29490 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 103 / Friday, May 29, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4340–C–02, FR–4363–C–02,

FR–4364–C–02]

Super Notices of Funding Availability

(SuperNOFAs) for: Housing and

Community Development Programs;

Economic Development and

Empowerment Programs; and

Targeted Housing and Homeless

Assistance Programs; Extension of

FHIP and Housing Counseling

Application Deadline; Technical

Corrections and Clarifications; and

Announcement of OMB Approval

Numbers

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Extension of FHIP and Housing

Counseling Application Deadline;

Announcement of OMB Approval

Numbers; and Technical Corrections to

SuperNOFAs.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to extend the application due dates for

the Fair Housing Initiatives Program

(FHIP) and the Housing Counseling

Program, that were part of the funding

availability notices announced in HUD’s

SuperNOFA for Housing and

Community Development Programs

(SuperNOFA I), published on March 31,

1998. The purposes of this notice are

also to announce OMB approval

numbers for two programs contained in

the SuperNOFAs and to correct certain

technical errors that appeared in the

SuperNOFAs or clarify certain

provisions.

DATES: APPLICATION DUE DATES: The

application due date for the Fair

Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) and

the Housing Counseling Program,

announced in SuperNOFA I, is

extended to June 25, 1998. No other

application due dates are extended by

this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information about this notice,

contact Camille E. Acevedo, Assistant

General Counsel for Regulations, Room

10276, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street,

SW, Washington, DC 20410; telephone

(202) 708–3055 (this is not a toll-free

number). Hearing or speech-impaired

persons may access this number via

TTY by calling the toll-free Federal

Information Relay Service at 1–800–

877–8339.

For information concerning a

particular program, please contact the

office or individual listed in the ‘‘For

Further Information’’ portion of the

program section of the applicable

SuperNOFA.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On March 31, 1998 (63 FR 15490),

HUD published its SuperNOFA for

Housing and Community Development

Programs (SuperNOFA I). On April 30,

1998, HUD published the following

NOFAs: SuperNOFA for Economic

Development and Empowerment

Programs (SuperNOFA II) (63 FR

23876); SuperNOFA for Targeted

Housing and Homeless Assistance

Programs (SuperNOFA III) (63 FR

23988); and SuperNOFA for National

Competition Programs (National

SuperNOFA) (63 FR 23958). The

purposes of this notice are to: extend the

application due date for the FHIP and

Housing Counseling Programs,

announced in SuperNOFA I; announce

the OMB approval numbers of two

programs that were part of the

SuperNOFAs; to correct certain

technical errors that appeared in the

SuperNOFAs; and to clarify certain

provisions.

Extension of FHIP and Housing

Counseling Application Due Dates

In SuperNOFA I, HUD announced

that the application due dates for the

Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP)

and the Housing Counseling Program to

be June 1, 1998. Due to delays in receipt

of the application kits for the FHIP

program from the printer, FHIP program

applicants faced a hardship in not

having kits available to complete their

applications. Accordingly, to assist

FHIP program applicants, HUD is

extending the application due date for

the FHIP and Housing Counseling

programs to June 25, 1998.

Announcement of OMB Approval

Numbers

In SuperNOFA II, HUD noted that the

OMB approval for the Local Lead

Hazard Awareness Campaign program

was pending (see 63 FR 23880). In the

National SuperNOFA, HUD noted that

the OMB approval number for the

National Lead Hazard Awareness

Campaign was pending (see 63 FR

23961). Since publication of these two

SuperNOFAs, both OMB approval

numbers have been received and they

are, respectively: 2539–0013 and 2539–

0014. Please note that in accordance

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), an agency

may not conduct or sponsor, and a

person is not required to respond to, a

collection of information unless the

collection displays a valid control

number.

Federal Register Correction of Printing

Errors

In addition to the corrections being

made by this notice, the Department

notes that in the printing of SuperNOFA

I, two printing errors were made and

these errors were corrected by the

Federal Register in the Federal Register

issue of Tuesday, May 5, 1998 (see 63

FR 24843). Those corrections pertained

to the Public Housing Drug Elimination

program section of SuperNOFA I

(beginning at 63 FR 15586). For the

convenience of the reader, the

corrections published on May 5, 1998

are as follows:

1. On page 15587, in the first column,

in paragraph (c)(iii) in the second line,

‘‘24,000’’ should be ‘‘25,000.’’

2. On page 15587, in the second

column, in the first line ‘‘$250,000 per

unit’’ should read ‘‘$250.00 per unit.’’

Corrections and Clarifications Made by

This Notice

This notice corrects editorial and

technical errors that have been

identified in various program sections of

SuperNOFAs I, II, and III.

Accordingly, the following

corrections are made:

I. In the SuperNOFA for Housing and

Community Development Programs

(SuperNOFA I), notice document 98–

8102, beginning at 63 FR 15490, in the

issue of Tuesday, March 31, 1998, the

following corrections are made:

A. General Section of the

SuperNOFA, Beginning at 63 FR 15493

1. On page 15496, in the middle

column, under Section IV (captioned

‘‘Application Submission

Requirements’’), a new sentence is

added at the end of that section to read

as follows:

Whenever a provision of an application kit

for one of the programs included in this

SuperNOFA is inconsistent with a provision

of this SuperNOFA, the provision of the

SuperNOFA will prevail.

B. Historically Black Colleges and

Universities (HBCUs) Program Section

of SuperNOFA I, Beginning at 63 FR

15527

1. On page 15529, in the middle

column, the last sentence of the first

paragraph of Section II(A)(2) is

removed.

C. Fair Housing Initiatives Program

Section of SuperNOFA I, Beginning at

63 FR 15536

1. On page 15539, in the third

column, in Section II(A)(4), captioned

‘‘Project Starting Period,’’ the date of

‘‘October 1, 1998’’ in this paragraph is

replaced with the phrase ‘‘90 days from

the date of the grant award.’’

2. On page 15539, in the third

column, in the first sentence of Section
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II(A)(10), captioned ‘‘Outreach

Expenses,’’ the words ‘‘Enforcement

(PEI/FHOI)’’ are inserted before the

word ‘‘Applications.’’

D. Housing Counseling Program

section of SuperNOFA I, beginning at 63

FR 15545.

1. On page 15549, in the middle

column, in Section I(C)(1)(b)(ii),

captioned ‘‘National, Regional, or MultiState Intermediaries,’’ the second to the

last sentence of this paragraph (ii) is

removed.

2. On page 15550, in the first column,

the ‘‘Note’’ under Section I(D)(2) is

corrected by removing the words ‘‘or

State housing finance agency’’ in line 6

of the Note.

E. Revitalization of Severely

Distressed Public Housing (HOPE VI

Revitalization) program section of

SuperNOFA I, beginning at 63 FR

15577.

1. On page 15577, under ‘‘Application

Due Date,’’ the phrase ‘‘12:00 pm

Eastern time’’ should be ‘‘12:00

midnight, Eastern time.’’

2. On page 15583, in the third

column, a new paragraph (d) is added

to Section III(C)(1), and on page 15584,

in the first column, a new paragraph (d)

is added to Section III(C)(2), and both

new paragraphs (d) read as follows:

If two or more applications have the same

score and there are insufficient funds to fund

all of them, the application(s) with the

highest score for the Soundness of Approach

rating factor shall be selected for funding. If

a tie still remains, the application(s) with the

highest score for the Capacity of the

Applicant and Relevant Organizational

Experience rating factor shall be selected.

Further tied applications will be selected by

their scores in the Need/Extent of Problem,

Leveraging Resources, and

Comprehensiveness and Coordination rating

factors, in that order.

F. Public Housing Drug Elimination

Program section of SuperNOFA I,

beginning at 63 FR 15586.

1. On page 15587, first column, in

Section I(C)(3)(a), a second paragraph is

added to paragraph (a) so that paragraph

(a) reads as follows:

(a) PHAs: The unit count includes rental,

Turnkey III Homeownership and Section 23

leased housing bond-financed projects.

PHAs preparing PHDEP applications are

required to confirm/validate the unit count

with the local Field Office (Office of Public

Housing) before the application is submitted.

Field Offices shall not include nonFederally Assisted Housing located in High

Intensity Drug-Trafficking Areas in the unit

count. Confirmation/Validation may be given

if the unit count to be used for a particular

program (eg., PHA-Owned Rental) is the

same as the unit count reflected on a PHA’s

most recently approved Operating Budget

(Form HUD–52564) and/or subsidy

calculation (Form HUD–52723) submitted for

that program. Field Offices that have PHAs

that are not required to submit either of these

forms may confirm/validate the PHDEP unit

count if it is the same as the most recently

submitted Form HUD–51234. Note: In

determining the unit count for PHA-Owned

Rental Housing, a long-term vacancy unit as

defined in 24 CFR 990.102 is included in the

count.

2. On page 15587, first column, in the

first sentence of the second paragraph of

Section I(C)(3)(b) the words ‘‘and

occupied’’ is removed so that the

sentence reads: ‘‘Eligible units are those

units which are under management and

fully developed.’’

3. On page 15587, first column, a

third paragraph is added to paragraph

(b) of Section I(C)(3) to read as follows:

Use the number of units counted as

Formula Current Assisted Stock for Fiscal

Year 1998 as defined in 24 CFR 1000.316.

Tribes who have not previously received

funds from the Department under the 1937

Act should count housing units under

management that are owned and operated by

the tribe and are identified in their housing

inventory as of September 30, 1997.

4. On page 15587, first column, in

Section I(C)(3)(c)(iv), ‘‘$30 million’’

should read ‘‘$35 million.’’

5. On page 15592, in the third

column, a new paragraph (10) is added

to Section I(E) to read as follows:

(10) High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas

(HIDTAs). Funding may be used for the

activities to eliminate drug-related crime in

housing owned by public housing agencies

that is not public housing assisted under the

United States Housing Act of 1937 and is not

otherwise federally assisted (for example,

housing that receives tenant subsidies under

Section 8 is federally assisted and would not

qualify, but housing that receives only State,

Tribal or local assistance would qualify if

they meet all of the following: (i) The

housing is located in a high intensity drug

trafficking area designated pursuant to

Section 1005 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of

1988; and (ii) The PHA owning the housing

demonstrates, on the basis of information

submitted that the drug-related crime at the

housing authority has a detrimental affect on

or about the housing. The High Intensity

Drug Trafficking Areas are areas identified as

having problems that adversely impact the

rest of the country. These areas are

designated as HIDTAs by the Director, Office

of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),

pursuant to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.

As of May 1998 the following areas were

confirmed by the ONDCP as designated

HIDTAs:

—New York HIDTA consists of the city of

New York and all the municipalities

therein and Nassau, Suffolk, and

Westchester Counties in New York);

—New Jersey HIDTA consists of Union,

Hudson, Essex, Bergen, and Passaic

Counties and all municipalities in New

Jersey;

—Washington, DC—Baltimore HIDTA

consists of Washington, DC; the city of

Baltimore, and Baltimore, Howard, Anne

Arundel, Prince George’s, Montgomery and

Charles Counties (in Maryland); and the

city of Alexandria and Arlington, Fairfax,

Prince William, and Loudoun Counties (in

Virginia) and all municipalities therein;

—South Florida HIDTA consists of the city

of Miami and the surrounding areas of

Broward, Dade, and Monroe Counties and

all municipalities therein;

—Houston HIDTA consists of the city of

Houston and surrounding areas of Harris,

and Galveston Counties and all

municipalities therein;

—Lake County HIDTA consists of Lake

County, Indiana, and all municipalities

therein;

—Gulf Coast HIDTA consist of Baldwin,

Jefferson, Mobile, and Montgomery

Counties (in Alabama); Caddo, East Baton

Rouge, Jefferson, and Orleans Parishes (in

Louisiana); and Hancock, Harrison, Hinds,

and Jackson Counties (in Mississippi) and

the municipalities therein;

—Midwest HIDTA consists of Muscatine,

Polk, Pottawattamie, Scott and Woodbury

Counties (in Iowa); Cherokee, Crawford,

Johnson, Labette, Leacenworth, Saline,

Seward, and Wyandotte Counties (in

Kansas); Cape Garardeau, Christian, Clay,

Jackson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Ray, Scott,

and St. Charles Counties, and the City of

St. Louis, MO (in Missouri); Dakota,

Dawson, Douglas, Hall, Lancaster, Sarpy,

and Scott’s Bluff Counties (in Nebraska);

Clay, Codington, Custer, Fall River,

Lawrence, Lincoln, Meade, Minnehaha,

Penninton, Union, and Yankton Counties

(in South Dakota); and all municipalities

therein;

—Rocky Mountains HIDTA consists of

Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Eagle,

El Pasco, Garfield, Jefferson, La Plate, and

Mesa Counties (in Colorado); Davis, Salt

Lake, Summit, Utah, and Weber Counties

(in Utah); Laramie, Natrona, and

Sweetwater Counties (in Wyoming) and all

municipalities therein;

—Southwest Border HIDTA consists of San

Diego and Imperial Counties (in

California), and all municipalities therein;

Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, Santa Cruz,

and Cochise Counties, (in Arizona) and all

municipalities therein; Bernalillo, Hidalgo,

Grant, Luna, Dona Ana, Eddy, Lea, and

Otero, Chaves, and Lincoln Counties, (in

New Mexico) and all municipalities

therein; El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff

Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Pecos, Terrell,

Crockett Counties (in West Texas) and all

municipalities therein; Bexar, Val Verde,

Kinney, Maverick, Zavala, Dimmit, La

Salle, Webb, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Starr,

Hildago, Willacy and Cameron Countries

(in South Texas) and all municipalities

therein;

—Northwest HIDTA consists of King, Pierce,

Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Whatcom

and Yakima Counties (in the State of

Washington) and all municipalities

therein;

—Los Angeles HIDTA consists of the city of

Los Angeles and surrounding areas of Los

Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San

Bernadino Counties, and all municipalities

therein; and
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—Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands HIDTA

consists of the U.S. territories of Puerto

Rico and the Virgin Islands.

—San Francisco Bay Area HIDTA consists of

Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin,

Monterey, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa

Clara, Santa Cruz, Sonoma counties and all

the municipalities therein.

—Appalachia HIDTA consist of Adair, Bell,

Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland,

Floyd, Harlan, Jackson, Knott, Knox,

Laurel, Lee, Leslie, McCreary, Magoffin,

Marion, Monroe, Owsley, Perry, Pike,

Pulaski, Rockcastle, Taylor, Wayne. and

Whitley counties in Kentucky; Boone,

Braxton, Cabell, Gilmer, Lewis, Lincoln,

Logan, Mason, McDowell, Mingo and

Wayne Counties in West Virginia, Bledsoe,

Campbell, Claiborne, Clay, Cocke,

Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Grainger,

Greene, Grundy, Hamblen, Hancock,

Hawkins, Jackson, Jefferson, Macon,

Marion, Overton. Pickett, Putnam, Rhea,

Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Unicoi, Van

Buren and White Counties in Tennessee

and all the municipalities therein.

—Central Florida HIDTA consists of

Hillsborough, Orange, Osceola, Pinellas,

Polk, Seminole, and Volusia counties and

all the municipalities therein.

—Chicago HIDTA consists of Cook County,

incorporating the City of Chicago.

—Atlanta HIDTA consists of Fulton, Dekalb

counties and the City of Atlanta.

—Milwaukee HIDTA consists of Milwaukee

county and all the municipalities therein.

—Southeastern Michigan HIDTA consists of

Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw

counties and all the municipalities therein.

—Philadelphia/Camden HIDTA: consists of

the Cities of Philadelphia and Camden.

For further information on HIDTAs contact

Rick Yamamoto, at the ONDCP, Executive

Office of the President, Washington, DC

20500 on (202) 395–6755 and/or La’Wan

Sweetenberg on (202) 395–6603, fax (202)

395–6721. Field Offices in validating the unit

count shall not include Non-Federally

Assisted Housing units located in High

Intensity Drug-Trafficking Areas.

6. On page 15596, in the third

column, a second paragraph is added to

Section IV (captioned ‘‘Application

Submission Requirement’’) to read as

follows:

An applicant shall submit only one

application, per housing authority, for each

drug elimination program contained in this

program section of the SuperNOFA. Joint

applications are permitted only in those

cases where HAs have a single

administration (such as HAS managing

another HA under contract or HAs sharing a

common executive director). In those cases,

a separate budget, plan and timetable and

unit count shall be supplied in the

application.

7. On page 15596, in the third

column, a new Section VII is added to

read as follows:

VII. Term of Grant Agreement.

Terms of the FY 1997 and FY 1998 PHDEP

grant agreement shall not exceed 24 months

from the execution date of the grant

agreement (Form 1044). Grant extensions

during the FY 1997 and FY 1998 PHDEP

funding round are not permitted. Any funds

not expended at the end of the FY 1997 and

FY 1998 PHDEP grant term shall be remitted

to HUD.

F. Drug Elimination Grants for

Federally Assisted Low-Income Housing

(Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination)

Program section of SuperNOFA,

beginning at 63 FR 15607.

1. On page 15608, in the first column,

under Section I(C), the last sentence of

that section which begins ‘‘Owners of

Section 8 tenant-based. * * *’’ is

succeeded by two new paragraphs that

read as follows:

HUD inadvertently failed to include tiebreaker language in the selection criteria for

the FY 97 DEG funding round. As a result,

the application submitted by the Calib

Foundation on behalf of Village Heights

Apartments, which received the same rating

as another selected grantee, was not selected.

HUD will correct this oversight by funding

Village Heights in the amount of $125,000

from the FY 98 allocation. HUD is also

revising this year’s selection process to

include tie-breaker language.

At this time, HUD is aware of only this one

tie-breaker situation. However, in the event

that other applicants notify HUD of similar

situations and HUD can confirm that an

applicant was not selected due to a tie score

with a selected grantee, HUD will take

additional corrective funding actions.

2. On page 15610, in the first column,

under Section III, a new paragraph (C)

is added to read as follows:

(C) Tie-Breaker Situations. If two or more

applications have the same score and there

are insufficient funds to fund all of them, the

application(s) with the highest score for the

Soundness of Approach rating factor shall be

selected for funding. If a tie still remains, the

application(s) with the highest score for the

Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant

Organizational Experience rating factor shall

be selected. Further tied applications will be

selected by their scores in the Need/Extent of

Problem, Leveraging Resources, and

Comprehensiveness and Coordination rating

factors, in that order.

II. In the SuperNOFA for Economic

Development and Empowerment

Programs (SuperNOFA II), notice

document 98–11392, beginning at 63 FR

23876, in the issue of Thursday, April

30, 1998, the following corrections are

made:

A. Introduction to the SuperNOFA

Process, beginning at 63 FR 23877.

1. On page 23878, in the middle

column, the last sentence of this column

is corrected to read: ‘‘The Programs

Section of the SuperNOFA describes

each program for which funding is being

competed under this SuperNOFA.’’

2. On page 23880, in the first column,

an asterisk is placed after the following

program name ‘‘Intermediaries

Technical Assistance Grant Program.’’

and a footnote is placed at the end of the

chart that contains the Intermediaries

Technical Assistance Program and

Outreach and Training Grants for

Technical Assistance Program to read as

follows: ‘‘$1,000,000 is currently

available in FY 1998, and $8,000,000 is

subject to appropriations in FY 1999.’’

B. General Section of the SuperNOFA,

beginning on 63 FR 23881. On page

23884, in the middle column, under

Section IV (captioned ‘‘Application

Submission Requirements’’), a new

sentence is added at the section to read

as follows:

Whenever a provision of an application kit

for one of the programs included in this

SuperNOFA is inconsistent with a provision

of this SuperNOFA, the provision of the

SuperNOFA will prevail.

III. In the SuperNOFA for Targeted

Housing and Homeless Assistance

Programs (SuperNOFA III), notice

document 98–11400, beginning at 63 FR

23988, in the issue of Thursday, April

30, 1998, the following corrections are

made:

A. Introduction to the SuperNOFA

Process, beginning at 63 FR 23989.

1. On page 23990, in the middle

column, the third sentence of the third

paragraph in the middle column is

corrected to read: ‘‘The Programs

Section of the SuperNOFA describes

each program for which funding is being

competed under this SuperNOFA.’’

B. General Section of the SuperNOFA,

beginning at 63 FR 23992.

1. On page 23995, in the first column,

under Section IV (captioned

‘‘Application Submission

Requirements’’), a new sentence is

added at the section to read as follows:

Whenever a provision of an application kit

for one of the programs included in this

SuperNOFA is inconsistent with a provision

of this SuperNOFA, the provision of the

SuperNOFA will prevail.

C. Housing Opportunities for Persons

with AIDS (HOPWA) Program section of

SuperNOFA III, beginning at 63 FR

24007.

1. On page 24011, in the middle

column, under Section III(D), the

reference to ‘‘Section III(C)(2) of the

General Section’’ in the third sentence

of paragraph (D) should read ‘‘Section

III(C) of the General Section.’’

D. Section 202 Supportive Housing for

the Elderly Program section of

SuperNOFA III, beginning at 63 FR

24015.

1. On page 24025, in the first column,

the first sentence of the second

paragraph of Section I(D) is corrected by

replacing the phrase ‘‘three (3) or more

Hubs’’ with ‘‘a single Hub.’’
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E. Section 811 Supportive Housing for

Persons with Disabilities Program

section of SuperNOFA III, beginning at

63 FR 24031.

1. On page 24034, in the third

column, a new paragraph is added to

Section I(C) which precedes the last

paragraph that begins ‘‘The Section 811

capital advance * * *.’’ The new

paragraph reads as follows:

As a result of a rating error in the Boston

Office, the application submitted by

Employment Options, Inc. was not selected

for funding under the Fiscal Year 1997

Section 811 Program of Supportive Housing

for Persons with Disabilities. Since this was

a HUD error, the application will be funded

from the Fiscal Year 1998 allocation to the

Boston Office.

2. On page 24035, the chart is

amended by placing an asterisk (*) next

to the word ‘‘Boston’’ in the first column

and adding the following footnote at the

bottom of the chart on page 24035.

This amount includes Capital Advance

Authority of $529,300 to fund Employment

Options, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Since this 6-unit project was not selected in

Fiscal Year 1997 by HUD error, this

application will be funded from the Fiscal

Year 1998 allocation to the Boston Office.

3. On page 24039, in the first column,

the first sentence of the second

paragraph of Section I(D) is corrected by

replacing the phrase ‘‘three (3) or more

Hubs’’ with ‘‘a single Hub.’’

4. On page 24039, in the first column,

a new paragraph (h) is added to Section

I(E)(2) to read: ‘‘(h) Intermediate care

facilities.’’

5. On page 24044, in the third

column, in Section IV(B)(5)(f), the last

sentence of the paragraph which

precedes the second ‘‘Note’’ which

appears in the third column, is revised

to read as follows, and is followed by a

new sentence:

In order for applications submitted with

site control to be eligible for bonus points for

site control, this information would have to

be submitted to the local HUD Office no later

than 30 days after the application

submission deadline date. Otherwise, the

application will be considered as a ‘‘site

identified’’ application and will not receive

bonus points for site control.

Dated: May 22, 1998.

Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.,

Acting Deputy Secretary.

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