[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 220 (Monday, November 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63744-63745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30483]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4380-FA-04]


HUD Colonias Initiative; Announcement of Funding Awards--Fiscal 
Year 1998

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

ACTION: Notice 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 notice announces 
the funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for 
funding under the Fiscal Year 1998 HUD Colonias Initiative (HCI). The 
notice contains the names of award winners and the amounts of the 
awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yvette Aidara, State and Small Cities 
Division, Office of Block Grant Assistance, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, Room 7182, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 
20410, telephone (202) 708-1322. The TTY number for the hearing 
impaired is (202) 708-2565. (These are not toll-free numbers.) 
Information on the HUD Colonias Initiative, community

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development and consolidated planning, and other HUD programs may also 
be obtained from the Community Connections information center at 1-800-
998-9999 (voice) or 1-800-483-2209 (TTY); by email at 
[email protected]; or by internet at gopher://amcom.aspensys.com. The 
HUD Home Page address on the World Wide Web is http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The purpose of the competition was to award 
grants totalling $5 million to private organizations to administer 
projects to address the housing needs of colonia residents in rural 
areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Of that amount, $4 
million was targeted to private organizations already serving colonias 
residents to provide direct housing assistance in each of the four 
states, with at least one grantee to be selected in each state. The 
remaining $1 million was targeted to an intermediary organization that 
would be able to provide capacity-building loans, grants, or technical 
assistance to local nonprofit organizations serving colonia residents. 
This capacity-building grantee would have demonstrated experience in 
providing technical assistance in housing development to colonias or 
areas with similar economic and social conditions that exist in 
colonias and the capacity to administer a program to increase the 
capacity of colonia-based organizations to address housing needs.
    The assistance made available in this announcement is authorized by 
Title II of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1998 (Pub. L. 
105-65, 111 Stat. 1357, approved October 27, 1997) (FY 1998 HUD 
Appropriations Act). The competition was announced in a Notice of 
Funding Availability (NOFA) published in the Federal Register on July 
15, 1998 (63 FR 38252) and an amendment published on August 7, 1998 (63 
FR 42550). Applications were rated and selected for funding on the 
basis of selection criteria contained in those Notices.
    There was no Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this 
program.
    A total of $5,000,000 was awarded to 7 applicants. In accordance 
with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the 
Department is publishing the grantees and amounts of the awards below.

Housing Assistance Grant Awardees

SouthEastern Arizona Governments Organization, Bisbee, Arizona, 
$460,000
Coachella Valley Housing Coalition, Indio, California, $800,000
Tierra del Sol, Las Cruces, New Mexico, $640,000
Proyecto Azteca, San Juan, Texas, $791,000
Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, Brownsville, 
Texas, $800,000
Laredo-Webb County Community, Action Agency, Laredo, Texas, $509,000

Capacity Building Grant Awardee

Housing Assistance Council, Washington, D.C., $1,000,000

    Dated: November 5, 1998.
Cardell Cooper,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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