[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 5, 2013)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5700-FA-19]


Announcement of Funding Awards for the OneCPD Plus: Technical 
Assistance and Capacity Building Under the Transformation Initiative 
Program (OneCPD+) Fiscal Year 2013

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 OneCPD Plus: Technical Assistance and Capacity Building under 
the Transformation Initiative program (OneCPD+) for Fiscal Year 2013. 
This announcement contains the names of the awardees and amounts of the 
awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Hovden, Director, Technical 
Assistance Division, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 
Seventh Street SW., Room 7218, Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone 
(202) 402-4496 (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, 
visit the HUD Web site at www.hud.gov or the OneCPD Resource Exchange 
at www.onecpd.info.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of Fiscal Year 2013 OneCPD+ 
Technical Assistance and Capacity Building program 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 HUD's customers and their partners. 
Capacity building efforts will be directed at advancing the efficiency 
and performance of customers and their partners 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.
    The competition was announced in the NOFA published on June 24, 
2013 (FR-5700-N-19) and closed on July 31, 2013. The NOFA allowed for 
approximately $16.5 million for OneCPD+ awards, however, additional 
funds became available and awarded. Applications were rated and 
selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria contained in 
the NOFA. For the Fiscal Year 2013 competition, 10 awards totaling 
$18,701,910 were awarded to 10 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: October 28, 2013.
Clifford Taffet,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development.

Appendix A

                                                Fiscal Year 2013
                        [OneCPD Plus: Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Awards]
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                Recipient                              City                       State               Amount
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Abt Associates, Inc......................  Cambridge...................  MA                           $1,300,000
American Institutes for Research.........  Washington..................  DC                            1,100,000
Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc..  Boston......................  MA                            2,000,000
Cloudburst Group.........................  Landover....................  MD                            2,500,000
Econometrica, Inc........................  Bethesda....................  MD                            1,500,000
ICF Incorporated, L.L.C..................  Fairfax.....................  VA                            5,301,910
Corporation for Supportive Housing.......  New York....................  NY                              750,000
Capital Access, Inc......................  Philadelphia................  PA                              750,000
CVR Associates, Inc......................  Tampa.......................  FL                            1,500,000
Enterprise Community Partners............  Columbia....................  MD                            2,000,000
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    Total................................  ............................  .......................      18,701,910
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