[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33332-33333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14122]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5415-FA-30]


Announcement of Funding Awards for the Technical Assistance and 
Capacity Building under the Transformation Initiative Program Fiscal 
Year 2010

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

ACTION: Notice of funding awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a 
competition for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
for the Technical Assistance and Capacity Building under the 
Transformation Initiative program for fiscal year 2010. This 
announcement contains the names of the awardees and amounts of the 
awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly A. Kelly, Acting Director, 
Technical Assistance Division, Office of Community Planning and 
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7218, Washington, DC 20410-
7000; telephone (202) 402-6324 (this is not a toll-free number). 
Persons with speech or hearing impairments may access this telephone 
number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay 
Service during working hours at 800-877-8339. For general information 
on this and other HUD programs, call Community Connections at 1-800-
998-9999 or visit the HUD Web site at http://www.hud.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Fiscal Year 2010 Technical Assistance 
and Capacity Building under the Transformation Initiative program funds 
were awarded under two funding categories:

OneCPD

    The purpose of OneCPD is to provide state government, local 
government and nonprofit recipients of federal community development, 
affordable housing, economic development and special needs funding with 
the assessment tools and technical and capacity building assistance 
needed to fully understand their local market conditions, to increase 
their capacity to successfully carry out federal assistance programs 
while leveraging other public and private resources, and to achieve 
positive and measurable outcomes. Under OneCPD, technical assistance 
will involve the delivery of expert statutory, regulatory, and 
technical support that improves the program knowledge, skills and 
capacity of CPD's grantees and their partners. Capacity building 
efforts will be directed at advancing the efficiency and performance of 
grantees and their partners (e.g., for-profit and public or private 
non-profit organizations) in the administration of federal affordable 
housing, community and economic development programs, the leveraging of 
other resources and the furthering of key Departmental objectives, 
including but not limited to, energy efficiency and green building.

Core Curricula

    The purpose of the HUD Core Curricula for Skills-Based Training is 
to develop and deliver training courses and seminars to improve the 
core skills of HUD grantee staff commonly needed for the administration 
of many HUD programs. Funds will be awarded to develop ``core 
curricula'' in the several areas including (1) Development Finance, (2) 
Environmental Review and Compliance, (3) Asset Management and 
Preservation of HUD-Assisted Projects and (4) Construction and 
Rehabilitation Management.
    The competition was announced in the NOFA published on January 4, 
2011 (FR-5415-N-30) and closed on February 24, 2011. The NOFA allowed 
for approximately $24 million for OneCPD and Core Curricula awards. 
Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of 
selection criteria contained in the Notice. For the Fiscal Year 2010 
competition, 17 awards totaling $23,303,000 were awarded to 13 
different technical assistance providers nationwide.
    In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 
U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the grantees and the amounts 
of the awards in Appendix A to this document.

    Dated: May 31, 2011.
Clifford Taffet,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.

                               Appendix A
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            Recipient                    State               Amount
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                                 OneCPD
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Cloudburst Consulting Group Inc.  MD.................         $4,515,500
Corporation for Supportive        NY.................            125,000
 Housing.
Dennison Associates, Inc........  DC.................            200,000
Econometrica, Inc...............  MD.................            500,000
Enterprise Community Partners,    MD.................          4,599,000
 Inc.
First Nations Development         CO.................            100,000
 Institute.
Housing Assistance Council......  DC.................            650,000
ICF Incorporated, L.L.C.........  VA.................          4,224,000
Minnesota Housing Partnership...  MN.................            750,000
National Association for Latino   TX.................            900,000
 Community Asset Builders.
National Center on Family         MA.................            700,000
 Homelessness, Inc.
Training & Development            NC.................          5,094,500
 Associates, Inc.
University of Texas-Pan American  TX.................            350,000
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    Total Awarded for OneCPD....  ...................         22,708,000
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                             Core Curricula
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Cloudburst Consulting Group Inc.  MD.................             93,573
ICF Incorporated, L.L.C.........  VA.................            148,750
ICF Incorporated, L.L.C.........  VA.................            148,750
Training & Development            NC.................            203,927
 Associates, Inc.
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    Total Awarded for Core        ...................            595,000
     Curricula.
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        Total Awarded for         ...................         23,303,000
         Technical Assistance
         and Capacity Building.
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