[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 10766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-4201]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5500-FA-29]


Announcement of Funding Awards for the McKinney-Vento HMIS 
Technical Assistance (HMIS TA) Fiscal Year 2011

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of funding awards for HUD'S Fiscal Year 2011 McKinney-
Vento HMIS Technical Assistance (HMIS-TA).

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a 
competition for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
for the McKinney-Vento HMIS Technical Assistance program. This 
announcement contains the names of the awardees and amounts of the 
awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Hovden, Director, Technical 
Assistance Division, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 
Seventh Street SW., Room 7218, Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone 
(202) 402-4496 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with speech or 
hearing impairments may access this telephone number via TTY by calling 
the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service during working hours at 
800-877-8339. For general information on this and other HUD programs, 
visit HUD's Homelessness Resource Exchange at www.hudhre.info, HUD's 
Web site at www.hud.gov, or call Community Connections at 1-800-998-
9999.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Fiscal Year 2011 McKinney-Vento HMIS 
Technical Assistance program was designed to provide technical 
assistance to communities on the implementation and operation of 
homeless management information systems, including data collection and 
analysis and performance reporting through the selection of technical 
assistance (TA) providers for this program.
    The competition was announced in the HMIS-TA NOFA published October 
17, 2011 (FR-5500-N-29) and closed on November 15, 2011. The NOFA 
allowed for up to $7 million for Homeless Management Information System 
(HMIS) data collection, reporting and research, including the Annual 
Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) TA activities. Applications were 
rated and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria 
contained in the Notice. For the Fiscal Year 2011 competition, 4 awards 
totaling $6,809,000 were awarded to 4 distinct technical assistance 
providers nationwide.
    In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 
U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the grantees and the amounts 
of the awards in Appendix A to this document.

    Dated: February 15, 2012.
Clifford D. Taffet,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.

Appendix A

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             Recipient                      State             Amount
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Abt Associates....................  MA..................      $2,436,500
Cloudburst Consulting Group.......  MD..................       1,584,000
ICF International.................  VA..................       1,644,500
National Center on Family           MA..................       1,144,000
 Homelessness.
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    Total.........................  ....................       6,809,000
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