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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
[Docket No. N-94-3720; FR-3617-N-03]

 

Amendment to NOFA for Fiscal Year 1994 for Indian Applicants 
Under the HOME Program

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

ACTION: Notice of amendment to Fiscal Year (FY) 1994 Notice of Funding 
Availability (NOFA) for Indian HOME Program.

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SUMMARY: This notice modifies the Fiscal Year (FY) 1994 Indian HOME 
NOFA to reflect statutory changes regarding environmental review 
requirements, as amended in the Multifamily Housing Property 
Disposition Reform Act of 1994. This notice also includes a 
modification to Appendix 1. List of Local Offices of Native American 
Programs, specifically pertaining to the Denver Office and clarifies 
the process for addressing computational errors in the rating and 
ranking of applications.

DATES: The application due date is not affected by this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dom Nessi, Director, Office of Native 
American Programs, Room 4140, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20410, telephone (202) 708-1015. A telecommunications device for speech 
and/or hearing impaired persons (TDD) is available at (202) 708-0850. 
(These are not toll-free telephone numbers.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice amends the FY 94 NOFA for Indian 
Applicants under the HOME Program (59 FR 11424; March 10, 1994) at 
section I.(e)(4)(iii)(C), which deals with the selection criteria 
pertaining to environmental review. The amendment is made to reflect 
changes resulting from The Multifamily Housing Property Disposition 
Reform Act of 1994 (MHPDR ACT) (Pub. L. 102-233, approved April 11, 
1994). The changes involve removing the requirement that after rating 
and ranking but before selection for award, HUD Field ONAPs will 
perform an environmental review of applications in accordance with 24 
CFR part 50, and that applications may be reranked or disqualified on 
the basis of the environmental review. These provisions are replaced 
with the provision that after rating and ranking, applicants with the 
highest scores will be selected and offered awards. The grantee must 
assume responsibility for completing the environmental review of the 
project under 24 CFR part 58. In accordance with 24 CFR part 58, until 
the grantee completes its environmental review and obtains a release of 
funds from HUD, the grantee may not commit HOME funds to activities 
(unless the activities are exempt from review under 24 CFR part 58), or 
expend any other funds for activities unless they are exempt or would 
not have an adverse environmental impact or limit the choice of 
reasonable alternatives. However, a grantee may expend HOME or other 
funds on environmental reviews, exempt under 24 CFR part 58, before 
obtaining a release of funds to be used for non-exempt purposes from 
HUD.
    This notice adds a new paragraph I.(e)(4)(iii)(E) which clarifies 
that unsuccessful applicants may notify the ONAP, within 90 days of 
being informed of their score, of computational errors in the rating 
and ranking. This paragraph provides for the correction of such errors 
in rating and ranking and, if the error denied funding of the 
applicant, provides for funding the application in subsequent funding 
cycles.
    This notice also amends Appendix 1 of the FY 1994 Indian Home 
Program NOFA by including a new address for the Denver Office of Native 
American Programs.
    Accordingly, the following modifications are made in FR Doc. 94-
5535 to the NOFA titled, ``NOFA For Fiscal Year 1994 For Indian 
Applicants Under The HOME Program'', published on March 10, 1994 (59 FR 
11424):
    1. On page 11429, paragraph I.(e)(4)(iii)(C), which appears in the 
first column, is revised to read as follows:
    (C) Selection. The ranking process will produce an ordered list of 
projects that may receive funding. The order is established by the 
number of points the project received in the rating process. The 
eligibility requirement for further consideration will be 50 out of 100 
points. Project applications scoring lower than 50 points will be set 
aside as non-responsive and ineligible. After rating and ranking, 
applicants with the highest scores will be selected and offered awards. 
The grantee must assume responsibility for completing the environmental 
review of the project under 24 CFR part 58. In accordance with 24 CFR 
part 58, until the grantee completes its environmental review and 
obtains a release of funds from HUD, the grantee may not commit HOME 
funds to activities (unless the activities are exempt from review under 
24 CFR part 58), or expend any other funds for activities unless they 
are exempt or would not have an adverse environmental impact or limit 
the choice of reasonable alternatives. Environmental studies are exempt 
under 24 CFR part 58 and therefore a grantee may expend HOME or other 
funds on environmental reviews before obtaining a release of funds to 
be used for non-exempt purposes from HUD. For the purposes of 
geographic diversity, HUD may award at least one grant to each of the 
areas covered by the Offices of Indian Programs listed in Appendix 1.
    2. On page 11429, a new paragraph I.(e)(4)(iii)(E) is added to read 
as follows:
    (E) Errors in rating and ranking. Applicants may bring 
computational errors in the rating and ranking of applications to the 
attention of ONAP within 90 days of being informed of their score. If 
an ONAP review determines that there was a computational error that 
denied funding to the applicant, the applicant will be funded out of 
remaining funds in the challenged round of funding, or out of the next 
available round of funding.
    3. On page 11430, in Appendix 1., which appears in the first 
column, the address for the Denver Office of Native American Programs 
is revised to read as follows:

Region VIII--Denver, Office of Native American Programs, First 
Interstate Tower North, 633 17th Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-3607, 
303-672-5467, TDD Number: 303672-5259.

    Dated: August 18, 1994.
Joseph Shuldiner,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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