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Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Responses 

per annum 

Burden hour 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Hourly cost 

per response Annual cost 

Total ............................. 1,000 1 1 5.5 5,500 $110.00 $110,000 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond; including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35. 

Dated: December 23, 2014. 

Michael Dennis, 

Director, Office of Housing Voucher 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00107 Filed 1–7–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5696–N–13] 

Third Allocation, Waivers, and 

Alternative Requirements for Grantees 

Receiving Community Development 

Block Grant Disaster Recovery 

(CDBG–DR) Funds in Response to 

Disasters Occurring in 2013 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice advises the public 

of a third allocation of Community 

Development Block Grant disaster 

recovery (CDBG–DR) funds for the 

purpose of assisting recovery in the 

most impacted and distressed areas 

identified in major disaster declarations 

in calendar year 2013. This is the 

seventh allocation of CDBG–DR funds 

under the Disaster Relief Appropriations 

Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113–2). In addition to 

an initial allocation for disasters 

occurring in 2013, prior allocations 

addressed the areas most impacted by 

Hurricane Sandy, as well as the areas 

most impacted by disasters occurring in 

2011 or 2012. In prior Federal Register 

notices, the Department described the 

allocations, relevant statutory 

provisions, the grant award process, 

criteria for Action Plan approval, 

eligible disaster recovery activities, and 

applicable waivers and alternative 

requirements. This Notice builds upon 

the requirements of those notices, and 

specifies that funds allocated through 

this notice are subject to all 

requirements in the notice published on 

June 3, 2014 (79 FR 31964). 

DATES: Effective Date: January 13, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stan 

Gimont, Director, Office of Block Grant 

Assistance, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., 

Room 7286, Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone number 202–708–3587. 

Persons with hearing or speech 

impairments may access this number 

via TTY by calling the Federal Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339. Facsimile 

inquiries may be sent to 202–401–2044. 

(Except for the ‘‘800’’ number, these 

telephone numbers are not toll-free.) 

Email inquiries may be sent to disaster_

recovery@hud.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Allocation 

II. Use of Funds 

III. Grant Amendment Process 

IV. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

V. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Appendix A: Allocation Methodology 

I. Allocation 

The Disaster Relief Appropriations 

Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113–2, approved 

January 29, 2013) (Appropriations Act) 

made available $16 billion in 

Community Development Block Grant 

disaster recovery (CDBG–DR) funds for 

necessary expenses related to disaster 

relief, long-term recovery, restoration of 

infrastructure and housing, and 

economic revitalization in the most 

impacted and distressed areas resulting 

from a major disaster declared pursuant 

to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

and Emergency Assistance Act of 1974 

(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) (Stafford Act), 

due to Hurricane Sandy and other 

eligible events in calendar years 2011, 

2012, and 2013. 

On March 1, 2013, the President 

issued a sequestration order pursuant to 

section 251A of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as 

amended (2 U.S.C. 901a), and reduced 

funding for CDBG–DR grants under the 

Appropriations Act to $15.18 billion. To 

date, a total of $15.1 billion has been 

allocated or set aside: $13 billion in 

response to Hurricane Sandy, $514 

million in response to disasters 

occurring in 2011 or 2012, $565 million 

in response to 2013 disasters, and $1 

billion set aside for the National 

Disaster Resilience Competition. This 

Notice advises the public of a third 

allocation for 2013 disasters—$89.8 

million is provided for the purpose of 

assisting recovery in the most impacted 

and distressed areas in Colorado, the 

city of Chicago, Illinois, Cook County, 

Illinois, and Du Page County, Illinois. 

As the Appropriations Act requires 

funds to be awarded directly to a state 

or unit of general local government 

(hereinafter, local government), the term 

‘‘grantee’’ refers to any jurisdiction 

receiving a direct award from HUD 

under this Notice. 

To comply with statutory direction 

that funds be used for disaster-related 

expenses in the most impacted and 

distressed areas, HUD computes 

allocations based on the best available 

data that cover all the eligible affected 

areas. Based on further review of the 

impacts from Presidentially-declared 

disasters that occurred in 2013, and 

estimates of remaining unmet need, this 

Notice provides the following awards: 

TABLE 1—ALLOCATIONS FOR DISASTERS OCCURRING IN 2013 

Grantee This allocation Second allocation First allocation Total 

State of Colorado ..................................................................... $58,246,000 $199,300,000 $62,800,000 $320,346,000 


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TABLE 1—ALLOCATIONS FOR DISASTERS OCCURRING IN 2013—Continued 

Grantee This allocation Second allocation First allocation Total 

State of Illinois ......................................................................... .............................. 6,800,000 3,600,000 10,400,000 

City of Chicago, IL ................................................................... 11,075,000 47,700,000 4,300,000 63,075,000 

Cook County, IL ....................................................................... 14,816,000 54,900,000 13,900,000 83,616,000 

Du Page County, IL ................................................................. 5,626,000 18,900,000 7,000,000 31,526,000 

State of Oklahoma ................................................................... .............................. 83,100,000 10,600,000 93,700,000 

City of Moore, OK .................................................................... .............................. 25,900,000 26,300,000 52,200,000 

Total .................................................................................. 89,763,000 436,600,000 128,500,000 654,863,000 

As outlined in Table 2, to ensure 

funds provided under this Notice 

address unmet needs within the ‘‘most 

impacted and distressed’’ counties, each 

local government receiving a direct 

award under this Notice must expend 

its entire CDBG–DR award within its 

jurisdiction (e.g., Cook County must 

expend all funds within Cook County, 

excluding the city of Chicago; the city 

of Chicago must expend all funds in the 

city of Chicago, including the portions 

of Cook and Du Page counties located 

within the city’s jurisdiction). The State 

of Colorado must expend at least 80 

percent of its funds in the most 

impacted counties of Boulder, Weld, 

and Larimer but may expend 20 percent 

(approximately $64 million from the 

combined first, second, and third 

allocations) in other State-identified 

most impacted and distressed area 

within counties having a declared major 

disaster in 2011, 2012 or 2013. The 

following link provides access to maps 

showing declared disasters in each state, 

by year: http://www.fema.gov/disasters/ 

grid/state-tribal-government. The 

opportunity for certain grantees to 

expend a portion of their allocations 

outside the most impacted and 

distressed counties identified by HUD 

enables those grantees to respond to 

highly localized distress identified via 

their own data. A detailed explanation 

of HUD’s allocation methodology is 

provided at Appendix A. 

TABLE 2—MOST IMPACTED AND DISTRESSED COUNTIES WITHIN WHICH FUNDS MAY BE EXPENDED

Grantee Most impacted and distressed 

counties 

Minimum 

percentage 

that must be 

expended in 

most impacted 

and distressed 

counties 

State of Colorado ....................................................................... Boulder, Weld and Larimer ........................................................ 80 

City of Chicago ........................................................................... City of Chicago; portions of the city in Cook and Du Page ....... 100 

Cook County ............................................................................... Cook ........................................................................................... 100 

Du Page County ......................................................................... Du Page ..................................................................................... 100 

II. Use of Funds 

This Notice builds upon the 

requirements of the Federal Register 

Notices published by the Department on 

March 5, 2013 (78 FR 14329), April 19, 

2013 (78 FR 23578), December 16, 2013 

(76 FR 76154), June 3, 2014 (79 FR 

31964), and July 11, 2014 (79 FR40133) 

referred to collectively in this Notice as 

the ‘‘Prior Notices’’. The Prior Notices 

can be accessed through the HUD 

Exchange Web site at https://

www.hudexchange.info/cdbg-dr/cdbgdr-laws-regulations-and-federal-registernotices/. In addition, the following links 

provide direct access to the Prior 

Notices: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/

FR-2013-03-05/pdf/2013-05170.pdf, 

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013- 

04-19/pdf/2013-09228.pdf, http://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-12-16/

pdf/2013-29834.pdf, http://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-06-03/

pdf/2014-12709.pdf, and http://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-07-11/

pdf/2014-16316.pdf. 

The requirements of this Notice 

parallel those established for other 

grantees receiving funds under the 

Appropriations Act in a Federal 

Register Notice published by the 

Department on November 18, 2013 (78 

FR 69104) and located at: http://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-11-18/

pdf/2013-27506.pdf. Additionally, the 

funds allocated in this Notice are bound 

by all of the same requirements as those 

found in the Federal Register Notice 

published by the Department on June 3, 

2014 (79 FR 31964), including the two 

year expenditure deadline located at: 

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014- 

06-03/pdf/2014-12709.pdf. 

As a reminder, the Appropriations 

Act requires funds to be used only for 

specific disaster-recovery related 

purposes. This allocation provides 

additional funds to areas impacted by 

disasters in 2013 for recovery, including 

mitigation and resilience as part of the 

recovery effort and directs grantees to 

undertake comprehensive planning to 

promote resilience as part of that effort. 

The law also requires that prior to the 

obligation of CDBG–DR funds, a grantee 

shall submit a plan detailing the 

proposed use of funds, including 

criteria for eligibility and how the use 

of these funds will address disaster 

relief, long-term recovery, restoration of 

infrastructure and housing, and 

economic revitalization in the most 

impacted and distressed areas. To 

access funds provided by the prior 

allocations, HUD approved an Action 

Plan and Action Plan amendments for 

each of the grantees identified as 

receiving funds under this Notice. 

Grantees are now directed to submit a 

substantial Action Plan Amendment in 

order to access funds provided in this 

Notice. For more guidance on 

requirements for substantial Action Plan 

Amendments, please see section III of 

this Notice. 

Note that, as provided by the HCD 

Act, funds may be used as a matching 

requirement, share, or contribution for 

any other federal program when used to 

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1 $15.2 billion after sequestration. 

However, pursuant to the requirements 

of the Appropriations Act, CDBG–DR 

funds may not be used for expenses 

reimbursable by, or for which funds are 

made available by FEMA or the United 

States Army Corps of Engineers 

(USACE). 

IV. Grant Amendment Process 

To access funds allocated by this 

Notice grantees must submit a 

substantial Action Plan Amendment to 

their approved Action Plan. Any 

substantial Action Plan Amendment 

submitted after the effective date of this 

Notice is subject to the following 

requirements: 

• Grantee consults with affected 

citizens, stakeholders, local 

governments and public housing 

authorities to determine updates to its 

needs assessment; in addition, grantee 

prepares a comprehensive risk analysis 

(see section V.3.d. of the June 3, 2014 

Notice); 

• Grantee amends its citizen 

participation plan to reflect the 

requirements of the June 3, 2014 Notice 

(e.g., new requirement for a public 

hearing); 

• Grantee publishes a substantial 

amendment to its previously approved 

Action Plan for Disaster Recovery on the 

grantee’s official Web site for no less 

than 30 calendar days and holds at least 

one public hearing to solicit public 

comment; 

• Grantee responds to public 

comment and submits its substantial 

Action Plan Amendment to HUD (with 

any additional certifications required by 

this Notice or Prior Notices) no later 

than 120 days after the effective date of 

this Notice; 

• HUD reviews the substantial Action 

Plan Amendment within 60 days from 

date of receipt and approves the 

Amendment according to criteria 

identified in the Prior Notices; 

• HUD sends an Action Plan 

Amendment approval letter, revised 

grant conditions (may not be applicable 

to all grantees), and an amended 

unsigned grant agreement to the grantee. 

If the substantial Amendment is not 

approved, a letter will be sent 

identifying its deficiencies; the grantee 

must then re-submit the Amendment 

within 45 days of the notification letter; 

• Grantee ensures that the HUDapproved substantial Action Plan 

Amendment (and updated Action Plan) 

is posted on its official Web site; 

• Grantee signs and returns the grant 

agreement; 

• HUD signs the grant agreement and 

revises the grantee’s line of credit 

amount; 

• If it has not already done so, grantee 

enters the activities from its published 

Action Plan Amendment into the 

Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting 

(DRGR) system and submits it to HUD 

within the system; 

• The grantee may draw down funds 

from the line of credit after the 

Responsible Entity completes applicable 

environmental review(s) pursuant to 24 

CFR part 58 (or paragraph A.20 under 

section VI of the March 5, 2013 Notice) 

and, as applicable, receives from HUD 

or the state an approved Request for 

Release of Funds and certification; 

• Grantee amends its published 

Action Plan to include its projection of 

expenditures and outcomes within 90 

days of the Action Plan Amendment 

approval as provided for in paragraph 

4.f. of section V of the June 3, 2014 

Notice; and 

• If not already completed, grantee 

updates its full consolidated plan to 

reflect disaster-related needs no later 

than its Fiscal Year 2015 consolidated 

plan update. 

VIII. Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance 

The Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance number for the disaster 

recovery grants under this Notice is as 

follows: 14.269. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

A Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) with respect to the 

environment has been made in 

accordance with HUD regulations at 24 

CFR part 50, which implement section 

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 

4332(2)(C)). The FONSI is available for 

public inspection between 8 a.m. and 5 

p.m. weekdays in the Regulations 

Division, Office of General Counsel, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 

10276, Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Due to security measures at the HUD 

Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the docket file 

must be scheduled by calling the 

Regulations Division at 202–708–3055 

(this is not a toll-free number). Hearing 

or speech-impaired individuals may 

access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339. 

Dated: December 31, 2014. 

Clifford Taffett, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

CDBG–DR Allocation Methodology— 

2013 Disasters Third Tranche 

HUD calculates the cost to rebuild the 

most impacted and distressed homes, 

businesses, and infrastructure back to 

pre-disaster conditions. From this base 

calculation, HUD calculates both the 

amount not covered by insurance and 

other federal sources to rebuild back to 

pre-disaster conditions as well as a 

‘‘resiliency’’ amount which is calculated 

at 30 percent of the total basic cost to 

rebuild back the most distressed flooded 

homes, businesses, and infrastructure to 

pre-disaster conditions; 10 percent for 

other disaster types (ie. tornadoes, 

severe storms, fires). The estimated cost 

to repair unmet needs are combined 

with the resiliency needs to calculate 

the total severe unmet needs estimated 

to achieve long-term recovery. This 

calculation of housing, business, and 

infrastructure needs is used to 

determine the relative share of funding 

among eligible disasters. 

Statutory Language for the Allocation 

Public Law 113–2 (January 29, 2013) 

provides the following language on how 

the Secretary shall allocate the funds: 

‘‘For an additional amount for 

‘‘Community Development Fund’’, 

$16,000,000,000,1 to remain available 

until September 30, 2017, for necessary 

expenses related to disaster relief, longterm recovery, restoration of 

infrastructure and housing, and 

economic revitalization in the most 

impacted and distressed areas resulting 

from a major disaster declared pursuant 

to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

and Emergency Assistance Act (42 

U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) due to Hurricane 

Sandy and other eligible events in 

calendar years 2011, 2012, and 2013, for 

activities authorized under title I of the 

Housing and Community Development 

Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.): 

Provided, That funds shall be awarded 

directly to the State or unit of general 

local government as a grantee at the 

discretion of the Secretary of Housing 

and Urban Development: Provided 

further, That the Secretary shall allocate 

to grantees not less than 33 percent of 

the funds provided under this heading 

within 60 days after the enactment of 

this division based on the best available 

data:’’ 

Available Data 

The ‘‘best available’’ data HUD staff 

have identified as being available to 

calculate unmet needs at this time for 

all disasters in 2011, 2012, and 2013 

meeting HUD’s Most Impacted and 

Distressed threshold comes from the 

following data sources: 

• FEMA Individual Assistance 

program data on housing unit damage; 


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2A Most Impacted disaster for non-Sandy 

disasters is a disaster where the severe housing and 

business unmet needs (excluding resiliency) exceed 

$25 million from counties with greater than $10 

million in unmet housing and business severe 

needs (excluding resiliency and area construction 

cost adjustment). 

• SBA for management of its disaster 

assistance loan program for housing 

repair and replacement; 

• SBA for management of its disaster 

assistance loan program for business 

real estate repair and replacement as 

well as content loss; and 

• FEMA Public Assistance, 

Department of Transportation Federal 

Transit Administration and Federal 

Highway Administration, Corps of 

Engineers, and US Department of 

Agriculture Emergency Watershed 

Restoration data on infrastructure. 

These funds are only allocated toward 

disasters in 2011, 2012, and 2013 

determined by HUD to be most 

impacted and distressed disasters.2

Calculating Unmet Housing Needs 

The core data on housing damage for 

both the unmet housing needs 

calculation and the concentrated 

damage are based on home inspection 

data for FEMA’s Individual Assistance 

program (extracted January 2014). For 

unmet housing needs, the FEMA data 

are supplemented by Small Business 

Administration data from its Disaster 

Loan Program (extracted January 2014). 

HUD calculates ‘‘unmet housing needs’’ 

as the number of housing units with 

unmet needs times the estimated cost to 

repair those units less repair funds 

already provided by FEMA, where: 

• Each of the FEMA inspected owner 

units are categorized by HUD into one 

of five categories: 

Æ Minor-Low: Less than $3,000 of 

FEMA inspected real property damage. 

Æ Minor-High: $3,000 to $7,999 of 

FEMA inspected real property damage. 

Æ Major-Low: $8,000 to $14,999 of 

FEMA inspected real property damage 

(if basement flooding only, damage 

categorization is capped at major-low). 

Æ Major-High: $15,000 to $28,800 of 

FEMA inspected real property damage 

and/or 4 to 6 feet of flooding on the first 

floor. 

Æ Severe: Greater than $28,800 of 

FEMA inspected real property damage 

or determined destroyed and/or 6 or 

more feet of flooding on the first floor. 

To meet the statutory requirement of 

‘‘most impacted and distressed’’ in this 

legislative language, homes are 

determined to have a high level of 

damage if they have damage of ‘‘majorlow’’ or higher. That is, they have a real 

property FEMA inspected damage of 

$8,000 or flooding over 4 foot. 

Furthermore, a homeowner is 

determined to have unmet needs if they 

have received a FEMA grant to make 

home repairs. For homeowners with a 

FEMA grant and insurance for the 

covered event, HUD assumes that the 

unmet need ‘‘gap’’ is 20 percent of the 

difference between total damage and the 

FEMA grant. 

• FEMA does not inspect rental units 

for real property damage so personal 

property damage is used as a proxy for 

unit damage. Each of the FEMA 

inspected renter units are categorized by 

HUD into one of five categories: 

Æ Minor-Low: Less than $1,000 of 

FEMA inspected personal property 

damage. 

Æ Minor-High: $1,000 to $1,999 of 

FEMA inspected personal property 

damage. 

Æ Major-Low: $2,000 to $3,499 of 

FEMA inspected personal property 

damage (if basement flooding only, 

damage categorization is capped at 

major-low). 

Æ Major-High: $3,500 to $7,499 of 

FEMA inspected personal property 

damage or 4 to 6 feet of flooding on the 

first floor. 

Æ Severe: Greater than $7,500 of 

FEMA inspected personal property 

damage or determined destroyed and/or 

6 or more feet of flooding on the first 

floor. 

For rental properties, to meet the 

statutory requirement of ‘‘most 

impacted and distressed’’ in this 

legislative language, homes are 

determined to have a high level of 

damage if they have damage of ‘‘majorlow’’ or higher. That is, they have a 

FEMA personal property damage 

assessment of $2,000 or greater or 

flooding over 4 foot. Furthermore, 

landlords are presumed to have 

adequate insurance coverage unless the 

unit is occupied by a renter with income 

of $30,000 or less. Units are occupied by 

a tenant with income less than $30,000 

are used to calculate likely unmet needs 

for affordable rental housing. For those 

units occupied by tenants with incomes 

under $30,000, HUD estimates unmet 

needs as 75 percent of the estimated 

repair cost. 

• The median cost to fully repair a 

home for a specific disaster to code 

within each of the damage categories 

noted above is calculated using the 

average real property damage repair 

costs determined by the Small Business 

Administration for its disaster loan 

program for the subset of homes 

inspected by both SBA and FEMA. 

Because SBA is inspecting for full repair 

costs, it is presumed to reflect the full 

cost to repair the home, which is 

generally more than the FEMA estimates 

on the cost to make the home habitable. 

If fewer than 100 SBA inspections are 

made for homes within a FEMA damage 

category, the estimated damage amount 

in the category for that disaster has a 

cap applied at the 75th percentile of all 

damaged units for that category for all 

disasters and has a floor applied at the 

25th percentile. 

Calculating Unmet Infrastructure Needs 

• To proxy unmet infrastructure 

needs, HUD uses data from FEMA’s 

Public Assistance program on the state 

match requirement (extracted January 

2014). This allocation uses only a subset 

of the Public Assistance damage 

estimates reflecting the categories of 

activities most likely to require CDBG– 

DR funding above the Public Assistance 

and state match requirement. Those 

activities are categories: C—Roads and 

Bridges; D—Water Control Facilities; 

E—Public Buildings; F—Public Utilities; 

and G—Recreational-Other. Categories 

A (Debris Removal) and B (Protective 

Measures) are largely expended 

immediately after a disaster and reflect 

interim recovery measures rather than 

the long-term recovery measures for 

which CDBG–DR funds are generally 

used. 

For the third round of CDBG–DR 

funding for Sandy recovery, HUD also 

includes data from the USDA 

Emergency Watershed Repair Program 

(extracted May 2014). For most 

impacted disasters in 2011, 2012, and 

2013 that have not received 

supplemental funding to address 

watershed repairs, HUD includes the 

estimated unmet repair costs calculated 

by USDA in the unmet repair needs 

calculation. 

Calculating Economic Revitalization 

(Small Business) Needs 

• Based on SBA disaster loans to 

businesses (extracted January 2014), 

HUD used the sum of real property and 

real content loss of small businesses not 

receiving an SBA disaster loan. This is 

adjusted upward by the proportion of 

applications that were received for a 

disaster that content and real property 

loss were not calculated because the 

applicant had inadequate credit or 

income. For example, if a state had 160 

applications for assistance, 150 had 

calculated needs and 10 were denied in 

the pre-processing stage for not enough 

income or poor credit, the estimated 

unmet need calculation would be 

increased as (1 + 10/160) * calculated 

unmet real content loss. 

• Because applications denied for 

poor credit or income are the most 

likely measure of needs requiring the 

type of assistance available with CDBG– 


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3The 30 percent multiplier for flooding disasters 

is the approximate additional cost to elevate a 

newly constructed home; the 10 percent multiplier 

is the approximate additional cost to add a safe 

room. 

DR funds, the calculated unmet 

business needs for each state are 

adjusted upwards by the proportion of 

total applications that were denied at 

the pre-process stage because of poor 

credit or inability to show repayment 

ability. Similar to housing, estimated 

damage is used to determine what 

unmet needs will be counted as severe 

unmet needs. Only properties with total 

real estate and content loss in excess of 

$30,000 are considered severe damage 

for purposes of identifying the most 

impacted and distressed areas. 

Æ Category 1: real estate + content 

loss = below $12,000 

Æ Category 2: real estate + content 

loss = $12,000 to $30,000 

Æ Category 3: real estate + content 

loss = $30,000 to $65,000 

Æ Category 4: real estate + content 

loss = $65,000 to $150,000 

Æ Category 5: real estate + content 

loss = above $150,000 

To obtain unmet business needs, the 

amount for approved SBA loans is 

subtracted out of the total estimated 

damage. 

Resiliency Needs 

CDBG DR funds are often used to not 

only support rebuilding to pre-storm 

conditions, but also to build back much 

stronger. For the disasters covered by 

this Notice, HUD has required that 

grantees use their funds in a way that 

results in rebuilding back stronger so 

that future disasters do less damage and 

recovery can happen faster. To calculate 

these resiliency costs, HUD multiplied 

its estimates of total repair costs for 

seriously damaged homes, small 

businesses, and infrastructure by 30 

percent for flooding disasters and 10 

percent for other disasters.3 Total repair 

costs are the repair costs including costs 

covered by insurance, SBA, FEMA, and 

other federal agencies. The resiliency 

estimate is intended to reflect some of 

the unmet needs associated with 

building to higher standards such as 

elevating homes, voluntary buyouts, 

hardening, and other costs in excess of 

normal repair costs. 

Housing and Small Business 

Construction Cost Adjustment 

For grantees with housing 

construction costs above the national 

average, HUD increases their estimated 

housing and business construction costs 

using the same Marshall & Swift 

regional cost adjustment multipliers as 

used for HUD’s annual calculation of 

Total Development Costs developed for 

HUD’s public housing repair programs. 

No estimate of damage is reduced by the 

multiplier (ie. if the Marshall & Swift 

adjustment is less than 1, the 

adjustment is set at 1). 

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Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; 

Notice To Amend an Existing System 

of Records 

AGENCY: Office of the Special Trustee for 

American Indians, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of amendment to an 

existing system of records. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 

the Department of the Interior is issuing 

a public notice of its intent to amend the 

Office of the Special Trustee for 

American Indians Privacy Act system of 

records, ‘‘Individual Indian Money (IIM) 

Trust Funds–Interior, OS–02,’’ to 

combine the existing system of records 

with the OST Privacy Act system of 

records, ‘‘Accounting Reconciliation 

Tool (ART)—Interior, OS–11’’ into one 

system of records for efficiency 

purposes and to promote the overall 

streamlining and management of 

Department of the Interior Privacy Act 

systems of records. This amendment 

will also update the system location, 

categories of individuals covered by the 

system, categories of records in the 

system, authority for maintenance of the 

system, storage, safeguards, retention 

and disposal, system manager and 

address, notification procedures, 

records access and contesting 

procedures, records source categories, 

and the routine uses to include 

activities related to land consolidation 

of fractionated lands. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

February 17, 2015. The amendments to 

the system will be effective February 17, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Any person interested in 

commenting on this notice may do so 

by: submitting comments in writing to 

Veronica Herkshan, Office of the Special 

Trustee for American Indians Privacy 

Act Officer, 4400 Masthead Street NE., 

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109; handdelivering comments to Veronica 

Herkshan, Office of the Special Trustee 

for American Indians Privacy Act 

Officer, 4400 Masthead Street NE., 

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87109; or 

emailing comments to veronica _

herkshan@ost.doi.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chief of Staff, Office of the Special 

Trustee for American Indians, 1849 C 

Street NW., Room 3254, Washington, 

DC 20240, or by telephone at 202–208– 

4866. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

I. Background 

The Department of the Interior (DOI), 

Office of the Special Trustee for 

American Indians (OST), maintains the 

‘‘Individual Indian Money (IIM) Trust 

Funds—Interior, OS–02,’’ system of 

records. Due to a recent reorganization 

of OST and the Office of Historical 

Accounting, DOI is proposing to 

combine the OST Privacy Act system of 

records, ‘‘Individual Indian Money (IIM) 

Trust Funds—Interior, OS–02,’’ with the 

OST Privacy Act system of records, 

‘‘Accounting Reconciliation Tool 

(ART)—Interior, OS–11,’’ for efficiency 

purposes and to promote the overall 

streamlining and management of DOI 

Privacy Act systems of records. The two 

systems have the same authorities and 

purpose, to manage the collection, 

distribution, and disbursement of Indian 

Trust land income; are managed by the 

same system manager within OST; and 

have the same or similar categories of 

records, categories of individuals, and 

routine uses. 

The IIM system will assist OST in 

meeting the fiduciary responsibilities 

set forth in the American Indian Trust 

Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 

including management of the receipt, 

investment, disbursement and 

administration of money held in trust 

for individual Indians and Alaskan 

Natives (or their heirs), and Indian 

Tribes; and ensure timely, accurate, and 

consistent responses to beneficiary 

inquiries. The system also assists the 

OST in providing litigation support in 

analyzing and reconciling the historical 

collection, distribution, and 

disbursement of income from IIM 

accounts, Indian trust land, and other 

revenue sources. The amendments to 

this system includes updating the 

system locations, categories of 

individuals covered by the system, 

categories of records in the system, 

authority for maintenance of the system, 

storage, safeguards, retention and 

disposal, system manager and address, 

notification procedures, records access 

and contesting procedures, records 

source categories, and updating the 

routine uses to include activities related 

to land consolidation of fractionated 


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