[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 184 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49700-49701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25184]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4182-N-04]


Fiscal Year 1997 Notice of Funding Availability for Continuum of 
Care Homeless Assistance; Supportive Housing Program (SHP); Shelter 
Plus Care (S+C); Sec 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy 
Program for Homeless Individuals (SRO)

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability (NOFA); Revision concerning 
receipt of applications.

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SUMMARY: On April 8, 1997 (62 FR 17024), HUD published a notice 
announcing the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funding for three 
of its programs that assist communities in combatting homelessness. 
Since the issuance of the April 8, 1997 NOFA, HUD has published two 
revisions, on May 5, 1997 (62 FR 24501) and on June 5, 1997 (62 FR 
30873). The application deadline provided that an application would be 
considered received in a timely fashion if mailed to HUD Headquarters 
and postmarked on or before the application deadline of August 18, 
1997, and received within ten (10) days after that date. Because of 
delays in mail delivery occasioned by the United Parcel Service strike 
in August, some applications took longer than the 10-day period 
provided. Therefore, this notice announces that the April 8, 1997 NOFA, 
as revised on May 5 and June 5, is revised to treat as timely 
applications those applications that were mailed before the deadline 
and were received within 30 days of the deadline.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 8, 1997 (62 FR 17024), HUD published a notice announcing 
the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funding for three of its 
programs that assist communities in combatting homelessness. The three 
programs are: (1) Supportive Housing; (2) Shelter Plus Care; and (3) 
Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation for Single Room Occupancy Dwellings 
for Homeless Individuals.
    On May 5, 1997 (62 FR 24501), HUD published a notice announcing 
that the application deadline for the April 8, 1997 Continuum of Care 
Homeless Assistance notice of funding availability (NOFA) was extended 
to July 31, 1997.

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HUD extended the deadline since the FY 1997 Continuum of Care NOFA 
introduced new procedures for awarding project renewal funds, which 
could require, in certain communities, additional time for reanalyzing 
the gaps that exist in continuum of care systems within the 
communities, and for reformulating plans and priorities for filling 
those gaps.
    On June 5, 1997 (62 FR 30873), HUD published a notice announcing 
that the application deadline for the April 8, 1997 Continuum of Care 
Homeless Assistance NOFA was extended to August 18, 1997 to permit the 
local process to have the flexibility to request full funding for 
existing well-run projects that have limited ability to obtain other 
resources and to permit communities to revise their continuum of care 
priority lists to take into account this change being made to the NOFA 
provisions on project renewals.

Current Revision

    Now, it has become evident that the United Parcel Service strike 
during August 1997 had an impact on the capacity of the U.S. Postal 
Service to deliver mail, delaying the delivery of applications that 
were postmarked on or before the August 18, 1997 deadline but were not 
delivered to HUD Headquarters until after the 10-day delivery period 
specified in the last revision of the April 8, 1997 NOFA. Therefore, 
this notice announces the revision to the portion of the Deadline Dates 
section of the NOFA that addressed applications submitted by regular 
mail to permit delivery to HUD Headquarters within 30 days after 
postmarked submission to the USPS by the deadline date to qualify as a 
timely submission.
    Accordingly, FR Doc. 97-9034, the Fiscal Year 1997 Notice of 
Funding Availability for Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance; 
Supportive Housing Program (SHP); Shelter Plus Care (S+C); Sec. 8 
Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program for Homeless 
Individuals (SRO), published in the Federal Register on April 8, 1997 
(62 FR 17024), is amended on page 17024, column 2, in the Deadline Date 
section, by revising the text under the subheading ``Applications 
Mailed.'' to read as follows:

Deadline Date

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    Applications Mailed. Applications will be considered timely filed 
if postmarked before midnight on August 18, 1997, and received by HUD 
Headquarters within thirty (30) days after that date.
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    Dated: September 17, 1997.
Jacquie Lawing,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.
[FR Doc. 97-25184 Filed 9-22-97; 8:45 am]
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