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 Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families [CFDA Number: 93.568]
 AGENCY: Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
 ACTION: Notice of final issuance.
 SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Service (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance announces that $17,260,985 of funds from the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2022 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) were reallotted to states, territories, tribes, and tribal organizations that received FFY 2023 direct LIHEAP grants.
 DATES: This notice became effective on Sep. 29, 2023, which is the date on which ACF awarded these reallotments.
 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Megan Meadows, Director, Division of Energy Assistance, Office of Community Services, 330 C Street SW, 5th Floor; Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC 20201. Telephone: 202-401-1149; email: 
                        *Megan.Meadows@acf.hhs.gov.*


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 2607(b)(1) of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act (the Act), title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(1)), as amended, ACF published a notice in the 
                    **Federal Register**
                     on Sep. 26, 2023, 88 FR 66005, announcing the Secretary's preliminary determination that $21,985,238 of FFY 2022 funds for LIHEAP may be available for reallotment. ACF received one comment. It came from a member of the public who appeared to seek the program's benefits. ACF advised the inquirer of the resources through which to seek information about such benefits. After such publication, ACF reduced this amount to $17,260,985 because of (1) reporting revisions made by grant recipient; and (2) insufficient Payment Management System balances. These funds became available from the following grant recipients in the following amounts:
                    ( print page 84144) Name of grant recipient that returned funds for reallotment
FFY 2022
                             reallotment amountAlabama
$2,378,088Alaska
1,590,037Delaware
199,360Idaho
6,505,338Michigan
2,087,677American Samoa
2,828Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
512Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes
60,493Berry Creek Rancheria
747Bishop Paiute Tribe
13,779Blackfeet Tribe
264,815Catawba Indian Nation
789Cherokee Nation
134,641Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
4,032Cocopah Indian Tribe
3,403Colorado River Indian Tribes
6,166Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation
10,879Comanche Nation
26,315Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
28,859Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon
8,000Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
11,141Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
77,905Delaware Nation
275Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
6,466Eastern Shoshone Tribe
27,049Fort Belknap Indian Community
109,264Gila River Indian Community
14,178Hoh Tribe
4,404Hoopa Valley Tribe
45,051Inter-Tribal Council of MI, Inc.
1,363Jicarilla Apache Nation
2,153Kalispel Tribe of Indians
657Kaw Nation
419Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
159,939Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
1,928Makah Tribe
1,890Narragansett Indian Tribe
447Navajo Nation
1,153,394Nooksack Indian Tribe
18,243Northern Arapaho Tribe
8,741Oglala Sioux Tribe
831,158Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians
241Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
5,866Poarch Band of Creek Indians
35,069Pueblo of Jemez
5,372Pueblo of Zuni
28,762Quapaw Nation
5,616Quileute Tribe
5,009Quinault Indian Nation
3,026Round Valley Indian Tribes
28,912Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma
17,639Seldovia Village Tribe
11,278Seneca Nation of Indians
2,453South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency
739Spirit Lake Nation
38,342Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
396,242Thlopthlocco Tribal Town
7,914Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
67,861Ute Indian Tribe
1,672Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
551,163Yankton Sioux Tribe
244,986Total
17,260,985
 The list of grant recipients that were awarded these funds was published in a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), which is posted to ACF's website at LIHEAP DCL 2023-15 Reallotment of LIHEAP Funds FFY 2022. Pursuant to the statute cited above, these funds were reallotted on Sep. 29, 2023 to all three types of FFY 2023 LIHEAP grant recipients by distributing them under the formula that Congress set for FFY 2023 funding. The three types of recipients that did not receive funds were (1) those whose allocations would have been less than $25; (2) tribes or tribal organizations that agreed with their co-territorial states to receive set amounts for the entire fiscal year; 
                    ( print page 84145)
                    and (3) states or territories that were held to the additional minimum floor required by the FFY 2023 appropriations act after including the reallotment amount. No sub-recipients of these recipients or other entities may apply for these funds. The reallotted funds may be used for any purpose authorized under LIHEAP. Grant recipients must add these funds to their total LIHEAP funds payable for FFY 2023 for purposes of calculating statutory caps on administrative costs, carryover, Assurance 16 activities, and weatherization assistance. Grant recipients must also (1) ensure that these funds are included in the amounts that ACF pre-populated on Line 1.1 of their FFY 2023 Carryover and Reallotment Reports; (2) reconcile these funds, to the extent that they received them, with the other sources described in LIHEAP DCL 2023-05 that used the grant number ending in “LIEA” on the associated Federal Financial Report; and (3) record, on their FFY 2023 Household Reports, households that receive benefits at least partly from these funds. State recipients must also ensure that these funds are included in the Grantee Survey sections of their FFY 2023 LIHEAP Performance Data Forms. OCS recommends that, after receiving them, grant recipients obligate these funds before obligating any other federal LIHEAP funds. *Statutory Authority:*42 U.S.C. 8626(b). Karen D. Shields, Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy, Office of Administration.


[FR Doc. 2023-26503 Filed 12-1-23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4184-80-P