[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 28 (Monday, February 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7756-7757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2466]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5159-C-01]


Notice of Funding Availability for the Fiscal Year 2007 Public 
Housing Neighborhood Networks Program; Technical Correction

AGENCY: Office of the Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Technical Corrections to Fiscal Year 2007 NOFA for the Public 
Housing Neighborhood Networks Program.

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SUMMARY: On December 11, 2007, HUD published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Public Housing 
Neighborhood Networks Program. In today's Federal Register notice, HUD 
announces that it has removed the Adobe application from Grants.gov for 
this NOFA, extended the deadline date for submission of applications, 
and clarifies why the Adobe package has been removed.

DATES: The application deadline date for the Public Housing 
Neighborhood Networks Program NOFA has been extended to March 14, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding this Technical 
Correction should be directed to the Office of Departmental Grants 
Management and Oversight, Office of Administration, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 3156, 
Washington, DC 20410-5000; telephone number (202) 708-0667. Persons 
with hearing or speech impairments may access this number via TTY by 
calling the Federal Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Submission or Resubmission of Applications with PureEdge

    On December 11, 2007 (72 FR 70458), HUD published its FY2007 NOFA 
for the Public Housing Neighborhood Networks Program and posted it to 
Grants.gov, making applications available in both PureEdge and Adobe 
8.1.1 formats. HUD has recently determined that applications submitted 
using the Adobe Application Package posted to Grants.gov will cause 
problems during submission if any individuals working on the 
application have not used Adobe 8.1.1 to complete the application. 
Specifically, if any individual working on the application does not use 
Adobe 8.1.1, the application becomes corrupt and not

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accepted by Grants.gov. To ensure there are no issues with applicants 
being able to successfully submit their application, HUD is withdrawing 
the Adobe application package (COMP ID NN-01) from the Grants.gov Web 
site but leaving the PureEdge package in place. Applicants who have 
signed up for the Grants.gov notification service will be automatically 
notified when the Adobe package has been removed. Applicants that have 
not signed up for the notification service should check the Grants.gov 
Web site at https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms_apps_idx.html for 
the modification to the announcement posting following publication of 
this Notice. Applicants must use the PureEdge package; Adobe packages 
will be rejected. Applicants can download the PureEdge version from the 
Grants.gov Web site at: https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/forms_apps_idx.html. Applicants who were working with the PureEdge application 
(Comp ID: NN-PUREEDGE-FORMAT) do not have to download again. Only those 
working with the Adobe application (Comp ID: NN-0) must download the 
PureEdge version.

II. Extension of Deadline Date and Important Resubmission Instructions

    HUD is extending the Neighborhood Networks deadline date to March 
14, 2008, to provide applicants the opportunity and time to download 
the PureEdge application, complete the application including all 
attachments and faxes, and submit the application to Grants.gov in time 
to meet the new deadline date. Applicants that previously submitted a 
PureEdge application do not have to resubmit a new application, unless 
they want to add information revising the original submission. 
Applicants that attempted to submit using Adobe 8.1.1 must download the 
PureEdge application format and resubmit the application plus all 
attachments and faxes.
    Applicants filing a revised application electronically must also 
submit a new set of any documents faxed to HUD but should do so only 
after they submit an entire, complete application to Grants.gov and 
after the applicant receives validation of the application from 
Grants.gov. Applicants should allow 48 hours for validation of their 
revised application to occur and then resend the faxed material. This 
process will ensure that the resubmitted faxes are associated with the 
resubmitted application. Failure to follow these instructions will 
result in faxes not being associated to the most recent application and 
therefore not available to HUD reviewers. HUD will not search 
previously submitted applications for faxed materials.

    Dated: February 5, 2008.
Paula Blunt,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. E8-2466 Filed 2-8-08; 8:45 am]
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