[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 578-579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-33299]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5415-C-35]


Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal Year 2010; Rural 
Innovation Fund Program; Correction

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

ACTION: Notice of technical correction.

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SUMMARY: On December 22, 2010, HUD posted on http://www.Grants.gov its 
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for HUD's FY 2010 Rural 
Innovation Fund Program, ``Rural Fund.'' Today's Federal Register 
publication announces that HUD has posted on http://www.Grants.gov a 
technical correction that, most significantly, corrects the application 
due date and corrects the maximum funding amounts for Category 1 
proposals. HUD has also corrected an incorrect reference to a 
``Revolving Fund grant'' rather than a ``Rural Fund grant.'' The 
revised NOFA can be found and downloaded from http://www.Grants.gov, 
using the CFDA number for that program, 14.263.

DATES: The correct application deadline date is February 23, 2011. 
Applications must be received by Grants.gov by 11:59:59 p.m. eastern 
time on the deadline date. See the General Section for timely receipt 
requirements. All information required to complete the application is 
in the General Section and this NOFA. Applicants may download the 
application and instructions from the Grants.gov Web site at http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/apply_for_grants.jsp. Please carefully 
read the Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Notice of Funding 
Availability (NOFA) Policy Requirements and General Section to HUD's FY 
2010 NOFAs for Discretionary Programs, posted on Grants.gov on June 7, 
2010. Applicants need to be aware that following receipt, applications 
go through a validation process in which the application may be 
accepted or rejected. Please allow time for this process to ensure that 
you meet the timely receipt requirements.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning the HUD 
Rural Fund program, contact Robert Duncan, Associate Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Economic Development, Office of Community Planning and 
Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone 202-402-4681 (this is 
not a toll-free number) or 1-877-787-2526 (this is a toll-free number). 
Questions regarding the 2010 General Section should be directed to the 
Office of Departmental Grants Management and Oversight at (202) 708-
0667 (this is not a toll-free number) or the NOFA Information Center at 
(800) HUD-8929 (toll-free). Persons with speech or hearing impairments 
may access these numbers via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay 
Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NOFA for HUD's FY 2010 Rural Innovation 
Fund Program, ``Rural Fund'' has been corrected as follows:
    1. On pages 1 and 2, the application deadline date has been 
corrected to read: ``February 23, 2011.''
    2. On page 5, under the heading ``5. Consortium,'' a phrase in the 
third full paragraph has been corrected to read: ``If the consortium is 
awarded a Rural Fund grant, within 120 days after the grant award, the 
consortium members must execute a formal funding agreement.''
    3. On page 32, section d.(1) has been corrected to read as follows:
    (1) Maximum amount established for Category 1 proposals is 
$20,750,000. For Category 1, Single Purpose and Comprehensive, HUD will 
select Single Purpose applications that score 75 points or more in rank 
order until selections totaling $7,500,000 have been reached. If there 
are an insufficient number of Single Purpose applications to utilize 
the full $7,500,000 then the remaining amount funds will be available 
for Category 1 Comprehensive grants. If all $7,500,000 is utilized for 
the Single Purpose grants, then of the remaining $13,250,000 funds, HUD 
will evaluate the total number of unfunded Category 1 applications that 
rated above 75 points, the comparative scores of the unfunded Single 
Purpose and Comprehensive applications and determine what total amounts 
will be awarded to the remaining unfunded Single Purpose grants and 
Comprehensive grants. If the total number of Single Purpose grant 
applications that rank 75 points or more totals $7,500,000 or less, HUD 
will allocate all of the remaining balance to Category 2 applications 
that rank 75 points or higher. HUD, in its sole discretion, may decide 
not to utilize the full amount of funds available.


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    Dated: December 29, 2010.
Clifford Taffet,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development (Acting).
[FR Doc. 2010-33299 Filed 1-4-11; 8:45 am]
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