[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 112 (Friday, June 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36707-36708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14604]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4574-N-02]
Fiscal Year 2000 Notice of Funding Availability for the Indian
Housing Drug Elimination Program; Amendment Concerning Minimum Grant
Amounts
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA); Amendment.
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SUMMARY: On May 11, 2000, HUD published its FY 2000 NOFA for Indian
Housing Drug Elimination Program (``IHDEP''). This document amends the
NOFA to provide a minimum grant award which would ensure that all
eligible tribes or tribally designated housing entities who submit
successful applications receive a minimum funding amount to initiate
substance abuse prevent/intervention programs in their community.
Minimum grant awards were included in the drug elimination program
NOFAs in previous years when HUD issued NOFAs that addressed both
public and Indian housing, and a minimum grant award amount was
intended to be included in the FY 2000 IHDEP NOFA. This document
corrects that omission.
DATES: The application due date of July 10, 2000, is not changed by
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please call the local AONAPs with
jurisdiction over your Tribe/tribally designated housing entity (TDHE)
or HUD's Public and Indian Housing Resource Center at 1-800-955-2232 or
Tracy C. Outlaw, National Office of Native American Programs (ONAP),
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390,
Denver, CO 80202, telephone (303) 675-1600 (these are not toll-free
numbers). Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access this number
via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at
1-800-877-8339. Also, please see ONAP's website at http://www.codetalk.fed.us.html where you will be able to download a copy of
the IHDEP NOFA, published on May 11, 2000, as well as this notice, and
application kit from the Internet.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 11, 2000, HUD published its FY 2000
IHDEP NOFA (65 FR 30502). The purpose of IHDEP is to provide grants to
eliminate drugs and drug-related crime in American Indian and Alaskan
Native
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communities. The May 11, 2000 NOFA announced the availability of
approximately $22 million ($11 million of FY 1999 funding and $11
million of FY 2000 funding) for the program.
It was HUD's intention that the May 11, 2000 IHDEP NOFA include a
minimum grant award of $25,000 which would ensure that all eligible
tribes or tribally designated housing entities who submit successful
applications receive a minimum funding amount to initiate substance
abuse prevention/intervention programs in their community. Minimum
grant awards were included in the drug elimination program NOFAs in
previous years when HUD issued NOFAs that addressed both public and
Indian housing, and a minimum grant award amount was intended to be
included in the FY 2000 IHDEP NOFA. This document corrects that
omission.
Therefore, in the FY 2000 Notice of Funding Availability for the
Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program, notice document 00-11882,
beginning at 65 FR 30502, in the issue of Thursday, May 11, 2000, the
following amendment is made:
On page 30507, in the second column, continuing into the third
column, the introductory paragraph of Section IV.(A) (the title of
Section IV is Program Requirements) and paragraph (A)(1)(a) are amended
to read as follows:
(A) Grant Award Amounts. HUD is distributing grant funds for IHDEP
under this NOFA on a national competition basis. The maximum grant
award amounts are computed for IHDEP on a sliding scale, using an
overall maximum cap, depending upon the number of Tribe/TDHE units
eligible for funding. This figure (number of eligible units for
funding) will determine the grant amount that the Tribe/TDHE is
eligible to receive if they meet the IHDEP criteria and score a minimum
of 70 out of 105 points. No selected applicant, however, will receive a
grant award of less than $25,000.
(1) Amount per unit. (a) for tribes/TDHEs with 1-1,250 units: The
minimum grant award amount is $25,000. The maximum grant award cap is
$600 multiplied by the number of eligible units.
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Dated: June 6, 2000.
Milan Ozdinec,
Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing.
[FR Doc. 00-14604 Filed 6-8-00; 8:45 am]
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