[Federal Register: November 25, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 227)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4800-FA-26]
Announcement of Funding Award--FY 2003 Operation Lead Elimination
Action Program (LEAP)
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary--Office of Healthy Homes and Lead
Hazard Control, HUD.
ACTION: Announcement 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 additional funding decisions made by the
Department in a competition for funding under the Operation Lead
Elimination Action Program (LEAP) Notice of Funding Availability
(NOFA). The purpose of the LEAP program is to leverage private sector
resources to eliminate lead poisoning as a major public health threat
to young children. This announcement contains the name and address of
the award recipient and the amount of award.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Baker, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control,
Room P3206, 451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, 20410-3000,
telephone (804) 771-2100 ext. 3765. Hearing- or speech-impaired persons
may access the number above via TTY by calling the toll free Federal
Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The authority for making funding available
under the LEAP NOFA is Division K of the Consolidated Appropriations
Resolution of 2003, Pub. L. 108-7, approved February 20, 2003.
These awards were the result of a competition announced in a
Federal Register NOFA published on April 25, 2003 (68 FR 21413). The
purpose of the competition was to award grant funding of approximately
$9,935,000 for grants and cooperative agreements for LEAP. Applications
were scored and selected on the basis of selection criteria contained
in that NOFA.
A total of $9,935,000 was awarded to seven grantees. 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 names, addresses, and amounts of this
awards as follows:
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Awardee Address Amount awarded
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ACORN Associates.............. 1024 Elysian Fields $999,974.00
Avenue New Orleans
LA 70117.
National Coalition for Lead P.O. Box 535, Olney, 1,265,415.00
Safe Kids. MD 20830.
Environmental Education 2929 Main Street 1,892,349.00
Association. Buffalo, NY 14214.
Middle Tennessee State 1500 Greenland Avenue 1,871,740.00
University. Murfreesboro, TN
37132.
Alliance to End Childhood Lead 227 Massachusetts 2,477,295.00
Poisoning. Avenue, NE Suite
200, Washington, DC
20002.
CONNOR Environmental Services. 1421 Clarkview Road, 194,623.00
Suite 100,
Baltimore, MD 21209.
O.C. Community Development 12640 Knott Street 1,233,604.00
Council, Inc. Garden Grove, CA
92841.
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(The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program
is 14.903.)
Dated: November 4, 2003.
Joseph F. Smith,
Deputy Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.
[FR Doc. 03-29330 Filed 11-24-03; 8:45 am]
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