AGENCY:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, 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 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Rural Housing and Economic Development Program. This announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the awards made available by HUD.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jackie W. Mitchell, Director, Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development, Office of Economic Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202) 708-2290 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing- and speech-impaired persons may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339. For general information on this and other HUD programs, call Community Connections at 1-800-998-9999 or visit the HUD Website at http://www.hud.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Rural Housing and Economic Development Program was enacted in The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (Pub. L. 105-276, approved October 21, 1998; 112 Stat. 2461, 2475) (the “FY 1999 HUD Appropriations Act”) made $24 million in FY 1999 funds available for competitive funding under the Rural Housing and Economic Development program. The FY 1999 HUD Appropriations Act also specifies that certain unobligated funds authorized by the FY 1998 HUD Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 105-65, approved October 27, 1997; 111 Stat. 1344, 1357) shall be made available under the Rural Housing and Economic Development program. The amount of unobligated funds from this source is $3 million. Therefore, the total amount of funding made available under the NOFA was $27 million. The competition was announced in the NOFA published in the Federal Register on March 8, 1999 (64 FR 4483). Applications were rated and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria contained in that Notice.
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program is 14.250.
The Rural Housing and Economic Development Program is designed to build capacity at the State and local level for rural housing and economic development and to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas. The funds made available under this program were awarded competitively, through a selection process conducted by HUD in consultation with the United States Department of Agriculture.
A total of $27 million was awarded to 91 projects nationwide. 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 grantees and amounts of the awards in Appendix A to this document.
Dated: August 23, 2000.
Cardell Cooper,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Appendix A—FY 1999 Rural Housing and Economic Development Competitive Grants
| Applicant | State | City | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund | AL | Epes | $207,800 |
| Design Corps | AL | Newbern | 224,190 |
| Upper Sand Mountain United Methodist | AL | Sylvania | 47,300 |
| Metlakatla Indian Community | AK | Metlakatla | 500,000 |
| Alaska Native Village of Tanacross | AK | Tanacross | 600,000 |
| Community Resource Group, Inc | AR | Fayetteville | 467,500 |
| Community Resource Group, Inc | AR | Fayetteville | 222,000 |
| White Mountain Apache CDC | AZ | McNary | 250,000 |
| Comite de Bien Estar | AZ | San Luis | 600,000 |
| Housing America Corporation | AZ | Somerton | 75,000 |
| Fort Defiance Housing Corporation | AZ | Window Rock | 200,000 |
| Bishop Indian Tribal Council | CA | Bishop | 88,201 |
| Community Housing Improvement Program, Inc | CA | Chico | 451,397 |
| Yurok Tribe | CA | Eureka | 200,000 |
| South County Housing Corporation | CA | Gilroy | 500,000 |
| Coachella Valley Housing Coalition | CA | Indio | 200,000 |
| Coachella Valley Housing Coalition | CA | Indio | 600,000 |
| I-5 Social Services Corporation | CA | Mendota | 509,500 |
| Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians | CA | Redwood Valley | 32,345 |
| Peoples' Self-Help Housing Corporation | CA | San Luis Obispo | 500,000 |
| Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation | CA | Ukiah | 194,877 |
| Everglades Community Association, Inc | FL | Homestead | 500,000 |
| Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc | ID | Boise | 200,000 |
| Lincoln Hills Development Corporation | IN | Tell City | 160,000 |
| Iowa Finance Authority | IA | Des Moines | 600,000 |
| Mid-America Housing Partnership, Inc | IA | Cedar Rapids | 500,000 |
| Kentucky Farmworker Programs, Inc | KY | Bowling Green | 209,519 |
| Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises | KY | Berea | 482,374 |
| Kentucky Highlands Investments Corporation | KY | London | 461,854 |
| Kentucky Mountain Housing Development Corporation, Inc | KY | Manchester | 200,000 |
| Pendleton County Industrial Authority | KY | Falmouth | 200,000 |
| Northlake Community Development Corporation | LA | Hammond | 176,008 |
| Garrett County, Maryland Community Action Committee | MD | Oakland | 504,000 |
| Eastern Maine Development Corporation | ME | Bangor | 129,500 |
| Five-Cap Inc | MI | Scottsville | 500,000 |
| Bi-County Community Action Programs, Inc | MN | Bemidji | 500,000 |
| Three Rivers Community Action, Inc | MN | Zumbrota | 150,000 |
| Blackfeet Tribe | MT | Browning | 600,000 |
| Blackfeet Tribe | MT | Browning | 200,000 |
| Action for Eastern Montana, Inc | MT | Glendive | 126,766 |
| Fort Belknap College | MT | Harlem | 200,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Development Council | MT | Helena | 109,369 |
| Montana Community Development Corporation | MT | Missoula | 199,058 |
| Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes | MT | Poplar | 148,633 |
| The Heritage Institute | MT | Poplar | 501,219 |
| North Central NE Resource Conservation Development and Planning Council | NE | Bassett | 237,800 |
| Central Nebraska Community Services, Inc | NE | Loup City | 195,632 |
| Native Council on Economic and Community Development Corporation | NE | Walthill | 150,000 |
| Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe | NC | Hollister | 250,000 |
| WREN-Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network | NH | Bethlehem | 150,000 |
| New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority | NM | Albuquerque | 600,000 |
| Housing and Economic Rural Opportunities | NM | Las Cruces | 165,445 |
| Pojoaque Housing Corporation | NM | Santa Fe | 500,000 |
| Citizens for Affordable Homes, Inc | NV | Carson City | 69,075 |
| Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development | NY | Monticello | 150,000 |
| Partnership for Economic Development | NY | Monticello | 500,000 |
| Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc | NY | Rochester | 150,000 |
| Rural Opportunities, Inc | NY | Rochester | 390,065 |
| Adirondack Economic Development Corporation | NY | Saranac Lake | 150,000 |
| Portage Area Development Corporation | OH | Ravena | 137,860 |
| Portage Area Development Corporation | OH | Ravena | 500,000 |
| Wa-Ro-Ma-Tri-County Action Foundation, Inc | OK | Claremore | 225,710 |
| Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma | OK | Anadarko | 143,660 |
| Little Dixie Community Action Agency | OK | Hugo | 199,700 |
| Langston Community Development Corporation | OK | Langston | 200,000 |
| Otoe-Missouria Tribe | OK | Red Rock | 97,805 |
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation | OK | Shawnee | 198,928 |
| Casa of Oregon | OR | Newberg | 200,000 |
| Technical College of the Low Country Foundation, Inc | SC | Beaufort | 193,000 |
| Catawba Indian Nation | SC | Catawba | 600,000 |
| Catawba Indian Nation | SC | Catawba | 250,000 |
| Oti Kaga, Inc | SD | Eagle Butte | 188,796 |
| The Lakota Fund | SD | Kyle | 538,266 |
| Cangleska, Inc | SD | Kyle | 211,764 |
| Rosebud Sioux Tribe | SD | Rosebud | 500,000 |
| Rosebud Sioux Tribe | SD | Rosebud | 196,800 |
| Rio Valle Rainbow, Inc | TX | El Paso | 44,960 |
| El Paso Collaborative for Comm. & Economic Development | TX | El Paso | 200,000 |
| Amigos Del Valle, Inc | TX | Mission | 600,000 |
| ACCION Texas, Inc | TX | San Antonio | 600,000 |
| The Center for Economic Opportunities, Inc | TX | San Juan | 500,000 |
| Virginia Eastern Shore Economic Empowerment & Housing Corporation | VA | Nassawadox | 115,000 |
| Virginia Eastern Shore Economic Empowerment & Housing Corporation | VA | Nassawadox | 175,000 |
| Swinomish Indian Tribal Community | WA | La Conner | 150,000 |
| Okanogan County Community Action Council | WA | Okanogan | 196,665 |
| Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development | WA | Olympia | 600,000 |
| Community Health Center La Clinica | WA | Pasco | 600,000 |
| Institute for Washington's Future | WA | Renton | 199,500 |
| The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe | WA | Sequim | 117,702 |
| Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc | WI | Superior | 200,000 |
| Mountain Partners in Community Development | WV | Elkins | 151,701 |
[FR Doc. 00-22352 Filed 8-30-00; 8:45 am]
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