FUNDING AVAILABILITY FOR THE NEW APPROACH ANTI-DRUG PROGRAM PROGRAM OVERVIEW Purpose of the Program. The purpose of the New Approach to Anti- Drug Program is to provide funding to owners of certain housing developments to: (1) augment security; (2) assist in the investigation and prosecution of drug-related criminal activity in and around the housing developments; and (3) provide for the development of capital improvements directly relating to enhancing the security of the developments. Through these grants, HUD is taking a comprehensive neighborhood/community-based approach to crime prevention. Available Funds. Approximately $20 million. Eligible Applicants. Eligible applicants include: units of general local government, public housing agencies (PHAs), Indian tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs), and owners of assisted housing developments. To be an eligible applicant, you must be (1) an owner of an assisted housing development, as defined in this program section of the SuperNOFA; (2) a unit of general local government that operates an assisted housing development; or (3) PHA, TDHE, or an Indian tribe that owns a development with project-based Section 8 assistance, as defined in the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, whose development is included in the proposed plan and is located in the ``project area'' targeted to receive grant funds. Application Deadline. June 19, 2001. Match. None. Additional Information If you are interested in applying for funding under this program, please review carefully the General Section of this SuperNOFA and the following additional information. I. Application Due Date, Application Kits, Further Information, and Technical Assistance Application Due Date. Your completed application (an original and two copies) is due on or before 6:00 pm, local time on June 19, 2001, at your local HUD Field Office. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures governing the form of application submission (e.g., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried). Address for Submitting Applications. Submit your completed application on or before the application deadline at the local HUD Field Office. Please address your application to the Director, Multifamily Housing Hub, Program Center in your local HUD Field Office or, in the case of the Native American population, to the local HUD Administrator, Area Offices of Native American Programs (AONAPs), as appropriate. See Appendix A to the Drug Elimination Grants for Multifamily Low Income Housing program section of the SuperNOFA and Appendix A to the General Section of the SuperNOFA for lists of local HUD Field Offices. For Application Kits. For an application kit and any supplemental information, please call the SuperNOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD- 8929. When requesting an application kit, please refer to the New Approach Anti-Drug Program, and provide your name, address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code). Persons with hearing or speech impairments may call the Center's TTY number at 1- 800-HUD-2209. An application kit also will be available on the Internet through the HUD web site at http://www.HUD.gov. For Further Information and Technical Assistance. Your local HUD Field Office staff will be able to answer your question(s) regarding this program section of the SuperNOFA and/or your application kit. If however, the Field staff is unable to answer your question(s), please contact Alicia Anderson, Program Analysts, Office of Housing Assistance and Grant Administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 6146, Washington, DC 20410; (202) 708-2866, extension 5787 or email Alicia_Anderson@hud.gov. If you are hearing or speech impaired, you may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal information Relay Services at 1-800-877-8339. Satellite Broadcast. HUD will hold an information broadcast via satellite for potential applicants to learn more about the program and preparation of the application. For more information about the date and time of the broadcast, you should consult the HUD web site at http:// www.hud.gov. II. Amount Allocated (A) Available Funding. Approximately $20 million is available for funding under the New Approach Anti-Drug Program, as provided in the FY 2001 HUD Appropriations Act. The fair share allocation formula used for this program is based on the number of project-based assisted housing units within each HUD Multifamily Hub Office as a percentage of the total number of project- based assisted housing units for the United States as a whole (including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Island, and the Pacific Islands). Based on the aforementioned formula, the following chart details the New Approach to Anti-Drug Program grant funds fair share allocation to each of the 18 Multifamily Hubs: Fiscal Year 2001 Fair Share Allocations for the New Approach to Anti- Drug Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grant HUB authority ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Boston.................................................. $1,426,069 Buffalo................................................. 378,535 New York *.............................................. 1,793,623 Philadelphia............................................ 1,886,327 Baltimore............................................... 1,047,633 Greensboro.............................................. 754,938 Atlanta................................................. 2,127,040 Jacksonville............................................ 1,343,238 Chicago................................................. 1,463,479 Columbus................................................ 978,706 Detroit................................................. 731,901 Minneapolis............................................. 750,821 Fort Worth **........................................... 1,648,418 Kansas City............................................. 1,076,022 Denver.................................................. 526,228 San Francisco........................................... 936,294 Los Angeles............................................. 629,490 Seattle................................................. 501,238 --------------- Total............................................... 20,000,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * This amount includes Grant Authority of $27,000 to fund the New York Society for the Deaf. ** This amount includes Grant Authority of $51,032 to fund the Garden City Apartments. Since funding for both applicants were reduced in FY2000 due to HUD error, the applications will be funded from the FY2001 allocation to the applicable Hub. (B) Maximum Grant Award. The maximum grant award amount is limited to $250,000 per application. The amount of funding requested must be within this maximum grant award. (C) Reduction of Requested Grant Amounts. You may be awarded an amount less than requested if: (1) HUD determines that some elements of the proposed action plan are ineligible for funding; (2) HUD determines the amount requested for an eligible activity and/or any budget line item is not cost effective; (3) Insufficient amounts remain under the allocation to fund the full amount you requested, and HUD determines that partial funding is a viable option; or (4) HUD determines that a reduced grant would prevent duplicative Federal funding. [[Page 11988]] III. Program Description; Eligible Applicants; Eligible Activities (A) Program Description (1) Purpose. The purpose of these competitive grants is to assist entities managing or operating Federally assisted multifamily housing developments, Public and Indian housing developments (including those Indian housing units formerly defined as public housing under section 3 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 and now counted as current assisted stock under the Indian Housing Block Grant Program), or other multifamily-housing developments for low-income families supported by non-Federal governmental housing entities or similar housing developments supported by nonprofit private sources, to augment security (including personnel costs), in an effort to solve security problems in the long-term; assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of drug-related criminal activity in and around such developments; and provide for capital improvements that comprehensively enhance security at these developments. Drug- and crime-fighting activities, if only directed to a single assisted housing development, may have the unfortunate effect of simply moving the problem to nearby housing and businesses. The long term solution to the crime problems of assisted housing developments and their surrounding neighborhoods rest in a comprehensive approach that changes the conditions--and the culture that exists. HUD believes that crime fighting efforts are most effective when partnering takes place with law-enforcement agencies at various levels and with a full range of community stakeholders (such as PHAs and TDHEs). Therefore, to address crime in a comprehensive manner to receive funding, you must take the following actions: (a) Have a subgrantee or subrecipient relationship with the local police department and the local district attorney or prosecutor's office. If the local police department, local district attorney, or prosecutor's office does not have the legal authority to accept program funds or enter into a binding agreement with you, then you must provide funds through the unit of general local government--city or county. (b) Enter into partnerships with the owners of, and resident organizations in, assisted housing developments that receive grant funds from you. Multifamily housing developments that may lack the ability to oversee grant functions may delegate this task to a public housing authority or TDHE by making them a ``fiduciary agent'', by signed agreement, which must be part of the application. (c) Encourage other neighborhood based entities to participate in your program of activities through partnership arrangements. Such entities are community residents; neighborhood businesses; and non- profit providers of support services, including faith-based organizations and their affiliates. (2) Implementation Principles. HUD has established the following principles in implementing the New Approach Anti-Drug Program Grants: (a) Comprehensive Approach. With these grants, HUD is taking a comprehensive neighborhood/community-based approach to crime. The long term solution to the crime problems of assisted housing developments and their surrounding neighborhoods rests in changing the conditions-- and the culture that exists. (b) Required Partnerships. You will be required to demonstrate that partnerships have been formed with units of general local government, the local police department, and the local district attorney or prosecutor's office. You must also form partnerships with the following entities, if they are to receive funding from you: (i) Owners of assisted housing developments in the targeted neighborhood, and (ii) Resident organizations of these assisted housing developments. (c) Encouraging Partnerships. HUD encourages the use of effective working partnerships in new locations to leverage the many Federal resources that are available to eliminate crime in and around public and assisted housing developments through the Drug Elimination Grant, Operation Safe Home, and Weed and Seed programs; and partnering with the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Agency. HUD now wishes to encourage these successful partnerships to address similar problems in and around privately-owned, Federally assisted housing. In addition to providing points for applications which have established these partnerships, HUD requires that at least one project in each targeted neighborhood be multifamily housing with either: (i) A HUD-insured, held, or direct mortgage and Rental Assistance Payments (RAP), Rent Supplement, or interest reduction payments, or (ii) Section 8 project-based assistance with or without HUD interest in the project mortgage. This emphasis on HUD assisted privately-owned housing does not negate the eligibility of other low-income housing developments assisted by Federal, State, and local government, and not-for-profit sources to apply for the New Approach Anti-Drug Program. By awarding points for neighborhoods with high concentrations of assisted housing, HUD is encouraging you to address the needs of multiple assisted housing developments which may consist of a mix of ownership types and subsidy sources. (d) Complying with Civil Rights Requirements. With the very real need to protect occupants of HUD-sponsored housing and the areas around the housing, the civil rights of all citizens must be protected. Your proposed strategies should be developed to ensure that crime-fighting and drug prevention activities are not undertaken in such a manner that civil rights or fair housing statutes are violated. Profiling on any prohibited basis is not allowed. In addition, all segments of the population should be represented in developing and implementing crime- fighting strategies. (e) Coordination with Other Law Enforcement Efforts. In addition to working closely with residents and local governing bodies, it is critically important that owners establish ongoing working relationships with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies in their efforts to address crime and violence in and around their housing developments. HUD firmly believes that the war on crime and violence in assisted housing can only be won through the concerted and cooperative efforts of owners and law enforcement agencies working together in cooperation with residents and local governing bodies. HUD encourages owners to participate in Departmental and other Federal law enforcement agencies' programs such as: Operation Safe Home, Operation Weed and Seed through the Department of Justice and the Safe Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP). The use of New Approach Anti-Drug funds, however, must be part of a comprehensive approach. These funds may indirectly support other Federal law enforcement activities provided that use is consistent with the comprehensive approach. (f) Safe Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP) Grants. (i) The New Approach Anti-Drug Program was formerly known as the Safe Neighborhood Action Program, announced June 12, 1994 by HUD, the National Assisted Housing Management Association (NAHMA), and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM). The New Approach Anti-Drug Program was expanded from the SNAP Program to include funds to augment [[Page 11989]] security; assist in the investigation and prosecution of drug related criminal activity in and around the housing developments; and provide for the development of capital improvements directly related to the security of the developments. SNAP is an anti-crime and empowerment strategies initiative in HUD assisted housing neighborhoods in 14 SNAP cities. The major thrust of SNAP is the formation of local partnerships in 14 targeted cities where ideas and resources from government, owners and managers of assisted housing, residents, service providers, law enforcement officials, and other community groups are used to meet to work on innovative, neighborhood anti-crime strategies. (ii) There is no funding associated with SNAP, which relies on existing ideas and resources of the participants. Some common initiatives from these SNAP teams have included the following: community policing, crime watch programs, tenant selection policies, leadership training, individual development or job skills training, expansion of youth activities, police tip line or form, community centers, anti-gang initiatives, police training for security officers, environmental improvements, and a needs assessment survey to determine community needs. (iii) In addition, a HUD-sponsored initiative to increase the presence of AmeriCorps' Volunteers in Service to America (VISTAs) in assisted housing units has led to the placement of 25 VISTAs on 12 SNAP teams. The AmeriCorps VISTA program, which incorporates a theme of working within the community to find solutions to community needs, has provided additional technical assistance to the SNAP teams. (iv) The cities participating in the SNAP initiative include: Atlanta, GA; Boston, Mass; Denver, CO; Houston, TX; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; Columbus, OH; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; Little Rock and North Little Rock, AR; Richmond, VA; and Washington, DC. (3) Definitions. Assisted Housing Development. For purposes of this program, the term ``assisted housing development'' means five or more dwelling units in a building or five or more adjoining, adjacent, or scattered site (within a single neighborhood) dwelling units, having common ownership and project identity. Some or all of the units must be receiving a project-based subsidy from a unit of government at the Federal, State, or local level, or from a private nonprofit entity. This subsidy must be associated with a requirement and/or contractual agreement that all or a portion of the units be occupied by households with incomes at or below those of families at the low-income limit as defined by the United States Housing Act of 1937. Assisted Housing Unit. For purposes of this program, the term ``assisted housing unit'' means a unit within an assisted housing development for which occupancy is restricted to households with incomes at or below that of ``low-income families'' as defined by the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and rents are restricted to amounts that the owner/operator entity determines to be affordable. Augmented Services. For purposes of this program, augmented services are activities which exceed current levels of services or ``baseline'' services provided by any other parties signing the memorandum of understanding required for this program. Drug-related crime. For purposes of this New Approach Anti-Drug Program, the term ``drug-related crime'' means drug-related crime as defined in 42 U.S.C. 11905(2) and Part I Crime and Part II Crime as defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting System. Eligible project area. For purposes of the New Approach Anti-Drug Program, the term ``neighborhood'' means a geographic area within a jurisdiction of a unit of general local government designated in comprehensive plans, ordinances, or other local documents as a neighborhood, village, or similar geographical designation. If, however, the unit of general local government has a population of less than 25,000 persons, then ``neighborhood'' means the entire jurisdiction of the unit of general local government. A project area must include at least one assisted housing development under: (i) Section 221(d)(3), section 221(d)(4), or section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715l, 1715z-1), provided that such development has been provided a Below Market Interest Rate mortgage, interest reduction payments, or project-based assistance under Rent Supplement, Rental Assistance Payments (RAP) or Section 8 programs. An FHA-insured project that has no project-based subsidy does not qualify as an assisted housing unit for eligibility even if it houses tenants receiving tenant-based assistance, such as Section 8 rental vouchers or certificates. (ii) Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); or (iii) Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). This includes housing with project-based Section 8 assistance, whether or not the mortgage was insured by HUD-FHA. This does not include projects which receive only Section 8 tenant-based assistance (i.e., certificates or vouchers). Project-based Subsidies. For purposes of this program, the term ``project-based subsidies'' means financial assistance that is initially designated and assigned by the funding source specifically for the project rather than to eligible assisted resident households who might also benefit from these subsidies, and provided on a one time up-front or on a periodic basis to the project or its owner to write down, subsidize, or waive project development costs, costs of financing, project operating costs (which include but are not limited to the following types of expenses: utilities, taxes, fees, maintenance and debt service payments), owner taxes, unit rent levels, or tenant rent payments. (B) Eligible Applicants (1) General. (a) Eligible applicants are as follows: (i) The owner of an assisted housing development. See definition in Section III (A)(3) of this program section of the SuperNOFA. If you are a unit of general local government you do not need to be the owner, but must be the operator of such housing (A TDHE is not a unit of general local government.); (ii) The owner of an assisted housing development that is assisted by a non-Federal governmental entity or similar housing development supported by nonprofit sources. If you are a unit of general local government, you do not need to be the owner, but must be the operator of such housing; (iii) PHAs, TDHEs, and Indian tribes are eligible applicants if they own a development with project-based Section 8 assistance, as defined in the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and that development is included in the proposed plan and is located in the ``project area'' targeted to receive grant funds. If you do not own such an assisted housing development, you may still participate in the New Approach Anti-Drug Program as a subgrantee or subrecipient of an eligible applicant; or (b) The development that makes you eligible must be in the neighborhood to be assisted; and You may not have any outstanding findings of civil rights violations. (See Section II(B) of the General Section of this SuperNOFA.) If your eligibility status changes during the course of the grant term, thus making you ineligible to receive this grant, HUD reserves the right to terminate your grant. [[Page 11990]] (2) Lead Applicant. Two or more eligible applicants may file a joint application. If filing jointly, you must designate one entity to be the lead applicant. The lead applicant will be the grantee if HUD funds your application. (3) Memorandum of Understanding. You must include with your application a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that you have entered into with each required party. (See Section III(B) of this program section of the SuperNOFA). A draft MOU may be acceptable provided a detailed explanation of why a fully ratified MOU is not being presented in your application. You must indicate that the draft MOU is contingent upon HUD funding the grant. In addition, written commitment from the proposed MOU partners must be included in your grant application. If a draft MOU is submitted in the grant application, the finalized MOU must be submitted to the local HUD Field Office within 15 calendar days after HUD's announcement of the award. The finalized MOU must be exactly the same as the draft MOU included in your application. (4) Required Parties to the MOU. In order to receive full points in the applicable Rating Factor for a New Approach Anti-Drug grant: (a) You MUST sign a MOU that provides funds through a subgrantee or subrecipient relationship with the following two entities: (i) The local police department; and (ii) The local prosecutor's office (district attorney). (b) The two parties signing the MOU must have the legal authority to enter into a binding agreement with you. These two entities must have jurisdiction in your project area. (5) Content of MOU. This MOU must commit these entities to actively support the grant project in partnership with you. The MOU must also describe: (a) The level of current services (baseline) being provided by these entities; (b) The level of services above this baseline which the entities are committed to providing in support of your grant; (c) The amount of time to be devoted to the activities by each party; (d) The skills each party brings to assist in implementation of your specific action plan activities. Your MOU will be taken into account in reviewing and rating your application, so you should strive to be as specific as possible in your MOU document. (6) Partnerships are encouraged. We encourage you to partner with other appropriate neighborhood and community stakeholders, including: neighborhood businesses and business associations; nonprofit service providers; neighborhood resident associations; and faith communities or religious institutions. You are encouraged to enter into MOUs with these entities; however, an MOU is not required. (C) Eligible Project Areas (1) HUD will award one grant per project neighborhood. The project area must be a ``neighborhood.'' (2) The project area must include at least one assisted housing development. See definition in Section III(A)(1) of this program section of the SuperNOFA. (3) You must provide documentation of the population used to define eligibility as a neighborhood. The documentation may include census data or documentation provided by local government officials or by HUD's Community 2020 program, available by calling 1-800-998-9999 (there may be a charge to you for this information). (D) Eligible Activities The following is a listing of eligible activities under this program and guidance as to their parameters: (1) Augmenting Security (Including Personnel). (a) General. You must document in your MOU(s) all security services above baseline established in your MOU. Anyone providing augmented security services must have liability insurance, be licensed, and trained in Fair Housing and other Civil Rights requirements arising out of their role in providing security services. (b) Baseline Services. Additional security services are permitted but must be over and above the local police department's current level of baseline services. If you are seeking funding for augmenting security, you must describe the local police department's current level of baseline services to the neighborhood (including ordinary and routine services, patrols, police officer responses to 911 communications and other calls for services, and investigative follow- up of criminal activity). Your description of baseline services must include the number of officers on a per unit per hour basis, or the actual percentage of their time assigned to the development(s) proposed for funding. For a proposed activity to be considered eligible as an augmented security activity, you must demonstrate to what extent the proposed funded activity will represent an increase over and above the baseline. Funding is permitted for reasonable, necessary, and justified leasing of vehicles or any other equipment associated with the augmentation of security services. (c) Police Presence. You may reimburse local law enforcement entities for the costs of additional police presence (police salaries and other expenses directly related to additional police presence or security that is over and above baseline services) in and around assisted housing developments in the neighborhood. Of the funds devoted to additional police presence, at least 70 percent of such reimbursed costs must be for police presence in assisted housing developments served and the remaining 30 percent must be for police presence around the assisted housing neighborhood area. HUD is strongly encouraging that additional law enforcement in the assisted housing developments and surrounding neighborhoods be targeted to implementing an overall proactive crime fighting strategy, rather than merely responding to crime emergencies. Two potentially effective anti-crime strategies that can benefit from additional police presence are: (i) Combined multi-agency task force initiatives, in which local and Federal law enforcement agencies pool resources, first, to infiltrate organizations that promote violent and/or drug-related crime in the neighborhood and, second, to initiate strategic and coordinated mass arrests to break up these organizations; and (ii) Community policing (i.e., sustained proactive police presence in the development or neighborhood, often conducted from an on site substation or mini-station, that involves crime prevention, citizen involvement, and other community service activities, as well as traditional law enforcement). If reimbursement is provided for community policing activities that are committed to occur over a period of at least 3 years and/or are conducted from a police substation or administration within the neighborhood, the costs during the grant period of constructing such a station or of equipping the substation with communications and security equipment to improve the collection, analysis and use of information about criminal activities in the properties and the neighborhood may be reimbursed. (d) Security Services Provided by Other Entities (such as the Owner of an Assisted Housing Development). (i) The activities of any contract security personnel funded under this Program must be coordinated with other law enforcement and crime prevention efforts under your proposed action plan. You must describe in your action plan your efforts to achieve this coordination. [[Page 11991]] The coordination efforts must include frequent periodic scheduled meetings of security personnel with housing project management and residents, local police and, as appropriate, with other public law enforcement personnel, neighboring residents, landlords, and other neighborhood stakeholders. Any contract security personnel funded under this Program must meet State and local licensing requirements. (ii) You may only contract with a security service provider that has a policy manual that directs the activities of its personnel and contains the policies, procedures, and general orders that regulate conduct and describe in detail how jobs are to be performed. (2) Enhancing the Investigation and Prosecution of Drug-Related Crime. (a) Reimbursement of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies. As the grantee, you may reimburse local or State prosecuting offices and related public agencies for activities, other than salaries or ineligible activities in Section III(G) of this program section of the SuperNOFA, related to the prosecution or investigation of crime committed in the neighborhood identified in your application. These costs are subject to a cost reimbursement agreement. Reimbursement must be for costs over and above what the office or agency incurred for such purposes for crimes committed in the same neighborhood during the period equal in length and immediately before the period of reimbursement. For any grant, at least 70 percent of reimbursed costs must be in connection with crimes committed in and around the assisted housing developments and the remainder of reimbursed costs directly related to crime committed within the neighborhood. (b) Hiring of Private Investigator Services. You may use grant funds to hire private investigator services to investigate crime in and around an assisted housing development and the surrounding neighborhood. You must explain why local law enforcement services are inadequate and justify the need for hiring private investigator services. (3) Capital Improvements to Enhance Security. You may use grant funds for capital improvements to enhance security. You should, however, consider using other sources of funding for this purpose. These improvements must be accessible to persons with disabilities and must meet the accessibility requirements of 24 CFR part 8, Nondiscrimination Based on Handicap in Federally Assisted Programs and Activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. For example, locks or buzzer systems that are not accessible to people with restricted or impaired strength, mobility, or hearing may not be funded by your grant. Capital improvements to implement defensible space concepts in the design and implementation of your enhanced security measures are eligible provided such design elements permit accessibility and visibility by persons with disabilities. Capital improvements to enhance security or crime prevention through environmental design must comply with civil rights requirements and cannot exclude or segregate persons based upon their race, color, or national origin from benefits, services, and other terms and conditions of housing. Under Rating Factor 3, ``Quality of Plan'', HUD will reward capital improvements to enhance the security of an entire neighborhood as opposed to specific projects at the expense of other dwellings in the neighborhood. The capital improvements may include, but are not limited to: (a) New construction or rehabilitation of structures housing police substations or mini-stations; (b) Installation of barriers (including speed bumps and fences) and appropriate use of close circuit television (CCTV), provided that the barriers make reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities; (c) Improved door or window security such as locks, bolts, or bars; (d) Landscaping or other reconfiguration of common areas to discourage drug-related criminal activities; and (e) Establishment of a Neighborhood Networks center and augmenting existing centers. Up to $35,000 of the grant funds awarded by HUD may be used towards developing and establishing a new Neighborhood Network center. If there is an established Neighborhood Networks center you may include up to $25,000 for the center for further crime prevention activities, such as additional mentoring and/or tutorial education programs, improving job skill programs, and home buyer education. Other crime prevention activities may include, but are not limited to, resident participation in law enforcement community outreach activities such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) days and the local office of the FBI's Race Against Drugs activities, etc. The aforementioned monetary limitations only apply to funds from the New Approach Anti-Drug Program. Additional funds may be obtained from other sources. No grant funds will be approved for expenditure until the local HUD Field Office approves the Neighborhood Network business plan for the Neighborhood Networks center. A sample of the Neighborhood Network business plan may be found on the Neighborhood Networks web page at www.neighborhoodnetworks.org. (E) Ineligible Activities. In addition to the ineligible activities mentioned elsewhere in this program section of the SuperNOFA, New Approach Anti-Drug Program Grant funding is not permitted for any of the activities listed below, unless otherwise specified in this program section of the SuperNOFA: (1) Drug abuse treatment or intervention activities; (2) Costs incurred before the effective date of the grant agreement, including but not limited to consultant fees related to the development of your application or the actual writing of your application; (3) Funding of any form of controlled substances for any purpose. Controlled substance has the meaning provided in section 102 of the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 802); (4) Purchase of motorized vehicles for any purpose; (5) Funding of any form of weaponry for any purpose; (6) Funding of any form of tenant patrols; (7) Compensating informants, including confidential informants. These should be part of the baseline services provided and budgeted by local law enforcement agencies; (8) Although participation in activities with Federal drug interdiction or drug enforcement agencies is encouraged, these grant funds may not be transferred to any Federal agency. IV. Program Requirements In addition to the program requirements listed in the General Section of this SuperNOFA, grantees must meet the following program requirements. These requirements apply to all activities, programs, or functions used to plan, budget, implement, and evaluate the work funded under this program. (A) Grant Agreement. After applications have been ranked and selected, HUD and a successful applicant will enter into a grant agreement setting forth the amount of the grant, the physical improvements or other eligible activities to be undertaken, financial controls, and special conditions, including sanctions for violation of the agreement. The Grant Agreement will incorporate your HUD approved application as may be amended by any special condition in the Grant Agreement. HUD will monitor your grant using your Grant Agreement [[Page 11992]] to ensure that you have achieved commitments set out in your approved grant agreement. Failure to honor such commitments would be the basis for HUD determining your default of the Grant Agreement, and exercising available sanctions, including grant suspension, termination, and/or the recapture of your grant funds. (B) Requirements Governing Grant Administration, Audits and Cost Principles. The policies, guidelines, and requirements of this program section of the SuperNOFA, 48 CFR part 31, 24 CFR parts 44, 45, 84, 85, and/or 761.40, OMB Circulars A-87 and/or A-122, other applicable administrative, audit, and cost principles and requirements, and the terms of grant/special conditions and subgrant agreements apply to your acceptance and use of funds. The requirements cited above, as applicable, must be followed in determining procedures and practices related to the separate accounting of grant funds from other grant sources, personnel compensation, travel, procurement, the timing of drawdowns, the reasonableness and allocation of costs, audits, reporting and closet, budgeting, and preventing conflict of interests or duplicative charging of identical costs to two different funding sources. Federal labor standard provisions are applicable when grant funds are used to undertake physical improvements to increase security. All costs must be reasonable and necessary. (C) Term of Grant. Your grant funds must be expended within 24 months after HUD executes a Grant Agreement with you. There will be no extensions or waivers of this grant term. Any remaining grant funds will be recaptured. (D) Subgrants and Subcontracting. (1) In accordance with your approved grant agreement, you may directly undertake any of the eligible activities under this program section of the SuperNOFA, you may contract with a qualified third party, or you may make a subgrant to any entity approved by HUD as a member of the partnership, provided such entity is a unit of government, a prosecutor's office, a police department or a TDHE; is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization; or is an incorporated for-profit entity that owns and/or manages an assisted housing project benefiting from the grant. Multifamily housing agents/owners are authorized to make a PHA or THDE their Fiduciary Agent, if the PHA and/or the THDE has the capacity to implement, oversee and close out the grant activities. Resident groups that are not incorporated may participate in the implementation of the program, but may not receive funds as subgrantees. For-profit organizations other than owners or managers of an assisted housing development benefiting from the grant that have been approved by HUD as part of the partnership may only receive grant funds subject to the applicable Federal procurement procedures (See 24 CFR parts 84 or 85). (2) Subgrants may be made only under a written agreement executed between you, the grantee, and your subgrantee. The agreement must include a program budget that is acceptable to you, and that is consistent with the eligible activities and requirements. The agreement must require the subgrantee to permit you to inspect your subgrantee's work and to follow applicable OMB and HUD administrative requirements, audit requirements, and cost principles, including those related to procurement, drawdown of funds for immediate use only, and accounting for the use of grant funds and implementation of program activities. In addition, your subgrant must describe the nature of the activities to be undertaken by the subgrantee, the scope of the subgrantee's authority, and the amount of any insurance to be carried by you and the subgrantee to protect your respective interests. (3) You are responsible for monitoring, and for providing technical assistance to, any subgrantee to ensure compliance with applicable HUD and OMB requirements. You must also ensure that subgrantees have appropriate insurance liability coverage. (E) Ineligible Contractors. The provisions of 24 CFR part 24 relating to the employment, engagement of services, awarding of contracts or funding of any contractors or subcontractors during any period of debarment, suspension, or placement in ineligibility status apply to this grant. (F) Section 3 Economic Opportunity. See Section II(E) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA. The requirements of section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 may apply to some of the activities that may be funded under this program section of the SuperNOFA. (G) Drawdown of Grant Funds. You will be required to access your grant funds through HUD's Line of Credit Control System--Voice Response System (LOCS/VRS) in accordance with procedures for minimizing the time lapsing between drawdowns and use of funds for eligible purposes as described in 24 CFR parts 84 and/or 85, as applicable. If HUD changes the procedures for the draw of grant funds, HUD will notify you through the issuance of a grant amendment. (H) Reports and Closeout. If you receive a grant, you will be required to submit to HUD a semi-annual progress report (Form 269). The narrative of the Form 269 must be sent in a format prescribed by HUD that indicates program expenditures and measures performance in achieving goals. At grant completion, you will be required to participate in a closeout process which shall include a final report in a format prescribed by HUD that reports final program expenditures and measures performance in achieving program goals. Closeout will culminate in a closeout agreement between you and HUD and, when appropriate, in the return of grant funds which have not been expended in accordance with applicable requirements, or which may be remaining after all activities have been completed and paid for. (I) Suspension or Termination of Funding. HUD may suspend or terminate funding if you fail to undertake the approved program activities on a timely basis in accordance with your grant agreement, adhere to grant agreement requirements or special conditions, or submit timely and accurate reports. (J) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. You must address Section II(D) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA. You must also reference the certifications listed in Section II (G) the General section of the SuperNOFA. V. Application Selection Process (A) Ranking and Selection Procedures. Your application can only be rated if you are an eligible applicant and you are in compliance with the requirements of the General Section of the SuperNOFA. (1) All applications will be evaluated competitvely and ranked against applications in the same Field Office. Only those applications that have a base score of at least 70 points (excluding the EZ/EC and Dallas bonus points) will be eligible for selection and will be placed in ranked order. (2) This year HUD will distribute funds to each Multifamily Housing Hub Office based on the fair share allocation formula. (See Section II- A for a thoroughly detailed discussion of the fair share allocation formula). Each Multifamily Hub Office may recommend a total number of awards up to the dollar amount allocated for the area covered by the Hub Office. Hub Offices will receive the scores from each HUD Field Office which has received, rated, and ranked its applications. The Hub Office will conduct the selection process as follows: Where a Multifamily Hub covers more than one [[Page 11993]] Field Office jurisdiction, the Hub Office will first select the highest ranked application in each Field Office for funding. After this selection, the Hub will use remaining funds to fully fund as many applications as possible in rank order, regardless of Field Office. Hub Offices representing only one Field Office shall use their distribution of funds to fully fund in rank order as many applications as possible. Hub Offices must not skip over any applications in order to select one based on the remaining funds. Any funds still remaining after Hub Office distribution by rank must be forwarded to Headquarters. Headquarters will use these funds for selecting applications based on field offices' ranking, beginning with the highest rated application nationwide. Only one application will be selected per Hub Office from the national residual amount. However, if there are no approvable applications in other Hub Office, the process will begin with the selection of the next highest rated application nationwide. This process will continue until all approvable applications are selected using the available remaining funds. (3) In the event of a tie, HUD will select the applicant with the highest score in Rating Factor 1. If Rating Factor 1 is scored identically, the scores in Rating Factors 2, 3 and 4 will be compared in that order, until one of the applications receives a higher score. If both applications still score the same then the application which requests the least funding will be selected to promote the more efficient use of resources. (4) HUD will evaluate all eligible applications based on the factors for award identified in this Section V. (B) Factors For Award Used To Evaluate and Rate Applications. The maximum number of points for this program is 102 (except for an application submitted by the City of Dallas, Texas which would be eligible for a maximum of 104 points in accordance with Rating Factor 3, paragraph (6), below. This includes two EZ/EC bonus points, as described in the General Section of the SuperNOFA. Rating Factor 1: Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Experience (20 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have proper organizational resources necessary to successfully implement the proposed New Approach Anti-Drug Program activities in an effective, efficient, and timely manner. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which the application demonstrates the capabilities described below: (1) (5 Points) The applicants' administrative capacity to implement the grant. HUD will award points based on the quality and amount of staff allocated to the grant activity by you; the anticipated effectiveness of your systems for budgeting, procurement, drawdown, allocation, and accounting for grant funds and matching resources in accordance with OMB administrative requirements; and the lines of accountability for implementing your grant activity, coordinating your partnerships, measuring the effect of the expenditure of grant funds and ensuring that you and your MOU partners' commitments will be met. You must include in your narrative a discussion of financial capacity, staff resources, and prior experience that will enable you to effectively administer the grant and meet reporting requirements. This narrative must not exceed five pages. For an owner of an assisted housing development that is HUD-insured, HUD will consider the most recent Management Review (including Rural Housing Management Review), HUD's Uniform Physical Condition Standards review (as codified in 24 CFR part 5 subpart G), State Agency review and such other relevant information available to HUD on the capacity of the owner and manager to undertake the grant. You must include a copy of the most recent management review (not a physical inspection report) for the development(s) to be served by your grant. These documents will not be counted against your 5 page narrative limitation. (2) (15 Points) The applicant's performance in administering Drug Elimination grants and/or other Federal, State, or local grants of similar size and complexity during the last 3 years. In assessing this factor, HUD will verify you and your partners' successful experience and performance based on information on file with HUD and will consider the following factors with the indicated total available points: (a) (5 Points) Your successful experience combined with your MOU partners' successful experience in utilizing similar strategies to alleviate crime. You must identify your participation in HUD grant programs within the last three years and discuss the degree of your success in implementing planned activities measuring progress towards achieving program goals and objectives; timely drawdown of funds; timely submission of required reports and ability to complete activities on time and within budget; what if any audit findings were noted; whether there was audit compliance; whether there are and the extent of any unresolved findings and/or outstanding recommendations from prior HUD reviews or audits undertaken by HUD, HUD-Office of Inspector General, the General Accounting Office (GAO) or independent public accountants (IPAs). To receive maximum points under this section, you must have worked in partnership with one or more of your MOU partners (or two or more of your MOU partners may have worked together in partnership) using similar strategies to reduce crime in and around assisted housing developments. To demonstrate success in implementing past projects, you must identify the reduction in the occurrence of the types of crime as indicated in Rating Factor 2 of this program section of the SuperNOFA. In the absence of previous partnerships, your capacity will weigh more heavily than the experience of any of your partners, in HUD's assignment of points under this subfactor. (b) (4 Points) Your performance in administering other Federal, State or local grant programs. You must identify your participation in HUD grant programs within the preceding three years, and discuss the degree of your success in implementing and managing these grant programs. This includes implementation, timely drawdown of funds, timely submission of required drawdown of funds, timely submission of required reports with satisfactory outcomes related to the plan and timetable, audit compliance and other HUD reviews. (3) (6 Points) The strength of the applicants' partnership as it relates to eliminating the crime problem identified in Rating Factor 2. HUD will award points in this area based on the strength of resource commitments identified in your MOUs in terms of the amount of staff, time, money, or other assets committed by each MOU party toward implementing your program. Your description should include the following: (a) Identification of the skills each party will bring to help successfully implement your program and the firmness of the commitments; (b) evidence of your MOU partners' (and project tenants') pre- application role in developing the plan and prospective role in program implementation; (c) Indications of the capacity of the assisted housing developments' ownership and management (based on available management reviews by governing public entities) to undertake their share of responsibilities in the [[Page 11994]] partnership (including evidence of whether management carefully screens applicants for units and takes appropriate steps to deal with tenants known to exhibit or suspected of exhibiting criminal behavior) and to cooperate with law enforcement actions on their project premises; (d) The willingness of the unit of general local government to use its prosecutor's office as its lead agency in implementing the grant; (e) Participation of additional partners other than those required to sign MOUs (for example, neighborhood business organizations); and (f) The effectiveness of the partnership structure. Rating Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem (25 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which there is a need for funding your proposed program activities to address the documented degree of the severity of the drug-related crime problem in the project area proposed for funding. Any collection of data should include summaries at the beginning of the data. In responding to this factor, HUD will evaluate the extent to which you have explained a critical level of need for your proposed activities and have indicated the urgency of meeting the need in the target area. You must include a description of the extent and nature of drug-related crime ``in and around'' the housing units or developments proposed for funding. To the extent that you can provide objective crime data specific to the community or targeted development proposed for funding, your application is eligible to be awarded up to the full 25 points. If you do not provide documented objective crime data specific to the community or targeted development proposed for funding, your application is only eligible to receive up to 15 points for this factor. You will be evaluated on the following: (1) (25 Points) ``Objective Crime Data'' relevant to the target area. Your application must include the most current and specific Part I Crime data and relevant Part II Crime data available from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) system or the local law enforcement's crime statistics. Part I Crimes include: homicide; rape; robbery; aggravated assault; burglary; larceny; auto theft; and arson. Part II drug-related crimes include: drug abuse violations; simple assault; vandalism; weapons violations; and other crimes which you are proposing to be targeted as part of your grant. In assessing this subfactor, HUD will consider the extent of specificity that the statistical data is provided (e.g., data specific to the neighborhood covered by your application). These data must consist of verifiable records and not anecdotal reports. Where appropriate, the statistics should be reported both in real numbers and as an annual percentage of the residents in each development (e.g., 20 arrests in a two-year period for distribution of heroin in a development with 100 residents reflects a 20% occurrence rate). These data may include: (a) Police records or other verifiable information from records on the types or sources of drug related crime in your targeted developments and surrounding area; (b) The number of lease termination's or evictions for drug-related crime at your targeted developments; and (c) The number of emergency room admissions for drug use or that result from drug-related crime. Such information may be obtained from police departments and/or fire departments, emergency medical service agencies and hospitals. The number of police calls for service from the targeted developments that include resident initiated calls, officer- initiated calls, domestic violence calls, drug distribution complaints, found drug paraphernalia, gang activity, graffiti that reflects drugs or gang-related activity, vandalism, drug arrests, and abandoned vehicles. For PHAs, such data should include housing authority police records on the types and sources of drug related crime ``in and around'' developments as reflected in crime statistics or other supporting data from Federal, State, Tribal or local law enforcement agencies. If you submit objective data you do not need to submit other crime data. You should include summaries with the objective data that establish the drug related crime problem. (2) (15 Points) Other Crime Data--Other supporting data on the extent of drug-related crime. To the extent that objective data as described above may not be available, you must use data from other verifiable sources that have a direct bearing on drug related crime in the developments proposed for assistance under this program. However, to qualify for points your application must indicate the reasons why you could not obtain objective data and what efforts you made to obtain it and what efforts you will make during the grant period to begin obtaining the data. Examples of the data should include (but are not necessarily limited to): (a) Surveys of residents and staff in your targeted developments surveyed on drug-related crime or on-site reviews to determine drug/ crime activity; and government or scholarly studies or other research in the past year that analyze drug-related crime activity in the targeted developments. (b) Vandalism cost at your targeted developments, including elevator vandalism (where appropriate) and other vandalism attributable to drug-related crime. (c) Information from schools, health service providers, residents and Federal, State, local, and Tribal officials, and the verifiable opinions and observations of individuals having direct knowledge of drug-related crime and the nature and frequency of these problems in developments proposed for assistance. (These individuals may include Federal, State, Tribal, and local government law enforcement officials, resident or community leaders, school officials, community medical officials, substance abuse, treatment (dependency/remission) or counseling professionals, or other social service providers.) (d) The school dropout rate and level of absenteeism for youth that you can relate to drug-related crime. If crime or other statistics are not available at the development or precinct level, you must use other verifiable, reliable and objective data; and (e) To the extent that your community's Consolidated Plan identifies the level of the problem and the urgency in meeting the need, references to the Consolidated Plan should be included in your response. HUD will review more favorably those applicants who used the Consolidated Plan to identify need, when applicable. Rating Factor 3: Soundness of Approach (Quality of the Plan) (35 Points) This factor addresses the quality and anticipated effectiveness of your proposed action plan using grant funds and other resources in taking a comprehensive community-based approach toward the problem of drugs and drug-related crime in the neighborhood identified in your application. Your application must include an action plan for crime reduction and elimination efforts, describing in detail: the specific activities to be undertaken; the parties responsible for or involved in the activities for each development proposed for assistance; and the dollar amount and extent of resources committed to each activity or service proposed. [[Page 11995]] In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the following: (1) (25 Points) The quality and comprehensiveness of your action plan to address the drug-related crime problem and the problems associated with drug-related crime in the developments proposed for funding. You must include a description of your plan's anticipated effectiveness in reducing or eliminating drug-related crime problems immediately and over an extended period, as evidenced by: (a) The extent to which your proposed activities provide services over the existing baseline of services currently provided to the project area; (b) The extent to which the activities of the two required MOU entities are comprehensive and, as result of collective actions, will effectively work together. If you provide for a comprehensive approach, you will receive a higher number of rating points. HUD will provide only one-half of the eligible points under this subfactor if your application only includes an MOU with either: (i) The local law enforcement entity; or (ii) The local prosecutor (district attorney) with jurisdiction over the neighborhood identified in your application. If you include no MOUs with either party, you will receive zero points. (c) The extent to which you have partnered with appropriate neighborhood and community stakeholders; (d) The extent to which the resources allocated and the budget proposed are adequate to conduct the work plan as proposed; and (e) Your rationale for the proposed activities and methods and why you believe the activities will be effective in reducing drug use and drug-related crime. If you are proposing new methods for which there is limited knowledge of the effectiveness, you should provide the basis for modifying past practices and rationale for why you believe the modification will yield more effective results. (2) (10 Points) The adequacy of the process you will use to collect, maintain, analyze and report Part I and II crimes as defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR System), as well as police workload data. The process must include the collection of police workload data such as, but not limited to, all calls for service at the housing authority by individual development, patterns over a period of time, type of crime, and plans to improve data collection and reporting. Your proposed analysis of the data collected should include a method for assessing the impact of grant activities on the collected crime statistics on an on-going basis during the award period. (3) Up to two (2) additional points will be awarded to any application submitted by the City of Dallas, Texas, to the extent this subfactor is addressed. Due to an order of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, with respect to any application submitted by the City of Dallas, Texas, HUD's consideration of this subfactor will consider the extent to which the applicant's plan for the use of New Approach Anti-Drug funds will be used to eradicate the vestiges of racial segregation in the Dallas Housing Authority's programs consistent with the Court's order. Rating Factor 4: Leveraging Resources (Support of Residents, the Local Government and the Community in Planning and Implementing the Proposed Activities and Interagency Activities) (10 Points) This factor addresses your ability to secure community and government resources, in-kind services from local governments, non- profit entities, including resident organizations, for-profit entities, or private organizations to be combined with HUD's program resources to achieve program purposes. To be considered as documented evidence of leveraging, you must submit a letter signed by the organization head authorized to commit the organization which details the amount of funds or type of services to be provided. The letter also must identify the dollar value of any services or goods in lieu of a cash contribution. Therefore, in responding to the factor you must translate the time or services provided into a dollar value. This dollar value will be added to any cash funding commitments identified as part of your leveraging of funds. For example, if you are receiving a donation of security alarm systems, you should indicate the number of security systems to be provided and give a dollar value for those alarm systems. The value will be added to any cash contributions you have noted from others. The letter may indicate that the commitment is predicated on the applicant receiving the grant from HUD. In assessing this factor, HUD will consider the following: (1) Evidence of the extent and amount of the commitment of funding, staff, or in-kind resources, partnership agreements, and on-going or planned cooperative efforts with law enforcement agencies, memoranda of understanding, or agreements to participate. Such commitments must be signed by an official of the organization legally able to make commitments for the organization. This evidence of commitment must include organization name, resources, and responsibilities of each participant. This also includes interagency activities already undertaken, participation in local, state, Tribal, or Federal anti-drug related crime efforts such as: education, training and employment provision components of Welfare Reform efforts, Operation Weed and Seed, Operation Safe Home, local law enforcement initiatives and/or successful coordination of its law enforcement, or other activities with local, state, Tribal, or Federal law enforcement agencies. (2) HUD may award more points for applications with a higher percentage of these resources as compared to New Approach Anti-Drug funds requested. Rating Factor 5: Comprehensiveness and Coordination (10 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have coordinated your activities with other known organizations, participants or have promoted participation in a community's Consolidated Planning process. You should demonstrate that you are working towards addressing a need in a holistic and comprehensive manner through linkages with other activities in the community. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which: (1) You have coordinated your proposed activities with those of other groups or organizations prior to submission in order to best complement, support, and coordinate all known activities and if funded, the specific steps you will take to share information on solutions and outcomes with others. Describe any written agreements and memoranda of understanding currently in place, or that will be in place after award. (2) You have taken or will take specific steps to become active in the community's Consolidated Planning process (including the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice) established to identify and address a need/problem that is related to the activities the applicant proposes. (3) You have shared and coordinated information on solutions and outcomes with other law-enforcement and governmental agencies, and have described any written agreements in place or that will be put in place. (4) You have taken or will take specific steps to develop linkages to coordinate comprehensive solutions through meetings, information networks, planning processes or other mechanisms with: [[Page 11996]] (a) Other HUD-funded project/activities outside the scope of those covered by the Consolidated Plan, and (b) Other Federal, State, or locally funded activities, including those proposed or on-going in the community. VI. Application Submission Requirements Each New Approach Anti-Drug application must provide the items listed in this Section VI of this program section of the SuperNOFA. Your application must contain the items listed in this Section VI(B). These items include the standard forms, certifications, and assurances listed in the General Section of the SuperNOFA that are applicable to this funding (collectively, referred to as the ``standard forms''). The standard forms can be found in Appendix B to the General Section of the SuperNOFA. The remaining application items that are forms (i.e., excluding such items as narratives, or letters), referred to as the ``non-standard forms'' can be found as Appendix B to this program section of the SuperNOFA. The items are as follows: (A) Application Cover Letter. (B) Congressional Summary--Summary of your proposed program activities in five (5) sentences or less. (C) A Neighborhood Description. The neighborhood description must include a basic description (e.g., boundaries and size), population, number of housing units in the neighborhood, a map, a population profile (e.g., relevant census data on the socio-economic, ethnic and family makeup of neighborhood residents), and the basis on which the area meets the definition of ``neighborhood'' as described in this program section of the SuperNOFA (i.e., describe and include a copy of the comprehensive plan, ordinance or other official local document which defines the area as a neighborhood, village, or similar geographical designation). If the entire jurisdiction is defined as a neighborhood by virtue of having a population at less than 25,000, indicate the jurisdiction's population under the 1990 census and describe/include more recent information which gives the best indication as to the current population. (D) The description of the assisted housing development(s) in the neighborhood. This must include the name of the project; the name of the project owner; the nature, sources, and program titles of all project-based subsidies or other assistance provided to the development by units of government or private nonprofit entities. Any names of public or nonprofit assisted housing programs other than programs sponsored by HUD should be accompanied by a description of the program and the name and business phone number of a contact person responsible for administering the program. For the subsidy provider, you must include the number of housing units in the development, and the number of housing units in the development that meet the definition of ``assisted housing units'' in this funding announcement, and a description of the restrictions on rents and resident incomes that, in combination with the subsidy provided to the development, qualify the units as assisted/affordable in accordance with the definition in this program section of the SuperNOFA; and the number, geographic proximity (adjoining, adjacent, or scattered site, and if scattered site, the distance between the two buildings which are furthest apart), and type (single family detached, townhouse, garden, elevator) of buildings in the development. (E) Application for Federal Assistance, Standard Form (SF) 424, signed by the chief executive officer of your organization. (F) An action plan which describes the activities and roles to be undertaken by you and each subgrantee or subrecipient of program funds. This action plan may be attached to and referenced in your MOU. (G) Narrative responses to the factors for award including any required documentation identified under each factor. (H) A line item budget which identifies salaries, fringe benefits, consultants or subgrantees, equipment, supplies, travel, and general and administrative expenses; as well as an estimated dollar amount for each activity to be undertaken as part of your action plan. (I) Overall budget and timetable that includes separate budgets, goals, milestones, and timetables for each activity and addresses milestones towards achieving the goals described above; and indicates the contributions and implementation responsibilities of each partner for each activity, goal, and milestone. (J) The number of staff years, the titles and professional qualifications, and respective roles of staff assigned full or part- time to grant implementation by the applicant/grantee. (K) Your plan and lines of accountability (including an organization chart) for implementing your grant activity, coordinating the partnership, and assuring that your and your subgrantees' commitments will be met. There must be a discussion of the various agencies of the unit of government that will participate in grant implementation (which must include the prosecutor's office and the police department. VII. Corrections to Deficient Applications The General Section of this SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. VIII. Environmental Requirements Prior to the award of grant funds under the program, HUD will perform an environmental review to the extent required under the provisions of 24 CFR part 50. Should the environmental review indicate adverse environmental impacts, your application may be downgraded or rejected. The General Section of this SuperNOFA provides additional guidance on Environmental Reviews. IX. Authority This program is authorized under the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Pub.L. 106-377, approved October 18, 2000), under the heading ``Drug Elimination Grants for Low-Income Housing.'' Appendix A--HUD Field Office List for Multifamily Housing Please see Appendix A to the Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Program section of this SuperNOFA for a list of the HUD Field Offices for Multifamily Housing. Appendix B The non-standard forms, which follow, are required for your New Approach Anti-Drug application. BILLING CODE 4210-32-P