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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5800–FA–12] 

Notice of Funding Availability for 

HUD’s Fiscal Year 2014 Community 

Compass Technical Assistance and 

Capacity Building 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of funding awards. 

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 HUD Community Compass 

Technical Assistance and Capacity 

Building program for Fiscal Year 2014. 

This announcement contains the names 

of the awardees and amounts of the 

awards made available by HUD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Hopkins, 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, call Community 

Connections at 1–800–998–9999 or visit 

the HUD Web site at http://

www.hud.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The goal 

of Community Compass is to empower 

communities by providing effective 

technical assistance and capacity 

building so that successful program 

implementation is sustained over the 

long term. 

Recognizing that HUD’s customers 

often interact with a variety of HUD 

programs as they deliver housing or 

community development services, 

Community Compass brings together 

technical assistance investments from 

across HUD program offices, including 

but not limited to the Office of 

Community Planning and Development, 

the Office of Housing, and the Office of 

Public and Indian Housing. 

The competition was announced in 

the NOFA published on June 2, 2014 

(FR–5800–N–12) and closed on July 23, 

2014. The NOFA allowed for 

approximately $51 million for HUD 

Community Compass Technical 

Assistance and Capacity Building 

awards. Applications were rated and 

selected for funding on the basis of 

selection criteria contained in the 

Notice. For the Fiscal Year 2014 

competition, awards totaling 

$51,535,629 were awarded to 19 

different 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 awardees and the 

amounts of the awards in Appendix A 

to this document. 

Dated: October 24, 2014. 

Clifford Taffet, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

Appendix A 

FISCAL YEAR 2014 

[HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Awards] 

Recipient City State Amount 

Abt Associates, Inc .............................................................................................. Cambridge ............................................ MA $6,350,000 

Advocates for Human Potential, Inc .................................................................... Sudbury ................................................ MA 500,000 

American Institutes for Research ........................................................................ Washington .......................................... DC 4,950,000 

Association of Alaska Housing Authorities .......................................................... Anchorage ............................................ AK 948,000 

BCT Partners, LLC .............................................................................................. Newark ................................................. NJ 1,000,000 

Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc ....................................................................... Landover .............................................. MD 3,225,000 

Corporation for Supportive Housing .................................................................... New York .............................................. NY 1,200,000 

CVR Associates, Inc ............................................................................................ Tampa .................................................. FL 2,000,000 

Econometrica, Inc ................................................................................................ Bethesda .............................................. MD 3,250,000 

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc ................................................................... Columbia .............................................. MD 1,575,000 

FirstPic, Inc .......................................................................................................... Gambrills .............................................. MD 5,280,521 

ICF Incorporated, LLC ......................................................................................... Fairfax .................................................. VA 12,657,108 

Inland Mediation Board ........................................................................................ Ontario .................................................. CA 1,500,000 

Mosaic Urban Partners LLC ................................................................................ Washington .......................................... DC 500,000 

National American Indian Housing Council ......................................................... Washington .......................................... DC 2,600,000 

National Council for Community Development, Inc ............................................. New York .............................................. NY 500,000 

TDA Consulting, Inc ............................................................................................. Laurinburg ............................................ NC 800,000 

Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc .............................................................. Boston .................................................. MA 1,700,000 

The Partnership Center, Ltd ................................................................................ Cincinnati .............................................. OH 1,000,000 

TOTAL .......................................................................................................... ............................................................... 51,535,629 

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1Although a trustee under OPA by virtue of the 

proximity of its facilities to the Deepwater Horizon 

oil spill, DOD is not a member of the Trustee 

Council and does not participate in Trustee 

decision-making. 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

[FWS–R4–FHC–2014–N215; 

FVHC98130406900–XXX–FF04G01000] 

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Record of 

Decision for the Final Programmatic 

and Phase III Early Restoration Plan 

and Early Restoration Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) and the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), notice is hereby given that the 

Federal and State natural resource 

trustee agencies (Trustees) have issued a 

Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final 

Programmatic and Phase III Early 

Restoration Plan and Early Restoration 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (Final Phase III ERP/PEIS). 

The ROD documents decisions by the 

Trustees under OPA: (1) Selection of the 

Preferred Alternative for the 

Programmatic Early Restoration Plan; 

and (2) selection of 44 projects for the 

Final Phase III Early Restoration Plan, 

subject to completing remaining 

permitting and consultation 

requirements, as specifically identified 

in Section 9 of the ROD. 

ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You 

may download the ROD at http://

www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov or 

http://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon. 

You may also view the ROD at any of 

the public repositories listed at http://

www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nanciann Regalado at 678–296–6805 

(phone) or nanciann_regalado@fws.gov 

(email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 20, 2011, BP Exploration & 

Production Inc. and the Trustees agreed 

to the Framework for Early Restoration 

Addressing Injuries Resulting from the 

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 

(Framework Agreement), to provide up 

to $1 billion toward early restoration 

projects in the Gulf of Mexico to address 

injuries to natural resources caused by 

the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The 

Framework Agreement represents a 

preliminary step toward the restoration 

of injured natural resources. The 

Framework Agreement is intended to 

expedite the start of restoration in the 

Gulf in advance of the completion of the 

injury assessment process. The 

Framework Agreement provides a 

mechanism through which the Trustees 

and BP can work together ‘‘to 

commence implementation of early 

restoration projects that will provide 

meaningful benefits to accelerate 

restoration in the Gulf as quickly as 

practicable,’’ prior to the resolution of 

the Trustees’ natural resource damages 

claim. 

The Trustees are: 

• U.S. Department of the Interior 

(DOI), as represented by the National 

Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, and Bureau of Land 

Management; 

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), on behalf of 

the U.S. Department of Commerce; 

• U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA); 

• U.S. Department of Defense 

(DOD); 1

• U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (USEPA); 

• State of Louisiana Coastal 

Protection and Restoration Authority, 

Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 

and Department of Natural Resources; 

• State of Mississippi Department of 

Environmental Quality; 

• State of Alabama Department of 

Conservation and Natural Resources and 

Geological Survey of Alabama; 

• State of Florida Department of 

Environmental Protection and Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Commission; and 

• For the State of Texas, Texas Parks 

and Wildlife Department, Texas General 

Land Office, and Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality. 

The Trustees considered hundreds of 

projects leading to the identification of 

a potential 28 future early restoration 

projects announced in the May 6, 2013 

Federal Register notice (78 FR 26319). 

On June 4, 2013 (78 FR 33431), the 

Trustees announced their intent to 

prepare a Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement (PEIS) under OPA and 

NEPA to evaluate the environmental 

consequences of early restoration 

project types, as well as to propose a 

Phase III Early Restoration Plan to 

address injuries from the Deepwater 

Horizon oil spill that would include the 

28 early restoration projects announced 

in the May 6, 2013, Federal Register 

notice and potentially additional early 

restoration projects. In accordance with 

NEPA, the Trustees conducted scoping 

to identify the concerns of the affected 

public, Federal agencies, States, and 

Indian tribes; to involve the public in 

the decision making process; to 

facilitate efficient early restoration 

planning and environmental review; to 

define the issues and alternatives that 

would be examined in detail; and to 

save time by ensuring that draft 

documents adequately address relevant 

issues. A scoping process reduces 

paperwork and delay by ensuring that 

important issues are considered early in 

the decision making process. To gather 

public input, the Trustees hosted six 

public meetings and accepted written 

comment electronically and via U.S. 

mail during the scoping period. 

A notice of availability of the Draft 

Programmatic and Phase III Early 

Restoration Plan and Draft Early 

Restoration Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (Draft 

Phase III ERP/PEIS) was published in 

the Federal Register on December 6, 

2013 (78 FR 73555). The Draft Phase III 

ERP/PEIS considered programmatic 

alternatives for early restoration and 

proposed alternatives for 44 early 

restoration projects in Phase III of early 

restoration consistent with the project 

types included in the proposed 

programmatic alternative. The Trustees 

provided the public with 75 days to 

review and comment on the Draft Phase 

III ERP/PEIS (including a 15-day 

extension of the original announced 60- 

day comment period). To facilitate 

public participation, the Trustees also 

held public meetings in Mobile, 

Alabama; Long Beach, Mississippi; Belle 

Chasse, Thibodaux, and Lake Charles, 

Louisiana; Port Arthur, Galveston, and 

Corpus Christi, Texas; and Pensacola, 

Florida. The Trustees considered the 

public comments received, which 

informed the Trustees’ analyses of 

programmatic alternatives and specific 

early restoration projects in the Final 

Phase III ERP/PEIS. A summary of the 

public comments received and the 

Trustees’ responses to those comments 

are found in Chapter 13 of the Final 

Phase III ERP/PEIS. 

A notice of availability of the Final 

Phase III ERP/PEIS was published in the 

Federal Register on June 26, 2014 (79 

FR 36328). The Final Phase III ERP/PEIS 

proposed early restoration 

programmatic alternatives and 

evaluated the potential environmental 

effects and cumulative effects of those 

alternatives. The Final Phase III ERP/

PEIS also proposed 44 projects as 

described in the Final Phase III ERP/

PEIS, totaling an estimated cost of 

approximately $627 million. 

Upon the completion of the Final 

Phase III ERP/PEIS, a Record of Decision 


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