29824 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 104 / Monday, June 1, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4371–N–01]

Notices of Funding Availability for

Community Planning and

Development, Public and Indian

Housing, Housing, and Lead Hazard

Control Programs; Introduction

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Notices of Funding Availability

for Community Planning and

Development, Public and Indian

Housing, Housing, and Lead Hazard

Control Programs; Introduction.

SUMMARY: HUD is publishing in today’s

Federal Register its remaining notices

announcing the availability of funding

for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998. These notices

announce the availability of

approximately $188,465,605 in HUD

program funds covering seven (7)

programs operated and managed by the

following HUD offices: Community

Planning and Development (CPD),

Housing—Federal Housing

Administration (FHA), Public and

Indian Housing (PIH), and the Office of

Lead Hazard Control (OLHC). Today’s

notices are being published separately

from the three SuperNOFAs published

by HUD on March 31, 1998 and April

30, 1998 due to the distinctive

application selection procedures used

by these programs. This document

introduces the HUD notices being

published in today’s Federal Register,

and briefly describes HUD’s FY 1998

funding process. The individual notices

that follow this introduction contain a

description of the specific programs for

which funding is made available and

the procedures and requirements that

are applicable to each program.

DUE DATES, ADDRESSES, APPLICATION

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES, APPLICATION

KITS, AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: For the

convenience of readers, this notice

contains a chart that sets forth

application due date for each program

and the address to which applications

must be submitted. However, applicants

should refer to the individual notices

published in today’s Federal Register

for specific information regarding due

dates, addresses, application submission

procedures, application kits, and

technical assistance.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. The SuperNOFA Process

HUD is publishing in today’s Federal

Register its remaining notices

announcing the availability of funding

for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998. The

publication of these notices marks the

final stage in HUD’s dramatic

reinvention of its competitive funding

process. This reinvention, conducted

under the leadership of Secretary

Andrew Cuomo, improves customer

service and provides the necessary tools

for revitalizing communities and

improving the lives of people within

those communities.

As part of this process, HUD has

published three Super Notices of

Funding Availability (SuperNOFAs) in

1998, which coordinate program

funding for over forty competitive

programs and cut across traditional

program lines. The first was the

SuperNOFA and consolidated

application process for Housing and

Community Development Programs,

covering nineteen Housing and

Community Development programs,

published in the Federal Register on

March 31, 1998 (63 FR 15490). The

second SuperNOFA and consolidated

application process, which covered ten

of HUD’s Economic Development and

Empowerment Programs, was published

in the Federal Register on April 30,

1998 (63 FR 23876). The third

SuperNOFA and consolidated

application process, also published in

the Federal Register on April 30, 1998

(63 FR 23988), covered six of HUD’s

Targeted Housing and Homeless

Assistance Programs.

HUD believes the SuperNOFAs

represent a significant improvement

over HUD’s past approach to the

funding process. The SuperNOFA

approach is designed to simplify the

application process; promote effective

and coordinated use of program funds

in communities; reduce duplication in

the delivery of services and economic

development and empowerment

programs; allow interested applicants to

seek to deliver a wider, more integrated

array of services; and improve the

system for potential grantees to be aware

of, and compete for program funds.

The three SuperNOFAs together offer

a ‘‘menu’’ of approximately 40 programs

from which communities can select

those that best meet their needs. The

SuperNOFAs also encourage nonprofits,

public housing agencies, local and State

governments, tribal governments and

tribally designated housing entities,

veterans service organizations and

others to cooperatively work together to

form a comprehensive approach which

builds on community assets and

addresses community needs.

In addition to the three SuperNOFAs,

HUD also published in the Federal

Register on April 30, 1998 (63 FR

23958) a consolidated NOFA and

application process for three national

competition programs: the Fair Housing

Initiatives Program National

Competition; the National Lead Hazard

Awareness Campaign; and the Housing

Counseling National Competition.

Interested readers should consult the

March 31, 1998 and April 30, 1998

editions of the Federal Register or the

HUD website at www://hud.gov for

additional information regarding HUD’s

SuperNOFAs and the SuperNOFA

process.

II. HUD’s Notices Published in Today’s

Federal Register

The remaining HUD notices

published in today’s Federal Register

announce the availability of

approximately $188,465,605 in HUD

program funds covering seven (7)

programs. These notices include six (6)

NOFAs and one Request for Expressions

of Interest (REI). The seven notices

being published today are identified in

the chart below, along with the

approximate funding available for each

program. The chart also includes the

application due date for each program

and the address to which applications

must be submitted.

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HUD determined that the seven

notices identified in the chart above

should be published separately from the

SuperNOFAs due to the distinctive

application selection procedures used in

each of these programs. The funding

under several of these programs is being

made available on a non-competitive

basis. For example, HOPE VI demolition

projects that meet the specified

threshold eligibility criteria will be

funded on a first-come, first-serve basis

within the three priority groups

established by the NOFA. Other notices

(including those for the Service

Coordinator Program and the Family

Unification Program) include the use of

lotteries to select applications for

funding. Therefore, in order to avoid

confusion on the part of potential

applicants between the funding

procedures used for these programs and

the approximately forty programs

included in the SuperNOFAs, HUD has

decided to issue these notices

independently of the SuperNOFA

process.

III. Future HUD Funding Processes

In FY 1997, Secretary Cuomo took the

first step at changing HUD’s funding

process to better promote

comprehensive, coordinated approaches

to housing and community

development. In FY 1997, the

Department published related NOFAs

on the same day or within a few days

of each other. In the individual NOFAs

published in FY 1997, HUD advised that

additional steps on NOFA coordination

might be considered for FY 1998. The

SuperNOFA process represents the

additional steps taken by HUD in 1998

to improve HUD’s funding process and

assist communities to make better use of

available resources through a

coordinated approach. This new

funding process was developed based

on comments received from HUD

clients, and the Department believes it

represents a significant improvement

over HUD’s approach to the funding

process in prior years.

For FY 1999, HUD may take even

further steps to enhance this process.

HUD welcomes comments from

applicants and other members of the

public on this process and how it may

be improved in future years. Comments

and suggestions may be submitted

electronically to the SuperNOFA

mailbox at www://hud.gov or by regular

mail to the following address: Rules

Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel,

Room 10276, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410.

Dated: May 22, 1998.

Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.,

Acting Deputy Secretary.

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