[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: 24CFR599.303]

[Page 320-321]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
  CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND 
        DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 599_RENEWAL COMMUNITIES--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart D_Evaluation of Applications Nominating Renewal Communities
 
Sec. 599.303  Rating of applications.

    (a) In general. Each application that qualifies by meeting the 
threshold requirements will receive a score based on its ranking, as 
described in paragraph (b) of this section, plus any preference points, 
as described in paragraph (c) of this section.
    (b) Ranking score. Each nominated area meeting the minimum 
thresholds will be ranked from highest to lowest according to the area 
poverty rate, area unemployment rate, and for urban areas, the 
percentage of families below 80 percent of area median income. Urban 
nominated areas will be ranked separately from rural nominated areas. 
The percentile rank will be determined by dividing these rankings by the 
total number of nominated areas ranked and multiplying the result by 
100. The average ranking will be determined by computing the simple 
average of the percentile ranks for each nominated area. To create a 100 
point scale, the average rankings will be subtracted from 100.
    (c) Preference points--(1) Incidence of crime. A nominated area may 
receive a maximum of 1, 2, or 4 crime incidence preference points as 
follows:
    (i) Number of points awarded. A nominated area will receive 1 
additional point if its 1999 Local Crime Index (LCI), as determined on 
the basis of

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data from each State and local law enforcement authority with 
jurisdiction in the nominated area, does not exceed by more than 25% the 
nation-wide 1999 Crime Index rate per 100,000 inhabitants (CI) prepared 
as part of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. A preference 
of 2 points will be added to the score of a nominated area with an LCI 
that does not exceed the CI by more than 10 percent. A nominated area 
that has an LCI that is less than the CI will receive 4 preference 
points.
    (ii) Qualifying for preference points. To qualify for preference 
points based on the incidence of crime, the nominating governments must 
determine and then certify to the LCI determined for the nominated area, 
in accordance with Sec. 599.107(a)(3)
    (2) Preference points for certain census tracts. A nominated area 
will receive one preference point if any of its census tracts is a 
census tract identified in GAO Report RCED-98-158R, dated May 12, 1998. 
(The GAO Report is available from U.S. General Accounting Office, P.O. 
Box 37050, Washington, DC 20013 or http://www.gao.gov.)