Announcement of Funding Awards for FY 1999 Public and Indian Housing New Approach Anti-Drug Program (Formerly Known as the Safe Neighborhood Grant Program)

AGENCY:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION:

Announcement of funding awards.

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 FY 1999 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for the New Approach Anti-Drug Program. This announcement contains the consolidated names and addresses of those award recipients under the New Approach Anti-Drug Program (NAAD) and the amounts of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For questions concerning the NAAD funding awards, contact the Office of Public and Indian Housing's Grant Management Center Director Michael E. Diggs, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC; telephone (202) 358-0221. For the hearing or speech impaired, these numbers may be accessed via TTY (text telephone) by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1 (800) 877-8339. (Other than the “800” TTY number, these telephone numbers are not toll-free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This program is a comprehensive neighborhood/community-based approach to crime. The purpose of these competitive grants under the New Approach Anti-Drug Program, is to assist entities managing or operating Federally assisted multifamily housing developments, public and Indian housing developments or other multifamily-housing developments for low-income families supported by non-Federal governmental housing entities or similar housing developments supported by nonprofit private sources, to augment security (including personnel costs), assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of drug-related criminal activity in and around such developments, and provide for the development of capital improvements directly related to security.

Crime fighting efforts are most effective when partnering takes place with law-enforcement agencies at various levels and with a full range of community stakeholders (such as public housing agencies (PHAs) and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (THDEs)).

The 1999 awards announced in this Notice were selected for funding in a competition announced in a Federal Register Notice published on February 26,1999 (64 FR 9759). Applications were scored and selected for funding based on the selection criteria in that Notice.

A total of $18,583,075 was awarded to 84 New Approach grantees who have submitted comprehensive implementation plans with specific measurable goals to promote self sufficiency of public and Native American housing residents. 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 those awards provided in Appendix A to this document.