[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 142 (Tuesday, July 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43168-43169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14791]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4950-C-04A]


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; Youthbuild NOFA; Competition 
Reopening Announcement

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD 
Discretionary Grant Programs; Youthbuild Program NOFA; competition 
reopening 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. The 
Youthbuild Program NOFA competition, which was included in the 
SuperNOFA, closed on June 21, 2005. This document announces the 
reopening of the Youthbuild Program NOFA competition.

DATES: The new application submission date for the Youthbuild NOFA 
competition is August 25, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mark A. Horwath, Director, Grants 
Management Division, Office of Economic Development, Office of 
Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7149, Washington, DC 20410-
7000; telephone 202-708-2035 (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 (NOFA), Policy Requirements and General Section to the 
SuperNOFA for HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs. The Youthbuild 
Program, which was included in the SuperNOFA, made approximately $56.4 
million available in HUD assistance. According to the SuperNOFA, the 
application submission date for the Youthbuild Program NOFA was June 
21, 2005. On May 11, 2005 (70 FR 24835), HUD published additional 
guidance to the General Section, that included a link to Frequently 
Asked Questions, located at http://www.grants.gov/ForApplicants#. 
Frequently asked questions can also be found on the HUD Web site at 
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/egrants/grantsgovfaqs.pdf.
    HUD understands that many eligible applicants may have had 
difficulty submitting their applications. Therefore, in order to give 
all NOFA applicants sufficient time to submit completed applications 
and ensure Grants.gov registration is complete, this notice published 
intoday's Federal Register reopens the Youthbuild Program NOFA 
competition. The new application submission date for the Youthbuild 
Program NOFA competition is August 25, 2005.

Applicability of SuperNOFA General Section and Youthbuild Program NOFA 
Requirements to Reopened Competition

    Please note that the Youthbuild Program NOFA competition 
description, application submission information, and application review 
information were published in HUD's FY2005 SuperNOFA on March 21, 2005 
(70 FR 13575). All requirements listed in the SuperNOFA General Section 
and in the Youthbuild Program NOFA are applicable to this reopened 
competition except for those requirements explicitly changed by this 
notice (such as the due date and requirement for electronic 
submission).

Submission Instructions

    If you have already submitted an application electronically through 
Grants.gov, you do not need to resubmit another application. If you 
submitted a paper application, however, without first obtaining a 
waiver from the electronic submission requirement, you must resubmit 
your applications electronically or by paper submission.
    An applicant that has already submitted an application does not 
need to resubmit another application. However, if an applicant chooses 
to make any changes to an application that has already been submitted, 
it must download a new application from Grants.gov, complete the 
application, and resubmit by the new deadline date. For the purpose of 
rating and ranking, HUD will review the most recent application and 
disregard any previously submitted application. If an applicant decides 
to resubmit an application, the newly submitted application must be 
complete. HUD will not accept partial amendments to applications that 
were previously submitted.
    Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications through 
Grants.gov as described in the SuperNOFA. In addition, for this FY2005 
reopened funding opportunity, an applicant may submit a paper 
application without requesting a waiver from this requirement. HUD does 
not intend to accept paper applications in the future without a waiver.
    An applicant that chooses to submit a paper application must submit 
an original and two copies by mail or permitted delivery service to: 
HUD Headquarters; Robert C. Weaver Federal Building; 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Room 7251; Washington, DC 20410-7000, Attention: 
Youthbuild.
    As described in section IV.F.5.b of the General Section, an 
applicant submitting a paper application must use

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the United States Postal Service (USPS) to submit its application to 
HUD. An applicant must take its application to a post office to get a 
receipt of mailing that provides the date and time the package was 
submitted to the USPS. USPS rules now require that large packages must 
be brought to a postal facility for mailing. In many areas, the USPS 
has made a practice of returning to the sender, large packages that 
have been dropped in a mail collection box. Paper copy applications 
submitted to the USPS by the submission date and time and received by 
HUD no later than 15 days after the established submission date will 
receive funding consideration. If the USPS does not have a receipt with 
a digital time stamp, HUD will accept a receipt showing USPS Form 3817, 
Certificate of Mailing with a dated postmark. The proof of submission 
receipt provided by the Postal Service must show receipt no later than 
the application submission deadline. An applicant whose applications is 
determined to be late, who cannot furnish HUD with a receipt from the 
USPS that verifies the package was submitted to the USPS prior to the 
submission due date and time will not receive funding consideration. An 
applicant may use any type of mail service provided by the USPS to have 
its application package delivered to HUD in time to meet the submission 
requirements.
    HUD will not accept hand delivery of applications.

    Dated: July 21, 2005.
Pamela H. Patenaude,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 05-14791 Filed 7-25-05; 8:45 am]
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