[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 155 (Thursday, August 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49003-49004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20253]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4560-N-09]


Notice Concerning Use of Remaining Unobligated Funds Under HUD's 
Designated Housing and Certain Developments Funding Availability 
Announcements

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On February 24, 2000, HUD published its Fiscal Year 2000 Super 
Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD's Housing, Community 
Development, and Empowerment Programs and Section 8 Housing Voucher 
Assistance. The Fiscal Year 2000 SuperNOFA included three funding 
availability announcements for Section 8 voucher assistance for persons 
with disabilities. HUD advised that any funds remaining unobligated 
under two of the Section 8 voucher programs would be used to fund 
applications for the third program. This document notifies the public 
that HUD now intends to use a portion of these remaining unobligated 
funds to provide vouchers to non-elderly persons with disabilities who 
are seeking to move from nursing homes and other institutional settings 
to housing in their local communities. Availability of voucher 
assistance for this purpose will be the subject of a separate Federal 
Register notice.

DATES: The application due dates for funding under the three programs 
in the Supplementary Information section of this notice have passed, 
and the application periods are closed. This notice does not reopen the 
application process for any of the three programs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact George C. Hendrickson, Housing 
Program Specialist, Office of Public and Assisted Housing Delivery, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 4216, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410-8000; telephone (202) 708-1872, ext. 
4064. (The number listed above is not a toll-free number). Persons with 
hearing or speech impairments may access this number via TTY (text 
telephone) by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-
877-8339 (this is a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 24, 2000 (65 FR 9322), HUD published its Fiscal Year 
2000 Super Notice of Funding Availability (FY 2000 SuperNOFA) for HUD's 
Housing, Community Development, and Empowerment Programs and Section 8 
Housing Voucher Assistance. The FY 2000 SuperNOFA included 
announcements of funding availability under the following three 
programs: Mainstream Housing Opportunities for Persons with 
Disabilities (Mainstream Housing) (65 FR 9963); Rental Assistance for 
Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities Related to Certain Types of 
Section 8 Project-Based Developments and Section 202, 221(d) and 236 
Developments (Certain Developments) (65 FR 9975); and Rental Assistance 
for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated 
Housing Plans (Designated Housing) (65 FR-9985). \1\
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    \1\ A correction of error was also published in the Federal 
Register for the Mainstream Housing Program on June 10, 2000, at 65 
FR 37994.
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    In the funding availability announcements for Certain Developments 
and Designated Housing, HUD advised that any funds remaining 
unobligated under these two programs,

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as provided in the funding availability announcements for these two 
programs, would be used to fund applications from public housing 
agencies (PHAs) under the Mainstream Housing program (see 65 FR 9977, 
column three, and 65 FR 9986, column three, respectively).

This Notice

    This notice advises that HUD now intends to use a portion of the 
funds remaining unobligated under Certain Developments and Designated 
Housing to fund vouchers solely for those non-elderly persons with 
disabilities who are seeking to move from nursing homes and other 
institutional settings to housing in their local communities. HUD 
intends to make available approximately $2.5 million to fund 400 
vouchers for this initiative.
    HUD will publish a separate notice in the Federal Register to 
announce this initiative. The Federal Register notice to be published 
will identify the basic policy and design of the initiative, the PHAs 
selected by HUD to participate in this initiative, and the criteria 
used to select the PHAs.

    Dated: August 2, 2000.
Harold Lucas,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 00-20253 Filed 8-9-00; 8:45 am]
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