Community Development Block Grants/special Purpose Grants/insular Areas - (recovery Act Funded)

 

To provide community development assistance to the Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. Insular CDBG-R program funds are to be used to maximize job retention and creation, and economic benefit, carry out infrastructure improvements on an expedited basis, carry out activities to encourage energy efficiency, and provide assistance to unemployed persons.

Deleted 10/11/2010 (Archived.) 14.254 Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development Project Grants Fiscal Year 2009: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2010: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2011: No Current Data Available Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Title I, as amended, Public Law 93-383; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Title XII, Public Law 111-5. . . . OMB Circular No. A-87 applies to this program. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-102. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110. HUD is treating a granteeâ₏™s use of its Insular CDBG-R grant to be a substantial amendment to its current approved consolidated plan and FY 2008 annual action plan. To receive Insular CDBG-R funding, each grantee eligible to receive the funding must submit an action plan substantial amendment to HUD in accordance with instructions to be published in the Federal Register. Each grantee will have until 30 days from the date the Federal Register Notice is published to complete and submit a substantial amendment to its annual action plan. This submission will include a signed standard federal form SF-424, signed certifications, and a substantial action plan amendment. HUD is providing alternative requirements to 42 U.S.C. 5304(a)(2) and waiving 24 CFR 91.105(k) and 91.115(i) to the extent necessary to allow the grantee to provide for citizen comment for its initial Insular CDBG-R submission, and to require that, at the time of submission to HUD, each grantee post its approved action plan amendment and any subsequent amendments on its official website along with a summary of citizen comments received within the comment period. After HUD processes and approves the plan amendment and both HUD and the grantee have signed the grant agreement, HUD will establish the granteeâ₏™s line of credit in the amount of funds included in the Action Plan amendment, up to the allocation amount.
After HUD processes and approves the plan amendment and both HUD and the grantee have signed the grant agreement, HUD will establish the granteeâ₏™s line of credit in the amount of funds included in the Action Plan amendment, up to the allocation amount. May 06, 2009 to Jun 05, 2009: Each grantee will have until 30 days from the date the Federal Register Notice is published to complete and submit a substantial amendment to its annual action plan. To receive Insular CDBG-R funding, each grantee eligible to receive the funding must submit a substantial action plan amendment to HUD in accordance with instructions to be published in the Federal Register. Each grantee will have until 30 days from the date of the Federal Register Notice is published to complete and submit a substantial amendment to its annual action plan. None. None. Not Applicable. Activities must be eligible under 24 CFR 570 Subpart C. Annual performance reports. Annual performance reports as required by 24 CFR 91.520;
SF-272 Federal Cash Transactions Report. No progress reports are required. No expenditure reports are required. Quarterly performance reports to be posted by HUD to www.recovery.gov. In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. year in Federal awards should have a single audit conducted for that year in accordance with the provisions of he Circular. All records applicable to the assistance project must be
kept for three years following the submission of the final expenditure
report or until all audit findings have been resolved. This program has no statutory formula.
This program has no matching requirements.
This program does not have MOE requirements. Assistance is available until project completion, and is released through a letter of credit. Grantees are encouraged to give priority to activities that can obligate funds by competitive contract within 120 days of the funds being made available. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: by letter of credit. See Regional Agency Offices. Honolulu Field Office and the HUD San Juan Field Office as listed in Appendix IV of the print edition of this Catalog. Or on the Internet, see: http://www.hud.gov/local/index.cfm. Stephen M Rhodeside, Office of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th St., SW., Washington, District of Columbia 20410 Email: Stephen.M.Rhodeside@hud.gov Phone: (202) 708-1322. http://www.hud.gov/recovery 86-0161-0-1-451 - 86-0161 2009/2010. (Project Grants) FY 08 $0; FY 09 est $7,000,000; FY 10 est $0 Insular CDBG-R funds awarded in FY 2009: American Samoa: $963,516; Guam: $2,851,151; Northern Marianas:$1,374,719; Virgin Islands: $1,810,614. 24 CFR 570 Subpart F. Not Applicable.