[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30134-30136]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10556]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4950-N-1B]


Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Notice of Funding 
Availability Policy Requirements and General Section to SuperNOFA for 
HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs; Submission Deadline Date Grace 
Period Announcement

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD 
Discretionary Grant Programs; submission deadline date grace period 
announcement.

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SUMMARY: On March 21, 2005, HUD published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, 
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) Policy Requirements and General 
Section to the SuperNOFA for HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs. This 
document announces a grace period for applicants submitting electronic 
applications through Grants.gov for the Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities (HBCU) Program, the Early Doctoral Student Research Grant 
Program, the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program, the 
Community Development Work Study Program, the Fair Housing Initiative 
Programs, the Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program, the Lead 
Technical Studies Program, the Operation Lead Elimination Action 
Program, the Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) 
Program Coordinators Program, the Homeownership Supportive Services 
Program, the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) 
Program, and the Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to 
Alcohol Program.

DATES: The deadline date grace periods for submission of applications 
for the programs affected by this notice are listed in the chart in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of the notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Dorf, Director, Office of 
Departmental Grants Management and Oversight, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 2156, Washington, DC 
20410-7000; telephone 202-708-0667 (this is not a toll-free number). 
Persons with speech or hearing impairments may access this number via 
TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 800-
877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 21, 2005 (70 FR 13575), HUD 
published its Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, Notice of Funding 
Availability Policy Requirements and General Section to the SuperNOFA 
for HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs (SuperNOFA). The application 
submission dates for all Program NOFAs were listed in the SuperNOFA. On 
May 11, 2005 (70 FR 24835), HUD published a Notice to the SuperNOFA, 
providing additional clarification on the utilization of HUD forms. On 
May 18, 2005 (70 FR 28553), HUD published a technical correction to the 
SuperNOFA extending due dates and providing instruction corrections for 
a number of programs published as part of the SuperNOFA.
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, the Grants.gov website was the target of 
a ``denial of service attack.'' Over the next 35 hours that the attack 
was underway, Grants.gov experienced a significant degradation in 
performance. The processing capacity degraded by this attack, coupled 
with a high volume of application submissions, rendered the Grants.gov 
website almost inaccessible during certain times between Tuesday, May 
17, 2005 and Thursday, May 19, 2005. Information regarding the attack 
can be obtained at http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html#1.
    HUD understands that eligible NOFA applicants submitting electronic 
submissions between Tuesday, May 17, 2005 and Thursday, May 19, 2005 
may have had difficulty submitting their applications. Therefore, in 
order to give all NOFA applicants affected by the technical problem 
sufficient time to submit completed applications, this Notice published 
in today's Federal Register provides a grace period and extended 
deadline date for those affected NOFA competitions. The grace periods 
and extended electronic submission deadline date for the affected NOFA 
competitions are as follows:
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Applicability of SuperNOFA General Section Requirements to Affected 
Programs

    The complete NOFA competition descriptions, application submission 
information, and application review information for each of these 
affected competitions were published in HUD's SuperNOFA published on 
March 21, 2005 (70 FR 13575) as clarified by HUD's Notice of Additional 
Guidance to Applicants published May 11, 2005 (70 FR 24835) and HUD's 
Notice of Technical Corrections published May 18, 2005 (70 FR 28553). 
With the exception of the specific grace period deadline date 
extensions listed in the Notice published in today's Federal Register, 
all requirements published in the SuperNOFA and its technical 
correction are applicable to applicants submitting applications within 
the grace periods listed herein. All other Program submission dates 
remain unchanged. HUD will be publishing separate Notices in the 
Federal Register for the Rural Housing and Economic Development 
Program, the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program, 
and the Assisted Living Conversion Program applicants.

Publication of Change to Instructions on Grants.gov

    HUD will place this Notice and all Notices impacting programs 
placed on Grants.gov/Find and Apply in the download instructions to the 
electronic application file found on Grants.gov. This Notice does not 
change the application download portion of the application package.

Frequently Asked Questions

    As a service to our customers to assist them in going through the 
electronic application process, HUD has published Frequently Asked 
Questions on our Web site at http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundavail.cfm. The Frequently Asked Questions can be found under 
Helpful Tools.

Submission Instructions

    If you have already submitted an application, you do not need to 
resubmit another application. However, if you choose to make any 
changes to an application that has already been submitted, you must 
resubmit an entirely new application. HUD will review the most recent 
application and disregard any earlier submitted applications.

Waiver of Electronic Submission Requirement

    This Notice is not a basis for request of a waiver of an electronic 
submission. Applicants seeking a waiver of an electronic submission 
requirement must have followed the requirements described in the NOFA 
competition descriptions, application submission information, and 
application review information, published in HUD's SuperNOFA on March 
21, 2005. If you currently do not have a waiver, you must file your 
application electronically. If you obtained a waiver to the electronic 
submission requirements pursuant to the General Section requirements, 
you may resubmit a paper submission. Similarly, if you submitted an 
electronic application, you may resubmit it electronically during the 
grace periods listed herein. In either case, if you choose to make any 
changes to an application already submitted, you must resubmit a 
completely new application. For the purpose of rating and ranking, HUD 
will review the most recent application and disregard any earlier 
submitted application.

    Dated: May 23, 2005.
Darlene F. Williams,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration.
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