[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 159 (Monday, August 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44012-44013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21771]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4211-N-02]


NOFA for Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control in Privately-Owned 
Housing, Fiscal Year 1997; Notice of Extension of Application Deadline 
Date Due to United Parcel Service (UPS) Labor Strike

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary--Office of Lead Hazard Control, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability for FY 1997; extension of 
application deadline date.

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SUMMARY: On June 3, 1997 (62 FR 30380), HUD published a notice 
announcing the availability of approximately $50 million for two 
categories of lead hazard control activities in privately-owned 
housing. The June 3, 1997 notice of funding availability (NOFA) 
provided that applications had to be received by HUD no later than 3:00 
p.m. (Eastern Time) on August 5, 1997. Due to the United Parcel Service 
(UPS) labor strike, HUD is retroactively extending the application 
deadline date to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), August 5, 1997. HUD will 
also accept late applications which are either postmarked on or contain 
a receipt of delivery to a private express mail carrier by midnight 
(Eastern Time) on August 5, 1997. HUD is extending the application due 
date in order to prevent the unfair rejection of NOFA applications 
which, although completed on a timely basis, could not be delivered to 
HUD by the original deadline date due to the UPS strike.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Category A applicants: Ellis G. 
Goldman, Director, Program Management Division, Office of Lead Hazard 
Control, Room B-133, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410, 
telephone (202) 755-1785, extension 112 (this is not a toll-free 
number). For Category B applicants: Melissa F. Shapiro, telephone (202) 
755-1785, extension 153 (this is not a toll-free number). For hearing- 
and speech-impaired persons, the telephone number may be accessed via 
TTY (text telephone) by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay 
Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    On June 3, 1997 (62 FR 30380), HUD published a notice announcing 
the competition for two categories of grant funding: Category A for 
approximately $46 million for a grant program for State and local 
governments to undertake lead-based paint hazard control in

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eligible privately-owned housing units; and Category B for 
approximately $4 million for grants to State and local governments for 
assistance in undertaking lead-based paint hazard control in eligible 
privately-owned housing units on or near Superfund or ``Brownfield'' 
sites.
    The June 3, 1997 notice of funding availability (NOFA) provided 
that applications had to be received by HUD no later than 3:00 p.m. 
(Eastern Time) on August 5, 1997. Due to the United Parcel Service 
(UPS) labor strike, HUD is retroactively extending the application 
deadline date to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), August 5, 1997. HUD will 
also accept late applications which are either postmarked on or contain 
a receipt of delivery to a private express mail carrier by midnight 
(Eastern Time) on August 5, 1997.
    HUD is extending the application due date in order to prevent the 
unfair rejection of NOFA applications which, although completed on a 
timely basis, could not be delivered to HUD by the original deadline 
date due to the UPS strike.

    Dated: August 11, 1997.
David E. Jacobs,
Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control.
[FR Doc. 97-21771 Filed 8-15-97; 8:45 am]
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