[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 48411]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22989]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4398-N-04]


1998 HUD Disaster Recovery Initiative Amendment

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice amends a notice published October 22, 1998, 
governing the allocation and use of Community Development Block Grant 
(CDBG) funds appropriated in the 1998 Supplemental Appropriations and 
Rescissions Act (Pub. L. 105-174) and made available through the HUD 
Disaster Recovery Initiative. It modifies the Department's policy 
position on the use of annual CDBG appropriations to meet non-Federal 
public matching funds requirements of that 1998 supplemental 
appropriations statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jan C. Opper, Senior Program Officer, 
Office of Block Grant Assistance, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, Room 7286, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410, 
telephone number (202) 708-3587. Persons with hearing or speech 
impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal 
Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. FAX inquiries may be sent 
to Mr. Opper at (202) 401-2044. (Except for the ``800'' number, these 
telephone numbers are not toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 1998 Supplemental Appropriations and 
Rescissions Act (Pub. L. 105-174, 112 Stat. 58, approved May 1, 1998), 
required the publication of a notice governing the allocation and use 
of 1998 HUD Disaster Recovery Initiative grant funds. On October 22, 
1998, at 63 FR 56764, HUD published a notice to address this 
requirement. The match requirement in the notice of October 22, 1998 is 
amended by this notice. Further legal review has clarified that annual 
appropriations of CDBG funds may be used to meet the ``25 percent in 
non-Federal public matching funds'' requirement in the 1998 
Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions Act (Public Law 105-174) 
(at 112 Stat. 76). Though the Department has the authority to specify 
alternative requirements, it has decided to adopt this legal position.
    Accordingly, FR Doc. 98-28436, the 1998 HUD Disaster Recovery 
Initiative Notice, published in the Federal Register October 22, 1998, 
63 FR 56764, is amended by revising paragraph I.F.9.a., on page 56766, 
in column 2, to read as follows:
    a. Contributions made with or derived from Federal resources or 
funds, regardless of when the Federal resources or funds were received 
or expended. Use of CDBG funds (defined at Sec. 570.3) under section 
105(a)(9) of the Act for payment of the non-Federal share required in 
connection with a Federal grant-in-aid program is permissible;

Authority

    1998 Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions Act (Pub. L. 105-
174, 112 Stat. 58, approved May 1, 1998).

    Dated: August 27, 1999.
Cardell Cooper,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 99-22989 Filed 9-2-99; 8:45 am]
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