For applications submitted to the HUD Field Offices, hand carried applications will be accepted during normal business hours before the application due date. On the application due date, business hours will be extended to 6:00 pm. (Please see the Appendix A to this SuperNOFA listing the hours of operations for the HUD Field Offices.)

COPIES OF APPLICATIONS TO HUD OFFICES. The Programs Section of this SuperNOFA may specify that to facilitate processing and review of your submission a copy of the application also be sent to an additional HUD location (for example, a copy to the HUD Field Office if the original application is to be submitted to HUD Headquarters, or a copy to HUD Headquarters, if the original application is to be submitted to a HUD Field Office). Please follow the requirements of the Programs Section to ensure that you submit your application to the proper location. HUD requests additional copies in order to expeditiously review your application and appreciates your assistance in providing the copies. Please note that for those applications for which copies are being submitted to the Field Offices and HUD Headquarters, timeliness of submission will be based on the time the application is received at HUD Headquarters.

FOR APPLICATION KITS, FURTHER INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: The information contained in this section is applicable to all programs contained in this SuperNOFA.

Requests for application kits should be made immediately to ensure sufficient time for application preparation. We will distribute application kits as soon as they become available.

The SuperNOFA Information Center (1-800-HUD-8929) can provide you with assistance, application kits, and guidance in determining which HUD Office(s) should receive a copy of your application.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SUPERNOFA PROCESS

To further HUD's objective, under the direction of Secretary Andrew Cuomo, of improving customer service and providing the necessary tools for revitalizing communities and improving the lives of people within those communities, HUD will publish three SuperNOFAs in 1998, which coordinate program funding for 39 programs and cut across traditional program lines.

All three SuperNOFAs and consolidated applications, to the greatest extent possible, given statutory, regulatory and program policy distinctions, will have one set of rules that, together, offer a "menu" of approximately 39 programs. From this menu, communities will be made aware of funding available for their jurisdictions. Nonprofits, public housing agencies, local and State governments, tribal governments and tribally designated housing entities, veterans service organizations, faith-based organizations and others will be able to identify the programs for which they are eligible for funding. HUD is anticipating publishing all three SuperNOFAs before May 1, 1998.

The SuperNOFA approach builds upon Consolidated Planning implemented by the Secretary Cuomo in HUD's community development programs, and also reflects the Secretary's organizational changes for HUD, as described in the Secretary's management reform plan. On June 26, 1997, Secretary Cuomo released the HUD 2020 Management Reform Plan, which provides for significant management reforms at HUD. This plan calls for significant consolidation of like programs to maximize efficiency and dramatically improve customer service. The plan also calls for HUD to improve customer service by adopting a principle of "menus not mandates."

By announcing the funding of these nineteen programs in one NOFA, HUD hopes to assist communities in making better use of available resources to address their needs and the needs of those living within the communities in a holistic and effective fashion. These funds are available for eligible applicants to support individual program objectives, as well as cross-cutting and coordinated approaches to improving the overall effective use of available HUD program funds.

To date, HUD has been consolidating and simplifying the submission requirements of many of its formula grant and discretionary grant programs to offer local communities a better opportunity to shape available resources into effective and coordinated neighborhood housing and community development strategies that will help revitalize and strengthen their communities, physically, socially and economically. To complement this overall consolidation and simplification effort, HUD designed this process to increase the ability of applicants to consider and apply for funding under a wide variety of HUD programs in response to a single NOFA. Everyone interested in HUD's housing and community development assistance programs can benefit from having this information made available in one NOFA.

This SuperNOFA will simplify the application process; promote effective and coordinated use of program funds in communities; reduce duplication in the delivery of services and housing and community development programs; allow interested applicants to seek to deliver a wider, more integrated array of services; and improve the system for potential grantees to be aware of, and compete for program funds.

HUD encourages applicants to work together to coordinate and, to the maximum extent possible, join their activities to form a seamless and comprehensive program of assistance to meet identified needs in their communities, and address barriers to fair housing and equal opportunity that have been identified in the community's Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments in the geographic area(s) in which they are seeking assistance.

As part of the simplification of this funding process, and to avoid duplication of effort, the SuperNOFA provides for consolidated applications for several of the programs for which funding is available under this NOFA. HUD programs that provide assistance for similar activities, e.g., technical assistance, drug elimination, modernization and revitalization, have a consolidated application that reduces the administrative and paperwork burden applicants may otherwise encounter in submitting an application for each program. The Program Chart in this introductory section of the SuperNOFA identifies the programs that have been consolidated and for which a consolidated application is made available to eligible applicants.

The funding of these nineteen programs through this SuperNOFA will not affect the ability of eligible applicants to seek HUD funding. Eligible applicants are able, as they have been in the past, to apply for funding under as few as one or as many as all programs for which they are eligible.

The specific statutory and regulatory requirements of each of the nineteen separate programs continue to apply to each programs. The SuperNOFA reflects, where necessary, the statutory requirements and differences applicable to the specific programs. Please pay careful attention to the individual program requirements that are identified for each program. Also, you will note that not all applicants are eligible to receive assistance under all nineteen programs identified in this SuperNOFA

The SuperNOFA contains two major sections. The General Section of the SuperNOFA contains the procedures and requirements applicable to all applications. The Programs Section of the SuperNOFA describes each program for which funding is made available in the NOFA. As in the past, each program provides a description of eligible applicants, eligible activities, factors for awards, and any additional requirements or limitations that apply to the program. Please read carefully both the General Section and the Programs Section of the SuperNOFA for the program(s) to which you are applying. This will ensure that you apply for program funding for which your organization is eligible to receive funds and you fulfill all the requirements for that program(s).

THE PROGRAMS OF THIS SUPERNOFA AND THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS ALLOCATED

The nineteen programs for which funding availability is announced in this SuperNOFA are identified in the following chart. The approximate available funds for each program are listed as expected funding levels based on appropriated funds. Should recaptured or other funds become available for any program, HUD reserves the right to increase the available program funding amounts by the amount available.

The chart also includes the application due date for each program, the OMB approval number for the information collection requirements contained in the specific program, and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number.

Program Name	Funding Available	Due Date	Submission Location and Room
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS	$ 82,395,140	Insert 85 days from date of publication	HUD Headquarters Processing and Control Branch, Room 7251 and copies to appropriate CPD Field Offices
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Technical Assistance CFDA No.: 14.227 OMB Approval No.: pending	$ 5,000,000
Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) Technical Assistance CFDA No: 14.239 OMB Approval No.: pending	$ 42,000,000
HOME Technical Assistance CFDA No: 14.239 OMB Approval No.: pending	$ 31,000,000
Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Technical Assistance CFDA No.: 14.235 OMB Approval No.: pending	$ 4,395,140
UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE PROGRAMS	$ 13,500,000	Insert 99 days from date of publication	HUD Headquarters, Processing and Control Branch, Room 7251, and Appropriate Field Offices where noted in Programs Section
Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPCs) CFDA No.: 14.511 OMB Approval No.: 2528-0180	$ 7,000,000
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Program CFDA No.: 14.237 OMB Approval No.: 2506-0122	$ 6,500,000
FAIR HOUSING INITIATIVES AND ASSISTED HOUSING COUNSELING PROGRAMS	$ 29,500,000	Insert 60 days from date of publication	HUD Headquarters Room 5234, except if only applying for Assisted Housing Counseling
Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) CFDA No.: 14.409 OMB Approval No.: 2529-0033	$ 1,000,000
Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) CFDA No.: 14.410 OMB Approval No.: 2529 -0033	$ 9,300,000
Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI) CFDA No.: 14.413 OMB Approval No: 2529-0033	$ 1,200,000
Housing Counseling Program o Local Housing Counseling Agencies ($ 5,000,000) o National, Regional and Multi-State Intermediaries ($6,000,000) o State Housing Finance Agencies ($7,000,000) CFDA No.: 14.169 OMB Approval No: 2502-0261	$ 18,000,000		Appropriate HUD Field Office
LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD CONTROL PROGRAM CFDA No.: 14.900 OMB Approval No.: 2539-0005	$ 50,000,000	Insert 60 days from date of publication	Postal Service: HUD Headquarters, Office of Lead Hazard Control, Room B-133 Courier Service or Hand Carried: HUD Office of Lead Hazard Control, 490 East L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Suite 3206, Washington, DC 20024
MODERNIZATION AND REVITALIZATION PROGRAMS	$ 745,762,796	Insert 90 days from the date of publication	HUD Headquarters, Room 4138, and copies to appropriate Local HUD Field Office, where noted in the Programs Section
Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program (CIAP) CFDA No.: 14.852 OMB Approval No.: 2577-0044	$ 304,000,000
HOPE VI Public Housing Revitalization CFDA No.: 14.866 OMB Approval No.: 2577-0208	$ 441,762,796
DRUG ELIMINATION IN PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING PROGRAMS	$ 326,748,934	Insert 75 days from the date of publication	Appropriate local Field Office except if only applying for Drug Elimination TA.
Public Housing Drug Elimination Program (Including Youth Sports Eligible Activities) CFDA No.: 14.854 OMB Approval No.: 2577-0124	$ 288,498,934*
Public Housing Drug Elimination Program - New Approaches (Formerly Safe Neighborhood Grant) CFDA No.: 14.854 OMB Control No.: 2577-0124	$ 20,000,000
Drug Elimination Grants for Multifamily Low Income Housing CFDA No.: 14.193 OMB Approval No.: 2502-0476	$ 16,250,000
Public Housing Drug Elimination Program - Technical Assistance CFDA No.: 14.854 OMB Approval No: 2577-0124	$ 2,000,000		HUD Headquarters, Room 4112

* This amount includes $44,935,934 in FY 97 funds for applicants not funded in 1997.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement. For those programs listed in the chart above which have OMB approval numbers, the information collection requirements contained in this SuperNOFA for those programs have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). For those programs listed in the chart for which an OMB approval number is pending, the approval number when received will be announced by HUD in the Federal Register. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the collection displays a valid control number.

GENERAL SECTION OF THE SUPERNOFA

I. Authority; Purpose; Amount Allocated; Eligible Applicants and Eligible Activities.

(1) Make funding available through a variety of programs to empower communities and their residents, particularly the poor and disadvantaged, to develop viable communities, provide decent housing and a suitable living environment for all citizens, without discrimination in order to improve themselves both as individuals and as a community.

(2) Simplify and streamline the application process for funding under HUD programs. By making available to State and local governments, public housing agencies, tribal governments, non-profit organizations and others, the application requirements for HUD housing and community development programs in one NOFA, HUD hopes that the result will be a less time consuming and less complicated application process. This new process also allows an applicant to submit one application for funds for several programs. Except where statutory or regulatory requirements or program policy mandate differences, the SuperNOFA strives to provide for one set of rules, standardized rating factors, and uniform and consolidated application procedures.

(3) Enhance the ability of applicants to make more effective and efficient use of housing and community development funding when addressing community needs and implementing coordinated housing and community development strategies established in local Consolidated Plans, which is the single application for HUD housing and community development and other formula funds submitted by the local or State government. Through this SuperNOFA process, applicants are encouraged to: (i) create opportunities for strategic planning and citizen participation in a comprehensive context at the local level in order to establish a full continuum of housing and services; and (ii) promote methods for developing more coordinated and effective approaches to dealing with urban, suburban, and rural problems by recognizing the interconnections among the underlying problems and ways to address them through layering of available HUD programs;

(4) Promote the ability of eligible non-profit organizations to participate in many of the programs contained in this SuperNOFA; provide an increased opportunity to assist communities in maintaining, rehabilitating, and constructing affordable housing for low and moderate income families; improve the quality of life for residents of public housing; develop and implement programs which promote fair housing practices and open housing opportunities within a community or geographic area; and provide technical assistance and services to improve program results and increase the productivity of HUD programs in meeting community needs; and

(5) Recognize and make better use of the expertise that each of the programs, and organizations eligible for funding under this SuperNOFA, can contribute when developing and implementing local housing and community development plans, the Consolidated Plan, and the HUD required Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.

II. Requirements and Procedures Applicable to All Programs.

Except as may be modified in the Programs Section of this Super NOFA, or as noted within the specific provisions of this Section II, the following principles apply to all programs. Please be sure to read the program area section of the SuperNOFA for additional requirements or information.

(1) Standard Form for Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424);

(2) Standard Form for Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs (SF-424A) or Standard Form for Budget Information-Construction Programs (SF-424C), as applicable;

(3) Standard Form for Assurances--Non-Construction Programs (SF-424B) or Standard Form for Assurances--Construction Programs (SF-424D), as applicable;

(4) Drug-Free Workplace Certification (HUD-50070);

(5) Certification and Disclosure Form Regarding Lobbying (SF-LLL); (Tribes and tribally designated housing entities (THDEs) established by an Indian tribe as a result of the exercise of the tribe's sovereign power are not required to submit this certification. Tribes and TDHEs established under State law are required to submit this certification.)

(6) Applicant/Recipient Disclosure Update Report (HUD-2880);

(7) Certification that the applicant will comply with the requirements of the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and will affirmatively further fair housing. CDBG recipients also must certify to compliance with section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act. Federally recognized Indian tribes must certify that they will comply with the requirements of the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Indian Civil Rights Act.

(8) Certification required by 24 CFR 24.510. (The provisions of 24 C FR part 24 apply to the employment, engagement of services, awarding of contracts, subgrants, or funding of any recipients, or contractors or subcontractors, during any period of debarment, suspension, or placement in ineligibility status, and a certification is required.)

III. Application Selection Process.

(A) General. To review and rate applications, HUD may establish panels including persons not currently employed by HUD to obtain certain expertise and outside points of view, including views from other Federal agencies.
(1) Rating. All applications for funding in each program listed in this SuperNOFA will be evaluated and rated against the criteria in this SuperNOFA. The rating of the "applicant" or the "applicant's organization and staff" for technical merit or threshold compliance, unless otherwise specified, will include any sub-contractors, consultants, sub-recipients, and members of consortia which are firmly committed to the project.

(2) Ranking. Applicants will be ranked within each program. Applicants will be ranked only against others that applied for the same program funding and where there are set-asides within the competition, the applicant would only compete against applicants in the same set-aside competition.

(1) Bonus Points. The SuperNOFA provides for the award of two bonus points for eligible activities/projects that are proposed to be located in federally designated Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, Enterprise Communities, or Urban Enhanced Enterprise Communities, and serve the EZ/EC residents, and are certified to be consistent with the strategic plan of the EZs and ECs. The application kit contains a certification which must be completed for the applicant to be considered for EZ/EC bonus points. A listing of the federally designated EZs, EZs, Enhanced ECs are available from the SuperNOFA Information Center, or through the HUD web site.

(2) The Five Standard Rating Factors. The factors for rating and ranking applicants are listed in this Section III(c)(2) and maximum points for each factor, are provided in the Programs Section of the SuperNOFA. Each applicant should carefully read the factors for award as described in the program area section that they are seeking funding. While HUD has established the following basic factors for award, these may have been modified or adjusted to take into account specific program needs, or statutory or regulatory limitations imposed on a program. The standard factors for award, except as modified in the program area section are:

Factor 1: Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Staff

Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem

Factor 3: Soundness of Approach

Factor 4: Leveraging Resources

Factor 5: Comprehensiveness and Coordination

If funds remain after funding the highest ranking applications, HUD may fund part of the next highest ranking application in a given program area. If the applicant turns down the award offer, HUD will make the same determination for the next highest ranking application.

If funds remain after all selections have been made, remaining funds may be available for other competitions for each program area where there is a balance of funds.

Additionally, in the event of a HUD procedural error that, when corrected, would result in selection of an otherwise eligible applicant during the funding round of this SuperNOFA, HUD may select that applicant when sufficient funds become available.

IV. Application Submission Requirements.

As discussed earlier in the introductory section of this SuperNOFA, part of the simplification of this funding process, is to reduce the duplication effort involved in completing and submitting similar applications for HUD funded programs. As the Program Chart shows above, this SuperNOFA provides for consolidated applications for several of the programs for which funding is available under this SuperNOFA.

V. Corrections to Deficient Applications.

After the application due date, HUD may not, consistent with 24 CFR part 4, subpart B, consider unsolicited information from an applicant. HUD may contact an applicant, however, to clarify an item in the application or to correct technical deficiencies. Applicants should note, however, that HUD may not seek clarification of items or responses that improve the substantive quality of the applicant's response to any eligibility or selection criterion. Examples of curable technical deficiencies include failure to submit the proper certifications or failure to submit an application containing an original signature by an authorized official. In each case, HUD will notify the applicant in writing by describing the clarification or technical deficiency. HUD will notify applicants by facsimile or by return receipt requested. Applicants must submit clarifications or corrections of technical deficiencies in accordance with the information provided by HUD within 14 calendar days of the date of receipt of the HUD notification. If the deficiency is not corrected within this time period, HUD will reject the application as incomplete.

VI. Promoting Comprehensive Approaches to Housing and Community Development.

VII. Findings and Certifications.

(1) Documentation and public access requirements. HUD will ensure that documentation and other information regarding each application submitted pursuant to this SuperNOFA are sufficient to indicate the basis upon which assistance was provided or denied. This material, including any letters of support, will be made available for public inspection for a 5-year period beginning not less than 30 days after the award of the assistance. Material will be made available in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and HUD's implementing regulations in 24 CFR part 15.

(2) Disclosures. HUD will make available to the public for 5 years all applicant disclosure reports (HUD Form 2880) submitted in connection with this SuperNOFA. Update reports (also Form 2880) will be made available along with the applicant disclosure reports, but in no case for a period less than 3 years. All reports--both applicant disclosures and updates--will be made available in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and HUD's implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 15.

(3) Publication of Recipients of HUD Funding. HUD's regulations at 24 CFR 4.7 provide that HUD will publish a notice in the Federal Register on at least a quarterly basis to notify the public of all decisions made by the Department to provide:

(i) Assistance subject to section 102(a) of the HUD Reform Act; or

(ii) Assistance that is provided through grants or cooperative agreements on a discretionary (non-formula, non-demand) basis, but that is not provided on the basis of a competition.

Applicants or employees who have ethics related questions should contact the HUD Ethics Law Division at (202) 708-3815. (This is not a toll-free number.) For HUD employees who have specific program questions, the employee should contact the appropriate field office counsel, or Headquarters counsel for the program to which the question pertains.

VIII. The FY 1998 SuperNOFA Process and Future HUD Funding Processes.

In FY 1997, Secretary Cuomo took the first step at changing HUD's funding process to better promote comprehensive, coordinated approaches to housing and community development. In FY 1997, the Department published related NOFAs on the same day or within a few days of each other. In the individual NOFAs published in FY 1997, HUD advised that additional steps on NOFA coordination may be considered for FY 1998. The three SuperNOFAs to be published for FY 1998 represent the additional step taken by HUD to improve HUD's funding process and assist communities to make better use of available resources through a coordinated approach. This new SuperNOFA process was developed based on comments received from HUD clients and the Department believes it represents a significant improvement over HUD's approach to the funding process in prior years. For FY 1999, HUD may take even further steps to enhance this process. HUD welcomes comments from applicants and other members of the public on this process, and how it may be improved in future years.

The description of program funding available under this first SuperNOFA for Housing and Community Development programs follows.

Dated: _______________

Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Secretary

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE PROGRAMS

FAIR HOUSING INITIATIVES & ASSISTED HOUSING COUNSELING PROGRAMS

LEAD BASED PAINT HAZARD CONTROL PROGRAM

MODERNIZATION AND REVITALIZATION PROGRAMS

DRUG ELIMINATION IN PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING

APPENDIX A -- LIST OF HUD OFFICES AND HOURS OF OPERATION

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