[Federal Register: November 16, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 219)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5312-N-02]

 
Recovery Act--Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing, 
Notice of Closing of Application Solicitation

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing 
Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: By notice issued May 13, 2009, HUD announced the availability 
of funding for the Green Retrofit Program for Multifamily Housing 
(GRP), a program authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act of 2009, for the purpose of making, primarily, loans and grants to 
facilitate utility-saving retrofits and other retrofits that produce 
environmental benefits in certain existing HUD-assisted multifamily 
housing. In the May 13, 2009, notice, HUD announced that it would begin 
soliciting applications beginning on June 15, 2009. This notice 
announces that, based on the funds remaining available, HUD will cease 
accepting applications as of November 18, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Affordable Housing 
Preservation, Office of Housing, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 6230, Washington, DC 20410-8000; 
telephone number 202-708-0001 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons 
with hearing or speech impairments may access this number through TTY 
by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-
8339.

SUPPLMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Title XII of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5) (Recovery Act) authorizes funding for GRP, 
a Recovery Act program by which HUD makes loans and grants and takes a 
variety of other actions to facilitate utility-saving retrofits and 
other retrofits that produce environmental benefits, in certain 
existing HUD-assisted multifamily housing. The funding provided for 
retrofits is designed to result in property that reduces energy demand, 
costs less to operate, improves the residents' quality of life, and 
reduces its impact on the environment.
    By notice issued May 13, 2009, HUD announced the availability of 
funding GRP. (See http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/notices/hsg/
files/09-02HSGN.pdf). In the May 13, 2009, notice, HUD announced that 
GRP would be administered by the Office of Affordable Housing 
Preservation. In the May 13, 2009, notice, HUD also announced that it 
would begin accepting applications for GRP funding on June 15, 2009, on 
a first come, first serve basis, and would continue to accept 
applications subject to the availability of funding.
    In this notice, HUD announces that, based on remaining GRP funds 
available, HUD will cease accepting applications as of November 18, 
2009.

    Dated: November 9, 2009.
Theodore K. Toon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Affordable Housing Preservation.
[FR Doc. E9-27416 Filed 11-13-09; 8:45 am]

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