[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 221 (Monday, November 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64912-64914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28666]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4860-C-02]


Notice of Funding Availability for HOME Investment Partnerships 
Program (HOME) Competitive Reallocation of Funds To Provide Permanent 
Housing for the Chronically Homeless; Correction

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

ACTION: Notice of funding availability; correction.

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SUMMARY: On October 15, 2003, HUD published the Notice of Funding 
Availability (NOFA) for the Competitive Reallocation of HOME Funds to 
Provide Permanent Housing for the Chronically Homeless. This notice 
corrects that funding announcement by notifying applicants of the new 
government-wide requirement that all applicants for federal grants and 
cooperative agreements must provide a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal 
Numbering System (DUNS) number with their applications. In addition, 
this document makes a correction to the scoring assigned to certain 
HOME participating jurisdictions (PJs) found in Appendix 1 to the NOFA 
and changes the deadline for submission of applications to December 18, 
2003.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Taffet, Office of Affordable 
Housing Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington DC, 20410-5000; telephone (202) 708-3226 ext. 4589 (this is 
not a toll-free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may 
access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 
Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 15, 2003 (68 FR 59450), HUD 
published its Notice of Funding

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Availability (NOFA) for the Competitive Reallocation of HOME Funds to 
Provide Permanent Housing for the Chronically Homeless. This notice 
published in today's Federal Register corrects the NOFA by requiring 
applicants to provide in their application package, a Dun and 
Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number. This 
correction is required by an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
policy directive issued in the Federal Register on June 27, 2003 (68 FR 
38402). The policy directive requires all grant applicants to provide a 
DUNS number when applying for federal grants or cooperative agreements 
on or after October 1, 2003. This information was inadvertently left 
out of the October 15, 2003, NOFA.
    In addition, it has come to our attention that in the NOFA 
published on October 15, 2003, the scoring for Selection Criterion 2C 
did not give recognition in all cases to Community Housing Development 
Organization (CHDO) set-aside funding in completed ``mixed-funded'' 
projects where ``regular'' (i.e., non-CHDO set-aside) HOME funds were 
also used. Therefore, nine PJs listed in Appendix 1 to the NOFA were 
improperly assigned 0 points when, in fact, their CHDO(s) had indeed 
completed rental projects of 5 or more units, as reported in IDIS 
(Integrated Disbursement and Information System) during the two year 
period ending June 30, 2003. Appendix A to this technical correction 
notice lists the nine PJs whose scores for Selection Criterion 2C are 
being raised to 15 based upon the re-running of the IDIS data to give 
proper credit to these ``mixed-funded'' projects. The total scores 
assigned to these PJs on the ``pre-scored'' portion of the competition 
are being adjusted accordingly.
    As a consequence of the scoring change, which could affect the 
decision of these PJs to apply under the HOME competition, the deadline 
for submission of applications is being moved back to December 18, 
2003.
    All other guidance and requirements contained in the original NOFA, 
including the scores assigned to PJs not appearing on Appendix A, are 
unchanged.
    Accordingly, the Notice of Funding Availability for the Competitive 
Reallocation of HOME Funds to Provide Permanent Housing for the 
Chronically Homeless, published in the Federal Register on October 15, 
2003, (68 FR 59450) is corrected to read as follows:
    1. On page 59450, in the first column under Program Overview and 
again under section I, Application Due Date, Standard Forms, Further 
Information, and Technical Assistance, the deadline for submission of 
applications is changed to December 18, 2003.
    2. On page 59454, in the middle column, under section VI. entitled, 
``Application Requirements and Checklist for Application Submission,'' 
a new paragraph at the end of this section to read as follows:
    ``New government-wide DUNS requirement. Beginning October 1, 2003, 
all applicants must provide a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal 
Numbering System (DUNS) number to apply for a grant or cooperative 
agreement from the federal government. Applicants are required to 
provide a DUNS number with the application. OMB is currently updating 
the SF-424 to accommodate the submission of the DUNS, however, at this 
time, applicants should simply indicate the DUNS number on a separate 
sheet of paper and include with the application package. Organizations 
can receive a DUNS number at no cost by calling the dedicated toll-free 
DUNS Number request line at 1-866-705-5711 or applying on-line at 
www.dunandbradstreet.com. For faster service, HUD recommends using the 
telephone request line to obtain the DUNS number.''
    3. On Appendix 1, beginning on page 59455, the scores assigned to 
nine participating jurisdictions for Selection Criterion 2C and, 
consequently, their total scores are changed. The specific PJs affected 
by this change are St. Petersburg, FL (page 59458); Dupage County 
Consortium, IL (page 59458); New Orleans, LA (page 59459); Quincy 
Consortium, MA (page 59460); Middlesex County Consortium, NJ (page 
59462); Ocean County Consortium, NJ (page 59462); Altoona, PA (page 
59463); Utah, UT (page 59465); and Bellingham, WA (page 59466). A list 
of the affected PJs and their revised scores is found on Appendix A to 
this notice.

    Dated: November 10, 2003.
Roy A. Bernardi,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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