[Federal Register: August 22, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 161)]
[Notices]
[Page 48970-48972]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4950-N-14A]
Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Notice of Funding
Availability Policy Requirements and General Section to SuperNOFA for
HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs; Housing Opportunities for Persons
With AIDS (HOPWA); Second Competition Announcement
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD
discretionary grant programs; Housing Opportunities for Persons With
AIDS (HOPWA) program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA); second
competition announcement.
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Overview Information
A. Federal Agency Name: Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), Office of Community Planning and Development.
B. Funding Opportunity Title: FY2005 SuperNOFA; Housing
Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Program NOFA; second
competition announcement.
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C. Announcement Type: Second round competition.
D. Funding Opportunity Number: The Federal Register number for this
NOFA is: FR-4950-N-14A. The OMB approval number for this program is
2506-0133.
E. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 14.241
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program.
F. Dates: The application submission date for the second HOPWA NOFA
competition is October 6, 2005.
G. Additional Overview Information: On March 21, 2005, HUD
published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, Notice of Funding Availability
(NOFA) Policy Requirements and General Section to the SuperNOFA for
HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs. The Housing Opportunities for
Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program NOFA competition, which was included
in the SuperNOFA, closed on June 9, 2005. After reviewing and rating
HOPWA applications submitted in response to the SuperNOFA, HUD
anticipates that assistance will remain available for additional
awards. As a result, through this notice published in today's Federal
Register, HUD is announcing a second round of HOPWA funding.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
On March 21, 2005 (70 FR 13575), HUD published its FY2005
SuperNOFA. The HOPWA Program, which was included in the SuperNOFA, made
approximately $37 million available in HUD assistance. The application
submission date for the HOPWA Program NOFA was June 9, 2005.
HUD received 26 HOPWA applications in response to the FY2005
SuperNOFA. Of these applications, HUD received 25 through Grants.gov
and one paper application under a waiver of the electronic filing
requirement. Based on the number received and a review of these
applications, HUD expects that a balance of grant funding will remain
available after the selection of eligible awards from the list of
applications received under the FY2005 SuperNOFA. Specifically, HUD
anticipates that approximately $18 million in FY2005 funds will be
available for additional awards. Therefore, HUD is announcing a second
competition for HOPWA funds through the notice published in today's
Federal Register. In order to give HOPWA applicants sufficient time to
submit completed applications, this notice published in today's Federal
Register announces that the application submission date for the HOPWA
Program NOFA competition is October 6, 2005.
II. Eligibility Information
Applicability of SuperNOFA General Section and HOPWA Program NOFA
Requirements and Selection Criteria to HOPWA Second Round of
Competition
HUD published in its General Section (70 FR 13575) and the HOPWA
Program NOFA (70 FR 14109) the HOPWA competition description,
application submission requirements, and application selection criteria
for the first round of HOPWA funding. All requirements, eligibility,
thresholds, and selection criteria published in the SuperNOFA General
Section and in the HOPWA Program NOFA, except for the requirement to
obtain a waiver from the electronic submission requirement 30 days in
advance of the program deadline and minor clarifications described in
this notice, are applicable to this second competition. This notice
clarifies section VI.A.5 of the General Section concerning debriefing.
The debriefing period for all HOPWA applicants will begin 30 days after
the awards are publicly announced for the second competition. HUD is
also clarifying that approximately $9,052,000 in funds remaining from
Fiscal Year 2004, as described in the March 21, 2005 HOPWA Program NOFA
(see 70 FR 14110), will be obligated for awards under the first round
of this competition. This second round competition makes available
approximately $18,000,000 in FY2005 funds.
Applicants selected for an award under the first round of HOPWA
funding are not eligible for an additional award from funds being made
available under this second notice. Applicants are strongly encouraged
to carefully read both the SuperNOFA General Section and the HOPWA
Program NOFA published on March 21, 2005, in order to compete under
this second round of HOPWA funding.
III. Application and Submission Instructions
All applicants must submit new applications in response to this
announcement. If you submitted an application electronically through
Grants.gov in response to the HOPWA competition announced in the March
21, 2005 SuperNOFA, you will be required to resubmit another complete
application for consideration for this competition. Similarly, if you
submitted an application in hard or paper copy, you will be required to
submit another complete application.
Applicants submitting applications in response to this second round
competition for HOPWA may download a new application and submit their
applications electronically through Grants.gov or may submit hard copy
or paper applications, at their choice. In addition, for this second
round of HOPWA funding, an applicant may submit a paper application
without requesting a waiver from this requirement. Applicants are
encouraged to submit their applications through Grants.gov as described
in the SuperNOFA. HUD does not intend to accept paper applications in
the future without a waiver.
Applicants that choose to submit a paper application must submit an
original and two copies to: HUD Headquarters; Robert C. Weaver Federal
Building; 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7251, Washington, DC 20410-
7000, Attention: HOPWA. Paper applications must be received no later
than 5:15 p.m. eastern time on October 6, 2005.
As described in section IV.F.5.b of the General Section, an
applicant submitting a paper application must use the United States
Postal Service (USPS) to submit its application to HUD. An applicant
must take its application to a post office to get a receipt of mailing
that provides the date and time the package was submitted to the USPS.
USPS rules now require that large packages must be brought to a postal
facility for mailing. In many areas, the USPS has made a practice of
returning to the sender, large packages that have been dropped in a
mail collection box. Paper copy applications submitted to the USPS by
the submission date and time and received by HUD no later than 15 days
after the established submission date will receive funding
consideration. If the USPS does not have a receipt with a digital time
stamp, HUD will accept a receipt showing USPS Form 3817, Certificate of
Mailing with a dated postmark. The proof of submission receipt provided
by the Postal Service must show receipt no later than the application
submission deadline. An applicant whose application is determined to be
late, that cannot furnish HUD with a receipt from the USPS that
verifies the package was submitted to the USPS prior to the submission
due date and time will not receive funding consideration. An applicant
may use any type of mail service provided by the USPS to have their
application package delivered to HUD in time to meet the submission
requirements.
HUD will not accept hand delivery of applications.
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IV. Agency Contact
For further information, please contact: David Vos, Director,
Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, Office of Community Planning and
Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street, SW., Room 7212, Washington, DC 20410-7000; telephone 202-708-
1934 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with speech or hearing
impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339.
Dated: August 11, 2005.
Pamela H. Patenaude,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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