[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR572.410]

[Page 190]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
  CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND 
        DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 572_HOPE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES PROGRAM (HOPE 3)--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart E_Other Federal Requirements
 
Sec. 572.410  Environmental procedures and standards.

    (a) Planning grants. HUD has determined that its approval of 
applications for planning grants under this part is categorically 
excluded from environmental review and compliance requirements of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and that other Federal 
environmental laws and authorities listed in 24 CFR 50.4 are not 
applicable.
    (b) Implementation grants. (1) Recipients of implementation grants 
must comply with the applicable environmental laws and authorities at 24 
CFR 50.4 and must:
    (i) Supply HUD with information necessary for it to perform any 
necessary environmental review of the property (or neighborhood);
    (ii) Carry out mitigating measures required by HUD or select 
alternate eligible property; and
    (iii) Not acquire or otherwise carry out program activities with 
respect to any eligible property until HUD approval for the property (or 
neighborhood) is received.
    (2) Before any amounts under this part are used to acquire or 
rehabilitate an eligible property, HUD must determine whether the 
proposed activities trigger applicability thresholds for the applicable 
Federal environmental laws and authorities. These may apply when the 
property is:
    (i) Located within designated coastal barriers;
    (ii) Listed on, or eligible for listing on, the National Register of 
Historic Places; or is located within, or adjacent to, an historic 
district;
    (iii) Located near hazardous operations handling fuels or chemicals 
of an explosive or flammable nature;
    (iv) Contaminated by toxic chemicals or radioactive materials;
    (v) Located within a runway clear zone at a civil airport or within 
a clear zone or accident potential zone at a military airfield; or
    (vi) Located within a special flood hazard area or within a location 
requiring flood insurance protection.
    (3) A recipient may choose to make the threshold reviews itself or 
with assistance from State or local governments or qualified persons or 
to refer the property to HUD for threshold review. Where the recipient 
makes the threshold review itself, it must submit the result to HUD.
    (4) If a recipient chooses not to make the threshold reviews, it 
must submit information to HUD to permit HUD to make the review.
    (5) If HUD determines on the basis of the recipient's threshold 
review or HUD's threshold review that one or more of the thresholds are 
exceeded, HUD will conduct an environmental review of that issue and, if 
appropriate, establish mitigating measures that the recipient must carry 
out for the property unless it decides to select an alternate property.