Notice of PHAs Eligible for FY 2000 Funding and Final Opportunity To Obtain FY 1999 Funding Under the Public Housing Drug Elimination Program

AGENCY:

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

ACTION:

Notice of PHAs eligible for FY 2000 funding and final opportunity to obtain FY 1999 funding under the Public Housing Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP).

SUMMARY:

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is publishing the list of public housing agencies (PHAs) eligible to receive FY 2000 PHDEP funding and also notifying PHAs that are eligible, but have not applied, to receive Public Housing Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP) FY 1999 funding that they have one final opportunity to apply for this funding.

DATES:

Application due date (for PHAs listed in this notice that are eligible for FY 1999 PHDEP funding but that have not yet applied): June 26, 2000.

A PHA that qualifies to receive PHDEP funding for FY 2000 must include a PHDEP plan that meets the requirements of 24 CFR 761.21 with its PHA Plan submitted pursuant to 24 CFR part 903 and applicable PIH Notices.

ADDRESSES:

For FY 1999 PHDEP funding: Submit an original and two copies of the information requested to the local Field Office with delegated public housing responsibilities: Attention: Director, Office of Public Housing. For a listing of Field Offices, please see the application kit, or the Appendix published in the February 26, 1999 SuperNOFA at 64 FR 9767.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bertha M. Jones, Program Analyst, Community Safety and Conservation Division, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-1197 x.4237 (this is not a toll-free number). For further information on the PHA Plan (including applicable PIH Notices) see HUD's PHA Plan website at http://www.hud.gov/pih/pha/plans/phaps-home.html or contact Beth Cooper, Program Analyst, Office of Policy, Program and Legislative Initiatives, telephone (202) 708-0713. Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access these numbers via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Final Opportunity To Obtain FY 1999 PHDEP Funding

In a final rule published September 14, 1999 (64 FR 49899) implementing the formula allocation of PHDEP funding, HUD published a list of PHAs eligible for FY 1999 funding. The listed PHAs were required to submit an application in accordance with the Notice Withdrawing and Reissuing the FY 1999 PHDEP NOFA published on May 12, 1999 (64 FR 25746) in order to receive this funding.

Of the approximately $231,750,000 in FY 1999 funding made available, $5,960,669 has not been claimed by 110 PHAs that were eligible to receive funding but did not submit applications. HUD is providing these PHAs, listed below along with the amounts they are eligible to receive, one final opportunity to receive FY 1999 PHDEP funding. Any PHA included in the list must submit an application in accordance with the May 12, 1999 notice by the date listed in the DATES: heading at the beginning of this notice in order to receive FY 1999 PHDEP funding.

II. Reporting Requirements Reminder

In accordance with 24 CFR 761.35, recipients of PHDEP funds are required to report the performance of approved activities for each grant on a semi-annual basis and to report final performance at the end of the grant term. The semi-annual performance report must be submitted electronically over the Internet by accessing the following URL address: http://www.hud.gov/pih/systems/ibs/phdep/phdep.html. The semi-annual financial status report (SF 269A—not an electronic submission) must be submitted to the appropriate Field Office or Area Offices of ONAP. Grantees are required to submit semi-annual reports by July 30th for the January-June reporting period and by January 31st for the July-December reporting period. PHDEP grant funds may be suspended if reports are not submitted by the deadline.

III. PHAs Eligible for FY 2000 Funding

The following tables are the listings of PHAs that qualify for PHDEP Funding for FY 2000. There is one table for each of the three categories of eligible PHAs. The first table includes an eligibility designation of “R” in the third column, which means that each listed PHA is eligible for funding as a “preference PHA” under § 761.15(a)(2). In Table 2, the designation of “N1” in the third column means the PHA was designated eligible on the basis of need as determined under the formula in § 761.15(a)(3). In Table 3, the designation of “N2” means the PHA is eligible on the basis of need as a PHA that qualified for funding under FYs 1996, 1997 or 1998, but was not funded because of the unavailability of funds, in accordance with § 761.15(a)(4).

The source of data for these listings is the PIH Information Center (PIC) and was captured in the PHDEP Formula database on March 7, 2000. The data captured reflects the PHA's inventory as of September 30, 1999.