[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 161 (Monday, August 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48970-48972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-4546]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4950-N-14A]


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; Housing Opportunities for Persons 
With AIDS (HOPWA); Second Competition Announcement

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

ACTION: Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD 
discretionary grant programs; Housing Opportunities for Persons With 
AIDS (HOPWA) program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA); second 
competition announcement.

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Overview Information

    A. Federal Agency Name: Department of Housing and Urban Development 
(HUD), Office of Community Planning and Development.
    B. Funding Opportunity Title: FY2005 SuperNOFA; Housing 
Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Program NOFA; second 
competition announcement.

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    C. Announcement Type: Second round competition.
    D. Funding Opportunity Number: The Federal Register number for this 
NOFA is: FR-4950-N-14A. The OMB approval number for this program is 
2506-0133.
    E. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 14.241 
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program.
    F. Dates: The application submission date for the second HOPWA NOFA 
competition is October 6, 2005.
    G. Additional Overview Information: 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 Housing Opportunities for 
Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program NOFA competition, which was included 
in the SuperNOFA, closed on June 9, 2005. After reviewing and rating 
HOPWA applications submitted in response to the SuperNOFA, HUD 
anticipates that assistance will remain available for additional 
awards. As a result, through this notice published in today's Federal 
Register, HUD is announcing a second round of HOPWA funding.

Full Text of Announcement

I. Funding Opportunity Description

    On March 21, 2005 (70 FR 13575), HUD published its FY2005 
SuperNOFA. The HOPWA Program, which was included in the SuperNOFA, made 
approximately $37 million available in HUD assistance. The application 
submission date for the HOPWA Program NOFA was June 9, 2005.
    HUD received 26 HOPWA applications in response to the FY2005 
SuperNOFA. Of these applications, HUD received 25 through Grants.gov 
and one paper application under a waiver of the electronic filing 
requirement. Based on the number received and a review of these 
applications, HUD expects that a balance of grant funding will remain 
available after the selection of eligible awards from the list of 
applications received under the FY2005 SuperNOFA. Specifically, HUD 
anticipates that approximately $18 million in FY2005 funds will be 
available for additional awards. Therefore, HUD is announcing a second 
competition for HOPWA funds through the notice published in today's 
Federal Register. In order to give HOPWA applicants sufficient time to 
submit completed applications, this notice published in today's Federal 
Register announces that the application submission date for the HOPWA 
Program NOFA competition is October 6, 2005.

II. Eligibility Information

Applicability of SuperNOFA General Section and HOPWA Program NOFA 
Requirements and Selection Criteria to HOPWA Second Round of 
Competition

    HUD published in its General Section (70 FR 13575) and the HOPWA 
Program NOFA (70 FR 14109) the HOPWA competition description, 
application submission requirements, and application selection criteria 
for the first round of HOPWA funding. All requirements, eligibility, 
thresholds, and selection criteria published in the SuperNOFA General 
Section and in the HOPWA Program NOFA, except for the requirement to 
obtain a waiver from the electronic submission requirement 30 days in 
advance of the program deadline and minor clarifications described in 
this notice, are applicable to this second competition. This notice 
clarifies section VI.A.5 of the General Section concerning debriefing. 
The debriefing period for all HOPWA applicants will begin 30 days after 
the awards are publicly announced for the second competition. HUD is 
also clarifying that approximately $9,052,000 in funds remaining from 
Fiscal Year 2004, as described in the March 21, 2005 HOPWA Program NOFA 
(see 70 FR 14110), will be obligated for awards under the first round 
of this competition. This second round competition makes available 
approximately $18,000,000 in FY2005 funds.
    Applicants selected for an award under the first round of HOPWA 
funding are not eligible for an additional award from funds being made 
available under this second notice. Applicants are strongly encouraged 
to carefully read both the SuperNOFA General Section and the HOPWA 
Program NOFA published on March 21, 2005, in order to compete under 
this second round of HOPWA funding.

III. Application and Submission Instructions

    All applicants must submit new applications in response to this 
announcement. If you submitted an application electronically through 
Grants.gov in response to the HOPWA competition announced in the March 
21, 2005 SuperNOFA, you will be required to resubmit another complete 
application for consideration for this competition. Similarly, if you 
submitted an application in hard or paper copy, you will be required to 
submit another complete application.
    Applicants submitting applications in response to this second round 
competition for HOPWA may download a new application and submit their 
applications electronically through Grants.gov or may submit hard copy 
or paper applications, at their choice. In addition, for this second 
round of HOPWA funding, an applicant may submit a paper application 
without requesting a waiver from this requirement. Applicants are 
encouraged to submit their applications through Grants.gov as described 
in the SuperNOFA. HUD does not intend to accept paper applications in 
the future without a waiver.
    Applicants that choose to submit a paper application must submit an 
original and two copies to: HUD Headquarters; Robert C. Weaver Federal 
Building; 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7251, Washington, DC 20410-
7000, Attention: HOPWA. Paper applications must be received no later 
than 5:15 p.m. eastern time on October 6, 2005.
    As described in section IV.F.5.b of the General Section, an 
applicant submitting a paper application must use 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 application is determined to be 
late, that 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 their 
application package delivered to HUD in time to meet the submission 
requirements.
    HUD will not accept hand delivery of applications.

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IV. Agency Contact

    For further information, please contact: David Vos, Director, 
Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, Office of Community Planning and 
Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Room 7212, Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone 202-708-
1934 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with speech or hearing 
impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free 
Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

    Dated: August 11, 2005.
Pamela H. Patenaude,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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