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[FR Doc No: 94-14059]


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[Federal Register: June 9, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
[Docket No. N-94-3714; FR-3397-N-04]

 

NOFA for Public and Indian Housing Family Investment Centers; 
Amendment and Notice of Waiver of Requirements

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

ACTION: Amendment and notice of waiver of publication requirements.

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SUMMARY: This notice further amends a NOFA that was published in the 
Federal Register on February 28, 1994 (59 FR 9592), and was amended on 
April 19, 1994 (59 FR 18570). This amendment: (1) Includes 
Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) language, where 
appropriate; (2) decreases the amount of funds made available 
competitively under the NOFA for Family Investment Centers (FIC) for 
Public and Indian Housing; and (3) announces the award of $2 million to 
the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) on an emergency basis for eligible 
purposes. In conjunction with the announcement of the award to the CHA, 
the Secretary is also publishing his reasons for waiving the 
requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 102(a) of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marcia Y. Martin, Office of Resident 
Initiatives (ORI), or Dom Nessi, Director, Office of Native American 
Programs (ONAP), Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20410; telephone numbers: ORI (202) 708-
3611; and ONAP (202) 708-1015 (these are not toll-free numbers). 
Hearing- or speech-impaired persons may use the Telecommunications 
Device for the Deaf (TDD) by contacting the Federal Information Relay 
Service on 1-800-877-8339 or 202-708-9300 (not a toll-free number) for 
information on the program.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 28, 1994, the Department 
published its NOFA for Public and Indian Housing Family Investment 
Centers (59 FR 9592).
    The NOFA was amended for the first time on April 19, 1994 (59 FR 
18570), and is being amended further by this notice. This amendment 
clarifies that Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) 
language was inadvertently left out of the NOFA, in the sections on 
Ranking Factors and Checklist of Application Submission Requirements.
    The Department also is announcing that of the $69 million being 
made available under the NOFA, it intends to make $2 million available 
immediately to the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) for purposes of 
demonstrating in public housing comprehensive, coordinated, and 
strategic approaches to neighborhood revitalization and the serious 
issue of violent crime reduction. As a result, the amount of funding 
available for competitive awards under the NOFA is decreased to $67 
million.
    Recently, the Department was charged by the President with 
determining effective measures for addressing the urgent problems of 
violent crime at public housing developments in Chicago, such as in the 
Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway developments. As a result of dialogues 
and needs assessments undertaken with CHA and local agencies and 
service providers, HUD determined that comprehensive, long-term efforts 
would be most effective in addressing the lack of educational and 
employment training opportunities for residents of those developments.
    The Secretary has also determined, under section 102(a)(5) of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (42 
U.S.C. 3545(a)) (HUD Reform Act), that the Department's Family 
Investment Centers program is an appropriate emergency funding resource 
to address the range of services identified by CHA. The funds will be 
used to: coordinate services utilizing public and private resources; 
assess and address personal welfare issues, and correlated crime; 
expand and improve the delivery of support services; provide funding 
for essential training and services that cannot otherwise be provided; 
improve the capacity of management to assess the training and service 
needs of eligible families; and coordinate the provision of training 
and services that meet such needs. HUD expects that this funding will 
demonstrate the importance of long-term commitments to local 
neighborhood revitalization and to servicing the educational, 
employment, and personal welfare needs of public housing residents, 
thereby reducing crime and its root causes.
    In making his determination that the requirements of paragraphs 
(1), (2), and (3) of section 102(a) of the HUD Reform Act should be 
waived to make FIC funds available immediately to CHA, the Secretary 
has stated:

    There is an immediate need to effect this funding because of the 
emergency provisions which prevail in Chicago. As you know, we have 
already committed to make modernization assistance available to CHA 
out of the special reserve under section 14(k) of the 1937 Act 
[United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. 14371] for 
emergencies. The CHA emergency includes severe problems of firearms 
control, drugs, and youth gangs, all of which have been demonstrated 
in the recent CHA ``sweeps'' efforts. These same near-siege 
conditions apply to Family Investment Center funding. (Secretary's 
Memorandum on Family Investment Center Emergency Determination, June 
3, 1994.)

    Accordingly, FR Doc. 94-4413, the NOFA for Public and Indian 
Housing Family Investment Centers, published at 59 FR 9592 (February 
28, 1994), and amended at 59 FR 18570 (April 19, 1994), is further 
amended as follows:
    1. In the Summary on page 9592, column 1, the first sentence is 
amended by revising the total amount of funding available under the 
NOFA from ``$69 million'' to ``$67 million''.
    2. Under the heading ``Allocation Amounts'' on page 9592, in the 
third column, the first sentence of the second paragraph is amended by 
revising the total amount of funding available under the NOFA from 
``$69 million to ``$67 million'', and the following new sentence is 
added to the end of the second paragraph, as amended, to read as 
follows:
    Further, the Department intends to make $2 million available 
immediately as emergency funds for the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), 
for purposes of demonstrating in public housing developments a 
comprehensive, coordinated, and strategic approach to neighborhood 
revitalization and the serious issue of violent crime reduction.
    3. On page 9596, column 1, paragraph (j) of Section I.G(1) is 
revised to read as follows:
    (j) The extent to which the HA has demonstrated that it will commit 
to its FIC part of its formula allocation of Comprehensive Grant 
Program (CGP)/Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) funds 
for CGP/CIAP-eligible activities that result in employment, training, 
and contracting opportunities for eligible residents [25 points].
    4. On page 9596, column 2, paragraph (k) of Section I.G(2) is 
revised to read as follows:
    (k) The extent to which the HA has demonstrated that it will commit 
to its FIC part of its formula allocation of Comprehensive Grant 
Program (CGP)/Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) funds 
for CGP/CIAP eligible activities that result in employment, training, 
and contracting opportunities for eligible residents [25 points].
    5. On page 9597, column 2, paragraph (18) of Section III.A is 
revised to read as follows:
    (18) Certification of the extent to which the HA will commit to its 
FIC part of its formula allocation of Comprehensive Grant Program 
(CGP)/Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) funds for 
CGP/CIAP-eligible activities that result in employment, training, and 
contracting opportunities for eligible residents;
    6. On page 9598, column 1, paragraph (5) of Section III.B is 
revised to read as follows:
    (5) Certification of the extent to which the HA will commit to its 
FIC part of its formula allocation of Comprehensive Grant Program 
(CGP)/Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) funds for 
CGP/CIAP-eligible activities that result in employment, training, and 
contracting opportunities for eligible residents.
    7. On page 9599, column 1, paragraph (11) of Section III.C is 
revised to read as follows:
    (11) Certification of the extent to which the HA will commit to its 
FIC part of its formula allocation of Comprehensive Grant Program 
(CGP)/Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) funds for 
CGP/CIAP-eligible activities that result in employment, training, and 
contracting opportunities for eligible residents.

    Dated: June 3, 1994.
Joseph Shuldiner,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 94-14059 Filed 6-8-94; 8:45 am]
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