[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR570.427]

[Page 95]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
  CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND 
        DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 570_COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart F_ Small Cities and Insular Areas Programs
 
Sec. 570.427  Program amendments.

    (a) HUD approval of certain program amendments. Grantees shall 
request prior HUD approval for all program amendments involving new 
activities or alteration of existing activities that will significantly 
change the scope, location, or objectives of the approved activities or 
beneficiaries. Approval is subject to the following:
    (1) Programs or projects that include new or significantly altered 
activities are rated in accordance with the criteria for selection 
applicable at the time the original preapplication or application 
(whichever is applicable) was rated. The rating of the program or 
projects proposed which include the new or altered activities proposed 
by the amendment must be equal to or greater than the lowest rating 
received by a funded project or program during that cycle of ratings.
    (2) Consideration shall be given to whether any new activity 
proposed can be completed promptly.
    (3) If the grant was received on a noncompetitive basis, the 
proposed amended project must be able to be completed promptly, and must 
meet all of the threshold requirements that were required for the 
original project. If the proposal is to amend the project to a type of 
project that was rated competitively in the fiscal year that the 
noncompetitive project was funded, the new or altered activities 
proposed by the amendment must receive a rating equal to or greater than 
the lowest rating received by a funded project or program during that 
cycle of ratings.
    (b) Documentation of program amendments. Any program amendments that 
do not require HUD approval must be fully documented in the grantee's 
records.
    (c) Citizen participation requirements. Whenever an amendment 
requires HUD approval, the requirements for citizen participation in 
Sec. 570.431 must be met.