[Federal Register: January 14, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 9)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5030-FA-11]
Announcement of Funding Awards for the Brownfields Economic
Development Initiative (BEDI) Fiscal Year 2006
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of funding awards.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102 (a)(4)(C) of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement
notifies the public of past funding decisions made by the Department in
competitions for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability
(NOFA) for the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI). This
announcement contains the names of the awardees and the amounts of the
awards made available by HUD.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Otto V. Banks, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Office of Economic Development, Office of Community Planning
and Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7136, Washington, DC
20410-7000; telephone (202) 708-4091 (this is not a toll-free number).
Hearing- and speech-impaired persons may access this number via TTY by
calling the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339. For
general information on this and other HUD programs, call Community
Connections at 1-800-998-9999 or visit the HUD Web site at http://www.hud.gov
.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Brownfields Economic Development
Initiative (BEDI) is administered by the Office of Economic Development
under the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
The Office of Economic Development administers HUD's ongoing grant
programs to assist local governments, nonprofit organizations and the
private sector in economic development efforts.
BEDI was enacted in section 108(q) of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974, as amended. Eligible applicants include units
of general local government eligible for assistance under the Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, as well as urban counties that
are eligible under the CDBG program. Each unit of general local
government or CDBG-eligible urban county must use its BEDI award to
enhance the security of a loan guaranteed by HUD under section 108 of
the Housing and Community
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Development Act of 1974, as amended, for the same project, or to
improve the viability of a project financed with the section 108-
guaranteed loan. The BEDI program provides each grantee funding for the
redevelopment of abandoned, idled or underutilized industrial or
commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated
by environmental contamination as defined by the NOFA in each fiscal
year.
On March 8, 2006, (71 FR 11712) HUD published a Super Notice of
Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) announcing the availability of
approximately $10,000,000 in FY 2006 funds for the BEDI program. The
Department reviewed, evaluated and scored the applications received
based on the criteria in the SuperNOFA. As a result, HUD funded the
applications announced below, and, in accordance with section
102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing
details concerning the recipients of funding awards, as set forth
below.
Dated: December 20, 2007.
William H. Eargle,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations, Office of Community Planning
and Development.
Fiscal Year 2006 Funding Awards for the Brownfields Economic Development
Initiative Program
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Recipient State Amount
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Mooresville................................. NC $650,000.00
Rocky Mount................................. NC 1,000,000.00
Lawton...................................... OK 1,000,000.00
Pittsburgh.................................. PA 1,000,000.00
Reading..................................... PA 500,000.00
Vancouver................................... WA 1,000,000.00
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Total................................... ....... 5,150,000.00
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