Pennsylvania Code › Title 12 - COMMERCE, TRADE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT › Part V - Community Affairs and Development › Subpart C - Community Development and Housing › Chapter 141 - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 141.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Act
-The Community Development Block
						Grant Entitlement Program for Nonurban Counties and Certain Other
						Municipalities (35 P. S. §§
												1751-1765).
CDBG
-The Federal Community Development
						Block Grant Program administered directly by the United States Department of
						Housing and Urban Development, under Title I of the Housing and Community
						Development Act of 1974 ( 42
						U.S.C.A. §§
												5301 -
						5320.
County net population
-The population of
						eligible municipalities within the county except entitled cities, boroughs,
						towns and townships.
Department
-The Department of Community
						and Economic Development.
Discretionary grant
-For FFY 1984, the
						program funds allocated for grant assistance that are administered directly by
						the Department and distributed on a Statewide basis to eligible entities. For
						FFY 1985 and thereafter, funds allocated to the Department to provide
						assistance to nonentitlement entities and to eligible entitlement entities with
						populations less than 10,000.
Eligible entitlement entity
-An eligible
						county, city, borough, town or township that has a population of 4,000 or more,
						and has been designated as UDAG-eligible at the time of filing for funds under
						the Commonwealth program.
Eligible local government
-A county,
						city, borough, town, township or opt-out community eligible to participate in
						the Commonwealth program. The term does not include urban counties or their
						municipalities, metropolitan cities, boroughs or townships that receive annual
						CDBG entitlements.
Entitlement grant
-For FFY 1985 and
						thereafter, the total cumulative FFY funds available over a 3-year period that
						are allocated by the Department to an entitlement entity. The term includes
						minimum and additional funds as determined by formula under the act.
FFY
-Federal fiscal year.
HUD
-The United States Department of
						Housing and Urban Development.
LPA-Local Public Agency
-A redevelopment
						authority under the Urban Redevelopment Law (35 P. S. §§
												1701-1747) or a housing authority under the
						Housing Authorities Law (35 P. S. §§
												1541-1595.9).
Low- and moderate-income household or
						lower-income household
-A household which has an income equal to or
						less than the Section 8 lower-income limits as determined by HUD.
Low- and moderate-income person or lower-income
						person
-A member of a family who has an income equal to or less than
						the Section 8 lower income limit as determined by HUD for the Section 8 Housing
						Assistance Payments programs. Unrelated individuals are one person
						families.
Low-income household
-A household which
						has an income equal to or less than the Section 8 very low-income limit as
						determined by HUD for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments program.
Low-income person
-A member of a family
						having an income equal to or less than the Section 8 very-low income limit as
						determined by HUD for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments program.
						Unrelated individuals are one-person families.
Metropolitan city, town or township
-A
						municipality in this Commonwealth which has been so designated by HUD under the
						CDBG as of FFY 1984, and which receives a direct CDBG annual entitlement from
						HUD.
Moderate-income household
-A household
						which has an income equal to or less than the Section 8 lower-income limit and
						greater than the Section 8 very low-income limit, as determined by HUD for the
						Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments program.
Moderate-income person
-A member of a
						family which has an income equal to or less than the Section 8 lower-income
						limit and greater than the Section 8 very low-income limit, as determined by
						HUD for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments program. Unrelated
						individuals are one-person families.
Population
-The number of inhabitants of
						a local government or class of local governments listed in the 1980 decennial
						census.
Program
-The Community Development Block
						Grant Entitlement Program for Nonurban Counties and Certain Other
						Municipalities.
Project
-Related eligible activities
						undertaken by an eligible local government under an entitlement a discretionary
						grant from the Department.
UDAG
-The Federal Urban Development
						Action Grant program which periodically designates certain local governments as
						meeting UDAG current minimum standards of physical and economic
						distress.
Urban county
-A county in this
						Commonwealth which has been so designated by HUD under the CDBG as of FFY 1984,
						and which receives a direct CDBG annual entitlement from HUD.