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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND jurisdiction over the applicant project, Operation Safe Home; and the Safe URBAN DEVELOPMENT Attention: Director of Multifamily Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP) Housing. It is not sufficient for the demonstration. Federal programs also [Docket No. FR±4212±N±01] application to bear a postage date within include several Department of Justice Safe Neighborhood Grants; Notice of the submission time period. (DOJ) law enforcement programs and Funding AvailabilityÐFiscal Year 1997 Applications submitted by facsimile are various programs operated by HUD and not acceptable. HUD will not consider other agencies which promote socio- AGENCY: Office of the Assistant applications received after the deadline. economic lift, drug treatment, and other Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For support for at-risk populations to Commissioner, HUD. application materials, please contact the remove underlying causes of crime and ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability Office of the Director of Multifamily the need for law enforcement. (NOFA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 1997. Housing in the HUD field office having The following specific guiding jurisdiction over the project(s) in principles and concerns are derived SUMMARY: This NOFA announces the question. A list of HUD field offices is from this experience, and HUD is availability of $20,000,000 in FY 1997 attached to this NOFA as Appendix A. incorporating them in its plan for funds for Safe Neighborhood Grants. For program, policy, and other implementing these Safe Neighborhood The purpose of the Safe Neighborhood guidance, contact Henry Colonna, Grants: Grants Program is to eliminate drug- Department of Housing and Urban (1) Drug- and crime-fighting activities, related and other crime problems on the Development, Virginia State Office, if only directed to a single assisted premises and in the vicinity of low- 3600 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA housing development, may have the income housing, which may be 23230–4920, telephone (804) 278–4505, unfortunate effect of simply moving the privately or publicly owned and is extension 3027 (or (804) 278–4501 problem to nearby housing and financially assisted or supported by TTY). businesses. With these grants, HUD is public or nonprofit private entities. This taking a comprehensive neighborhood/ SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOFA describes the purpose of the community-based approach to crime. program, applicant eligibility, maximum I. Purpose and Substantive Description Applicant owners/operators of eligible housing will be required to partner with grant amount, application threshold and A. Authority ranking criteria, HUD application the unit of general local government processing, and postaward financial and This grant funding was authorized (city or county) with jurisdiction and management requirements. This NOFA and appropriated by the Departments of other stakeholders to address crime in provides information on how to apply, Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban an entire neighborhood that may how HUD will make selections, and Development, and Independent include more than one Assisted Housing how HUD will notify applicants of Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 development. Application scoring will results. (Pub. L. No. 104–204, approved favor proposals that target September 26, 1996; 110 Stat. 2874, neighborhoods with large DATES: Applications must be received at 2888) (HUD FY 1997 Appropriations concentrations of Assisted Housing that the local HUD field office on or before Act). are, in many cases, distributed among August 21, 1997 at 3 p.m., local time. multiple Assisted Housing THIS APPLICATION DEADLINE IS B. Background developments. Application scoring will FIRM AS TO DATE AND HOUR. In the The HUD 1997 Appropriations Act also favor proposals that maximize the interest of fairness to all competing made $20,000,000 available for grants to role of units of general local applicants, HUD will treat as ineligible benefit public housing developments, governments, and especially their police for consideration any application that is federally-assisted multifamily, or other departments and/or prosecuting offices, received after the deadline. Applicants multifamily-housing developments for in administering grant funds. (Units of should take this practice into account low-income families supported by non- local government that are owners/ and submit materials early to avoid Federal governmental housing entities operators of eligible housing may also risking loss of eligibility brought about or similar developments supported by be designated grantees whether or not by unanticipated delivery-related nonprofit private sources, to reimburse the neighborhood designated for problems. A facsimile transmission local law enforcement entities for assistance includes housing that they (FAX) will not constitute delivery. additional police presence in and own). ADDRESSES: (a) APPLICATION KIT: An around such housing developments. (2) Crime fighting efforts are most application kit is required to prepare an These funds may also be used to effective when partnering law- application successfully. Applicants provide or augment such security enforcement agencies at various levels may obtain the application from the services by other entities or employees with one another and with a full range HUD field office having jurisdiction of the recipient agency, to assist in the of community stakeholders. As over the location of the applicant investigation and/or prosecution of drug indicated above owner applicants will project. A list of HUD field offices is related criminal activity in and around be required to demonstrate that they attached to this NOFA as Appendix A. such developments, and to provide have formed a partnership with units of The HUD field office will be available assistance for the development of general local government, preferably to provide technical assistance in the capital improvements at such with the police department and preparation of applications during the developments directly relating to the prosecutor’s office playing key roles in application period. In addition, security of such developments. this partnership. In addition, members applications may be obtained from the In implementing this grant program, of the grant partnership must also Multifamily Housing Clearinghouse by HUD is applying lessons learned from include: At least one law enforcement calling (800) 685–8470. other anticrime efforts in public and agency at a Federal level (such as the (b) APPLICATION SUBMISSION: assisted housing including the following HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG), Applications (original and two copies) HUD programs: Drug Elimination Grants U.S. Attorney, FBI, Drug Enforcement must be received by the deadline at the for Public and Indian Housing and for Administration (DEA), and U.S. appropriate HUD field office with other federally-assisted housing; Marshals); all owners of Assisted

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Housing developments in the targeted intends to fund existing crime-fighting (6) Coordination with other law neighborhood; and residents of these partnerships with good track records to enforcement efforts. In addition to Assisted Housing developments. extend their activities in new locations. working closely with residents and local Applicants will also position Forty out of 100 points will be awarded governing bodies, it is critically themselves to score more points in the based on lead applicant’s and important that owners establish ongoing competition by including the following partnership’s capacity to implement the working relationships with Federal, in the partnership: (a) Community Safe Neighborhood Action Plan. Of State, and local law enforcement residents; (b) neighborhood businesses; these 40 points, 15 will be based on the agencies in their efforts to address crime (c) nonprofit providers of support prior experience of an applicant or its and violence in and around their services, including spiritually-based partners in eliminating crime in other housing developments. HUD firmly organizations and their affiliates; (d) projects and neighborhoods, with the believes that the war on crime and State law enforcement agencies; and (e) remaining 25 based on the overall violence in assisted housing can only be more than one Federal law enforcement strength of the partnership and won through the concerted and agency. administrative mechanisms established cooperative efforts of owners and law In stressing partnerships, HUD is to implement the grant. enforcement agencies working together drawing from successes of its Operation As a prime example of the need to use in cooperation with residents and local Safe Home program and the SNAP effective working partnerships in new governing bodies. As such, HUD Demonstration Initiative. Safe locations, many Federal resources have encourages owners to participate in Neighborhood Grants will be been applied to eliminate crime in and Departmental and other Federal law administered by HUD’s Richmond around public and assisted housing enforcement agencies’ programs, as Office, which also administers the developments through the Drug described below: SNAP demonstration sites, and will Elimination Grant, Operation Safe include implementation plans called Safe Neighborhood Action Program Home, and Weed and Seed programs. (SNAP) ‘‘Safe Neighborhood Action Plans.’’ HUD now wishes to encourage these The Safe Neighborhood Action (The SNAP program will also continue successful partnerships to address Program (SNAP) initiative, announced to include projects not funded by Safe similar problems in and around June 12, 1994 by HUD, the National Neighborhood Grants, such as current privately-owned federally-assisted Assisted Housing Management demonstration SNAP initiatives.) In housing. In addition to rewarding Association (NAHMA), and the U.S. addition, the HUD Office of Inspector partnerships with good track records, Conference of Mayors (USCM), is an General will make several Safe HUD is requiring that at least one Neighborhood Grant sites Operation anticrime and empowerment strategies project in each targeted neighborhood initiative in HUD-assisted housing Safe Home sites as well, giving be multifamily housing with either: (1) awardees of such grants the added neighborhoods in 14 SNAP cities. The A HUD-insured, held, or direct mortgage benefit of Office of Inspector General major thrust of SNAP is the formation and Rental Assistance Payments (RAP), assistance in crime fighting activities. of local partnerships in 14 targeted (3) Law enforcement strategies, Rent Supplement, or interest reduction cities where ideas and resources from however effective in the short run, need payments; or (2) Section 8 project-based government, owners and managers of to be combined with efforts to address assistance with or without HUD interest assisted housing, residents, service the underlying causes of crime and in the project mortgage. providers, law enforcement officials, deter its reappearance. The long term This emphasis on HUD assisted and other community groups meet to solution to the crime problems of privately-owned housing does not work on innovative, neighborhood Assisted Housing developments and negate the eligibility of other low- anticrime strategies. There is no funding their surrounding neighborhoods rest in income housing developments assisted associated with SNAP, which relies on changing the conditions—and the by Federal, State, and local government, existing ideas and resources of the culture—within these places. Although and not-for-profit sources to apply or participants. Some common initiatives Safe Neighborhood Grants are benefit from Safe Neighborhood Grant from these SNAP teams have included statutorily restricted to law enforcement funds. By awarding points for the following: Community policing, activity and to physical barriers against neighborhoods with high concentrations crime watch programs, tenant selection criminal penetration, the ranking will of Assisted Housing, HUD is policies, leadership training, individual favor comprehensive strategies that encouraging applicants to address the development or job skills training, match Safe Neighborhood Grant funds needs of multiple Assisted Housing expansion of youth activities, police tip with local, State, or Federal resources developments which may feature a mix line or form, community centers, committed to ‘‘welfare-to-work,’’ family of ownership types and subsidy sources. antigang initiatives, police training for self-sufficiency, youth development and (5) Complying with civil rights security officers, environmental the like, as well as other law requirements. With the very real need to improvements, and a needs assessment enforcement resources. protect occupants of HUD-sponsored survey to determine community needs. (4) Actions speak louder than words. housing and the areas around the In addition, a HUD-sponsored initiative HUD is aware that competitive grant housing, the civil rights of all citizens to increase the presence of AmeriCorps’ selections can be as much affected by must be protected. Proposed strategies VISTAs in assisted housing units has the writing skills applied in preparing should be developed to ensure that led to the placement of 25 VISTAs on applications as by the applicant crime-fighting and drug prevention 12 SNAP teams. The AmeriCorps VISTA organization’s ability to achieve activities are not undertaken in such a program, which incorporates a theme of program goals with grant funds. manner that civil rights or fair housing working within the community to find Although HUD will award 10 points statutes are violated. Profiling on any solutions to community needs, has based on the logical soundness of a prohibited bases may not be allowed. In provided additional technical assistance proposed plan, HUD also knows that addition, all segments of the population to the SNAP teams. The cities excellent plans on paper do not always should be represented in developing participating in the SNAP initiative translate to excellent results. For and implementing these crime-fighting include: Atlanta, GA; Boston, Mass; maximum program impact, HUD strategies. Denver, CO; Houston, TX; Newark, NJ;

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Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; Operation Weed and Seed must provide economic opportunities Columbus, OH; Detroit, MI; Los for residents. Operation Weed and Seed, conducted Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; Little through the Department of Justice, is a For further information on Operation Rock, AR; Richmond, VA; and comprehensive, multiagency approach Weed and Seed, contact the Department Washington, DC. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, For more information on SNAP, to combatting violent crime, drug use, and gang activity in high-crime 366 Indiana Avenue, Room 304S, NW, contact Henry Colonna, National SNAP Washington, DC, 20531; telephone (202) Coordinator, Virginia State Office, 3600 neighborhoods. The goal is to ‘‘weed out’’ crime from targeted 616–1152, FAX number (202) 616–1159; West Broad Street, Richmond, VA or Internet E:mail: 23230–4920; telephone (804) 278–4505, neighborhoods, and then to ‘‘seed’’ the targeted sites with a wide range of crime [email protected]. extension 3027; or (804) 278–4501 TTY. Specific activities undertaken For more information on AmeriCorps’ and drug prevention programs and human services agency resources to pursuant to SNAP, Operation Safe VISTAs in Assisted Housing, contact Home, and Operation Weed and Seed Deanna E. Beaudoin, National VISTAs prevent crime from reoccurring. Operation Weed and Seed further may be eligible for funding if they meet in Assisted Housing Coordinator, the criteria outlined in this NOFA. Colorado State Office, First Interstate emphasizes the importance of Tower North, 633 17th Street, Denver, community involvement in combatting Promoting Comprehensive Approaches CO 80202; telephone (303) 672–5291, drugs and violent crime. Community to Housing and Community extension 1068. residents need to be empowered to Development assist in solving crime-related problems Operation Safe Home in their neighborhoods. In addition, the HUD is interested in promoting Operation Safe Home was announced private sector needs to get involved in comprehensive, coordinated approaches jointly by Vice President Albert Gore, reducing crime. All of these entities— to housing and community former HUD Secretary Henry G. Federal, State, and local government, development. Economic development, Cisneros, former Treasury Secretary the community, and the private sector— community development, public Lloyd Bentsen, Attorney General Janet should work together in partnership to housing revitalization, homeownership, Reno, and representatives of the Office create a safer, drug-free environment. assisted housing for special needs of National Drug Control Policy The Weed and Seed strategy involves populations, supportive services, and (ONDCP) at a White House briefing on four basic elements: welfare-to-work initiatives can work better if linked at the local level. February 4, 1994. Operation Safe Home —Law enforcement must ‘‘weed out’’ is a major HUD initiative focusing on Toward this end, HUD in recent years the most violent offenders by has developed the Consolidated violent and drug-related crime within coordinating and integrating the public housing authorities. As such, it is Planning process designed to help efforts of Federal, State, and local law a holistic enforcement approach which communities undertake such enforcement agencies in targeted combines aggressive law enforcement approaches. high-crime neighborhoods. No social interdiction efforts with a housing In this spirit, it may be helpful for program or community activity can authority’s crime prevention and applicants under this NOFA to be aware flourish in an atmosphere poisoned intervention initiatives. Operation Safe of other related HUD NOFAs that have by violent crime and drug abuse. Home is structured to combat the level recently been published or are expected of violent crime activities occurring —Local municipal police departments to be published in the near future. By within public and assisted housing, and should implement community reviewing these NOFAs with respect to enhance the quality of life within such policing in each of the targeted sites. their program purposes and the complexes through three simultaneous Under community policing, law eligibility of applicants and activities, approaches: enforcement should work closely with applicants may be able to relate the the housing authority and residents of —Strong, collaborative law enforcement activities proposed for funding under efforts focused on reducing the level the community to develop solutions this NOFA to the recent and upcoming of violent crime activities occurring to the problems of violent and drug- NOFAs and to the community’s within public and assisted housing; related crime. Community policing Consolidated Plan. —Collaboration between law serves as a ‘‘bridge’’ between the The related NOFAs that HUD is enforcement agencies and public weeding (law enforcement) and publishing elsewhere in this issue of the housing managers and residents in seeding (neighborhood revitalization) Federal Register are the NOFA for devising methods to prevent violent components. Public Housing Drug Elimination, the crime; and —After the weeding takes place, law NOFA for Public Housing Drug —The introduction of HUD, DOJ, and enforcement and social services Elimination Technical Assistance, and other agency initiatives specifically agencies, the private sector, and the the NOFA for Federally Assisted Low geared to preventing crime. community must work to prevent Income Housing Drug Elimination For more information on Operation crime and violence from reoccurring Grants. Safe Home, contact Lee Isdell, Office of by concentrating a broad array of To foster comprehensive, coordinated the Inspector General, Department of human services—drug and crime approaches by communities, HUD Housing and Urban Development, Room prevention programs, drug treatment, intends for the remainder of FY 1997 to 8256, 451 Seventh Street, SW., educational opportunities, family continue to alert applicants to upcoming Washington, DC. 20410; telephone (202) services, and recreational activities— and recent NOFAs as each NOFA is 708–0430, fax number (202) 401–2505; in the targeted sites to create an published. In addition, a complete Internet E:mail www.hud.gov./oig/ environment where crime cannot schedule of NOFAs to be published oigindex.html. A telecommunications thrive. during the fiscal year and those already device for hearing or speech impaired —Federal, State, local, and private published appears under the HUD persons (TTY) is available at (202) 708– sector resources must focus on Homepage on the Internet, which can be 0850. (These are not toll-free telephone revitalizing distressed neighborhoods accessed at http://www.hud.gov/ numbers.) through economic development and nofas.html. HUD may consider

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Funding Amounts and Term law enforcement entities for the costs of within the neighborhood, the costs (1) Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 additional police presence (police during the grant period of constructing Funding. This NOFA announces the salaries and other expenses directly such a station or of equipping the availability of $20,000,000 in FY 1997 related to such presence) in and around substation with communications and funds. Assisted Housing developments in the security equipment to improve the (2) Maximum Grant Award Amounts. neighborhood over and above: (i) What collection, analysis and use of The maximum grant award amount is the law enforcement agency incurring information about criminal activities in limited to $250,000 per application/ such costs had incurred for such the properties and the neighborhood neighborhood. purposes within the same geographic may be reimbursed. Federal law (3) Term of Grant. Grant funds must area during the period equal in length enforcement activities may not be be expended within 24 months after and immediately prior to the period of funded by the Safe Neighborhood Grant. HUD executes a Grant Agreement; reimbursement, and (ii) What the That is, grant funds cannot be directly however, one extension of up to 6 agency planned to incur for such transferred to Federal agencies for their months may be granted at HUD’s option. purposes in the same geographic area use in funding law enforcement (4) Reduction of Requested Grant during the period of reimbursement activities at the target sites. However, Amounts. HUD may award an amount prior to publication of the NOFA. For activities that support or further the less than requested if: any grant, at least 70 percent of such objectives of Federal law enforcement (a) HUD determines the amount reimbursed costs must be for police activities at the targeted site may be requested for an eligible activity and/or presence in or immediately adjacent to funded with the Safe Neighborhood any budget line item is unreasonable; the premises of Assisted Housing Grant. (b) Insufficient amounts remain under developments and the remainder of (b) Security Services Provided by the allocation to fund the full amount such reimbursed costs must be for Other Entities Such As The Owner of an requested by the applicant, and HUD police presence within the project area. Assisted Housing Development. The determines that partial funding is a In its criteria for awarding points in activities of any contract security viable option; the funding competition, HUD is personnel funded under this grant must (c) HUD determines that some strongly encouraging that additional law be coordinated with other law elements of the proposed plan are enforcement in the Assisted Housing enforcement and crime prevention suitable for funding and others are not; developments and surrounding efforts under the Safe Neighborhood or neighborhoods be targeted to Action Plan approved by HUD. Efforts (d) HUD determines that a reduced implementing an overall crime fighting to achieve such coordination, as grant would prevent duplicative Federal strategy, rather than merely responding described in the plan, must include funding. to crime emergencies. Two potentially frequent periodic scheduled meetings of (5) Distribution of Funds. HUD is effective anticrime strategies that can security personnel with housing project allocating funds to the highest scoring benefit from additional police presence management and residents, local police applications that have met all program are: (1) Combined multiagency task and, as appropriate, with other public threshold requirements and have been force initiatives, such as Operation Safe law enforcement personnel, neighboring ranked using ratings by a team of expert Home, in which local and Federal law residents, landlords, and other HUD staff from throughout the country. enforcement agencies pool resources, neighborhood stakeholders. Only applications which have the first, to infiltrate organizations that HUD is inclined, as stated elsewhere threshold score of 70 points out of a promote violent and/or drug-related in this NOFA, to reward applicants that total 100 will be funded. There will be crime in the neighborhood and, second, partner with entities that have a proven no geographic ‘‘fair sharing’’ or targeting to initiate strategic and coordinated ability to address crime problems, and of funds. mass arrests to break up these is therefore strongly inclined to provide (6) Grant Reductions After Award. organizations; and (2) Community more points under ‘‘Quality of Plan’’ HUD may rescind and/or recapture policing, i.e., sustained proactive police and ‘‘Strength of Partnerships’’ to grant funds based on the grantee’s and presence in the development or applications that propose reimbursing or partners’ failure to perform in neighborhood, often conducted from an municipal police departments than accordance with the Grant Agreement, onsite substation or ministation, that those reimbursing private operators, for including the project application that involves crime prevention, citizen security services. will be incorporated in the Grant involvement, and other community (c) To Assist in the Investigation and/ Agreement by reference. In addition, service activities, as well as traditional or Prosecution of Drug-Related Criminal grant funds not expended for eligible law enforcement. Activity in and Around Assisted purposes and in accordance with OMB Because of the desperate gang-related Housing Developments. (i) Subject to a cost principles by the end of the grant crime problems facing many Assisted Cost Reimbursement Agreement, term will be recaptured by HUD and are Housing developments and their reimburse local or State prosecuting governed by section 218 of the HUD FY neighborhoods and HUD’s desire for offices and related public agencies for 1997 Appropriations Act. maximum immediate impact early in the prosecution or investigation of crime the program, the competition favors committed in the neighborhood related D. Eligibility of Grant Activities and proposals in which additional police to the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan. Applicants presence will be used for a multiagency Such reimbursement must be for costs The following is a listing of eligible task force to fight crime, although points over and above what the office or activities, ineligible activities, eligible will also be awarded based on the extent agency incurred for such purposes for

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For any grant, an Assisted Housing development that in which owners have agreed to at least 70 percent of such reimbursed may enhance the security of a specific participate in the SNG activities; costs must be in connection with crimes project at the expense of other dwellings (iii) Residents of each assisted low committed in or immediately adjacent in the neighborhood that might then income project in the neighborhood that to the premises of Assisted Housing serve as alternative crime victims. will benefit from grant funding. The developments and the remainder of (2) Eligible Applicants.—(a) Lead residents’ commitment may be signed such reimbursed costs directly related to Applicant. The lead applicant, which if either by individuals from a majority of crime committed elsewhere in the the application is selected for funding project resident households or by one or neighborhood; (ii) Subject to will be designated grantee, must be an more organized resident groups that, appropriate justification and advance owner/operator of one or more housing combined, have been endorsed by a HUD approval, funding of private developments that has received some majority of project resident households investigator services hired by the form of financial support from a unit of or recognized by a governmental entity grantee or any coapplicant/subgrantees government or from a private nonprofit as representing a majority of project to investigate crime in and around the entity. Such support must be designated residents; premises of Assisted Housing and assigned by the funding source (iv) At least one Federal law development and/or the surrounding specifically for the housing rather than enforcement entity. The most likely neighborhood development; (iii) for any specific resident household Federal law enforcement entities to join Training and evaluation by security/ which may, however, benefit from the this partnership are the HUD OIG, criminal education professionals for support in the form of reduced rent. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), property owners, management agents housing support may be provided on a the Drug Enforcement Administration and resident groups to identify and one-time or periodic basis to pay for or (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, combat criminal activity in assisted waive project development costs, costs and Firearms (ATF), and the housing properties and surrounding of financing, operating costs, owner Immigration and Naturalization Service neighborhood. taxes, unit rent levels, or tenant rent (INS). Applicants are encouraged to Based on HUD’s inclination to reward payments. Project operating costs partner with as many Federal law applicants that partner with entities that include but are not limited to: Utilities, enforcement entities as possible; have a proven ability to address crime taxes, fees, and debt service payments. (v) In addition to the required problems, HUD is strongly inclined to Unless the lead applicant is a unit of coapplicants, specified above, lead provide more points under ‘‘Quality of general local government which owns applicants are encouraged to partner Plan’’ and ‘‘Strength of Partnerships’’ to the assisted project, the lead applicant with other appropriate neighborhood applications that propose reimbursing must also own an Assisted Housing and community stakeholders including municipal police departments or development (as defined in section neighborhood businesses and business prosecutor offices than those I.D.(4) below) in the neighborhood to be associations, nonprofit service reimbursing private operators, for assisted. The lead applicant may not providers, neighborhood resident investigative or prosecutorial services. have any outstanding findings of civil associations, and civic oriented (d) Capital Improvements to Enhance rights violations. neighborhood religious congregations. Security. These improvements may (b) Coapplicants. The application (3) Eligible Project Areas. (a) The include, but are not limited to: the new must include a number of coapplicants, project area must be a ‘‘neighborhood,’’ construction or rehabilitation of each of whose chief executive officer or which shall be defined as follows: A structures housing police substations or empowered designee shall provide a geographic area within a jurisdiction of ministations; neighborhood barriers, letter, as part of the application, of their a unit of general local government (but such as street closures at the boundaries commitment to serve as project partners. not the entire jurisdiction unless the to limit criminal access to the The letter must specify the expertise population of the unit of general local neighborhood; or any of the following and/or resources that the coapplicant government is less than 25,000) improvements to limit criminal will contribute towards the success of designated in comprehensive plans, intrusions in an Assisted Housing the grant activity. Also, coapplicants ordinances, or other local documents as development: the installation of fences, may not have any outstanding civil a neighborhood, village, or similar barriers, or territorial identification; rights violations. Coapplicants must geographical designation; or the entire lighting systems and other include all of the following (except for jurisdiction of a unit of general local improvements to property visibility; the lead applicant): government which is under 25,000 appropriate use of CCTV (close circuit (i) The unit of general local population. TV systems); improved door or window government(s) with primary law (b) The project area must include at security such as locks, bolts, or bars; enforcement and community least one assisted low-income housing and the landscaping or other development jurisdiction over the project under: reconfiguration of common areas to project—letter(s) from this entity must (i) Section 221(d)(3), section discourage criminal activities. All such commit the police department, 221(d)(4), or section 236 of the National improvements must be accessible to prosecutor’s office and community Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715l, 1715z–1), persons with disabilities. For example, development office to work actively in provided that such project has been locks or buzzer systems that are not partnership with the grantee to support provided a Below Market Interest Rate accessible to people with restricted or the grant project in their respective mortgage, interest reduction payments, impaired strength, mobility, or hearing functions; or project-based assistance under Rent may not be funded by the grant. (ii) The owners of Assisted Housing Supplement, Rental Assistance Under ‘‘Quality of Plan,’’ HUD is developments in the neighborhood that Payments (RAP) or Section 8 programs. generally inclined to reward capital will benefit from grant funding. The FHA-insured projects which have no improvements to enhance the security selection factor ‘‘Concentration of project-based subsidy but have tenants of an entire neighborhood (such as the Assisted Housing’’ will favor receiving housing vouchers or Section 8

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U.S.C. 1701s); or on a one time up-front or on a periodic (1) The Extent of the Crime Problem (iii) Section 8 of the United States basis to the project or its owner to write in the Neighborhood and/or Location of Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). down, subsidize, or waive project Housing Development Proposed for This includes housing with project- development costs, costs of financing, Assistance. (Maximum Points: 25) based Section 8 assistance, whether or project operating costs, owner taxes, A. Extent of Crime Problem not the mortgage was insured by HUD- unit rent levels, or tenant rent (maximum points: 20). In assessing this FHA, but does not include projects payments. Project operating costs criterion, HUD will consider the which receive only Section 8 tenant- include but are not limited to: Utilities, severity of the crime problem in the based assistance (i.e., certificates or taxes, fees, maintenance and debt neighborhood proposed for funding, as vouchers). service payments. demonstrated by data described below. (c) HUD will award only one grant per HUD will evaluate the nature and extent project area. E. Selection Criteria and Ranking of crime indicated by the statistical data (4) Eligible Assisted Housing. In Factors and anecdotal information provided, the addition to the requirement described HUD field offices will conduct a strength of such documentation, and the above that each neighborhood consist of threshold review of each application to extent to which the applicant has at least one housing development determine that it meets the submission analyzed the data sufficiently to assisted under one of the specified requirements of this NOFA. All articulate crime elimination needs subsidy mechanisms, points will be applications which meet the threshold clearly and to develop strategies, awarded in the competition based on requirements of this NOFA will be programs, and performance measures the concentration of ‘‘Assisted Housing’’ submitted by the HUD field office to an tailored to achieve and assess the result in the neighborhood, and based on Application Rating Committee of HUD of eliminating the crime on a short and extent of crime in and quality of crime experts to be convened at and under the long term basis. The type of data to be reduction strategies for ‘‘Assisted direction of the SNAP Program provided is as follows: Housing’’ developments, as well as the Administering Unit at the HUD Virginia (1) Official data on the Incidence of neighborhood. Moreover, many of the State Office, which will rate Part I and Part II Crimes for the eligible activities described above must applications in accordance with the Neighborhood AND, more specifically, be substantially targeted to ‘‘Assisted selection criteria. A total of 100 points the Assisted Housing Projects in the Housing developments.’’ The following is the maximum score available under Neighborhood. Such crime is reported definitions apply: the selection criteria. At a minimum, an under the FBI’s Uniform Crime (a) Assisted Housing developments application must receive 70 points. Reporting Program (UCR). Part I crimes are defined as four or more adjoining, After assigning points to each are felonies such as criminal homicide, adjacent, or scattered site (within a application, HUD will rank the forcible rape, robbery, aggravated single neighborhood) housing units, applications in order of points scored, assault (including domestic violence by developed simultaneously or in stages, and select the highest ranking means likely to produce great bodily having common ownership and project applications for funding until the harm), burglary-breaking or entering, identity, and receiving a project-based $20,000,000 available have been larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and financial subsidy from a unit of awarded. If there are insufficient arson. Part II crimes are misdemeanor government at the Federal, State, or applications meeting all NOFA assaults, forgery, counterfeiting, fraud, local level, or from a private nonprofit threshold requirements and scoring at embezzlement, vandalism, weapons entity. Such subsidy must be associated least 70 points for which to award (carrying, possessing, etc.), prostitution with a requirement and/or contractual funds, HUD will devise a competitive and commercialized vice, sex offenses agreement that all or a portion of the procedure by which the additional other than forcible rape, prostitution units be occupied by households with funds will be awarded and advertise and commercialized vice, drug abuse incomes at or below those of families at such competitive procedure in the violations, gambling offenses against the the ‘‘low income’’ limit as defined by Federal Register. family and children, driving under the the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, or at Each application submitted will be influence, liquor laws, drunkenness, households at or below an alternative evaluated on the basis of the selection disorderly conduct, vagrancy, curfew, limit that falls below the U.S. Housing criteria described below. The first and loitering and runaways. Act’s ‘‘low income’’ limit, at rents criterion deals with the extent of the If official data is provided only at the which the public or nonprofit entity crime problem. The next three criteria neighborhood level and not at the determines to be ‘‘affordable.’’ deal with various factors that impact the Assisted Housing project level or vice (b) Assisted Housing units are defined likelihood that the proposed grant versa, the data should be supplemented as units within Assisted Housing would have a significant short and long by other data (see subparagraph b developments for which occupancy is term positive impact in eliminating the below) for the level not covered by the restricted to households with incomes at crime problem in the area. These criteria official data. HUD will evaluate this or below that of ‘‘low income families’’ include the quality of the plan, the data based on the incidence of crime in as defined by the U.S. Housing Act or capacity of the lead applicant and its Assisted Housing and the neighborhood to households meeting an income partnership to successfully implement relative to the number of residents standard below that defined as ‘‘low the plan, and the quality and scale of within those geographic areas. For income;’’ and rents are restricted to crime prevention measures. The last example, 20 arrests in an area with 100 amounts that the public or nonprofit criterion, concentration of low income residents is a 20 percent occurrence entity determines to be ‘‘affordable.’’ Assisted Housing in the area, indicates rate. (c) Project based subsidies are defined ‘‘bang for the buck’’ with respect to The data and accompanying narrative as financial assistance, initially Assisted Housing, i.e., the number of must describe the nature and frequency

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The data must address the can be related through statistical data if the proposed activity involves types of offenders committing Part I and and/or anecdotal information to the initiatives, which HUD considers likely Part II crime and any indications as to incidence of drug abuse or other crime to succeed, that coordinate the efforts of the extent to which such crime is in the neighborhood/Assisted Housing Federal and local law enforcement organized, such as gang-related crime, developments; personnel to eradicate criminal gang and the nature of such organization. (vi) Information from a jurisdiction’s activity based on models such as HUD’s Supporting data from official sources Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Operation Safe Home and SNAP may include, but is not limited to the Housing Choice which includes crime programs, the Justice Department’s number of lease terminations or statistics in and around residential Weed and Seed program, or other law evictions due to criminal activity in areas. If the impediments are crime and enforcement models. Assisted Housing projects in the drugs, a strategy to deal with these (3) The Capacity of the Lead neighborhood; the number of emergency impediments could provide additional Applicant and Partnership Capacity to room admissions for drug use or victims information. Implement the Plan. (Maximum points: of violence as maintained by police, fire If any data provided under this 40) department, emergency medical service section is more than 1 year old, the (a) The applicants’ successful agencies, and hospitals; the number of applicant must justify that this is the experience combined with its police calls from all sources for various most recent available data. HUD may coapplicants’ successful experience in Part I and Part II crimes; numbers of and check with data sources to determine utilizing similar strategies to alleviate types of crimes referred to and handled the validity of such claims and may crime for other neighborhoods, projects, by local, State, and Federal prosecutors; severely mark down applications that or developments. To receive maximum and numbers of residents placed in drug are misleading on this matter. points under this section, the applicant treatment and aftercare program (as a B. Empowerment Zone/Enterprise must have worked in partnership with measure, specifically, of drug related Community (EZ/EC) Preference one or more of its coapplicants (or, crime). (maximum points: 5). If the Assisted under some circumstances, two or more (2) Other Data. This data, which must Housing development is located in an of the coapplicants may have worked be the most recent available, should be designated EZ/EC, the applicant will together in partnership) using a similar provided either to supplement official receive a maximum of 5 points. The strategy that reduced crime in and/or data described above in subparagraph applicant should illustrate a tie-in around Assisted Housing developments. (1) if the applicant believes such between the NOFA and the approved The applicant must demonstrate the supporting data would strengthen its Strategic Plan. ‘‘Designated reduction in the occurrence of crime as case or supplement its description as to Empowerment Zone or Enterprise indicated above in Selection Factor the extent of crime, or if official data is Community’’ means an urban area (1)A. of this NOFA. Among other unavailable at either the neighborhood designated as an Empowerment Zone, Federal programs which promote such and/or Assisted Housing project level. If Supplemental Empowerment Zone, an partnerships are HUD’s Operation Safe official data is unavailable at both the Enhanced Enterprise Community, or an Home Program, Safe Neighborhood neighborhood and the Assisted Housing Enterprise Community by the Secretary Action Program and, to some extent, the project level, the application must so of HUD on December 21, 1994. An Drug Elimination Grant program. In the demonstrate in addition to providing ‘‘Empowerment Zone Strategic Plan’’ absence of previous partnerships, the the data described below. If no official means a strategy developed and agreed experience of the applicant will weigh data is provided for either the to by the nominating local more heavily than the experience of any neighborhood or the Assisted Housing government(s) and State(s) and single coapplicant in HUD’s assignment projects, the application will only be submitted in partial fulfillment of the of partial points under this subfactor. Of eligible for a maximum of 12 points on application requirements for the points assigned in this subfactor, 5 ‘‘Extent of Crime.’’ Other data, as designation as an Empowerment Zone points will be awarded using the rating described here, may include but is not or Enterprise Community pursuant to 24 assigned by the Secretary’s limited to: CFR part 597. Applicants must provide Representative, and the remaining 10 (i) Surveys of Assisted Housing or evidence in the form of a letter that the points will be awarded using the rating neighborhood residents, Assisted assisted housing development is in a of the Rating Committee in Richmond. Housing staff, neighborhood EZ/EC area. See Appendix B to this (Maximum points: 15) businesspeople, etc., on the nature and NOFA for a listing of EZ/EC contacts (b) The strength of the applicants’ extent of crime; from whom such a letter may be partnership as it relates to eliminating (ii) Governmental and scholarly obtained. the crime problem identified above in studies on the nature and extent of (2) The Quality of the Plan. Selection Factor (1)A. Points for this crime; (Maximum Points: 15) category will be awarded based on the (iii) Vandalism costs in the In assessing this criterion, HUD will strength of resource commitments by neighborhood and at Assisted Housing review the strategies outlined in the coapplicants (both in terms of the developments; applicant’s Safe Neighborhood Action amount of resources committed and the (iv) Information from schools, health Plan to eliminate the crime problem firmness of the commitments); evidence service providers, residents, and State described in Selection Factor 1, and any of the coapplicants’ (including project and local government officials, and the other problems associated with such tenants’) preapplication role in the opinions of individuals having direct crime, in the neighborhood and projects development of the Safe Neighborhood knowledge of Part I and Part II crimes proposed for funding, and how the Action Plan and prospective role in concerning the nature and frequency of activities proposed for funding fit in program implementation; indications of crimes in the neighborhood and at the with the overall plan. The long term as the capacity of the Assisted Housing Assisted Housing developments, well as immediate anticipated crime developments’ ownership and

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Applications will be reviewed for appropriate steps to deal with known or (Maximum Points: 10) completeness in the HUD field office suspected tenants exhibiting criminal (5) The Concentratoin of Assisted Low listed in Appendix A that has been behavior) and to cooperate with law Income Housing in the Neighborhood. designated to receive the application. enforcement actions by other partners (Maximum Points: 10) Those applications that have been on their project premises; the HUD will award points based on the deemed by the field office to be eligible willingness of the unit of general local percentage of housing units in the for funding will be rated and ranked by government (lead applicant) to use its neighborhood that qualify under the the Rating Team at the HUD office in prosecutor’s office as its lead agency in Safe Neighborhood Grant program Richmond, Virginia. Applications will implementing the grant; utilization of definition of ‘‘Assisted Housing units’’ be funded based on the rank order of additional partners other than those within any Assisted Housing scoring. required under the heading ‘‘Eligible development, regardless of subsidy D. Notification Applicants’’ (for example, multiple source and whether or not the units are Federal law enforcement agency concentrated in one or two large HUD will notify all applicants coapplicants and/or a coapplicant projects or are distributed among several whether or not they were selected for neighborhood business organization); projects of whatever size. HUD will funding. and the effectiveness of the partnership assign points by a computer in this III. Checklist of Application structure (synergistic arrangements for category based on the distribution of Submission Requirements collective action will receive more percentages among projects that are points than a simple advisory To qualify for a grant under this determined fundable after screening by program, an applicant must submit an committee of coapplicants). (Maximum HUD field offices. The top 10 percent of points: 15) application to HUD that contains the all fundable projects with respect to the following: (c) The applicants’ administrative ratio of number of Assisted Housing capacity to implement the grant. Points A. Application for Federal Assistance units to the number of housing units in form (Standard Form SF–424 and SF– will awarded based on the quality and the neighborhood will receive 10 points; amount of staff allocated to the grant 424A). The form must be signed by chief projects falling in the next 10 percentile executive officer of the lead applicant, activity by the grantee; the anticipated will receive 9 points, etc. effectiveness of the grantee’s systems for and applicant information in the form budgeting, procurement, drawdown, II. Application Process must be information about the lead applicant. allocation, and accounting for grant A. Application Package funds and matching resources in B. A description of the Safe accordance with OMB administrative An application package may be Neighborhood Partnership that has been requirements; and the lines of obtained from the HUD field office formed to implement this grant. The accountability for implementing the having jurisdiction over the location of description must include the names of grant activity, coordinating the the applicant project or from the the coapplicants; relative roles and partnership, and assuring that the Multifamily Clearinghouse at (800) 685– contributions of each coapplicant in applicant’s and coapplicants’ 8470. The HUD field office will be implementing grant activities; structures commitments will be met. (Maximum available to provide technical assistance for partnership coordination and joint points: 10) on the preparation of applications decisionmaking, e.g., form of (4) The Scale and Effectiveness of during the application period. partnership interaction (task force, advisory group or corporate entity), Crime Prevention/Socio-economic Lift B. Application Submission Programs Operating in Association with lines of accountability, degree of grant the Law Enforcement Plan. (Maximum A separate application must be decisionmaking power conferred by the Points: 10) submitted for each neighborhood/ lead applicant/grantee to its partners, HUD will award points to applicants project area to be served. An original frequency of meetings, etc.; the roles, if who have in operation programs such as and one copy must be received by the any, of coapplicants (especially project Neighborhood Networks (NN), Campus 3 p.m. deadline at the appropriate HUD tenants) in designing the Safe of Learners (COL), or other computer field office with jurisdiction over the Neighborhood Action Plan; which learning centers; other educational, life applicant project, Attention: Director of coapplicants (if any) will be designated skills, and job training opportunities, Multifamily Housing. It is not sufficient subgrantees by virtue of their receiving including scholarships; mentoring, for the application to bear a postage date and dispensing grant funds for grant counseling, and recreational activities within the submission time period. activities; and how the lead applicant for at-risk youth; parental training and Applications submitted by facsimile (grantee) proposes to direct and monitor family counseling; alcohol or drug abuse (FAX) are not acceptable and will not be its partners to account for funds prevention, treatment, and aftercare considered. Applications received after received or expended and to ensure that programs; homebuyers clubs and other the 3 p.m. deadline on July 21, 1997 commitments are met; and a profile of homeownership activities; economic will not be accepted. In the interest of each coapplicant, including development activities such as programs fairness to all competing applicants, governmental or nonprofit status (copies for employing Assisted Housing HUD will treat as ineligible for of official up-to-date IRS verification of residents, job placement and employer consideration any application that is status must be provided for all nonprofit linkage programs, micro-loan programs, received after the deadline. Applicants institutions), a detailed description of community credit unions, or other should take this practice into account their experience and success in similar entrepreneurial opportunities; and and make early submission of their or related anticrime initiatives, roles in

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Applicants must be letters from each coapplicant, signed must include the name of the project; provide statistics to support narrative by their respective chief executive the name of the project owner; the descriptions on the extent and nature of officers, describing their role if any in nature, sources, and program titles of all crime, as prescribed in section I.E.(1)A., designing the application and, project based subsidies or other above. especially, the Safe Neighborhood assistance provided to the project by E. Applicant’s Safe Neighborhood Action Plan; detailing the amounts and units of government or private nonprofit Action Plan for addressing the problem types of financial and other entities (any names of public or of crime in the neighborhood and in the contributions to be made by the nonprofit programs other than programs Assisted Housing projects for which coapplicant; firmly committing the sponsored by HUD should be funding is sought, which should include coapplicant to such contributions; accompanied by a description of the the activities to be funded under this affirming the specific role(s) that the program and the name and business program along with all other initiatives coapplicant will undertake in phone number of a contact person being undertaken by the applicant. The implementing Safe Neighborhood responsible for administering the plan should include a discussion of: Action Plan activities, including its program for the subsidy provider); the (1) Law Enforcement Activities. The agreement to act as subgrantee, if number of housing units in the project; activities funded by the grant and by applicable; and summarizing the and the number of housing units in the other resources that are committed by coapplicant’s experience in undertaking project that meet the definition of partners for law enforcement activities similar or related activities. ‘‘assisted housing units’’ in section in conjunction with this grant, including a description of the roles, With respect to coapplicant owners of I.D.(4)(b) of this NOFA, and a resources committed by, and Assisted Housing development(s), the description of the restrictions on rents implementation responsibilities of each application should include external and resident incomes that, in partner and a description as to the assessment or evidence of the quality of combination with the subsidy provided location and locational impact of these the development’s ownership or to the project, qualify the units as activities vis-a-vis each Assisted management (e.g., available assisted/affordable in accordance with Housing development and the management reviews by governing the definition in this NOFA; and the number, geographic proximity surrounding area. public entities) that relates to the (2) Narrative justification that these capacity of the ownership and (adjoining, adjacent, or scattered site, and if scattered site, the distance activities address the needs identified management to undertake their share of between the two buildings which are by the Crime Status Report, i.e., the responsibilities in the partnership; and furthest apart), and type (single family extent and nature of crime, profile of such related concerns as whether detached, townhouse, garden, elevator) crime perpetrators, project resident project management carefully screens of buildings in the project. profiles, and other previous or existing applicants for units and takes D. Crime Status Report. A narrative efforts to address such crime. appropriate steps to deal with known or with supporting data that describes the (3) Goal of Law Enforcement suspected tenants exhibiting criminal type and degree of crime in the Activities. The application must provide behavior and cooperates with law neighborhood and in the Assisted one or more specific crime reduction enforcement actions by other partners Housing developments, as well as goals that would be achieved by the end on their project premises. relevant information about the of the 24-month grant term (e.g., 30 C. A description of the Neighborhood perpetrators of such crime (e.g., whether percent reduction in annual/monthly and the Assisted Housing developments they live inside or outside the reported Part I and Part II crimes; 60 in the neighborhood. (1) The neighborhood and/or project(s)), the percent reduction in number of police neighborhood description must include extent to which the crime is organized emergency calls from the neighborhood a name, a basic description (e.g., (e.g., gang related), and any relevant and/or from the project). boundaries and size), population, information on the nature of any such (4) Overall budget and timetable that: number of housing units in the crime organizations. Also describe the (a) Also includes separate budgets, neighborhood, a map, a population nature, extent, and impact of any goals, milestones, and timetable for each profile (e.g., relevant census data on the current or recent initiatives in the activity and addresses milestones socio-economic, ethnic and family neighborhood and/or the Assisted towards achieving the goals described in makeup of neighborhood residents), and Housing project by residents, landlords, paragraph E.(3) above; and, (b) Indicates the basis on which the area meets the other businesspeople, law enforcement the contributions and implementation definition of ‘‘neighborhood’’ as and/or government community responsibilities of each partner for each described in section I.D.(3)(a) of this development agencies to address the activity, goal, and milestone. NOFA, above (i.e., describe and include current crime problem or its causes. (5) Staffing. The number of staff years, a copy of the comprehensive plan, This information must consist of a the titles and professional ordinance or other official local narrative backed up by documented qualifications, and respective roles of document which defines the area as a statistics. To maximize the application’s staff assigned full or part-time to grant neighborhood, village, or similar probability of being funded, the implementation by the lead applicant. geographical designation). If the entire narrative must be appropriately brief (6) Coordination. The lead applicant’s jurisdiction is defined as a and to the point, but must be extensive plan and lines of accountability neighborhood by virtue of having a and detailed enough for HUD to (including an organization chart) for population at less than 25,000, indicate determine accurately the extent of crime implementing the grant activity, the jurisdiction’s population under the (Selection Factor (1)) and the degree to coordinating the partnership, and 1990 census and describe/include more which the Safe Neighborhood Action assuring that the lead applicant’s and recent information which gives the best Plan described in paragraph E. below coapplicants’ commitments will be met. indication as to the current population. and the partnership described in There must be a discussion of the

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The lead honor such commitments would be the their respective roles (i.e., which has the applicant may not have any outstanding basis for HUD determining a default of lead), and their lines of communication. findings of civil rights violations. the Grant Agreement, and exercising (7) Administrative Systems. A I. Drug-Free Workplace. The available sanctions, including grant certification with regard to the drug-free description of the lead applicant’s suspension, termination, and/or the workplace required by 24 CFR part 24, systems and quality controls for recapture of grant funds. subpart F. budgeting, procurement, drawdown, (2) Requirements Governing Grant J. Disclosure of Lobbying Activities. If allocation, and accounting for grant Administration, Audits and Cost the applicant applies for an amount funds and matching resources in Principles. The policies, guidelines, and greater than $100,000, the certification accordance with OMB administrative requirements of this NOFA, 48 CFR part with regard to lobbying required by 24 and cost requirements, including a 31, 24 CFR parts 44, 45, 84 and/or 85, CFR part 87 must be included. See system for monitoring these concerns as OMB Circulars A–87 and/or A–122, section V.H., below, of this NOFA. If the other applicable administrative, audit, related to governmental or nonprofit applicant applies for an amount greater subgrantees. and cost principles and requirements, than $100,000, and the applicant has and the terms of grant/special (8) Complimentary Crime Prevention made or has agreed to make any conditions and subgrant agreements Activities. A description of the lead payment using nonappropriated funds apply to the acceptance and use of applicant’s and coapplicants’ current for lobbying activity, as described in 24 assistance by grantees. The activities and projected plans (with full CFR part 87, the submission must also requirements cited above, as applicable, funding committed) for crime include the Disclosure of Lobbying must be followed in determining prevention/socio-economic lift Activities Form (SF–LLL). procedures and practices related to the programs which will complement the K. Form HUD–2880, Applicant/ separate accounting of grant funds from law enforcement activities proposed in Recipient Disclosure/Update Report. other grant sources, personnel the plan. Programs considered in this IV. Corrections to Deficient compensation, travel, procurement, the category include but are not necessarily Applications timing of drawdowns, the limited to those listed under Selection reasonableness and allocability of costs, Factor (3) in section I.E. of this NOFA. HUD will notify the applicant within audits, reporting and closeout, The description must justify how these ten (10) working days of the receipt of budgeting, and preventing conflict of activities complement the law the application if there are any curable interests or duplicative charging of enforcement activities in the plan technical deficiencies in the identical costs to two different funding towards long term eradication and application. Curable technical sources. All costs must be reasonable prevention of the types of crime deficiencies relate to minimum and necessary. described in the Crime Status Report, eligibility requirements (such as (3) Term of Grant. The term of funded taking into account the profiles of crime certifications or signatures) that are activities may not exceed 24 months; perpetrators and resident profiles necessary for funding approval but that however, HUD may approve a 6-month included in the application. This do not relate to the quality of the extension to this term for good cause. description must firmly commit the lead applicant’s program proposal under the (4) Subgrants and Subcontracting. (a) applicant to provide all resources and selection criteria. The applicant must In accordance with an approved implement all activities as designated, submit corrections in accordance with application, a grantee may directly and must be accompanied by firm the information provided by HUD undertake any of the eligible activities commitments by coapplicants to within 14 calendar days of the date of under this NOFA, it may contract with provide the resources and conduct the the HUD notification. a qualified third party, or it may make activities designated for each party. V. Other Matters a subgrant to any coapplicant approved F. Experience. A description of the by HUD as a member of the partnership, lead applicant’s and coapplicants’ A. General Grant Requirements provided such party is a unit of experiences, separately or in concert, in The following requirements apply to government, is incorporated as a not-for- successfully implementing activities or all activities, programs, or functions profit organization, or is an incorporated programs substantially similar to the used to plan, budget, implement, and for-profit entity that owns and/or law enforcement activities proposed in evaluate the work funded under this manages an Assisted Housing project the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan. program. benefiting from the grant. Resident Such description must be specific as to (1) Grant Agreement. After groups that are not incorporated may the nature of the crime problem applications have been ranked and share with the grantee in the addressed, the location and scale of the selected, HUD and the lead applicant implementation of the program, but may law enforcement activity undertaken, shall enter into a grant agreement setting not receive funds as subgrantees. For- the resources and activities undertaken forth the amount of the grant, the profit organizations other than owners by the lead applicant or coapplicants, physical improvements or other eligible or managers of an Assisted Housing the resources and roles provided by any activities to be undertaken, financial project benefiting from the grant that partners involved in the same or related controls, and special conditions, have been approved by HUD as part of activities, the structure for coordinating including sanctions for violation of the the partnership may only receive grant the partnership, and any available agreement. The Grant Agreement will funds subject to the applicable Federal evidence as to the success of these incorporate the HUD approved procurement procedures (See 24 CFR activities or programs. applications, as may be amended by any part 84 or 85).

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(b) Subgrants may be made only Assisted Programs) and implementing terminate funding if the grantee fails to under a written agreement executed regulations issued at 24 CFR part 1; undertake the approved program between the grantee and the subgrantee. (b) The prohibitions against activities on a timely basis in The agreement must include a program discrimination on the basis of age under accordance with the grant agreement, budget that is acceptable to the grantee, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (42 adhere to grant agreement requirements and that is otherwise consistent with the U.S.C. 6101–07) and implementing or special conditions, or submit timely grant application budget. The agreement regulations at 24 CFR part 146; and accurate reports. must require the subgrantee to permit prohibitions against discrimination B. Paperwork Reduction Act Statement the grantee to inspect the subgrantee’s against handicapped individuals under work and to follow applicable OMB and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of The information collection HUD administrative requirements, audit 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794) and implementing requirements contained in this Notice of requirements, and cost principles, regulations at 24 CFR part 8; Funding Availability (NOFA) have been including those related to procurement, (c) The requirements of Executive approved by the Office of Management drawdown of funds for immediate use Order 11246 (Equal Employment and Budget (OMB), in accordance with only, and accounting to the grantee for Opportunity) and implementing the emergency processing procedures of the use of grant funds and regulations issued at 41 CFR Chapter 60; the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 implementation of program activities. In and the requirements of Executive (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520) and 5 CFR addition, the agreement must describe Orders 11625, 12432, and 12138 as well 1320.13, and assigned OMB control the nature of the activities to be as 24 CFR 85.36(e) requiring grantee number 2502–0520. An agency may not undertaken by the subgrantee, the scope efforts to encourage the use of minority conduct or sponsor, and a person is not of the subgrantee’s authority, and the and women business enterprises when required to respond to, a collection of amount of any insurance to be obtained possible in the procurement of property information unless the collection by the grantee and the subgrantee to and services. displays a valid control number. protect their respective interests. (d) Grantees must maintain records of their efforts to comply with the C. Environmental Impact (c) The grantee shall be responsible requirements of section 3 of the Housing for monitoring, and for providing A Finding of No Significant Impact and Urban Development Act of 1968 technical assistance to, any subgrantee with respect to the environment has and the requirements concerning use of to ensure compliance with applicable been made in accordance with HUD minority and women business HUD and OMB requirements, including regulations at 24 CFR part 50 that enterprises. implement section 102(2)(C) of the those cited in sections V.A.(2) and (e) The requirements of title VIII of V.A.(4)(b), above. The grantee must also National Environmental Policy Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332). The Finding of ensure that subgrantees have Housing Act) (42 U.S.C. 3600–20) and appropriate insurance liability coverage. No Significant Impact is available for implementing regulations issued at 24 public inspection and copying from 7:30 (5) Environmental Requirements. CFR chapter I, subchapter A; Executive to 5:30 weekdays in the Office of the Prior to the award of grant funds under Order 11063 (Equal Opportunity in Rules Docket Clerk, Room 10276, 451 the program, HUD will perform an Housing) and implementing regulations Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC. environmental review to the extent at 24 CFR part 107 apply to Assisted required under the provisions of 24 CFR Housing which benefits from grant D. Federalism Impact part 50. funds. The General Counsel, as the (6) Ineligible Contractors. The (9) Drawdown of Grant Funds. All Designated Official under section 6(a) of provisions of 24 CFR part 24 relating to grantees will access the grant funds Executive Order 12612, Federalism, has the employment, engagement of through HUD’s Line of Credit Control determined that this NOFA would not services, awarding of contracts or System-Voice Response System in have substantial direct effects on States funding of any contractors or accordance with procedures for or their political subdivisions, or the subcontractors during any period of minimizing the time lapsing between relationship between the Federal debarment, suspension, or placement in drawdowns and use of funds for eligible Government and the States, or on the ineligibility status apply to this grant. purposes as described in 24 CFR parts distribution of power and (7) Employment preference. A grantee 84 and/or 85, as applicable. responsibilities among the various under this program shall give preference (10) Reports and Closeout. Each levels of government. The grants under to the employment of residents of grantee receiving a grant shall submit to this NOFA will be used to eliminate Assisted Housing projects in the HUD a semiannual progress report in a drug-related and other crime problems neighborhood to be assisted by this format prescribed by HUD that indicates on the premises and in the vicinity of grant, and shall comply with section 3 program expenditures and measures low-income housing. Therefore, this of the Housing and Urban Development performance in achieving goals. At grant NOFA is not subject to review under the Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u) and 24 completion, the grantee shall participate Order. CFR part 135, to carry out any of the in a closeout process as directed by eligible activities under this program, so HUD which shall include a final report E. Section 102 HUD Reform Act long as residents provided such in a format prescribed by HUD that Applicant/Recipient Disclosures preferences have comparable reports final program expenditures and Section 102 of the Department of qualifications and training as measures performance in achieving Housing and Urban Development nonresident applicants. program goals. Closeout will culminate Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545) (8) Nondiscrimination and Equal in a closeout agreement between HUD (HUD Reform Act) and the regulations Opportunity. The following and the grantee and, when appropriate, codified in 24 CFR part 4, subpart A, nondiscrimination and equal in the return of grant funds which have contain a number of provisions that are opportunity requirements apply: not been expended in accordance with designed to ensure greater (a) The requirements of title VI of the applicable requirements. accountability and integrity in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. (11) Suspension or Termination of provision of certain types of assistance 2000d) (Nondiscrimination in Federally Funding. HUD may suspend or administered by HUD. On January 14,

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1992 (57 FR 1942), HUD published a number.) For HUD employees who have New York/New Jersey notice that also provides information on specific program questions, such as New York the implementation of section 102. The whether particular subject matter can be Beryl Niewood, Multifamily Housing documentation, public access, and discussed with persons outside HUD, Director, HUD-New York Office, 26 Federal disclosure requirements of section 102 the employee should contact the Plaza, New York, New York 10278–0068 are applicable to assistance awarded appropriate field office counsel, or (212) 264–07777 x3717 TTY Number: (212) under this NOFA as follows: Headquarters counsel for the program to 264–0927 Documentation and public access which the question pertains. Buffalo requirements. HUD will ensure that Rosalinda Lamberty, Chief, Multifamily Asset documentation and other information G. Prohibition Against Lobbying Activities Management Branch, HUD-Buffalo Office, regarding each application submitted Lafayette Court, 465 Main Street, Fifth pursuant to this NOFA are sufficient to Applicants for funding under this Floor, Buffalo, New York 14203–1780 (716) indicate the basis upon which NOFA are subject to the provisions of 551–5755 x5500 TTY Number: (716) 551– assistance was provided or denied. This section 319 of the Department of Interior 5787 material, including any letters of and Related Agencies Appropriation Act Newark support, will be made available for for Fiscal Year 1991, 31 U.S.C. 1352 (the Encarnacion Loukatos, Multifamily Housing public inspection for a 5-year period Byrd Amendment), which prohibits Director, HUD-Newark Office, One Newark beginning not less than 30 days after the recipients of Federal contracts, grants, Center, 13th Floor, Newark, New Jersey award of the assistance. Material will be or loans from using appropriated funds 07102–5260 (201) 622–7900 x3400 TTY made available in accordance with the for lobbying the executive or legislative Number: (201) 645–3298 Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. branches of the Federal Government in Mid-Atlantic 552) and HUD’s implementing connection with a specific contract, Philadelphia regulations at 24 CFR part 15. In grant, or loan. Applicants are required addition, HUD will include the to certify, using the certification found Thomas Langston, Multifamily Housing recipients of assistance pursuant to this Director, HUD-Philadelphia Office, The at Appendix A to 24 CFR part 87, that Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square NOFA in its Federal Register notice of they will not, and have not, used East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107– all recipients of HUD assistance appropriated funds for any prohibited 3380 (215) 656–0503 x3354 TTY Number: awarded on a competitive basis. lobbying activities. In addition, (215) 656–3452 Disclosures. HUD will make available applicants must disclose, using Baltimore to the public for 5 years all applicant Standard Form LLL, ‘‘Disclosure of Ina Singer, Multifamily Housing Director, disclosure reports (HUD Form 2880) Lobbying Activities,’’ any funds, other submitted in connection with this HUD-Baltimore Office, City Crescent than Federally appropriated funds, that Building, 10 South Howard Street, Fifth NOFA. Update reports (also Form 2880) will be or have been used to influence Floor, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201–2505 will be made available along with the Federal employees, members of (410) 962–2520 x3125 TTY Number: (410) applicant disclosure reports, but in no Congress, and congressional staff 962–0106 case for a period less than 3 years. All regarding specific grants or contracts. Charleston reports—both applicant disclosures and updates—will be made available in Dated: May 7, 1997. Peter Minter, HUD-Charleston Office, 405 Nicolas P. Retsinas, Capitol Street, Suite 708, Charleston, West accordance with the Freedom of Virginia 25301–1795 (304) 347–7064 TTY Assistant Secretary for Housing -Federal Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and Number: (304) 347–5332 Housing Commissioner. HUD’s implementing regulations at 24 Pittsburgh CFR part 15. Appendix A—Multifamily Division Directors Edward Palombizio, Multifamily Housing F. Section 103 HUD Reform Act New England Director, HUD-Pittsburgh Office, 339 Sixth HUD’s regulations implementing Boston Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222–2515 (412) 644–6394 section 103 of the Department of Jeanne McHallam, Multifamily Housing TTY Number: (412) 644–5747 Housing and Urban Development Director, HUD Boston Office, Thomas P. Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3537a), O’Neill, Jr. Federal Building, 10 Causeway Richmond codified in 24 CFR part 4, applies to this Street, Room 375, Boston, Massachusetts Charles Famuliner, Multifamily Housing 02222–1092 (617) 565–5101 TTY Number: Director, HUD-Richmond Office, The 3600 funding competition. The regulations (617) 565–5453 continue to apply until the Center, 3600 West Broad Street, Richmond, Hartford Virginia 23230–4920 (804) 278–4505 TTY announcement of the selection of Number: (804) 278–4501 successful applicants. HUD employees Robert S. Donovan, Multifamily Housing District of Columbia involved in the review of applications Director, HUD-Hartford Office, 330 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106–1860 Felicia Williams, Multifamily Housing and in the making of funding decisions (860) 240–4524 TTY Number: (860) 240– are limited by the regulations from Director, HUD-District of Columbia Office, 4665 820 First Street, N.E., Suite 450, providing advance information to any Manchester Washington, D.C. 20002–4205 (202) 275– person (other than an authorized 4726 x3096 TTY Number: (202) 275–0772 employee of HUD) concerning funding Loren W. Cole, Acting Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Manchester Office, Norris Southeast/Caribbean decisions, or from otherwise giving any Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut Atlanta applicant an unfair competitive Street, Manchester, New Hampshire advantage. Persons who apply for 03101–2487 (603) 666–7755 TTY Number: Robert W. Reavis, Multifamily Housing assistance in this competition should (603) 666–7518 Director, HUD-Atlanta Office, Richard B. confine their inquiries to the subject Providence Russell Federal Building, 75 Spring Street, areas permitted under 24 CFR part 4. S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303–3388 404– Louisa Osbourne, Multifamily Housing 331–4426 TTY Number: (404) 730–2654 Applicants or employees who have Director, HUD-Providence Office, Sixth ethics related questions should contact Floor, 10 Weybosset Street, Providence, Birmingham the HUD Ethics Law Division at (202) Rhode Island 02903–3234 (401) 528–5354 Herman S. Ransom, Multifamily Housing 708–3815. (This is not a toll-free TTY Number: (401) 528–5403 Director, Beacon Ridge Tower, 600 Beacon

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Parkway West, Suite 300, Birmingham, Street, 7th Floor, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202– (504) 589–7236 x3106 TTY Number: (504) Alabama 35209–3144 (205) 290–7667 3188 (513) 684–2133 TTY Number: (513) 589–7279 x1062 TTY Number: (205) 290–7630 684–6180 Oklahoma City Caribbean Cleveland Kevin J. McNeely, Multifamily Housing Minerva Bravo-Perez, Multifamily Housing Preston A. Pace, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Oklahoma City Office, 500 Director, HUD-Caribbean Office, New San Director, HUD-Cleveland Office, West Main Street, Suite 400, Oklahoma Juan Office Building, 159 Carlos E. Renaissance Building, 1350 Euclid City, Oklahoma, 73102 (405) 553–7440 Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico Avenue, Suite 500, Cleveland, Ohio TTY Number: (405) 553–7480 00918–1804 (787) 766–5106/5401 TTY 44115–1815 (216) 522–4112 TTY Number: San Antonio Number: (787) 766–5909 (216) 522–2261 Elva Castillo, Multifamily Housing Director, Columbia Columbus HUD-San Antonio Office, Washington Robert Ribenberick, Multifamily Housing Don Jakob, Multifamily Housing Director, Square, 800 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Director, HUD-Columbia Office, Strom HUD-Columbus Office, 200 North High Texas 78207–4563 (210) 472–4914 TTY Thurmond Federal Building, 1835 Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215–2499 (614) Number: (210) 472–6885 Assembly Street, Columbia, South Carolina 469–2156 TTY Number: (614) 469–6694 Great Plains 29201–2480 (803) 253–3240 TTY Number: Detroit (803) 253–3071 Kansas City Robert Brown, Multifamily Housing Director, Greensboro HUD-Detroit Office,Patrick V. McNamara Joan Knapp, Multifamily Housing Director, Daniel McCanless, Multifamily Housing Federal Building, 477 Michigan Avenue, HUD-Kansas City Office, Gateway Tower II, Director, HUD-Greensboro Office, Koger Detroit, Michigan 48226–2592 (313) 226– 400 State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, Building, 2306 West Meadowview Road, 7107 TTY Number: (313) 226–6899 66101–5462 (913) 551–5504 TTY Number: Greensboro, North Carolina 27407–3707 Grand Rapids (913) 551–6972 (910) 547–4020 TTY Number: (919) 547– Des Moines 4055 Shirley Bryant, HUD-Grand Rapids Office, Trade Center Building, 50 Louis Street, Donna Davis, Multifamily Housing Director, Jackson NW, Third Floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan HUD-Des Moines Office, Federal Building, Reba G. Cook, Multifamily Housing Director, 49503–2648 (616) 456–2146 TTY Number: 210 Walnut Street, Room 239, Des Moines, HUD-Jackson Office, Doctor A.H. McCoy (616) 456–2159 Iowa 50309–2155 (515) 284–4375 TTY Federal Building, 100 West Capitol Street, Indianapolis Number: (515) 284–4718 Room 910, Jackson, Mississippi 39269– Omaha 1016 (601) 965–4700/01 TTY Number: Henry Levandowski, HUD-Indianapolis (601) 965–4171 Office, 151 North Delaware Street, Steven L. Gage, Multifamily Housing Jacksonville Indianapolis, Indiana 46204–2526 (317) Director, HUD-Omaha Office, Executive 226–5575 TTY Number: (317) 226–7081 Tower Centre, 10909 Mill Valley Road, Ferdinand Juluke, Jr., Multifamily Housing Milwaukee Omaha, Nebraska 68154–3955 (402) 492– Director, HUD-Jacksonville Office, 4114 TTY Number: (402) 492–3183 Southern Bell Tower, 301 West Bay Street, Joseph Bates, HUD-Milwaukee Office, Henry Suite 2200, Jacksonville, Florida 32202– S. Reuss Federal Plaza, 310 West St. Louis 5121 (904) 232–3528 TTY Number: (904) Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1380, Paul Dribin, Multifamily Housing Director, 232–1241 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203–2289 (414) HUD-St. Louis Office, Robert A. Young Knoxville 297–3156 TTY Number: (414) 297–3123 Federal Building, 1222 Spruce Street, Minneapolis-St. Paul Third Floor, St. Louis, Missouri 63103– William S. McClister, Multifamily Housing 2836 (314) 539–6666 TTY Number: (314) Director, HUD-Knoxville Office, John J. Howard Goldman, Multifamily Housing 539–6331 Duncan Federal Building, 710 Locust Director, HUD-Minneapolis Office, 220 Street, Third Floor, Knoxville, Tennessee Second Street, South, Minneapolis, Rocky Mountains 37902–2526 (423) 545–4406 TTY Number: Minnesota 55401–2195 (612) 370–3051 Denver (423) 545–4559 TTY Number: (612) 370–3186 Larry C. Sidebottom, Multifamily Housing Louisville Southwest Director, HUD-Denver Office, First R. Brooks Hatcher, Jr., Multifamily Housing Fort Worth Interstate Tower North, 633–17th Street, Director, HUD-Louisville Office, 601 West Denver, Colorado 80202–3607 (303) 672– Ed Ross Burton, Multifamily Housing Broad Street, Post Office Box 1044, 5343 x1172 TTY Number: (303) 672–5248 Louisville, Kentucky 40201–1044 (502) Director, HUD-Fort Worth Office, 1600 582–6163 x260 TTY Number: 1–800–648– Throckmorton Street, Fort Worth, Texas Pacific/Hawaii 6056 76113–2905 (817) 978–9295 x3214 TTY Honolulu Number: (817) 978–9273 Nashville Michael Flores, Multifamily Housing Houston Ed M. Phillips, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Honolulu Office, Seven Director, HUD-Nashville Office, 251 Albert Cason, Multifamily Housing Director, Waterfront Plaza, 500 Ala Moana Cumberland Bend Drive, Suite 200, HUD-Houston Office, Norfolk Tower, 2211 Boulevard, Suite 500, Honolulu, Hawaii Nashville, Tennessee 37228–1803 (615) Norfolk, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77098– 96813–4918 (808) 522–8185 x246 TTY 736–5365 TTY Number: (615) 736–2886 4096 (713) 313–2274 x7063 TTY Number: Number: (808) 522–8193 (713) 834–3274 Los Angeles Mid-West Little Rock Vivian Williams, Acting Multifamily Housing Chicago Elsie Whitson, Multifamily Housing Director, Director, HUD-Los Angeles Office, 1615 Ed Hinsberger, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Little Rock Office, TCBY Tower, 425 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, HUD-Chicago Office, Ralph H. Metcalfe West Capitol Avenue, Suite 900, Little California 90015–3801 (213) 894–8000 Federal Building, 77 West Jackson Rock, Arkansas 72201–3488 (501) 324– x3802 TTY Number: (213) 894–8133 Boulevard,Chicago, Illinois, 60604–3507 5937 TTY Number: (501) 324–5931 Phoenix (312) 353–6236 x2152 TTY Number: (312) New Orleans 353–5944 Sally Thomas, Multifamily Housing Director, Ann Kizzier, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Phoenix Office, Two Arizona Center, Cincinnati HUD-New Orleans Office, Hale Boggs 400 North 5th Street, Suite 1600, Phoenix, Patricia A. Knight, Multifamily Housing Federal Building, 501 Magazine Street, 9th Arizona 85004 (602) 379–4667 x6236 TTY Director, HUD-Cincinnati Office, 525 Vine Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130–3099 Number: (602) 379–4464

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Sacramento PA, Philadelphia CA, San Francisco William F. Bolton, Multifamily Housing Mr. Carlos Acosta, City of Philadelphia, 1600 Ms. Pamela David, City of San Francisco, San Director, HUD-Sacramento Office, 777– Arch Street, Gallery Level, Philadelphia, Francisco Enterprise Community Program, 12th Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, PA 19103, 215–686–9763 (phone), 215– 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 700, San California 95814–1997 (916) 498–5220 686–9800 (fax) Francisco, CA 94102, 415–252–3167 (phone), 415–252–3110 (fax) x322 TTY Number: (916) 498–5959 NJ, Camden CO, Denver San Francisco Mr. Richard Cummings, Camden Janet Browder, Multifamily Housing Director, Empowerment Zone Corporation, 412 Ms. Cathy Chin, Community Development HUD-San Francisco Office, Phillip Burton North Second Street, Camden, NJ 08104, Agency, 216 16th Street, Suite 1400, Federal Building and U.S. Court House, 609–541–2836 (phone), 609–541–8457 Denver, CO 80202, 303–640–4787 (phone), 450 Golden Gate Avenue, PO Box 36003, (fax) 303–640–7120 (fax) Mr. Ernest Hughes, City of Denver, 216 16th San Francisco, California, 94102–3448 Supplemental Empowerment Zones Street, Suite 1400, Denver, CO 80202, 303– (415) 436–6580 TTY Number: (415) 436– 640–7128 (phone), 303–640–7120 (fax) 6594 CA, Los Angeles Mr. Parker C. Anderson, City of Los Angeles, CT, Bridgeport Northwest/Alaska Community Development Department, 215 Ms. Janice Willis, City of Bridgeport Office of Portland West 6th Street, Third Floor, Los Angeles, Grant Administration, City Hall, Thomas C. Cusack, Multifamily Housing CA 90014, 213–485–1617 (phone), 213– Bridgeport, CT 06604, 203–332–8662 Director, HUD-Portland Office, 520 237–0551 (fax) (phone), 203–332–5656 (fax) Southwest Sixth Avenue, Suite 700, OH, Cleveland CT, New Haven Portland, Oregon, 97204–1596 (503) 326– India Lee, Director, Cleveland Empowerment Ms. Serena Neal-Williams, City of New 2513 TTY Number: (503) 326–3656 Zone, 601 Lakeside Avenue, City Hall, Haven, 165 Church Street, New Haven, CT Seattle Room 335, Cleveland, OH 44114, 216–664– 06510, 203–946–7707 (phone), 203–946– 7808 (fax) Willie Spearmon, Multifamily Housing 3803 (phone), 216–420–8522 (fax) DC, Washington Director, HUD-Seattle Office, Seattle Enhanced Enterprise Communities Federal Office Building, 909 1st Avenue, Ms. Judy Cohall, District of Columbia EC Suite 200, Seattle, Washington 98104–1000 CA, Oakland Program, 51 N Street, NE, Suite 300, (206) 220–5207 x3249 TTY Number: (206) Kofe Bonner, City of Oakland, One City Hall Washington, DC 20001, 202–535–1366 220–5185 Plaza, Third Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, (phone), 202–535–1559 (fax) 510–238–3303 (phone), 510–238–6538 DE, Wilmington Appendix B. Empowerment Zone/ (fax) Empowerment Communities—EZ/EC Main Mr. James Walker, Wilmington Enterprise Contact List MA, Boston Community, Louis L. Redding City/County Mr. Reginald Nunnally, Boston Building, 800 French Street, 9th Floor, Empowerment Zones Empowerment Center, 20 Hampden Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, 302–571–4189 GA, Atlanta Boston, MA 02119, 617–445–3413 (phone), (phone), 302–571–4102 (fax) Mr. Paul White, Atlanta EZ Corporation, 101 617–445–5675 (fax) FL, Miami/Dade County/Homestead Marietta Street, Eleventh Floor, Atlanta, KS, Kansas City and MO, Kansas City Mr. Tony E. Crapp, Sr., Office of Economic GA 30303, 404–331–4480 (phone), 404– Mr. Cal Bender, MARC, 600 Broadway, 300 Development, 140 West Flagler, Suite 331–4515 (fax) Rivergate Center, Kansas City, MO 64105– 1000, Miami, FL 33130–1561, 305–375– IL, Chicago 1554, 816–474–4240 (phone), 816–421– 3431 (phone), 305–375–3428 (fax) Mr. Jose Cerda, City of Chicago, 20 North 7758 (fax) FL, Tampa Clark Street, 28th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602, TX, Houston Mr. Benjamin Stevenson, City of Tampa, 312–744–9623 (phone), 312–744–9696 1310 9th Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605, 813– Ms. Judith Butler, 900 Bagby Street, City Hall (fax) 242–5359 (phone), 813–242–5381 (fax) Annex, Mayor’s Office, Second Floor, MD, Baltimore Houston, TX 77002, 713–247–2666 GA, Albany Ms. Diane Bell, Empower Baltimore (phone), 713–247–3985 (fax) Mr. Anthony Cooper, Department of Community and Economic Development, Management Corporation, 111 S. Calvert Enterprise Communities Street, Suite 1550, Baltimore, MD 21202, 230 South Jackson Street, Suite 315, 410–783–4400 (phone), 410–783–0526 AL, Birmingham Albany, GA 31701, 912–430–7867 (phone), (fax) Mr. John H. Gemmill, City of Birmingham, 912–430–3989 (fax) MI, Detroit 710 N. 20th Street, City Hall, Room 224, IA, Des Moines Birmingham, AL 35203, 205–254–2870 Ms. Kathy Kafela, City of Des Moines, 602 Ms. Gloria W. Robinson, City of Detroit (phone), 205–254–2541 (fax) Planning and Development, 2300 Cadillac East First Street, Des Moines, IA 50309, Tower Building, Detroit, MI 48226, 313– AR, Pulaski County 515–283–4151 (phone), 515–237–1713 224–6389 (phone), 313–224–1629 (fax) Mr. Henry McHenry, Enterprise Community (fax) NY, New York Committee Board, 300 South Spring, Suite IL, East St. Louis 800, Little Rock, AR 72201–2424, 501– Mr. Percy Harris, City of East St. Louis, City Mr. Kevin Nunn, Bronx Overall Economic 340–5675 (phone), 501–320–5680 (fax) Development Corporation, 198 East 161st of East St. Louis, 301 River Park Dr., East St. Louis, IL 62201, 618–482–6644 (phone), Street, Second Floor, Bronx, NY 10451, AZ, Phoenix 618–482–6648 (fax) 718–590–3549 (phone), 718–590–5814 Mr. Ed Zuercher, City of Phoenix, 200 West (fax) Washington Street, 12th Floor, Phoenix, IL, Springfield NY, New York AZ 85003–1611, 602–261–8532 (phone), Ms. Jacqueline Richie, Office of Economic 602–261–8327 (fax) Development, 231 South Sixth St., Ms. Deborah Wright, Director, Upper CA, San Diego Springfield, IL 62701, 217–789–2377 Manhattan Empowerment Zone, (phone), 217–789–2380 (fax) Development Corporation, Powell Office Ms. Bonnie Contreras, City of San Diego, 202 Building, 163 West 125th Street, Suite C Street MS 3A, San Diego, CA 92101, IN, Indianapolis 1204, New York, NY 10027, 212–932–1902 619–236–6846 (phone), 619–236–6512 Ms. Mary Kapur, 2560 City County Building, (phone), 212–932–1907 (fax) (fax) 200 East Washington St., Indianapolis, IN

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46204, 317–327–3601 (phone), 317–327– NC, Charlotte 108, Columbus, OH 43205, 614–251–0926 5271 (fax) Ms. Charlene Abbott, Neighborhood (phone), 614–251–2243 (fax) Mr. Mark Young, Community Development Development Department, 600 East Trade OK, Oklahoma City and Human Services, 1860 City County Street, Charlotte, NC 28202, 704–336–5577 Mr. Carl Friend, Oklahoma City Planning Building, Indianapolis, IN 46204 (phone), 704–336–2527 (fax) Department, 420 West Main Street, Suite KY, Louisville NE, Omaha 920, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405–297– Ms. Carolyn Gatz, Empowerment Zone Mr. Scott Knudsen, City of Omaha, 1819 2574 (phone), 405–297–3796 (fax) Community, 601 West Jefferson St., Farnum Street, Suite 1100, Omaha, NE OR, Portland Louisville, KY 40202, 502–574–4210 68183, 402–444–5381 (phone), 402–444– (phone), 502–574–4201 (fax) 6140 (fax) Ms. Regena S. Warren, City of Portland, 421 SW Sixth Street, Suite 700, Portland, OR LA, New Orleans NH, Manchester 97204, 412–487–9118 (phone), 412–255– Ms. Thelma H. French, Office of Federal and Ms. Amanda Parenteau, City of Manchester, 2585 (fax) 889 Elm Street, City Hall, Manchester, NH State Programs, 1300 Perdido Street, Room PA, Pittsburgh 2E10, New Orleans, LA 70112, 504–565– 03101, 603–624–2111 (phone), 603–624– Ms. Bev Gillot, City of Pittsburgh, 4433 6414 (phone), 504–565–6976 (fax) 6308 (fax) Laurel Oak Drive, Allison Park, PA 15105, NJ, Newark LA, Ouachita Parish 412–487–9118 (phone), 412–255–2585 Mr. Ken Newman, 2115 Justice Street, Ms. Angela Corbo, Department of (fax) Administration, City Hall, Room B–16, 920 Monroe, LA 71201, 318–387–2572 (phone), PA, Harrisburg 318–387–9054 (fax) Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102, 201–733– 4331 (phone), 201–733–3769 (fax) Ms. JoAnn Partridge, City of Harrisburg, MA, Lowell NM, Albuquerque Department of Building and Housing Ms. Sue Beaton, City Hall, 375 Merrimack Development, MLK City Government Ms. Sylvia Fettes, Family & Community Street, City Hall, Lowell, MA 01852, 508– Center, 10 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Services Department, One Civic Plaza, NW, 970–4165 (phone), 508–970–4007 (fax) PA 17101–1681, 717–255–6424 (phone), Albuquerque, NM 87103, 505–768–2860 717–255–6421 (fax) MA, Springfield (phone), 505–768–3204 (fax) RI, Providence Mr. Jim Asselin, Community Development NV, Las Vegas Department, 36 Court Street, Springfield, Mr. Joe Montiero, Providence Plan, 56 Pine Ms. Yvonne Gates, Clark County Street, Suite 3B, Providence, RI 02903, MA 01103, 413–787–6050 (phone), 413– Commissioners Office, 500 South Grand 401–455–8880 (phone), 401–331–6840 787–6027 (fax) Central Parkway, P.O. Box 551601, Las (fax) Vegas, NV 89155–1601, 702–455–3239 MI, Flint Mr. Patrick McGuigan, Providence Plan, 56 (phone), 702–383–6041 (fax) Mr. Larry Foster, Township of Mount Morris, Pine Street, Suite 3B, Providence, RI Ms. Jennifer Padre, Southern Nevada G–5447 Bicentennial Parkway, Mount 02903, 401–455–8880 (phone), 401–331– Enterprise Community, 500 South Grand Morris Township, MI 48458, 810–785– Central Parkway, P.O. Box 551212, Las 6840 (fax), 9138 (phone), 810–785–7730 (fax) Vegas, NV 89155–1212, 702–455–5025 SC, Charleston Ms. Nancy Jurkiewicz, City of Flint, 1101 (phone), 702–455–5038 (fax) South Saginaw Street, Flint, MI 48502, Patricia W. Crawford, Housing/Community 810–766–7436 (phone), 810–766–7351 NY, Albany/Troy/Schenectady Development, 75 Calhoun Street, Division (fax) Mr. Kevin O’Connor, Center for Economic 615, Charleston, SC 29401–3506, 803–724– 3766 (phone), 803–724–7354 (fax) MI, Muskegon Growth, One Key Corp Plaza, Suite 600, Albany, NY 12207, 518–465–8975 (phone), TN, Nashville Mr. Jim Edmonson, City of Muskegon, 518–465–6681 (fax) Economic Development Department, 933 Mr. Phil Ryan, Metropolitan Development NY, Buffalo Terrace Street, Muskegon, MI 49443, 616– and Housing Agency, 701 South Sixth 724–6977 (phone), 616–724–6790 (fax) Ms. Paula Rosner, Buffalo Enterprise Street, Nashville, TN 37206, 615–252–8505 Ms. Fleta Mitchell, Department of Planning Development Corporation, 620 Main Street, (phone), 615–252–8559 (fax) and Community Development, 2724 Peck, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716–842–6923 (phone), TN, Memphis 716–842–1779 (fax) Muskegon Heights, MI 49444, 616–733– Ms. Shirley Collins, Center for 1355 (phone), 616–733–7382 (fax) NY, Newburgh/Kingston Neighborhoods, 619 North Seventh Street, MN, Minneapolis Ms. Allison Lee, City of Newburgh, Memphis, TN 38107, 901–526–6627 (phone), 901–526–6627 (fax) Mr. Ken Brunsvold, Office of Grants & Community Development,83 Broadway, Special Project, 350 South Fifth Street, City Newburgh, NY 12550, 914–569–7350 TX, El Paso (phone), 914–569–7355 (fax) Hall, Room 200, Minneapolis, MN 55415, Ms. Deborah G. Hamlyn, City of El Paso, #2 612–673–2348 (phone), 612–673–2728 NY, Rochester Civic Center Plaza, 9th Floor, El Paso, TX (fax) Ms. Carolyn Argust, City of Rochester 79901, 915–541–4643 (phone), 915–541– MN, St. Paul Economic Development, 30 Church Street, 4370 (fax) City Hall, Room 205A, Rochester, NY TX, Waco Mr. Jim Zdon, City of St. Paul, Planning and 14614, 716–428–7207 (phone), 716–428– Economic Development, 25 West Fourth 7069 (fax) Mr. Charles Daniels, City of Waco, P.O. Box Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, 612– 2570, Waco, TX 76702–2570, 817–750– 266–6559 (phone), 612–228–3314 (fax) OH, Akron 5690 (phone), 817–750–5880 (fax) Mr. Jerry Egan, Department of Planning & MO, St. Louis TX, Dallas Urban Development, 166 South High Ms. Dorothy Dailey, St. Louis Development Street, Akron, OH 44308–1628, 330–375– Mr. Mark Obeso, Empowerment Zone Corp., 330 North 15th Street, St. Louis, MO 2090 (phone), 330–375–2387 (fax) Manager, 1500 Marilla, 2B South, Dallas, 63103, 314–622–3400 (phone), 314–622– TX 75201, 214–670–4897 (phone), 214– OH, Columbus 3413 (fax) 670–0158 (fax) Mr. Patrick Grady, Economic Development MS, Jackson Administrator, 99 North Front Street, TX, San Antonio Mr. Willie Cole, Office of City Planning/ Columbus, OH 43215, 614–645–7574 Mr. Curley Spears, City of San Antonio, 419 Minority Business, 218 South President (phone), 614–645–7855 (fax) South. Main, Suite 200, San Antonio, TX Street, Jackson, MS 39205, 601–960–1055 Mr. John Beard, Columbus Compact 78204, 210–220–3600 (phone), 210–220– (phone), 601–960–2403 (fax) Corporation, 815 East Mound Street, Suite 3620 (fax)

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UT, Ogden Ms. Karen Thurber, Ogden City Neighborhood Development, 2484 Washington Boulevard, Suite 211, Ogden, UT 84401, 801–629–8943 (phone), 801– 629–8902 (fax) VA, Norfolk Ms. Eleanor R. Bradshaw, Norfolk Works, 201 Granby Street, Norfolk, VA 23510, 757– 624–8650 (phone), 757–622–4623 (fax) VT, Burlington Mr. Brian Pine, Office of Community Development, City Hall, Room 32, Burlington, VT 05401, 802–865–7232 (phone), 802–865–7024 (fax) WA, Seattle Mr. Charles Depew, City of Seattle, Seattle Municipal Building, Third Floor, Seattle, WA 98104–1826, 206–684–0208 (phone), 206–684–0379 (fax) WA, Tacoma Mr. Christopher Andersen, Tacoma Empowerment Consortium, 2501 East D Street, Suite 209, Tacoma, WA 98421, 206– 572–2120 (phone), 206–572–2625 (fax) WI, Milwaukee Ms. Una Vanderval, Department of City Development, 809 North Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202 414–286–5900 (phone), 414–286–5467 (fax) WV, Huntington Ms. Cathy Burns, Community Development and Planning, 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 14, P.O. Box 1659, Huntington, WV 25717, 304–696–4486 (phone), 304–696–4465 (fax) [FR Doc. 97–13517 Filed 5–22–97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210±27±P

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