[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 25, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 66121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-29330]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4800-FA-26]


Announcement of Funding Award--FY 2003 Operation Lead Elimination 
Action Program (LEAP)

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary--Office of Healthy Homes and Lead 
Hazard Control, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement 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 announcement 
notifies the public of additional funding decisions made by the 
Department in a competition for funding under the Operation Lead 
Elimination Action Program (LEAP) Notice of Funding Availability 
(NOFA). The purpose of the LEAP program is to leverage private sector 
resources to eliminate lead poisoning as a major public health threat 
to young children. This announcement contains the name and address of 
the award recipient and the amount of award.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Baker, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, 
Room P3206, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, 20410-3000, 
telephone (804) 771-2100 ext. 3765. Hearing- or speech-impaired persons 
may access the number above via TTY by calling the toll free Federal 
Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The authority for making funding available 
under the LEAP NOFA is Division K of the Consolidated Appropriations 
Resolution of 2003, Pub. L. 108-7, approved February 20, 2003.
    These awards were the result of a competition announced in a 
Federal Register NOFA published on April 25, 2003 (68 FR 21413). The 
purpose of the competition was to award grant funding of approximately 
$9,935,000 for grants and cooperative agreements for LEAP. Applications 
were scored and selected on the basis of selection criteria contained 
in that NOFA.
    A total of $9,935,000 was awarded to seven grantees. 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 names, addresses, and amounts of this 
awards as follows:

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            Awardee                    Address           Amount awarded
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ACORN Associates..............  1024 Elysian Fields          $999,974.00
                                 Avenue New Orleans
                                 LA 70117.
National Coalition for Lead     P.O. Box 535, Olney,        1,265,415.00
 Safe Kids.                      MD 20830.
Environmental Education         2929 Main Street            1,892,349.00
 Association.                    Buffalo, NY 14214.
Middle Tennessee State          1500 Greenland Avenue       1,871,740.00
 University.                     Murfreesboro, TN
                                 37132.
Alliance to End Childhood Lead  227 Massachusetts           2,477,295.00
 Poisoning.                      Avenue, NE Suite
                                 200, Washington, DC
                                 20002.
CONNOR Environmental Services.  1421 Clarkview Road,          194,623.00
                                 Suite 100,
                                 Baltimore, MD 21209.
O.C. Community Development      12640 Knott Street          1,233,604.00
 Council, Inc.                   Garden Grove, CA
                                 92841.
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(The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program 
is 14.903.)

    Dated: November 4, 2003.
Joseph F. Smith,
Deputy Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.
[FR Doc. 03-29330 Filed 11-24-03; 8:45 am]
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