[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74634-74635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26447]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[CFDA Number: 93.568]


Reallotment of Fiscal Year 2021 Funds for the Low Income Home 
Energy Program--Final

AGENCY: Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children 
and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice of final issuance.

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SUMMARY: The ACF, OCS, Division of Energy Assistance (DEA) announces 
that $323,063 of funds from the fiscal year (FFY) 2021 Low Income Home 
Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) were reallotted to States, 
Territories, Tribes, and Tribal Organizations that received FFY 2022 
direct LIHEAP grants.

DATES: This notice became effective on September 28, 2022, which is the 
day on which ACF awarded these reallotments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Akm Rahman, Program Operations Branch 
Chief, Division of Energy Assistance, Office of Community Services, 330 
C Street SW, 5th Floor; Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC 20201. 
Telephone: (202) 401-5306; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with Section 2607(b)(1) of the 
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act (the Act), Title XXVI of the 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(1)), as 
amended, ACF published a notice in the Federal Register on September 
30, 2022, 87 FR 59438, announcing the Secretary's preliminary 
determination that $711,932 of FFY 2021 funds for LIHEAP may be 
available for reallotment. No comments were received on this notice, 
nor did any recipients report additional funds for reallotment. 
However, after such publication, ACF discovered that one grant 
recipient could not adequately complete its necessary reporting, 
another grant recipient reported less unobligated funds in a revision, 
and three grant recipients had insufficient balances in their accounts 
in the Payment Management System.
    These funds became available from the following grant recipients in 
the following amounts:

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                                                            FY 2021
   Name of grant recipient that returned funds for        reallotment
                     reallotment                             amount
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Bishop Paiute Tribe..................................            $17,531
Colorado River Indian Tribes.........................             16,914

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Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians............              7,302
Hopland Band of Pomo Indians.........................              1,755
Jicarilla Apache Nation..............................             16,873
Kalispel Tribe of Indians............................              7,921
Makah Tribe..........................................             31,196
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.............................             37,669
Nooksack Indian Tribe................................             38,535
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah..........................             61,183
Quileute Tribe.......................................              1,673
Round Valley Indian Tribes...........................                558
Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.......................             44,538
Samish Indian Nation.................................                331
Shawnee Tribe........................................              3,600
Spokane Tribe of Indians.............................             19,905
The Delaware Tribe of Indians........................             15,579
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    Total............................................            323,063
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    The list of grant recipients that were awarded these funds was 
published in a Dear Colleague Letter that is posted to ACF's website at 
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/resource/dear-colleagues.
    Pursuant to the statute cited above, these funds were reallotted on 
September 28, 2022, to all but three types of FFY 2022 LIHEAP grant 
recipients by distributing them under the formula that Congress set for 
FFY 2022 funding. The three types of recipients that did not receive 
funds were (1) those whose allocations would have been less than $25; 
(2) tribes or tribal organizations that agreed with their co-
territorial states to receive set amounts for the entire fiscal year; 
and (3) states or territories that were held to the additional minimum 
floor required by the FY 2022 appropriations act after including the 
reallotment amount. No sub-recipients of these recipients or other 
entities may apply for these funds.
    The reallotted funds may be used for any purpose authorized under 
LIHEAP. Grant recipients must add these funds to their total LIHEAP 
funds payable for FFY 2022 for purposes of calculating statutory caps 
on administrative costs, carryover, Assurance 16 activities, and 
weatherization assistance. Grant recipients must also (1) ensure that 
these funds are included in the amounts that ACF pre-populated on Line 
1.1 of their FFY 2022 Carryover and Reallotment Reports; (2) reconcile 
these funds, to the extent that they received them, on a separate 
Federal Financial Form (SF-425); and (3) record, on their FFY 2022 
Household Reports, households that receive benefits at least partly 
from these funds. State recipients must also ensure that these funds 
are included in the Grantee Survey sections of their FFY 2022 LIHEAP 
Performance Data Forms.
    OCS recommends that, after receiving them, grant recipients 
obligate these funds before obligating any other federal LIHEAP funds.
    Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 8626(b).

Karen D. Shields,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy, Office of 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022-26447 Filed 12-5-22; 8:45 am]
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