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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5600–FA–38] 

Announcement of Funding Awards for 

the Border Community Capital 

Initiative Fiscal Year 2013 

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 Border Community Capital 

Initiative. This announcement contains 

the names of the awardees and the 

amounts of the awards made available 

by HUD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jackie L. Williams, Ph.D., Director, 

Office of Rural Housing and Economic 

Development, Office of Community 

Planning and Development, 451 

Seventh Street SW., Room 7137, 

Washington, DC 20410–7000; telephone 

(202) 708–2290 (this is not a toll free 

number). Hearing- and speech-impaired 

persons may access this number via 

TTY by calling the Federal Relay 

Service toll-free at 1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Funds 

used for the Border Community Capital 

Initiative were appropriated to the 

Office of Rural Housing and Economic 

Development in Annual Appropriations 

between 1999 and 2009 (Public Laws 

105–276; 106–74; 106–377; 107–73; 

108–7; 108–199; 108–447; 109–115; 

110–5; 110–161; and/or 111–8) and 

subsequently recaptured from or 

surrendered by underperforming or 

nonperforming grantees. The 

competition was announced in the 

Federal Register (FR Doc. FR–5600–N– 

38) on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. 

Applications were rated and selected for 

funding on the basis of selection criteria 

contained in that notice. 

The Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance number for this Border 

Community Capital Initiative program is 

14.266. The Border Capital Community 

Initiative is designed to support local 

rural nonprofits and federally 

recognized Indian tribes serving 

colonias for lending and investing 

activities in affordable housing, small 

businesses, and/or community facilities, 

and for securing additional sources of 

public and private capital for these 

activities. Eligible applicants for the 

Border Community Capital Initiative are 

local rural nonprofits and federally 

recognized Indian Tribes with 

demonstrated experience in lending or 

investing for affordable housing, small 

business development, and/or 

community facilities. Such applicants 

may be certified CDFIs, but CDFI 

certification is not required. The funds 

made available under this program were 

awarded competitively, through a 

selection process conducted by HUD. 

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 grantees and amounts of 

the awards in Appendix A to this 

document. 

Dated: November 19, 2014. 

Clifford Taffet, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

Appendix A 

FY 2013 BORDER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INITIATIVE PROGRAM GRANTEES

Grantee State Amount 

awarded 

Accion Texas, Inc .......................................................................................................................................................... TX ............ $800,000.00 

Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc ......................................................................................................................... TX ............ 600,000.00 

Community Resource Group, Inc .................................................................................................................................. AR ............ 200,000.00 

International Sonoran Desert Alliance ........................................................................................................................... AZ ............ 200,000.00 

Tierra Del Sol Housing Corporation .............................................................................................................................. NM ........... 200,000.00 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[Fund: 133D5670LC, Fund Center: 

DS10100000 Functional Area: 

DLCAP0000.000000 WBS: DX.10120] 

Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal 

Nations Under Cobell Settlement 

AGENCY: Office of the Deputy Secretary, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Land Buy-Back Program 

for Tribal Nations has released its 2014 

Status Report that details what the 

Program has been doing to execute 

terms of the Cobell Settlement. The 

Program continues to actively engage 

tribes and individuals across Indian 

Country to raise awareness of the 

Program and will host a listening 

session on March 19, 2015, in Laveen, 

Arizona. We hope to receive feedback 

on the Report from tribes and 

individuals. 

DATES: The listening session will take 

place on March 19, 2015, at the Vee 

Quiva Hotel, 15091 South Komatke 

Lane, Laveen, AZ 85339. Comments 

must be received by April 20, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Treci Johnson, Public Relations 

Specialist, Land Buy-Back Program for 

Tribal Nations, (202) 208–6916. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Land Buy-Back Program for 

Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program or 

Program) is the Department of the 

Interior’s (Department) collaborative 

effort with Indian Country to realize the 

historic opportunity afforded by the 

Cobell Settlement—a $1.9 billion Trust 

Land Consolidation Fund—to 

compensate individuals who willingly 

choose to transfer fractional land 

interests to tribal nations for fair market 

value. Directly following final approval 

of the Settlement in December 2012 and 

early consultations in 2011, the 

Department established the Buy-Back 

Program and published an Initial 

Implementation Plan in light of 

consultation that occurred in 2011 and 

2012. The Department released an 

Updated Implementation Plan in 

November 2013 after several rounds of 

additional government-to-government 

consultation with tribes and feedback 

on the Initial Implementation Plan. 

The Department is currently 

implementing the Buy-Back Program at 

multiple locations across Indian 

Country. Thus far, the Program has 

made $754 million in offers to 

individual landowners and paid more 


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than $209 million directly to more than 

16,000 individuals that decided to sell 

fractional interests. This has restored 

the equivalent of more than 350,000 

acres to tribes. Our working 

relationships with tribes (12 cooperative 

agreements or other arrangements to 

date) and continued outreach to 

landowners are important elements of 

continued progress. 

II. Listening Session 

The purpose of the upcoming 

listening session is to gather input from 

tribes in order for the Department to 

continue to refine its land consolidation 

processes, and engage individual 

landowners who may have questions 

about the Program. An agenda and 

RSVP information will be announced 

closer to the date of the event. 

III. Seeking Tribal Input 

The Buy-Back Program is committed 

to continuous consultations throughout 

the life of the Program in compliance 

with the letter and spirit of Executive 

Order 13175 (Consultation and 

Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments) and Secretarial Order 

3314 (Department of the Interior Policy 

on Consultation with Indian Tribes). 

At the beginning of 2013, Department 

officials conducted extensive tribal 

consultations on the following: 

(1) Developing an efficient, fair 

process for landowners of fractionated 

interests to participate in the Buy-Back 

Program; 

(2) Identifying and maximizing 

opportunities for tribal involvement; 

and 

(3) Offering tribes flexibility to 

execute Program requirements in the 

manner best suited for the unique needs 

of each community. 

While the Department welcomes 

feedback related to any aspect of the 

Program, the following areas are of 

particular interest: 

• Implementation at LessFractionated Locations. There are about 

110 less-fractionated locations that 

contain approximately 10 percent of the 

outstanding fractional interests. The 

Program continues to explore ways for 

additional less-fractioned locations to 

participate in buy-back efforts in an 

efficient and cost-effective manner. For 

example, the Buy-Back Program has 

received requests from tribes for 

reimbursement of past and future 

purchases of fractionated interests 

acquired under tribal or other land 

consolidation efforts. To date, no 

reimbursement requests have been 

awarded through the Buy-Back Program. 

Until the Program renders a decision on 

such reimbursement requests, no 

reimbursement requests will be granted, 

and tribes should not proceed with that 

expectation. The Program encourages 

the submission of comments or ideas on 

whether and how reimbursements might 

work. 

• Whereabouts Unknown. 

Whereabouts unknown (WAU) is the 

term used to describe IIM account 

holders without current address 

information on file with OST. The 

Settlement provides for an outreach 

effort to locate landowners whose 

whereabouts are unknown as of the date 

of final approval of the Settlement. The 

Program has not exercised WAU 

purchases thus far and is seeking input 

from tribes and individuals on whether 

and how it should implement the 

provision. Since the Program’s 

inception, the focus has been locating 

WAU through outreach efforts so the 

individuals can receive and consider an 

offer. 

• Improvements. Where structural 

improvements exist on a tract, a number 

of issues may complicate the acquisition 

of fractional interests in the tract. While 

the Program does not intend to acquire 

structural improvements, which are 

non-trust property, the Program seeks 

additional feedback from landowners 

and tribes about acquiring interests in 

tracts with structural improvements, 

including instances in which the 

Program might choose to acquire 

interests. For example, the Program 

might make offers for interests in a tract 

with non-residential structural 

improvements (e.g., a tract only with an 

uninhabited agricultural shed or hay 

barn), but not on tract where residences 

are located unless the tribe has a policy 

or resolution in place ensuring that 

residents’ interests are recognized and 

protected. 

• Public Domain. Under the 

Settlement, fractional interests acquired 

by the Program are to be immediately 

held in trust or restricted status for the 

recognized tribe that exercises 

jurisdiction over the land. When 

identifying the locations with fractional 

interests that may be consolidated, the 

Program excludes land area names that 

include the term public domain or off 

reservation because use of these terms 

indicate that there may be no recognized 

tribe that exercises jurisdiction over the 

land. The Program has encouraged 

feedback, however, on the list of 

locations in its 2012 and 2013 

implementation plans. Since then, the 

Program has received feedback from 

several tribes suggesting that certain 

land areas should be included. The 

Program is now seeking general 

feedback on whether and if so how the 

Program should incorporate public 

domain or off reservation land areas into 

the Program, including any suggested 

standards or processes that could be 

applied. 

IV. Additional Resources 

The Land Buy-Back Program for 

Tribal Nations 2014 Status Report and 

additional information about the BuyBack Program is available at: http://

www.doi.gov/buybackprogram. In 

addition, landowners can contact their 

local Fiduciary Trust Officer or call 

Interior’s Trust Beneficiary Call Center 

at (888) 678–6836. 

Dated: November 19, 2014. 

Michael L. Connor, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–ES–2015–N208; FXES11130000– 

xxx–FF08E00000] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Draft Recovery Plan for the 

Santa Ana Sucker (Catostomus 

santaanae) 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of document availability. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, announce the 

availability of the draft recovery plan for 

the Santa Ana sucker for public review 

and comment. The draft recovery plan 

includes recovery objectives and 

criteria, and specific actions necessary 

to achieve recovery and removal of the 

species from the Federal List of 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. 

We request review and comment on this 

draft recovery plan from local, State, 

and Federal agencies, and the public. 

DATES: We must receive any comments 

on the draft recovery plan on or before 

January 23, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

the draft recovery plan from our Web 

site at http://www.fws.gov/endangered/

species/recovery-plans.html. 

Alternatively, you may contact the 

Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 2177 Salk 

Avenue, Suite 250, Carlsbad, CA 92008 

(telephone 760–431–9440). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mendel Stewart, Field Supervisor, at the 

above street address or telephone 

number (see ADDRESSES). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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