RICPS, No. 75

Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas:

Fiscal Year 2002

Compiled by M. Louise Reynnells 

and Melinda L. Surratt

Rural Information Center

Rural Information Center Publication Series, No. 75

Revised Edition

Rural

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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) .................................................. 2

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) ............ 5

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

10.421 INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL CORPORATION LOANS ............................................................. 6

10.427 RURAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS (Rental Assistance) ..................................................... 6

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

10.438 SECTION 538 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING GUARANTEED LOANS .................................................... 7

10.441 TECHNICAL AND SUPERVISORY ASSISTANCE GRANTS ........................................................... 7

10.442 HOUSING APPLICATION PACKAGING GRANTS (Section 509 Grants) ................................................. 8
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10.443 SMALL FARMER OUTREACH TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (Outreach and Assistance Grants for

Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers) ............................................................................ 9

10.444 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 504, Rural Housing Loans and Grants) ........ 9

10.445 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER (Section 502 Very Low and Low Income Loans) ................................ 9

10.557 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC Program) ........... 9

10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM ..................................................................... 10

10.567 FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS .................................................... 10

10.570 NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR THE ELDERLY (COMMODITIES) (NPE) ................................................ 10

10.664 COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ......................................................................... 11

10.665 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO STATES (25 Percent Payments to States) ........................................ 11

10.666 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO COUNTIES (Payments to Counties) ............................................. 11

10.670 NATIONAL FOREST DEPENDENT RURAL COMMUNITIES (Economic Recovery) ..................................... 11

10.671 SOUTHEAST ALASKA ECONOMIC DISASTER FUND ............................................................. 12

10.672 RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES (RURAL DEVELOPMENT) ................................ 12

10.760 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES ........................................... 12

10.761 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING GRANTS .............................................................. 13

10.762 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS ........................................................................ 13

10.763 EMERGENCY COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE GRANTS ....................................................... 14

10.766 COMMUNITY FACILITIES LOANS AND GRANTS ................................................................. 14

10.767 INTERMEDIARY RE-LENDING PROGRAM ........................................................................ 14

10.768 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOANS .............................................................................. 15

10.769 RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RBEG) (TDG) ................................................................... 16

10.770 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 306C) ........................................... 16

10.771 RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RTDG) .......................................................... 16

10.772 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities) ............................... 17

10.773 RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (RBOG) ............................................................... 17

10.850 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES ( RUS) .............................................. 18

10.851 RURAL TELEPHONE LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES (RUS) ..................................................... 18
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10.852 RURAL TELEPHONE BANK LOANS (Rural Telephone Bank) ........................................................ 18

10.854 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS AND GRANTS ........................................................ 18

10.855 DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE LOANS AND GRANTS ................................................ 19

10.901 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ............................................................... 19

10.910 RURAL ABANDONED MINE PROGRAM (RAMP) .................................................................. 20

10.912 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM (EQIP) ...................................................... 21

10.913 FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM ........................................................................... 21

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

http://www.arc.gov/

23.001 APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT(SEE INDIVIDUAL APPALACHIAN PROGRAMS) (Appalachian Program) ... 23

23.002 APPALACHIAN SUPPLEMENTS TO FEDERAL GRANT-IN-AID (AREA DEVELOPMENT) (Supplemental Grants) .......... 24

23.003 APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM (Appalachian Corridors) ....................................... 24

23.008 APPALACHIAN LOCAL ACCESS ROADS ......................................................................... 24

23.009 APPALACHIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ASSISTANCE (LDD) ............................................ 25

23.011 APPALACHIAN STATE RESEARCH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS (State Research) . . 25

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

http://www.doc.gov/

11.300 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ................ 26

11.302 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT– SUPPORT FOR PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT,

REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND INDIAN PLANNING .................................................................... 26

11.303 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (National, University Center and Local Technical Assistance) .... 26

11.307 SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SUDDEN AND SEVERE ECONOMIC

DISLOCATION AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DETERIORATION (Economic Adjustment Program) ........................... 27

11.550 PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES--PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (PTFP) ........................... 27

11.552 TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES (TOP) ........................................................................... 28

11.801 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM (NAP) ........................................................................... 28

11.806 MINORITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT ............................................... 28

 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/
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12.600 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ........................................................................ 30

12.607 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE (Community Planning Assistance) ................. 30

12.611 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE FOR REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY

EMPLOYMENT ....................................................................................................... 30

12.612 COMMUNITY BASE REUSE PLANS (Community Planning Assistance) ............................................... 31

DENALI COMMISSION

http://www.denali.gov/

90.100 DENALI COMMISSION PROGRAM ............................................................................... 32

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

http://www.ed.gov/

84.002 ADULT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM .................................................................. 33

84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES (Title I Basic, Concentration, and Targeted Grants) .............. 33

84.011 MIGRANT EDUCATION BASIC STATE GRANT PROGRAM ........................................................ 33

84.048 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BASIC GRANTS TO STATES .......................................................... 33

84.060 INDIAN EDUCATION GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES ............................................. 34

84.101 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INDIANS SET-ASIDE ................................................................. 34

84.141 MIGRANT EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM (HEP) ........................................... 34

84.144 MIGRANT EDUCATION COORDINATION PROGRAM ............................................................. 35

84.149 MIGRANT EDUCATION COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM (CAMP) ..................................... 35

84.169 INDEPENDENT LIVING STATE GRANTS .......................................................................... 35

84.184 SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES NATIONAL PROGRAMS ................................... 36

84.203 STAR SCHOOLS ................................................................................................ 36

84.213 EVEN START STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES ................................................................. 37

84.214 EVEN START MIGRANT EDUCATION ............................................................................ 37

84.215 FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION (FIE) ............................................................ 38

84.216 CAPITAL EXPENSES ............................................................................................ 38

84.221 NATIVE HAWAIIAN SPECIAL EDUCATION ...................................................................... 38

84.250 REHABILITATION SERVICES AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES ........................................... 39
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84.258 EVEN START INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS .................................................... 39

84.259 NATIVE HAWAIIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ................................................................. 39

84.276 GOALS 2000 STATE AND LOCAL EDUCATION SYSTEMIC IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (Goals 2000 State Grants) .......... 39

84.286 TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FOR MATHEMATICS ...................................... 40

84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS .................................................... 40

84.295 READY-TO-LEARN TELEVISION ................................................................................. 40

84.296 NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION LEARNING CENTERS ..................................... 41

84.297 NATIVE HAWAIIAN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT .................... 41

84.298 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM STRATEGIES .............................................................. 42

84.303 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CHALLENGE GRANTS .............................................................. 42

84.316 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM ............................................................ 42

84.320 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING, AND

RECRUITMENT PROGRAM (ANE) ..................................................................................... 43

84.322 ALASKA NATIVE STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

(Alaska Native Education) .............................................................................................. 43

84.341 COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS .......................................................................... 43

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

http://www.doe.gov/

81.042 WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME PERSONS ................................................... 44

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

CONCERNS, PROPOSED SOLUTIONS ................................................................................... 44

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

http://www.epa.gov/

66.418 CONSTRUCTION GRANTS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS ............................................. 45

66.458 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR STATE REVOLVING FUNDS State Revolving Fund) ................................. 45

66.461 WETLANDS PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT GRANTS .............................................................. 45

66.468 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND (Drinking Water State Revolving Fund) . 46

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

COSTS (Operator Certification Expense Reimbursement Grants) ............................................................. 46
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66.604 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS TO SMALL COMMUNITY GROUPS (EJGSC) ................................... 46

66.709 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR STATES AND TRIBES ...................... 47

66.715 CHILDHOOD BLOOD-LEAD SCREENING AND LEAD AWARENESS (EDUCATIONAL) OUTREACH FOR INDIAN TRIBES

(Tribal Lead Grants) ................................................................................................... 47

66.806 SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR CITIZEN GROUPS AT PRIORITY SITES (SUPERFUND TECHNICAL

ASSISTANCE GRANTS) ............................................................................................... 47

66.808 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE .................................................................... 48

66.811 BROWNFIELD PILOTS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS ............................................................. 48

66.926 INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (General Assistance Program (GAP) for Tribes) ......... 48

66.930 U.S.-MEXICO BORDER GRANTS PROGRAM ...................................................................... 49

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

http://www.fema.gov/

83.010 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM .......................................................... 50

83.012 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ............................................................. 50

83.105 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM STATE SUPPORT SERVICES ELEMENT (CAP-SSSE) .......................... 50

83.537 COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS ................................................................................ 50

83.544 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE GRANTS .................................................................................. 51

83.552 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANTS (EMPG) ................................................... 51

83.553 STATE FIRE TRAINING SYSTEMS GRANTS (National Fire Academy Training Grants) .................................. 51

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

http://www.dhhs.gov/

93.005 PROJECT GRANTS FOR FACILITIES TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF MINORITY POPULATIONS .............. 52

93.045 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE III, PART C NUTRITION SERVICES .................................... 52

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

B, GRANTS TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS .................................................................................. 52

93.110 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH FEDERAL CONSOLIDATED PROGRAMS (Special Projects of Regional and National

Significance (SPRANS)) ................................................................................................ 52

93.127 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN (EMS for Children) ............................................... 53

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

(NHSC) DELIVERY SITES .............................................................................................. 53
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93.130 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES--RESOURCE COORDINATION AND DEVELOPMENT--PRIMARY CARE OFFICES ........... 54

93.151 HEALTH CENTER GRANTS FOR HOMELESS POPULATIONS ....................................................... 54

93.155 RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERS ........................................................................... 55

93.162 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM (NHSC Loan Repayment Program) ............... 55

93.164 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE EDUCATIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT (IHS Loan Repayment Program) ................... 56

93.191 ALLIED HEALTH PROJECTS ..................................................................................... 56

93.192 QUENTIN N. BURDICK PROGRAMS FOR RURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING (Interdisciplinary Training for Health

Care for Rural Areas) .................................................................................................. 57

93.194 COMMUNITY PREVENTION COALITIONS (PARTNERSHIP) DEMONSTRATION GRANT .............................. 57

93.210 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM: PLANNING AND NEGOTIATION COOPERATIVE

AGREEMENTS AND IHS COMPACTS (Tribal Self-Governance) ............................................................ 58

93.211 RURAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS (Rural Telemedicine Grant Program) ................................................ 58

93.219 MATCHING GRANTS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIAN TRIBES (Health Professions Scholarships)58

93.223 DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION OF RURAL HEALTH SERVICES ............................................. 59

93.224 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ................................................................................ 59

93.226 RESEARCH ON HEALTHCARE COSTS, QUALITY AND OUTCOMES ................................................ 59

93.228 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (Indian Health) ..................... 60

93.241 STATE RURAL HOSPITAL FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM ............................................................... 60

93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS ......................................................................... 60

93.244 MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL AND AIDS SERVICE-RELATED TRAINING GRANTS ................................... 61

93.246 HEALTH CENTERS GRANTS FOR MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS .................................... 62

93.252 COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM ............................................................................... 62

93.268 IMMUNIZATION GRANTS (Section 301 and 317, Public Health Service Act; Immunization Program) ...................... 63

93.284 INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKAN NATIVES–COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS 63

93.288 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (NHSC Scholarship Program) ........................ 64

93.441 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION ................................................................................ 64

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) ...... 64
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93.568 LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE ..................................................................... 65

93.569 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT ......................................................................... 65

93.570 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT DISCRETIONARY AWARDS .............................................. 66

93.575 CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (Discretionary Fund of the Child Care and Development Fund) ........ 66

93.581 IMPROVING THE CAPABILITY OF INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS TO REGULATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ..... 67

93.582 MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS TO INDIAN LANDS DUE TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACTIVITIES . 67

93.590 COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY RESOURCE AND SUPPORT GRANTS ............................................... 67

93.593 JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS (JOLI Program) ............................................. 68

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) ..................................................... 68

93.595 WELFARE REFORM RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS AND NATIONAL STUDIES (Welfare Reform Research) ............... 68

93.596 CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (Child Care and

Development Fund) ................................................................................................... 68

93.600 HEAD START (Head Start) ....................................................................................... 69

93.612 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS ................................................................................ 69

93.667 SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (Social Services) ................................................................ 70

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

AND INDIAN TRIBES ................................................................................................. 70

93.674 INDEPENDENT LIVING .......................................................................................... 70

93.779 HEALTH CARE FINANCING RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EVALUATIONS (HCFA Research) ................. 71

93.910 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM (Family Life Centers) ............................... 71

93.912 RURAL HEALTH OUTREACH AND RURAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ................................. 71

93.913 GRANTS TO STATES FOR OPERATION OF OFFICES OF RURAL HEALTH ........................................... 72

93.926 HEALTHY START INITIATIVE (Targeted Infant Mortality Initiative) .................................................. 72

93.932 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH SYSTEMS ......................................................................... 72

93.933 DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR INDIAN HEALTH ............................................................. 73

93.954 TRIBAL RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTO INDIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS (Tribal

Recruitment) .......................................................................................................... 73

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 .............................................................................................. 73
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93.958 BLOCK GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CMHS Block Grant) ............................... 74

93.959 BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant)

...................................................................................................................... 75

93.960 SPECIAL MINORITY INITIATIVES ............................................................................... 75

93.970 HEALTH PROFESSIONS RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR INDIANS (Recruitment Program) ............................. 76

93.971 HEALTH PROFESSIONS PREPARATORY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR INDIANS .................................. 76

93.972 HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ............................................................... 76

93.991 PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (PHHS Block Grants) ................................ 77

93.994 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT TO THE STATES ...................................... 77

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) ................................................................................. 79

14.121 MORTGAGE INSURANCE HOMES IN OUTLYING AREAS (203(i)) .................................................... 79

14.157 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY (202) .................................................................. 79

14.219 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM (Small Cities) ............................. 79

14.227 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS/TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM . . 80

14.228 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM ............................................... 80

14.239 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME Program) ................................................. 81

14.243 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH, YOUTH BUILD PROGRAM (YOUTH BUILD Program) .................................. 81

14.244 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities) ............................... 81

14.246 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (Section 108) ................ 82

14.250 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT .............................................................. 82

14.313 DOLLAR HOME SALES ......................................................................................... 82

14.511 COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM .................................................... 83

14.512 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK-STUDY PROGRAM ......................................................... 83

14.515 ALASKA NATIVE/NATIVE HAWAIIAN INSTITUTIONS ASSISTING COMMUNITIES ................................ 83

14.519 TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM ............................................................... 84
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14.850 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING ................................................................................. 84

14.854 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING DRUG ELIMINATION PROGRAM (PHDEP) ......................................... 84

14.862 INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM ................................................. 85

14.865 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING INDIAN LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM (Loan Guarantees for Indian Housing) ......... 85

14.867 INDIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS .............................................................................. 85

14.869 TITLE VI FEDERAL GUARANTEES FOR FINANCING TRIBAL HOUSING ACTIVITIES ................................. 85

14.870 RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES (ROSS) .................................................... 86

14.872 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND (CFP) ......................................................................... 86

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

http://www.doi.gov/

15.020 AID TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ................................................................................ 87

15.022 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE .................................................................................... 87

15.024 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT SUPPORT (CONTRACT SUPPORT) .................................... 87

15.025 SERVICES TO INDIAN CHILDREN, ELDERLY AND FAMILIES (SOCIAL SERVICES) ................................... 87

15.026 INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION ................................................................................... 88

15.027 ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ........................... 88

15.028 TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS ................................................. 88

15.029 TRIBAL COURTS ............................................................................................... 88

15.030 INDIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT (LAW ENFORCEMENT) ............................................................ 88

15.031 INDIAN COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION (COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION) ....................................... 89

15.032 INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 89

15.033 ROAD MAINTENANCE INDIAN ROADS ......................................................................... 89

15.034 AGRICULTURE ON INDIAN LANDS .............................................................................. 89

15.035 FORESTRY ON INDIAN LANDS .................................................................................. 90

15.036 INDIAN RIGHTS PROTECTION .................................................................................. 90

15.037 WATER RESOURCES ON INDIAN LANDS ........................................................................ 90

15.038 MINERALS AND MINING ON INDIAN LANDS .................................................................... 90

15.039 FISH, WILDLIFE, AND PARKS PROGRAMS ON INDIAN LANDS (WILDLIFE AND PARKS) ............................ 91
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15.040 REAL ESTATE PROGRAMS INDIAN LANDS ...................................................................... 91

15.041 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INDIAN PROGRAMS ......................................................... 91

15.042 INDIAN SCHOOL EQUALIZATION PROGRAM (ISEP) .............................................................. 91

15.043 INDIAN CHILD AND FAMILY EDUCATION (FACE) ............................................................... 92

15.044 INDIAN SCHOOLS STUDENT TRANSPORTATION (Student Transportation) .......................................... 92

15.045 ASSISTANCE FOR INDIAN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES (Institutionalized Handicapped) .................. 92

15.046 ADMINISTRATIVE COST GRANTS FOR INDIAN SCHOOLS ........................................................ 92

15.047 INDIAN EDUCATION FACILITIES, OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE ............................................ 93

15.058 INDIAN POST SECONDARY SCHOOLS (Haskell and SIPI) ........................................................... 93

15.062 REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR OF INDIAN SCHOOLS .............................................................. 93

15.063 CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF INDIAN DETENTION FACILITIES ............................................... 93

15.064 STRUCTURAL FIRE PROTECTION BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FACILITIES (Fire Protection) ....................... 94

15.108 INDIAN EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (Employment Assistance Program) ............................................ 94

15.113 INDIAN SOCIAL SERVICES GENERAL ASSISTANCE ............................................................... 94

15.114 INDIAN EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM (Higher Education) .................................. 95

15.124 INDIAN LOANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Loan Guaranty Program) .............................................. 95

15.130 INDIAN EDUCATION ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS (Johnson-O'Malley) .............................................. 95

15.141 INDIAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE ................................................................................. 95

15.144 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT TITLE II GRANTS ................................................................. 96

15.225 RECREATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ....................................................................... 96

15.228 WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE COMMUNITY AND RURAL FIRE ASSISTANCE .................................... 96

15.850 INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS DEVELOPMENT .................................................................... 97

15.875 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIES AND THE FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES97

15.904 HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND GRANTS-IN-AID ............................................................... 97

15.916 OUTDOOR RECREATION ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING (Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants) . 98

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) ........................................ 98

15.921 RIVERS, TRAILS AND CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE (RTCA) ..................................................... 99
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15.922 NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT (NAGPRA) ................................. 99

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

http://www.usdoj.gov/

16.308 INDIAN COUNTRY INVESTIGATIONS ........................................................................... 101

16.563 LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY SUPPORT ....................................................................... 101

16.579 BYRNE FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM .......................................................................... 101

16.583 CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ACT PARTNERSHIPS FOR INDIAN COMMUNITIES .......................................... 101

16.587 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DISCRETIONARY GRANTS FOR INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS ................... 102

16.589 RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD VICTIMIZATION ENFORCEMENT GRANT PROGRAM ................... 102

16.590 GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES .................................................................... 102

16.592 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOCK GRANTS PROGRAM ....................................................... 103

16.596 CORRECTIONAL GRANT PROGRAM FOR INDIAN TRIBES ........................................................ 103

16.607 BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM ................................................................. 104

16.608 TRIBAL COURT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ....................................................................... 104

16.614 STATE AND LOCAL ANTI-TERRORISM TRAINING (SLATT) ...................................................... 104

16.615 PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS’ EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE (PSOEA) ............................................... 105

16.710 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS 

("Cops" Grants) ...................................................................................................... 105

16.726 JUVENILE MENTORING PROGRAM (JUMP) ...................................................................... 105

16.731 Tribal Youth Program(TYP) ...................................................................................... 106

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

http://www.dol.gov/

17.247 MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS (Migrant and Other Seasonally Employed Farmworker Programs) ......... 108

17.251 NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ................................................ 108

17.253 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO STATES AND LOCALITIES (WELFARE-TO-WORK (WTW) GRANTS) ............. 108

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) ............................................. 109

17.263 YOUTH OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (YOG) ......................................................................... 109
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17.805 HOMELESS VETERANS REINTEGRATION PROJECT .............................................................. 109

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION

http://www.ncua.gov/

44.002 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN PROGRAM FOR CREDIT UNIONS (CDCU) ........................ 110

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 ................................... 111

45.025 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS ....................................................... 112

45.026 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES .......................................................... 112

45.027 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS - CHALLENGE AMERICA GRANTS ................................................... 113

45.164 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES PUBLIC PROGRAMS ......................................................... 113

45.166 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES-- EXTENDING THE REACH GRANTS TO UNDERSERVED AREAS ................ 114

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES

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

45.301 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT) ............................. 115

45.311 NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICES ....................................................................... 115

45.312 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS ............................. 115

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

http://www.sba.gov/

59.007 MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED

BUSINESSES (7(J) Development Assistance Program) .................................................................... 117

59.011 SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANIES (SBIC; SSBIC) ..................................................... 117

59.012 SMALL BUSINESS LOANS (Regular Business Loans 7 (a) Loans) .................................................... 117

59.041 CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LOANS (504 LOANS) (504 Loans) ........................................... 118

59.043 WOMEN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE ................................................................ 118

59.044 VETERANS ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND COUNSELING (VET Program) ..................................... 118

59.046 MICROLOAN DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM .................................................................... 119
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59.049 OFFICE OF SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CERTIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY (OSDBC&E) ................... 119

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

http://www.dot.gov/

20.106 AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP) ..................................................................... 120

20.205 HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (Federal-Aid Highway Program) ....................................... 120

20.219 RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM ............................................................................ 121

20.500 FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (Capital Grants) ........................................... 122

20.509 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR NONURBANIZED AREAS (Nonurbanized Area Formula Program) .................... 122

20.513 CAPITAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR ELDERLY PERSONS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (Elderly and Persons

with Disabilities Program) ............................................................................................. 122

20.516 JOB ACCESS - REVERSE COMMUTE ............................................................................ 123

20.518 CAPITAL AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR OVER-THE-ROAD BUS ACCESSIBILITY .................... 123

20.600 STATE AND COMMUNITY HIGHWAY SAFETY .................................................................. 123

20.801 DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF PORTS AND INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION (Ports and Domestic Shipping and

Intermodal Development) .............................................................................................. 124

20.901 PAYMENTS FOR ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICES ..................................................................... 125

20.905 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES SHORT TERM LENDING PROGRAM (Short Term Lending Program) ....... 125

20.907 HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

(ETTAP) ............................................................................................................ 125

20.908 TRIBAL COLLEGES - ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ETTAP) ...................... 126

 CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

http://www.cns.gov/

94.004 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS .................................. 127

94.005 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA HIGHER EDUCATION ............................................................ 127

94.006 AMERICORPS ................................................................................................. 127

94.007 PLANNING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ........................................................... 128

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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 2001.

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 $60.00. 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.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

10.167 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: The Transportation Services 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 EXTENSION SERVICE,

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 technological innovation.

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 objectives resulting 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

contro lled 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
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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 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 ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

(TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH,

EDUCATION AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To enhance educational opportunities at the 30

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) faculty

development and preparation for teaching; 3) instruction delivery

systems; 4) student experiential learning; 5) equipment and
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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, DQ 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.

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 employment opportunities, 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 USE RESTRICTIONS: 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.
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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.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 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: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured

Loans. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used 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: Direct Loans; 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
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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 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.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: 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 mortgage payment 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
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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, Processing

Division, 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.

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-INCOME 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
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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 occupy a 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 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 Processing

Division, Rural Housing 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
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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, borrowers must have 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 housing projects (coops) the necessary assistance to repair or rehabilitate their

dwellings. These objectives will be accomplished through the

establishment of repair/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
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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 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 of structures 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
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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 family housing 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:

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 Processing

Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1474. 

10.443 SMALL FARMER OUTREACH TRAINING AND

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (Outreach and

Assistance Grants for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and

Ranchers)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL OFFICE OF OUTREACH,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To reverse the decline of small, limited resource

and economically socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.

The intended outcome is to encourage and assist socially

disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate farms,

participate in agricultural programs, and become an integral part

of the agricultural community. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide educational,

technical assistance, research and counseling services to socially

disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.

Applicant Eligibility: 1890/1862 Land-Grant Institutions, 1994

Institutions, including Tuskegee University, Indian Tribal
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Community Colleges and Alaska Native cooperative colleges,

Hispanic serving post-secondary educational institutions or

other post-secondary educational institutions and

community-based organizations that: (1) Has demonstrated

experience in providing agricultural education or other

agriculturally related services to socially disadvantaged farmers

and ranchers; (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 NRCS, RD and FSA

State Office listed in your local telephone directory. 

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Assistant

Secretary for Administration, USDA National Office of Outreach,

Room 538-A WHITTENBG, USDA, Washington, DC

20250.Telephone: (202) 720-6350, Fax: (202) 720-7489.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Under the currently

funded projects, the grantees propose to provide a five 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 directory

under 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 sources at

prevailing terms and conditions for residential financing.

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 Processing Division,

Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of Agriculture,

Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202) 720-1474. 

10.557 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM

FOR WOMEN, 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
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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. 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, Child Nutrition Division, Food and

Nutrition Service, 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

agencie s 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 PROGRAM FOR THE ELDERLY

(COMMODITIES) (NPE)

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
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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

A mericans 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.

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 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)
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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

COMMUNITIES (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 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-work loggers 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 employ former 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

COMMUNITIES (RURAL DEVELOPMENT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF
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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 available at this 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 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. 
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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: 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 identify and 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 nonprofit organizations 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 MANAGEMENT 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:

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 be

closed in the near future with the 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.
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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 Non-metropolitan 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 COMMUNITY 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: Direct Loans; 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 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

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10.767 INTERMEDIARY RE-LENDING PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE

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

Intermediary RE-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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (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 RELENDING to rural transportation facilities; and (4) $510,000 loan

to a nonprofit corporation serving an eight-county area for RELENDING to businesses.

10.768 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE

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, leasehold improvements, machinery and supplies; (d)

projects involving agricultural production, when 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
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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 BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE

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. 

USES AND USE 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

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
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OBJECTIVES: Provide water and waste 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, Rural

Utilities Service, 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 BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE

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,

Department of 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

private activity tax exempt bonding authority for qualifying

enterprises and facilities. These issues are subject to State private

activity bond caps and special limits 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 expenses would ordinarily 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
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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 BUSINESS-COOPERATIVE

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:

Regional or Local Office: None.
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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 population

exceeding 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 BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE

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 incubators for 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
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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,

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 local telephone

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.

10.901 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 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
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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
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Vegetable 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 Local Office: 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 provides leadership 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.
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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 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) Massachusetts Department 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 development. 
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APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

23.001 APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT(SEE

INDIVIDUAL APPALACHIAN PROGRAMS) (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,
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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, 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 SUPPLEMENTS 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
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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:

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 DEMONSTRATION 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
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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 Appalachian Regional

Development program (23.001). 

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.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

11.300 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR PUBLIC

WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES:To promote long-term economic development and

assist in the construction of public works and development

facilities needed to initiate and support the creation or retention

of permanent jobs in the private sector in areas experiencing

substantial economic distress. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants for such public

facilities as water and sewer systems, industrial access roads,

industrial parks, port facilities, railroad sidings and spurs, tourism

facilities, vocational schools, business incubator facilities, and

infrastructure improvements needed for business expansion.

Qualified projects must fulfill a pressing need of the area and

must: (1) Tend to 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 long-term

unemployed/underemployed and members of low-income families.

In addition, proposed projects must be consistent with the

currently approved Overall Economic Development Program for

the area, and for the Economic Development District, if any, in

which it will be located, and must have adequate local share of

funds. Projects must be capable of being started and completed

in a timely manner. 

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, counties, 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, and private or public nonprofit

organizations or associations representing a redevelopment area

or a designated Economic Development Center are eligible to

receive grants. 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 Office addresses. 

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; and 6) construction of incubator

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11.302 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT– SUPPORT FOR

PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

DISTRICT, REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND INDIAN

PLANNING 

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To assist in providing administrative aid to multicounty 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 organizations representing

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

Assistance Division, 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)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 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 ECONOMIC DISLOCATION AND LONG-TERM

ECONOMIC DETERIORATION (Economic Adjustment

Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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. 
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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 representing

redevelopment 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 TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES--

PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (PTFP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

COMMERCE

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 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 programming and 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. 
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11.552 TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES (TOP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

COMMERCE

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

telecommunications technology to spread the reach of cultural

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 American

business 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
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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

DEVELOPMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

OBJECTIVES: To provide minority business owners with

enhanced access to the marketplace by identifying 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 equity capital such as capital

funds and institutional investors; conduct media outreach,

disseminates economic data, sponsors workshops, conferences

and seminars within service area; maintain inventories of various

service providers such as banks, bonding companies, chambers

of commerce and trade associations. 

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 State or

local government 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: Chief, Field Coordination Division, 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 1999, the Los

Angeles MBOC's strategic outreach efforts can account for $1.1

billion in minority contracting, over 21,000 new jobs and will pave

the way for future competitive efforts to stimulate growth in a

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

12.600 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC 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 ECONOMIC 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 installations into

airports, industrial parks, recreation, education, training, and

business centers, and accommodations for the homeless. 

12.611 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING
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EMPLOYMENT

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 COMMUNITY 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,

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DENALI COMMISSION

90.100 DENALI COMMISSION 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

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL 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 are made to designated State

educational agencies. Local educational agencies, public or

private nonprofit agencies, 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 BASIC 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: Program funds are used to

support high quality and comprehensive educational programs

that address the needs of migratory children. 

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies or consortia of

State educational agencies and other appropriate entities may

apply. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:
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Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office of

Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education,

1250 Maryland Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4100,

Washington, DC 20202-6135. Telephone: (202) 260-1164.

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 SECRETARY FOR

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 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; Formula Grants.

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
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FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL 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 Applied Technology Education Act. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative

Agreements);Project Grants (Contracts). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide vocational and

technical education opportunities for Indians 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: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY 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.
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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

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 and Rehabilitative 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

COMMUNITIES NATIONAL PROGRAMS

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).
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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. 

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
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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 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, Office of Elementary 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
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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 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.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants. USES

AND USE RESTRICTIONS: LEAs use funds for noninstructional 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, Office of Elementary 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
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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.

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 provide vocational 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, Compensatory

Education Programs, Office of Elementary and 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: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND 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
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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.Telephone:

(202) 205-5563. 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.

84.276 GOALS 2000 STATE AND LOCAL EDUCATION

SYSTEMIC IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

 (Goals 2000 State Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND

SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to State Education Agencies

(SEAs)on a formula basis to support the development and

implementation of comprehensive reform plans at the State, local,

and school levels to improve the teaching and learning of all

children. To support top down and bottom up reform through

subgrants by SEAs of 90 percent of these grant funds to local

education agencies (LEAs) and through LEAs to individual

schools. To support the establishment by States and localities of

high standards in their core content areas. All aspects of the

educational process are aligned including, but not limited to

assessments, curriculum, professional development, and

preservice training. To provide discretionary grants to LEAs in

States that were not participating in Goals 2000 as of October 20,

1995, if the SEA approves the LEAs' participation in the program.

These grants support the development and implementation of

comprehensive local improvement plans directed at enabling all

children to reach challenging academic standards.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: At least 90 percent of awards

to SEAs must be used to make subgrants to LEAs for the

implementation of State and local improvement plans and to

improve educator preservice programs and for professional

development activities. Remaining funds are to be used for State

activities designed to implement State improvement plans such as

supporting the development or adoption of State content and

performance standards for all children and assessments linked to

such standards; the implementation of high-performance

management strategies; building partnerships in the community

to foster school improvement; and various other options that

States select to improve teaching and learning of all students. 

Applicant Eligibility: All States, Puerto Rico, the District of

Columbia, American Samoa, Northern Marianas, Guam, Virgin

Islands, Palau, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Alaska

Federation of Natives, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs may

apply. Only SEAs that have received approval from the Secretary

of Education of their State improvement plan or that submit the

required assurances, benchmarks and time lines are eligible for

third, fourth, and fifth year funding.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None. 

Headquarters Office: Goals 2000, Office of Elementary and

Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4000,

Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 401-0039.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: States are using the

funding for a variety of purposes including: planning and start-up

costs for charter schools; establishing challenging statewide

standards in core academic subjects and strengthening math and

science instruction for students.

84.286 TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEMONSTRATION

PROJECT FOR MATHEMATICS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

EDUCATION RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT

OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To carry out a national telecommunications-based

demonstration project to improve the teaching of mathematics. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Applicants must: 1) Use the

existing publicly funded telecommunications infrastructure to

deliver service; 2) be conducted in conjunction with appropriate

SEAs, LEAs, State, and local profit public telecommunications

entities, and a national mathematics education professional

association that has developed content standards; and 3) provide

benefits to schools of local educational agencies which have a

high percentage of children counted for the purpose of Part A,

Title I, ESEA of 1965, as amended. 

Applicant Eligibility: SEAs, LEAs, nonprofit telecommunication

entities or partnership with these entities 

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) 219-2181. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: These funds support PBS'

and Mathline, offering a teacher professional development

service for elementary school teachers to help them put the
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards

into practice. Service developed over the past year include the

establishment of online learning communities of teachers across

the country; an online Teacher Resource Center; and 16 video

lessons and accompanying support materials on various topics

associated with the standards and how teachers can help their

students achieve to them. Additional videotapes and expansion

of online communities are planned.

84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY 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, programming and 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 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
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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 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. 
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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. 

Headquarters Office: School Improvement 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. 

84.303 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CHALLENGE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT,

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: The grants under this program support the

development, interconnection, implementation, improvement, and

maintenance of an effective educational technology

infrastructure, including activities to provide equipment, training

for teachers, school library and media personnel, and technical

support. The primary goals of the program are to promote the use

of technology to support school reform, support network and

telecommunication connections to improve student learning, and

support professional development in the integration of

high-quality technology into the school curriculum. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Priority is given to

applications that (1) Serve areas with a high percentage of

disadvantaged students or with the greatest need for educational

technology and directly benefit students; (2) ensure ongoing,

sustained, professional development to further the use of

technology in schools; (3) ensure effective and sustainable use

of the technologies acquired; (4) and contribute substantial

financial and other resources to achieve the goals of the project.

Applicant Eligibility: Consortia may apply. Consortia must

include at least one local educational agency (LEA) with a high

percentage or number of children living below the poverty line

and may include other LEA's, State educational agencies,

institutions of higher education, businesses, academic content

experts, software designers, museums, libraries, or other entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable. 

Headquarters Office: Challenge Grants for Technology in

Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 555

New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20208-5544. Contact:

Director, Telephone: (202) 208-3882.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A project in Towanda, PA

uses interactive video-conferencing to provides services to 23

small rural school districts serving 45,000 students in PA, NY, and

NJ. A project in Waukegan is promoting improved learning in

math and science for 7,000 students in grades 4 through 12 by the

use of multimedia computers in classrooms and Internet

connections. In addition, the project is establishing technology

learning community centers for students and adults to access job

opportunities. 

84.316 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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 postbaccalaureate 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

development programs 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
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entities with experience in developing or operating Native

Hawaiian programs may apply

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Higher Education 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 DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING, AND

RECRUITMENT PROGRAM (ANE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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 preteacher 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 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, School Improvement Programs, 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, School Improvement 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
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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. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

81.042 WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME

PERSONS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND

RENEWABLE ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

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, Forrestal Building,

Washington, DC 20585. Telephone: (202) 586-4074. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: State funded 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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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 FUNDED PROJECTS: Details on funded projects

for transportation and emergency response planning activities are

contained in State and tribal work plans submitted to the Carlsbad

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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 and State 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

Wastewater Management, 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)

developin g 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 DEVELOPMENT 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 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-
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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)

capitalization grants under 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: (202) 260-2939. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

66.604 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS TO SMALL

COMMUNITY GROUPS (EJGSC)

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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
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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 public health

information 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

COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE, 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

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, DC 20460. 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
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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: John Melone,

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 USE RESTRICTIONS: (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 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, DC

20460. 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 of plans 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 EPA Regional Office 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:
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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. The objectives 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 to this restriction. 

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,

environmental justice components of a response plan;

development of communication strategies for conveyance of

technical information to communities; and investigation of

alternative funding strategies. 

66.926 INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL 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 including development 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
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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. 

66.930 U.S.-MEXICO BORDER GRANTS PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL

ACTIVITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To promote community-based and regional

approaches to meeting the goals of sustainable development,

capacity building, and coordination among key participants in

addressing U.S.-Mexico border (including bi-national)

environmental issues. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Available for allowable direct

cost expenditures incident to approved project plus allocable

portions of allowable indirect costs of the institution, in

accordance with established EPA policies. 

Applicant Eligibility: Educational institutions, local governments,

501(C)3 non-governmental organizations (NGOs). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA-El Paso U.S.-Mexico Border

Liaison Office 4050 Rio Bravo, Suite 100, El Paso, TX 79902.

Telephone: (915) 533-7273. Fax: (915) 533-2327. EPA San Diego

U.S.-Mexico Border Liaison Office, 610 W. Ash Street, Suite 703,

San Diego, CA 92101. Telephone: (619) 235-4765. Fax:

(619)235-4771. 

Headquarters Office: For information concerning grant

application and procedures or for program information contact

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International

Activities, Office of Western Hemisphere and Bilateral Affairs

(2620), U.S.-Mexico Border Grants Program, Washington, DC

20460. Telephone: 202-564-6424.

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

83.010 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL

PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY, UNITED

STATES 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

FEDERAL AGENCY: CHEMICAL AND 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 and Radiological 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 COMMUNITY 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 of the NFIP. 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 specifically identified 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. Telephone: (202) 646-3121.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Community Assistance

Visits/Contacts (CAV/CAC), Ordinance Assistance, Coordination
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Meeting with Regional 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 and Risk

Assessment; Hazard Management; Resource Management;

Planning; Direction, Control, and Coordination; Communications

and Warning; Operations and Procedures; Logistics and
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Facilities; Training; 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.

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: 
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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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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, INDIAN PROGRAMS GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES

AND 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. 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 also be used for the alteration, lease or renovation

of a facility to be used as a multipurpose Indian senior center and

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 are available to a private or nonprofit

organization 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 Self-Determination

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. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS: 

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrator, Administration

on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services Regional

Offices (In your local telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of American Indian, Alaskan

Native, and Native Hawaiian Programs, Administration on Aging,

Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

20201. Telephone: (202) 619-2957. 

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

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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.

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 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, Testing and

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: 

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
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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/schola rship 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--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 in the State to meet

the needs of medically-underserved populations through health

centers and other community-based providers of comprehensive

primary care and the retention, recruitment, and oversight of

health professions for medically underserved populations. 

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: 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 Contact: Office of Grants

Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, 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: 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 
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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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED 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 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
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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

professio nal practice (they must hold an unrestricted 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 FUNDED PROJECTS: 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
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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 PROJECTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: Grants are awarded to assist eligible entities in

meeting 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. 

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:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Division of Public Health

and Allied Health, Bureau of Health Professions, Health

Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service,

Room 8C-02, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1346. Grants Management

Contact: Grants Management Officer, 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; Interdisciplinary

Training 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
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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 and Allied Health 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. 

93.194 COMMUNITY PREVENTION COALITIONS

(PARTNERSHIP) DEMONSTRATION GRANT 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL

HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide funding to communities for the

purpose of reducing the misuse of alcohol and drugs abuse

through the building of coalitions of multiple agencies and

organizations at the local level. The approach in this initiative is

to study and evaluate models for partnership development that

encourage community leaders, diverse organizations and/or

interest groups to more effectively coordinate prevention

programs and to develop prevention initiatives; and to

demonstrate the development of broad-based support within the

community can substantially contribute to the reduction of

substance abuse; and the encouragement and stimulation in the

target community of self-sustaining multifaceted prevention and

early intervention programs. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant resources are used to

promote and evaluate the development of long-range,

comprehensive, multi-disciplinary community-wide alcohol and

drug abuse coordinating and program models through the

formation and support of coalitions or partnerships of both

public, local, and private organizations, agencies and institutions,

consortia and partnerships within local communities. The

partnership should be designed and structured as a community

development services coordinating body and to enhance,

promote and improve effective prevention program

implementation at the local level. Sub-task groups comprised of

representatives from different disciplines, community sub-sets

(ethnic or geographic) or organizations are encouraged to be

included as a part of the partnership. Grant funds are not

intended to supplant existing positions, programs or services.

Rather, funds are to be used to identify the needs and service

gaps for the target community, establish priorities and to leverage

public and private resources to fill those service gaps, and

enhance prevention programs. These funds are intended to

augment or supplement in a coordinated fashion the alcohol and

drug abuse prevention and early intervention needs of the

community. 

Applicant Eligibility: Local governments and/or local private

nonprofit organizations/agencies designated to act on behalf of

the larger coalition. A coalition or partnership is expected to

consist of at least seven organizations or agencies. The

community must demonstrate need for prevention services by

documenting greater prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse

problems than national averages. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of State and Community Systems

Development, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention,

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,

Rockwall Building No. II, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857
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(301) 443-0369. Grants Management Contact: Substance Abuse

and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockwall II, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-9666. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Implemented and

systematically studied approaches to prevent and reduce alcohol

and drug abuse through the development of partnerships of

multiple organizations. 

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

agre ements 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 and acceptability of rural Telemedicine. 

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.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: High Plains Rural Health

Network, Fort Morgan, Colorado: Lee Green, 303-867-6195. The
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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 Indians for 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. (301) 443-6197. 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.

93.223 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,

res earch 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. 
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EXAMPLES OF FUNDED 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/populatio ns. 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 of third-party reimbursement levels, through

improved project administration and management. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants. 

USES AND USE 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 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
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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 development 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 and Services Administration, 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.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH,

DEPARTMENT OF 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 Innovation Research (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
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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), eligible Federal

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 Business Innovation 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 Data Management)

(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

behavio ral 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 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.

Applicant Eligibility: 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
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Development Branch, Center for Mental Health Services,

SAMHSA, Department of Health and Human 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, Health

Resources 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 COMMUNITY 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 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

discre tionary activities. Grants will vary in size based on the
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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. 

93.268 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 programs 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. Grants

Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Procurement

and Grants Office, 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
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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 HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES 

OBJECTIVES: To provide service-obligated scholarships to

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-W est 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. 
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93.441 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION (Indian SelfDetermination 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 conforms to 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 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, Public Health

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,
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Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington,

DC 20447. 

93.568 LOW-INCOME HOME 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: Formula Grants; 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 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: Training workshops and clearinghouses have been

conducted. 

93.569 COMMUNITY 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
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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 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

DISCRETIONARY AWARDS 

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 lowincome 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 parents make 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
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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 Commonwealth of 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

GOVERNMENTS TO REGULATE ENVIRONMENTAL

QUALITY

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND

FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

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-Federally-recognized 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.

Headquarters Office: 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 DEPARTMENT 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 nonFederally-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
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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

the Northern 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) 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.
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93.595 WELFARE REFORM RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS AND

NATIONAL STUDIES (Welfare Reform Research) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF PLANNING, RESEARCH AND

EVALUATION, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND

FAMILIES, 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 provide consumer

education information to help parents make 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
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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.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Full-Year and Full-Day

Head Start Programs; and (2) Full-Year and Part-Day Head Start

Programs. 

93.612 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 

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 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
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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 rehabilitation services) 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 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 certain

federally 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING 

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 youth, with respect to

whom foster care maintenance payments are or have been made

by the State and who have attained age 16, in making the

transition from foster care to independent living. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used on behalf

of eligible youths for skill development, and education or training

related to independent living, but not for room and board. 

Applicant Eligibility: State governments, including the 50 States

and the District of Columbia. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administration for Children

and Families (See your local telephone directory ) 

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Child Welfare,

Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, P.O.

Box 1182, Washington, DC 20013 (202) 205-8740. 

93.779 HEALTH CARE FINANCING RESEARCH,
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DEMONSTRATIONS AND EVALUATIONS (HCFA Research) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH CARE FINANCING

ADMINISTRATION, 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; and historical black

colleges and university grants. For fiscal years 1998 and 1999, the

Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) 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

discretionary contracts, cooperative agreements or grants are as

follows: (1) monitoring and evaluating health system

performance; (2) improving health care financing and delivery

mechanisms ; (3) meeting the needs of vulnerable populations;

and (4) information to improve consumer choice and health

status. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants

(Cooperative Agreements). 

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 Business

Innovation Research Grant Program, only for-profit organizations

may apply. Awards cannot be made directly to individuals. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HCFA Regional

Administrator. (See your local telephone directory.) Headquarters

Office: Director, Office of Research, and Demonstrations (ORD),

Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and

Human Services, Room C-3-20-11, Central Building, 7500 Security

Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850. Telephone: (410) 786-6507.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples of funded

projects in fiscal year 1997 include: (1) evaluation of the efficacy

and cost of HMO participation for Medicare beneficiaries with

end-stage renal disease; (2) data collection for the second

generation social health maintenance organization demonstration;

(3) evaluation of four demonstrations directed at coordinating

acute, primary and long-term care for persons eligible for

Medicare and Medicaid; (4) extended work on the evaluation of

the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE); and (5)

design of an integrated post acute care system. 

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 

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 projects funded 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 PROGRAM 

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
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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, 11th

Floor, 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 and Services

Administration, Public Health Service, 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
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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 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
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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: 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) 443-5204.

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. 

93.954 TRIBAL RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTO INDIAN HEALTH

PROGRAMS (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 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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY 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

agricultura l 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
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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

Management Branch, 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.

Program Contact: Occupational Respiratory Disease Evaluation

and Rehabilitation: Division of Respiratory Disease Studies,

MS-122, NIOSH, 1095 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. Program

Contact: 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 primary consumer-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 Services Administration, 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

Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health 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

TREATMENT 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
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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 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, Center for Substance 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. Funds for 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
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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

associa te 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, 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 Indians and 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,

Twinbrook Metro 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. 

USES AND USE 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, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-6197. Grants Contact:
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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 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, 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 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. 
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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 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM (Small Cities) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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
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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 from constructing or rehabilitating public facilities for

the general conduct of government and 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS/TECHNICAL

ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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: 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
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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 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 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. 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) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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, affordable housing; (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: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 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
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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 funded. See the Final Rule for specifics. 

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: COMMUNITY PLANNING 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
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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 COMMUNITY 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 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 lowto 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
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30303-2806, telephone: 1- 888-696-4687; Denver Home 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 COMMUNITY 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: 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 FUNDED PROJECTS: 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

organiza tions 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK-STUDY

PROGRAM 

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 community

management. The primary 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 COMMUNITIES

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
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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.

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. 

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14.854 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING DRUG ELIMINATION

PROGRAM (PHDEP) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING,

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The purposes of the Public Housing Drug

Elimination Program are to: (1) Reduce/eliminate drug-related

crime in and around the real property comprising public housing

projects; (2) Encourage public housing agencies (PHAs) and

tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs) to develop a plan

that includes initiatives that can be sustained over a period of

several years for addressing the problem of drug-related crime in

and around the premises of the public and Indian housing
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developments proposed for funding under this part, and; (3)

Make available Federal grants to help PHAs and TDHEs carry out

their plans. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Payments for

Specified Use. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used for

the following activities designed to reduce drug-related crime: (1)

Employment of security personnel (contracted security

guards/housing authority police); (2) Reimbursement of local law

enforcement agencies for additional security and protective

services (e.g., over and above the level of services the locality is

already obligated to provide under its Cooperation Agreement

with the PHA); (3) Physical improvements designed to enhance

security; (4) Employment of one or more individuals to

investigate drug-related crime on or about the real property

comprising any public or Indian housing project and to provide

evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial

proceeding; (5) Establishment of voluntary tenant patrols acting

in cooperation with local law enforcement officials; and (6)

Programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and around public

and Indian housing developments, including drug prevention,

intervention, referral, and treatment programs. 

Applicant Eligibility: The program authorizes HUD to make grants

to public housing agencies (PHAs) and TDHEs for use in

reducing/eliminating drug-related crime. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Departmental HUBs or Program Centers

with delegated public housing responsibilities: Director, Public

Housing Division or, in the case of TDHEs, to the local HUD

Field Office Attention: Administrator, Native American Programs

with jurisdiction over the applying TDHEs, as appropriate. A

complete listing of these offices is provided in the Notice of

Funding Availability. 

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Safety and

Conservation Office of Community Relations & Involvement

(OCRI), Public and Indian Housing (PIH), Department of Housing

and Urban Development, Room 4116, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washin gton, DC 204l0. Telephone: (202) 708-1197. (TDD) is

available at (202) 708-0850.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Assistance on funded

programs may be provided, the local HUD Field Office or by

calling HUD's Drug Information Strategy Clearinghouse,

telephone 1-800-578-3472, FAX (301) 519-5681. 

14.862 INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK

GRANT PROGRAM 

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 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

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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 self-governance, 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 financing where 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 multiplefamily housing projects; 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 toll-free numbers.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.
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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

jurisdiction over the 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. 

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-todate 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

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To further the goals of Indian Self-Determination

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
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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 INDIAN AFFAIRS,

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

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.
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15.027 ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED

COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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: BUREAU OF 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

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES : To provide funds to Federally Recognized Indian

Tribal Governments to operate a judicial branch of 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 exercising law enforcement 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 ENFORCEMENT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

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
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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 COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION

(COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

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, 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., MS4510 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

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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
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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 Land Resources, 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: BUREAU OF 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 of reforestation 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 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
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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

Water 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)

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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

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: decisionmaking processes are developed 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.
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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 INDIAN

PROGRAMS

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: BUREAU OF INDIAN 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 life-long learning.

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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED 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

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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. Additional funding 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. 

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) 
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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. 

15.062 REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR OF INDIAN SCHOOLS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

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 Repair project 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 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: BUREAU OF INDIAN 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

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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. Telephone: (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-by

generator 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) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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. 

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 Indian Tribal

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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 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.

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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 ECONOMIC 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 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
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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 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 MANAGEMENT 

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
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values. 

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: 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 COMMUNITY AND

RURAL FIRE ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

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 DEVELOPMENT 

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

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)
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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 one- person 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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF INSULAR AFFAIRS,

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

Samoa Government 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: Formula Grants; 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 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).
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Headquarters Office: Cultural Resource Stewardship and

Partnerships, National Park Service, Department of the Interior,

Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-7625. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Arkansas Historic

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, boat launching 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 Statewide

Comprehensive 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, DC 20240. 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,

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 MONUMENTS

(Surplus Property Program; Federal Lands-to-Parks Program;

Historic Surplus Property Program) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE,
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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

interests including 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 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
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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 abovelisted 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 or State 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.

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
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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. 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Law Enforcement Family

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 Law Enforcement 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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 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 
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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

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 GRANT PROGRAM 

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
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investigate and prosecute incidents of domestic violence and

child abuse; provide treatment and counseling to victims of

dome stic 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 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. 

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.

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:

Headquarters Office: 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 GRANTS

PROGRAM 

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
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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

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
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executive of the jurisdiction registers on-line, 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 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. This training, 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 Technical Information; 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
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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.

16.710 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, problem solving, 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

enforc ement 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, DC 20530.

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 (JUMP) 

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
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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 collaborate with the

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 projects in 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

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 court- involved 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:

Laura Ansera, 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
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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 youthcentered, 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 Community Services, 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 at- risk juvenile offenders. The services will

include a psychologist to provide mental, diagnostic, and

assessment services and 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, tribal courts,

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

17.247 MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS (Migrant

and Other Seasonally Employed Farmworker Programs) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide job training, job search assistance,

and other supportive services for those individuals who suffer

chronic seasonal unemployment and underemployment in the

agricultural industry. To enable farmworkers and their

dependents to obtain or retain employment. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants. USES

AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Under Section 402, farmworkers and

their dependents may be offered services such as classroom

training, on-the-job training, work experience, job development,

job placement and resettlement assistance, education assistance,

health services, and other supportive services. 

Applicant Eligibility: Section 402: (1) Public agencies and units of

government; and (2) private nonprofit organizations authorized

by their charters or articles of incorporation to operate

employment and training programs. 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Department of Labor Employment and

Training Administration regional offices listed in your local

telephone directory can provide limited information on this

program. Contact Headquarters Office below for detailed

information. 

Headquarters Office: Office of National Programs, Division of

Seasonal Farmworker Programs, Employment and Training

Administration, Department of Labor, Room N-4641, 200

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. Telephone:

(202) 219-5500.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable. 

17.251 NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

PROGRAMS 

FEDERAL AGENCY: EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

OBJECTIVES: To afford job training to Native Americans facing

serious barriers to employment, who are in special need of such

training to obtain productive employment. To reduce the

economic disadvantages among Indians and others of Native

American descent and to advance the economic and social

development of such people. 

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,

community service employment, 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: Indian tribes, bands or groups, Alaska

Native villages or groups (as defined in the Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act of 1971, 85 Stat. 688), and Hawaiian Native

communities meeting the eligibility criteria, 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 632.4, an identifiable Native

American resident population of at least 1,000 individuals (for

new grantees) within its designated service area, and (2) the

capability to administer Indian and Native American employment

and training programs. Detailed requirements for consortium

grantee applicants are set forth in 20 CFR 632.10(d)(5). 

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Division of Indian and Native American

Programs, Employment and Training Administration, Department

of Labor, Room N4641, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 219-8502.

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. 

17.253 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO STATES AND

LOCALITIES (WELFARE-TO-WORK (WTW) GRANTS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: 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

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, contracts with

public or private providers of readiness, placement, and postemployment 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

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Applicant Eligibility: States are the only eligible Federal grantees

for formula funds, although subgrantees include eligible

applicable service delivery area (SDA) agencies under the

superv ision 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-toemploy welfare 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; contracts with public or private

providers of readiness, placement, and post- employment

services; job vouchers for placement, readiness, and postemployment 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 N-4641,

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 livein 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

Investme nt 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 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.
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17.805 HOMELESS VETERANS REINTEGRATION PROJECT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY

FOR VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING,

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN

PROGRAM FOR CREDIT UNIONS (CDCU) 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL CREDIT UNION

ADMINISTRATION

OBJECTIVES: To support low-income credit unions 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)

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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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR 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

as pects 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
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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. 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) fourcounty 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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR 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: Formula Grants; 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: 
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Headquarters Office: State and Regional, National Endowment for

the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20506-0001. Web site: 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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR 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 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 

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT 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

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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

institutions/organizations; other public

institutions/organizations; Federally recognized Indian tribal

governments; Native American organizations; U.S. Territories;

non-government-g eneral, 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,
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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

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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 AND LIBRARY 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 
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FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF LIBRARY SERVICES,

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY 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). 

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Activities may include: (1)

Education and training of persons in library and information

science, particularly in areas of new technology 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)

pres ervation 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 BUSINESS 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 BUSINESS 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. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: 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 business investment

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 BUSINESS 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)
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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 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 BUSINESS 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 WOMEN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINESS 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

W omen'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 BUSINESS 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 USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds shall be used to

provide veterans and their dependents assistance to start and

manage their businesses. The assistance may be in the form of
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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 College of Canton, Ohio, and

other community and technical colleges in the area. 

59.046 MICROLOAN DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM 

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINESS 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 individuals

seeking 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.
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59.049 OFFICE OF SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS

CERTIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY (OSDBC&E)

FEDERAL AGENCY: SMALL BUSINESS 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. E-Mail address: www.sba.gov/sdb.

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. Non-primary 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

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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

airports includes demand/capacity analysis, airport noise control

and land use compatibility analysis, environmental studies, and

system plans for states, regions, and metropolitan areas. 

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. 

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: 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
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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 approximately 2,900 additional deficient bridges

was initiated in fiscal year 1996. (D) Over $416 million were

obligated for Forest Highways, Public Lands Highways, Indian

Reservation 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: Formula Grants; 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 (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 IMPROVEMENT

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 nonvehicular 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
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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. 

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:(1)13 Compressed 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 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 Transit Administration, 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: Federal Transit Administration, 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 COMMUTE 

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
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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-THE-ROAD BUS ACCESSIBILITY 

FEDERAL AGENCY: FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION,

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

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 COMMUNITY 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
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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,

ADP equipment 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 of

roadway 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 AGENCY: MARITIME 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 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, Regional Port Economic

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

port safety 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

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20.901 PAYMENTS 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 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

transport ation-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 pre-accredited by a nationally recognized
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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 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 funding 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.

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 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 four major 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 funding 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 PROGRAMS 

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 has two main objectives: (1)

To support high quality service learning projects that engage

students in meeting community needs with demonstrable results,

while enhancing students' academic and 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

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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 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

national service. 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

develop community service 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

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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, 17.251, 83.558, 93.575, 93.596, 94.007

Community development 90.100

Community facilities 10.766, 14.228

Community health 93.129, 93.224, 93.252, 93.569, 93.570, 93.590

Community planning 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, 

 Drug-Free Schools 84.184

 Housing Drug Elimination 14.854

 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, 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, 84.303, 84.316, 84.341

 Equipment & Facilities 10.665, 10.666, 84.184

 Goals 2000 84.276, 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 93.127, 93.141

Employment 15.108, 20.516

Empowerment Zones(EZ/EC) 10.679,14.244

 Energy, 93.568

Environment 10.912, 15.041, 66.461, 66.604, 66.811, 66.926,

93.582

F

Farm 10.167, 10.405, 10.406, 10.407, 10.443, 10.901, 10.913,

Fire Assistance 15.228

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, 83.012

Health 23.004, 93.130, 93.191, 93.194, 93.224, 93.241, 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..., 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, 14.854, 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
Federal Funding Sources For Rural Areas

158

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, 15.063, 15.064, 15.108, 15.113, 15.124,

15.144, , 15.850, 15.875, 15.922, 16.583, 16.608, 45.311, 66.715,

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, 17.251, 17.254, 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, 93.219, 93.164

 Health 15.025, 93.047, 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, 14.854, 14.862, 14.867, 14.869, 14.870,

15.141

Independent Living 93.674

J

Job Opportunities 93.593

Job training 17.251, 17.253, 17.254, 20.907

L

Law Enforcement 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 

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 84.011, 84.141, 84.144, 84.149, 84.214,

17.247

 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 10.670, 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 See also, Business, SBIR

Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) 10.212

Solid waste 10.762, 66.808, 81.106

Substance Abuse 93.109, 93.959

Surplus property 15.918

Sustainable 10.215, 66.930, 84.303

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

US-Mexico Border 66.930

V

Veterans 59.044

Violence prevention 16.587, 16.589, 16.726, 93.671, 93.910

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