[Federal Register: July 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 142)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4950-C-04A]
Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Notice of Funding
Availability Policy Requirements and General Section to SuperNOFA for
HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs; Youthbuild NOFA; Competition
Reopening Announcement
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.
ACTION: Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD
Discretionary Grant Programs; Youthbuild Program NOFA; competition
reopening announcement.
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SUMMARY: On March 21, 2005, HUD published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2005,
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) Policy Requirements and General
Section to the SuperNOFA for HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs. The
Youthbuild Program NOFA competition, which was included in the
SuperNOFA, closed on June 21, 2005. This document announces the
reopening of the Youthbuild Program NOFA competition.
DATES: The new application submission date for the Youthbuild NOFA
competition is August 25, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mark A. Horwath, Director, Grants
Management Division, Office of Economic Development, Office of
Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7149, Washington, DC 20410-
7000; telephone 202-708-2035 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons
with speech or hearing impairments may access this number via TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 21, 2005 (70 FR 13575), HUD
published its Notice of HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA), Policy Requirements and General Section to the
SuperNOFA for HUD's Discretionary Grant Programs. The Youthbuild
Program, which was included in the SuperNOFA, made approximately $56.4
million available in HUD assistance. According to the SuperNOFA, the
application submission date for the Youthbuild Program NOFA was June
21, 2005. On May 11, 2005 (70 FR 24835), HUD published additional
guidance to the General Section, that included a link to Frequently
Asked Questions, located at http://www.grants.gov/ForApplicants#.
Frequently asked questions can also be found on the HUD Web site at
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/egrants/grantsgovfaqs.pdf.
HUD understands that many eligible applicants may have had
difficulty submitting their applications. Therefore, in order to give
all NOFA applicants sufficient time to submit completed applications
and ensure Grants.gov registration is complete, this notice published
intoday's Federal Register reopens the Youthbuild Program NOFA
competition. The new application submission date for the Youthbuild
Program NOFA competition is August 25, 2005.
Applicability of SuperNOFA General Section and Youthbuild Program NOFA
Requirements to Reopened Competition
Please note that the Youthbuild Program NOFA competition
description, application submission information, and application review
information were published in HUD's FY2005 SuperNOFA on March 21, 2005
(70 FR 13575). All requirements listed in the SuperNOFA General Section
and in the Youthbuild Program NOFA are applicable to this reopened
competition except for those requirements explicitly changed by this
notice (such as the due date and requirement for electronic
submission).
Submission Instructions
If you have already submitted an application electronically through
Grants.gov, you do not need to resubmit another application. If you
submitted a paper application, however, without first obtaining a
waiver from the electronic submission requirement, you must resubmit
your applications electronically or by paper submission.
An applicant that has already submitted an application does not
need to resubmit another application. However, if an applicant chooses
to make any changes to an application that has already been submitted,
it must download a new application from Grants.gov, complete the
application, and resubmit by the new deadline date. For the purpose of
rating and ranking, HUD will review the most recent application and
disregard any previously submitted application. If an applicant decides
to resubmit an application, the newly submitted application must be
complete. HUD will not accept partial amendments to applications that
were previously submitted.
Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications through
Grants.gov as described in the SuperNOFA. In addition, for this FY2005
reopened funding opportunity, an applicant may submit a paper
application without requesting a waiver from this requirement. HUD does
not intend to accept paper applications in the future without a waiver.
An applicant that chooses to submit a paper application must submit
an original and two copies by mail or permitted delivery service to:
HUD Headquarters; Robert C. Weaver Federal Building; 451 Seventh
Street, SW., Room 7251; Washington, DC 20410-7000, Attention:
Youthbuild.
As described in section IV.F.5.b of the General Section, an
applicant submitting a paper application must use
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the United States Postal Service (USPS) to submit its application to
HUD. An applicant must take its application to a post office to get a
receipt of mailing that provides the date and time the package was
submitted to the USPS. USPS rules now require that large packages must
be brought to a postal facility for mailing. In many areas, the USPS
has made a practice of returning to the sender, large packages that
have been dropped in a mail collection box. Paper copy applications
submitted to the USPS by the submission date and time and received by
HUD no later than 15 days after the established submission date will
receive funding consideration. If the USPS does not have a receipt with
a digital time stamp, HUD will accept a receipt showing USPS Form 3817,
Certificate of Mailing with a dated postmark. The proof of submission
receipt provided by the Postal Service must show receipt no later than
the application submission deadline. An applicant whose applications is
determined to be late, who cannot furnish HUD with a receipt from the
USPS that verifies the package was submitted to the USPS prior to the
submission due date and time will not receive funding consideration. An
applicant may use any type of mail service provided by the USPS to have
its application package delivered to HUD in time to meet the submission
requirements.
HUD will not accept hand delivery of applications.
Dated: July 21, 2005.
Pamela H. Patenaude,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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