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CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC
ASSISTANCE
14.862: Indian Community Development Block Grant Program
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| PROGRAM AND AWARD | FINANCIAL AND INFORMATION CONTACTS |
| ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS | FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFO. |
| APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS | INFORMATION CONTACTS |
| RELATED PROGRAMS | ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS |
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Applicant Eligibility: Any Indian tribe, band, group, or nation, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, and any Alaska Native village that is eligible for assistance under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act or which had been eligible under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.
Beneficiary Eligibility: The principal beneficiaries of ICDBG funds are low and moderate income persons. Low and moderate income is generally defined as 80 percent of the median income, as determined by HUD, adjusted for family size.
Credentials/Documentation: Costs will be determined in accordance with OMB Circular No. A-87 for State, local, and Indian tribal governments.
Preapplication Coordination: No preapplication required. Prior to submitting application, applicant must allow for citizen participation in application development. An environmental assessment is required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.
Application Procedure: Applicants must file an application on forms prescribed by HUD which describes the community development need and how that need will be addressed by the proposed project. Application must provide sufficient information for the project to be rated against selection criteria.
Award Procedure: The ONAP Field Office is responsible for rating and approving applications and for notifying applicants of the results.
Deadlines: Differ each year. Dates are published in a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) in the Federal Register. In fiscal year 1999, funding applications were due in the appropriate Office of Native American Programs (ONAP) 78 days from the date of publication of the NOFA. It is anticipated that the time frame for the fiscal year 2000 program will be 75 days, which has generally been used in this program.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time: From 75 to 110 days.
Appeals: Limitations, conditions, and requirements specified in NOFA.
Renewals: None.
Criteria for Selecting Proposals: Applications must be submitted by any eligible tribe or Alaska Native Village which has the capacity to administer a grant. Applications are then rated against factors which measure impact and quality.
Examples of Funded Projects: Fire station; housing rehabilitation grant program; cooperative store development; water lines and storage facility, community building.
Range and Average of Financial Assistance: The average grant in fiscal year 1999 was about $565,000.
Federal Agency: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Type of Assistance: Project Grants.
Obligations: (Budget Authority) FY 99 $67,000,000; FY 00 est $67,000,000; and FY 01 est $69,000,000. (NOTE: Amounts reported reflect allocation of new budget authority rather than obligation amounts.)
Budget Account Number: 86-0162-0-1-451.
Authorization: Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Section 106(a), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.; Housing and Urban Development Act, Section 7(d), 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).
Regulations, Guidelines, and Literature: 24 CFR 1003.
Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Office of Native American Programs Field Office listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.
Headquarters Office: National Office of Native American Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Suite 3990, P.O. Box 90, 1999 North Broadway, Denver, CO 80202. Phone: (303) 675-1600.
(See Appendix IV for more contact info.)
Formula and Matching Requirements: This program has no statutory formula and no matching requirements.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance: Assistance is available until project completion, usually within two years.
Uses and Use Restrictions: Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages may use block grants to improve the housing stock, provide community facilities, make infrastructure improvements, and expand job opportunities by supporting the economic development of their communities. Activities which are eligible for funding include housing rehabilitation programs, acquisition of land for housing, direct assistance to facilitate homeownership among low and moderate income persons, construction of tribal and other facilities for single or multi-use, streets and other public facilities, and economic development projects particularly those by nonprofit tribal organizations or local development corporations when the recipient determines that the provision of such assistance is appropriate to carry out an economic development project. Tribes and Alaska Native villages are restricted from using block grants for construction and improvement of governmental facilities, the purchase of equipment, general government expenses, operating and maintenance expenses, political activities, new housing construction (except through community-based development organizations (CBDOs), and income payments.
Reports: Annual performance reports.
Audits: In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 as implemented by 24 CFR 1003, tribes that receive financial assistance of $300,000 or more within the fiscal year shall have an audit made for that year.
Records: All records applicable to the assistance project must be kept for three to five years following the submission of the final expenditure report or until all audit findings have been resolved.
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