[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 10361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5921]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-3875-N-02]


Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing; 
Announcement of Funding Awards for Lead-Based Paint (LBP) Risk 
Assessments--Fiscal Year 1995

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

ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this document 
notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year 1995 under the 
Lead-Based Paint Risk Assessments. This announcement contains the names 
and addresses of the awardees and the amount of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Flood, Director, Office of 
Capital Improvement, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 
Seventh Street, SW, Room 4134, Washington, D.C. 20410, telephone (202) 
708-1640 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired 
persons may use the Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD) by 
contacting the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1992 (Pub. L. 102-139, approved October 28, 1991; at 105 Stat. 
744) (1992 Appropriations Act) set aside of $25,000,000 of the 
$2,800,975,000 of budget authority available for modernization of 
existing public housing developments, for the risk assessment of lead-
based paint. However, amounts actually available from the appropriated 
amount were reduced because conversions from Section 8 (U.S. Housing 
Act of 1937)-funded section 202 (Housing Act of 1959) direct loan 
projects to rental assistance-funded section 202 grant projects did not 
occur at the rate anticipated by Congress in the 1992 Appropriations 
Act.
    In a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) published in the Federal 
Register on March 30, 1995 (60 FR 16560), the Department announced the 
availability of $8,052,535. Of this amount $3,848,879 is to be assigned 
to the housing authorities listed in Appendix A, leaving $4,203,655 to 
be rescinded. Applications were scored and selected for funding on the 
basis of selection criteria contained in that NOFA.
    The purpose of the competition was to assist Public Housing 
Agencies and Indian Housing Authorities in conducting LBP risk 
assessments and in developing recommendations regarding in-place 
management (interim controls).
    In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101-235, 
approved December 15, 1989), the Department is hereby publishing the 
names and addresses of the housing authorities which received funding; 
and the amount of funds awarded to each. This information is provided 
in Appendix A to this document.

    Dated: March 6, 1996.
Michael B. Janis,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

     Appendix A.--Lead-Based Paint Risk Assessment Awardees FY 1995     
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                                                                Amount  
            Funding recipient (name and address)               approved 
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Philadelphia Housing Authority, 2012 Chestnut Street,                   
 Philadelphia, PA. 19103...................................   $2,356,200
Pittsburgh Housing Authority, 200 Ross Street, 9th Floor,               
 Pittsburgh, PA. 15219.....................................       70,125
Puerto Rico Public Housing Authority, 606 Avendia Barbosa,              
 8th Floor, Rio Piedras, PR. 00936-3188....................    1,320,880
Saint Paul Public Housing Authority, Gilbert Building, 413              
 Wacouta Street, Room 350, Saint Paul, MN. 55101-1992......      101,674
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