[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 189 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50672-50673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24202]




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Part II





Department of Housing and Urban Development





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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing



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Notice of Fund Availability for Fiscal Year 1995 for the Section 8 
Rental Voucher Program and Rental Certificate Program

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
[Docket No. FR-3849-N-04]


Notice of Fund Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal Year 1995 For the 
Section 8 Rental Voucher Program and Rental Certificate Program

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

ACTION: Revision to the notice of fund availability (NOFA) for fiscal 
year (FY) 1995 for the rental voucher program and rental certificate 
program.

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SUMMARY: The Department published the FY 1995 Notice of Fund 
Availability (NOFA) in the Federal Register on March 3, 1995 (60 FR 
12036) for the Section 8 rental voucher program and rental certificate 
program. Corrections to that NOFA were published on April 17, 1995 (60 
FR 19278) and on July 27, 1995 (60 FR 38567). This Notice cancels parts 
of the FY 1995 NOFA to comply with the provisions of the Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-19, 109 Stat. 194, 
dated July 27, 1995) (the Act), which rescinded most of the FY 1995 
appropriations for incremental funding under the Section 8 rental 
voucher and rental certificate programs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerald J. Benoit, Director, Operations 
Division, Office of Rental Assistance, Office of Public and Indian 
Housing, Room 4220, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 
Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20410-8000, telephone (202) 708-
0477. Hearing-impaired or speech-impaired individuals may call HUD's 
TDD number (202) 708-4594. (These telephone numbers are not toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The original 1995 NOFA provided for funding in the following 
categories: (1) Fair Share Allocations; (2) Mainstream Housing; (3) 
Homeless Families (non-competitive process); (4) Persons with AIDS 
(non-competitive process); (5) Section 8 Counseling; (6) Family Self-
Sufficiency (``FSS'') Service Coordinators; (7) Family Unification; (8) 
Relocation, Demolition and Disposition, and Replacement Housing; (9) 
Rental Voucher and Rental Certificate Renewals; (10) Section 23 
Conversions; (11) Section 8 Amendments; (12) Housing Agency Portability 
Fees; (13) Natural disasters, Other Housing Emergencies, Litigation, 
and Desegregation of Public Housing; (14) FY 1994 funding for Homeless 
Persons With Disabilities; (15) FY 1994 funding for Homeless Veterans; 
(16) FY 1994 funding for Family Unification; and (17) FY 1994 funding 
for FSS Service Coordinators.
    On July 25, 1995, the Act rescinded funding for incremental 
allocations that had not yet been obligated. The Act allows HUD to use 
any remaining appropriations, after rescission, for new incremental 
rental assistance to fund Section 8 applications only for the following 
specific purposes: (a) For residents to be relocated from existing 
federally subsidized or assisted housing, (b) for replacement housing 
for units demolished or disposed of (including units disposed of 
pursuant to homeownership programs under section 5(h) or title III 
(HOPE 1 and HOPE 2) of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937), (c) for funds 
related to litigation settlements or court orders, (d) for amendments 
to contracts to permit continued assistance to participating families, 
and (e) to enable public housing authorities to implement ``mixed 
population plans'' for developments housing primarily elderly 
residents.

II. Departmental Action

    HUD is canceling the previous FY 1995 NOFA with respect to funding 
under several of the subprograms to which the Rescission Act applies. 
Under the FY 1995 NOFA, HUD intends to award incremental funding for 
applications submitted for only the following components of the 
program: the family unification subprogram (category 7); the mainstream 
housing opportunities for persons with disabilities subprogram in 
connection with designated housing allocation plans (part of category 2 
related to designated housing). Funding for the first of these programs 
remained after the rescission, and funding for the second category fits 
within the Rescission Act's category (e).
    In addition, the Department intends to renew the funding for the 
family self-sufficiency (FSS) service coordinators for housing agencies 
(HAs) awarded FY 1994 funding (category 17), as well as to fund rental 
voucher and rental certificate renewals (category 9), section 23 
conversions (category 10), Section 8 amendments (category 11), and 
special portability fees (category 12). This funding is not incremental 
funding, and so not prohibited by the Rescission Act. Some subprograms 
also will be funded from carryover funds, to the extent they are 
available.
    Accordingly, the Department is revising the March 3, 1995, NOFA (60 
FR 12036) as follows:
    1. Of the amounts appropriated for the family unification program, 
$15 million was rescinded leaving approximately $73 million in FY 1995 
funding for applications submitted in response to the NOFA. Therefore, 
applications will be awarded in accordance with the lottery process 
described in the March 3, 1995, NOFA (60 FR 12045), as limited by the 
amount of funding now available.
    2. Applications were submitted for approximately $17.3 million in 
response to the NOFA for the mainstream housing for persons with 
disabilities subprogram for use in connection with designated housing 
allocation plans. HUD will approve the Section 8 applications for all 
HAs that submitted a designated housing allocation plan that is also 
approved by HUD.
    3. The Department will not fund applications submitted in response 
to the NOFA for the following subprograms due to the rescission of 
appropriations:
    A. Fair Share;
    B. Mainstream Housing Opportunities (General Program only);
    C. Homeless Families; and
    D. Persons with HIV/AIDS.
    4. Section IX(H), ``FY 94 NOFA for Homeless Persons with 
Disabilities'', of the March 3, 1995 NOFA (60 FR 12058) stated that HUD 
would issue funds to the HAs selected for funding in response to the 
February 1, 1994 NOFA (59 FR 4758). In September 1994, a portion of the 
funds available for the FY 1994 NOFA were reserved and subsequently 
annual contribution contracts were executed. All other funds available 
under the FY 1994 NOFA that were not committed under Annual 
Contributions Contracts with specific HAs in September of FY 1994 are 
no longer available.
    5. The funds remaining for the family self-sufficiency service 
coordinator subprogram were reduced to approximately $8.7 million for 
FY 1995. These funds will be awarded to those housing agencies awarded 
funding in response to the NOFA published on August 29, 1994 (59 FR 
44550). As indicated in the March 3, 1995 NOFA, HUD will provide FY 
1995 funding to all the HAs that received funding in response to the 
August 29, 1994 NOFA at 103 percent of the amount of FY 1994 funds 
awarded. New or revised applications from previously funded HAs or 
applications from new HAs will not be considered by HUD.
    6. Of the funds available for the Section 8 counseling subprogram, 
$70 million was rescinded, leaving $101 

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million. Some of these funds already were reserved for use in 
connection with litigation, and the remaining funds are not sufficient 
to fund the applications submitted in response to the NOFA. As a 
result, HUD will publish a new NOFA for Section 8 counseling inviting 
public housing agencies to apply under the terms of the new NOFA.
    7. HUD will continue to make funds available to fulfill relocation 
and replacement housing, voucher and certificate renewals, voucher and 
certificate needs in connection with litigation, Section 23 
conversions, Section 8 amendments, and Section 8 counseling needs in 
connection with litigation and relocation of families from public 
housing. HUD will notify the housing agencies that are selected to 
receive funding under these subprogram categories. HUD also will 
continue to fund HA requests for special portability fees; HA requests 
should continue to be submitted directly to the HUD State or Area 
Office.
    8. HUD plans to destroy all applications submitted in response to 
the FY 1995 NOFA for all subprograms for which no funds will be made 
available. Any HAs interested in having their unfunded applications 
returned should contact the following: for all subprograms other than 
Section 8 counseling--the Office of Public Housing or the Office of 
Native American Programs, as applicable, in the local HUD office; for 
Section 8 counseling--Mr. Laurence Pearl, Office of Program Standards 
and Evaluation, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO), Room 5226, 
451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-0288, 
ext. 265. Hearing-impaired or speech-impaired individuals may call 
FHEO's TDD number (202) 708-4112.

    Dated: September 21, 1995.
Joseph Shuldiner,
 Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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