[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 142 (Tuesday, July 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43169-43170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14792]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4950-C-16A]


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; Community Development Block Grant 
Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages; Competition 
Reopening Announcement

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD 
Discretionary Grant Programs; Community Development Block Grant Program 
for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages 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 
Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska 
Native Villages (ICDBG) Program NOFA competition, which was included in 
the SuperNOFA, closed on June 20, 2005. This document announces the 
reopening of the ICDBG Program NOFA competition.

DATES: The new application submission date for the ICDBG Program is 
August 25, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Applicants should direct general 
program questions to the Area ONAP serving its area or to Barbara 
Gallegos, Grants Management Specialist, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, One North Central Avenue, Suite 600, Phoenix, AZ 85004, 
telephone, (602) 379-7215. 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 FY2005 SuperNOFA for HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs. 
The ICDBG Program, which was included in the SuperNOFA, made 
approximately $68 million available in HUD assistance. According to the 
SuperNOFA, the application submission date for the ICDBG NOFA was June 
20, 2005.
    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, 
this notice reopens the ICDBG NOFA competition. The new application 
submission date for the ICDBG NOFA competition is August 25, 2005.

Applicability of SuperNOFA General Section and ICDBG NOFA Requirements 
to Reopened Competition

    Please note that the ICDBG NOFA competition description, 
application submission requirements, and application review information 
were published in HUD's FY2005 SuperNOFA on March 21, 2005 (70 FR 
13575). All requirements listed in the General Section and in the ICDBG 
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).
    Applicants that did not previously submit an application must 
download the application from Grants.gov as described in the SuperNOFA. 
Applicants that have already submitted an application do 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. If HUD receives more than one 
application from an applicant, HUD will consider only the application 
received latest in time. 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.

Submission Procedures

    Applicants may submit their applications through Grants.gov as 
described in the SuperNOFA. In addition, for this FY2005 reopened 
funding opportunity, if an applicant is unable to submit its 
application electronically through Grants.gov, the 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.
    Applicants that choose to submit a paper application should send an 
original and two copies to the appropriate Area Office of Native 
American Programs (ONAP) for its jurisdiction. See Section IV.F. of the 
ICDBG program NOFA for area ONAP addresses and additional information.
    As described in section IV.F.5.b of the General Section, applicants 
submitting a paper application must use the United States Postal 
Service (USPS) to submit its application to HUD. Applicants must take 
their 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,

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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. Applicants whose applications are 
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. 
Applicants may use any type of mail service provided by the USPS to 
have their application package delivered to HUD in time to meet the 
submission requirements.
    HUD will not accept hand delivery of applications.

    Dated: July 21, 2005.
Paula O. Blunt,
General Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Pubic and Indian Housing.
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