[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 52044]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22099]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

Office of Community Services


Grant to the Rural Community Assistance Program

AGENCY: Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Award announcement.

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    CFDA: The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 
for this program is 93.570. The title is Rural Community Development 
Activities Program (RF Program).

    Amount of Award: $500,000.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a noncompetitive grant award is 
being made to the Rural Community Assistance Program, Inc. to provide 
training and technical assistance to small communities struggling to 
deal with the safety and security of small and very small community 
water and wastewater treatment systems. This award addresses 
Congressional concern that many small and very small community water 
and wastewater treatment systems might be most vulnerable to terrorist 
attack, yet the least prepared to deal with the issues.
    The application is not within the scope of any existing or expected 
to be issued program announcement for the Fiscal Year 2003--Rural 
Community Development Activities Program (RF) as authorized under the 
Community Services Block Grant Act of 1998, as amended; sections 
680(a)(3)(B) of the Community Opportunities Accountability, and 
Training and Educational Services (COATES) Act (Pub. L. 105-285). This 
application is expected to provide valuable on-site training and 
technical assistance to small and very small communities struggling to 
deal with the safety and security of small community water and 
wastewater treatment systems. This announcement is inviting application 
for a 12-month budget period and a 24 month project period.
    The funds are not being competed due to the Senate appropriation 
language in FY 2003 that directs the Office of Community Services to 
support a Rural Community Assistance Program Small Community 
Infrastructure Safety and Training and Technical project. Congress 
intends the funds to go to an organization that is capable of 
conducting a project that is national in scope that provides State, 
regional and national infrastructure safety training workshops and on-
site technical assistance targeted to small and very small community 
water and wastewater treatment systems.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Administration for Children and 
Families, Office of Community Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Veronica Terrell--(202) 401-5295, 
[email protected].

    Dated: August 22, 2003.
Clarence H. Carter,
Director, Office of Community Services.
[FR Doc. 03-22099 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]
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