[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39006-39007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19121]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4180-C-02]


Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and 
Alaska Native Villages Fiscal Year 1997 Notice of Funding Availability; 
Amendment

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

ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability for Fiscal Year 1997; amendment.

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SUMMARY: On April 11, 1997 (62 FR 17976), HUD published a notice 
announcing the availability of $67,453,491 in Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 
funds for the Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian 
Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (ICDBG Program). The April 11, 1997 
notice provided that $2 million of the available FY 1997 ICDBG Program 
funds would be retained for grants to alleviate or remove imminent 
threats to health and safety that require an immediate

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solution. This notice increases the amount retained to meet the funding 
needs of imminent threat applications to $2,450,000. Further, the 
amounts allocated to the Area Offices of Native American Programs for 
single purpose grant funding have been proportionately reduced to 
reflect the increase in the retained amount.

DATES: This notice does not affect the deadline date provided in the 
June 6, 1997 NOFA. Applications must still be received by the 
appropriate Area ONAP of the HUD Office of Native American Programs no 
later than 3:00 p.m. (local time) on Friday, July 25, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Barth, Office of Native 
American Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, P.O. Box 36003, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, 
San Francisco, CA 94102; telephone (415) 436-8122 (this is not a toll-
free number). Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access this 
number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay 
Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 11, 1997 (62 FR 17976), HUD 
published a notice announcing the availability of $67,453,491 in Fiscal 
Year (FY) 1997 funds for the Community Development Block Grant Program 
for Indian Tribes and Alaska native Villages (the ICDBG Program). The 
primary objective of the ICDBG Program is the development of viable 
Indian and Alaskan native communities, including decent housing, a 
suitable living environment, and economic opportunities principally for 
persons of low- and moderate-income. In the body of the April 11, 1997 
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) is information concerning the 
following: (1) The purpose of the NOFA; (2) eligible applicants and 
activities; (3) available funding amounts; (4) application submission 
requirements; (5) the selection criteria; and (6) how applicants will 
be notified of results.
    The April 11, 1997 NOFA announced that $2 million of the available 
FY 1997 ICDBG Program funds would be retained to alleviate or remove 
imminent threats to health and safety that require an immediate 
solution. Given the unusually severe weather conditions experienced by 
Indian tribes in the upper Midwest last winter and spring, requests for 
imminent threat assistance resulting from these conditions have 
substantially exceeded earlier estimates based on historical 
experience.
    In order to have funds available for the possibility of additional 
imminent threat requests prior to the availability of FY 1998 ICDBG 
Program funds, HUD is increasing the amount retained under the FY 1997 
NOFA from $2,000,000 to $2,450,000. The amounts allocated to the HUD 
Area Offices of Native American Programs for single purpose grant 
funding have been proportionately reduced to reflect the increase in 
the retained imminent threat amount.
    Accordingly, FR Doc. 97-9307, the Community Development Block Grant 
Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages Fiscal Year 1997 
Notice of Funding Availability, published in the Federal Register on 
April 11, 1997 (62 FR 17976), is amended as follows:
    1. On page 17978, first and middle columns, under Section III, 
paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(4)(i), are revised to read as follows:

III. Funding and Eligibility

    (a) * * *
    (2) Allocations. The requirements for allocating funds to Area 
ONAPs responsible for program administration are found at 24 CFR 
953.101. Following these requirements, the allocations for FY 1997 are 
as follows:

Eastern/Woodlands--$5,146,792
Southern Plains--$12,168,709
Northern Plains--$10,264,775
Southwest--$27,990,710
Northwest--$3,932,269
Alaska--$5,500,236
Total--$65,003,491

    The total allocation includes $453,491 in unused funds from the 
amount reserved by the Assistant Secretary in Fiscal Year 1996 for 
imminent threat grants. As indicated in Section III.(a)(4) below, 
$2,450,000 will be retained to fund imminent threat grants.''
* * * * *
    (4) Imminent Threats. (i) The criteria for grants to alleviate or 
remove imminent threats to health or safety that require an immediate 
solution are described at 24 CFR part 953, subpart E. Please note that 
the problem to be addressed must be such that an emergency situation 
would exist if it were not addressed. In accordance with the provisions 
of 24 CFR part 953, subpart E, $2,450,000 will be retained to meet the 
funding needs of imminent threat applications submitted to any of the 
Area ONAPs. The grant ceiling for imminent threat applications for FY 
1997 is $ 350,000. This ceiling is established pursuant to the 
provisions of Sec. 953.400(c).
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    Dated: July 16, 1997.
Kevin Emanuel Marchman,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 97-19121 Filed 7-18-97; 8:45 am]
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