedicine network will have two hub

facilities--one in Denver and one in Ft. Collins--serving nine

rural hospitals, one community health center, and a long-term

care facility. The telemedicine system will utilize a

videoconferencing system and an electronic bulletin board for

ongoing communications among all network practitioners.

The network also will facilitate "shared call," so a single

physician can be "on call" for the largely frontier area served

by the network. University of Kentucky Medical Center,

Lexington, Kentucky: Dr. James Norton, 606-323-8018. The

University of Kentucky Medical Center (UKMC) and

Outpatient Clinic will provide specialty consultations to 13

rural clinics, 2 small rural hospitals, 5 rural secondary care

level hospitals, and one community college student health

service clinic. The secondary care hospitals will also provide

consultations. The telemedicine system will use a variety of

technologies, including video conferencing and

computer-based image transfer. This project builds upon a

1-800 telephone consultation and referral system called

UKMDs. One goal of the project is to alleviate the isolation

experienced by health professions in the Appalachian region

served by the project.

93.219 MATCHING GRANTS FOR HEALTH

PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIAN

TRIBES (Health Professions Scholarships) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide scholarships to Indiansfor health

professions education through Indian tribes and tribal

organizations. Scholarships must be for health careers listed

in the current fiscal year Federal Register Notice for the

Indian Health Professions Scholarship Program. Related

objectives of the program are the proper administration of a

project, selection of scholarship recipients by fair and

consistent means, monitoring of recipients to assure

compliance with scholarship requirements, and eventual job

placement within the service area of the grantee organization

to fulfill service obligation. One of the monitoring objectives

is assuring satisfactory academic performance which is

defined as: (1) a 2.0 grade point average (GPA); (2) the GPA

required by the college/university; or (3) a 3.0 GPA for most

graduate level programs. A project awarded under this

program will be by a grant to the tribe or tribal organization.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and

operating a program to provide matching grants to Indian

tribes and tribal organizations to assist them in educating

Indians to serve as health professionals in Indian

communities. Under these grants, Indian tribes and tribal

organizations shall provide scholarships to Indians pursuing

health professions careers as listed in the current Federal

Register Notice for the Indian Health Professions Scholarship

Program. The grantees shall provide 20 percent matching of

such scholarship costs. A scholarship recipient under this

program is required to sign a service obligation contract with

the Indian Health Service (IHS). The service obligation is the

number of years equal to the number of years for which the

scholarship is awarded but not less than 2 years. There are

penalties for recipients because of: failure to maintain

academic standing, dismissal, voluntary termination of

training, failure to accept payment under the scholarship, or

failure to begin or complete service. The IHS is responsible

for collection of penalties. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any federally recognized Indian tribe

or tribal organization is eligible to apply for a grant. The

definitions of federally-recognized Indian tribes and tribal

organizations are found under Sections 4(d) and 4(e) of the

Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Public Law 94-437, as

amended. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: The Chief, Scholarships Branch,

Indian Health Service, DHHS, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite

100A, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852.
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(301) 443-6197. Grants Management Contact: Grants

Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants

Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza,

Suite100, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852.

(301) 443-5204.

93.223 DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION

OF RURAL HEALTH SERVICES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To develop and disseminate information to

assist rural communities and rural health care organizations

in developing and coordinating rural health care services.

Sources of information include, but are not limited to, Federal

and State agencies working in rural health care, health

publications, research reports, and reports from national

health care associations. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are

to be expended solely for carrying out the approved activities

in accordance with the intent of the cooperative agreement as

stipulated in the notice of grant award.

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit private organizations that

represent national, State and local rural health constituencies.

The applicant must represent National, State, and local

constituency groups who are interested in and committed to

improvements in rural health care. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Office of Rural Health Policy, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, DHHS, Parklawn Building, Room 9-05, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants

Management Contact: Office of Grants Management, Bureau

of Primary Health Care, East-West Building, 11th Floor,

4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301)

594-4235. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDED PROJECTS: Two National and

three Regional meetings of State Offices. Two workshops on

Rural Minority Health. Meetings and support for the National

Recruitment Network, and technical assistance to States and

local organizations. 

93.224 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To support the development and operation

of community health centers which provide preventive and

primary health care services, supplemental health and support

services and environmental health services to medically under

served areas/populations. Priorities will be focused on

providing services in the most medically under served areas

and maintaining existing centers which are serving high

priority populations. Centers must have demonstrated sound

capacities in the following areas: fiscal and management

capabilities; monitoring and assessment of project

performance; development and implementation of

mechanisms for improving quality of care; and maximization

ofthird-partyreimbursement levels, through improved project

administration and management. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USESANDUSE RESTRICTIONS: Applications should be

designed to improve the availability, accessibility and

organization of health care within medically under served

communities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Public or nonprofit private agency,

institution, or organization and a limited number of State and

local governments. Profit-making organizations are not

eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: HRSA Offices of Field

Coordination. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Community and

Migrant Health, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 7th

Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301)

594-4300. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants

Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 11th

Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Telephone: (301) 594-4235. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Health

centers; (2) health networks to support systems of care; (3) a

community health program; and (4) planning grants. 

93.226 RESEARCH ON HEALTHCARE COSTS,

QUALITY AND OUTCOMES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE

POLICY AND RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To support health services research to create

new knowledge and better understanding of the process by

which health services are made available, and how they may

be provided more efficiently and effectively. The Agency for

Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a broad

legislative mandate to support, conduct, and disseminate

research that improves the outcomes, quality, access to, and

cost and utilization of health care services. Major categories

of research include outcomes and effectiveness, clinical

effectiveness trials, evidence-based practice centers (EPCs)

translating research into practice, quality measurement and

improvement, health information technology, dissemination

activities, primary care, rural health, and managed care.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The research should

contribute to the health services knowledge base from which

empirically based information can be derived by
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policymakers, both immediately and over the coming

decades. Grants include funds for direct costs (such as

personnel, travel, equipment, or supplies) necessary to carry

out an approved project as well as funds for the

reimbursement of applicable indirect costs. Unallowable

costs, as well as those for which prior written approval is

required, are indicated in the PHS Grants Policy Statement.

Discretionary funds are available. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federal, State or local government

agencies, federally-recognized Indian Tribal Governments,

U.S. Territories, sponsored organizations, non-government

organizations, minority groups, specialized groups, public or

private institutions of higher education, and other public or

nonprofit private agencies, institutions, or organizations.

Research project grants may also be awarded to individuals.

For-profit organizations are eligible to apply for these grants

only if "cooperative agreement" is the designated funding

mechanism. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Agency for Healthcare Research and

Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Suite

601, Executive Office Center, 2101 East Jefferson Street,

Rockville, MD 20852. Program and Grants Management

Contact: Mable Lam, Grants Management Officer.

Telephone: (301) 594-1844. Use the same number for FTS.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Risk

Adjustment Methods for Hysterectomy Complications; (2)

Quality of Care for Newborn Jaundice; (3) Improving Heart

Failure Care in Minority Communities; 4) Medical

Intervention Effectiveness and Outcomes in Chronic

Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; (5 Comparison of Treatment

Efficacy for Prostate Cancer; and (6) Organization

Determinants of HIV Care Improvement. 

93.228 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

(Indian Health) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To improve the quality of the health of

American Indians and Alaska Natives by providing a full

range of curative, preventive and rehabilitative health

services; and to improve the management capability of

American Indians and Alaska Natives to assume operation of

all or part of an existing Indian Health Service (IHS)

direct-operated health care program. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The assistance is used

for six types of management related projects: (1) Feasibility

Studies; (2) Planning; (3) Tribal Health Management

Structure Development; (4) Evaluation; (5) Technical

Assistance; and (6) Federal Programs Analysis. Tribal

management grants may not be used to support operational

programs, or to supplant existing public and private

resources. Assistance is also provided for health-related

services such as injury prevention. This assistance is available

to federally-recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally-recognized tribes and tribal

organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for Indian Health Service Area Offices. 

Headquarters Office: For Tribal Management Program: The

Division of Community Services, Office of Tribal Programs,

Indian Health Service, Room 6A-05, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-6840. For Injury Prevention

Program: The Division of Community & Environmental

Health, Office of Public Health, Indian Health Service,

Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite

450, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-1054. For Health

Services Projects and Grants Management Contact: The

Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisitions and

Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook

Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100,

Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5204. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The development

of: (1) A management structure (2) an evaluation of tribal

health programs; (3) a feasibility study and comprehensive

health plan; (4) a management information system; (5)

technical assistance; (6) a deve lopme nt of

financial/management systems for Public Law 93-638

programs; (7) a Federal program analysis; and (8)

development of an infrastructure for injury prevention. 

93.241 STATE RURAL HOSPITAL

FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To help States work with rural communities

and hospitals to develop and implement a rural health plan,

develop integrated networks of care, improve emergency

medical services and designate critical access hospitals

(CAHS).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are

to be expended solely for the purposes outlined in the

approved projects.

Applicant Eligibility: States that have submitted a State rural

health Plan to the Health Care Financing Administration

(HCFA) can apply. All other States need to submit an

application to the Regional Administrator of their HCFA

Regional Office that expresses the State's interest in

developing a Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program

before they can apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Associate Director, Office of Rural

Health Policy, Health Resources andServicesAdministration,

5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-05, Rockville, MD 20857 (301)

443-0835. Grants Management: Grants Management Office,

Bureau of Primary Health Care, 4350 East-West Highway,

11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.
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EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH

GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF

HEALTH, DEPARTMENTOF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To increase knowledge of basic biological

and behavioral processes that underlie mental and behavioral

disorders and of processes that contribute to maintaining

mental health; to improve methodologies for research relevant

to these disorders; and to conduct research on mental health

services. Research supported by the National Institute of

Mental Health may employ theoretical, laboratory, clinical,

methodological and field studies. Studies may involve

individuals with a mental disorder diagnosis, individuals with

symptom levels that do not meet diagnostic thresholds, and

healthy individuals of all ages. Research also may involve

animal, computational and mathematical models appropriate

to the system being investigated and the state of the field.

Areas eligible for research support are: neuroscience,

including molecular genetics; behavioral sciences;

epidemiology; clinical assessment; etiological studies;

treatment; prevention; services research; and research on

HIV/AIDS behavior. The Minority Research Infrastructure

Support Program provides awards to increase the capacity of

institutions with a substantial enrollment of racial ethnic

minority students to conduct mental health research projects.

The Small Business InnovationResearch (SBIR) program and

the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program

provide awards to increase small business participation in

Federal research and development by means of increasing

cooperative research and development between small

businesses and research institutions (SBIR); and encouraging

participation of socially and economically disadvantaged

small business concerns and women-owned small business

concerns in technological innovation (STTR). 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (1) Research project

grants provide support for clearly defined projects or a small

group of related research activities, and when appropriate,

support of research conferences; (2) Program Project and

Center grants support large-scale, broad-based programs of

research, usually interdisciplinary consisting of several

projects with a common focus; (3) Research Resources

Development, Research Demonstrations, special Research

Exploratory projects, and Dissertation Support; and (4) Small

grants support small-scale exploratory and pilot studies or

exploration of an unusual research opportunity. Standard

small grants are limited to $50,000 direct costs for a period of

2 years or less, while newer small grants are for less time and

funds. SBIR and STTR grants are awarded in two stages:

Phase I grants are awarded to establish the technical merit and

feasibility of a proposed research and development effort;

only Phase I awardees are eligible to receive Phase II support.

Applicant Eligibility: Public, private, profit, or nonprofit

agencies (including State and local government agencies),

eligibleFederal agencies, universities, colleges, hospitals, and

academic or research institutions may apply for research

grants. SBIR grants can be awarded only to domestic small

businesses, and STTR grants can be awarded only to

domestic small businesses which "partner" with a research

institution in cooperative research and development. For

further definitions, requirements, and restrictions see the

Omnibus Solicitation of the Public Health Service for Small

BusinessInnovation Research Grant Applications (PHS 97-2)

and the Omnibus Solicitation of the National Institutes of

Health for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant

Applications (PHS 97-3). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Basic and

Clinical Neuroscience Research (Branches: Behavioral and

Integrative Neuroscience Research; Molecular and Cellular

Neuroscience Research; Genetics Research; Preclinical and

Clinical Therapeutics. Other Programs: Translational

Research and Scientific Technology; Research Training and

Research Development) (301) 443-3563. Division of Mental

Disorders, Behavioral Research and AIDS (Branches:

Behavioral Science Research; Developmental

Psychopathology Research; Prevention, Early Intervention,

and Risk Factors Research; Office on AIDS Research. Other

Programs: Research Training; Children and Adolescents;

Aggression and Trauma; Technology Transfer) (301)

443-7281. Division of Services and Treatment Research

(Branches: Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology;

Adult and Geriatric Treatment and Prevention Intervention

Research; Child and Adolescent Treatment and Prevention

Intervention Research. Other Programs: Research Training;

Multisite Studies; Preventive Interventions; Disability

Research. Other Units: Research Publication; and

Biostatistics and DataManagement) (301) 443-3648. Human

Brain Project and SBIR/STTR:(301) 443-3563. AIDS-related

SBIR/STTR: (301) 443-3175. Office of Rural Mental Health

Research (301) 443-3664.The Associate Director for Special

Populations (Minority Research Infrastructure Support

Program) (301) 443-2847. Grants Management Contact:

National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Department of

Health and Human Services, Room 7C-08, Parklawn

Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Telephone: (301) 443-2811. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Basic and

clinical neuroscience approaches to normal and disordered

behavior; Genetic studies of depressive disorders; (2)

prospective study of children of schizophrenic parents; (3)

neural bases of major psychiatric disorders; (4) genomic

control of CNS development; (5) Psychosocial interventions

in senile dementia; (6) legal impact on mental health practice;

(7) processes in learning and behavioral change; (8)

prevention of high-risk AIDS behavior; and (9) antibodies to

rationally modulate specific neurotransmitter receptors. 

93.244 MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL AND

AIDS SERVICE-RELATED TRAINING

GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: (1) Institutions Clinical Training Grants: To

encourage mental health specialists to work in areas and

settings where severe shortages exist; to increase the number
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of qualified minority personnel in the mental health

professions, and the number of mental health personnel

trained to deal with the special problems of children,

adolescents, the elderly, the seriously mentally ill, and rural

populations; and to assure that the skills and knowledge of

mental health personnel are appropriate to the needs of those

they serve. (2) State Human Resource Development (HRD)

Grants: To assist State mental health authorities in the

development of human resources. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be

used by Clinical Training grantees: (1) to defray institution

costs of the training program (personnel,supplies, equipment,

travel, and other necessary expenses) according to formula:

$10,008 per predoctoral trainee, $19,608 to $32,300 per

postdoctoral trainee depending on years of relevant

experience; and (2) to provide trainee stipends and other

allowances (tuition and fees, etc.) for individuals enrolled in

the training program. Funds may be used only for expenses

directly related to the training program. Individual Faculty

Scholar Awards: Salary support, $25,000 in educational

expenses, etc. State HRD Grants: Varies according to project.

ApplicantEligibility: Grants are awarded to public or private

nonprofit institutions and organizations, and State and local

government agencies for training relevant to mental health

service priorities in the mental health disciplines of

psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing,

marriage and family therapy and in specialized areas of high

priority and need such as State manpower development

projects; and for State mental health agencies to plan,

implement, and evaluate systems for mental health services

manpower development. Trainees in psychology, psychiatry,

psychiatric nursing, social work, or marriage and family

therapy unless training program is of limited duration or

experimental nature, will be subject to payback requirements

of Section 303 of the PHS Act. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Human Resource Planning and

Development Branch, Center for Mental Health Services,

SAMHSA, Department of Health andHuman Services, Room

15C-18, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857 (301) 443-5850. AIDS Training, HIV/AIDS

Program, CMHS, SAMHSA, Rm. 15-81, (301) 443-7817.

Grants Management Contact: SAMHSA, Department of

Health and Human Services, Rockwall II Building, Room

630, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857(301)

443-9666. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Psychosocial

pediatrics for primary care physicians; (2) social work

training in community mental health; (3) a graduate program

in nursing for ethnic minorities; (4) training foster parents as

mental health workers; and (5) an interdisciplinary mental

health care education program. 

93.246 HEALTH CENTERS GRANTS FOR

MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To support the development and operation

of Health Centers and Migrant health programs which

provide primary health care services, supplemental health

services, technical assistance and environmental health

services, which are accessible to migrant and seasonal

agricultural farm workers and their families as they move and

work. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Migrant health centers

program funds may be used for the planning, development,

and operation of health programs for migrant and seasonal

agricultural workers. Health Centers Programs for migrant

farmworkers include the defined primary and supplemental

services as specified in the legislation. Funds may also be

used to assist in the implementation of acceptable

environmental health programs. In addition, program funds

may be used to conduct projects and studies to assist States

and entities which have received grants or contracts under

Section 330 (g) in the assessment of problems related to camp

and field sanitation, pesticide hazards, and other

environmental health hazards to which migrant agricultural

workers, seasonal agricultural workers, and members of their

families are exposed. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any public or nonprofit private entity.

Priority will be given to applications submitted by

community-based organizations which are representative of

the populations to be served. Profit-making organizations are

not eligible. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HRSA

Field Office. 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Adolfo Mata, Chief,

Migrant Health Branch, Bureau of Primary Health Care,

HealthResources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350

East-West Highway, 7th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Telephone: (301) 594-4303. Grants Management Contact:

Grants Management Officer, Bureau of Primary Health Care,

Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350

East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Telephone: (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Primary or

comprehensive ambulatory health care projects include:

outreach, transportation, lab pharmacy, x-ray services,

occupational hazards and environmental studies, as well as

technical and nonfinancial assistance to migrant health

centers and programs, children's health insurance program.

93.252 COMM UNITY ACCESS PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To assist communities and consortia of

health care providers to develop the infrastructure necessary

to fully develop or strengthen integrated health care systems

of care that coordinate health services for the uninsured. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Examples of activities

that could be supported with this funding include: (1)

Offering a comprehensive delivery system for the uninsured
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and underinsured through a network of safety net providers

(single registration, eligibility systems); (2) integrating

preventive, mental health, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and

maternal and child health services within the system (Block

Grant funded services, other DHHS programs, State and local

programs); (3) developing a shared information system

among the community's safety net providers (tracking, case

management, medical records, financial records); (4)

developing and incorporating shared clinical protocols,

quality improvement systems, utilization management

systems, and error prevention systems; (5) sharing core

management functions (finance, purchasing, appointment

systems); (6) coordinating and strengthening priority services

to specific targeted patient groups; (7) developing affordable

pharmaceutical services. Funding provided through this

program may not be used to substitute for or duplicate funds

currently supporting similar activities. Grant funds may

support costs such as: (1) Project staff salaries; (2) consultant

support; (3) management information systems (e.g. hardware

and software); (4) project related travel; (5) other direct

expenses necessary for the integration of administrative,

clinical, and information systems, of financial functions; and

(6) program evaluation activities. With appropriate

justification on why funds are needed to support the

following costs up to 15 percent of grant funds may be used

for: (1) Alteration or renovation of facilities; (2) primary care

site development; (3) service expansions or direct patient

care. Grant funds may not be used for: (1) Construction; (2)

reserve requirements for State insurance licensure.

Twenty-five million is available for up to 20 communities to

further their development of integrated delivery systems for

the uninsured. Approximately 95 percent will be used for

discretionary activities. Grants will vary in size based on the

scope of the project and the size of the service area. A typical

grant may not to exceed $1 million. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applications may be submitted by the

public, private, and nonprofit entities who demonstrate a

commitment to and experience with providing a continuum

of care to uninsured individuals. Each applicant must

represent a community-wide coalition that is committed to the

project and includes safety net providers (where they exist)

that have traditionally provided care to the community's

uninsured and underinsured regardless of ability to pay. The

community-wide coalition must consist of partners from all

levels of care (i.e., primary, secondary, tertiary) and partners

who represent a range of services (e.g., mental health and

substance abuse treatment, maternal and child health care,

oral health, HIV/AIDS). Examples of eligible applicants that

may apply on behalf of the community-wide coalition include

but are not limited to: (1) A consortium or network of

providers (e.g. public and charitable hospitals; community,

migrant, homeless, public housing, and school-based health

centers; rural health clinics; free health clinics; teaching

hospitals and health professions education schools); (2) local

government agencies (e.g., local public health departments

with service delivery components); (3) Tribal governments;

(4) managed care plans or other payers (e.g., HMOs,

insurance companies); (5) agencies of State governments,

multi-state health systems, or special interest groups may

submit applications on behalf of multiple communities if they

demonstrate the ability to coordinate community health care

delivery systems and bring resources to the community.

Competing applications for the same patient population will

not be considered for funding; therefore, applicants from the

same community should collaborate.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Boston (617) 565-1420: New

York (212) 264-2549 - Primary Care; Philadelphia (215)

861-4414 : Atlanta (404) 562-4127 - Public Health Advisor;

Chicago (312) 353-1254 -Regional Program Consultant;

Kansas City (816) 426-5296 ext. 239 - Regional Program

Consultant; Dallas (214) 767-4533 - Associate Field Director

for Primary Care; Denver (303) 844-3203 - Public Heath

Advisor; San Francisco (415) 437-8113 - Public Health

Advisor; and Seattle (206) 615-2490 - Regional Program

Consultant.

Headquarters Office: Community Access Program Office,

Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn

Building, Suite 9A-30, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-0536. Fax: (301) 443-0248.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program no examples are available. 

93.259 RURAL ACCESS TO EMERGENCY

DEVICES GRANT (RURAL ACCESS TO

AEDS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To help community partnerships within

States to purchase and obtain training on use of Access to

Emergency Devices (AEDs). A limited amount of funds may

also be used for medical dispatcher training addressing the

use of AEDs for the layperson until EMS arrives,

maintenance costs and data reporting costs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are

to be expended solely for the purposes outlined in the

approved projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Grantees applying as a community

partnership may apply. These grantees must be located in

rural areas as defined in the grant guidance may include local

first response entities such as fire, EMS and police as well as

for and nonprofit entities concerned with cardiac arrest

survival rates. Statewide or regional offices may apply as part

of the community partnership, but such participation must be

documented in the grant application and clearly delineate how

funds would be disseminated to local rural entities within the

community partnership.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Office of Rural

Health Policy, Health Resources and ServicesAdministration,

Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Room 9A-55, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone:

(301)443-0835. Grants Management Contact: Grants

Management Officer, Grants Management Office, Bureau or

Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services

Administration, East-West Tower, 11th Floor, 4350 EastWest Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301)594-

4235. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Pilot AED
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projects funded by the State Offices of Rural Health in

Vermont, Maine and Wisconsin during fiscal year 2001. 

93.268 IMMUNIZATION GRANTS (Section 301

and 317, Public Health Service Act; Immunization

Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CENTERS FOR DISEASE

CONTROL AND PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and communities in

establishing and maintaining preventive health service

prog rams to immunize individuals against

vaccine-preventable diseases (including measles, rubella,

poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B,

hepatitis A, varicella, mumps, haemophilus influenza type b,

influenza, and pneumococcal pneumonia). 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be

used for costs associated with planning, organizing, and

conducting immunization programs directed toward

vaccine-preventable diseases and for the purchase of vaccine;

and for the implementation of other program elements, such

as assessment of the problem; surveillance and outbreak

control; information and education; adequate notification of

the risks and benefits of immunization; compliance with

compulsory school immunization laws; vaccine storage,

supply, and delivery; citizen participation; and use of

volunteers. Vaccine will be available "in lieu of cash" if

requested by the applicants. Requests for personnel and other

items "in lieu of cash" will also be considered. Vaccine

purchased with grant funds may be provided to private

practitioners who agree not to charge for vaccine. Grant funds

may be used to supplement (not substitute for) existing

immunization services and operations provided by a State or

locality. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any State, and in consultation with

State health authorities, political subdivisions of States and

other public entities. Private individuals and private nonprofit

agencies are not eligible for immunization grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Immunization Services Division,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of

Health and Human Services, 1600 Clifton Road, NE.,

Atlanta, GA 30333 (404) 639-8208; Fax: (404) 639-8627;

E-mail:JNK2@cdc.gov. GrantsManagement Contact: Grants

Management Branch, ProcurementandGrantsOffice, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health

and Human Services, Room 300, 255 E. Paces Ferry Road,

NE., Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 842-6517. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The majority of

official State Health Departments (such as California,

Michigan, and Texas) and some large local health

departments (such as New York and Chicago) have ongoing

disease control programs utilizing these grants. Immunization

Projects: The national program goals for immunization are to

reduce morbidity and mortality due to vaccine-preventable

diseases; maintain interruption of indigenous measles

transmission; prevent perinatal transmission of hepatitis b;

maintain 95 percent immunization levels for school enterers,

and 90 percent immunization levels for children enrolled in

licensed day-care centers against measles, poliomyelitis,

diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, rubella, mumps, and

Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib); develop, test, and

implement systems for use in the States to ensure that 90

percent or more of children complete basic immunizations by

age 2; and promote appropriate immunization programs for

adults. Effective comprehensive programs, include the

following elements: (1) surveillance of vaccine-preventable

diseases; (2) development and implementation of specific

plans to raise immunization levels within pre-school age

high-risk groups; (3) assessment of immunization status in

public clinics, private physician offices, and schools; (4)

public information and education programs; (5) participation

of citizens groups and volunteers; and (6) consistent

enforcement of compulsory school immunization laws.

93.284 INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR

AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKAN

NATIVES–COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To improve the quality of the health of

American Indians and Alaska Natives by providing a full

range of injury preventive health services.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The assistance is used

for three types of injury prevention related projects: (1) Part

I: Build or enhance local injury prevention capacity; (2) Part

II: Implement a proven or promising injury prevention

intervention; or (3) Part III: Provide training meetings or

conferences related to injury prevention and control. This

assistance is available to federally-recognized Indian tribes,

tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally-recognized tribes, tribal

organizations, and urban Indian organizations may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory for Indian Health Service Area Offices.

Headquarters Office: Injury Prevention, NCIPC, CDC,

4700 Buford Highway, NE, Mail Stop K-63, Atlanta, GA

30341. Telephone: (770) 488-4712. For Grants Management

Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of

Acquisitions and Grants Management, Indian Health Service,

Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100, 12300 Twinbrook

Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Basic Core

Capacity Injury Prevention Program Development or

Enhanced Injury Prevention Program Development,

implementation of proven or promising injury prevention

projects that are based on addressing local injury problems

and provision of training for tribes, tribal organizations, and

urban Indian organizations to address local injury prevention

issues and concerns. 

93.288 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (NHSC Scholarship

Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

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OBJECTIVES:To provide service-obligated scholarshipsto

health professions students to assure an adequate supply of

primary care physicians, certified nurse midwives, certified

family nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in Health

Professional Shortage Areas of the U.S.A.; and, if needed by

the National Health Service Corps, an adequate supply of

other health professionals. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Service-obligated

scholarships for full-time students of allopathic (M.D.) and

osteopathic (D.O.) medicine, family nurse practitioner, nurse

midwifery, and primary care physician assistants. Other

health disciplines may be included after 1998 if needed by

National Health Service Corps. Scholarship pays funds to

school for tuition and required fees for the year, pays monthly

stipend to student ($935 for 12 months of the 1998-1999

school year) and a single annual payment to cover cost of all

other reasonable educational expenses (books, supplies,

equipment, uniforms, clinical travel, etc.) based on average

costs by school and class year. Awards are limited to U.S.

citizens due to potential for Federal employment during

service. Applicant must be enrolled in an U.S. accredited

school. Each year of support incurs 1 year of service. A

2-year minimum service obligation is required. A maximum

of 4 years of support may be awarded. Service may be as

Federal or salaried nonfederal employee providing full-time

primary health services. Service sites are selected from those

listed by National Health Service Corps 1 year prior to

service in federally-designated Health Professional Shortage

Areas for physicians and in May of the year of graduation for

nurse practitioners, nurse mid-wives, and physicians

assistants. Service sites are limited to the United States,

territories, and successor States to the Trust Territories, the

Republic of Marshall Islands, the Federated States of

Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Deferments of service

are granted physicians to complete residencies in family

practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, and OB/GYN. 

Applicant Eligibility: At the time of award, the applicant

must be a U.S. citizen or national. At the time of award, the

applicant must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment in

accredited school in U.S. The applicant must submit

application and signed contract to the Public Health Service

(PHS) by the last Friday in March, agreeing to accept

payment of scholarship and provide full-time primary health

services in a Health Professional Shortage Area. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Scholarship Programs Branch,

Division of Scholarships and Loan Repayments, Bureau of

Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 10th Floor,

Bethesda MD 20814. Public Information (301) 594-4410.

For 24-hour toll-free calls from outside MD:

1-800-638-0824, use for requesting applications. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Scholarships

covering tuition, monthly stipends and payments for other

reasonable education expenses made to medical school

students, as well as for students of nurse practitioner, nurse

midwifery and physician assistant programs.

93.301 SMALL RURAL HOSPITAL

IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To help hospitals: (1) pay for costs related

to implementation of PPS; (2) comply with provisions of

HIPAA; and (3) reduce medical errors and support quality

improvement. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are

to be expended solely for carrying out the approved projects.

Applicant Eligibility: All small rural hospitals located in the

50 States and Territories. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Program contact: Office of Rural

Health Policy, Parklawn Building, Room 9A-55, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857, 301-443-0835, 301-

443-2803 (fax). Grants Management contact: Grants

Management Officer, Grants Management Office, Bureau of

Primary Health Care, HRSA, East-West Towers, 11th Floor,

4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, 301-594-

42350. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None. 

93.441 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION

(Indian Self-Determination 638 Contracts)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To enable Indian tribes to assume the

management and operation of programs, functions, services,

and activities (PFSA) for the delivery of health care to Indian

people. To enter into a self- determination contract or

contracts with Indian tribes or tribal organizations (T/TO)

interested in transferring the responsibility for the

administration and provision of health services from the

government to tribal leadership. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are for the tribes

to provide the PFSAs transferred from the Indian Health

Service (IHS). The funds are not available for construction

unless specifically authorized by Congress. Tribes can

reallocate funds within their budget from one line item to

another without contract modifications. Tribes also receive

administrative funds for the contracted programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any federally-recognized tribe that

formally requests, through a governing body action, a

resolution, to enter into a self-determination contract or

contracts for the purpose of planning, conducting, and

administering programs, or portions thereof, including

construction programs, provided that the T/TO submits a

contract proposal that conformsto the requirements contained

in 25 CFR 900.8 may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Aberdeen Area IHS, Alaska Area

IHS, Albuquerque Area IHS, Bemidji Area IHS, Billings

Area IHS, California Area IHS, Nashville Area IHS, Navajo
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Area IHS, Oklahoma City Area IHS, Phoenix Area IHS,

Portland Area IHS, and Tucson Area IHS. 

Headquarters Office: Mr. Douglas Black, Director, Office

of Tribal Programs, Indian Health Service, Parklawn

Building, Room 6A-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1104.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Hospitals and

Health Clinics, Dental Health, Mental Health, Alcohol and

Substance Abuse, Contract Health Service, HIV/AIDS,

PublicHealth Nursing, Health Education, Community Health

Representatives, Immunization AK, Indian Health

Professionals, Director Operations, Contract Support Costs,

Diabetes, Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund, Facilities

Maintenance and Improvement, Sanitation Facilities

Construction, Health Care Facilities Construction, Facilities

and Environmental Health Support, Equipment, and

Personnel Quarters.

93.558 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR

NEEDY FAMILIES (Temporary Assistance for

Needy Families (TANF) Programs; State Family

Assistance Grants; Tribal Family Assistance

Grants; Assistance Grants to Territories;

Matching Grants to Territories; Supplemental

Grants for Population Increases; Contingency

Fund; High Performance Bonus; Decrease in

Illegitimacy Bonus) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to needy families with

children so that children can be cared for in their own homes;

to reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, work,

and marriage; to reduce and prevent out-of-wedlock

pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance

of two-parent families. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Cash grants, work

opportunities and other services are made directly to needy

families with children. States, Territories, or Tribes have

broad flexibility to use the grant funds in any manner that

meets the purposes of the program (including providing

low-income households with assistance in meeting home

heating and cooling costs) and in ways that the State,

Territory and Tribe was authorized to use funds received

under the predecessor Aid to Families with Dependent

Children (AFDC), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills

Training (JOBS) and Emergency Assistance (EA) programs.

States and Territories may also transfer a limited portion of

their assistance grant funds to the Child Care and

Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Social Services

Block Grant (SSBG) Programs. Not more than 15 percent of

any grant may be spent on administrative costs, exclusive of

certain computerization and information technology

expenses. 

Applicant Eligibility: In general, all States, Territories, the

District of Columbia, and all Tribes, as defined by the Indian

Self-Determination Act, are eligible except in Alaska, where

only 13 specified entities are eligible. State and local agencies

and Tribes that operate TANF programs must do so under

plans determined to be complete or approved by the

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). For

contingency funds, all States and the District of Columbia are

eligible if they are determined to be a "needy State" by

satisfying either an unemployment trigger or a food stamp

trigger. Territories and Tribes are not eligible for

Supplemental funds. Eligibility for the High Performance

Bonus is based on performance in certain criteria as

determined by the Secretary. Eligibility for the Decrease in

Illegitimacy Bonus is based on available statistical data. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: States, Territories and Tribes

should contact the Administration for Children and Families

(ACF) Regional Offices. (See your local telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: For all grants except Tribal grants:

Office of the Director, Office of Family Assistance,

Administration for Children and Families, Department of

Health and Human Services, 5th Floor, Aerospace Building,

370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. For

Tribal Grants: Office of the Director, Office of Community

Services, Administration for Children and Families,

Department of Health and Human Services, 5th Floor,

Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW.,

Washington, DC 20447. 

93.568 LOW-INCOME HOM E ENERGY

ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: Energy Assistance Block Grants: To make

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

grants available to States and other jurisdictions to assist

eligible households to meet the costs of home energy.

Supplemental Leveraging Incentive Funds may be awarded to

reward States and other jurisdictions that provide additional

benefits and services to LIHEAP-eligible households beyond

what could be provided with Federal funds. Up to 25 percent

of the leveraging incentive funds may be set aside for

LIHEAP grantees that provide services through

community-based nonprofit organizations to help

LIHEAP-eligible households reduce their energy

vulnerability; under the Residential Energy Assistance

Challenge Program (REACH). Training and Technical

Assistance: To provide training and technical assistance to

States and other jurisdictions administering the LIHEAP

block grant program. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: FormulaGrants;Project Grants;

Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements); Project Grants

(Contracts). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Energy Assistance

Block Grants: Funds are awarded to States and other

jurisdictions, which then make payments directly to an

eligible low-income household or, on behalf of such

household, to an energy supplier to assist in meeting the cost

of home energy. Up to 10 percent of these funds may be used

for State and local planning and administration. Up to 15

percent may be used for low-cost residential weatherization.

Grantees may request that DHHS grant a waiver for the fiscal

year that increases from 15 percent to 25 percent funds that

can be allotted for residential weatherization.) Depending
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upon specific appropriations, DHHS may allocate

supplemental LIHEAP leveraging incentive funds to grantees

that have acquired nonfederal leveraged resources for their

LIHEAP programs. Beginning in fiscal year 1996, up to 25

percent of leveraging incentive funds may be allocated by

DHHS to LIHEAP grantees that provide services through

community-based nonprofit organizations to

LIHEAP-eligible households to reduce their energy

vulnerability, under the Residential Energy Assistance

Challenge Program (REACH). Up to $600,000,000 is

authorized as emergency contingency funds to be used to

meet additional needs arising from a natural disaster or other

emergency. Such funds will be made available only after

submission to Congress of a formal budget request for all or

part of the funds by the President that designates the amount

of the request as an emergency under the Balanced Budget

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Training and

Technical Assistance: The Secretary has authority to set aside

up to $250,000 from each year's appropriation for training

and technical assistance relating to the Low-Income Home

Energy Assistance Program. These activities are

accomplished through grants, contracts, or jointly financed

cooperative agreements with States, Indian tribes, tribal

organizations, public agencies, or private nonprofit

organizations. The nature of and amount awarded for training

and technical assistance vary from year to year. 

Applicant Eligibility: Energy Assistance Block Grants: All

States, the District of Columbia, federally and

State-recognized Indian Tribal governments which request

direct funding, and specified Territories may receive direct

grants. The prospective grantee must submit an annual

application. Grantees desiring leveraging incentive funds and

REACH funds must submit special applications each year.

Instructions will be issued if emergency contingency funds

are released. Training and Technical Assistance: States,

Indian tribes or tribal organizations, Territories, public

agencies, and private nonprofit organizations may apply.

Nothing in the statute precludes a business concern that

applies jointly with a private nonprofit organization from

receiving a training and technical assistance grant. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of Energy Assistance, Office

of Community Services, Administration for Children and

Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370

L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447.

Telephone: (202) 401-9351. FAX: (202)401-5718. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training and

Technical Assistance:Trainingworkshopsand clearinghouses

have been conducted. 

93.569 COMM UNITY SERVICES BLOCK

GRANT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY

SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN

AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: (1) To provide services and activities having

a measurable and potential major impact on causes of poverty

in the community or those areas of the community where

poverty is a particularly acute problem; (2) to provide

activities designed to assist low-income participants,

including the elderly poor, to: (a) secure and retain

meaningful employment; (b) attain an adequate education; (c)

make better use of available income; (d) obtain and maintain

adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (e)

obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet

immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including

health services, nutritious food, housing, and

employment-related assistance; (f) remove obstacles and

solve problems which block the achievement of

self-sufficiency; (g) achieve greater participation in the affairs

of the community; and (h) make more effective use of other

related programs; (3) to provide on an emergency basis for

the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious

foodstuffs, and related services, as may be necessary to

counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among

the poor; (4) to coordinate and establish linkages between

governmental and other social services programs to assure the

effective delivery of such services to low-income individuals;

and (5) to encourage the use of entities in the private sector

of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the

community. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (1) States receive block

grants to ameliorate the causes of poverty in communities.

The block grant approach gives the States flexibility to tailor

their programs to the particular services needs in their

communities. (2) States are required to use at least 90 percent

of their allocations for grants to "eligible entities" as defined

in the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Act, as

amended; this includes primarily locally-based community

action agencies and/or organizations that serve seasonal or

migrant farm workers. States are allowed to grant up to 7

percent of the funds available under Section 675 (a)(2)(A)(i)

of the CSBG Act to organizations which were not eligible

entities in the previous fiscal year. (3) No more than the

greater of $55,000 or 5 percent of each State's allocation may

be used for administrative expenses at the State level. (4)

States may transfer up to 5 percent of their allocation for

services under the Older Americans Act, the Head Start

program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program,

or the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983.

Applicant Eligibility: The Secretary is authorized to make

grants to States. This means each of the 50 States, the District

of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the

Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The

Secretary also provides assistance directly to the governing

body of an Indian Tribe or Tribal organization upon

application by the tribe. Only State-recognized tribes, as

evidenced by a statement to that effect by the Governor, or

tribes formally recognized by the Secretary of the Interior

under the procedure for such recognition in 25 CFR, Part 54

are eligible to receive direct grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of State Assistance, Office of

Community Services, Administration for Children and

Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370

L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447.

Telephone: (202) 401-9343. 

93.570 COMM UNITY SERVICES BLOCK

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FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY

SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN

AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support program activities of national or

regional significance to alleviate the causes of poverty in

distressed communities which promote: (1) full-time

permanent jobs for poverty level project area residents; (2)

income and/or ownership opportunities for low-income

community members; (3) a better standard of living for rural

low-income individuals in terms of housing or water and

waste-water treatment; (4) the implementation of projects,

including projects proposing new and innovative strategies

for addressing the special needs of migrants and seasonal

farm workers; and (5) national or regional programs designed

to provide character building, sports and physical fitness

activities for low-income youth. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal funds awarded

under the Secretary's Discretionary Authority may be used for

activities that: improve the quality of the economic and social

environment of low-income residents by providing resources

to eligible applicants, by arresting tendencies toward

dependency, chronic unemployment and community

deterioration in urban and rural areas; address the two major

needs of housing, repair and rehabilitation, and water and

wastewater treatment; focus on the special needs of migrant

and seasonal farm workers to improve their quality of life and

advance self-sufficiency; provide national or regional

character building, sports and physical fitness programs for

low-income youth; and involve significant new combinations

of resources. (1) Projects must result in direct benefits

targeted toward low-income people as defined in the most

recent Department of Health and Human Services Annual

Revision of Poverty Income Guidelines, which are published

in the Federal Register. (2) Generally, the project must be

capable of being completed within 12 to 36 months of the

award of the grant. Each project will have an expiration date.

(3) OCS will give favorable consideration to projects which

document public/private partnership which mobilize cash

and/or in-kind contributions. 

Applicant Eligibility: For economic development projects,

eligibility is restricted to private, locally initiated, nonprofit

community development corporations (or affiliates of such

corporations) governed by a board consisting of residents of

the community and business and civic leaders. For all other

projects, the Secretary is authorized to make direct grants to

States, cities, counties, and private nonprofit organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of Community Discretionary

Programs, Office of Community Services, Administration for

Children and Families, Department of Health and Human

Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC

20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9345.

93.575 CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT

BLOCK GRANT (Discretionary Fund of the

Child Care and Development Fund) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to States and Tribes to assist

low- income families with child care and to: (1) to allow each

State maximum flexibility in developing child care programs

and policies that best suit the needs of children and parents

within State; (2) to promote parental choice to empower

working parents to make their own decisions on the child care

that best suits their family's needs; (3) to encourage States to

provide consumer education information to help parentsmake

informed choices about child care; (4) to assist States to

provide child care to parents trying to achieve independence

from public assistance; and (5) to assist States in

implementing the health, safety, licensing, and registration

standards established in State regulations. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Lead agencies shall

assure that a substantial portion of the Discretionary Funds

will be used to provide assistance to low-income working

families. Not more than 5 percent of the aggregate amount of

funds available to the State may be expended for

administrative costs incurred by the State to carry out all of its

functions and duties. The term `administrative costs' does not

include the costs of providing direct services. A State shall

use not less than 4 percent of the amount of funds for

activities that are designed to provide comprehensive

consumer education to parents and the public, activities that

increase parental choice, and activities designed to improve

the quality and availability of child care (such as resource and

referral services). Except for approved construction of child

care facilities by Tribal grantees, no CCDF funds may be used

for purchase or improvement of land, or for the purchase,

construction, or permanent improvement (other than minor

remodeling) of any building or facility. A portion of

discretionary funds separately allocated must be used for

Child Care Resource and Referral and/or school-age child

care services. Another portion of the discretionary funds

separately allocated must be used for improving infant/toddler

child care services. 

Applicant Eligibility: All States, the District of Columbia,

Territories (Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, U.S.

Virgin Islands, and Commonwealthof the Northern Marianna

Islands), Federally recognized Tribal Governments, Tribal

organizations, Alaska Native organizations, and Native

Hawaiian organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrators. (See

your local telephone directory for addresses of Regional

Offices.) 

Headquarters Office: Child Care Bureau, Administration on

Children, Youth, and Families, Administration for Children

and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 200

independence Avenue, S.W., 3rd Floor, Room 300-F,

Washington, D.C. 20201. Telephone; (202) 690-6782. 

93.581 IMPROVING THE CAPABILITY OF

INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNM ENTS TO

REGULATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to advance

tribal capacity and capability to plan for, develop, and

implement enhancements to tribal environmental regulatory

infrastructure required to support a tribal environmental

program and to regulate and enforce environmental activities

on Indian lands; to develop regulations, ordinances and laws

to protect the environment; to develop the technical and

program capacity to carry out a comprehensive tribal

environmental program and perform essential environmental

program functions; to promote training and education of

tribal employees; to develop technical and program capability

to meet tribal and Federal regulatory requirements; to develop

technical and program capability to monitor compliance and

enforcement of tribal environmental regulations, ordinances,

and laws; and to ensure the tribal court system enforcement

requirements are developed in concert with and support the

tribe's comprehensive environmental program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

planning, developing and implementing tribal environmental

regulatory programs through competitive grants.

Applicant Eligibility: The following organizations are

eligible to apply: Federally-recognized Indian tribes;

consortia of Indian tribes; incorporated non-Federallyrecognized tribes; Alaska Native villages as defined in the

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and/or

nonprofit village consortia; and tribal governing bodies (IRA

or traditional councils) as recognized by the Bureau of Indian

Affairs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

HeadquartersOffice: Administration for Native Americans,

Department of Health and Human Services, Room 348-F, 370

L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447.

Telephone: (202) 690-6326. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None are

available at this time.

93.582 MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL

IMPACTS TO INDIAN LANDS DUE TO

DEPARTM ENT OF DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to American

Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages to mitigate

environmental impacts to their lands due to Department of

Defense activities by assisting the tribes and villages in the

planning, development and implementation of programs for

such mitigation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to

support one or more of the following phases of mitigation

work: Phase I: Research and planning to identify

environmental impacts to tribal and village lands due to

Department of Defense activities; Phase II: Examination of

alternative approaches for mitigation of impacts identified in

Phase 1; Phase III: Development of a comprehensive plan for

conducting all aspects of mitigation actions; and Phase IV:

Implementation of the mitigation plan.

Applicant Eligibility: The following organizations are

eligible to apply: Federally-recognized Indian tribes;

incorporated non- Federally-recognized and State-recognized

Indian tribes; Alaska Native villages, tribes or tribal

governing bodies (IRA or traditional councils) as recognized

by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Federal Register Notice

dated October 21, 1993; nonprofit Alaska Native Regional

Associations and/or Corporations with village-specific

projects; nonprofit Native organizations in Alaska with

village-specific projects; other tribal or village organizations

or consortia of Indian tribes.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Administration for Native Americans,

Department of Health and Human Services, Room HHH,348-

F, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447.

Telephone: (202) 690-5780. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

93.590 COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY

RESOURCE AND SUPPORT GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist States to develop and implement,

or expand and enhance, a comprehensive, statewide system of

community-based family resource and support services. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To receive funds,

States must meet eligibility requirements stated in the

authorizing statute and use funds to establish and expand

statewide networks of community-based family resource

support programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, the District of Columbia,

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the

Commonwealth of theNorthern Mariana Island, and the Trust

Territory of the Pacific Islands. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: National Center on Child Abuse and

Neglect, P.O. Box 1182, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone:

(202) 205-8879. 

93.593 JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR

LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS (JOLI Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY

SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN

AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To promote the ability of welfare recipients

and other low-income individuals and families to become

financially self-sufficient by awarding grants to certain

nonprofit organizations and community development

corporations that will create new employment and business

opportunities through: self-employment; micro enterprise;

new business ventures; and the expansion of existing

businesses through technical and financial assistance that will

result in full-time permanent jobs for eligible participants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects must: (1)
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create new employment and/or business opportunities for

welfare recipients and other low-income individuals; (2) each

nonprofit organization funded under this demonstration must

enter into a cooperative relationship with the agency

responsible for administering the Temporary Assistance for

Needy Families (TANF) program in the area served by the

project; (3) develop a comprehensive project design that

describes the work program and strategy, the training design,

support services and counseling, technical and financial

assistance plan, access to business capital and follow up

support services; and (4) include an independent,

methodologically sound evaluation of the effectiveness of the

activities in creating new jobs and/or business opportunities.

Funds awarded under this demonstration program cannot be

used for new construction or the purchase of real property. 

Applicant Eligibility: Grants are made to nonprofit

organizations (including community development

corporations) exempt from taxation under Section 501(c) 3 or

4 of the Internal Revenue Code, to develop demonstration

projects as authorized. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Richard Saul, Director, Division of

Community Demonstration Programs, Office of Community

Services, Administration for Children and Families,

Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant

Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202)

401-9341. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Micro enterprise

business development, self-employment business training,

specialized job training related to new business ventures

and/or a specific business expansion project that is designed

to create permanent full-time jobs for eligible AFDC and

low-income individuals to move toward economic

self-sufficiency. 

93.594 TRIBAL WORK GRANTS Native

Employment Works (NEW) Grants (Grants for

Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations that

Received Job Opportunities and Basic Skills

Training (JOBS) Funds) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To allow Indian tribes and Alaska Native

organizations to operate a program to make work activities

available. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Tribes have broad

flexibility to use the grant for the purpose of making work

activities available.

Applicant Eligibility: An Indian tribe or Alaska Native

organization that conducted a JOBS program in fiscal year

1995. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Tribes should contact ACF

Regional Offices. (See your local telephone directory.) 

Headquarters Office: Office of the Director, Office of

Community Services, Administration for Children and

Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 5th

Floor, Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW.,

Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9333. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Currently, 78

tribal grantees operate work activity programs under NEW.

93.595 WELFARE REFORM RESEARCH,

EVALUATIONS AND NATIONAL STUDIES

(Welfare Reform Research) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF PLANNING,

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION,ADMINISTRATION

FOR CHILDRENANDFAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support research on the benefits, effects,

and costs of different welfare reform interventions; to fund

studies such as on the effects of different programs on welfare

dependency, illegitimacy, teen pregnancy, employment rates,

child well-being, and related areas; to assist in the

development and evaluation of innovative approaches for

reducing welfare dependency and increasing the well-being

of minor children in welfare families; to study and analyze

outcome measures for evaluating the success of the States in

moving individuals out of the welfare system into

employment; and to evaluate how Welfare- to-Work grants to

States and Indian tribes have been used. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants

(Cooperative Agreements); Project Grants (Contracts). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants, cooperative

agreements, and contracts are awarded for innovative

research, demonstrations, and evaluations that are responsive

to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

program priorities. All applications must meet standards of

excellence in research, demonstration, or evaluation design.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants and cooperative agreements

may be made to or with governmental entities, colleges,

universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations (if fee is

waived). Contracts may be awarded to nonprofit or for-profit

organizations. Grants or cooperative agreements cannot be

made directly to individuals.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for ACF Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Office of Planning, Research and

Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families,

Department of Health and Human Services, 7th Floor,

Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW.,

Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-4535.

93.596 CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND

MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE

AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (Child Care and

Development Fund) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to States and Tribes to assist

low-income families with child care and to: (1) to allow each

State maximum flexibility in developing child care programs

and policies that best suit the needs of children and parents

within such State; (2) to promote parental choice to empower

working parents to make their own decisions on the child care

that best suits their family's needs; (3) to encourage States to
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provide consumer education information to help parentsmake

informed choices about child care; (4) to assist States to

provide child care to parents trying to achieve independence

from public assistance; and (5) to assist States in

implementing the health, safety, licensing, and registration

standards established in State regulations. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: States must ensure that

not less than 70 percent of the total amount of Mandatory and

Matching funds from the Child Care and Development Fund

are used to provide child care assistance to families who are

receiving assistance under a State program under title IV-A

of the Social Security Act as amended by the Personal

Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of

1996, families who are attempting through work activities to

transition off of temporary assistance programs, and families

who are at risk of becoming dependent on temporary

assistance programs. Not more than 5 percent of the aggregate

amount of funds available to the State may be expended for

administrative costs incurred by the State to carry out all of its

functions and duties. The term administrative costs does not

include the costs of providing direct services. A State shall

use not less than 4 percent of the amount of funds for

activities that are designed to provide comprehensive

consumer education to parents and the public, activities that

increase parental choice, and activities designed to improve

the quality and availability of child care (such as resource and

referral services). 

Applicant Eligibility: All States, the District of Columbia,

Federally recognized Tribal Governments, Tribal

organizations, and Alaskan Native Corporations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

Headquarters Office: Child Care Bureau, Administration on

Children, Youth, and Families, Administration for Children

and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 200

independence Avenue, S.W., 3rd Floor, Room 300-F,

Washington, D.C. 20201. Telephone; (202) 690-6782. 

93.600 HEAD START (Head Start) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide comprehensive health,

educational, nutritional, social and other services primarily to

economically disadvantaged preschool children, including

Indian children on federally recognized reservations, and

children of migratory farmworkers and their families; and to

involve parents in activities with their children so that the

children will attain overall social competence. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: At least 90 percent of

the enrollees in a program must come from families whose

income is at or below the poverty guidelines as established by

the Office of Management and Budget or from families

receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. Training

and technical assistance grants are available to Head Start

programs and to agencies which provide services to Head

Start programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any local government, federally

recognized Indian tribe, or public or private nonprofit agency

which meets the requirements may apply for a grant.

However, new applications will be considered only when

submitted in response to a specific announcement, published

in the Federal Register, which solicits proposals to establish

new Head Start Programs. Grantee agencies may subcontract

with other child-serving agencies to provide services to Head

Start children. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Regional

Administrator for Children, and Families. (See your local

telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: Administration for Children and

Families/Head Start, Department of Health and Human

Services,P.O. Box 1182, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone:

(202) 205-8569. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Full-Year and

Full-Day Head Start Programs; and (2) Full-Year and

Part-Day Head Start Programs. 

93.612 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM S 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance, training and

technical assistance, and research, demonstration and

evaluation activities to public and private nonprofit

organizations including Indian Tribes, urban Indian centers,

Alaska Native villages, Native Hawaiian organizations, rural

off-reservation groups, and Native American Pacific Island

groups for the development and implementation of social and

economic development strategies that promote

self-sufficiency. These projects are expected to result in

improved social and economic conditions of Native

Americans within their communities and to increase the

effectiveness of Indian Tribes and Native American

organizations in meeting their economic and social goals.

Additional competitive areas include: 1) Environmental

Regulatory Enhancement, designed to assist Tribal and

Alaska Village governments in developing environmental

programs responsive to tribal needs; and 2) Native Languages

Preservation and Enhancement, a program to assist Native

American tribes and communities in ensuring the survival and

continued vitality of their languages. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Contracts);

Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used for

such purposes as, but not limited to: (1) Governance Projects

which assist tribal and village governments, Native American

institutions, and local leadership to exercise local control and

decision-making over their resources; (2) Economic

Development Projects, which promote the long term

mobilization and management of economic resources

necessary to achieve a diversified economy; and (3) Social

Development Projects which support local access to, control

of, and coordination of services and programs for the social

benefit of community members. Funds may be used for

Financial Assistance Grants; Training and Technical

Assistance; and Research, Demonstration and Evaluation. 

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit agencies,

including but not limited to, governing bodies of Indian tribes
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on Federal and State reservations, Alaska Native villages and

regional corporations established by the Alaska Native

Claims Settlement Act, such public and nonprofit private

agencies serving Native Hawaiians, Indian and Alaska Native

organizations in urban or rural nonreservation areas, and

Native American Pacific Islanders (American Samoan

Natives, and indigenous peoples of Guam, the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana and the Republic of

Palau). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Administration for Native Americans,

Department of Health and Human Services, HHH Building,

Room 348-F, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington,

DC 20201. Director, Program Operations. Telephone: (202)

690-5780. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Improved

Governance Capabilities; (2) Native American social

development projects; and (3) Native American economic

development projects. 

93.667 SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

(Social Services) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To enable each State to furnish social

services best suited to the needs of the individuals residing in

the State. Federal block grant funds may be used to provide

services directed toward one of the following five goals

specified in the law: (1) to prevent, reduce, or eliminate

dependency; (2) to achieve or maintain self-sufficiency; (3)

to prevent neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and

adults; (4) to prevent or reduce inappropriate institutional

care; and (5) to secure admission or referral for institutional

care when other forms of care are not appropriate. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal funds may be

used by States for the proper and efficient operation of social

service programs. Except for items (1) and (4) below, for

which a waiver from the Secretary may be requested, Federal

funds cannot be used for the following: (1) the purchase or

improvement of land, or the purchase, construction, or

permanent improvement of any building or other facility; (2)

the provision of cash payments for costs of subsistence or the

provision of room and board (other than costs of subsistence

during rehabilitation, room and board provided for a short

term as an integral but subordinate part of a social service, or

temporary shelter provided as a protective service); (3) the

payment of wages to any individual as a social service (other

than payment of wages to welfare recipients employed in the

provision of child day care services); (4) the provision of

medical care (other than family planning services,

rehabilitation services or initial detoxification of an alcoholic

or drug dependent individual) unless it is an integral but

subordinate part of a social service for which grants may be

used; (5) social services (except services to an alcoholic or

drug dependent individual or rehabilitationservices) provided

in and by employees of any hospital, skilled nursing facility,

intermediate care facility, or prison, to any individual living

in such institution; (6) the provision of any educational

service which the State makes generally available to its

residents without cost and without regard to their income; (7)

any child day care service unless such service meets

applicable standards of State and local law; (8) the provision

of cash payments as a service; or (9) for payment for any item

or service (other than an emergency item or service) furnished

by an individual or entity during the period when such

individual or entity is excluded pursuant to Section 1128 or

Section 1128(A) of the Social Security Act from participation

in this program; or at the medical direction or on the

prescription of a physician during the period when the

physician is excluded based on Section 1128 or 1128(A) from

participation in the program and when the person furnishing

such item or service knew or had reason to know of the

exclusion (after a reasonable time period after reasonable

notice has been furnished to the person). A State may transfer

up to 10 percent of its allotment for any fiscal year to the

preventive health and health services, alcohol and drug abuse,

mental health services, maternal and child health services,

and low-income home energy assistance block grants. 

Applicant Eligibility: The 50 States, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and

American Samoa. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Services,

Division of State Assistance, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW.,

Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-2333. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: States and other

eligible jurisdictions determine their own social services

programs. Examples of funded services include child day

care, protective and emergency services for children and

adults, homemaker and chore services, information and

referral, adoption, foster care, counseling, and transportation.

93.671 FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION

AND SERVICES/GRANTS FOR BATTERED

WOMEN'S SHELTERS GRANTS TO STATES

AND INDIAN TRIBES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and Indian Tribes in the

prevention of family violence and the provision of immediate

shelter and related assistance for victims of family violence

and their dependents. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal funds are used

by States for grants to local public agencies and nonprofit

private organizations to prevent incidents of family violence

and to provide immediate shelter and related assistance to

victims of family violence. States must give special emphasis

to the support of community-based projects of demonstrated

effectiveness carried out by nonprofit private organizations,

particularly those projects where the primary purpose is to

operate shelters for victims of family violence, and those

which provide counseling, advocacy, and self-help services

to victims and their children. States and Indian Tribes may

not impose an income eligibility standard on individuals

receiving services supported by funds appropriated under this

Act and Federal funds may not be used as direct payment to

any victim of family violence. No less than 70 percent of the
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funds distributed must be used for immediate shelter and

related assistance, and no less than 25 percent for related

assistance. 

Applicant Eligibility: The 50 States, the District of

Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam,

American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana

Islands, Palau, and certainfederally recognized Indian Tribes.

INFORMATION CONTACTS

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Services,

Administration for Children and Families, 370 L'Enfant

Promenade, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20447.

Telephone: (202) 401-5529. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: States determine

the sub-State services and activities to be funded. These may

include funding for shelters for victims of family violence,

counseling and self-help services, and projects to address

elder abuse. 

93.674 CHAFEE FOSTER CARE

INDEPENDENT LIVING (CFCIP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and localities in establishing

and carrying out programs designed to assist foster youth

likely to remain in foster care until 18 years of age and youth

who have left foster care because they attained 18 years of

age, have not yet attained 21 years of age, to make the

transition from foster care to independent living. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used to

assist youth: to make the transition to self-sufficiency; to

receive education, training and services; to obtain

employment; to prepare for and enter post secondary training

and educational institutions; to provide personal and

emotional support to youth through mentors and the

promotion of interactions with dedicated adults; and to

provide financial, housing, counseling, employment,

education, and other appropriate support and services to

current and former foster care recipients up to the age of 21.

Applicant Eligibility: State governments, including the 50

States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Contact Regional Administration

for Children and Families. (See local telephone directory for

addresses.)

Headquarters Office: Associate Commissioner, Children's

Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, P.O. Box

1182, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202) 205-8618.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.779 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND

MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) RESEARCH,

DEMONSTRATIONS AND EVALUATIONS

(CMS RESEARCH)

FEDERAL AGENCY: CENTERS FOR MEDICARE

AND MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To support analyses, experiments,

demonstrations and pilot projects in efforts to resolve major

health care financing issues and to develop innovative

methods for the administration of Medicare and Medicaid.

These awards are in the form of research grants and

cooperative agreements; small business grants; dissertation

fellowship grants; Hispanic health services grants; historical

black colleges and university grants. For fiscal years 2002

and 2003, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service

(CMS) has identified a number of areas where specific

information or experience is necessary to improve program

effectiveness or guide decisions anticipated in the near future.

These priority areas for CMS's discretionary contracts,

cooperative agreements or grants are as follows: (1)

Monitoring and evaluating CMS's programs; (2) improving

managed care payment and delivery; (3) improving fee-forservice payment and delivery; (4) future trends influencing

our programs; (5) strengthening medicaid (SCHIP), and State

programs; (6) meeting the needs of vulnerable populations;

(7)outcomes, quality, and performance; and (8)building

research capacity. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Under all

authorizations, all applications must meet standards of

excellence in research or evaluation design. Funds may not be

used for construction or renovation of buildings. Funds

authorized by Section 1115 of the Social Security Act are

limited to State agencies administering the Medicaid

program. 

Applicant Eligibility: Grants or cooperative agreements may

be made to private, or public agencies or organizations,

including State agencies that administer the Medicaid

program. Private profit organizations may apply. For the

Small BusinessInnovation Research Grant Program, only forprofit organizations may apply. Awards cannot be made

directly to individuals.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate CMS

Regional Administrator. (See your local telephone directory

for Regional Offices.)

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Research,

Development, and Information (ORDI), Centers for Medicare

& Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human

Services, Room C-3-20-11, Central Building, 7500 Security

Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850. Telephone: (410)

786-6503. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples for

fiscal year 2001 include: (1) Real Choice System Change

grants; (2) Community -integrated Personal Assistance

Services and Support grants; (3) Nursing Facility Transition

grants; (4) Dissertation Fellowship grants; (5) Grants to

Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and (6)grants to

Hispanic serving Institutions. 

93.910 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY

VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM (Family

Life Centers) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF MINORITY

HEALTH, OFFICE PUBLIC HEALTH AND

SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES 
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OBJECTIVES: To establish a consortium of nineteen

Family Life Centers on the campuses of minority institutions

of higher education to: 1) Assess local community resources

for violence prevention projects; 2) Coordinate activities with

existing violence prevention projects; 3) Design and

implement educational interventions addressing interpersonal

family violence; and 4) Design and implement a project to

identify students from dysfunctional families and support

them with coping strategies. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds will be used to

support a cooperative agreement for a family and community

violence consortium to prevent minority related violence and

improve health and human services to minorities. Grants

funds may not be used for construction of facilities, including

additions and extensions; acquisition of land; or any costs

prohibited by the cost principles in 45 CFR, Parts 74 and 92.

Grants may not be used for sectarian instruction or any

religious purposes, or for lobbying. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible Applicants: An institute of

higher education representing 4-year undergraduate

institutions historically identified as providing education

primarily to minority students, or having a majority

enrollment of minority students. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of Program Operations,

Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and

Science, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and

Human Services, Suite 1000, Rockwall II Building, 5515

Security Lane, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301)

594-0769. Grants Management Contact: Division of

Management Operations, Office of Minority Health, Office of

Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary,

Department of Health and Human Services, Suite 1000,

Rockwall II Building, 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, MD

20852 (301)594-0758. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:The following are

examples of projectsfunded under the cooperative agreement:

1) A database and resource directory was developed on viable

violence and substance abuse services and resources; 2) A

variety of education experiences were provided to youth and

families to assist them in making positive life style choices

and facilitating their educational pursuits; 3) Community

outreach services were provided to neighborhoods. 

93.912 RURAL HEALTH OUTREACH AND

RURAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

PR OG RAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To expand access to, coordinate, restrain the

cost of, and improve the quality of essential health services,

including preventive and emergency services, through the

development of integrated health care delivery systems or

networks in rural areas and regions. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are

to be expended solely for carrying out the approved projects.

The applicant must apply in conjunction with two or more

other entities as part of a network. 

Applicant Eligibility: Rural public or non-profit private

entities that include three or more health care providers or

other entities that provide or support the delivery of health

care services. The administrative headquarters of the

organization must be located in a rural county or a rural

census tract of an urban county; or an organization is

constituted exclusively to provide services to migrant and

seasonal farmworkers in rural areas and supported under

Section 330G of the Public Health Service Act; or the

applicant is a Native American Tribal or quasi-tribal entity for

services delivered on reservation or recognized tribal lands.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Grant Programs

Coordinator, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Room 9A-55, Parklawn

Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Telephone: (301) 443-7529. Grants Management Contact:

Grants Management Officer, Grants Management Office,

Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and

Services Administration, East-West Towers, 11thFloor,4350

East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone:

(301)594-4235. EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:

Funded projects include efforts to provide primary care

services in rural areas, including mental health services,

emergency medical services, prenatal care, free clinical

services, and preventive health services. In addition, projects

designed to increase the number of health professionals

available to provide services in rural areas have also been

funded. These include upgrading nursing skills from R.N. to

N.P. or C.N.S. levels or upgrading the skills of emergency

medical services personnel. In addition, projects designed to

improve access to rural health services (such as transportation

or services on mobile vans) have also been funded. More

recently projects to develop or enhance vertically integrated

networks have been supported. 

93.913 GRANTS TO STATES FOR OPERATION

OF OFFICES OF RURAL HEALTH 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To improve health care in rural areas

through the establishment of State Offices of Rural Health. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This is a matching

grant program with States to support the establishment and

ongoing operation of Offices of Rural Health. Each State may

determine the appropriate location for the office. While a

wide range of activities can be conducted to address unique

State needs, each State Office of Rural Health must (1)

establish an information clearinghouse, (2) coordinate State

and Federal rural health programs throughout the State, and

(3) provide TA that will improve participation in State and

Federal programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: The 50 States. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: State Office of Rural Health Grant

Program, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources
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and Services Administration, PublicHealthService,Parklawn

Building, Room 9-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management Contact: Chief,

Grant Award Operations Section, Bureau of Primary Health

Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public

Health Service, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor,

Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This program

establishes State Offices of Rural Health in each State. A few

of the projects in State Offices of Rural Health include: 1)

providing technical assistance to rural communities seeking

to develop or improve primary health care; 2) training

community leaders and providers of health services so that

they may better respond to the needs of their rural clientele;

and 3) taking lead roles in drafting, obtaining, and

implementing the rural physician loan repayment program to

increase the likelihood of recruiting physicians to remote

rural area. In general, these projects tend to address problems

and issues unique to their particular State, therefore, projects

cover a broad range of activities.

93.926 HEALTHY START INITIATIVE

(Targeted Infant Mortality Initiative) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To reduce infant mortality and improve

maternal and infant health and well-being by targeting 15

communities with high infant mortality rates and directing

resources and interventions to improve access to, utilization

of, and full participation in comprehensive maternity and

infant care services. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To build a

community-oriented, multi-faceted approach to integrate a

variety of health care, social, and support services including

development of: an aggressive program of outreach and case

management to bring pregnant women into prenatal care

early; to increase the number of primary care and obstetrical

providers available to low-income women in targeted areas;

and to link health department, community health centers,

State maternal and child health programs, community

residents and other groups in local consortia in a joint effort

to identify problems and to develop a flexible array of

solutions intended to reduce the infant mortality rate by 50

percent within 5 years. 

Applicant Eligibility: Urban and rural communities which

have average annual infant mortality rates of 15.7 deaths or

more per 1,000 live births. Eligible applicants are local or

State health departments or authorities or other publicly

supported organizations, tribal organizations, private

nonprofit organizations, or consortia of the same, approved

by the chief elected official of the city or county in which the

project area is located (or, if there is more than one county,

the chief elected officials acting in concert), or by the tribal

leadership of the tribe or tribal organization which has

jurisdiction over the project area. No more than one

application may be made for a given project area, and each

application must be endorsed by the Governor of the State or

the head of the tribal organization. Applicants must be public

or nonprofit private organizations, or tribal and other

organizations representing American Indians, Alaskan

Natives, Native Hawaiians, or Pacific Islanders. Applicants

must be in partnership with a current consortium which has

been (1) in operation at least the last 2 years prior to date of

the application; and (2) involved in Maternal and child health

activities in the project area. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: DHHS Regional Office.

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Division of

Healthy Start, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health

Service, Room 11A-05, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0543. Grants

Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Room 18-12,

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857

(301) 443-1440. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A number of the

projects have developed one-stop models of co-located

services and experienced a marked reduction of infant

mortality in these neighborhood-based models. 

93.932 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH

SYSTEMS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To raise the health status of Native

Hawaiians living in Hawaii to the highest possible level

through the provision of comprehensive health promotion and

disease prevention services, as well as primary health

services, and to provide existing Native Hawaiian health care

programs with all resources necessary to effectuate this

policy. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The services of this

program will be developed around outreach, case

management, and referral components and will attempt to

integrate traditional health concepts with western medicine so

that existing barriers to and disparities in health care can be

removed. It is anticipated that the primary care and the health

promotion and disease prevention components will be

integrated into one system of care and that the existing health

resources of the community will be used to the greatest extent

possible. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible entities include Papa Ola

Lokahi and the "Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems." The

term Native Hawaiian health care system is defined as an

entity (1) which is organized under the laws of the State of

Hawaii; (2) which provides or arranges for health care

services through practitioners licensed by the State of Hawaii,

where licensure requirements are applicable; (3) which is a

public or nonprofit private entity; (4) in which Native

Hawaiian health practitioners significantly participate in the

planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation of health

care services; (5) which may be composed of as many Native

Hawaiian health systems as necessary to meet the health care

needs of each island's Native Hawaiians; and (6) which is

recognized by Papa Ola Lokahi (a consortium of Hawaiian

and Native Hawaiian organizations) for the purpose of
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planning, conducting, or administering programs or portions

of programs, authorized by this act for the benefit of Native

Hawaiians, and is certified by Papa Ola Lokahi as having the

qualifications and the capacity to provide the services and

meet the requirements of this Act for the benefit of Native

Hawaiians. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the HRSA Field Office.

Headquarters Office: Division of Programs for Special

Populations, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, PHS, 4350

East-West Highway, 9th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301)

594-4420. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants

Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health

Resources and Services Administration, PHS, 4350

East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Telephone: (301) 594-4260. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Each recipient of

funds shall provide outreach, health education, a link to

primary care providers, case management, immunizations,

preventive measures for diabetes, high blood pressure and

otitis media; pregnancy and infant care, improvement in

nutrition, chronic disease prevention, and collection of data

to prevent disease. Papa Ola Lokahi is responsible for:

planning; training; research; dissemination of information on

Native Hawaiian health; and coordination of resources for

Native Hawaiian; advocacy, and special projects. 

93.933 DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR

INDIAN HEALTH 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To promote improved health care among

American Indians and Alaska Natives through research

studies and demonstration projects, addressing such issues as

Elder Care, Women's Health Care, and Child Protection and

Child Abuse Prevention. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal assistance is to

be used for the following purposes: (1) research, analysis, and

investigation of a broad range of issues affecting the health of

American Indians and Alaska Natives; and (2) demonstration

projects and studies that provide American Indians/Alaska

Natives with impetus and involvement in their health care and

that promote improved health care to Indian people. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes;

tribal organizations; nonprofit intertribal organizations;

nonprofit urban Indian organizations contracting with the

Indian Health Service under Title V of the Indian Health Care

Improvement Act; public or private nonprofit health and

education entities; and State and local government health

agencies.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Management

Analyst, Office of Managed Care, Indian Health Service,

Parklawn Bldg., Room 6A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-3024. For Indian Women's

Health Demonstration Program Contact: Public Health Nurse

Consultant, Office of Public Health, Parklawn Building,

Room 6A-44, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Telephone: (301) 443-1840. For Grants Management

Contact:GrantsManagement Branch, Division of Acquisition

and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook

Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100,

Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) National

Indian Health Board is conducting a tribal health care

advocacy demonstration project to provide advice and

consultation on behalf of Indian health care consumers to

improve health care delivery in Indian communities; and (2)

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is providing a smoking cessation

project aimed at improving women's health. 

93.952 IMPROVING EMS/TRAUMA CARE IN

RURAL AREAS (RURAL EMS/TRAUMA

CARE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to public and private

nonprofit entities for the purpose of carrying out research and

demonstration projects with respect to improving the

availability and quality of emergency medicalservices in rural

areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds received under

a grant are to be used for the following purposes: (1)

Developing innovative uses of communications technologies

and the use of new communications technology; (2)

developing model curricula for training emergency medical

services personnel, including first responders, emergency

medical technicians, emergency nurses and physicians, and

paramedics; (a) In the assessment, stabilization, treatment

preparation for transport, and resuscitation of seriously

injured patients, with special attention to problems that arise

during long transport and to methods of minimizing delays in

transport to the appropriate facility; and (b) in the

management of the operation of the emergency medical

services system; (3) making training for original certification,

and continuing education, in the provision and management

of emergency medical services more accessible to emergency

medical personnel in rural areas through telecommunications,

home studies, providing teachers and training at locations

accessible to such personnel, and other methods; (4)

developing innovative protocols and agreements to increase

access to pre-hospital care and equipment necessary for the

transportation of seriously injured patients to the appropriate

facilities; and (5) evaluating the effectiveness of protocols

with respect to emergency medical services and systems. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any public or private nonprofit entity

which has as its primary objective improving the availability

and quality of emergency medical services in rural areas. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Chief, Injury/EMS Branch, Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, Parklawn Building, Room 18A-38,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301)

443-0324. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management
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Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Public Health Service,

Department of Health and Human Services, Parklawn

Building, Room 18-12, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1440. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: For fiscal year

2001, existing Emergency Medical Services for Children

grants were supplemented with these funds. 

93.954 TRIBAL RECRUITMENT AND

RETENTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

INTO INDIAN HEALTH PROGRAM S (Tribal

Recruitment) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make financial assistance awards to

Indian tribes and tribal and Indian health organizations to

enable them to recruit, place, and retain health professionals

to fill critical vacancies and to meet the staffing needs of

Indian health programs and facilities including those

administered by the Indian Health Service (IHS). 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants

(Cooperative Agreements). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and

operating programs designed to recruit and retain health

professionals into Indian health programs and facilities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any federally recognized Indian tribe

or tribal or Indian health organization is eligible to apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: The Leader Health Professions

Support Team, Division of Health Professions Support,

Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300

Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100A, Rockville, MD 20852.

Telephone: (301) 443-4242. For grants management

information, contact: Grants Management Branch, Division

of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health

Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway,

Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852. (301) 443-5204. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.956 AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AND

SAFETY PROGRAM S 

Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury

Research, Education, and Prevention; Community

Partners for Healthy Farming (CPHF);

Deep-South Center for Agricultural Disease and

Injury Research, Education, and Prevention 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR

OCCUPATIONALSAFETY AND HEALTH, CENTERS

FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: Centers for Agricultural Research: To

address the research, education, and intervention activities

that are unique to agriculture by establishing centers for

agricultural research, education, and disease and injury

prevention. Musculoskeletal: To assist in the development,

implementation, and maintenance of a model program for the

diagnosis, evaluation, and rehabilitation of individuals with

occupational respiratory disease and occupational

musculoskeletal disorders. Additionally, this program will

report and disseminate findings, relevant health and safety

education and training information to State health officials,

health care providers, workers, management, unions, and

employers. CPHF: This project is a component of the NIOSH

Agriculture Initiative which consists of cooperative

agreements between NIOSH and State Health Departments to

fund the placement of public health/occupational health

nurses in agricultural communities. Local recruiting of nurses

with farm background and interests in agriculture has enhance

their ability to become a part of the communities they serve,

to establish effective disease and injury reporting systems

based on the cooperation of health care providers, hospitals

and other potential sources and to follow up their

information-gathering activities with public health

interventions (usually education or the recruitment of other

resources such as cooperative extension services, NIOSH,

etc.). Nurses in this project are practicing community health

and providing a public health infrastructure which targets the

farming community. Deep-South Center for Agricultural

Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention:This

cooperative agreement program will significantly strengthen

the occupational and public health infrastructure by building

on past Agricultural Center accomplishments aimed at

integrating resources for occupational safety and health

research and public health prevention programs at the State

and local levels. Deep-South Center for Agricultural Disease

and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention will serve as

a regional Center to address the research, education, and

intervention activities that are unique to agriculture in the

deep-south. The Center will also have a special charge to

address agricultural health and safety problems among

minority, migrant and low-income agricultural communities

in this region. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Eligible Uses: Funds

may be used for salaries of personnel specifically employed

for the project; consultant fees; supplies and equipment

necessary to conduct the project; essential travel expenses;

and other expenses related to the project. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants are: Centers for

Agricultural Research State and private universities and

university-affiliated, not-for-profit medical centers within the

United States of America. CPHF Nonprofit and for-profit

organizations, thus, universities, colleges, research

institutions, hospitals, and other public and private

organizations, State and local health departments, and small,

minority and/or women-owned businesses.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Grants Management Contact: Grants

ManagementBranch, Procurement and Grants Office,Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention, 255 E. Paces Ferry Road,

NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30305 (404) 842-6517. Program

Contact: Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH,

1095 Willowdale Road, MS-P04/18, Morgantown, WV

26505-2888 (304) 285-5711. ProgramContact:Occupational

Respiratory Disease Evaluation and Rehabilitation: Division

of Respiratory Disease Studies, MS-122, NIOSH, 1095
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Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505 (304) 285-5726.

Program Contact: Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

Evaluation and Rehabilitation: Division of Surveillance,

Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies, MS-R13, N10SH 4676

Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226 (513) 841-4486.

ProgramContact: Centers for Agricultural Research: Division

of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH, MS-P04/18.

304/285-5711. CPHF: Division of Surveillance, Hazard

Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH, MS-P03/R21

513/841-4353. CDC, PHS, 5555 Ridge Avenue, Cincinnati,

Ohio 45213. Grants Management Contact: Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and Grants Office, CDC,

PHS, 255 East Paces Ferry Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30305

404/842-6517. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:The following are

cooperative agreements funded: Research on Experimental

Exposures to Grain Dust, Assessment of Respiratory Disease

Among Dairy Farmers, Research on Redesign of Tools,

Hearing Conservation Studies, and Improving Detection of

Exposure of Workers to Chemicals.

93.958 BLOCK GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CMHS Block

Grant) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to States and

Territories to enable them to carry out the State's Plan for

providing comprehensive community mental health services

to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a

serious emotional disturbance; monitor the progress in

implementing a comprehensive community based mental

health system; provide technical assistance to states and the

Mental Health Planning Council that will assist the states in

planning and implementing a comprehensive community

based mental health system. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used at

the discretion of the State to achieve the described objectives

except for certain requirements. State plans must meet

prescribed criteria. Services under the plan will be provided

only through appropriate, qualified community programs

(which may include community mental health centers, child

mental-health programs, psychosocial rehabilitation

programs, mental health peer-support programs and

mental-health primaryconsumer-directed programs). Services

under the plan will be provided through community mental

health centers only if the centers meet prescribed criteria. For

fiscal year 1994, the State must expend not less than 10

percent of the grant to increase (relative to fiscal year 1993)

funding for such system and for any subsequent fiscal year,

the State must expend for such system not less than an

amount equal to the amount expended by the State for fiscal

year 1994. Up to 5 percent of grant funds may be used for

administering the funds. In general, any amount paid to a

State under the program shall be available for obligation until

the end of the fiscal year for which the amounts were paid and

if obligated by the end of such year, shall remain available for

expenditure until the end of the succeeding fiscal year. Funds

may not be used to provide inpatient services; to make cash

payments to intended recipients of health services; to

purchase or improve land, purchase, construct, or

permanently improve (other than minor remodeling) any

building or other facility, or purchase major medical

equipment; to satisfy any requirement for the expenditure of

nonfederal funds as a condition for the receipt of Federal

funds; or to provide financial assistance to any entity other

than a public or nonprofit private entity. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and U.S.Territory Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: State Planning and System

Development Branch, Center for Mental Health Services,

Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration,

Department of Health and Human Services, Room 15C-26,

Parklawn Bldg, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland

20857 (301) 443-4257. Grants Management Contact:

Division of Grants Management, Substance Abuse and

MentalHealth Services Administration, DepartmentofHealth

and Human Services, Room 15C-05, Parklawn Building,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857 (301)

443-4456. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.959 BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION

AND TREATM ENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

(Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to States and

Territories to support projects for the development and

implementation of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation

activities directed to the diseases of alcohol and drug abuse.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used at

the discretion of the States to achieve the statutory objectives,

including the fulfillment of certain requirements. Not less

than 20 percent of the funds shall be spent for programs for

individuals who do not require treatment for substance abuse,

but to educate and counsel such individuals and to provide

for activities to reduce the risk of such abuse by the

individuals by developing community-based strategies for

prevention of such abuse, including the use of alcoholic

beverages and tobacco products by individuals to whom it is

unlawful to sell or distribute such beverages or products.

States, for fiscal year 1994, shall expend not less than 5

percent of the grant to increase (relative to fiscal year 1992)

the availability of treatment services designed for pregnant

women and women with dependent children (either by

establishing new programs or expanding the capacity of

existing programs). States, for fiscal year 1994, shall also

expend not less than 5 percent of the grant to increase

(relative to fiscal year 1993) the availability of such services

to pregnant women and women with dependent children.

States must require programs of treatment for intravenous

drug abuse to admit individuals into treatment within 14 days

after making such a request or 120 days of such a request, if

interim vices are made available within 48 hours. States will
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provide, directly or through arrangements with other public

or nonprofit entities, tuberculosis services such as counseling,

testing, treatment, and early intervention services for

substance abusers at risk for the human immunodeficiency

virus (HIV) disease. Other statutory requirements also apply.

Applicant Eligibility: State and U.S. Territory Governments;

Indian Tribes or Tribal Organizations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Division for State and Community

Assistance, CenterforSubstance Abuse Treatment, Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,

Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockwall II, Suite 880, Rockville, MD 20857.

Telephone: (301) 443-3820. Grants Management Contact:

Grants Management Branch, Office of Resource

Management, Office of Program Support, Substance Abuse

and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of

Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,

Suite 618, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-4456. 

93.960 SPECIAL MINORITY INITIATIVES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF

HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES:To increase the number of under represented

minority students trained to pursue careers in biomedical

research through the use of National Research Service

Awards, institutional education projects, and technical

assistance workshops. National Research Service Award

(NRSA) fellowships are available to under represented

minorities at all institutions to prepare them for research

careers in the biomedical sciences. Institutional Education

Projects (Bridges Program) encourage the development of

new and innovative programs and the expansion of existing

programs to improve the academic competitiveness of under

represented minority students and facilitate their transition

into the next stage of preparation for careers in biomedical

research, whether in a post-secondary or graduate school

setting. Technical assistance workshops promote or enhance

biomedical research conducted by minority students and

investigators who receive support from the Division of

Minority Opportunities in Research of the National Institute

of General Medical Sciences. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: NRSAs are made

directly to individuals for research training leading to a Ph.D.

or combined professional degree-Ph.D. in disciplines

supporting biomedical research. Responsibilities of grantees

and restrictions on use of funds are set forth in the Public

Health Service Policy Statement on Grants for Research

Projects, which is available upon request from the Office of

Extramural Outreach and Information Resources, National

Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. The Bridges

Program targets two different under represented minority

student populations: those in colleges and universities

offering only master of science degree programs in

biomedically related sciences, and those in 2-year junior or

community colleges. Grants are given for partnership

programs involving: (1) institutions awarding the master's

degree and universities awarding the Ph.D. degree, or (2)

2-year colleges awarding the associate's degree and

institutions awarding the baccalaureate degree. Funds may be

used for the costs of administering and coordinating the

partnership programs within and between each of the

participants. Although compensation for student participation

in research experiences may be requested, stipends, housing,

tuition, and fees are not allowable costs under this program.

However, salary/wages, tuition remission, and other forms of

compensation paid in lieu of wages to students performing

necessary work are allowable, provided there is an

employer-employee relationship between the student and the

institution, the total compensation is reasonable for the work

performed, and it is the institution's practice to provide

compensation for all students in similar circumstances,

regardless of the source of support for the activity. Funds for

equipment, supplies, travel, and other expenses are limited to

those necessary for program development.Fundsfor technical

assistance workshops can support international or national

meetings and conferences as well as workshops. 

Applicant Eligibility: NRSA eligibility is limited to students

who are U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals, or permanent

residents from ethnic/racial groups that are under represented

in research in the biomedical sciences in the United States.

These groups include, but are not limited to, African

Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and

natives of the U.S. Pacific Islands. Individual NRSA

awardees must be nominated and sponsored by a public or

nonprofit private institution having staff and facilities

appropriate to the proposed research training program.

Applications for the Bridges Program may be submitted by

domestic, private or public educational institutions, and by

State or local systems of higher education. Programs

developed or modified under this initiative must be

specifically designed to target under represented minorities.

Applications must include a partnership between: (1) a 2-year

institution that offers the associate degree as the only

undergraduate degree in the sciences within the participating

departments and that has a significant enrollment of under

represented minorities, and a college or university offering

the baccalaureate degree in areas relevant to the biomedical

sciences; or (2) an institution that offers the master of science

degree as the only postgraduate degree in the sciences within

the participating departments and that has a significant

enrollment of under represented minorities, and a research

university providing Ph.D. degree programs in areas relevant

to the biomedical sciences. Applications must involve a

partnership of at least two colleges or universities. Technical

assistance workshop applications may be submitted by public,

private or nonprofit agencies or organizations including State

and local government agencies, universities, colleges, and

academic or research institutions. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: For Predoctoral NRSA awards,

National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National

Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Bethesda,

MD 20892-6200 (301) 594-3900. For the Bridges Program,

National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National

Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Bethesda,

MD 20892-6200 (301) 496-0533. For technical assistance

workshop support, National Institute of General Medical

Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC

6200, Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 (301) 594-3833. Grants

Management, National Institute of General Medical Sciences,
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National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200,

Bethesda, MD 20892-6200. Telephone: (301) 594-5135. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Individual

predoctoral NRSA fellowships, institutional education

projects, and technical assistance workshops. 

93.970 HEALTH PROFESSIONS

RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR INDIANS

(Recruitment Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: (1) To identify American Indiansand Alaska

Natives with a potential for education or training in the health

professions, and to encourage and assist them to enroll in

health or allied health professional schools; (2) to increase the

number of nurses, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and

nurse anesthetists who deliver health care services to

American Indians and Alaska Natives; and (3) to place health

professional residents for short-term assignments at Indian

Health Service (IHS) facilities as a recruitment aid. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants

(Cooperative Agreements). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and

operating programs designed to recruit American Indians and

Alaska Natives into health and allied health professional

schools. 

Applicant Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit health or

educational entities or Indian tribes or tribal organizations as

specifically provided in legislative authority. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: For Health Professions Recruitment

and Health Resident Recruitment Contact: Division of Health

Professions Support, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook

Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100A,

Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-4242. For Nursing

Recruitment Contact: Nursing Program, Indian Health

Service, Room 6A-44, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-1840. Grants

Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division

of Acquisitions and Grants Management, Indian Health

Service,TwinbrookMetro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway,

Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-5204. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) The

University of North Dakota recruited Indians into its medical

and health care programs; (2) the Salish-Kootenai College

recruited students for nursing careers, and provided

scholarship support through the grant; and (3) University of

South Dakota places medical residents at IHS facilities as

recruitment aid. 

93.971 HEALTH PROFESSIONS

PREPARATORY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

FOR INDIANS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make scholarships to American Indians

and Alaska Natives for the purpose of completing

compensatory pre-professional education to enable the

recipient to qualify for enrollment or re-enrollment in a health

professions school or curriculum. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USESANDUSE RESTRICTIONS: Scholarship awards are

limited to persons of American Indian or Alaska Native

descent. Awards are limited to a maximum of 2 years of

full-time scholarship support under this section of the Indian

Health Care Improvement Act. 

Applicant Eligibility: Scholarship awards are made to

individuals of American Indian or Alaska Native descent,

who have successfully completed high school education or

high school equivalency and who have been accepted for

enrollment in a compensatory, pre-professional general

education course or curriculum. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for Indian Health Service Area Offices. 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Scholarship

Branch, Division of Health Professions Support, Indian

Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100A, 12300

Twinbrook Parkway,Rockville,MD20852. Telephone: (301)

443-6197. Grants Contact: Grants Management Officer,

Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and

Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook

Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100,

Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-0243. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year

1998, continuing scholarship recipients will be funded in the

pre-professional categories of pre-nursing, pre-medical

technology, pre-physical therapy, pre-engineering,

pre-sanitation, and pre-pharmacy only. 

93.972 HEALTH PROFESSIONS

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide scholarships to American

Indians and Alaska Natives at health professions schools in

order to obtain health professionals to serve Indians. Upon

completion, scholarship recipients are obligated to serve in

the Indian Health Service or an Indian health organization for

each year of support with a minimum of 2 years. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Scholarships support

students who pursue full-time or part-time courses of study in

health professions needed by the Indian Health Service (IHS).

Disciplines have included allopathic and osteopathic

medicine, dentistry, nursing (baccalaureate and graduate),

public health nutrition (graduate), medical social work

(graduate), speech pathology/audiology (graduate),

optometry, pharmacology and health care administration. Not

all disciplines participate each year. Scholarships may not be

awarded to students who have conflicting service obligations

after graduation or who are not enrolled members of

Federally recognized tribes. Recipients are required to

perform 1 year of obligated service for each year of

scholarship support, with a minimum obligation of 2 years in

the Indian Health Service, or in a program conducted under

a contract entered into under the Indian Self-Determination

Act; or in an Indian health organization assisted under Title
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V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act; or in private

practice in a Health Manpower Shortage Area which

addresses the health care needs of a substantial number of

Indians. Deferment for internship, residency, or other

advanced clinical training for medical, osteopathy, and dental

students is generally not to exceed 3 years, consistent with the

specialty needs of the IHS. Currently, 4-year deferments may

be granted for obstetrics-gynecology and psychiatry

residencies. 

Applicant Eligibility: Individuals of American Indian or

Alaska Native who are enrolled members of a

Federally-recognized tribe are eligible. Applicants for new

awards: (1) must be accepted by an accredited U.S.

educational institution for a full-time or part-time course of

study leading to a degree in medicine, osteopathy, dentistry,

or other participating health profession which is deemed

necessary by the Indian Health Service; (2) be eligible for or

hold an appointment as a Commissioned Officer in the

Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service; or (3)

be eligible for civilian service in the Indian Health Service. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for Indian Health Service Area Program Offices. 

Headquarters Office:IHS Scholarship Program, Division of

Health Professions Support, Indian Health Service,

Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100A, 12300 Twinbrook

Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-6197. Grants

Contact: Grants Management Branch,DivisionofAcquisition

and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook,

Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100,

Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-0243. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year

1997, there were 390 scholarships awarded to students in the

following categories: nursing, medicine, medical technology,

health administration, x-ray technology, optometry, dentistry,

pharmacy, dental hygiene, dietetics, masters of public health,

health education, chemical dependency counseling, health

records, engineering, physician assistant, sanitation, and

physical therapy.

93.991 PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HEALTH

SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (PHHS Block

Grants) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CENTERS FOR DISEASE

CONTROL AND PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide States with the resources to

improve the health status of the population of each grantee

through: (A) activities leading to the accomplishment of the

year 2000 objectives for the nation; (B) rodent control and

community-school fluoridation activities; (C) specified

emergency medical services excluding most equipment

purchases; (D) services for sex offense victims including

prevention activities; and (E) for related administration,

education, monitoring and evaluation activities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Except as described

below, Block Grant funds may be used for preventive health

service programs for: (A) activities to achieve improvements

in the health status of populations through achievement of the

year 2000 health objectives for the nation; (B) preventive

health service programs for the control of rodents and for

community and school-based fluoridation programs; (C)

feasibility studies and planning for emergency medical

services systems and the establishment, expansion, and

improvement of such systems; (D) providing services to

victims of sex offenses and prevention of sex offenses; and

(E) related planning, administration, and educational

activities. Funds may not be used to operate emergency

medical services systems or to purchase more than 50 percent

of the cost of communications equipment for such systems. 

Applicant Eligibility: Only State and territorial governments,

the District of Columbia, the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas and

the Sante Sioux Tribe of Nebraska are eligible for Preventive

Health and Health Services Block Grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: National Center for

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (K30),

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health

Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4770

Buford Highway, NE., Atlanta, GA 30341-3724. Telephone:

(404) 488-5299. Grants Management Contact: Grants

Management Officer, Grants Management Branch,

Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, 255 E. Paces Ferry Road, NE., Atlanta,

GA 30303. Telephone: (404) 842-6508. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.994 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

SERVICES BLOCK GRANT TO THE STATES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND

SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To enable States to maintain and strengthen

their leadership in planning, promoting, coordinating and

evaluating health care for pregnant women, mothers, infants,

and children and children with special health care needs in

providing health services for mothers and children who do

not have access to adequate health care. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: States may use funds

to develop systems of care for the provision of health services

and related activities, including planning, administration,

education and evaluation consistent with the State's annual

application. Funds may not be used for (1) inpatient services

other than those provided to children with special health care

needs or to high-risk pregnant women and infants and such

other inpatient services as the Secretary may approve; (2)

cash payments to intended recipients for health services; (3)

purchase and improvement of land, construction or permanent

improvement of buildings or purchase of major medical

equipment; (4) matching other Federal grants; or (5)

providing funds for research or training to any entity other

than a public or private nonprofit entity. Beginning in FY

1991, States must use at least 30 percent of their Federal

allotment for preventive and primary care services for

children, and at least 30 percent for services for children with
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special health care needs. In addition, each State must

establish and maintain a toll-free information number for

parents on maternal and child health (MCH) and Medicaid

providers. No more than 10 percent of each State's allotment

may be used for administration. 

Applicant Eligibility: Maternal and Child Health Block

Grants are limited to States and insular areas. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Program

Contact: Office of State and Community Health, Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health

and Human Services, Room 18-31, Parklawn Building, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301)

443-2204. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management

Officer, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room

18-12, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD

20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1440. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Each of the 59

States and jurisdictions determines its individual program

priorities under its Block grant.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

14.110 MANUFACTURED HOME LOAN

INSURANCE FINANCING PURCHASE OF

MANUFACTURED HOMES AS PRINCIPAL

RESIDENCES OF BORROWERS (Title I) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To make possible reasonable financing of

manufactured home purchases. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: HUD insures lenders

against loss on loans. Insured loans may be used to purchase

manufactured home units by buyers intending to use them as

their principal places of residence. The maximum amount of

the loan is $48,600, whether single or multiple modules. The

borrower must give assurance that the unit will be placed on

a site which complies with local zoning and land

development requirements. 

Applicant Eligibility: All persons are eligible to apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact HUD Headquarters for

program information. 

Headquarters Office: Home Improvement Branch,

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th

Street, SW., Room 8272, Washington, DC 20410 (202)

708-6396. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.121 MORTGAGE INSURANCE HOMES IN

OUTLYING AREAS (203(i)) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help people purchase homes in outlying

areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: HUD insures lenders

against loss on mortgage loans. These loans may be used to

finance the purchase of proposed, under construction, or

existing one-family nonfarm housing, or new farm housing on

two and one-half or more acres adjacent to an all-weather

public road. The maximum insurable loan for an occupant

mortgagor on a one-family home is 75 percent of the Section

203(b) limit. 

Applicant Eligibility: All families are eligible to apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Home ownership

Center serving their State, or the nearest local HUD Office.

See your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: None. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.157 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE

ELDERLY (202) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To expand the supply of housing with

supportive services for the elderly.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Capital advances shall

be used to finance the construction or rehabilitation of a

structure or portion thereof, or the acquisition of a structure

from the Resolution Trust Corporation to provide supportive

housing for the elderly, which may include the cost of real

property acquisition, site improvement, conversion,

demolition, relocation and other expenses of supportive

housing for the elderly. Project rental assistance is used to

cover the difference between the HUD-approved operating

cost per unit and the amount the tenant pays. 

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofit corporations and

consumer cooperatives. Public bodies and their

instrumentalities are not eligible Section 202 applicants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office:Contact the appropriate HUD field

office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Business Products,

Department of Housing and Urban Development,

Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-2556. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.219 COMM UNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM (Small

Cities) 

FEDERALAGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this program is the

development of viable urban communities by providing

decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding

economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and

moderate income. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Small Cities develop

their own programs and funding priorities. Generally, as in

the case of entitlement grants, most activities previously

eligible under the categorical program consolidated under the

Act, and defined by the statute and regulations may be carried

out, i.e., acquisition, rehabilitation or construction of certain

public works facilities and improvements, clearance, housing

rehabilitation, code enforcement, direct assistance to facilitate

and expand Home ownership among persons of low and

moderate income, relocation payments and assistance,

administrative expenses, economic development, completing

existing urban renewal projects, and certain public services

within certain limits. Neighborhood-based nonprofit

organizations, local development corporations, Small

Business Investment Companies, or other nonprofit

organizations serving the development needs of

nonentitlement areas may act as subgrantees to carry out

neighborhood revitalization or community economic

development projects in furtherance of block grant objectives.

Recipients may provide assistance to for-profit entities when

the recipient determines that the provision of such assistance

is appropriate to carry out an economic development project.

Communities are restricted fromconstructingorrehabilitating

public facilities for the general conduct of government and
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from making housing allowances or other income

maintenance-type payments. The projected use of funds must

be developed to give maximum feasible priority to activities

which benefit low and moderate income persons or aid in the

prevention or elimination of slums or blight. The projected

use of funds may also include activities which the applicant

certifies are designed to meet other community development

needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions

pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare

of the community where other financial resources are not

available to meet such needs. At least 70 percent of each

grant made available to a unit of general local government

must benefit low and moderate income persons. 

Applicant Eligibility: HUD continues to administer the

Small Cities Program only for the nonentitlement

communities within the jurisdictions of the States of New

York and Hawaii. Eligible applicants are units of general

local government (including counties), except metropolitan

cities, urban counties or units participating in an urban

county's CDBG program, and Indian tribes eligible for

assistance under Section 106(a) of the Act, as amended.

Under the CDBG Program/State Program (14.228) each State

may now elect to administer all aspects of the Small Cities

Program for the nonentitlement communities within its

jurisdiction. All other States have elected to administer the

Small Cities Program. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Field

Office for New York or Hawaii listed in your local telephone

directory.

Headquarters Office: State and Small Cities Division,Office

of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and

Development, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410.

Telephone: (202) 708-1322. Use the same number for FTS.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Neighborhood

revitalization projects emphasizing rehabilitation of private

homes, and including appropriate improvements of public

facilities; economic development projects for expanded

employment opportunities; and projects to address serious

deficiencies in public facilities such as water and sewer. 

14.227 COMM UNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/SPECIAL PURPOSE

GRANTS/TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

PR OG RAM 

FEDERALAGENCY:COMMUNITY PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help States, units of general local

government, Indian tribes and area wide planning

organizations to plan, develop and administer local

Community Development Block Grant programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements); Direct Payments for Specified Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance may be

used to transfer skills and knowledge in planning, developing

and administering the Community Development Block Grant

programs from those individuals and institutions which

possess them to eligible block grant entities and affiliated

CDBG participants which need them. Project activities show

how they will increase the effectiveness with which eligible

block grant communities can use CDBG funds to meet

community development national and local program

objectives. May take several forms, such as the provision of

written information, person-to-person exchange, seminars,

workshops or training sessions.

Applicant Eligibility: States, units of general local

government, Indian tribes, area wide planning organizations,

groups designated by such governmental units to assist them

in carrying out assistance under Title I of Public Law 93-383

and qualified groups. Specifications for respondents to

competitive request for proposals are stated in the request

documents. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HUD

Field Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Management and Technical

Assistance, Community Planning and Development,

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th St.,

SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-3176. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.228 COMM UNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY:COMMUNITY PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OFHOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this program is the

development of viable urban communities by providing

decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding

economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and

moderate income. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: States develop their

own programs and funding priorities. Each State may elect to

administer Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)

funds for areas which do not receive CDBG entitlement

grants (14.218). If, after a State decides to administer the

CDBG program, it decides not to, the funds that would have

been allocated to the State will be reallocated among the other

States. In States which elect to administer the nonentitlement

funds, HUD awards the formula grants to the States under the

CDBG/State's Program. In States which do not elect to

administer the nonentitlement funds, HUD awards

competitive grants to units of general local government under

the CDBG/Small Cities Program (14.219). Each State may

use up to $100,000 plus two percent of its grant to administer

the program and must match each Federal dollar in excess of

$100,000 used for administration with a dollar of its own.

Each State may use up to one percent of its grant to provide

technical assistance to local governments and nonprofit

program recipients. Units of general local government funded

by the State may undertake a wide range of activities directed

toward neighborhood vitalization, economic development, or

provision of improved community facilities and services.

Specific activities that can be carried out with block grant

funds include acquisition of real property, relocation and

demolition, rehabilitation of residential and nonresidential

structures, direct assistance to facilitate and expand Home

ownership among persons of low and moderate income, and
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provision of public facilities and improvements, such as water

and sewer facilities, streets, and neighborhood centers. In

addition, block grant funds may be used to pay for certain

public services within certain limits. Neighborhood-based

nonprofit organizations, local development corporations,

Small Business Investment Companies, or other nonprofit

organizations serving the development needs on

nonentitlement areas may act as subgrantees to carry out

neighborhood revitalization or community economic

development projects in furtherance of block grantobjectives.

Recipients may provide assistance to for-profit entities when

the recipient determines that the provision of such assistance

is appropriate to carry out an economic development project.

The projected use of funds must be developed to give

maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and

moderate-income persons or aid in the prevention or

elimination of slums or blight and the projected use of funds

may also include activities which the applicant certifies are

designed to meet other community development needs having

a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a

serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the

community where other financial resources are not available

to meet such needs. The aggregate use of over a period

specified by the State, but not exceeding three years, must

ensure that not less than 70 percent of the funds received

benefit low and moderate income persons. 

Applicant Eligibility: State governments. States must

distribute the funds to units of general local government in

nonentitlement areas. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HUD

Field Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: State and Small Cities Division,Office

of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and

Development, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410.

Telephone: (202) 708-1322. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects are

selected by States. 

14.239 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS

PROGRAM (HOME Program) 

FEDERALAGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: (1) To expand the supply of affordable

housing, particularly rental housing, for low and very low

income Americans; (2) to strengthen the abilities of State and

local governments to design and implement strategies for

achieving adequate supplies of decent, affordablehousing;(3)

to provide both financial and technical assistance to

participating jurisdictions, including the development of

model programs for developing affordable low income

housing and; (4) to extend and strengthen partnerships among

all levels of government and the private sector, including

for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in the production and

operation of affordable housing. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For use by

participating jurisdictions or Insular Areas for housing

rehabilitation, tenant-based rental assistance, assistance to

home buyers, acquisition of housing and new construction of

housing. Funding may also be used for other necessary and

reasonable activities related to the development of non-luxury

housing, such as site acquisition, site improvements,

demolition and relocation. Ten percent of a participating

jurisdiction's allocation may be used for administrative costs.

Funds may not be used for public housing modernization,

matching funds for other Federal programs, reserve accounts

or operating subsidies for rental housing, Annual

Contributions Contracts, or activities under the Low Income

Housing Preservation Act except for priority purchasers. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, urban counties, and

consortia (of contiguous units of general local governments

with a binding agreement) are eligible to receive formula

allocations; funds are also set aside for grants to Insular

Areas. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Field

Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Affordable Housing

Programs, Community Planning and Development,

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410 (202) 708-2685. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.243 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH,

YOUTH BUILD PROGRAM (YOUTH BUILD

Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITYPLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSINGAND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The YOUTH BUILD program provides

funding assistance for a wide range of multi-disciplinary

activities and services to assist economically disadvantaged

youth. The opportunities are designed to help disadvantaged

young adults who have dropped out of high school to obtain

the education and employment skills necessary to achieve

economic self-efficiency and develop leadership skills and a

commitment to community development in low income

communities. Another important objective of the YOUTH

BUILD program is to expand the supply of permanent

affordable housing for homeless persons and members of low

income and very low income families. By giving

disadvantaged young adults participating in the program

meaningful on-site training experiences constructing or

rehabilitating housing as a community service, they are

helping to meet the housing needs of homeless and low

income families in their community. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds can be

used to fund eligible educational and supportive services and

activities composed of basic skills development, and

counseling, referral and support services. Funds can also be

used for architectural and engineering fees, construction,

rehabilitation, acquisition, operating expenses and

replacements reserves. If YOUTH BUILD funds are used for

these construction related activities, certain housing related

restrictions apply. Use of YOUTH BUILD funds in this way

will also negatively affect a proposal's chances of being

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Applicant Eligibility: A public or private nonprofit agency,

including: (1) a community-based organization which is

accountable to low income community residents through

representation on the governing board and which has a

history of serving the local community where the YOUTH

BUILD program is to be located; (2) an administrative entity

designated under section 103(b)(1)(B) of the Job Training

Partnership Act; (3) a community action agency; (4) a State

or local housing development agency; (5) a community

development corporation; (6) a public and/or Indian housing

authority and resident management corporations, resident

councils and resident organizations; (7) a State and local

youth service and conservation corps; and (8) any other entity

(including States, units of general local government, and

Indian Tribes) eligible to provide education and employment

training under other Federal employment training programs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Office of Economic Development,

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th

Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, Room 7134. Telephone:

(202) 708-2035. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.244 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM

(Empowerment Zones and Enterprise

Communities) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITYPLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this program is to provide

for the establishment of Empowerment Zones and Enterprise

Communities in urban areas, to stimulate the creation of new

jobs empowering low-income persons and families receiving

public assistance to become economically self-sufficient,

particularly for the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed,

and to promote revitalization of economically distressed

areas. The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community

(EZ/EC) program is the first step in rebuilding communities

in America's poverty-stricken inner-cities and rural heartland.

It is designed to empower people and communities all across

this nation by inspiring Americans to work together to create

jobs and opportunity. Under this program, the Federal

government has designated areas that meet certain poverty

and distress criteria and prepare creative strategic plans for

revitalization. The Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development has designated eight urban Empowerment

Zones and 65 Enterprise Communities, and the Secretary of

Agriculture has designated 33 rural Empowerment Zones and

Enterprise Communities. All designations were made in

consultation with the Community Empowerment Board,

which the President established on September 9, 1993.

Designated areas receive Federal grant funds from the

Department of Health and Human Services, Social Services

Block Grant (Title XX). In addition they receive special tax

benefits and special consideration for funding under other

Federal programs. The Secretary of HUD will designate 15

additional urban Empowerment Zones before January l, l999.

New designated EZs will receive tax incentives and the

Administration has proposed funding the urban zones at $l00

million, $10 million each year over a ten-year period. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Designation as an

empowerment zone. There is $l.5 million in HUD funding for

planning grants and approximately $502 million in tax

benefits. Each of the l5 areas that receives EZ designations

will be awarded a $l00,000 planning grant. Each urban EZ

will receive $10 million a year over the 10 year life of the

program. 

Applicant Eligibility: (Note: This eligibility is for the "urban

zone" applicants. See the Department of Agriculture section

for "rural zone" applicant eligibility). A nominated urban area

may be eligible for designation if the area: (a) Has a

maximum population which is the lesser of (1) 200,000 or (2)

the greater of 50,000 or 10 percent of the population of the

most populous city located within the nominated area; (b) Is

one of pervasive poverty, unemployment and general distress;

(c) Does not exceed twenty square miles in total land area; (d)

Demonstrates a poverty rate which is not less than: (1) 20

percent in each census tract; (2) For at least 90 percent of the

census tracts within the nominated urban area, the poverty

rate must be not less than 25 percent; (3) Census tracts with

no population are treated as having a poverty rate that meets

the standards of (l) and (2) above; and (4) A census tract that

has a population of less than 2,000 is treated as having a

poverty rate that meets the requirements of (l) and (2) above

if more than 75 percent of the tract is zoned for commercial

or industrial use. (e) Has a continuous boundary, or consists

of not more than six(6) noncontiguous parcels. A nominated

urban area must not contain a noncontiguous parcel unless

such parcel separately meets the criteria set forth in (1) and

(2) above, except for sites that can be developed. The total

area of the noncontiguous parcels must not exceed 2,000

acres. (f) Is located entirely within the jurisdiction of the unit

or units of general local government making the nomination,

and is located in no more than two contiguous States, and (g)

Does not include any portion of a central business district, as

this term is used in the most recent Census of Retail Trade,

unless the poverty rate for each census tract in the district is

not less than 35 percent. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: All HUD Field offices with a

Community Planning and Development Division, ATTN:

Director of Community Planning and Development. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Planning and

Development, HUD (202) 708-6339. A dedicated

1-800-998-9999 number has been established to answer

questions and make referrals for information concerning

eligibility criteria, the application process, technical

assistance and workshops. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.246 COMM UNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

INITIATIVE (Section 108) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING

AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help public entities eligible under the

Section 108 Loan Guarantee program carry out economic

development projects authorized by Section 108(a) of the

Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as

amended. Grant assistance must enhance the security of loans
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guaranteed under the Section 108 program or improve the

viability of projects financed with loans guaranteed under the

Section 108 program. In addition, this program will make

competitive economic development grants in conjunction

with Section 108 loan guarantees for qualified Brownfields

projects. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance may be

used for any activity eligible under Section 108(a) of the

Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as

amended. Grant funds may only be used in conjunction with

projects and activities assisted under the Section 108 Loan

Guarantee program. 

Applicant Eligibility: Units of general local government that

are eligible public entities under the Section 108 Loan

Guarantee program. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Field

Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Financial Management Division,

Office of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and

Development, 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20410.

Telephone: (202) 708-1871. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A wide-range of

economic development projects including commercial,

industrial and economic development revolving loan funds.

Brownfields EDI grants will result in similar activities for the

qualified Brownfields sites.

14.250 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT,DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To expand the supply of affordable housing

and access to economic opportunities in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants can be used for

capacity building, innovative housing and economic

development programs and seed money for these programs.

More specific information will be available in the Notice of

Funding Availability (NOFA).

Applicant Eligibility: Local, rural, and non-profit

community development corporations and Indian Tribes are

eligible applicants for all three types of grants. State Housing

Financing Agencies and State Community and Economic

Development Agencies can apply only for the Innovative

Grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Director of Economic

Development and Empowerment Services, Community

Planning and Development, 451 7th St., SW., Washington,

DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-2290 x4660. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.313 DOLLAR HOME SALES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF HOUSING,

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN

DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To expand HUD's partnership with local

governments in helping to foster housing opportunities for

low- to moderate-income families and address specific

community needs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Sale, Exchange, or Donation of

Property and Goods.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Single family homes

that are acquired in foreclosure actions by the Federal

Housing Administration will be eligible for sale to local

governments around the nation for $1 when the homes have

been listed for sale for at least six months and remain unsold.

Local governments buying HUD homes for $1 can sell or rent

them to low- and moderate-income families, to first-time

homebuyers, or to groups that will use the homes to provide

services such as child care centers or job training centers.

Applicant Eligibility: Local governments must identify the

intended disposition strategies and clear public purpose goals

and objectives it will pursue with properties purchased

through this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Philadelphia Home Ownership

Center, The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East,

Philadelphia, PA 19107-3389, telephone: 1-800-440-8647;

Atlanta Home Ownership Center, Five Points Plaza, 40

Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2806, telephone: 1-

888-696-4687;DenverHome Ownership Center, Wells Fargo

Tower North, 633 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202-3607,

telephone: 1-800-543-9378; Santa Ana Home Ownership

Center, 1600 North Broadway, Suite 100, Santa Ana, CA

92706-3927, telephone: 1-888-827-5605.

Headquarters Office: Dennis White, telephone (202)

708-1672; E-mail: Dennis_A._White@hud.gov. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.511 COMM UNITY OUTREACH

PARTNERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: This program is a five-year demonstration

program to determine the feasibility of facilitating

partnerships among institutions of higher education and

communities to solve urban problems through research,

outreach and exchange of information. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Research and outreach

activities funded under this program must focus on problems

associated with housing, economic development,

neighborhood revitalization, infrastructure, health care, job

training, education, crime prevention, planning, community

organizing and other areas deemed appropriate by the

Secretary. 

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education with

demonstrated ability to carry out eligible activities. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: For application kits contact HUD:

User, P.O. Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20849. Telephone:
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1-800-245-2691. For answers to technical questions, contact

the Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy

Development and Research, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington,

DC 20410 (202) 708-1537, extension 218. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDEDPROJECTS: The University of

Illinois at Champaign was awarded $500,000 to work in East

St. Louis, Illinois, to expand neighborhood planning and

organizational development in five neighborhoods, expand a

Neighborhood College for leaders of nonprofit organizations,

establish a Neighborhood Technical Assistance Center for

community groups and small minority and women-owned

businesses, and conduct research on how to maximize

housing and other opportunities. The University of Texas at

Austin was awarded $500,000 to work with two existing

networks of community organizations on housing,

infrastructure and community development in colonies in

South Texas and job training in Dallas, Fort Worth and the

Lower Rio Grande Valley. 

14.512 COMM UNITY DEVELOPMENT

W OR K-STU DY PR OG RAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: Under the Community Development

Work-Study Program (CDWSP), HUD will make grants to

institutions of higher education, either directly or through

area wide planning organizations or States, for the purpose of

providing assistance to economically disadvantaged and

minority students who participate in community development

work-study programs and are enrolled in full-time graduate

programs in community and economic development,

community planning or communitymanagement.Theprimary

objectives of the program are to attract economically

disadvantaged and minority students to careers in community

and economic development, community planning, and

community management, and to provide a cadre of well

qualified professionals to plan, implement, and administer

local community development programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Institutions of higher

education, area wide planning organizations or States may

apply for grants to assist economically disadvantaged and

minority students who participate in CDWSP's and are

enrolled in full-time graduate programs in community and

economic development, community planning or community

management, or other related fields of study. Related fields

include public administration, urban management, urban

planning, and exclude social and humanistic fields such as

law, economics (except urban economics) psychology,

education and history. 

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education

offering graduate degrees in a community development

academic program are eligible. An area wide planning

organization (APO) or a State may apply for assistance for a

program that will be conducted by two or more institutions of

higher education. Institutions of higher education

participating in an APO program must be located within the

metropolitan or non-metropolitan area served by the APO.

Institutions of higher education participating in a State

program must be located within the State. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: For application kits, contact HUD

USER, P.O. Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20849. Telephone:

1-800-245-2691. Direct technical questions to the Office of

University Partnerships, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, Room 8110, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington,

DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-1537, extension 218. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.515 ALASKA NATIVE/NATIVE HAWAIIAN

INSTITUTIONS ASSISTING COM MUNITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

OBJECTIVES: To help Alaska Native Institutions (ANIs)

of higher education and Native Hawaiian Institutions

(NHIs)of higher education enhance their role and

effectiveness in addressing community development needs in

their localities, including neighborhood revitalization,

housing, and economic development, consistent with the

purposes of Title I of the Housing and Community

Development Act of 1974. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Only nonprofit

institutions of higher education that meet the statutory

definition of an ANI or an NHI contained in the 1988

Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965, Public

Law 105-244, are eligible to submit applications for funding.

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit Alaska Native Institutions

of higher education and Native Hawaiian Institutions of

higher education that are either on the U.S. Department of

Education lists of eligible ANIs or NHIs or ANIs or NHIs

that certify that they meet the statutory definition of an ANI

or NHI. Each campus of an ANI is permitted to submit a

separate application. An NHI may submit only one

application per year, no matter how many campuses it has.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: For application kits, contact the

Super NOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929. For

answers to technical questions, contact in the Office of

University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and

Research, 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC 2-410.

Telephone: (202) 708-1537, extension 5918.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: New program. 

14.519 TRIBAL COLLEGES AND

UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help tribal colleges and universities,

build, expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds can be

used by tribal colleges to build, expand, renovate, and equip

their own facilities. No other activities can be funded; nor can

facilities not owned by tribal colleges and universities be

assisted.
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Applicant Eligibility: Tribal colleges and universities that

meet the statutory definition of such institutions contained in

Title V of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act

of 1965, Public Law 105- 244. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: For application kits, contact the Super

NOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929. For answers

to technical questions, contact either the Office of University

Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and Research, or

Office of Native American Programs, HUD, 451 7th Street,

SW., Washington, D.C. 20410. Telephone numbers: (202)

708-1537, extension 5918 or (202) 401-7914, extension

4200. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.850 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide and operate cost-effective,

decent, safe and affordable dwellings for lower income

families through an authorized local Public Housing Agency

(PHA). 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist PHAs

developing lower-income housing by (1) acquiring existing

housing from the private market (acquisition); (2) obtaining

construction or rehabilitation contracts by competitive

bidding where the PHA acts as the developer (conventional);

or (3) executing new construction or rehabilitation Contracts

of Sale with private developers (turnkey). Annual

contributions are made to PHAs for debt service payments for

commitments approved on or prior to September 30, 1986, or

direct funding of capital costs (grants) is provided to PHAs

for commitments approved after September 30, 1986. In

addition, operating subsidy funds are available to achieve and

maintain adequate operating and maintenance service and

reserve funds. Emphasis on housing type (i.e., acquisition

with or without rehabilitation versus new construction and

household type (i.e., large family). Funds may also be used

for the major reconstruction of obsolete existing public

housing projects. The statute requires that priority in

development be given to housing larger families requiring 3

or more bedrooms. 

Applicant Eligibility: Public Housing Agencies established

in accordance with State law are eligible. The proposed

program must be approved by the local governing body.

Pursuant to the Native American Housing Assistance and Self

Determination Act of 1996, Indian Housing Authorities

(IHAs) are no longer eligible for funding under the US

Housing Act (of 1937) or the Indian Housing Act. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: HUD Field Office listed your

local telephone directory that has jurisdiction over the area in

which the dwellings are to be located. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Secretary for Public and

Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202)

708-0950. Use the same number for FTS. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.862 INDIAN COMMUNITY

D EV ELO PM EN T BLO CK GR AN T PR OG RAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to Indian tribes and

Alaska Native villages in the development of viable Indian

communities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Indian tribes and

Alaska Native villages may use block grants to improve the

housing stock, provide community facilities, make

infrastructure improvements, and expand job opportunities by

supporting the economic development of their communities.

Activities which are eligible for funding include housing

rehabilitation programs, acquisition of land for housing,

direct assistance to facilitate home ownership among low and

moderate income persons, construction of tribal and other

facilities for single or multi-use, streets and other public

facilities, and economic development projects particularly

those by nonprofit tribal organizations or local development

corporations when the recipient determines that the provision

of such assistance is appropriate to carry out an economic

development project. Tribes and Alaska Native villages are

restricted from using block grants for construction and

improvement of governmental facilities, the purchase of

equipment, general government expenses, operating and

maintenance expenses, political activities, new housing

construction (except through community-based development

organizations (CBDOs), and income payments. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any Indian tribe, band, group, or

nation, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, and

any Alaska Native village that is eligible for assistance under

the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

or which had been eligible under the State and Local Fiscal

Assistance Act of 1972. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Office

of Native American Programs Field Office listed in your local

telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Native American Programs,

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Suite

3990, P.O. Box 90, 1999 North Broadway, Denver, CO

80202. Telephone: (303) 675-1600. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Fire station;

housing rehabilitation grant program; cooperative store

development; water lines and storage facility, community

building. 

14.865 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING

INDIAN LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM

(Loan Guarantees for Indian Housing) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN

PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
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URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide home ownership opportunities

to Native Americans,Tribes and Tribally Designated Housing

Entities (TDHEs, formerly Indian Housing Authorities) on

Indian land, through a guaranteed mortgage loan program

available through private financial institutions. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Mortgage loans are for

the acquisition or rehabilitation of existing homes, purchase

and rehabilitation of a home or construction of a new home.

The financial institution which originates the mortgage loan

must meet certain requirements noted in the law. 

Applicant Eligibility: The loan applicant must be a Native

American, which includes Alaska Natives, or a Tribally

Designated Housing Authority (TDHE) or a Tribe which

meets certain requirements. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: The Administrator, Office of

Native American Programs at the appropriate field office (see

your local telephone directory for HUD field office addresses

in Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Oklahoma City and

Anchorage). 

Headquarters Office: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native

American Programs, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Box 90,

Denver, Colorado 80202. Telephone: (303) 675-1600. 

14.867 INDIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide Federal assistance for Indian

tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal selfgovernance, and for other purposes.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Affordable housing

activities such as: Indian Housing Assistance; Development;

Housing Services; Housing Management Services; Crime

Prevention and Safety Activities; and Model Activities.

Applicant Eligibility: Indian tribes or tribally designated

housing entities (TDHE) (to be eligible for Indian housing

block grant funds the tribe or TDHE must submit an Indian

housing plan that is in compliance with the requirements of

Section 102 of NAHASDA).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office:The Administrator, Office of

Native American Programs at the appropriate field office in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: National Office of Native American

Programs, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Box 90, Denver, CO

80202. Telephone: (303)675-1600.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.869 TITLE VI FEDERAL GUARANTEES

FOR FINANCING TRIBAL HOUSING

ACTIVITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN

PROGRAMS, OFFICE OF LOAN GUARANTEE,

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN

DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To assist an Indian tribe or Tribally

Designated Housing Entity (TDHE) to obtain financingwhere

an obligation cannot be completed without such guarantee.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Limited to the eligible

affordable housing activities listed in Section 202 of the

NAHASDA to include Indian Housing Assistance,

Development, Housing Services, Housing Management

Services, Crime Prevention and Safety Activities, and

Affordable Housing Activities, as approved by the Secretary.

Applicant Eligibility: The Borrower must be a Federally

recognized Indian tribe or TDHE that is an approved recipient

for Indian Housing Block Grants (IHBG) funds. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Director of the Office of Loan

Guarantee, National Office of Native American Programs,

Denver, CO. Telephone: (303) 675-1660.

Headquarters Office: None.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Development of

multiple-family housingprojects; integration of infrastructure

resources on reservations lands; large scale developments

such as subdivisions; increase access to private capital

through the issuance of bonds; and mortgage assistance to

Native American families.

14.870 RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY AND

SUPPORTIVE SERVICES (ROSS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To programmatically address the needs of

public housing residents by providing supportive services,

resident empowerment activities and/or assisting residents in

becoming economically self- sufficient. The primary focus of

the program is on "welfare to work" and on independent

living for the elderly and persons with disabilities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be

used for both economic development and supportive services

activities, organizational development, mediation, including

the employment of service coordinators/case managers.

Applicant Eligibility: Public and Indian Housing

(PHAs/IHAs), and Tribally Designated Housing entities

(TDHEs), resident management corporations, resident

councils or resident organizations (including nonprofit

entities supported by residents) must establish partnerships to

leverage resources with other Federal and nonfederal entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Offices of Public Housing and

Native American Programs listed in your local telephone

directory.

Headquarters Office: Customer Services and Amenities

Division, Office of Public and Assisted Housing Delivery,

Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, Room 4224, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-4214. A

telecommunications device for hearing and speech impaired

persons (TDD) is available at (202) 708-0850. These are
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toll-free numbers.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.872 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND

(CFP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN

HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

OBJECTIVES: The Capital Fund Program provides funds,

annually, to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and

management activities, including modernization and

development of public housing. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:The funds may be used

for the development, financing and modernization of public

housing developments and for management improvements.

The funds may not be used for luxury improvements; direct

social services; cost funded by other HUD programs; and

ineligible activities as determined by HUD on a case-by-case

basis. 

Applicant Eligibility: The PHA must demonstrate that it has

the legal authority to develop, own, modernize and operate a

public housing development in accordance with the 1937 Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Inquiries should be addressed to

the Public Housing Director of the appropriate FO that has

jurisdictionoverthe PHA. (See your local telephone directory

for HUD FO addresses).

Headquarters Office: Assistant Secretary for Public and

Indian Housing Development, Washington, DC 20410.

Telephone: (202) 708-0950.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR 

15.020 AID TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Indian tribal

governments to support general tribal government operations,

to maintain up-to-date tribal enrollment, to conduct tribal

elections, and to develop appropriate tribal policies,

legislation, and regulations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used in

a variety of ways to strengthen the capabilities of Indian tribes

in self-government, community planning, and maintenance of

membership records.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Division of Tribal Government

Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW.,

MS-4641 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202)

208-4097. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.022 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE

FEDERALAGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To further the goals of Indian SelfDetermination by providing funds to Indian tribes to

administer a wide range of programs with maximum

administrative and programmatic flexibility.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used by

Federally Recognized Tribal Governments to support

programs such as law enforcement, social services, welfare

payments, housing improvement, and road maintenance.

Funds may be used only for programs previously

administered by the Department of the Interior or for

programs specifically authorized by Federal statute and may

not be used for the operation of elementary and secondary

schools or for community colleges. The Indian tribe must

ensure adequate protection of trust resources.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and tribal consortia authorized by the Federally

Recognized Indian Tribal Governments to be served.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Self Governance,

Department of the Interior, Northwest Field Office, 500 West

12th Street, Room 170, Vancouver, WA 98660. Telephone:

(206) 699-1010. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Self-Governance,

Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, 1849 "C"

Street, NW., MS- 2542-MIB, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 219-0240. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Among the

activities supported by one consortium was the organization

of a tourism alliance, provision of 300 college scholarships,

repair of 16 homes, and the initiation of job readiness training

for welfare recipients. A tribe in the northwest managed over

3800 acres of forest land, helped 27 tribal members move

from welfare to paid employment, and supported 20 members

in adult education/training programs. Another tribal

consortium provided life skills assistance (tax preparation,

driver's education, resume writing, etc.) to over 500 members,

provided assistance to village groups in preparing economic

development proposals which resulted in increased funding

being provided by other Federal agencies, and worked with

the Reindeer Herders Association to improve the health and

economic value of the reindeer herds.

15.024 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION

CONTRACT SUPPORT (CONTRACT

SUPPORT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIANAFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Federally Recognized

Indian Tribal Governments and to tribal organizations to fund

some or all of the indirect costs incurred in administering

Federal programs for which direct appropriations are made to

the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used in

accordance with indirect cost rate proposals which have been

approved by the cognizant Federal agency or for lump sum

administrative cost rates negotiated with the Bureau of Indian

Affairs.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and tribal organizations authorized by Indian

Tribal Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office as listed

in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Self-Determination

Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW.,

MS-4603 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone:

(202)208-5727. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

15.025 SERVICES TO INDIAN CHILDREN,

ELDERLY AND FAMILIES (SOCIAL

SERVICES)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Federally Recognized

Indian Tribal Governments to administer welfare assistance

programs for both adults and children; to support caseworkers

and counselors; and to support tribal programs to reduce the

incidence of substance abuse and alcohol abuse in Indian
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country.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

staff support and related costs of processing welfare

applications, determining suitable placement of children in

need of foster care, staffing and operational costs of

emergency shelters, and similar services.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office as listed

in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Division of Social Services, Bureau of

Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW., MS-4641-MIB,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-2479. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.026 INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To improve the educational opportunities

for Indian adults who lack the level of literacy skills

necessary for effective citizenship and productive

employment and to encourage the establishment of adult

education programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds must be for

direct services. Funds may not be used for administration.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MB, 1849 C Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1129. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Courses include

Adult Basic Education (ABE), preparation for the General

Educational Development Test (GED); life-coping skills such

as budgeting, driver training and filing of Federal and State

taxes; and continuing education courses such as typing and

computer literacy.

15.027 ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY

CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES

AND UNIVERSITIES

FEDERALAGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants for the operation and

improvement of tribally controlled community colleges to

insure continued and expanded educational opportunities for

Indian students, and to allow for the improvement and

expansion of the physical resources of such institutions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

the general operating costs of the Tribally Controlled

Community College to defray, at the determination of the

College, expenditures for academic, educational and

administrative purposes and for the operation and

maintenance of the College. Funds must not be used in

connection with religious worship or sectarian instruction.

Applicant Eligibility: Colleges sponsored by Federally

Recognized Indian Tribes or tribal organizations which are

governed by a board of directors, are in operation more than

one year, admit students with a certificate of graduation from

a secondary institution or equivalent, provide certificates,

associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees, are nonprofit

and nonsectarian.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MIB, 1849 C Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1127.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Twenty-four

Tribally Controlled Community Colleges received financial

assistance.

15.028 TRIBALLY CONTROLLED

COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAUOF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to establish endowments

for the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are to be used

to establish endowments. Interest earned on the invested

funds may be used to defray expenditures associated with the

operation of the College including maintenance,

administration, academic and support costs, and community

and student services programs. No part of the net earnings of

the trust fund may be used to benefit any private person.

Applicant Eligibility: Colleges chartered by Federally

Recognized Indian Tribes which are governed by an Indian

board of directors, are in operation more than one year, admit

students with a certificate of graduation from a secondary

institution or equivalent, provide certificates, associate,

baccalaureate and graduate degrees.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MIB, 1849 C Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 291-2127.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Using interest

earnings from the endowment, a distance learning program

utilizing satellites was established in one college and social

science laboratories were updated.

15.029 TRIBAL COURTS

FEDERALAGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Federally Recognized

Indian Tribal Governments to operate a judicial branch of
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government.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

salaries and related expenses of tribal court judges,

prosecutors, defenders, clerks of court, probation officers,

juvenile officers, and other court personnel.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments exercisinglawenforcement jurisdiction on their

reservation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office as

listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Division of Tribal Government

Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW.,

MS-4641-MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202)

208-4400. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.030 INDIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT (LAW

ENFORCEM ENT) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OFINDIANAFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Indian Tribal

Governments to operate police departments and detention

facilities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

salaries and related expenses of criminal investigators,

uniformed officers, detention officers, radio dispatchers, and

administrative support.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments exercising Federal criminal law enforcement

authority over crimes under the Major Crimes Act (18 U.S.C.

1153) on their reservation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency or area office as

listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Law Enforcement

Services, ureau of Indian Affairs, 417 Gold SW., Suite 120,

P.O. Box 66, Albuquerque, NM 87103. Telephone: (505)

248-7937. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.031 INDIAN COMM UNITY FIRE

PROTECTION (COMMUNITY FIRE

PROTECTION) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIANAFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to perform fire protection

services to Indian Tribal Governments that do not receive fire

protection support from State or local government.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to

support staff, train volunteer fire-fighters, repair existing firefighting equipment, and purchase additional equipment.

Funds may also be used to purchase smoke detectors, fire

extinguishers, fire escapes, and emergency lights for public

building.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments performing fire protection services on their

reservation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications should be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency or area office as

listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Tribal Service,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW., MS-4603

MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-3463.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.032 INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To assist Federally Recognized Indian

Tribal Governments to develop resources to improve their

economies through administration of credit programs and

other economic development assistance activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used to

administer tribal revolving loan programs and guaranty loan

programs in order to develop resources to improve access to

capital in tribal economies. Final approval of loan guarantees

is restricted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency office as listed in your

local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Economic Development,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street, NW., MS-4640,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 501-5324.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: An Indian Tribe

in Arizona operates a credit program for its tribal members

and has assisted many individuals and businesses in finding

suitable loans and has improved the overall economic

condition on the reservation.

15.033 ROAD MAINTENANCE INDIAN ROADS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide limited routine maintenance on

paved, gravel, earth, and unimproved roads; bridges; and

airstrips.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: These funds are used

to repair and maintain public roads serving Indian

reservations, with particular emphasis on school bus routes

and arterial highways; for snow removal, ice control, washout

repair, and landslide removal; for replacement, rehabilitation,
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or maintenance of the 745 bridges on Indian reservation

roads; for operation and maintenance of a ferry across Lake

Roosevelt serving the Colville Indian Reservation; and for the

maintenance of public airstrips located on Indian reservations

which are not maintained by other governmental entities.

Access to these funds is restricted to tribes with qualifying

road miles or other facilities required to be maintained by this

program.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by Tribal governments which have jurisdiction over roads or

other facilities that qualify for this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Transportation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C

Street NW., MS-4510 MIB, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 208-4359.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects are

funded in the areas of Routine Maintenance and

Administration which maintains public roads serving Indian

reservations; Emergency Maintenance which provides for

snow removal, ice control, washout repair and landslide

removal; Bridge Maintenance which inspects and maintains

745 bridges on Indian reservations; Ferry Boat Operation and

Maintenance which operates and maintains a ferry across

Lake Roosevelt serving the Colville Indian Reservation; and

Airstrip Maintenance which provides maintenance services

for public airstrips located on Indian reservations.

15.034 AGRICULTURE ON INDIAN LANDS

FEDERALAGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To protect and restore the agronomic and

rangeland resources on trust lands and facilitate the

development of renewable agricultural resources in

accordance with principles of sustained yield management to

maintain productivity under multiple use concepts.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use; Advisory Services and Counseling; Provision of

Specialized Services.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To facilitate

improvements on Indian trust or restricted fee lands. Awards

for Noxious Weed Eradication are for the use of chemical,

mechanical, cultural, and biological control methods,

predominantly on range land, and are awarded competitively.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by Indian tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Water and LandResources, Branch of Agriculture

and Range, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW.,

MS-4513 MIB, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-3598. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Farmland

improvements such as designing land leveling, farm drainage,

cropping patterns, crop varieties, stock water engineering;

range inventories and inventories to identify vegetative cover,

range condition, precipitation zones and current forage

utilization; rangeland pest control, livestock control, and

maintenance of readiness conditions for fire suppression; and

leasing and permitting support, enforcement, performance

evaluation, etc.

15.035 FORESTRY ON INDIAN LANDS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAUOF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To maintain, protect, enhance, and develop

Indian forest resources through the execution of forest

management activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use; Provision of Specialized Services; Advisory Services

and Counseling.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used to

support activities ofreforestation and commercial forest stand

improvement; timber sales management; forest inventories

and plans; forest program management and administration;

and forest protection activities. Forestry Planning,

Management Planning and Development funds are awarded

competitively.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations (currently

limited to the Intertribal Timber Council) authorized by

Indian tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Forestry, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 849 C Street

NW., MS-4513 MIB, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-

4439. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds are used

for planting trees; greenhouse operations; weeding and

fertilization; development or revision of reservation specific

long-term sustained yield forest management plans; and

development of environmental compliance documents, sales

documents, and timber sale contracts.

15.036 INDIAN RIGHTS PROTECTION

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To protect Indian rights guaranteed through

treaty or statute by obtaining the services or information

needed to litigate challenges to these rights.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Awards fund projects

to collect information needed by the Federal government to

litigate challenges to Indian rights which have been

guaranteed through treaty or statute.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized
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by Indian tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS-4510 MIB,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-7737.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects are

funded to support research and collection of data on rights

issues in the areas of water, land title disputes, hunting and

fishing rights, and environmental problems. 

15.037 WATER RESOURCES ON INDIAN

LANDS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To assist Indian tribes in the management,

planning, and development of their water and related land

resources.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use; Provision of Specialized Services; Advisory Services

and Counseling.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used by

tribes 1) to collect and analyze baseline data and to facilitate

Water Rights Litigation and Negotiation activities; and 2) for

Water Management, Planning, and Development which are

project specific awards that are made competitively.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by Indian tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local Bureau of Indian Affairs'

agency office as listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division ofWater and Land Resources, Branch of Agriculture

and Range, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW.,

MS-4513 MIB, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-6042. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects include

geographic, hydrologic quantitative and qualitative analysis

of water, ground, surface water quality and quantity

monitoring, aquifer classification, and stream gaging;

ecosystem development and management; and planning for

compliance with the Endangered Species Act.

15.038 MINERALS AND MINING ON INDIAN

LANDS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To assist and support the inventory and

prudent development of energy and mineral resources on

Indian lands.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use; Provision of Specialized Services; Dissemination of

Technical Information.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Minerals and Mining:

Funding may be used to facilitate the inventory, development,

and production of nonrenewable resources on Indian lands.

Mineral Assessments: Funds are awarded competitively to

support inventory programs and/or develop baseline data, but

cannot be used for development purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by Indian tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local Bureau of Indian Affairs'

agency office as listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Energy and Minerals, Bureau of Indian Affairs,

12136 W. Bayaud Ave, Suite 300, Lakewood, CO 80228.

Telephone: (303) 969-5270, ext. 234.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects support

tribal leasing and accounting staffs, feasibility studies and

mining plans, lease compliance on oil and gas contracts;

environmental reviews, training, and oil and gas inspection

and enforcement. Mineral Assessments include seismic

exploration, inventories of existing geophysical and

geological data, development of an oil and gas resource

database and mapping system, and evaluation and assessment

of mineral resources.

15.039 FISH, WILDLIFE, AND PARKS

PROGRAMS ON INDIAN LANDS (WILDLIFE

AND PARKS)

FEDERALAGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To promote the conservation, development,

and utilization of fish, wildlife, and recreational resources for

sustenance, cultural enrichment, economic support, and

maximum benefit of Indians.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Tribes address fish,

wildlife, and outdoor recreation issues and participate in

associated resource management planning and other activities

with their State and Federal counterparts. Appropriations for

specific projects are restricted.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by Indian tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Water and Land Resources, Branch of Fish,

Wildlife, and Recreation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 849 C

Street NW., MS-4513 MIB, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 208-4088. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects are quite

diverse including base line inventories; harvest management;

habitat protection; regulation of fishing, boating, camping,

and related public use activities; and water quality

compliance measures.

15.040 REAL ESTATE PROGRAMS INDIAN

LANDS
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FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide real property management,

counseling, and land use planning services to individual

Indian allottees and Indian tribal and Alaska Native entities

who own an interest in almost 56 million acres of trust land;

to provide real estate appraisal services required in processing

land transactions, and to protect and enhance the Indian

leasehold estate by providing individual Indian landowners

and Indian tribes with lease compliance activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Real Estate Services:

decision-making processes aredeveloped through cooperative

efforts with the Indian landowners for the proper utilization,

development, and enhancement of Indian trust lands. Real

Estate Appraisals are one element in trust land transactions

and are restricted to American Indians who have an

ownership interest in property held in trust by the Federal

government. Lease Compliance: program resources are used

to ensure that leases on trust and restricted Indian lands and

their assignees comply with the terms of the leases.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments, Native American Organizations authorized by

tribes, and individual American Indians.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs' agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Real Estate Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs,

1849 C Street NW., MS-4510 MIB, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 208-7737. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Real Estate

Services funds land sales, leasing, preparation of probate

documents and estate planning. Real Estate Appraisals are

conducted for commercial, residential, and industrial

properties, including leased agricultural trust lands. Lease

Compliance funds reviews of lease documents, investigations

of lease violations and trespass issues, and physical

inspections of leased property including assessments of

improvements.

15.041 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

IN DIA N PR OG RAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To determine environmental impacts of

Federal projects on Indian lands; to conduct surveys of

Bureau of Indian Affairs controlled Federal lands and

facilities, and of Indian lands, in order to identify hazardous

waste sites, evaluate the potential threat to health and the

environment, and develop the necessary remedial actions; to

train area, agency and tribal staff in waste management

principles; and to respond to emergencies and alleviate

adverse health or environmental impacts.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: These funds are used

to prepare Environmental Assessments (EA's); advise agency

superintendents on environmental quality, waste disposal and

cultural resource management; assist area offices in gathering

information for EA's and Environmental Impact Statements

(EIS's); review proposed actions to determine compliance

with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); and

assist area offices in obtaining information for compliance

with the National Historic Preservation Act and the

Archeological Resources Protection Act.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by the Tribes.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency office as listed in your

local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Trust Responsibilities,

Division of Environmental and Cultural Resources,Bureau of

Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS 4516 MIB,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-

5696.EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects

include on-site inspections, site testing and environmental

data collection, closure of municipal waste dumps, asbestos

abatement, removal of leaking underground storage tanks,

and report preparation

15.042 INDIAN SCHOOL EQUALIZATION

PROGRAM (ISEP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funding for primary and

secondary education.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

the education of Indian children in BIA funded schools.

Funds may not be used for construction.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribes or

tribal organizations currently served by a Bureau of Indian

Affairs funded school.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 3512 MIB, 1849 C Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone (202) 219-1129. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: ISEP funds are

used to provide basic education and residential programs to

Indian students not served by public or sectarian schools.

15.043 INDIAN CHILD AND FAMILY

EDUCATION (FACE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAUOFINDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To begin educating children at an early age

through parental involvement, to increase high school

graduation rates among Indian parents, and to encourage lifelong learning.
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TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds must be used

for early childhood education, adult education and parenting

skills. Funds may not be used for administration.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and tribal organizations authorized by Indian

tribal governments on reservations with Bureau-funded

schools may apply to administer the program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MIB, 1849 C Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1127.

EXAMPLESOFFUNDED PROJECTS: The sites provide

such services as parenting skills, adult education and early

childhood education in an effort to increase student

achievement.

15.044 INDIAN SCHOOLS STUDENT

TRANSPORTATION (Student Transportation) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to each school for the

round trip transportation of students between home and the

school site. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are to be used

only for the transportation of students who are eligible under

the Indian School Equalization Program (ISEP) as provided

for under 25 CFR 39 and are enrolled in a Bureau funded

school or dormitory. 

Applicant Eligibility:Federally Recognized Indian Tribes or

tribal organizations currently served by a Bureau of Indian

Affairs funded school. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 3512 MIB, 1849 C Street,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240. Telephone (202) 219-1129.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds are

provided to each school to provide daily transportation of

students to and from school, and for boarding students,

transportation at the beginning and end of the year as well as

one mid-year round trip home. Additionalfunding is provided

where miles driven is on unimproved roads. 

15.045 ASSISTANCE FOR INDIAN CHILDREN

WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES (Institutionalized

Handicapped) FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU

OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE

INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide for the special education and

related services of Indian children with severe disabilities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, direct

academic services and administration including staff

development. Funds may only be used for students who are

enrolled in a Bureau-funded school. 

Applicant Eligibility: Members or direct descendants of

members of Federally recognized tribes and enrolled in a

BIA-funded school. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 3512 MIB, 1849 C Street,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240. Telephone (202) 208-6675.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funding may

include but not be limited to occupational and physical

therapy, counseling, audiology, and psychological services.

15.046 ADMINISTRATIVE COST GRANTS

FOR INDIAN SCHOOLS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to tribes and tribal

organizations operating schools for the purpose of paying

administrative and indirect costs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

program services related administrative overhead, operations

necessary to meet requirements of the law, prudent

management practices, and other necessary support functions.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments or Tribal Organizations operating a Bureau of

Indian Affairs funded school. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MIB, 1849 C Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1129.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples of

some administrative costs include fiscal, personnel, property

and procurement management and costs of necessary

insurance, auditing, legal, safety and security services. 

15.047 INDIAN EDUCATION FACILITIES,

OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Indian-controlled

schools for facilities operations and maintenance. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

salaries and related expenses of maintenance personnel,

utilities,maintenance of school grounds, supplies, equipment,

materials, and for minor repairs to facilities. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments or tribal organizations currently served by a

BIA-funded elementary or secondary school or peripheral

dormitory. 
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INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency/area education program

administrator as listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW.,

MS-3512-MIB, Washington, DC 20240.Telephone: (202)

219-1129. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

15.058 INDIAN POST SECONDARY SCHOOLS

(Haskell and SIPI) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide post secondary educational

opportunities for American Indian Students. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Students may attend

one of two post-secondary schools operated by the Bureau of

Indian Affairs without charge for tuition or room and board.

Married student housing is not available on campus. 

Applicant Eligibility: A member of a Federally Recognized

Indian tribe. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local Bureau of Indian Affairs

agency/area education program administrator as listed in your

local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Southwestern Indian Polytechnic

Institute, 9169 Coors Road, NW., Albuquerque, NM, 81774.

Telephone: (505) 897-5362, or Toll Free (800) 586-SIPI;

Haskell Indian Nations University, 155 Indian Avenue,

Lawrence, KS 66046. Telephone: (913) 749-8454. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

15.061 INDIAN JOB PLACEMENT UNITED

SIOUX TRIBES DEVELOPMENT

CORPORATION UNITED SIOUX TRIBES)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide job development, counseling,

social adjustment guidance, and referrals to job training

programs and other assistance programs through the United

Sioux Tribes Development Corporation, located in Pierre,

South Dakota. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments with

Unrestricted Use; Advisory Services and Counseling.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Financial aid is used to

assist individual Indians in finding permanent employment.

A weekly or monthly (depending on type of services

received) stipend is paid until the participant is employed.

Upon receiving employment, assistance may be provided

until the first full paycheck is received. 

Applicant Eligibility: Application to administer the program

is limited to the United Sioux Tribes Development

Corporation. Individual American Indian applicants must be

a member of a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe, be in need

of financial assistance, and reside on or near an Indian

reservation under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian

Affairs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: United Sioux Tribes Development

Corporation, 1830 Lombardy Drive, Rapid City, South

Dakota, 57701. Telephone: (605) 226-7426.

Headquarters Office: Office of Economic Development,

Division of Job Placement and Training, Bureau of Indian

Affairs, 1849 C Street, NW., MS-4640 MIB, Washington,

DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-5819. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: An unemployed

husband and wife with two children were placed as a

handyman in a garage and a housekeeper in a hotel,

respectively

15.062 REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR OF

INDIAN SCHOOLS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIANAFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide safe, functional,

code-compliant, economical, and energy-efficient education

facilities for Indian students attending Bureau of Indian

Affairs owned or funded primary and secondary schools

and/or residing in Bureau owned or funded dormitories. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Replacement School

Construction: Funds are provided for advanced planning,

design, and construction of major expansions or major

replacements of Bureau of Indian Affairs owned or funded

education facilities for the direct support of primary and

secondary schools and/or dormitories. An education facility

may include an entire school facility or building, or a

component(s) of a school facility or building, such as,

classrooms, multi-purpose rooms or gymnasiums, or

cafeteria/kitchens; and may include other improvements to

real property such as, water storage tanks, water and sewer

distribution lines, parking lots, and other site improvements.

School facilities are replaced only in those instances where

rehabilitation and upgrading are not feasible because of

eligible Indian student capacity needs, functional changes or

costs. Facilities Improvement and Repair: Funds are

provided for advanced planning, design, and construction for

facilities improvement and repair of education facilities for

the direct support of primary and secondary schools and/or

dormitories and the Bureau's two post secondary schools.

Funds are used to improve, repair and rehabilitate facilities

and in some instances replace component(s) of education

facilities; and may include other improvements to real

property as noted under Replacement School Construction.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Tribal Organizations, including School

Boards, who have a prioritized Replacement School

Construction or Facilities Improvement and Repairproject for

which funds have been appropriated. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office as listed

in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Facilities Management and

Construction Center, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 201 Third

Street, NW., Suite 500, P. O. Box 1248, Albuquerque, NM
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87103. Telephone: (505) 766-2825. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Replacement

School Construction: Most recently a pre-Kindergarten

through Grade 12 school complex was funded in the State of

Washington. Because of the size of the project, funds were

appropriated in increments for this project. In recent years

funds have been provided to build elementary and middle

schools in North Dakota, New Mexico, and Mississippi, a

high school in South Dakota and a library in Mississippi.

Facilities Improvement and Repair: The emphasis of this

program is minor replacement construction, major and minor

repairs, and emergency projects to remedy life safety and

health related deficiencies in facilities. Examples of projects

include: boiler repair and replacement; roofing repair and

replacement of gymnasium; removal of underground storage

tanks; installation of fire exit lights, emergency lights, fire

rated doors, and other safety related items; and replacement

of water storage tanks. 

15.063 CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF

INDIAN DETENTION FACILITIES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAUOFINDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide safe, functional, code and

standards compliant, economical, and energy-efficient adult

and/or juvenile detention facilities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Law Enforcement

Projects: Funds are provided for advanced planning, design,

and construction of adult and/or juvenile detention facility

and may include other improvements to real property

identified with construction of the detention facility, such as,

water storage tanks, water and sewer distribution lines,

parking lots, and other site improvements. Facilities

Improvement and Repair. Funds are provided for advanced

planning, design, and construction for facilities improvement

and repair to repair or replace Bureau detention facilities (e.g.

renovations, improvements, demolitions, or additions) when

economically justified with emphasis on addressing critical

health and safety needs identified in Bureau safety reports and

meeting emergency needs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments who have a prioritized Law Enforcement

project for construction of a detention facility or a prioritized

Facilities Improvement and Repair project for a Bureau

detention facility for which funds have been appropriated. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Bureau of Indian Affairs agency

or area office as listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Law Enforcement

Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, P.O. Box 66,

Albuquerque, NM 87103. Telephone: (505) 248-7937.

Director, Facilities Management and Construction Center,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 201 Third St., NW., Suite 500, P.O.

Box 1248, Albuquerque, NM 87103. (505) 766-2825. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (a) Law

Enforcement Projects. A 56 bed adult/10 bed juvenile

detention center in Montana, a 60 bed juvenile detention

center in Oklahoma, a 36 bed juvenile detention center and a

50 bed juvenile detention center in Arizona, and a 34 bed

juvenile detention center in South Dakota. (b) Facilities

Improvement and Repair. The emphasis of this program is to

remedy life safety and health related deficiencies in existing

facilities. An emergency stand-bygenerator to power security

systems and enlargement of exercise yard to comply with

program requirements were done at a detention facility in

Arizona. Another project at a Montana detention facilities

addressed miscellaneous life safety, handicap, and

environmental deficiencies including installation of rest

rooms to accommodate the handicapped, new electrical

wiring, and asbestos removal. A project at a facility in New

Mexico included heating and cooling system improvements,

site drainage, and a new back-up generator to power security

systems. 

15.064 STRUCTURAL FIRE PROTECTION

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FACILITIES

(Fire Protection) 

FEDERALAGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide for the installation of fire

protection and prevention equipment in schools, dormitories,

detention centers and other BIA facilities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

training, breathing apparatus equipment; other equipment

such as hoses; protective clothing for fire personnel;

installation of fire sprinkles and fire/smoke alarms in schools

and dormitories; and support other fire protection and

prevention measures. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and Tribal Organizations, including School

Boards, who have a prioritized Fire Protection project for

which funds have been appropriated. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications should be filed with

the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office

representative or education program administrator as listed in

your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Structural Fire Protection Program

Manager; Facilities Management and Construction Center,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 201 Third Street, NW., Suite 500,

P. O. Box 1248, Albuquerque, NM 87103. Telephone: (505)

766-2825. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Installation or

repair of sprinkler systems; installation of smoke detectors;

installation or repair of fire alarm systems;

acquisition/replacement of fire extinguishers.

15.108 INDIAN EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

(Employment Assistance Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide vocational training and

employment opportunities to eligible American Indians and

reduce Federal dependence. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 
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USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Financial aid is used to

assist individual Indians to obtain a marketable skill through

vocational training and to assist those who have a job skill to

find permanent employment. Vocational and employment

counseling are provided by the program. Eligible American

Indians may receive vocational training or job placement on

or near the reservation or in an urban area. Restricted to

American Indians who are determined eligible for these

services. 

Applicant Eligibility: (a) Federally Recognized IndianTribal

Governments and Native American Organizations authorized

by Indian Tribal Governments may apply to administer the

program. (b) Individual American Indian applicants must be

a member of a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe, be in need

of financial assistance, and reside on or near an Indian

reservation under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian

Affairs. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the

local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency office as listed in your

local telephone directory or with the Tribal Government

administering the program. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Economic Development,

Division of Job Placement and Training, Bureau of Indian

Affairs, 1849 C Street NW, MS: 2061 MIB, Washington, DC

20240. Telephone: (202) 208-2671. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDEDPROJECTS: The Southwestern

Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico

trains students in ophthalmology and provides job placement

upon completion of the program. Adult vocational training

subsistence funds are provided to individuals with families

who live off campus. One individual received 3 years of

nursing training in Phoenix, Arizona and was subsequently

employed by a medical center.

15.113 INDIAN SOCIAL SERVICES GENERAL

ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance for basic

needs of needy eligible Indians who reside on or near

reservations, including those Indians living under Bureau of

Indian Affairs service area jurisdictions, when such assistance

is not available from State or local public agencies. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments with

Unrestricted Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Provides cash

payments to eligible Indian individuals and families to meet

basic needs (i.e., food, clothing, shelter, etc.). Provides extra

monthly benefits to tribal members on general assistance who

also work on tribal projects under the Tribal Work

Experience Program. Provides monthly assistance for

non-medical institutional or custodial care of adults who are

not eligible for care from Indian Health Services, Social

Security, or any other county, state or Federal program. This

program also pays the burial expenses of indigent Indians

whose estates do not have sufficient resources to meet funeral

expenses and provides emergency assistance to prevent

hardship caused by fire, flood or acts of nature. 

Applicant Eligibility: Member of a federally recognized

Indian Tribe, residing on or near a federally recognized

Indian reservations and in need of financial assistance. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Agency Superintendents and Area

Directors (see your local telephone directory.) Applications

for general assistance are made at the local agency or tribal

level. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Social Services, Office of

Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 4641 MIB,

1849 C St., NW, Washington, DC 20245. Telephone: (202)

208-2721. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Individual

financial assistance (welfare) grant to a single person or to a

family of eight based upon public assistance standards of

State where recipients reside. 

15.114 INDIAN EDUCATION HIGHER

EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM (Higher

Education) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial aid to eligible Indian

students to enable them to attend accredited institutions of

higher education. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds are to

supplement the total financial aid package prepared by the

college financial aid officer. Funds are intended to assist

students in pursuing their undergraduate baccalaureate

degree. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and tribal organizations authorized by Indian

Tribal Governments may apply to administer the program.

Individuals who are members of Federally Recognized Indian

Tribes may submit applications for benefits directly to the

Bureau of Indian Affairs if the Bureau agency serving their

reservation provides direct services for this program.

Individuals must be enrolled in an accredited college and

have financial need as determined by the institution's

financial aid office. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs,

Room MS 3512-MIB, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington, DC

20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1127. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Bureau's

scholarship program provides about 25 percent of the

student's total financial aid.

15.124 INDIAN LOANS ECONOM IC

DEVELOPMENT (Loan Guaranty Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to Federally

Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, Native American

Organizations, and individual American Indians in obtaining

financing from private sources to promote business

development initiatives on or near Federally Recognized
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Indian Reservations. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans may be used to

finance commercial, industrial, agricultural, or business

activities organized for profit. Loan guarantees to private

lenders will only be provided if funds otherwise would be

unavailable to the borrower. Funds may not be used for

speculation. The financial assistance must be used on or near

an Indian Reservation. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments, Native American Organizations authorized by

Indian tribal governments, and individual American Indians.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Lendees must submit applications

to the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency office as listed in

your local telephone directory or with the Tribal Government

administering the program. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Economic Development,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street, NW, MS-2061,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-5324. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A tribal loan of

$2,200,000 was guaranteed to construct new bulk fuel tanks.

Another tribal loan was guaranteed for $2,000,000 to

construct a new commercial office building. These projects

will provide employment opportunities to the tribe and

improve the tribe's infrastructure and economy. 

15.130 INDIAN EDUCATION ASSISTANCE TO

SCHOOLS (Johnson-O'Malley) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To fund programs that meet the unique and

specialized needs of eligible Indian students. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

supplemental programs to meet the special educationally

related needs of eligible Indian students. Funds under this

program may not be used for capital expenditures. 

Applicant Eligibility: Tribal organizations, Indian

Corporations, school districts or States which have eligible

Indian children attending public school districts and have

established Indian Education Committees to approve

supplementary or operational support programs beneficial to

Indian students. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers'

addresses in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Education Programs,

Office of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of Indian

Affairs, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240. Contact:

Chief, Division of Education. Telephone: (202) 219-1127. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Home school

coordinators; remedial tutoring, educational field trips; and

cultural programs. 

15.141 INDIAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To use the Housing Improvement Program

(HIP) resources of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to

substantially eliminate substandard Indian housing. This

effort is assisted by the Indian Health Service (Department of

Health and Human Services) which provides water and

sanitary systems for houses repaired or built with HIP funds.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Dissemination

of Technical Information; Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The program is

primarily devoted to housing improvement through

renovations, repairs, or additions to existing homes. The

Bureau will build an entire house in situations where no other

program will meet the need, i.e., limited income does not

qualify applicant for other programs; or extremely isolated

areas or reservations where only a very small number of

homes are needed. Technical assistance is provided to Indian

tribes to establish housing plans and determine the extent and

use of the Bureau's Housing Improvement Program. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments and tribal organizations to administer the

program who have needs identified in the most current tribal

housing inventory. Individual Indians in need of housing

assistance who are unable to obtain assistance from any other

source, and meet the eligibility criteria of the HIP regulations

(25 CFR Part 256 "Housing Improvement Program"). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Nearest Bureau of Indian Affairs

Agency or Area Office. See your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Human Services, Office of

Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 4641 MIB,

1849 C St., NW, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-2721. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The HIP does not

fund multi-unit projects as such, the assistance is granted to

repair individual houses with each house considered to be a

project. Occasionally, several individual projects may be

constructed simultaneously in close proximity giving the

appearance of a multi-unit project. One such occurrence was

the construction of several units in California. Prior to HIP

undertaking there was no housing in this area. No other

federally assisted housing program was able to meet this

need. The result of constructing housing in this area has been

significant. The effort proved decent housing could be a

reality in remote geographic areas. 

15.144 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT TITLE

II GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To promote the stability and security of

Indian tribes and families by the establishment of minimum

Federal standards for the removal of Indian children from

their families and providing assistance to Indian tribes in the

operation of child and family service programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Operation and

maintenance of counseling facilities, family assistance

(homemaker and home counselors), protective day care, and

after school care, recreational activities, respite care,

employment of professionals to assist tribal courts personnel,

education and training, foster care subsidy programs, legal
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advice and representation, home improvement programs with

the primary emphasis of upgrading unsafe home

environments, preparation and implementation of child

welfare codes, and providing matching share for other Federal

programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal

Governments. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Information can be secured from

the Agency Superintendents and from Area Directors. (See

your local telephone directory.) 

Headquarters Office: Division of Social Services, Office of

Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 4603 MIB,

1849 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240. Contact: Code

450. Telephone: (202) 208-2721. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Eastern Band of

Cherokee (North Carolina) Indian Child Welfare Program. 

15.225 RECREATION RESOURCE

MANAGEM ENT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF LAND

MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To manage recreational resource values on

the public lands administered by the Bureau of Land

Management and to increase public awareness and

appreciation of these values. 

TYPESOFASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Use of Property,

Facilities, and Equipment; Provision of Specialized Services;

Advisory Services and Counseling; Dissemination of

Technical Information; Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All projects are

restricted to lands administered by BLM. Assistance can be

used for managing and/or upgrading recreational resources

and related facilities, and public contact/education

opportunities. No regular discretionary fund is available but

is highly variable each fiscal year. 

Applicant Eligibility: No restrictions. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Group Administrator, Cultural &

Recreation Group, Bureau of Land Management (WO 340),

1849 C St, N.W., Washington, DC 20240 (202) 452-7790.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Development

of recreation facilities. (2) Cooperative visitor services to the

general public. (3) Agreements to manage public land

resources cooperatively. (4) Assistance agreement to promote

more effective management of caves on Public Lands. 

15.228 WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE

COMM UNITY AND RURAL FIRE

ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF LAND

MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THEINTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To implement the National Fire Plan and

assist communities at risk from catastrophic wildland fires by

providing assistance in the following areas: Provide

community programs that develop local capability including;

assessment and planning, mitigation activities, and

community and homeowner education and action; plan and

implement hazardous fuels reduction activities, including the

training, monitoring or maintenance associated with such

hazardous fuels reduction activities, on federal land, or on

adjacent nonfederal land for activities that mitigate the threat

of catastrophic fire to communities and natural resources in

high risk areas; enhance local and small business employment

opportunities for rural communities; enhance the knowledge

and fire protection capability of rural fire districts by

providing assistance in education and training, protective

clothing and equipment purchase, and mitigation methods on

a cost share basis.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Use of

Property, Facilities, and Equipment; Provision of Specialized

Services; Advisory Services and Counseling; Dissemination

of Technical Information; Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Hazard reduction

activities are restricted to Federal lands, or adjacent

nonfederal land for activities that benefit resources on Federal

land. Most of these lands are located in the Western United

States and Alaska. Assistance can be used for helping BLM

support community based efforts to address defensible space

and fuels management issues to support outreach and

education efforts associated with fuels management and risk

reduction activities and to increase the effectiveness of rural

fire protection. Funding is highly variable each fiscal year.

Applicant Eligibility: States and local governments at risk as

published in the Federal Register, Indian Tribes, public and

private education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and

rural fire departments serving a community with a population

of 10,000 or less in the wildland/urban interface. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Chief, Community Protection and

Assistance, Planning-Resources Group, Bureau of Land

Management (FA-130), National Interagency Fire Center,

3833 S. Development Ave, Boise, ID 83705. Telephone:

(208) 387-5150. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Assessment

and planning for reducing wildland fire risks to communities

and their associated watersheds and natural resources. (2)

Hazard fuel reduction activities and projects that mitigate

wildfire hazards to communities and natural resources. (3)

Implementation of programs, workshops or training that

distribute educational materials and develop partnerships

between stakeholders in wildland urban interface

communities. (4) Assistance and technical transfer of

information that promotes homeowner's and rural fire

department's action to implement community wildfire

mitigation activities. (5) Wildland fire assistance to rural fire

departments through mitigation education, training, and

providing necessary safety equipment. 

15.850 INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS

DEVELOPM ENT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS

BOARD, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To encourage and promote the development

of American Indian and Alaska Native arts and crafts. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Use of Property, Facilities, and
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Equipment; Advisory Services and Counseling; Investigation

of Complaints. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Program planning

assistance, such as the development of innovative

educational, production, promotion, and economic concepts

related to Native culture. Complaints about imitation

American Indian arts and crafts that are misrepresented as

genuine handcrafts are referred to appropriate Federal or local

authorities for action. The three museums operated by the

Board serve Indians and the general public: the Sioux Indian

Museum, in Rapid City, South Dakota; the Museum of the

Plains Indian, in Browning, Montana; and the Southern

Plains Indian Museum, in Anadarko, Oklahoma. 

Applicant Eligibility: American Indian and Alaska Native

individuals and organizations, federally recognized Indian

tribal governments, State and local governments, and

nonprofit organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

HEADQUARTERS Office: Director, Indian Arts and Crafts

Board, Room 4004-Main Interior Building, Washington, DC

20240 (202) 208-3773. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (Note: Advisory

assistance only; no grants or other direct financial assistance

is offered.) Assistance to an Indian craftsmen's cooperative to

plan a series of exhibitions to recognize and promote

outstanding work by its members; assistance to an Indian

tribe to plan fund-raising to operate a new museum facility;

assistance to an Indian craftsman to locate a grant to set aside

time for creative experimentation; assistance to an Indian

artist to organize, publicize, and professionally install a oneperson sales exhibition at an Indian Arts and Crafts Board

museum; assistance to an Indian nonprofit organization to

develop a comprehensive plan for a multi-facility cultural

center. 

15.875 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL

DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIES AND

THE FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES 

FEDERALAGENCY:OFFICE OF INSULARAFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To promote the economic, social, and

political development of the territories and freely associated

states, leading toward greater self-government and

self-sufficiency for each of them. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The base program

provides Federal funding for support of the operations of the

American SamoaGovernment and the freely associated States

of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the

Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau. In addition,

Federal funding is provided for capital improvement

programs and technical assistance in American Samoa, Guam,

the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the

freely associated states. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants are the U.S.

territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the

Northern Mariana Islands; and the freely associated States of

the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the

Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Insular Affairs,

Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240.

Telephone: (202) 208-4736. Director of Financial

Management and Technical Assistance Division, Office of

Insular Affairs, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC

20240. Telephone: (202) 208-6971. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Operational

support grants to territories and grants for construction of

basic infrastructure including roads, water systems, power,

sewer, schools, and hospital facilities. 

15.904 HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND

GRANTS-IN-AID 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: (1) To provide matching grants to States for

the identification, evaluation, and protection of historic

properties by such means as survey, planning technical

assistance, acquisition, development, and certain Federal tax

incentives available for historic properties; (2) to provide

matching grants to States to expand the National Register of

Historic Places, (the Nation's listing of districts, sites,

buildings, structures, and objects significant in American

history, architecture, archaeology, engineering and culture at

the National, State and local levels) to assist Federal, State,

and Local Government agencies, nonprofit organizations and

private individuals in carrying out historic preservation

activities; and (3) to provide grants to Indian Tribes and

Alaskan Native Corporations to preserve their culture. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:FormulaGrants; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Matching grants can

directly finance State staff salaries, equipment, and materials,

and travel necessary to accomplish program purposes. States

may transfer funds to third parties to carry out historic

preservation activities such as surveys, preservation plans,

National Register nominations, architectural plans and

specifications, historic structures reports, and engineering

studies necessary to restore properties listed on the National

Register of Historic Places, and for acquisition or repair of

these properties. Development projects must comprise one or

more of the 4 allowable treatments defined in the "Secretary

of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic

Properties" (36 CFR 78). These treatments are preservation,

restoration, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. Major

reconstruction is not eligible. Other activities must meet the

applicable Secretary of the Interior's Standards for

Archeology and Historic Preservation. In fiscal year 1990,

Congress for the first time appropriated funds for direct grants

for Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives to preserve their cultural

heritage. In 1999, the estimated amount to be appropriated

from the Historic Preservation Fund for financial assistance

to the States, Territories, and the Freely Associated States of

Micronesia, will be $29.394 million, an additional $3.096

million for grants to Indian tribes, and $15.422 million for

project grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities

is being requested by the Administration. In accordance with

Section 102(a)(5) of the National Historic Preservation Act,

as amended, grantees must agree to assume, after completion

of the restoration project, the total cost of the continued
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maintenance, repair, and administration of the property in a

manner satisfactory to the Secretary. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants States and

Territories as defined in the National Historic Preservation

Act, as amended, operating programs administered by a State

Historic Preservation Officer appointed by the Governor or

according to State law, and which are otherwise in

compliance with the requirements of the Act. Eligible

applicants for the Tribal Grant Program are Federally

recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: For financial aid information

concerning projects funded through State programs,

applicants should refer to their local telephone directory for

for the State Historic Preservation Office. This list is also

available on the National Park Services ParkNet, Links to the

Past, URL: (http://www.cr.nps.gov).

Headquarters Office: Cultural Resource Stewardship and

Partnerships, National Park Service, Department of the

Interior, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-7625. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:ArkansasHistoric

Preservation Program established the Preservation

Restoration Grant Program to aid owners of historic

structures, increased Tax Act projects three-fold with 20

projects totaling $9.9 million, completed 100 building

rehabilitations/facade renovations representing $2 million in

private investment, saw a net gain in new businesses resulting

in 111 new jobs through the Main Street Arkansas program,

and nominated Arkansas Civil War Commerative Sculptures

to the National Register of Historic Places. Florida State

Historic Preservation Office submitted or reviewed 44

nominations for listing in the National Register of Historic

Places encompassing 607 cultural resources; eight were

historic districts, two of which were for significant

African-American institutions of higher learning:

Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, and Florida

Agricultural and Mechanical College (now University) in

Tallahassee; two nominations for historic shipwrecks: the

Emanuel Point Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay and the U.S.S.

Alligator, a ship built to combat the African slave trade and

piracy in the West Indies. Office of Archaeology and Historic

Preservation (OAHP), Washington forged partnerships with

the Department of the Army's Fort Lewis and Washington

State Department of Transportation to create a statewide

cultural resources data layer of archaeological sites was

compiled; a total of 800 quads and 6,500 archaeological sites

were digitized. Georgia State Historic Preservation Office:

The O'Hern House (formerly the Red Seal, J.K. Orr, Shoe

Factory) was adaptively reused as a residence for homeless

mentally ill adults in downtown Atlanta; the building now has

76 individual rooms (56 with private baths), a cafeteria, a

laundry room, lounges, and offices and the exterior has been

rehabilitated to its original 1910 appearance. The Division of

Historical Resources: the Drewsville Mansion Affordable

Housing and Head Start Project, Walpole, New Hampshire,

was rehabilitated and will provide needed housing and Head

Start pre-school facilities. The Division of Historic

Preservation and Archaeology, Indiana, awarded 5

development subgrants totaling $120,000. The Historic

Preservation Division, Office of Cultural Affairs, State of

New Mexico was awarded $18,410 to produce a video tape

which takes the viewer through the processes of archeological

discovery, exploration,and analysis. The Division of National

Register Programs, Texas, identified 464 schools and

associated buildings constructed from 1920 through 1930

primarily for African American children. A reconnaissance

survey was conducted in Northeast and Central Texas to

locate extant buildings. 

15.916 OUTDOOR RECREATION

ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND

PLANNING (Land and Water Conservation Fund

Grants) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to the States

and their political subdivisions for the preparation of

Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plans

(SCORPs) and acquisition and development of outdoor

recreation areas and facilities for the general public, to meet

current and future needs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Acquisition and

development grants may be used for a wide range of outdoor

recreation projects, such as picnic areas, inner city parks,

campgrounds, tennis courts, boatlaunching ramps, bike trails,

outdoor swimming pools, and support facilities such as roads,

water supply, etc. Facilities must be open to the general

public and not limited to special groups. Development of

basic rather than elaborate facilities is favored. Fund monies

are not available for the operation and maintenance of

facilities. Grants are also available to States only for revising

and updating existing SCORPs preparation of new plans and

for statewide surveys, technical studies, data collection and

analysis and other planning purposes which are clearly related

to SCORP refinement and improvement. 

Applicant Eligibility: For planning grants, only the State

agency formally designated by the Governor or State law as

responsible for the preparation and maintenance of the

StatewideComprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan is eligible

to apply. (Treated as States in this regard are the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa,

the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.) For acquisition

and development grants, the above designated agency may

apply for assistance for itself, or on behalf of other State

agencies or political subdivisions, such as cities, counties,

and park districts. Additionally, Indian tribes which are

organized to govern themselves and perform the function of

a general purpose unit of government qualify for assistance

under the program. Individuals and private organizations are

not eligible

. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Recreation Program, National Park

Service, (2225), Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street,

N.W., Room 3624, Washington,DC20240. Telephone: (202)

565-1133. (FAX: (202) 565-1130).

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Acquisition and

development grants may be used for a wide range of outdoor

recreation projects, such as picnic areas, inner city parks,

campgrounds, tennis courts, boat launching ramps, bike trails,
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outdoor swimming pools, and support facilities such as roads,

water supply, etc. Facilities must be open to the general

public and not limited to special groups. Development of

basic rather that elaborate facilities is favored. Fund monies

are not available for the operation and maintenance of

facilities. 

15.918 DISPOSAL OF FEDERAL SURPLUS

REAL PROPERTY FOR PARKS,

RECREATION, AND HISTORIC

MONUM ENTS (Surplus Property Program;

Federal Lands-to-Parks Program; Historic

Surplus Property Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To transfer surplus Federal real property for

public park and recreation use, or for use of historic real

property.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Use of Property, Facilities, and

Equipment. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Surplus real property

may be conveyed for public park and recreation use at

discounts up to 100 percent of fair market value and for

historic monument purposes without monetary consideration.

Property conveyed for park and recreation use or historic

monument purposes must be used for these purposes in

perpetuity or be reverted to Federal ownership. 

Applicant Eligibility: Only State or local units of

government are eligible to apply for surplus real property for

public park and recreation and historic monument purposes,

and must agree to manage the property in the public interest

and for public use (in the case of park and recreation

purposes). Only properties listed or eligible for the National

Register of Historic Places may be transferred through the

Historic Monument Program. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Applicants for park and recreation

purposes are requested to communicate with the following

National Park Service Offices: the Southeast Regional Office,

New England Support Office, and the Pacific Great Basin

Support Office (formerly Southeast, North-Atlantic, and

Western Regional Office contacts). Applicants for historic

monument purposes are requested to contact the Alaska

Regional Office; the Columbia Cascades Support Office; the

Midwest Support Office; the Pacific Great Basis and Pacific

Island Support Office; the Philadelphia Support Office; the

Rocky Mountain Support Office; the Southeast Regional

Office, and the Southwest Support Office. (See your local

telephone directory.) 

Headquarters Office: National Park Service, National

Center for Conservation and Recreation, Department of the

Interior, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127.

Contact: (Federal Lands to Parks Program). Telephone: (202)

565-1184. National Park Service, Heritage Preservation

Services, 1849 C Street, NW., NC 200 Washington DC

20240 (202) 343-9587 or (202) 343-9531. Historic Surplus

Property Program. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Nature Study

Areas - Wildlife Conservation Areas; Developed Play Areas;

State and Regional Parks; Arts/Crafts Centers; Youth and

Senior Citizen Areas; Historic Buildings and/or

Archeological Areas.

15.921 RIVERS, TRAILS AND

CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE (RTCA) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide staff assistance to support

partnerships between government and citizens to increase the

number of rivers and landscapes protected and trails

established nationwide. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and

Counseling. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not applicable. 

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofit organizations and

Federal, State and local government agencies. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applicants are requested to

communicate with National Park Service Support Offices.

Refer to your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Assistant Director for Recreation and

Conservation, National Park Service, 1849 C Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 565-1200. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Develop new

trails and greenways; protect and restore river resources,

access and views; convert abandoned railways to

multi-purpose trails; promote and develop systems of trails

and greenways; conserve open space; establish new

conservation organizations and alliances. Examples of RTCA

projects include: (1) Pearl-to-Leaf River Trail-A 41 mile trail

connecting Hattiesburg, Mississippi with several smaller

communities in southern Mississippi; although not yet

complete; the trail will be the state's first rail-trail and the

longest in the three state region. RTCA has helped the

Recreation District Board draw up plans and held workshops

to help Board members develop management and safety

guidelines. (2) Along the Los Angeles River, RTCA worked

with Los Angeles County to complete a master plan which

has spun off multiple open space projects, including the new

Elysian Valley Gateway Park. (3) In Ivins, Utah, RTCA

facilitated a series of day-long planning charettes for the

Santa Clara River Reserve Trail which brought together

diverse interestsincluding ranchers and environmentalists and

forged consensus. 

15.922 NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES

PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT

(NAGPRA)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: (1) To provide grants to museums to assist

in the documentation and inventory of Native American

human remains and cultural items; (2) to provide grants to

Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, and

Native Hawaiian organizations to assist in identifying human

remains and cultural items, including sacred objects, objects

of cultural patrimony, and funerary objects, with which they

are culturally affiliated; and (3) to provide grants to museums,

Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, and

Native Hawaiian organizations to assist in the repatriation of
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human remains and cultural items, including sacred objects,

objects of cultural patrimony, and funerary objects, with

which they are culturally affiliated.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Project grants may

support several of the following: (1) Documentation grants

for museums may be used to: a) bring lineal descendants,

traditional religious leaders, and Indian tribe, Alaska Native

village and corporation, and Native Hawaiian organization

officials to inspect collections and consult regarding proper

care, treatment, and disposition of Native American cultural

items; b) bring traditional religious leaders and Indian tribe,

Alaska native village and corporation, and Native Hawaiian

organization officials to inspect collections and consult

regarding culturally unidentifiable Native American human

remains; c) train staff members in techniques for documenting

the cultural affiliation of Native American cultural items; d)

train staff members in techniques for consulting with Indian

tribe, Alaska Native village and corporation, and Native

Hawaiian organization representatives and traditional

religious leaders; and e) travel by staff members to consult

with lineal descendants, traditional religious leaders, and

Indian tribe, Alaska Native village and corporation, and

Native Hawaiian organization officials regarding the proper

care, treatment, and disposition of Native American cultural

items; and f) continued documentation of unassociated

funerary objects of cultural patrimony in consultation with

lineal descendants, traditional religious leaders and Indian

tribe, Alaska Native village and corporation, and Native

Hawaiian organization officials. Museums that have received

written approvals from the Department of the Interior for an

extension of time to complete their collection inventory may

request funding for the above-listed documentation projects,

plus: a) conducting inventories and compiling documentation

of Native American human remains and associated funerary

objects required by section 5 of the statute; b) distributing

inventories and documentation to lineal descendants,

traditional religious leaders, and Indian tribe, Alaska Native

village and corporation, and Native Hawaiian organization

officials; c) consult with lineal descendants traditional

religious leaders, and Indian tribe, Alaska Native Village and

corporation, and Native Hawaiian organization officials

regarding proper care, treatment, and disposition of Native

American human remains; and associated funerary objects.

(2) Documentation grants for Indian tribes, Alaska Native

villages and corporations, and Native Hawaiian organizations

may be used to: a) assess and evaluate summaries,

inventories, and other documentation provided by museums

and Federal agencies; b) train staff members in techniques for

documenting the cultural affiliation of Native American

human remains and cultural items; c) train staff members in

techniques for consulting with museum and Federal agency

officials; d) communicating with museum and Federal agency

officials regarding culturally affiliated human remains and

cultural items; e) traveling to inspect collections and consult

with museum and Federal agency officials regarding proper

care, treatment, and disposition of Native American human

remains and cultural items; and f) documenting the cultural

affiliation of Native American human remains and cultural

items currently in the possession of museums and Federal

agencies or which might be excavated or discovered on

Federal lands. (3) Repatriation grants for museums, Indian

tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, and Native

Hawaiian organizations may be used for: a) travel by Indian

tribe, Alaska Native village and corporation or Native

Hawaiian organization or museum representatives to

accompany or accept human remains or other cultural items

that are being repatriated; b) transportation of Native

American human remains or cultural items that are being

repatriated; and c) construction of appropriate containers for

the transport and disposition of repatriated Native American

human remains and cultural items. (4) Grant funds may not

be used for tribal activities related to the documentation or

repatriation of human remains and cultural items from the

Smithsonian Institution; nor for museum or tribal costs of

litigation, including expert testimony; care and curation of

repatriated Native American human remains and cultural

items; construction or renovation of facilities; or purchase of

land or buildings. 

Applicant Eligibility: (1) Eligible applicants for museum

documentation awards include any institution orState or local

government agency (including any institution of higher

learning) that has possession of, or control over, Native

American human remains or cultural items and which has

completed the following NAGPRA obligations: provided a

written summary of their Native American collections to

culturally affiliated Indian tribes and the Departmental

Consulting Archeologist, National Park Service; and

submitted an inventory of Native American human remains

and associated funerary objects in their collections to

culturally affiliated Indian tribes and the Departmental

Consulting Archeologist, National Park Service or received

an extension of time to complete the NAGPRA inventory

from the Secretary of the Interior; (2) Eligible applicants for

tribal documentation and repatriation awards are Indian

tribes, Alaska Native villages or corporations, or Native

Hawaiian organizations that meet the criteria outlined in the

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. An

Indian tribe is defined in the statute as any tribe, band,

Nation, or other organized group or community of Indians

which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and

services provided by the United States to Indians because of

their status as Indians. Alaska Native villages and

corporations include those groups or communities defined in,

or established pursuant to, the Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act. Native Hawaiian organizations include any

organization that: (a) serves and represents the interests of

Native Hawaiians; (b) has as a primary and stated purpose

the provision of services to Native Hawaiians; and ( c ) has

expertise in Native Hawaiian Affairs. NAGPRA states that

such Native Hawaiian organizations shall include the Office

of Hawaiian Affairs and Hui Malama I Na Kupuna `O

Hawai`I Nei; (3) Applications for repatriation awards will

only be considered after publication of the required Notice of

Inventory Completion or Notice of Intent to Repatriate in the

Federal Register.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Departmental Consulting

Archeologist, Archeology & Ethnography Program, National

Park Service, 1849 C Street, N.W., Room NC 340

Washington, DC 20240 (202) 343-8161; Fax(202) 343-

5260.
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EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Documentation

of Tlingit Shamanic Practices, Procedures, and Sacred

Objects: the project produced a report which outlines Tlingit

Shamanic practices and guidelines for the determination of

Tlingit sacred objects; Repatriation of a Zuni War God: the

grant funded the repatriation of a War God to the Pueblo of

Zuni; NAGPRA Documentation and Summary Assessment

Projects: a type of grant which provides tribes with the funds

necessary to set-up a NAGPRA program and begin

organizing information received from museums, researching

cultural affiliation and communicating with museums;

Consultation with Tribes: a type of grant which provides

museums with the funds necessary to finance tribal visits

which facilitate consultation and allow dialogue about

collections; NAGPRA Compliance Workshops: a type of

grant which provides funding for regional workshops and

training sessions allowing the broad dissemination of

information on the implementation of NAGPRA as well as

information tailored to suit a particular locale.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

16.308 INDIAN COUNTRY INVESTIGATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL BUREAU OF

INVESTIGATION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To provide training to the Bureau of Indian

Affairs (BIA) and Tribal Law Enforcement Officers in

conjunction with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federal

Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) to better conduct

investigations in Indian Country. Coordination of the

development of training curriculum with the BIA and the

FLETC; and conduct training seminars in law enforcement

techniques throughout the country. To coordinate investigative

activities within Indian Country. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Training. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funding may be utilized

for expenses associated with training and investigative

assistance. 

Applicant Eligibility: BIA Investigators, Tribal Law

Enforcement Officers and other law enforcement officers

assigned to work in Indian Country. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Federal Bureau of Investigation,

Department of Justice, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20535 (202) 324-3000.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable

16.563 LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY

SUPPORT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF

JUSTICE, OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To research the effects of stress on law

enforcement and correctional personnel and their families and

disseminate the findings; identify and evaluate model programs

that provide support services to law enforcement and

correctional personnel and families; provide technical

assistance and training programs to develop stress-reduction

and family support programs to State and local law enforcement

and correctional agencies; collect and disseminate information

regarding family-support, stress-reduction, and psychological

services to State and local law enforcement organizations and

other interested parties; determine issues to be researched by

the Department of Justice and grant recipients. TYPES OF

ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USESAND USE RESTRICTIONS: Law EnforcementFamily

Support funds may be used by State or local law enforcement

or corrections agencies or police unions to demonstrate

innovative techniques or to provide training for reducing stress

in law enforcement or corrections organizations or experienced

by law enforcement or correctional officers and\or their

families. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local law enforcement or

corrections agencies and organizations representing State or

local law enforcement or correctional personnel including

National, State, or local labor unions or associations

representing commissioned State or local law enforcement

officers in contract negotiations or other employment matters in

one or more law enforcement or corrections agencies may

submit proposals. Other organizations such as universities,

colleges, independent research enterprises, professional

associations, hospitals, health care clinics, and counseling or

other treatment service providers among others, while not

eligible to submit proposals, may provide technical assistance

in either a consulting or sub-contracting capacity to the

applicant. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: National Institute of Justice, Office of

Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 810 Seventh

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. Parties interested in this

effort and needing additional information are encouraged to

contact the U.S. Department of Justice Response Center at

(800) 421-6770 or (202) 307-1480, Fax (202) 616-9249. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Discretionary

programs pertaining to critical incidence stress debriefings,

chaplaincy services, peer support and counseling. 

16.579 BYRNE FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To reduce and prevent illegal drug activity,

crime, and violence and to improve the functioning of the

criminal justice system. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to

provide additional personnel, equipment, facilities (including

upgraded and additional LawEnforcement Crime Laboratories),

personnel training and equipment for more widespread

apprehension, prosecution and adjudication of persons who

violate State and local laws relating to the production,

possession and transfer of Controlled Substances and to

improve the Criminal Justice System. Outlined in the Act are

other specific purposes for which funds can be used. The Act

restricts the use of these funds for supplanting State and local

funds and land acquisition.

Applicant Eligibility: All States, the District of Columbia,

Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico,

Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of

Justice Assistance, Department of Justice, Washington, DC

20531. Telephone: (202) 305-2088. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDEDPROJECTS: Multi-Jurisdictional

Drug Enforcement Task Forces, Criminal Justice System

Improvement, Violent Crime Prevention, DARE Education,

Community Policing Training and Technical Assistance

Projects. 

16.583 CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ACT

PARTNERSHIPS FOR INDIAN COMMUNITIES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: Fifteen percent of the first $10 million of

funds from the Crime Victims Fund that are transferred to the
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Department of Health and Human Services as part of the

Children's Justice Act are to be statutorily reserved by the

Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to make grants for the

purpose of assisting Native American Indian tribes in

developing, establishing, and operating programs designed to

improve the handling of child abuse cases, particularly cases of

child sexual abuse, in a manner which limits additional trauma

to the child victim and improves the investigation and

prosecution of cases of child abuse. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Payments

for Specified Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are available

specifically for the purpose of assisting Indian tribes in

developing, establishing, and operating programs designed to

improve (a) the handling of child abuse cases, particularly cases

of child sexual abuse, in a manner which limits additional

trauma to the victim and (b) the investigation and prosecution

of cases of child abuse, particularly child sexual abuse. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribal

governments and nonprofit Indian organizations that provide

services to Native Americans. Specific criteria will vary

depending on the grant. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Federal Crime Victims Division, Office

for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, Department

of Justice, 810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531.

Telephone: (202) 616-3578. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Tribes will

implement a variety of programs to improve the way in which

child sexual abuse cases are handled in Indian country.

Examples of some of the activities are: development of written

protocols between agencies to minimize the number of child

interviews and improve case management; provision of child

advocacy in the court process; reduction in the amount of time

required to investigate cases of child sexual abuse; revision of

tribal codes to include child abuse; establishment of special

multi disciplinary child interviewing teams; provision of

specialized training for investigators and judicial personnel; and

hiring of staff to increase the numbers of child sexual abuse

cases prosecuted in tribal, State, and Federal courts. CJA funds

will also be used for training and technical assistance for tribes

in implementing the grants awarded. 

16.587 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

DISCRETIONARY GRANTS FOR INDIAN

TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To assist Indian tribal governments to develop

and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution

strategies to combat violent crimes against women, and to

develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving

crimes against women. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This discretionary grant

program is intended to complement and enhance the Law

Enforcement and Prosecution Formula Grants to Reduce

Violent Crimes Against Women. An Indian tribal government

shall not be entitled to funds under this program unless it (or

another governmental entity) incurs the full out-of-pocket costs

of forensic medical examinations for victims of sexual assault.

An Indian tribal government shall not be entitled to funds under

this program unless it (1) certifies that its laws, policies, and

practices do not require, in connection with the prosecution of

any misdemeanor or felony domestic violence offense, that the

victim bear the costs associated with the filing of criminal

charges against the domestic violence offender, or the costs

associated with the issuance or service of a warrant, protection

order, witness subpoena; or (2) assures that its laws, policies,

and practices will be in compliance with this requirement by

September 13, 1996. Grants shall provide personnel, training,

technical assistance, data collection and other equipment for the

most widespread apprehension, prosecution, and adjudication

of persons committing violent crimes against women. Applicant

Indian tribal governments that have law enforcement authority

must certify that a minimum of 25 percent of the total grant

award (75 percent total) will be allocated to each of the

following areas: prosecution, law enforcement, and victim

services. The requirement to allocate 25 percent to law

enforcement and 25 percent to prosecution does not apply to

Indian tribal governments that do not have law enforcement

authority. 

Applicant Eligibility: Indian tribal governments may make

individual applications or apply as a consortium. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office:Violence Against Women Grants Office,

Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice, 810 Seventh

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. Telephone: (202)

307-6026. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training for tribal

law enforcement officers and prosecutors; development and

enhancement of tribal codes governing domestic violence;

establishment of a coordinated tribal community response to

violence against women; creation of a trial court to handle

sexual assault and domestic violence cases; hiring of domestic

violence advocates; and creation of an automated

communication system to connect tribal courts, police officers,

and victim service providers. 

16.589 RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND

CHILD VICTIMIZATION ENFORCEMENT

G RA NT PR OG RAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To implement, expand, and establish

cooperative efforts and projects between law enforcement

officers, prosecutors, victim advocacy groups, and other related

parties to investigate and prosecute incidents of domestic

violence and child abuse; provide treatment and counseling to

victims of domestic violence and child victimization; and work

in cooperation with the community to develop education and

prevention strategies directed toward such issues. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are available to

States, Indian tribal governments, local governments of rural

States, and other public or private entities of rural States. For

the purposes of this grant program, a rural State is a State that

has a population density of 52 or fewer persons per square mile

or a State in which the largest county has fewer than 150,000

people, based on the decennial census of 1990 through fiscal

year 1997. Nineteen States qualify as rural for the purposes of
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this grant program: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado,

Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New

Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,

Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming. 

Applicant Eligibility: State agencies in rural States may apply

for assistance for Statewide projects. Local units of government

in rural States and public and private entities in rural States also

may apply directly for assistance. Only State agencies in

non-rural States may apply for funding assistance. These

agencies may apply on behalf of one or more of their rural

jurisdictions. Rural and/or non-rural States also may submit

joint applications for projects that would be implemented in

more than one State. Indian tribal governments may make

individual applications or apply as a consortium. A tribal

government also may apply for assistance on behalf of a

non-tribal government organization. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: Not applicable. 

HeadquartersOffice: Violence Against Women Grants Office,

Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice, 810 Seventh

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. Telephone: (202)

307-6026. 

16.590 GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST

POLICIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To implement mandatory arrest or proarrest

programs and policies in police departments, including

mandatory arrest programs and policies for protection order

violations, as part of a coordinated community response to

domestic violence to develop policies and training in police

departments to improve tracking of cases involving domestic

violence; to centralize and coordinate police enforcement in

groups or units of police officers, prosecutors or judges; to

coordinate computer tracking systems to ensure communication

between police, prosecutors, and both criminal and family

courts; to strengthen legal advocacy service programs for

victims of domestic violence; and to educate judges in criminal

and other courts about domestic violence and to improve

judicial handling of such cases.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are available to

States, Indian tribal governments, and units of local

governments to encourage them to treat domestic violence as a

serious violation of criminal law. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible grantees are States, Indian tribal

governments, or units of local governments that (1) certify that

their laws or official policies encourage or mandate arrests of

domestic violence offenders based on probable cause that an

offense has been committed, and encourage or mandate arrest

of domestic violence offenders who violate the terms of a valid

and outstanding protection order; (2) demonstrate that their

laws, policies, or practices and their training programs

discourage dual arrest of the offender and the victim; (3) certify

that their laws, policies, or practices prohibit issuance of mutual

restraining orders of protection except in cases where both

spouses file a claim and the court makes detailed findings of

fact indicating that both spouses acted primarily as aggressors

and that neither spouse acted primarily in self-defense; and (4)

certify that their laws, policies, or practices do not require, in

connection with the prosecution of any misdemeanor or felony

domestic violence offense, that the abused bear the costs

associated with the filing of criminal charges or the service of

such charges on an abuser, or that the abused bear the costs

associated with the issuance or service of a warrant, protection

order or witness subpoena. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

HeadquartersOffice:Violence Against Women Grants Office,

Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice, 810 Seventh

Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20531. Telephone: (202)

307-6026. 

16.592 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOCK

G RA NTS PR OG RAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to units of local government

for the purposes of reducing crime and improving public safety.

Funds may be used for one or more of seven program purpose

areas (See Uses and Use Restrictions). Funds or a portion of

funds allocated under this title may also be used to contract

with private, nonprofit entities or community-based

organizations to carry out the purposes of this Block Grants

Program. BJA will also make awards to States based on the

allocation formula specified in the legislation. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for

one or more of the following purpose areas: (1) Law

enforcement support for hiring, training, and employing on a

continuing basis new, additional law enforcement officers and

necessary support personnel; paying overtime to presently

employed law enforcement officers and necessary support

personnel; and procuring equipment, technology, and other

material directly related to basic law enforcement functions; (2)

Enhancing security measures in and around schools, and in and

around any other facility or location that the unit of local

government considers a special risk for incidents of crime; (3)

Establishing or supporting drug courts; (4) Enhancing the

adjudication of cases involving violent offenders, including

cases involving violent juvenile offenders. For the purposes of

this program, violent offender means a person charged with

committing a Part I violent crime under the Uniform Crime

Reports; (5) Establishing a multi jurisdictional task force,

particularly in rural areas, composed of law enforcement

officials representing units of local government; this task force

will work with Federal law enforcement officials to prevent and

control crime; (6) Establishing crime prevention programs

involving cooperation between community residents and law

enforcement personnel to control, detect, or investigate crime

or the prosecution of criminals; and (7) Defraying the cost of

indemnification insurance for law enforcement officers. Units

of local government may not expend funds provided under the

Block Grants Program to purchase, lease, rent, or acquire any

of the following: tanks or armored vehicles; fixed-wing aircraft;

limousines; real estate; yachts; consultants; and vehicles not

primarily used for law enforcement. In addition, Federal funds

cannot be used to supplant State or local funds, but instead to

increase the amount of funds that would be available otherwise

from State and local sources. 

Applicant Eligibility: Funding under this program is available

to units of local government within a State. A unit of local
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government is a town or township, village, city, or county or

recognized governing body of an Indian tribe or Alaskan Native

village that carries out substantial governmental duties and

powers. Each unit of local government must report Uniform

Crime Report (UCR) data so as to determine amounts of

allocation. These data must reflect Part I violent crimes, which

are murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery, that have

been committed in each eligible jurisdiction. The three most

recent available calendar years will be used. The amount of the

award is proportionate to each local jurisdiction's average

annual amount of Part I violent crimes compared to that for all

other local jurisdictions in the State. Further, for the purposes

of this Block Grants Program the Commonwealth of Puerto

Rico shall be considered a unit of local government as well as

a State. In addition, each State will receive a minimum award

of 0.25 percent of the total amount available for formula

distribution under the Block Grants Program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Local Law Enforcement Block Grants

Program, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice

Assistance, Department of Justice, 810 Seventh Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20531 Telephone: (202) 305-2088. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Potential projects

include, but are not limited to: (A) partnerships between

community organizations and local law enforcement agencies

to prevent crime in business districts, on school grounds, and

around high-risk areas such as abortion clinics; (B) hiring of

additional police officers and purchasing of necessary

equipment to increase the effectiveness of police departments;

partnerships between social agencies and local law enforcement

to combat domestic violence and child abuse; and (D)

development of computer systems that allow fingerprint

identification, the maintenance of criminal history records, etc.

16.596 CORRECTIONAL GRANT PROGRAM

FOR INDIAN TRIBES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CORRECTIONS PROGRAMS

OFFICE, OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To assist Indian tribes with the construction of

jails on tribal lands for the incarceration of offenders subject to

tribal jurisdiction.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Grant Program for

Indian Tribes may be used to assist Indian tribes in developing

or expanding jail facilities for both adult and juvenile offenders.

Applicant Eligibility: Indian tribes may apply. An Indian tribe

is defined as any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation,

pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior

acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe pursuant to Public Law

103-454, 108 Stat. 4791, and which performs law enforcement

functions as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Corrections Program Office, Office of

Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 810 Seventh

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. Telephone: (800)

848-6325.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Two projects to

build or expand juvenile correctional facilities on tribal lands

were funded in FY 1996. 

16.607 BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP

PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF JUSTICE

ASSISTANCE, OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To protect the lives of law enforcement

officers by helping State, local, and tribal law enforcement

agencies provide officers with armored vests.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To obtain 50 percent of

the total cost of each vest order. Total cost includes the cost of

the vests, shipping, handling, fitting charges, State and local

taxes. The total invoiced price, after all vendor and prompt

payment discounts have been deducted, is what the Bureau of

Justice Assistance (BJA) uses to determine the federal match.

This program only allows the purchase of body armor that has

been tested and found to comply with the National Institute of

Justice's (NIJ) Standard 0101.03 Ballistic Resistance of Police

Body Armor. It will also allow for the purchase of stab-resistant

body armor, once the applicable NIJ standard has been

developed and successfully met by vest manufacturers.

Applicant Eligibility: Only chief executives of jurisdictions

may apply for funds. Jurisdictions are defined as general

purpose units of local government (e.g., cities, towns,

townships, boroughs, counties, etc.), Federally-recognized

Indian tribes, the 50 State governments, the District of

Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin

Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana

Islands. The chief executive of the jurisdiction registers online, submits the jurisdiction application, and requests payment

for completed vest orders.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Program Manager, National Programs

Division, Bureau of Justice Assistance, 4th floor, 810 7th Street,

NW., Washington, DC, 20531 (202) 514-3447. Justice

Response Center, 1-800-421-6770.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable

16.608 TRIBAL COURT ASSISTANCE

PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To assist tribal governments in the

development, enhancement, and continuing operation of tribal

judicial systems, including inter-tribal court systems. Awards

through this program will be competitive, based upon the extent

and urgency of the need of each applicant.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: These funds will be made

available to Federally recognized Indian Tribal government for

the development, enhancement, and continuing operation of

tribal courts. The Act prohibits the use of these funds for

supplanting of State and local funds, land acquisition or

construction projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian Tribal

governments are eligible to apply for and receive funds under
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this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of

Justice Assistance, Department of Justice, 810 Seventh Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20531 (202) 514- 5947.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

16.614 STATE AND LOCAL ANTI-TERRORISM

TRAINING (SLATT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF JUSTICE

ASSISTANCE, OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To provide delivery of specialized,

multiagency anti- terrorism preparedness training. Thistraining,

along with related research, law enforcement intelligence,

operational issues development, and technical assistance

support activities, is delivered to State and local law

enforcement and prosecution authorities. While State and local

law enforcement preparation and readiness issues addressed in

this project are tailored to interventions in domestic terrorism,

major portions of the program's preparedness and operational

readiness outcomes are equally applicable to any terrorist threat

or incident whether domestically or internationally inspired. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and

Counseling; Dissemination of TechnicalInformation; Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant program funds are

intended to: 1) provide State and local law enforcement

(including prosecution authorities) a general awareness and

working knowledge of domestic terrorist and "political"

extremist movements; 2) disseminate information relating to

vital elements of law enforcement anti-terrorism preparedness

and readiness; 3) provide a general planning orientation to State

and local law enforcement pertaining to crisis and consequence

management and incident command, including essential

elements requisite to conducting criminal investigations and

prosecutions of terrorist threats and incidents; and 4) maintain

and enhance a domestic terrorism public source database.

Standard restrictions as outlined in OJP's Financial Guide

apply. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local law enforcement and

prosecution authorities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Fourth

Floor, 810 Seventh Street, NW.,Washington, DC 20531.

Telephone: (202) 514- 6278.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Anti-terrorist

preparedness training, anti-terrorist research, operational issues

development, and technical assistance support activities. 

16.615 PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS’

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE (PSOEA)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: The PSOEA Program, an expansion of the

Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance (FLEDA)

Program, provides financial assistance for higher education to

the spouses and children of public safety officers killed in line

of duty deaths or who received permanent and totally disabling

injuries that occurred on or after October 1, 1997. The FLEDA

Act makes program benefits available retroactively to families

of Federal law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty on

or after May 1, 1992. The effective date for families of

permanently and totally disabled Federal law enforcement

officers is October 3, 1996. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: None. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Program funds are

intended solely to defray eligible applicants' educational

expenses, which may include tuition, room and board, books,

supplies, and fees consistent with the educational, professional

or vocational objectives of the applicant. Funds are restricted to

defray above costs only. A certification of educational use is

required. 

Applicant Eligibility: Dependents who 1) attend a program

of education at an eligible institution; or 2) are the spouse

and/or surviving children under the age of 27 of Federal, State

and local public safety officers, whose deaths or permanent and

totally disabling injuries are covered by the Public Safety

Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Program (42 U.S.C. 3796 et seq.) are

eligible for this program. A public safety officer is a person

serving a public agency in an official capacity, with or without

compensation, as a law enforcement officer, firefighter or

member of a public rescue squad or ambulance crew.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Fourth

Floor, 810 Seventh Street, NW.,Washington, DC 20531.

Telephone: (202) 514-6278 or Justice Response Center,

1-800-421-6770.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

16.616 INDIAN COUNTRY ALCOHOL AND

DRUG PREVENTION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE,

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

OBJECTIVES: To assist tribal governments in the

development and implementation of programs to reduce alcohol

abuse and crime. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: These funds will be made

available to federally recognized Indian Tribal governments for

the development and implementation of alcohol and crime

prevention and intervention programs, including law

enforcement. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian Tribal

governments are eligible to apply for and receive funds under

this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of

Justice Assistance, Program Development Division, 810

SeventhStreet,NW., Washington, DC 20531. Telephone: (202)

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16.710 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND

COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS ("Cops"

Grants) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY

ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

JUSTICE 

OBJECTIVES: Grants are to be made to increase police

presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between

law enforcement agencies and members of the community to

address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance

public safety. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: At least 85 percent of

grant funds may be used to hire or rehire career law

enforcement officers; procure equipment,technology or support

systems (if such expenditures can be shown to result in an

increase of officers deployed in community-oriented policing

equal to or greater than the increase resulting from a grant for

direct hiring or rehiring of officers); up to 15 percent of grant

funds may support programs or projects to (a) increase the

number of officers involved in activities focused on interaction

with members of the community on proactive crime control and

prevention, (b) provide specialized training to officers to

enhance conflict resolution, mediation, problemsolving,service

and other skills needed to work in partnership with members of

the community, (c) increase police participation in

multidisciplinary early intervention teams, (d) develop new

technologies to assist State and local law enforcement agencies

in reorienting the emphasis of their activities from reacting to

crime to preventing crime, (e) develop and implement

innovative programs to permit members of the community to

assist law enforcement agencies in the prevention of crime,

including programs to increase the level of access to the

criminal justice system enjoyed by victims, witnesses and

ordinary citizens, (f) establish innovative programs to minimize

the time that officers must be away from the community while

awaiting court appearances, (g) establish innovative programs

to increase proactive crime control and prevention programs

involving officers and young persons, (h) establish new

administrative and managerial systems to facilitate the adoption

of community-oriented policing as an organization wide

philosophy, (I) establish and coordinate crime prevention and

control programs (involving law enforcement officers working

with community members) with other Federal programs that

serve the community and its members to better address their

comprehensive needs, and (j) support the purchase by a law

enforcement agency of no more than one service weapon per

officer newly deployed in community-oriented policing. Three

percent of program funds may be used to provide technical

assistance, training, research or other studies in support of

program objectives. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, units of local government, Indian

tribal governments, other public and private entities, and multi

jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Oriented Policing

Services, 1100 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington,DC20530.

Telephone: Department of Justice Response Center:

1-800-421-6770, or (202) 307-1480. Direct applications to:

COPS, 1100 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20530.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects

included the hiring or rehiring of additional officers to engage

in community policing under the COPS Phase I, COPS FAST,

COPS AHEAD and Universal Hiring programs. Grants per

agency supported the addition of from 1 to 800 new officers.

Under COPS MORE 95, grants were made for the acquisition

of communications and computer equipment, the hiring of

civilian support resources, and the payment of overtime to

redeploy, in a cost-effective manner, sworn officers to

community policing activities. Under COPS MORE 96, grants

were made for the acquisition of communications and computer

equipment and the hiring of civilian support resources to

redeploy, in a cost-effective manner, sworn officers to

community policing activities. Other programs included the

funding of 10 innovative strategies to combat firearms violence,

15 jurisdictions funded under an anti-gang initiative and 336

jurisdictions funded to address domestic violence through

community policing strategies. 

16.726 JUVENILE MENTORING PROGRAM

(JUM P) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE

AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT

OF JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To reduce juvenile delinquency and gang

participation, improve academic performance, and reduce the

dropout rate; through the use of mentors for at-risk youth. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: JUMP provides support

for one-to-one mentoring programs for at-risk youth. An

"at-risk youth" is, for purposes of this program, a youth who is

at risk of educational failure or dropping out of school. A

"mentor" is defined as an adult, 21 years or older, who works

with an at-risk youth on a one-to-one basis, establishes a

supportive relationship with the youth and provides the youth

with academic assistance and exposure to new experiences

which enhance the youth's ability to become a responsible

citizen. 

Applicant Eligibility: Local education agencies (LEA) or

public/private nonprofit organizations. Both entities (LEA) or

public/private nonprofit organizations must collaboratewiththe

other to implement the program. Accordingly, each applicant

has specified the nature of the relationship with either the

school or school agency (if the applicant is a nonprofit) or with

the nonprofit (if the applicant is a LEA). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, 810

Seventh Street, NW.,Washington, DC 20531. Telephone: (202)

307-5911. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year 1997,

OJJDP awarded 52 grants to mentoring projectsin school-based

settings or private-nonprofit groups. 

16.731 TRIBAL YOUTH PROGRAM(TYP) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF JUSTICE

PROGRAMS, OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AND

DELINQUENCY PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT OF

JUSTICE

OBJECTIVES: To support and enhance tribal efforts for

comprehensive delinquency prevention, control, and juvenile
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justice system improvement for Native American youth 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. USES AND USE

RESTRICTIONS: To reduce, control, and prevent crime both

by and against tribal youth; to provide interventions for courtinvolved tribal youth; to improve tribal juvenile justice systems;

and to provide prevention programs focusing on alcohol and

drugs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Applications are only invited from

Federally recognized tribes and Alaskan Native villages,

however, tribes and villages may partner with others as

applicable. If partnering with others, a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) should be submitted with the

application. Additionally, one tribe should be chosen as the

primary agency for funding and reporting purposes. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, 810 7th

Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20531. Telephone: (202)

307-5924. Contact: Program Manager, State and Tribal

Assistance Division. Telephone: (202)-307-5924.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Tribal Youth

Program: Grantees have developed a variety of activities under

TYP. For example, the Burns Paiute Indian Reservation in

Harney County, a rural area of eastern Oregon, is addressing

alcohol and marijuana abuse, juvenile crime, and school failure.

The tribe will improve tribal youth service delivery systems;

increase the access and availability of community-based

wraparound services for high-risk youth; and work with

volunteer parents and tribal members to develop and

implement a comprehensive 3-year plan to delay the onset of

alcohol and drug use, reduce the incidence of violent or other

criminal offenses, and prevent school dropouts. The Ysleta Del

Sur Pueblo, which is uniquely located in an urban setting near

El Paso, TX, is providing interventions for court-involved tribal

youth and improving its tribal juvenile justice system. The

Pueblo is introducing a home detention system to help reduce

the practice of detention and separation from family. The

Pueblo also will expand its community service program to

include traditional restitution, involve police in mentoring

activities, increase diversion by applying auxiliary community

policing concepts, increase probation supervision, and add

activities to deter further crime among court-involved youth.

The Knik Tribal Council, based in Matanuska-Susitna Valley

near Wasilla, AK, is providing delinquency prevention and

court-ordered youth services to Alaskan Native and American

Indian youth ages 12 to 18 years. The Council is working with

State, school, and community agencies to reinforce traditional

values essential for the well-being and future of Native

American youth. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe, based in La

Plata County, near Ignacio, CO, is implementing three levels

of activity to reduce, control, and prevent crime and

delinquency in children up to age 18 years. Level one involves

adolescents in an established teen court program. Level two is

a family preservation program that provides family therapy in

times of crisis, mediates conflicts, identifies appropriate family

behaviors, and provides required services for adolescents and

preadolescents who are returning home from out-of-home

placements or from alcohol/substance abuse treatment. Level

three uses a behavior coach to redirect destructive and

dangerous behavior patterns of adolescents and preadolescents

who are involved in the family service division of the South

Ute Tribal Court. The White Earth Reservation in northwestern

Minnesota is using a three-pronged approach to curb tobacco,

alcohol and drug use, violence, truancy, and school dropouts

among youth age 12 to 18 years. The grantee is developing and

adopting a fair, equitable, and culturally appropriate juvenile

justice code; providing a Juvenile Tribal Court Advocate to

provide both probationary and counseling services to juveniles;

and developing Sentencing Circles in schools to deal with

youth in a culturally significant manner. The Gila River Indian

community is located southeast of the Phoenix, AZ,

metropolitan area; part of the community is on the reservation.

The community is developing a teen court program that

involves a youth council, prosecutors, and judicial staff. The

program will incorporate Pima and Maricopa cultural values

and history, target juvenile offenders age 12 to 17 years who

admit to the allegations they are accused of, educate youth

about the judicial system, and encourage them to be active in

community problem solving. The program will hold juvenile

offenders and their parents accountable for the juveniles'

actions and compel juvenile offenders to complete constructive

sentencing imposed on them by their peers. Tribal Youth

Mental Health Initiative: The Hannahville Indian Community

(Potawatomi Band) of Wilson, MI, received a grant to expand

education, vocational skills, and employment opportunities for

the community. The community will restructure tribal

programs and services and identify the infrastructure needs of

tribal youth. As part of the initiative, Hannahville's Behavioral

Health Department will procure psychological evaluations for

at-risk and adjudicated youth between 9 and 17 years of age.

The community will use a grassroots, collaborative,

problem-solving community approach to mental health and

treatment services. The Chugachmiut of the Chugach Region,

Anchorage, AK, will provide interventions for court-involved

youth. The tribe will improve interagency coordination and

collaboration efforts related to preventing juvenile delinquency

and intervening with predelinquent Native youth and their

families and increase the delivery of direct clinical mental

health services to individual Native American juvenile

offenders and at-risk juveniles and their families. The Pyramid

Lake Paiute Tribe of Nixon, NV, will provide mental health

services for juveniles age 12 to 17 years, and address

delinquency, substance abuse, and court-mandated services.

The tribe will provide services to juveniles under 12 years of

age and focus on services relating to crimes committed against

the juveniles, including treatment for sexual assault, anger, and

attention deficit disorders. The project is based on the traditions

and customs of the Pyramid Lake Paiute people and will

coordinate services with the Tribe's Juvenile Drug Court

Program and provide family counseling and intervention for

nonviolent drug and alcohol offenders. The Mississippi Band

of Choctaw Indians of Philadelphia, MS, will develop a system

of youth- centered, family- focused, culturally competent

services for court-involved Choctaw youth. The project will

emphasize capacity building and fits into an on-going plan of

integrated human service development initiated by the

Department of Family and CommunityServices, and developed

as a result of extensive research and on-going program

development to improve the lives of the Choctaw people. The

Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Poplar, MT, will

provide mental health diagnostic and treatment services of atrisk juvenile offenders. The services will include a psychologist

to provide mental, diagnostic, and assessment services and
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combine standard diagnostic and treatment options with

adaptations and innovations that reflect Assiniboine and Sioux

culture and values. The goal of the project is to provide

alternatives to incarceration with follow-up program support.

The South Central Foundation of Anchorage, AK, will use a

treatment, intervention, and prevention approach to reduce

criminal behavior, substance abuse, and educational failure

among Native American youth ages 13 to 18 years living in

Anchorage, AK. The program will address incarceration,

alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, and school dropout rates. The

grantee will collaborate with schools, juvenile detention

facilities, and the court system to provide early intervention

and prevention programs for youth at high risk for delinquency,

criminal behavior, and serious emotional problems. The

program also will use the "Young Warrior Program," a

self-help support group based on Alaska Native and American

Indian spirituality and traditional healing practices, to instill

traditional values. CIRCLE Project: The Comprehensive

Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement

(CIRCLE) project is designed to help tribes, with the assistance

of Federal, State, and private partners, develop comprehensive

planning and funding infrastructures so that they can more

effectively fight crime, violence, and substance abuse in their

communities. CIRCLE emphasizes two primary principles:

local leadership in developing and implementing crime control

initiatives and a comprehensive approach that incorporates

coordinated, multidisciplinary efforts. OJJDP, in conjunction

with the Office of Tribal Justice, the Office of Justice Programs,

the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S.

Attorneys, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the FBI, is

funding and providing technical assistance to tribes at three

pilot sites (Oglala Sioux in Pine Ridge, SD; Northern

Cheyenne in Lame Deer, MT; and Zuni Pueblo in Zuni, NM).

The tribes received grants of up to $200,000 each in FY 2000.

The CIRCLE project complements and is supported by the

Indian Country Law Enforcement Initiative. Participating tribes

receive special consideration for technical assistance and

training related to strategy development and implementation.

They are also eligible to apply for funding for law enforcement,

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

17.253 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO

STATES AND LOCALITIES (WELFARE-TOWORK (WTW) GRANTS)

FEDERALAGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION (ETA), DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OBJECTIVES: The Welfare to Work Grants program was

designed to assist States and localities to help move hard-toemploy welfare recipients into lasting unsubsidized jobs and

achieve self sufficiency.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Formula and

competitive grantfunds are used to provide: Community service

or work experience programs, job creation through public or

private sector employment wage subsidies, on- the-job training,

contracts with public or private providers of readiness,

placement, and post-employment services, job vouchers for

placement, readiness, job retention or support services if such

services are not otherwise available. The program is comprised

of: (1) Formula grants to States who, in turn, distribute no less

than 85 percent of their allotments to local "service delivery

areas" (SDAs) in the State as administered by the Private

Industry Council (or alternate agency) structure in each SDA;

and (2) competitive grants to eligible, non-state organizations,

awarded on the basis of periodic Solicitation for Grant

Application announcements and awards process.

Applicant Eligibility: States are the only eligible Federal

grantees for formula funds, although subgrantees include

eligible applicable service delivery area (SDA) agencies under

the supervision of the Private Industry Council in the area (in

cooperation with the chief elected official(s)).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate

Employment and Training Administration Regional Office

listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Office of Job Training

Programs, Employment and Training Administration, U.S.

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 219-0181,

Extension 141

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

17.254 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES AND

ALASKA NATIVES (INDIAN AND NATIVE

AMERICAN WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANT

PROGRAM ; INA WTW GRANTS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION (ETA), DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OBJECTIVES: To assist Federally-recognized Indian Tribes

and Alaska Native regional nonprofit corporations to move

hard-to-employwelfare recipients into lasting unsubsidized jobs

and family self- sufficiency.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Formula Indian and

Native American Welfare-to-Work (INA WtW) grant funds are

used to provide: Community service or work experience

programs; job creation through public or private sector

employment wage subsidies; on-the-job training; contractswith

public or private providers of readiness, placement, and postemployment services; job vouchers for placement, readiness,

and post- employment services; and job retention or support

services if such services are not otherwise available.

Applicant Eligibility: Only Federally-recognized Indian

Tribes and Alaska Native regional nonprofit corporations (or

consortia thereof) are eligible for funds.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Division of Indian and Native

American Programs, Office of National Programs, Employment

and Training Administration, Department of Labor, Room N4641, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.

Telephone: (202) 219-8502, extension 119. FAX number is

(202) 219-6338. Contact: The TDD number is (202) 326-2577.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

17.263 YOUTH OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (YOG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OBJECTIVES: To increase the long-term employment of

youth who live in empowerment zones, enterprise communities,

and high poverty areas. Youth Opportunity Grants concentrate

extensive resources in high- poverty areas in order to bring

about community-wide impact on: Employment rates, high

school completion rates, and college enrollment rates.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Title I, Sections 169 and

129 of WIA authorize the use of Youth Opportunity Grant

funds to provide eligible youth seeking assistance in achieving

academic and employment success, comprehensive activities,

which will include a variety of options for improving

educational and skill competencies and provide effective

connections to employers; ongoing mentoring opportunities;

training opportunities; continued support services for eligible

youth; incentives for recognition and achievement to eligible

youth; and youth development opportunities in activities related

to leadership, development, decision making, citizenship,

community service, and recreation. The Act also authorizes the

use of funds for intensive placement services and follow up

services for not less than 24 months after the completion of

participation in the other. The restrictions described in Section

181 of the Workforce Investment Act and in 20 CFR 667.260

through 667.268 of the WIA regulations apply to the use of

these grant funds.

Applicant Eligibility: Under Title I, Sections 169 of WIA, a

local workforce investment board or entity is eligible to receive

a grant. An eligible local board shall serve a community that:

(1) Has been designated as an empowerment zone or enterprise

community; (2) is a State without a zone and has been

designated as a high poverty area by the Governor; or (3) is one

of two areas in a State that (a) have been designated by the

Governor as areas for which a local board may apply for a grant

and (b) meet the poverty rate criteria set forth in subsections

(a)(4), (b), and (d) of Section 1392 of the Internal Revenue

code of 1986. An eligible entity shall (1) be a recipient of

financial assistance under section 166 of WIA; and (2) serve a
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community that (a) meets the poverty rate criteria set forth in

subsections (a)(4), (b), and (d) of Section 1392 of the Internal

Revenue Code of 1986; and (b) is located on an Indian

reservation or serves Oklahoma Indians or Alaska Native

villages or Native groups.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Youth Opportunities,

Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., N-4459, Washington,

DC 20210. Contact: 202-693-3035. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

17.264 MIGRANT AND SEASONAL

FARMWORKERS NATIONAL FARMWORKER

JO BS PR OG RAM)

FEDERAL AGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

OBJECTIVES: To provide individual employability

development assistance and related assistance for those

individuals, including their dependents, who are primarily

employed in agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic

unemployment and underemployment. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Under Section 167,

eligible seasonal farmworkers and their dependents may be

offered core services (including initial assessment, One-Stop

Center services, job placement and eligibility determination)

intensive services developed under a case management system

(such as objective assessment, individual employmentplanning,

basic education, allowance payments, dropout assistance, and

work experience) training services (such as classroom training

that is occupationally specific and on the job training) and

related assistance (such as emergency assistance and other

supportive services that allow a farmworker to stay employed

or continue his or her participation in program activities). 

Applicant Eligibility: (1) Public agencies and units of

government (State and local); and (2) private nonprofit

institutions/organizations authorized by their charters or articles

of incorporation to operate employment and training programs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Seasonal Farmworker

Programs, Office of Adult Services, Employment and Training

Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-4645, 200

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.

Telephone: (202) 693-3843. Fax: (202) 693-3818. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects assist

farmworkers complete educational goals and learn specific job

skills in order to acquire the qualifications employers require

for occupations offering permanent full-time employment. This

is accomplished through a case management- driven system that

uses customer choice to guide the farmworker customer in the

development of a strategy for acquiring the job skills and

related education that are needed to qualify for the higher

skilled job, and consequently the opportunity for earning a

better livelihood. Projects also assist farmworkers seeking to

remain in farmwork by providing emergency assistance and

other supportive services that promote their continued

participation in the agricultural workforce.

17.265 NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT

AND TRAINING (SECTION 166 PROGRAM;

IN DIA N PR OG RAM)

FEDERAL AGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

OBJECTIVES: To support employment and training activities

for Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian individuals in

order: to develop more fully the academic, occupational, and

literacy skills of such individuals; to make such individuals

more competitive in the workforce; and to promote the

economic and social development of Indian, Alaska Native, and

Native Hawaiian communities in accordance with the goals and

values of such communities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be utilized for

employment and training programs and services, including

classroom training, on the job training, training assistance, work

experience, youth employment programs, day care, health care,

job search, relocation, and transportation allowances designed

to assist eligible participants to obtain employment. There are

specified restrictions on the amount of grant funds which can be

used for administrative costs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally-recognized Indian Tribal

Governments, bands or groups, Alaska Native villages or

groups (as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act,

43 U.S.C. 1602(b)), Hawaiian Native communities meeting the

eligibility criteria, and Native American Organizations (public

bodies or private nonprofit agencies) selected by the Secretary.

Tribes, bands and groups may also form consortia in order to

qualify for designation as a grantee. An independently eligible

grantee shall be an Indian or Native American entity which has:

(1) A governing body as defined in 20 CFR 668.200(a); (2) (for

new grantees) an identifiable Native American resident

population sufficient to generate the funding level(s) outlined

at 20 CFR 668.200(a)(3) within its designated service area; and

(3) the capability to administer Indian and Native American

employment and training programs as outlined at 20 CFR

668.220. Detailed requirements for consortium grantee

applicants are set forth at 20 CFR 668.200(b). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Division of Indian and Native American

Programs, Office of Adult Services, Employment and Training

Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-4641, 200

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.

Telephone: (202) 693-3841. Fax: (202) 693-3818. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: All funded projects

have in common the provision of a comprehensive set of job

training services. Examples of these services are training,

referral to employment, counseling, work experience, child

care, testing, job orientation, and follow up on terminated

participants. 

17.805 HOMELESS VETERANS

REINTEGRATION PROJECT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT

SECRETARY FOR VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT AND

TRAINING, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
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OBJECTIVES: To provide funds for demonstration programs

to expedite the reintegration of homeless veterans into the labor

force. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects supported with

these funds shall provide for employment and training services

and support services directly or through linkages with other

service providers to assist homeless veterans to reenter the

workforce. Outreach as necessary is to be performed by

formerly homeless veterans. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local public agencies, Private

Industry Councils and not-for-profit agencies. Potential

jurisdictions are metropolitan areas of the largest U.S. cities or

rural areas in need, as announced in the solicitation for grant

applications. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Regional or State

Director for Veterans' Employment and Training at the nearest

office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Veterans' Employment and Training, Room S1316, 200

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.

Telephone: (202) 219-9105. Contact: Stanley Seidel. 
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NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION

44.002 COMM UNITY DEVELOPMENT

REVOLVING LOAN PROGRAM FOR CREDIT

UNIONS (CDCU) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL CREDIT UNION

ADMINISTRATION

OBJECTIVES: To support low-income creditunions in their

efforts to: (1) stimulate economic development activities

which result in increased income, ownership, and

employment opportunities for low-income residents; and (2)

provide basic financial and related services to residents of

their communities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: In order to meet the

objectives of the Community Development Revolving Loan

Program for Credit Unions, an applicant low-income credit

union approved for participation must provide a variety of

financial and related services designed to meet the particular

needs of the low-income community served. Federal funds

loaned under the Revolving Loan Program may be used for

services that include activities aimed towards: (1) supporting

and stimulating economic development and revitalization

efforts within the low-income community, such as: (a)

improving housing conditions and increasing home

ownership through a variety of mechanisms including

self-help and co-op housing development projects, assistance

in securing and leveraging mortgages, site development and

construction financing; and (b) increasing employment

opportunities by aiding existing businesses and promoting the

establishment of new businesses. Recipients are encouraged

to use funds available through the Revolving Loan Program

to serve as a catalyst to attract and stimulate the investment of

capital from other private and public sources to promote

economic development activities within the community; (2)

providing member services such as financial counseling; and

(3) increasing the membership and the capitalization base

such as: (a) membership drives; (b) campaigns to encourage

members to increase their share deposits through systematic

savings, utilizing such methods as payroll deductions

allotments; and (c) businesses and other organizations serving

the community to maintain share deposits or contribute

financially in other ways to projects supported by the credit

union. Loans up to $300,000, will be made to credit unions.

All loans must be repaid to the Community Development

Revolving Loan Fund for Credit Unions within the shortest

time compatible with sound business practice and with the

objectives of the program, but in no case will the term exceed

5 years. Loans made under this program shall bear interest at

a rate of not less than 1 or greater than 3 percent per annum.

Semi-annual interest and principal payments are required by

the Revolving Loan Program. 

Applicant Eligibility: All State and federally chartered credit

unions with a low-income designation are eligible. This

program is for established, financially sound low-income

credit unions that wish to increase member services in their

communities. Credit unions in the territories and the

possessions are eligible to apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Community Development Revolving

Loan Program for Credit Unions, National Credit Union

Administration, 1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA

22314-3428. Telephone: (703) 518-6610. 
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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS,

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

45.024 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS GRANTS

TO ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS 

FEDERALAGENCY:NATIONALENDOWMENTFOR

THE ARTS, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

OBJECTIVES: To foster the excellence, diversity, and

vitality of the arts in the United States and to broaden public

access to the arts. This mission is accomplished through: 1)

Support to the visual, literary, media, design, and performing

arts to the benefit of all Americans through project grants to

organizations in four categories: heritage and preservation,

education and access, creation and presentation, and planning

and stabilization; 2) assistance to published creative writers

and literary translators of exceptional talent through

individual fellowships; and 3) awards to master folk and

traditional artists and jazz masters through honorific

fellowships. For fiscal years 1998 and 1999, the Endowment

welcomes projects that tell the American story at the

Millennium. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants to

Organizations: All grants will be awarded for specific projects

that address one or more of the Endowment's four categories.

A project may include aspects of more than one category;

however, the organization must apply to the category most

relevant to its project goals. A project may consist of one or

more specific events or activities. It must possess some

characteristic or unifying principle distinguishing it from the

applicant's entire season or overall operations. The

Endowment is interested in projects, regardless of size or type

of applicant organization, that are of national, regional, or

field-wide significance, including local projects of potentially

profound effect within their community or likely to serve as

models to a field. Significance can be measured by excellence

or creativity, not by budget size, organizational longevity, or

numbers of people or areas reached. Grants to Individuals:

Literature fellowships: Fellowships for Creative Writers are

awarded to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

to allow them to devote time to writing, research, travel, and

to advance their writing careers. Fellowships for translators

are awarded to writers for specific projects to translate into

English works by creative writers insufficiently represented

in the language. Awards in the genres of poetry and prose will

alternate each year. In fiscal year 1998, they will be awarded

to writers and translators of prose; in fiscal year 1999,

fellowships will be awarded to writers and translators of

poetry. Up to three American Jazz Master Fellowships are

awarded annually; up to 12 National Heritage Fellowships are

awarded annually. Recipients of these two honorific

fellowships may use the funds to do further work in their

field. 

Applicant Eligibility: Grants to Organizations: Nonprofit

tax-exempt organizations meeting the following conditions

may apply: 1) No part of any earnings may benefit a private

stockholder or individual, and 2) donations to the

organization qualify as charitable deductions under Section

170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Examples of eligible

organizations are arts institutions, arts service organizations,

local arts agencies, official units of State and local

governments, Federally recognized tribal communities and

Indian tribes. Consortia of such organizations also may apply.

Generally an organization may submit, on its own behalf, one

application for a single project under one of the four category

deadlines. The 56 designated State arts agencies and their

regional arts organizations are not eligible for funding under

this program. State arts agencies and regional arts

organizations may serve as fiscal agent or participate in a

consortium as long as they do not receive Endowment funds

for their participation. (See 1999 Grants to Organizations

Guidelines for additional eligibility information.) Grants to

individuals: Individuals who are U.S. citizens or permanent

residents and who, according to Public Law 89-209, Section

5(c), must demonstrate exceptional talent. Literature

fellowships: Applicants must be published writers. Writers

who have received from the Arts Endowment 1) two or more

Creative Writing Fellowships or 2) any Creative Writing

Fellowships since October 1, 1989, are ineligible. An

individual may submit only one application per two-year

cycle. (See 1999 Literature Fellowships Guidelines for

additional eligibility information.) Both National Heritage

and American Jazz Master fellowships are open to

nominations only. No one may nominate him/herself. These

honorific fellowships are one-time only awards. National

Heritage Fellowships: Nominees must be exemplary master

folk and traditional artists and artisans worthy of national

recognition with an established record of artistic

accomplishment, and actively participating in their art form.

American Jazz Master Fellowships: Nominees must be

distinguished jazz masters who have made a significant

contribution to the art form in the African-American tradition.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: Address: National Endowment for the

Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20506-0001. Web site: http://arts.endow.gov. For general

background information about the Endowment: Telephone:

(202) 682-5400. Grants to Organizations: For information

about overall category-based funding program and direction

to appropriate category: Deputy Chairman for Grants and

Partnership, National Endowment for the Arts, 1100

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20506-0001.

Telephone: (202) 682-5441. For more technical questions

about Planning and Stabilization category, such as cash

reserves or endowments, telephone (202) 682-5480 or

682-5411. For information about discipline or field

appropriate to your project, telephone: Arts Education (pre-K

through 12): (202) 682-5515 or 682- 5563. Dance: (202)

682-5452. Design: (202) 682-5678. Folk and Traditional

Arts: (202) 682-5724, 682-5726, or 682-5727. Literature:

(202) 682-5787. Local Arts Agencies: (202) 682-5581 or

682-5586. Media Arts: (202) 682-5452. Multi disciplinary:

(202) 682- 5658 or 682-5429. Museums: (202) 682-5452.

Music: (202) 682-5438, 682-5590, or 682-5487. Musical

Theater: (202) 682-5509. Opera: (202) 682-5438 or

682-5600. Presenting: (202) 682-5581 or 682-5591. Theater:

(202) 682-5509 or 682-5020. Visual Arts: (202) 682-5452.
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Grants to Individuals: For information about fellowships,

telephone: Literature fellowships: (202) 682-5428. National

Heritage Fellowships: (202) 682-5428. American Jazz

Masters Fellowships: (202) 682-5438. Voice/TT: (202)

682-5496.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects

supported by fiscal 1997 Grants to Organizations: Heritage

and Preservation: 1) restoration of New Mexico's historic

adobe churches; 2) preservation and documentation of

Alabama's musical traditions--bluegrass, spirituals, and

gospel; 3) South Dakota mentor program helping American

Indian youth learn their ancestors' artistic skills; 4) returning

masters of 20th-century literature to print. Education and

Access: 1) expansion of a symphony orchestra's model

collaboration of public elementary and middle schools,

families, and community to advance overall learning through

music and arts; 2) workshops taught by prominent authors in

Southeastern communities' libraries; 3) television broadcast

of "Great Performances," "Dance in America," and "American

Masters"; 4) job training partnership of businesses, schools,

and a State affiliate of Very Special Arts to prepare disabled

students for arts-related jobs. Creation and Presentation: 1)

"One Hundred Years of Modern Dance" festival in Durham,

NC; 2) nine-State rural Southern arts presenter touring

program and development of a related computer network; 3)

exhibition of contemporary Native American art in Seattle; 4)

four- county initiative bringing opera to Wisconsin

elementary schools and rural communities; 5) cooperative

commission by children's choirs in Chicago, Syracuse, and

San Francisco for a new choral work. Planning and

Stabilization: 1) cultural tourism campaign by a rural

Tennessee theater to expand its audience; 2) an initiative to

assist orchestras nationwide in streamlining their operations,

including training for staff and volunteers; 3) completion of

rural West Texas art museum's project to establish an

endowment. Projects supported by fiscal 1998 Grants to

Organizations: Heritage and Preservation: 1) conservation of

Thomas Hart Benton's 1933 epic murals in Indiana; 2)

national radio series documenting the history of rhythm and

blues; 3) several major U.S. orchestras' showcasing of works

by African-American composers. Education and Access: 1)

travel by Artrain, a mobile museum exhibiting world class art

works, and offering lectures, residencies, and print making

workshops to 36 communities in 18 states; 2) expansion of

Poetry in Motion, a program of poetry on posters in buses,

trains, and trolleys which now reaches more than a million

viewers; 3) multi-state tours by dance companies, including

professional performances and artist residencies. 

45.025 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS

PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS 

FEDERALAGENCY: NATIONALENDOWMENTFOR

THE ARTS, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

OBJECTIVES: To foster the excellence, diversity, and

vitality of the arts in the United States and to broaden public

access to the arts. This mission is accomplished by assisting

State and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) Partnership

Agreements in three ways: 1) Basic support for the State arts

plan; 2) support for elements of the State plan addressing arts

education; and 3) support for elements of the State plan

fostering arts in undeserved communities. Partnership

Agreements with regional organizations of State arts agencies

(RAOs) offer basic support for a regional arts plan and for

presenting and touring. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:FormulaGrants; Project Grants;

Advisory Services and Counseling. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: SAAs may use funds

to address program priorities identified in their individual

State plans, having demonstrated provisions for inclusive

planning, evaluation, involvement of undeserved groups, fair

decision making, and efforts to encourage public awareness

and appreciation of the arts. They are required also to exhibit

leadership in arts education, local cultural development, and

cultural diversity. Endowment funds must be used to

supplement and not to supplant non-Federal funds. Funds

awarded to regional organizations may be used for regional

arts planning, evaluation, and merit-based program awards

and to support presenting and touring programs. Biennial

application review is in effect for both SAAs and RAOs.

Limited Partnership funds are also available for national

services provided by membership organizations of State arts

agencies and regional arts organizations. 

Applicant Eligibility: Agencies officially designated as the

State arts agency by the Governor in each of the 50 States and

six special U.S. jurisdictions; regional arts organizations

representing State arts agencies; and organizations providing

support services to State and regional arts agencies at a

national level. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Headquarters Office: State and Regional, National

Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20506-0001. Web sit e :

http://arts.endow.gov. Telephone: (202) 682-5429. : (202)

682-5496(Voice/TT).

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The first round of

62 Partnership Agreements was awarded in spring 1997. The

second round will be awarded in spring 1998. Partnership

Agreements with State arts agencies support their arts

education activities; fostering of arts in undeserved

communities; and grant, service, or administrative programs.

Partnership Agreements with regional arts organizations

support presenting and touring, and grant, service, or

administrative programs. 

45.026 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS

LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES 

FEDERALAGENCY:NATIONALENDOWMENTFOR

THE ARTS, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

OBJECTIVES: To foster excellence, diversity, and vitality

of the arts in the United States and to broaden public access

to the arts. This mission is accomplished through support for

a limited number of leadership initiatives identified by the

Endowment. Generally, leadership initiatives will be projects

that advance the arts significantly, e.g., 1) projects of national

importance and impact; or 2) projects that serve as models in

one field or across disciplines. The Endowment supported

leadership projects in fiscal year 1996, including some

Leadership Projects for the Millennium, a limited number of

artistically excellent, high-visibility projects that celebrate

and showcase artistic achievements of the past century and

encourage innovative thinking about the future of the arts as
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we enter the 21st century. These initiatives may look back at

milestones in American arts as a preface to the future, or they

may put in place projects or activities leading us into the new

millennium. The Agency continues to fund a variety of

leadership initiatives, including Millennium projects, and,

beginning in fiscal year 1998, the Folk and Traditional

Infrastructure Initiative. The Endowment may 1) seek

proposals for particular, discrete projects through program

solicitations or 2) invite grant applications through broader,

thematic guidelines. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: In fiscal year 1998, a

very small number of Millennium projects will be supported,

each of which must have project activity. (Contact the

Endowment for additional specifications.) 

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit tax-exempt organizations.

State arts agencies and their regional arts organizations are

permitted to apply if they are operating under

Endowment-approved plans. (Contact the Endowment for

additional eligibility requirements for Millennium projects.)

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: National Endowment for the Arts,

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20506-0001.Web site: http://arts.endow.gov (202)

682-5457. Voice/TT: (202) 682-5496.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Fiscal year 1997:

1) Philadelphia festival celebration, "100 Years of American

Musical Theater: Past Legacy and Future Visions"; 2) Boys

Choir of Harlem's five-year project to help towns throughout

U.S. to create youth choirs; 3) national tour of "Millennium

Mobile" in 1999, transporting video makers who will capture

and display images of life in U.S. communities on eve of

millennium.

45.027 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS -

CHALLENGE AMERICA GRANTS 

FEDERALAGENCY:NATIONALENDOWMENT FOR

THE ARTS, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

OBJECTIVES: The National Endowment for the Arts, an

investment in America's living cultural heritage, serves the

public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity,

supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering

the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and

diversity of our nation's artistic accomplishments. This

mission is accomplished through the Challenge America

program goals: to foster arts education and community-wide

public outreach initiatives in rural or underserved areas, and

to engage artists, arts organizations, and American

communities in partnership to make the arts central to

community life. Through "fast track" grants, awarded in a

streamlined application and review process, Challenge

America funds will support 1) partnerships between arts

organizations and community groups for artists' residencies

that provide positive alternatives for youth, generally

concentrated on participants in grades 6 to 12; and 2)

partnerships between arts organizations and community

groups that highlight the arts' potential to address key

community concerns, such as civic design or cultural tourism.

The FY 2001 round of grants incorporates the principles of

two pilot programs, Creative Links: Positive Alternatives for

Youth and Arts REACH, previously presented under 45.026

Leadership Initiatives and now discontinued. Future funding

cycles may feature additional priorities. (See also 45.025

Partnership Agreements for information about funding to

States and regional arts organizations in support of Challenge

America goals.) 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants will be awarded

for existing or new projects in rural or underserved areas that

address either of the two priorities above. (See Challenge

America Fast Track Grants Guidelines FY 2001 for

definition of key terms and other descriptive information.) 

Applicant Eligibility: Every application must be submitted

on behalf of a partnership by a lead organization. When a

non-arts organization is the lead organization, the partnership

must include at least one arts or arts-active organization.

Nonprofit tax-exempt organizations meeting the following

conditions may apply: 1) No part of any earnings may benefit

a private stockholder or individual, and 2) donations to the

organization qualify as charitable deductions under Section

170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Examples of eligible

organizations are arts institutions, arts service organizations,

local arts agencies, official units of State and local

governments, federally recognized tribal communities and

Indian tribes. An organization may serve as lead on one

application, but may participate as a partner in others. The 56

designated State and special jurisdictional arts agencies and

their regional arts organizations may serve as fiscal agents or

as participants. However, all grant funds must be passed on

to the sponsored organization or to other partners. (See

guidelines for more eligibility information.)

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Address: National Endowment for the

Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20506-0001. Web site: http://arts.gov. For general

background information about the Endowment: Telephone:

(202) 682-5400. For Challenge America fast track grants:

Telephone (202) 682-5700. Individuals who are deaf or hard

of hearing should call Voice/T.T.: Telephone: (202)

682-5496. Individuals unable to read conventional print

should contact the Endowment's Office for Access Ability.

Telephone: (202) 682-5532 for help in acquiring an audio

recording of guidelines.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

45.164 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES

PUBLIC PROGRAMS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF

THE HUMANITIES, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON

THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide opportunities for the American

public to explore human history and culture through

humanities programs in museums, historical organizations,

libraries, community centers, and other gathering places, as

well as on public television and radio. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are made to

support planning and implementation costs. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local governments;

sponsored organizations; public and private nonprofit
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instituti ons/organizations; other publi c

institutions/organizations; Federally recognized Indian tribal

governments; Native American organizations; U.S.

Territories; non-government-general, minority organizations

and other specialized groups; quasi-public nonprofit

institutions may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: Headquarters Office:

Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the

Humanities, Room 426, Washington, DC 20506 (202)

606-8267. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) A television

foundation received a grant to develop a 4-hour television

documentary on the social history of American teenagers in

the 20th century; (2) an art museum received support to

mount an exhibition, which will travel to a major museum in

New York City, of tapestries and embroideries from China

and central Asia; (3) an educational institute at a state

university received planning support for a radio documentary

series based on interviews of ex-slaves made in 1937 under

the WPA Writers's Project; (4) libraries in Louisiana,

Mississippi, and Texas will host reading and discussion

programs designed for newly literate adults and their families,

through a grant awarded to a state humanities council; (5) an

Arab community center in Detroit received a grant for a

conference, lecture series, and reading and discussion

programs on Arab American and other immigrant literature to

accompany a photographic exhibition on the Detroit Arab

community that will travel to six cities.

45.166 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES--

EXTENDING THE REACH GRANTS TO

UNDERSERVED AREAS

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF

THE HUMANITIES, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON

THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide resources for creative humanities

programming, education, and preservation efforts in parts of

the country that have not benefitted as fully as others from the

programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Consultation Grants

support museums, libraries, historical organizations,

community associations, and media producers in the early

stages of project development or institutional planning.

Preservation Assistance Grants help libraries, archives,

museums and historical organizations assess preservation

needs and enhance their ability to care for their humanities

collections. Humanities Scholar-in-Residence Grants offer

middle and high schools the chance to collaborate with a

humanities scholar over the course of a year. 

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit cultural and educational

organizations in the following 14 States and Puerto Rico may

apply for Extending the Reach Grants to underserved areas in

2000 and 2001: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana,

Montana, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,

Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: For Consultation Grants: Division of

Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities,

Room 426, Washington, DC 20506 (202) 606-8267. For

Preservation Assistance Grants: Division of Preservation and

Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 411,

Washington, DC 20506 (202) 606-8570. For Humanities

Scholar-in-Residence Grants: Education Development and

Demonstration Program, National Endowment for the

Humanities, Room 318, Washington, DC 20506 (202)

606-8380.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program with no history of awards. 
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INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES

45.301 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND

LIBRARY SERVICES (GENERAL OPERATING

SUPPORT) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF MUSEUM

SERVICES, INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM ANDLIBRARY

SERVICES, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

OBJECTIVES: To support the efforts of museums to

conserve the Nation's historic, scientific, and cultural

heritage; to maintain and expand museums and libraries

educational roles; and to ease the financial burden borne by

museums and libraries as a result of their increasing use by

the public. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: None.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To make unrestricted

General Operating Support (GOS) grants to museums. GOS

grants are 2 year competitive awards made on an annual basis

to maintain or improve the operations of museums; successful

applicants are not eligible for the subsequent year's

competition. 

Applicant Eligibility: A museum located in the 50 States, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin

Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territories of

the Pacific Islands, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall

Islands, The Federated States of Micronasia, and the Republic

of Palau, or the District of Columbia may apply for a grant

under the Act. No museum is eligible to apply for General

Operating Support or Conservation Project Support funding

under the Act unless it has provided museum services

including exhibiting objects to the general public on a regular

basis for at least 2 years prior to application. A public or

private nonprofit organization, such as a municipality,

college, or university which is responsible for the operation

of a museum may, if necessary, apply on behalf of the

museum. A museum operated by a department or agency of

the Federal government is not eligible to apply. Under the

IMLS definition, a museum is a public or private nonprofit

institution which is organized on a permanent basis for

essentially educational or aesthetic purposes and which, using

a professional staff: (1) Owns or uses tangible objects,

whether animate or inanimate; (2) cares for these objects; and

(3) exhibits them to the general public on a regular basis. A

museum must have at least one staff member, paid or unpaid,

who devotes his or her time primarily to the acquisition, care

or exhibition of objects. The definition makes clear that the

term "museum" includes aquariums and zoological parks;

botanical gardens and arboretums; nature centers; art, history,

(including historic buildings and sites), natural history,

children's, general and specialized museums, science and

technology centers and planetariums.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Institute of Museum and Library

Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, Room 510, NW.,

Washington, DC 20506. (202) 606-4644, Public Affairs at

(202) 606-4646, or imlsinfo@imls.gov. General information

is available by calling (202) 606-5226 for information on

library programs and (202) 606-8539 for information on

museum programs or by visiting www.imls.gov. The TTY

number is (202) 606-8636. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: General

Operating Support for an exploratorium, a planetarium, and

an art museum. 

45.311 NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY

SERVICES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF LIBRARY

SERVICES,INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

SERVICES, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

OBJECTIVES: To support Indian tribes, Alaska Native

villages, and to organizations that serve and represent Native

Hawaiians in providing library services to their communities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To make grants

eligible to Indian tribes or organizations for: (1) Support of

core library operations; (2) technical assistance projects

intended to heighten the level of professional proficiency for

Indian tribal library staff; and (3) special project grant support

to advance Indian tribal library operations in establishing or

enhancing electronic linkages among or between libraries;

electronically linking libraries with educational, school, or

information services; assisting libraries in accessing

information through electronic networks; encouraging

libraries in different areas and encouraging different types of

libraries to establish consortia and share resources; paying

costs for libraries to acquire or share computer systems and

telecommunications technologies; and targeting library and

information services to persons having difficulty using a

library and to undeserved tribal communities, including

children from birth through age 17 from families with

incomes below the poverty line. 

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes or

organizations primarily serving and representing Native

Hawaiians may apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Institute of Museum and Library

Services, Office of Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW., Room 802, Washington, DC 20506,

Telephone: (202) 606-5526. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program; examples are not yet available.

45.312 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND

LIBRARY SERVICES NATIONAL

LEADERSHIP GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF LIBRARY

SERVICES, INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM ANDLIBRARY

SERVICES, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

OBJECTIVES: To enhance the quality of library services

nationwide and to provide coordination between libraries and

museums. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Contracts). 

USESANDUSERESTRICTIONS: Activities may include:

(1) Education and training of persons in library and

information science, particularly in areas of new technology
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and other critical needs, including graduate fellowships,

traineeships, institutes, or other programs; (2) research and

demonstration projects related to the improvement of

libraries, education in library and information science,

enhancement of library services through effective and

efficient use of new technologies, and dissemination of

information derived from such projects; (3) preservation or

digitization of library materials and resources, giving priority

to projects emphasizing coordination, avoidance of

duplication, and access by researchers beyond the institution

or library entity undertaking the project; and (4) model

programs demonstrating cooperative efforts between libraries

and museums. 

Applicant Eligibility: Libraries may apply individually or in

partnerships. Museums may apply only in a partnership that

includes at least one eligible library. Institutions of higher

education may apply individually or in a partnership.

Partnerships may include other public, nonprofit and for

profit organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Institute of Museum and Library

Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20206. Telephone: (202) 606-5526. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new

program; examples are not yet available.
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

59.007 MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL

ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY AND

ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED

BUSINESSES (7(J) Development Assistance

Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINE S S

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To provide management and technical

assistance through qualified individuals, public or private

organizations to 8(a) certified firms and other existing or

potential businesses which are economically and socially

disadvantaged; businesses operating in areas of high

unemployment or low income; firms owned by low-income

persons; or participants in activities authorized by Sections 7(i),

7(j) and 8(a) of the Small Business Act. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements). USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Financial

assistance under this Section may be given for projects which

respond to needs as outlined in each respective program

solicitation announcement. Such assistance must provide a

special level of effort or service in the delivery of management

and technical assistance to socially and economically

disadvantaged small businesses in order to provide opportunity

for successful and full participation in the free enterprise

system. Types of management and technical assistance may

include accounting, marketing, proposal preparation workshops

and industry specific technical assistance. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local governments, educational

institutions, public or private organizations and businesses,

Indian tribes and individuals that have the capability to provide

the necessary assistance, as described in each program

solicitation announcement. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: SBA District Offices listed in your

local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Associate Administrator for Minority

Enterprise Development, 409 3rd Street, SW., Washington, DC

20416. Telephone: (202) 205-6410. 

59.011 SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT

COMPANIES (SBIC; SSBIC) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSIN E SS

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To establish privately owned and managed

investment companies, which are licensed and regulated by the

U.S. Small Business Administration; to provide equity capital

and long term loan funds to small businesses; and to provide

advisory services to small businesses. 

TYPESOFASSISTANCE:Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured

Loans; Advisory Services and Counseling. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The investment

companies provide management and financial assistance on a

continuing basis to eligible small business concerns. Financial

assistance is provided by making long-term loans to these small

concerns, and/or by the purchase of debt or equity type

securities issued by these firms. Emphasis is on providing

assistance to the pioneering, innovating type concerns

developing new products, processes, and markets. Specialized

investment companies organized/licensed under Section 301(d)

of the authorizing statute (SSBICs) must restrict eligibility of

small concerns financed by such investment companies to those

owned and operated by individuals whose participation in the

free enterprise system has been hampered by social or economic

disadvantages. Debentures are issued by the SBIC and

guaranteed by SBA for a term not to exceed 10 years, and

participating securities for a 15-year maximum. All investment

companies generally may not self-deal, take control, finance

"big business," or invest over 20 percent (30 percent for

SSBICs) of private capital in any single small concern. 

Applicant Eligibility: Any chartered small businessinvestment

company having a combined paid-in capital and paid-in surplus

of not less than $3,000,000, having qualified management, and

giving evidence of sound operation, and establishing the need

for SBIC financing in the geographic area in which the

applicant proposes to operate. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Associate Administrator for Investment,

Investment Division, Small Business Administration, 409 Third

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416. Telephone: (202)

205-6510. 

59.012 SMALL BUSINESS LOANS (Regular

Business Loans 7 (a) Loans) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINES S

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To provide guaranteed loans to small

businesses which are unable to obtain financing in the private

credit marketplace, but can demonstrate an ability to repay

loans granted. Guaranteed loans are made available to

low-income business owners or businesses located in areas of

high unemployment, nonprofit sheltered workshops and other

similar organizations which produce goods or services; to small

businesses being established, acquired or owned by

handicapped individuals; and enable small businesses to

manufacture, design, market, install, or service specific energy

measures. The SBA's 7(a) lending authority includes: 1) the

Low Documentation Loan Program (Low Doc); 2) the Cap Line

Program; 3) FA$ TRAK Program, formerly the Small Loan

Express; 4) the Women's Pre-qualification Program; and 5)

Minority Pre-qualification Program. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans

(including Immediate Participation Loans). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To construct, expand, or

convert facilities; to purchase building equipment or materials;

and for working capital. Excludes gambling establishments,

nonprofit enterprises, speculators in property, lending or

investment enterprises, and financing of real property held for

investment; also excludes funds to indiscriminately relocate the

business. Funds must not otherwise be available on reasonable

terms, nor used to pay off a loan to an unsecured creditor who

is in a position to sustain loss. 

Applicant Eligibility: A small business is eligible, which is

independently owned and operated and not dominant in its

field. Generally, SBA size standards for manufacturers range

from 500 to 1,500 employees, depending on the industry; for
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wholesalers up to 500 employees is allowed, retailers and

service concerns having revenues of $3,500,000 and in certain

cases up to $17,500,000, may be considered small; and

depending upon the type of industry, agricultural enterprises

have size standards from $500,000 to $3,500,000 in annual

receipts. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Initial contact should be with the

District Offices listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Loan Policy and Procedures

Branch, Small Business Administration, 409 Third Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20416. Telephone: (202) 205-6570. 

59.041 CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

LOANS (504 LOANS) (504 Loans) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINES S

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist small business concerns by providing

long-term, fixed-rate financing for fixed assets through the sale

of debentures to private investors. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans are to assist small

businesses in the acquisition of land and buildings; the

construction, expansion, renovation or modernization of

buildings; or the acquisition and/or installation of machinery

and equipment. Loans may have either a 10 or 20-year term. 

Applicant Eligibility: Certified Development Companies

(CDCs) package, close, and service these SBA-guaranteed

loans to small businesses. A CDC must be incorporated under

general State corporation statute, on a nonprofit basis, for the

purpose of promoting economic growth in a particular area. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for a listing of the Small Business Administration offices. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Loan Programs, Small

Business Administration, 409 3rd Street SW., Washington, DC

20416. Telephone: (202) 205-6485. 

59.043 WOM EN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP

ASSISTANCE 

F EDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINES S

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To fund nonprofit economic development

organizations to assist, through training and counseling, small

business concerns owned and controlled by women, and to

remove, in so far as possible, the discriminatory barriers that are

encountered by women in accessing capital and promoting their

businesses. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements or Contracts). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To establish women's

business centers for the benefit of small business concerns

owned and controlled by women. The services and assistance

provided by the women's business centers are to include

financial, management, procurement, and marketing training

and counseling to start-up or established on-going concerns. 

Applicant Eligibility: Private organizations having experience

in training and counseling business women effectively. Public

educational institutions and State and local governments are not

eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Women's Business Ownership

Representative. See your local telephone directory for a listing

of the Small Business Administration offices.

Headquarters Office: Small Business Administration, Office

of Women's Business Ownership, 409 Third Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20416. Telephone: (202) 205-6673. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A typical project

funded was the Women's Economic Self Sufficiency Team in

Albuquerque, NM to provide in-depth and quality training and

counseling to women entrepreneurs in Albuquerque, Taos, Las

Cruces and Farmington, NM. 

59.044 VETERANS ENTREPRENEURIAL

TRAINING AND COUNSELING (VET Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUS INESS

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To design, develop, administer, and evaluate

an entrepreneurial and procurement training and counseling

program for U.S. veterans. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).USES AND USERESTRICTIONS:Fundsshall

be used to provide veterans and their dependents assistance to

start and manage their businesses. The assistance may be in the

form of intensive training, counseling, and other specialized

services. 

Applicant Eligibility: A recipient may be considered eligible

under one of the following requirements: (1) not for profit,

volunteer organizations having the capabilities necessary to

provide effective services. The grantee may subcontract with

another entity having the technical qualifications for providing

specialized instructional services. (2) Public or private, not for

profit, volunteer organizations furnishing business counseling,

management training and other related services with special

emphasis on the development of management training programs

of sufficient scope and duration to develop entrepreneurial and

managerial self-sufficiency to small businesses located in areas

of high concentration of unemployment or low-income

individuals. (3) Small Business Development Center Program

recipients. Additionally, the criteria for receiving a grant under

the VET Program is tight. It involves experience in

Instructional Systems Development (ISD), proof of a

demonstrated program using ISD, verification of nonprofit

status and the use of volunteers to conduct the program, access

to an existing program in business development, and access to

an existing program in working with veterans and transferring

their experience into entrepreneurship goals. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: For addresses of the SBA field

offices, see your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Veteran Affairs,

Small Business Administration, Sixth Floor, 409 Third Street,

SW., Washington DC 20416. Telephone: (202) 205-6773. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A typical project

funded was the Ohio Veteran's Entrepreneurial Training

(OVET) project, an intensive, structured training program on

how to start and manage a successful business, followed by

unstructured counseling. The project is administered by the

Consortium for Entrepreneurial Training, a nonprofit

organization administered by volunteers from Stark Technical
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College of Canton, Ohio, and other community and technical

colleges in the area.

59.046 MICROLOAN DEMONSTRATION

PR OG RAM 

F EDERA L AGENCY: SMALL BUSINES S

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist women, low-income, and minority

entrepreneurs, business owners, and other individuals

possessing the capability to operate successful business

concerns and to assist small business concerns in those areas

suffering from a lack of credit due to economic downturns.

Under the Program, the Small Business Administration (SBA)

will make loans or provide guaranties to private, non-profit, and

quasi-governmental organizations (intermediary lenders) who

will use the loan funds to make short-term, fixed interest rate

microloans in amounts up to $25,000 to start-up, newly

established, and growing small business concerns. These

microloans are to be used exclusively for working capital,

inventory, supplies, furniture, fixtures, machinery, and/or

equipment. In addition, the SBA will make grants to

participating intermediary lenders to provide marketing,

management, and technical assistance to borrowers receiving

microloans. In addition, the SBA will make grants to non-profit

organizations, which are not intermediary lenders, to provide

marketing, management,and technical assistance to low-income

individualsseeking private sector financing for their businesses.

Under the Program, SBA will also provide training for

intermediary lenders and non-lenders participating in the

Program. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants;

Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans to intermediaries

with terms and restrictions as provided in Public Law 102-366

and subsequent regulations as published in the Federal Register.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant is considered eligible to

apply if it meets the definition of an intermediary lender as

published in program materials, 13 CFR, and PL 102-140, and

meets published minimum experience and capability

requirements. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Small Business Administration, Office

of Financial Assistance, Micro enterprise Development Branch,

409 Third Street SW., Eighth Floor, Washington, DC 20416.

Mail Code 7881. Telephone: (202) 205-6490. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 1. Organization in

Mid-South operating in thirty-two counties in the State, all but

one classified as rural. Established in 1987, this organization

has approved numerous microloans and provided the much

needed technical assistance to small businesses and

entrepreneurs. 2. Urban organization founded in 1976,

established a loan pool in 1982. Through a program of financial

assistance and other aid to business concerns, including small

businesses, that are not able to obtain funds from conventional

commercial sources, the organization has been able to assist in

the relief of poverty, lessening of neighborhood tensions and

assist in combating community deterioration in certain

economically depressed areas. 3. Rural organization founded in

1976, has provided services that have included economic

development, planning, grant writing and administration, small

business incubator operations, business counseling services and

loans to small businesses. Approximately 12.4 percent of the

service population is below poverty level.

59.049 OFFICE OF SMALL DISADVANTAGED

BUSINESS CERTIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY

(OSDBC&E)

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINES S

ADMINISTRATION

OBJECTIVES: To ensure compliance with the constitutional

standards established by the Supreme Court in Adarand

Contractors, Inc vs. Pena, relative to Federal action programs

that use racial or ethnic criteria as a basic for decision making.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Small

Disadvantaged Business (SDB) program is a procurement tool

designed to assist the government in finding firms capable of

providing need services, while at the same time, helping to

address the traditional exclusion of minority owned firms from

contracting opportunities. Participation in the SDB program

and the benefits are restricted to those firms who have satisfied

the eligibility requirements and have been certified by the Small

Business Administration as a SDB. 

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicant must be: A small

business concern as defined in SBA rules and regulations; firms

must be at least 51 percent unconditional owned and controlled

by one or more U.S. citizens who are socially and economically

disadvantaged as defined by 13 CFR 124.105, 124.109,

124.110, and 124.111.

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Small Disadvantaged Business

Certification and Eligibility, Small Business Administration,

409 3rd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416. Telephone: (202)

619-1850 or (800) 558-0884. Web address:

www.sba.gov/sdb.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

59.050 MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

GRANTS (PRIME)

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINES S

ADMINISTRATION 

OBJECTIVES: The objective of the PRIME Program is to

increase the number of microenterprises and to enhance the

management capability of microentrepreneurs to provide

training and technical assistance at little or no cost to

microentrepreneur and/or microenterprises to assist in starting,

expanding and/or growing their business; to provide training

and capacity building services to enhance existing MDOs and

expand the universe of MDOs that provide microenterprise

development training programs and services; and to fund

research and development of best practices for training and

technical assistance consistent with the PRIME Act. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The recipients of the

services provided by the grantees are those persons/businesses

who satisfy the eligibility criteria as defined in the Act. 
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Applicant Eligibility: Grant recipients shall be non-profit

microenterprise development or program (or a collaborative

thereof) that has a demonstrated record of delivering

microenterprise services to disadvantaged entrepreneurs, an

intermediary, a microenterprise development organization or

program that is accountable to a local community, working in

conjunction with a State or local government or Indian tribe, or

an Indian tribe acting on its' own, if the tribe can certify that no

private organization or program referred to in this paragraph

exists within its' jurisdiction. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Financial Assistance, Small

Business Administration, 409 3rd Street, SW., Washington, DC

20416. Telephone: (202) 205-6497. Web address:

www.sba.gov. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

20.106 AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

(AIP) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL AVIATION

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist sponsors, owners, or operators of

public-use airports in the development of a nationwide system

of airports adequate to meet the needs of civil aeronautics. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Advisory

Services and Counseling. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants can be made for

integrated airport system planning in a specific area; and

airport master planning, construction, or rehabilitation at a

public-use airport or portion thereof. Authorizing legislation

refers to an airport as any area of land or water used or

intended to be used for the landing or taking off of aircraft

and includes, within the five categories of airports listed

below, special types of facilities such as seaplane bases and

heliports. The statute further defines airports by categories

which include commercial service, primary, cargo service,

reliever, and general aviation airports. They are defined as

follows: Commercial Service Airports are publicly owned

airports that have at least 2,500 passenger boarding each year

and receive scheduled passenger service. Passenger boarding

refer to revenue passenger boarding on an aircraft in service

in air commerce. The definition also includes passengers who

continue on an aircraft in international flight that stops at an

airport in any of the 50 states for a nontraffic purpose.

Passenger boarding at airports that receive scheduled

passenger service are also referred to as Enplanements. Nonprimary Commercial Service Airports are Commercial

Service Airports that have at least 2,500 and no more than

10,000 passenger boarding each year. Primary Airports are

Commercial Service Airports that have more than 10,000

passenger boarding each year. These airports are further

categorized as Hub Airports, based on the level of passenger

boarding. Hub categories for Primary Airports are defined as

a percentage of total passenger boarding in the most current

calendar year ending before the start of the current fiscal year.

For FY 1997, calendar year 1995 data is used since the

current fiscal year began nine months after the end of CY

1995. The definition and formulae used for designating

Primary Airports by Hub Type and Percentage of Annual

Passenger Boarding are: Large - l% or more; Medium - at

least 0.25%, but less than 1%; Small - at least 0.05%, but less

than 0.25%; and Non-hub - more than 10,000, but less than

0.05%. Cargo Service Airports are airports that, in addition

to any other air transportation services that may be available,

are served by aircraft providing air transportation of only

cargo with a total annual landed weight of more than 100

million pounds. Reliever Airports are airports designated by

the FAA to relieve congestion at a Commercial Service

Airport and to provide more general aviation access to the

overall community. The remaining airports, while not

specifically defined in Title 49 U.S.C., are referred to as

General Aviation Airports and comprise the largest single

group of airports in the U.S. airport system. Eligible work at

airports consists of: (1) airport master plans; (2) airport noise

compatibility plans; (3) land acquisition; (4) site preparation;

(5) construction, alteration, and rehabilitation of runways,

taxiways, aprons, and certain roads within airport boundaries;

(6) construction and installation of airfield lighting,

navigational aids, and certain offsite work; (7) safety

equipment required for certification of airport facility; (8)

security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary

of Transportation by rule or regulation for the safety and

security of persons and property on the airport; (9)

snow-removal equipment; (10) terminal development; (11)

aviation-related weather reporting equipment; (12) equipment

to measure runway surface friction; (13) burn area training

structures and land for that purpose, on or off airport; (14)

agency-approved noise compatibility projects; (15) relocation

of air traffic control towers and navigational aids (including

radar) if they impede other projects funded under AIP; (16)

land, paving, drainage, aircraft deicing equipment and

structures for centralized deicing areas; and (17) projects to

comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,

Clean Air Act, and Federal Water Pollution Control. Grants

may not be made for the construction of hangars, most

automobile parking facilities, buildings not related to the

safety of persons on the airport, decorative landscaping or

artwork, or routine maintenance and repair. Technical

advisory services are also provided. Formula funds are

available to primary commercial service airports and to cargo

service airports. Discretionary funds may be used at any

eligible facility. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, counties, municipalities, U.S.

Territories and possessions, and other public agencies

including an Indian tribe or pueblo are eligible for airport

development grants if the airport on which the development

is required is listed in the National Plan of Integrated Airport

Systems (NPIAS). Certain units of local government may be

eligible for grants to implement noise compatibility projects.

Private owners of public-use reliever airports or airports

having at least 2,500 passenger boarding annually and

receiving scheduled passenger aircraft service are eligible. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Persons are encouraged to contact

the Federal Aviation Administration Regional Offices listed

in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Federal Aviation Administration,

Office of Airport Planning and Programming, Airports

Financial Assistance Division, APP-500, 800 Independence

Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20591. Telephone: (202)

267-3831. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Construct new

public airports; improve and rehabilitate existing public

airports; extend runways at existing public airports; purchase

fire fighting, rescue, security, snow removal and noise

suppressing equipment; acquire land; and install navigation

aids. Planning at individual airportsincludes demand/capacity

analysis, airport noise control and land use compatibility

analysis, environmental studies, and system plans for states,

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20.205 HIGHWAY PLANNING AND

CONSTRUCTION (Federal-Aid Highway

Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL HIGHWAY

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist State transportation agencies in the

planning and development of an integrated, interconnected

transportation system important to interstate commerce and

travel by constructing and rehabilitating the National

Highway System, including the Interstate System; and for

transportation improvements to all public roads except those

classified as local or rural minor collectors; to provide aid for

the repair of Federal-aid roads following disasters; to foster

safe highway design; to replace or rehabilitate deficient or

obsolete bridges; and to provide for other special purposes.

Also provides for the improvement of roads in Puerto Rico,

Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern

Mariana Islands. 

TYPESOFASSISTANCE:Formula Grants; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal-aid highway

funds are generally apportioned by statutory formulas to the

States and restricted to roads open to the public and not

functionally classified as local or rural minor collectors.

Exceptions to this include planning and research activities,

bridge and safety improvements which may be done on any

public road, and the Federal Lands Highway Program.

Federal-aid funds may be used for surveying, engineering,

right-of-way acquisition, and relocation assistance for capital

improvement projects classified as new construction,

reconstruction, improvements for functional, geometric, or

safety reasons, and 4R projects (restoration, rehabilitation,

resurfacing, and reconstruction); planning; research,

development, and technology transfer; roadside

beautification; wetland mitigation, traffic management and

control improvements; improvements necessary to

accommodate other transportation modes, development and

establishment of transportation management systems;

billboard removal; construction of bicycle facilities and

pedestrian walkways; fringe and corridor parking; car pool

and van pool projects; and transportation enhancements such

as scenic and historic highway improvements. These funds

generally cannot be used for routine highway operational

activities, such as police patrols, mowing, or snow plowing.

Also, authorizations for several categories, including the

Surface Transportation Program (STP) and Congestion

Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program,

may be used for transportation improvements such as mass

transit, traffic flow, bicycle/pedestrian, ridesharing, demand

management programs, and others. CMAQ funds are limited

to ozone, carbon monoxide and, in some cases, small

particulate matter air-quality non-attainment areas in a State

until all areas achieve attainment. Eligibility criteria for the

programs differ, so program guidance should be consulted.

Projects in metropolitan areas (urbanized areas over 50,000

population) must be based on a transportation planning

process carried out by the Metropolitan Planning

Organization (MPO) in cooperation with the State and transit

operators, and be included in metropolitan plans and

programs. These projects must also be included in the

approved statewide transportation improvement program

(STIP), which also includes non-metropolitan projects. 

Applicant Eligibility: Most projects are administered by or

through State transportation agencies or Federal agencies.

Projects related to Indian Reservation Roads may be

proposed by Tribal governments and the Bureau of Indian

Affairs. Projects related to Park Roads and Parkways may be

proposed by the National Park Service. Funding for public

lands highways, which include forest highways, may be

proposed by counties and other political subdivisions or

agencies through the State transportation agencies or by

Federal agencies. Territorial highway projects are funded in

the same manner as other Federal-aid highway projects, with

the territorial highway/transportation agency functioning as

the State transportation agency. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Regional or State-level offices of

the Federal Highway Administration (as listed in your local

telephone directory)or State transportation agencies. 

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Engineering,

Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-4853.

Director, Office of Environment and Planning, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202)

366-2951. For Forest Highways, Indian Reservation Roads,

and Park Roads and Parkways, Federal Lands Highway

Administrator, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC

20590. Telephone (202) 366-9494. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (A) On the

Interstate System, 11 new miles were opened to traffic in the

12 months ending December 31, 1996, with construction

underway on new segments totaling 14 miles. A total of

42,777 miles or 99.95 percent of the mileage eligible under

the Interstate Highway Construction Program is open to

traffic. (B) In fiscal year 1995, $485 million in Emergency

Relief funding was obligated for the repair and reconstruction

of Federal-aid highways and bridges damaged by natural

disasters or catastrophic failures. During the year, emergency

assistance was extended to 29 new disasters in 19 States, and

the Virgin Islands. (C) The replacement or rehabilitation of

approximately2,900 additional deficient bridges was initiated

in fiscal year 1996. (D) Over $416 million were obligated for

ForestHighways, Public Lands Highways, IndianReservation

Roads, and Park Roads and Parkways. 

20.219 RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL HIGHWAY

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to the States to develop

and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities for

both nonmotorized and motorized recreational trail uses.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: FormulaGrants;Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds from this

program may be used for: (1) Maintenance and restoration of

existing trails; (2)development and rehabilitation of trailside

and trailhead facilities and trail linkages; (3) purchase and

lease of trail construction and maintenance equipment; (4)

construction of new trails (with restrictions for new trails on

Federal lands); (5) acquisition of easements or property for

trails; (6) State administrative costs related to this program
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(limited to 7 percent of a State's funds); and (7) operation of

educational programs to promote safety and environmental

protection related to trails (limited to 5 percent of a State's

funds). Funds may not be used for: property condemnation;

constructing new trails for motorized use on National Forest

or Bureau of Land Management lands unless the project is

consistent with resource management plans; or facilitating

motorized access on otherwise nonmotorized trails.

Applicant Eligibility: The Governor of each State must

designate the State agency or agencies responsible for

administering this program. The State must have a State

recreational trail advisory committee that represents both

motorized and nonmotorized recreational trail users, which

shall meet not less than once per fiscal year. The State

agency may accept project proposals from private

organizations, or from municipal, county, State, or Federal

government entities, and other government entities. The

projects must satisfy one or more of the permissible uses.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: State-level offices of the Federal

Highway Administration (as in your local telephone

directory) or the State agency designated by the Governor to

administer this program.

Headquarters Office: Office of Planning and Environment,

Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh St. SW.,

Washington DC 20590. Telephone: 202- 366-5013. Fax:

202-366-7660. Web site: www.fhwa.dot.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Trail projects to

develop and maintain recreational trails and trail-related

facilities for both nonmotorized and motorized recreational

trail uses. Examples include maintenance and construction of

trails for hiking, bicycling, in-line skating, equestrian use,

cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, off-road motorcycling,

all-terrain vehicle riding, four-wheel driving, or using other

off-road motorized vehicles; development and rehabilitation

of trailside and trailhead facilities; operation of educational

projects and programs to promote safety and environmental

protection related to recreational trails; State administrative

costs related to this program. 

20.500 FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL

IMPROVEM ENT GRANTS (Capital Grants) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL TRANSIT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assist in financing the acquisition,

construction, reconstruction, and improvement of facilities,

rolling stock and equipment for use, by operation, lease, or

otherwise, in public transportation service in urban areas and

in coordinating service with highway and other transportation

in such areas. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants;Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Secretary of

Transportation may make grants and loans under this section

to assist State and local governmental authorities in financing:

capital projects for new fixed guideway systems, and

extensions to existing fixed guideway systems, including the

acquisition of real property, the initial acquisition of rolling

stock for the systems, alternatives analysis related to the

development of the systems, and the acquisition of rights of

way, and relocation, for fixed guideway corridor development

for projects in the advanced stages of alternatives analysis or

preliminary engineering; capital projects, including property

and improvements needed for an efficient and coordinated

mass transportation system; the capital costs of coordinating

transit with other transportation; and the introduction of new

technology, through innovative and improved transportation;

and the introduction of new technology, through innovative

and improved products. Consideration may also be given for

projects which enhance urban economic development;

establish new or enhanced coordination between transit and

other transportation; or enhance the effectiveness of a transit

project and are related physically or functionally to that

transit project. It could also include financing for transit

projects planned, designed, and carried out to meet the special

needs of elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities;

for the development of corridors to support fixed guideway

systems, including protecting rights of way through

acquisition, construction of dedicated bus and high

occupancy vehicle lanes and park-and-ride lots, and other

non-vehicular capital improvements that the Secretary may

decide would result in increased transit usage in the corridor.

Applicant Eligibility: Public agencies, including States;

municipalities and other subdivisions of States; public

agencies and instrumentalities of one or more States; and

public corporations, boards, and commissions established

under State law. Applicant must have legal, financial, and

technical capacity to carry out proposed project and maintain

facilities and equipment purchased with Federal assistance. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Federal Transit Administration,

Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20590. FTA Office of Program

Management, (202) 366-1660. 

EXAMPLESOFFUNDEDPROJECTS:(1)13Compressed

Natural Gas buses in St. Louis; (2) Gateway Intermodal

Center in Los Angeles; (3) constructed Portsmouth, VA ferry

docking facility (Norfolk-Portsmouth), LRT security system

and power substation in Sacramento; (4) Phase I of Interstate

405/State Route 55 freeway exclusive HOV/Transitway

Connector Ramp project in Orange County, CA. 

20.509 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR

NONURBANIZED AREAS (Nonurbanized Area

Formula Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL TRANSIT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To improve, initiate, or continue public

transportation and intercity bus service in nonurbanized areas

by providing financial assistance for the acquisition,

construction, and improvement of facilities and equipment

and the payment of operating expenses by operating contract,

lease, or otherwise. Also, to provide technical assistance for

rural transportation. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Section 5311 funding

may be used for eligible capital expenses, project

administration, and operating expenses needed to provide

efficient and coordinated public transportation service in
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nonurbanized areas. Projects must provide for the maximum

feasible coordination of public transportation sources assisted

under this section with transportation services assisted by

other Federal sources, and must provide for the maximum

feasible participation of private operators. Fifteen percent of

the State's annual apportionment must be spent to support

rural intercity bus transportation, unless the governor certifies

that such needs are adequately met. Rural Transit Assistance

Program (RTAP) funds may be used for technical assistance,

training, research, and related support services.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible recipient may include State

agencies, local public bodies and agencies thereof, nonprofit

organizations, Indian tribes, and operators of public

transportation services, including intercity bus service, in

rural and small urban areas. Private for-profit operators of

transit or paratransit services may participate in the program

only through contracts with eligible recipients. Urbanized

areas, as defined by the Bureau of the Census, are not

eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for the address of Federal Transit Administration Regional

Offices. State Designated Agency:

Headquarters Office: Federal TransitAdministration, Office

of Program Management, Office of Capital and Formula

Assistance, 400 Seventh Street,SW.,Washington, DC 20590.

Telephone: (202) 366-2053. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A typical local

recipient of Section 5311 operates a fleet of about six vans or

small buses in demand responsive and fixed route service.

Section 5311 provides replacement vehicles and covers about

a quarter of the average $316,000 annual operating budget.

The State receives Federal funds for a statewide program of

projects. 

20.513 CAPITAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

FOR ELDERLY PERSONS AND PERSONS

WITH DISABILITIES (Elderly and Persons with

Disabilities Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL TRANSIT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance in meeting

the transportation needs of elderly persons and persons with

disabilities where public transportation services are

unavailable, insufficient or inappropriate. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Section 5310 funding

may be used for eligible capital expenses needed to provide

efficient and coordinated specialized transportation service

for elderly persons and persons with disabilities. Projects

must provide for the maximum feasible coordination of

transportation services assisted under this section with

transportation assisted by other Federal sources and must

provide for the maximum feasible participation of

private-for-profit operators. 

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofit organizations. Public

bodies approved by the State to coordinate services for

elderly persons and persons with disabilities and public

bodies which certify to governor that no nonprofit

corporations or associations are readily available in an area to

provide the service. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for the address of Federal Transit Administration's Regional

Offices. State-Designated Agency:

Headquarters Office: FederalTransitAdministration, Office

of Program Management, Office of Resource Management

and State Programs, 400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC

20590 (202) 366-2053.Program Coordinator,(202)366-1630.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A typical project

in FY 1997 provided $1 million to a State that used the funds

to purchase 35 accessible vehicles for 39 local subrecipients

throughout the State. 

20.516 JOB ACCESS - REVERSE COM MUTE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL TRANSIT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To provide competitive grants to local

governments, nonprofit organizations, and designated

recipients of Federal transit funding to develop transportation

services to connect welfare recipients and low-income

persons to employment and support services. Job Access

grants will be for capital projects, to finance operating costs

of equipment, facilities and associated support costs related

to providing access to jobs. The Reverse Commute grants will

assist in funding the costs associated with adding reverse

commute bus, train, carpool or service from urban areas,

urbanized areas, and areas other than urbanized areas to

suburban work places. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The funds are to be

used for delivery of services. The funds are not to be used for

planning. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local government agencies,

nonprofit agencies, and transit providers. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for the address of Federal Transit Administration's Regional

Offices. State-Designated Agency:

Headquarters Office: Office of Research, Demonstration

and Innovation, Office of Research Management (TRI-30),

Federal Transit Administration, Department of

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Room 4401,

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-4052. Office

of Research, Demonstration and Innovation. Telephone:

(202) 366-1666.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects funded

include transportation vouchers, fixed route extensions,

emergency childcare transportation, guaranteed ride home

programs, and additional bus lines. 

20.518 CAPITAL AND TRAINING

ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR OVER-THEROAD BUS ACCESSIBILITY 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL TRANSIT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

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OBJECTIVES:To make funds available to private operators

of over-the-road buses to finance the incremental capital and

training costs of complying with requirements of the

Department of Transportation's over-the-road bus

accessibility rule, "Transportation for Individuals with

Disabilities". 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Program funds may be

used to finance the incremental capital and training costs of

complying with DOT's over- the-road bus accessibility rule.

Capital projects eligible for funding include adding lifts and

other accessibility components to new vehicle purchases, and

purchasing lifts to retrofit existing vehicles. Eligible training

costs include training in proper operation and maintenance of

equipment, boarding assistance, and securement, handling

and storage of mobility devices, and sensitivity training. 

Applicant Eligibility: Private operators of over-the-road

buses that provide intercity fixed route bus service, and other

providers, including operators of local fixed-route service,

commuter service, and charter or tour service. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for the address of Federal Transit Administration's Regional

Offices. State-Designated Agency:

Headquarters Office: Federal Transit Administration, Office

of Program Management, Office of Resource Management

and State Programs, 400 7th Street SW., Washington DC

20590. Sue Masselink, Program Coordinator. Telephone:

(202) 366-2053.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: First-year grants

are still ongoing.

20.600 STATE AND COMM UNITY HIGHWAY

SAFETY FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL HIGHWAY

TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION/FEDERAL

HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide a coordinated national highway

safety program to reduce traffic accidents, deaths, injuries,

and property damage. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Formula grant funds

may be used for problems identified within the nine national

priority program areas of Alcohol and other Drug

Countermeasures, Police Traffic Services, Occupant

Protection, Traffic Records, Emergency Medical Services,

Motorcycle Safety, Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety, Speed Control

and Roadway Safety. Other program areas identified by a

State as constituting a highway safety problem in that State,

e.g., pupil transportation safety programs, may be eligible for

Federal funding, as encompassing a major highway safety

problem in the State and for which effective countermeasures

have been identified. The law provides that at least 40 percent

of these Federal funds apportioned to a State for any fiscal

year will be expended by the political subdivisions of such

State. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, federally recognized Indian

tribes, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American

Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, and the Virgin Islands. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for a listing of National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration regional office addresses.

Headquarters Office: State and Community Services,

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-2121. Safety

Technology Division, Office of Highway Safety, Federal

Highway Administration, Washington, DC 20590.

Telephone: (202) 366-6902

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Selective traffic

enforcement programs, both at the State and local level -

Funds were used for equipment (police vehicles,

communications, speed detection devices, breath testing

devices, etc.), training of police personnel, and overtime

salaries. Upgrading of Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

at the local level: Funds were used for training of emergency

medical personnel improved ambulance medical equipment,

survey of EMS needs, and salaries for statewide EMS

coordinators. Programs to reduce alcohol-related accidents:

Funds were used for studies to identify the magnitude of the

problem, personnel services (police, investigators, and court

personnel), equipment (breath testing devices, radar

equipment), and training of involved personnel to detect the

drinking driver and to use testing equipment. Traffic records

system improvement projects: Funds were used for survey of

needs and requirements, system designs, system

implementation,ADPequipment and supplies, traffic records,

personnel, and training. Occupant Protection programs:

Funds were used to develop and distribute public information

and education materials relating to the use of safety belts and

infant/child safety seats, and the implementation of

infant/child safety seat loaner programs. Networks of public

and private agencies and groups were developed and assisted

regarding programs to increase awareness of the benefits of

occupant protection, and to increase overall use. Activities

that directly support the identification of highway hazards and

the scheduling and implementation ofroadway improvements

(construction, operational or otherwise) to improve their

safety: Funds were used for personal services, training and

equipment to establish accident data systems; conduct

engineering studies and analyses of high accident locations;

conduct workshops in street design and capacity and work

zone safety; inventory skid resistance of payment surfaces;

and provide traffic engineering assistance to local

jurisdictions. 

20.801 DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF

PORTS AND INTERMODAL

TRANSPORTATION (Ports and Domestic

Shipping and Intermodal Development) 

FEDERAL AGE NCY : MA R I TIM E

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION

OBJECTIVES: To promote and plan for the development

and utilization of domestic waterways, ports, and port

facilities, to provide technical advice and information to

Government agencies, private industry and State and

municipal governments; to support the laws reserving

domestic waterborne commerce to U.S. built, owned, and

registered vessels for reasons of national security and
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economic development, examine opportunities for expanding

Maritime trade and service; to plan for the utilization and

control of ports and port facilities under national mobilization

conditions; to promote development and improved utilization

of marine related intermodal transportation systems; to

provide technical information and advice to other agencies

and organizations concerned with intermodal development;

to formulate national and regional policies and objectives for

development and use of intermodal transportation systems

including containerization and container size standards; to

develop plans, coordinate pilot operations concerned with

improved techniques in marine-related intermodal

transportation; to assist in planning and development of

intermodal transport systems under national mobilization

conditions. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and

Counseling; Dissemination of Technical Information. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal personnel are

used to conduct cost-shared studies with public ports, trade

associations, State universities, National Maritime

Enhancement Institutes, agencies, and private industry and to

advise and consult at national, regional, and local levels with

port authorities, marine terminals operators, intermodal

transport interests including governmental units, trade

associations and private industry. 

Applicant Eligibility: State and local government agencies,

metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), public port and

intermodal authorities,trade associations and private terminal

and intermodal operators are eligible. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Maritime Administration

Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Ports and Domestic

Shipping, Maritime Administration, Department of

Transportation, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202)

366-4357. FAX 202-366-6988. Office of Intermodal

Development, Maritime Administration, Department of

Transportation, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202)

366-8888. FAX (202) 366-6988. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Financial aspects

of port development (Usage Pricing for Public Marine

Terminal Facilities, Public Port Financing in the United

States, Port Risk Management Manual, Port Capital

Expenditure Survey,RegionalPortEconomic Impact Model);

and international activities (Inter-American Port and Harbor

Conferences, Inter-American Port Safety and Security

Seminars, Inter-American Water Pollution in Port Seminars).

In the Port Operations Area: Projects and activities pertaining

to vessel and terminal operations (Marine Container Terminal

Productivity Study, Regional Barge Fleeting Assessment and

Handbook, Container Transport by Inland Waterways);

advanced terminal management systems (Marine Terminal

Automated Management Control System, Port Community

Trades Information Exchange System, U.S. Stevedoring and

Terminal Operator Industry Study); port emergency planning

(Port Emergency Operations Handbook for Port Controllers):

port and terminal cargo protection and security (Lightweight

Tug Firefighting Module, Multi-Purpose Harbor Service

Craft Development and Demonstration Maritime Security

Report); and portsafety and environmental management (Port

Vessel Emissions Model. Projects and activities pertaining to

intermodal transport systems and cargo handling capability:

Automation of Inventory of American Intermodal Equipment;

Maritime System of the Americas Study, Phases I-III;

Intermodal Freight Transportation Video; Marine-Rail

Intermodal System Study and Demonstration; projects

initiated under the Cargo Handling Cooperative Program -

Emergency Container Requirement Study; Tape Container

Seal Project; Video Container Recognition System; The

Assessment of Bar Code Technology; Land Transportation

Access Outreach Program; Technical Intermodal transport,

planning assistance to State and local government agencies,

intermodal transport providers, shippers, and public and

private intermodal port and terminal operators. Domestic

Shipping Project Areas: In the promotion of increased

utilization of the domestic waterways, projects related to

expanding the knowledge base concerning modal

environmental advantages and safe, efficient operations have

been completed. 

20.901 PAYM ENTS FOR ESSENTIAL AIR

SERVICES 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To assure that air transportation is provided

to eligible communities by subsidizing air carriers when

necessary to provide service. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified

Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: When necessary

subsidy payments are made to air carriers providing air

services at certain points. Subsidy is paid to cover the carrier's

operating loss, plus a profit element. 

Applicant Eligibility: Air carrier must be found fit and be

selected by the Department to perform the subsidized service.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Aviation Analysis,

X-50, Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street,

SW., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-1030. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Great Lakes

Aviation-Essential Air Service to Alliance, Chadron,

Kearney, McCook, and Norfolk, Nebraska. (2) Big Sky

Airlines-Essential Air Service to Glasgow, Glendive, Havre,

Lewistown, Miles City, Sidney, and Wolf Point, Montana. (3)

Alaska Airlines-Essential Air Service to Cordova, Gustavus,

Petersburg, Wrangell, and Yakutat, Alaska. (4) Aspen

Mountain Air-Essential Air Service at El Dorado/Camden,

Harrison, Hot Springs, and Jonesboro, Arkansas, Enid and

Ponca City, Oklahoma, and Brownwood, Texas. 

20.905 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS

ENTERPRISES SHORT TERM LENDING

PROGRAM (Short Term Lending Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

OBJECTIVES: To enhance and further the opportunity of

Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) to obtain

accounts receivable financing for the performance of

transportation-related contracts emanating from the DOT, its

grantees, recipients, their contractors and subcontractors. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The lines of credit are
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issued in support of transportation related contracts.

Transportation related means a contract for the maintenance,

rehabilitation,restructuring, improvement, or revitalization of

any of the Nation's modes of transportation with any public

or commercial provider of transportation or any Federal, State

or local transportation agency. 

Applicant Eligibility: The recipient of a line of credit must

be a certified DBE, minority-owned business enterprise or

women-owned business enterprise. These certifications must

be performed under DOT guidelines, 49 CFR Part 23. All

firms certified by the Small Business Administration as 8(a)

firms are eligible to participate in the Lending program. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Small and Disadvantaged

Business Utilization, S-40, Office of the Secretary,

Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20590 (202) 366-2852; Toll-free (800)

532-1169. 

20.907 HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES

AND UNIVERSITIES ENTREPRENEURIAL

TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

(ETTAP) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OBJECTIVES: To support the efforts of Historically Black

Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to achieve their principal

mission; utilize the resources of HBCUs to increase ability of

small and disadvantaged businesses (S/DBEs) to participate

in transportation-related projects; and assist S/DBEs to obtain

information on DOT procurement opportunities and provide

training to enhance DBEs and small businesses opportunity

to successfully compete on DOT contracts and DOT-funded

projects. ETTAP is intended to increase collaboration and

establish partnerships among HBCUs, other minority

educational institutions, LOSP organizations, SBDCs,

MBDCs, State supportive services contractors, local

transportation agencies; and DOT, its grantees, recipients,

contractors, subcontractors and S/DBEs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Financial assistance

under this section may be used by educational institutions to

design and carry out programs to encourage, promote and

assist minority entrepreneurs and small businesses to compete

on transportation-related contracts, subcontracts and projects.

Funds may also be used to develop educational programs

designed to enhance DBEs' and small business entrepreneurs'

knowledge of the transportation field, and, thus, increase their

capability to successfully compete on transportation-related

contracts. In addition, this project will attract more of the

Nation's young talent into transportation-related careers

through academic studies and practical experience through

internships.

Applicant Eligibility: As defined in Department of

Education, Code of Federal Regulations, revised as of July 1,

1992, Pages 258-260, Section 608.3: Historically Black

Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are those institutions that

have been established before 1964; have a principal mission

that was and is the education of Black Americans; and are and

have been for five academic years preceding the academic

year for which it seeks a grant under this part--legally

authorized by the State in which it is located to be a junior or

community college or to provide an educational program for

which it awards a bachelor's degree; and accredited or preaccredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or

association that the Secretary of Education has determined to

be a reliable authority as to the quality of education or

training offered.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Small and Disadvantaged

Business Utilization, S-40, Office of the Secretary, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Room 9414, Washington, DC 20590, or

toll free (800) 532-1169 (202) 366-2852.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Cooperative

agreements will have four major activities including: establish

an internet use and access capability; train and provide

technical assistance to small, disadvantaged and womenowned business entrepreneurs in the areas and access of

Electronic Commerce (EC), application of electronic

communication technology, status of the Federal

implementation of EC; provide funding for transportationrelated student internships to support the outreach and

training activities; provide information dissemination and

outreach activities regarding the Presidential initiative to hire

individuals off the welfare rolls and support the DOT Garrett

A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program.

20.908 TRIBAL COLLEGES -

ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ETTAP) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OBJECTIVES: To support Tribal Colleges and Universities

(TCUs) in advancing the development of human potential by

providing quality educational experiences, training and

employment opportunities to minority students interested in

transportation-related careers, support the design and

implementation of educational programs, and to encourage,

promote and assist minority entrepreneurs. These projects

will strengthen TCU efforts to promote the full diversification

of the work force by developing curricula programs. In

addition, TCU projects provide training opportunities for

Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) to learn how to

compete for the many contracting opportunities available at

the Department of Transportation (DOT) and on DOT funded

projects throughout the nation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Financial assistance

under this section may be used by educational institutions to

design and carry out programs to encourage, promote and

assist minority entrepreneurs and small businesses to compete

on transportation-related contracts,subcontracts and projects.

Funds may also be used to develop educational programs

designed to enhance DBEs' and small business entrepreneurs'

knowledge of the transportation field, and, thus, increase their

capability to successfully compete on transportation-related

contracts. In addition, this project will attract more of the

nation's young talent into transportation-related careers
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through academic studies and practical experience through

internships.

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit

accredited institutions of higher education which, at the time

of application, have an enrollment of undergraduate full-time

equivalent students that is at least 25 percent Native

American.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Coordinator, Office of Small

and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, S-40, Office of the

Secretary, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Room 9414,Washington,

DC 20590, or toll free (800) 532-1169. Telephone: (202)

366-2852. E-mail: Patricia.Martin@ost.dot.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Cooperative

agreements will have fourmajor activities including: establish

an internet use and access capability; train and provide

technical assistance to small, disadvantaged and

women-owned business entrepreneurs in the areas and access

of Electronic Commerce (EC), application of electronic

communication technology, status of the Federal

implementation of EC; provide fundin g for

transportation-related student internships to support the

outreach and training activities; provide information

dissemination and outreach activities regarding the

Presidential initiative to hire individuals off the welfare rolls

and support the DOT Garrett A. Morgan Technology and

Transportation Futures Program.
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

94.004 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA

SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED

PROGRAM S 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CORPORATION FOR

NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 

OBJECTIVES: To encourage elementary and secondary

schools and community-based agencies to create, develop,

and offer service learning opportunities for school-age youth;

educate teachers about service learning and incorporate

service learning opportunities into classrooms to enhance

academic learning; coordinate adult volunteers in schools;

and introduce young people to a broad range of careers and

encourage them to pursue further education and training. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be

used for a wide range of activities including: planning and

capacity building; operating and expanding service-learning

programs through grants to local partnerships; implementing

and expanding school-based programs involving adult

volunteers to use service-learning to improve the education of

students; and providing training and technical assistance to

qualified organizations. Corporation assistance may not be

used to provide religious instruction, conduct worship

services or engage in any form of proselytization; to assist,

promote, or deter union organizing; to finance, directly or

indirectly, any activity designed to influence the outcome of

an election to any public office; or to impair existing

contracts for service of collective bargaining agreements. 

Applicant Eligibility: State education agencies, State

Commissions on National Service, U.S. Territories, Indian

tribes, and public or private nonprofit entities may apply.

education. To ensure the quality of Learn and Serve America:

School and Community based programs, the Corporation will

provide guidance and technical assistance to funded agencies

and organizations, and others interested in expanding service

learning opportunities. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Corporation for National Service,

1201 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20525.

Telephone: (202) 606-5000, Ext. 136. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In a Minnesota

service learning program, high school students visit the St.

Louis River as part of a chemistry class to test water quality

and initiate local pollution control. Third graders, in an

Indiana program, spend time with seniors in nursing homes.

Information is gathered and friends are made of long-time

residents of their community as part of an English Project for

a book on local history. 

94.005 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA

HIGHER EDUCATION 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CORPORATION FOR

NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 

OBJECTIVES: This grant program hastwo main objectives:

(1) To support high quality service learning projects that

engage students in meeting community needs with

demonstrable results, while enhancing students' academicand

civic learning; and (2) to support efforts to build capacity and

strengthen the service infrastructure with institutions of

higher education. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To strengthen the

service-learning infrastructure and support high quality

programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: Entities eligible to receive a grant are

limited to individual institutions of higher education (as

defined by the Higher Education Act of 1965), consortia of

institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations

or public agencies, including States, working in partnership

with one or more institutions of higher education. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory

for State Program Offices. 

Headquarters Office: Corporation for National and

Community Service, 1201 New York Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20525. Telephone: 202 606-5000, Ext. 117.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Over 150

teacher education students at three State colleges are learning

how to use service- learning in K-12 classrooms, while

working alongside K-12 students in service projects assisting

the homebound elderly. (2) As part of a credit bearing clinical

program, over 35 law students at a private university are

providing legal assistance to low-income communities in

order to reduce toxic exposure and work place environmental

hazards. (3) As part of their clinical rotations, over 250

nursing and allied health professions students from one

private and one community college are providing

community-based health education and primary care to senior

citizens and low-income people. (4) A national organization

of community colleges is providing subgrants, technical

assistance, and networking opportunities to eight member

colleges engaged in developing service learning projects and

infrastructure. 

94.006 AMERICORPS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CORPORATION FOR

NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 

OBJECTIVES: AmeriCorps is the cornerstone of the

Corporation's national service programs. AmeriCorps

addresses pressing education, public safety, human, and

environmental needs of our Nation's communities by

encouraging Americans to serve either part or full-time.

AmeriCorps programs have four goals: 1) Getting things done

by providing services with direct and demonstrable results; 2)

strengthen communities and uniting individuals of different
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backgrounds in a common effort to improve their

communities); 3) encourage responsibility through service

and civic education (AmeriCorps enables members to see

themselves as leaders and problem solvers and fulfill their

responsibilities to their communities); and 4) expand

opportunities in return for devoting a year of their lives to

nationalservice.AmeriCorps members may receive education

awards for qualified post secondary education expenses or to

pay off qualified student loans. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds must be used to

operate or plan national and community service programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, District of Columbia, Puerto

Rico, Tribes, Territories, national nonprofit organizations,

professional corps, and multi-State organizations may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. State commissions should also be contacted.

Headquarters Office: Corporation for National and

Community Service, 1201 New York Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20525. Telephone: (202) 606-5000, Ext.

474. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: AmeriCorps

members serve in area elementary schools as teaching

assistants, tutors, mentors, and role models. AmeriCorps

members develop and lead after school programs, work with

community volunteers to developcommunityservice projects,

assist in immunization projects, renovate housing in

low-income areas, tutor elementary children, and staff a crisis

help line for parents of at-risk children; work to improve

relationships between community youth and local law

enforcement officials by performing outreach, developing

public safety instructional materials, conducting conflict

resolution classes, and developing crime watch programs.

AmeriCorps members have worked to transform a city sludge

farm into a nature preserve, restore a polluted swamp to a

thriving natural lake, test area drinking water, and create

environmental public service announcements. 

94.007 PLANNING AND PROGRAM

DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: CORPORATION FOR

NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 

OBJECTIVES: Planning and program development grants

have three major objectives: (1) demonstration grants support

demonstration community service programs that may not be

eligible under other subtitles of the Trust Act; (2) disability

grants support reasonable accommodation needs of

individuals with disabilities to ensure their participation of

AmeriCorps members; and (3) disaster grants support

recovery efforts after natural disasters. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Disability grants are

restricted to providing reasonable accommodation to

individuals with disabilities to facilitate their participation in

AmeriCorps or for funds to conduct outreach to individuals

with disabilities, provide technical assistance to programs on

disability issues, and to operate demonstration programs.

Disaster grants are limited to areas that the President has

declared as a national disaster area. 

Applicant Eligibility: State, local governments, and

nonprofit organizations are eligible for demonstration grants.

State commissions, national nonprofit organizations, and

operating AmeriCorps programs are eligible for disability

grants. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone

directory. 

Headquarters Office: Corporation for National Service,

1201 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20525.

Telephone: (202) 606-5000, Ext. 154. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In Colorado, ten

AmeriCorps members serve in local child care resource and

referral agencies to increase the quality and availability of

child care in Colorado. Members recruit child care providers;

identify their training needs and link them to appropriate

training; and provide existing child care providers with

information about training opportunities and new licensing

requirements. This is connected to the Governor's plan to

build a volunteer component into the child care system. In

Kansas, twenty-two AmeriCorps members serve as mentors

to connect welfare families to services they need; such as

counseling, health care, or appropriate child care in order to

become more self-sufficient. They also assist with education

or employment problems. This program is connected to the

governor's welfare reform efforts. In Washington, fifteen

AmeriCorps members address the development needs of

foster youth, ages 15 to 18. The members are matched with

100 foster care youth and combat the low self-esteem, low

school performance, and social maladjustment that is

associated with foster care. Activities include after-school

assistance with homework, group functions, weekend, and

athletic activities. This is the only State program proposing to

work with youth who are aging out of the foster care system.

It is an important experience for youth in foster care to have.

This model will provide valuable experience and information

on best practices for service programs involving foster care

youth. 
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SUBJECT INDEX

A

Adult education 15. 026, 84.002

 see also, Education

Affordable housing 10.410,10.411, 10.415, 10.438,

14.850, 14.865, 23.002

 see also, housing

Aging see Elderly

Agriculture 15.034

 research 10.212, See also, Farm

Air transportation 20.106, 20.901

 see also, Transportation

AmeriCorps 94.006

Anti-Terrorism Training 16.614

Appalachian region 23.001, 23.002, 23.003, 23.008,

23.009, 23.011

Arts & Humanities 15.850, 45.024, 45.025, 45.026,

45.027 45.164, 45.166

B

Base Reuse 12.612

Brownfields 66.811

Business 10.768, 10.769, 10.773, 11.806, 14.244

 See also, Small Business

C

Child 10.558, 14.863, 15.144, 16.583, 16.726, 23.013, 

93.570, 93.110

 Head Start 93.600

 WIC 10.557

 See also, Education, Food/Nutrition programs, Health

Child care 10.558, 10.766, 83.558, 93.575, 93.596,

94.007

Community development 10.446, 90.100

Community facilities 10.766, 14.228

Community health 93.129, 93.224, 93.252, 93.569,

93.570, 93.590

Community planning 10.446, 11.302, 12.607, 12.611,

12.612, 14.227, 14.228, 14.512, 94.007

Conservation 10.406, 10.407, 10.901, 10.910, 10.912,

15.916

Crime 15.030, 16.589, 16.710, 16.726

Cultural Heritage 15.904, 15.922, 45.024, 45.164,

45.301

D

Denali Commission 90.100

Disaster assistance 10.444, 10.445, 10.761, 10.763,

83.105, 83.537, 83.544, 83.552

Drug treatment, prevention and control 16.579, 16.616

 Drug-Free Schools 84.184

 See Also, Substance Abuse

E

Economic/community development 10.761, 10.769,

10.854, 15.032, 23.001, 11.300, 11.302, 11.303,

11.307, 12.600, 12.612, 14.219, 14.228, 14.246,

14.250, 14.511, 14.512, 15.124, 15.875, 23.001,

44.002, 59.050, 93.570

 See also, Rural development, community planning

Education 84.010, 84.151, 84.184, 84.213 84.215,

84.216, 84.221, 84.279, 84.280, 84.287, 84.295,

84.298, 84.316, 84.34, 84.358, 84.360

 Equipment & Facilities 10.665, 10.666, 84.184,

84.352

 Goals 2000 84.279, 84.280, 84.298

 See also, Adult, Vocational, Telecommunications

Elderly 10.570, 20.513

 Health 93.045, 93.047 

 Housing 14.157

Emergency Medical Services or EMS 10.766, 93.127,

93.141, 93.259, 93.952

Employment 15.108, 20.516

Empowerment Zones(EZ/EC) 10.679,14.244

Energy, 10.859, 93.568

Environment 10.912, 15.041, 66.461, 66.473, 66.604,

66.811, 66.812, 66.926, 93.582

F

Farm 10.167, 10.405, 10.406, 10.407, 10.443, 10.901,

10.913,

Fire Assistance 10.766, 14.228,15.228, 83,554, 83.556,

93.259

Fire Prevention 10.766, 15.031, 15.064, 83.010, 

Fire Training 83.553

Food/Nutrition programs 10.225, 10.557, 10.558,

10.567, 10.570, , 93.600

Forestry 10.664, 10.665, 10.666, 10.672, 10.670,

15.035

H

Hazardous Materials 66.806, 66.808, 66.811, 66.812,

83.012, 83.554

Health 23.004, 93.130, 93.191, 93.224, 93.241, 93.301,

93.569, 93.570, 93.581, 93.667, 93.912, 93.913,

93.991, 93.994

 Child 93.110, 93.127, 93.268, 93.994, 20.513,

93.600

 Education and training, 93.164, 93.192,93.219

 National Health Service Corps 93.162, , 93.288

 Planning 93.228

 Research 93.155, 93.226, 93.779, 93.933 

 See also, Community health, Drug treatment...,
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Elderly, EMS, HIV care, Indian, Mental health,

Migrant, Nursing, Occupational Safety & Health

Historic 15.904, 15.918

Homeless 17.805, 93.151

Housing 10.405, 10.410, 10.411, 10.415, 10.420,

10.427, 10.872, 23.005, 14.110, 14.121, 14.250,

14.313, 14.850, 14.867, 14.869, 14.870, 15.141

 HOME 14.239

 Low-income 10.410,

 Repairs 10.417, 10.433, 14.228, 81.042, 93.568, 

93.570

 See also, Affordable, Elderly, Homeless, Indian,

Migrant

I

Infrastructure 10.760, 10.769, 11.300, 14.219, 14.228,

66.43

Indian (includes Native Hawaiian and Eskimos) 

10.421, 11.801, 15.020, 15.021, 15.022, 15.024,

15.025, 15.029, 15.030, 15.031,15.032, 15.033,

15.034, 15.035, 15.036, 15.037, 15.038, 15.039,

15.040, 15.041, 15.061, 15.063, 15.064, 15.108,

15.113, 15.124, 15.144, , 15.850, 15.875, 15.922,

16.583, 16.608, 45.311, 66.473, 66.715, 66.812,

66.926, 93.210

 Education & Training 10.221, 10.222, 15.026,

15.027, 15.028, 15.042, 14.043, 15.044, 15.045,

15.046, 15.047, 15.058, 15.062, 15.114, 15.130,

17.254, 17.265, 84.060, 84.101, 84.221, 84.250,

84.258, 84.259, 84.296, 84.297, 84.299, 84.300,

84.316, 84.320, 84.321, 84.322, 84.356, 84.362,

93.219, 93.164

 Health 15.025, 16.616, 93.047, 93.202, 93.210,

93.228, 93.284, 93.441, 93.594, 93.612, 93.932,

93.933, 93.954, 93.581, 93.582, 93.970, 93.971,

93.972

 Housing, 14.515, 14.850, 14.862, 14.867, 14.869,

14.870, 15.141

Independent Living 93.674

J

Job Opportunities 17.264, 17.265, 93.593

Job training 15.061, 17.253, 17.254, 17.265, 20.907

L

Law Enforcement 10.766, 15.029, 15.030, 15.063,

16.308, 16.563, 16.579, 16.583, 16.587, 16.589,

16.590, 16.592, 16.596, 16.607, 16.608, 16.710,

93.259 

Libraries 45.301, 45.311, 45.312

M

Managed care 93.129, 93.155, 93.226, 93.779, 94.007

Mental health 93.109, 93.242, 93.958

Migrant

 Education & training 17.264, 84.011, 84.141, 84.144,

84.149, 84.214

 Health 10.558, 93.129, 93.246, 93.569, 93.570, 

93.912

 Housing 93.570

Military and community planning 12.600, 12.607,

12.611, 12.612

Mining 10.910

Museum 45.301, 45.312

N

National Health Service Corps 93.288

R

Recreation 15.039, 15.225, 15.916, 15.918, 20.219

Roads/Highways 10.665, 10.666, 15.033, 23.003,

23.008, 20.600 See also, Transportation

Rural development 10.446, 10.670, 10.671, 10.769,

10.854, 23.002, 14.219,

 See also, Economic/community development

Rural Electrification 10.850

Rural Telephone 10.851, 10.852

 See also, Telecommunications

S

Schools 10.665, 10.666, 15.042, 15.046, 15.047,

15.058, 15.062, 84.010, 84.216, 66.702, 94.004, 

 Star Schools 84.203 See also, Education

Small Business 10.773, 20.905, 20.907, 59.007,

59.011, 59.012, 59.041, 59.043, 59.044, 59.046,

59.049, 59.050 See also, Business, SBIR

Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) 10.212

Solid waste 10.762, 66.808, 66.812, 81.106

Substance Abuse 93.109, 93.959

Surplus property 15.918

Sustainable 10.215

T

Telecommunications 10.855, 11.550, 11.552, 84.286,

84.341

Telemedicine 10,855, 11.552, 93.211

Trails 15.916, 15.921, 20.219

Transportation 10.167, 15.033, 15.044, 20.500, 20.509,

20.513, 20.518

Tribal 14.519, 20.908, 66.709, 66.715

U

Utilities 10.859

V

Veterans 59.044

Violence prevention 16.587, 16.589, 16.726, 93.671,

93.910
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Vocational education, 84.048, 84.101, 84.259

 See also, Education

W

Waste water/sewer 10.411, 10.760, 10.761, 14.228,

66.418, 66.458, 93.570

Water 10.212, 10.407, 10.410, 10.411, , 10.417,

10.760, 10.761, 10.763, 10.769, 10.770, 10.901,

10.910, 14.228, 15.037, 15.916, 66.468, 66.471, 

93.570

Weatherization assistance 81.042, 93.568

 See also, Energy, Housing-Repairs

Welfare reform 93.558, 93.595, 94.007

Welfare-to-Work 14.870, 17.253, 17254, 20.516

Wetlands 66.461

Y

Youth 14.243, 16.731, 17.263, 23.011, 84.010, 84.287,

93.674