FUNDING AVAILABILITY FOR THE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM Program Overview Purpose of the Program. To assist HBCUs expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development, principally for persons of low and moderate income, consistent with the purposes of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Available Funds. Approximately $10 million. Eligible Applicants. Only HBCUs as determined by the Department of Education in 34 CFR 608.2 in accordance with that Department's responsibilities under Executive Order 12876, dated November 1, 1993, are eligible for funding under the HBCU Program. Application Deadline. June 1, 2001. Match: None Additional Information If you are interested in applying for funding under the HBCU 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 is due on or before 12:00 midnight, Eastern time, on June 1, 2001, at HUD Headquarters with a copy to the appropriate HUD CPD Field Office. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures covering the form of application submission (e.g., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried). Address for Submitting Applications. Your completed application consists of one original and two copies of your application. Submit your original signed application and one of the two copies to the following address: Processing and Control Branch, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 7251, Washington, DC, 20410. When submitting your application, please refer to the HBCU Program, and include your name, mailing address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code). Copies of Applications to HUD Offices. To facilitate processing and review of your application, submit one copy (the second copy) to the Community Planning and Development (CPD) Director in the appropriate HUD Field Office for the HBCU by 6:00 pm, local time, on June 1, 2001.The list of HUD Field Offices with CPD Directors is included in Appendix A. HUD will accept only one application per HBCU. If HUD receives more than one application from a single HBCU, HUD will ask the HBCU to identify which application it wants evaluated. If the HBCU does not respond within the stipulated period (see Section V of the General Section of this SuperNOFA), all of the applications received from the HBCU will be disqualified. You should take this policy into account to ensure that multiple applications are not submitted. For Application Kits. For an application kit and any supplemental materials, you should call the SuperNOFA Information Center at 1-800- HUD-8929. If you have a hearing or speech impairment please call the Center's TTY number at 1-800-HUD-2209. When requesting an application kit, you should refer to the HBCU Program and provide your name, address (including zip code), and telephone number (including area code). You may also download the application on the Internet through the HUD web site at http://www.hud.gov. For Further Information and Technical Assistance. You may contact Delores Pruden or Ophelia Wilson, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh St, SW, Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202) 401-6367. (This is not a toll-free number.) If you have a hearing or speech impairment, you may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay Service toll-free at 1- 800-877-8339. You may also obtain information from the HUD Field Office located in your geographic area. Appendix A contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the HUD Field Offices. For general information and information regarding training on this HBCU Program section of the SuperNOFA, you can call the SuperNOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929. 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 Approximately $10 million is being made available for funding under this program section of the SuperNOFA. Additional funds may be available if funds are recaptured, deobligated, appropriated or otherwise made available during the fiscal year. (A) Allocation of Funding. In order to ensure that some previously unfunded HBCUs will receive awards in this competition, approximately $1.5 million of the available funds will be awarded to HBCUs that have not previously been funded under the HUD HBCU program. The FY 1991 competition was the first funded under the current HBCU Program authorization, section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Previously unfunded HBCUs are listed in Appendix B of this HBCU Program section of the SuperNOFA. The remaining approximately $8.5 million of FY 2001 funds will be awarded to HBCUs that have received funding under such competitions. Previously funded HBCUs are listed in Appendix C of this HBCU Program section of the SuperNOFA. If recaptured funds are made available, those funds will also be divided proportionately between the two types of applicant funding pools. HUD reserves the right to make awards for less than the maximum amount or less than the amount requested in a particular application. Awards will be made in the form of grants. The maximum amount awarded to previously unfunded applicants will be up to $300,000 and the maximum amount awarded to previously funded applicants will be up to $500,000. (B) Term of Grant. The maximum period for performance of your proposed program under this SuperNOFA for the HBCU Program is 24 months. The performance period will commence on the effective date of your grant agreement. III. Program Description; Eligible Applicants; Eligible Activities (A) Program Description. Approximately $10,000,000 is available in funding for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Program. The HBCU Program assists HBCUs expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development, consistent with the purposes of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. (1) For the purposes of this program, the term ``locality'' includes any city, [[Page 11750]] county, town, township, parish, village, or other general political subdivision of a State or the U.S. Virgin Islands within which an HBCU is located. (2) If your HBCU is located in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), as established by the Office of Management and Budget, you may consider your locality to be one or more of these entities within the entire MSA. The nature of the locality for each HBCU may differ, therefore, depending on its location. (3) A ``target area'' is the locality or the area within the locality in which your HBCU will implement its proposed HUD grant activities. (B) Eligible Applicants. Only HBCUs as determined by the Department of Education in 34 CFR 608.2 in accordance with that Department's responsibilities under Executive Order 12876, dated November 1, 1993, are eligible for funding under the HBCU Program. As indicated in Section II(A)(1) and (2), funds available under this program will be split between two classes of HBCU applicant, which will be rated, ranked, and selected separately. (C) Eligible Activities. (1) General. Each activity you propose for funding must meet both a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program national objective AND the CDBG eligibility requirements. Eligible activities that may be funded under the HBCU Program are those activities eligible for CDBG funding. The eligible activities are listed in 24 CFR part 570, subpart C, particularly Secs. 570.201 through 570.206. Additionally, not less than 51% of the aggregated expenditures of a grant must benefit low and moderate income persons under the criteria specified in 24 CFR 570.208(a) or 570.208(d)(5) or (6). (2) National Objectives. Each activity that may be funded under this SuperNOFA for the HBCU Program must meet one of the three national objectives of the Community Development Block Grant program which are: (a) Benefit to low- or moderate-income persons; (b) Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight; or (c) Meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health and welfare of the community, and other financial resources are not available to meet such needs. Criteria for determining whether an activity addresses one or more of these objectives are provided at 24 CFR 570.208. (3) Examples of Eligible Activities. Examples of activities that generally can be carried out with these funds include, but are not limited to: (a) Acquisition of real property; (b) Clearance and demolition; (c) Rehabilitation of residential structures including lead-based paint hazard evaluation and reduction; and making accessibility and visitability modifications in accordance with the requirements of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (d) Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or installation of public facilities and improvements, such as water and sewer facilities and streets; If you are proposing to undertake any of the activities listed in (a) through (d), you will be required to provide at least two reasonable appraisals/estimates, from a qualified entity other than the HBCU, of the cost to complete the activities. This information is to be submitted with your application. Such an entity must be involved in the business of housing rehabilitation, construction, and/or management; (e) Relocation payments and other assistance for permanently and temporarily relocated individuals, families, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and farm operations where the assistance is: (i) Required under the provisions of 24 CFR 570.606(b) or (c); or (ii) Determined by the grantee to be appropriate under the provisions of 24 CFR 570.606(d); (f) Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income persons, as provided in section 105(a)(25) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; (g) Special economic development activities described at 24 CFR 570.203; (h) Assistance to facilitate economic development by providing technical or financial assistance for the establishment, stabilization, and expansion of microenterprises, including minority enterprises; (i) Establishment of a new or stabilization of an existing Community Development Corporation (CDC) to undertake or continue HBCU eligible activities. If you are proposing a Community Development Corporation (CDC) component, it may qualify for Community Based Development Organization (CBDO) activities; (j) Assistance to a (CBDO) to carry out a CDBG neighborhood revitalization, community economic development, or energy conservation project, in accordance with 24 CFR 570.204. This could include activities in support of a HUD approved local entitlement grantee CDBG Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy (NRS) or HUD approved State CDBG Community Revitalization Strategy (CRS); and (k) Eligible public service activities, including activities that provide a continuum of care for the homeless; adult basic education classes; GED preparation and testing; HBCU curriculum development of courses which will lead to a certificate or degree in community planning and development; job and career counseling and assessment; citizen participation academies, and public access telecommunications centers; social and medical services; and/or other support activities for low- and moderate-income residents, senior citizens and youth, including the U.S. Department of Education's Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). (For more information regarding GEAR UP, call 202-502-7676 or visit the Department of Education's website at www.ed.gov); (l) Fair housing services designed to further the fair housing objectives of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601-20) by making all persons, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, family status and/or disability aware of the range of housing opportunities available to them; and (m) Payment of reasonable grant administrative costs and carrying charges related to the planning and execution of community development activities assisted in whole or in part with grant funds. HBCU program administrative costs may include capacity building to enhance your HUD HBCU previously funded activities, and/or the creation of new activities under this HUD HBCU grant. Administrative activities in connection with strengthening previous and new activities include hiring staff, supporting and training existing staff, providing software and other tools to provide administrative capability. (4) Activities Designed to Promote Training and Employment Opportunities. In selecting proposed eligible activities, we urge you to consider undertaking activities designed to promote opportunities for training and employment of low-income residents in connection with HUD initiatives such as ``Twenty/20 Education Communities (TEC) formerly known as the Campus of Learners'' (COL) in public housing and ``Neighborhood Networks'' (NN) in other Federally-assisted or insured housing. We also encourage you, whenever feasible, to propose [[Page 11751]] implementing activities in a Federally-designated Urban or Rural (HUD or Department of Agriculture) Empowerment Zone, Urban or Rural Enterprise Community (EZ or EC), or a HUD-approved local CDBG Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area or HUD-approved State CDBG Community Revitalization Strategy Area. (5) Use of Grant Funds for the Provision of Public Services. If you plan to use grant funds to provide public services, you are bound by the CDBG statutory requirement that not more than 15% of the total grant amount be used for public service activities that benefit low and moderate income persons. Therefore, you must propose to use at least 85% of the grant amount for activities qualifying under an eligibility category other than public services (as described at 24 CFR 570.201(e)). For example, while HUD encourages HBCUs to use a portion of their grant funds for curriculum development of courses that would lead to a certificate or degree in community planning and development, this activity is considered a public service and subject to the public service cap of 15%. If you propose an activity which otherwise is eligible it may not be funded if State or local law requires that it be carried out by a governmental entity. The CDBG Publication entitled ``Everything You Wanted to Know About CDBG'' discusses the regulations, and a copy can be ordered from HUD's SuperNOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929 or 1-800-HUD-2209 for the hearing impaired. (D) Ineligible CDBG Activities are listed at Sec. 570.207. IV. Program Requirements In addition to the program requirements listed in the General Section of this SuperNOFA, you are subject to the following requirements: (A) Leveraging. Although a match is not required to qualify for funding, applicants that provide letters evidencing a firm commitment from other Federal (e.g., Americorps Programs), State, local, and/or private sources to provide funding, and/or in-kind goods or services to implement the proposed activities will receive points under Rating Factor 4. These letters must be dated no earlier than the date of this published SuperNOFA. If you do not have evidence of leveraging, you will receive zero (0) points for Rating Factor 4. Potential Sources of Assistance Federal, State and local governments Housing Authorities Local or national nonprofit organizations Banks and private businesses Foundations Faith Based Communities The HBCU For each match, cash or in-kind contribution to your program, you must submit a letter from the provider on the provider's letterhead. A firm commitment letter should address the following: The cash amount contributed or dollar value of the in-kind goods and/or services committed; How the match is to be used; The date the match will be made available and a statement that it will be for the duration of the grant period; Any terms and conditions affecting the commitment, other than receipt of a HUD HBCU Grant; and The signature of the appropriate executive officer authorized to commit the funds and/or goods and/or services. (B) Employment of Local Area Residents (Section 3). Please see Section II(E) of the General Section of this SuperNOFA. The requirements are applicable to certain activities that may be funded under this program section of the SuperNOFA. (C) Labor Standards. If you are awarded a grant, you must comply with the labor standards (Davis-Bacon) as found at 24 CFR 570.603. (D) OMB Circulars. Your grant will be governed by: (1) OMB Circular A-21 entitled ``Cost Principles for Educational Institutions''; (2) OMB Circular A-133 entitled ``Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non- Profit Organizations''; and (3) the provisions of 24 CFR part 84 entitled ``Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Nonprofit Organizations. You can access the OMB Circulars at the White House website at http://whitehouse.gov/wh/eop/ omb/html/circulars. (E) Nondiscrimination. In addition to the fair housing and other civil rights assurances described under Section II (B) of the SuperNOFA General Section, applicants for the HBCU Program must comply with Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. Implementing regulations for Section 109 are found under 24 CFR part 570, including, but not limited to, reporting and record- keeping requirements under 24 CFR 570.506 and 570.507. V. Application Selection Process (A) Rating and Ranking. (1) Threshold Review. HUD will conduct a review to insure that applications are complete and consistent with the threshold requirements of Section II(B), Compliance with Fair Housing and Civil Rights Laws, of the General Section of the SuperNOFA, this HBCU Program section of the SuperNOFA and the HBCU Program regulations (24 CFR 570.404) before reviewing the application for rating and ranking. The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. (2) Funding of Applications. To be considered for funding, your application must receive a minimum score of 70 out of the possible total of 100 points possible for Factors 1 through 5. In addition, two bonus points may be awarded for EZ/EC, as described in the General Section of the SuperNOFA. Within each category of eligible applicants, HUD will fund applications in rank order, until it has awarded all available funds for that category of applicant, or until there are no fundable applications remaining in that category. If there is a tie in the point scores of two applications, the rank order will be determined by the score on Rating Factor 3, 4, 2, 1, 5 in that order. HUD will give the higher rank to the application with the most points for a factor in the above order. If funds remain after approving all fundable applications within a category of applicants, HUD may choose to add those funds to the funds available for the other category of applicants. (3) After Selection. After selection, but prior to award, you will be required to: (a) Negotiate. After HUD has rated and ranked all applications and HUD has selected the competition winners, HUD requires that all winners participate in negotiations to determine the specific terms of the Statement of Work and the final grant budget. HUD will follow the negotiation procedures described in Section III(D) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA. (b) Provide Financial Management and Audit Information. If you are selected for funding, you will be required to submit a copy of your most recent audit from an Independent Public Accountant, or the cognizant government auditor, stating that your financial management system meets prescribed standards for fund control and accountability required by OMB Circular A-133, as codified at 24 CFR part 84 and provides your approved fringe benefit and overhead rates. (B) Factors For Award Used To Evaluate and Rate Applications. HUD will use the Factors For Award set forth below to evaluate applications. Your application must contain sufficient information for HUD to review it for its merits. The score for each factor will be based on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of your response to that factor. You are not to exceed a total of twenty-five (25) pages to respond to Rating Factor 1 through 5. This limitation applies to your narrative response, tables, and maps, and NOT to firm commitment letters, the performance narrative and progress reports for previously funded HBCUs. The maximum number of points that may be awarded is 102. 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 (25 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have the organizational resources necessary to successfully implement your proposed activities in a timely manner. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which: (1) Knowledge and Experience. (5 Points for previously funded applicants and 25 Points for previously unfunded applicants). Your application demonstrates the knowledge and experience of the overall project director and staff, including the day-to-day program manager, consultants (including technical assistance providers) and contractors in planning and managing the kinds of programs for which funding is being requested. Experience will be judged in terms of recent, relevant and successful experience of your staff to undertake eligible program activities. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which your organization and staff have recent, relevant, and successful experience in: (a) Undertaking specific successful community development projects with community-based organizations or local governments; and (b) Providing proven leadership in solving community problems which have a direct bearing on the proposed activity. (2) Past Performance (20 Points for previously funded applicants) For previously funded HBCUs, the extent to which you have been successful with past HUD/HBCU projects. For each open HUD HBCU grant, you must submit copies of the last two progress reports and a performance narrative as outlined in Appendix D. In applying the rating for this subfactor, HUD will consider your performance, including meeting established target dates and schedules, and amount of funds drawdown. Rating Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem (5 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which there is a need for funding your proposed program activities and an indication of the importance of meeting the need in the target area. In responding to this factor, you will be evaluated on the extent to which you document the level of need for the proposed activities and the importance of meeting the need. You should use statistics and analyses contained in one or more data sources that are sound and reliable. To the extent that your community's (State or local government's) Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) identify the level of the problem and the urgency in meeting the need, you should include references to these documents in your response to this factor. If your proposed activities are not covered under the scope of the Consolidated Plan and AI, you should indicate such, and use other sound data sources to identify the level of need and the urgency in meeting the need. Types of other sources include, but are not limited to, Census reports, HUD's Continuum of Care gaps analysis and its E-MAPS (www.hud.gov/ emaps), law enforcement agency crime reports, Public Housing Authorities' Comprehensive Plan, community needs analysis such as provided by the United Way, local Urban League, the HBCU and other sound and reliable sources appropriate for the HBCU program. You also may address needs in terms of fulfilling court orders or consent decrees, settlements, conciliation agreements, and voluntary compliance agreements. To the extent possible, the data you use should be specific to the area where your proposed activities will be carried out. You should document needs as they apply to the area where the activities will be targeted, rather than the entire locality or State, unless the target area is the entire locality or State. Rating Factor 3: Soundness of Approach (45 Points) This factor addresses the quality and cost-effectiveness of your proposed work plan, the commitment of your institution to sustain the proposed activities, and your actions regarding Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. (1) Quality of the Work Plan (35 Points) (a) Work Plan Impact (15 Points) Describe how your proposed activities will: (i) Expand the role of the HBCU in its community; (ii) Alleviate and/or fulfill the needs identified in Factor 2; (iii) Relate to and not duplicate other activities in the target area. Duplicative efforts will be acceptable, if you are able to demonstrate that there is a population in need that is not being served; (iv) Involve and empower the citizens of the target area; and (v) Be disseminated to a wide variety of audiences, both academic and community-based, using a wide variety of media, including print and Internet technology. (b) Specific Services and/or Activities. (15 Points) Your work plan must incorporate all proposed activities. HUD will consider the feasibility of success of your program, the measurable objectives, and how timely your products will be delivered. Describe each proposed activity, and the tasks required to implement and complete the activity. If your proposed work activity triggers federal relocation laws, you should discuss your plan for temporary or permanent relocation of occupants of units affected, including storage or moving of household goods, stipends and/or incentives with your local Community Planning and Development (CPD) Office. Also, for each activity, describe: (i) How it meets a CDBG national objective; (ii) The sequence, duration, and the products to be delivered in 6 month intervals, up to 24 months. You should indicate which staff member, described in your response to Factor 1, will be responsible and accountable for the deliverables; and (iii) Measurable objectives to be accomplished, e.g. the number of: persons to be trained and employed; houses to be built (pursuant to 24 CFR 570.207) or rehabilitated; minority owned businesses to be started, etc. (c) HUD Priorities. (5 points) The extent to which your proposed application will further and support the policy priorities of HUD including: (i) Promoting healthy homes; (ii) Providing opportunities for self-sufficiency, particularly for persons enrolled in welfare-to-work programs; (iii) Enhancing on-going efforts to eliminate drugs and crime from neighborhoods through program policy efforts such as ``One Strike and You Are Out'' or the ``Officer or Teacher Next Door'' Initiatives; (iv) Providing educational, job training, and homeownership opportunities through such initiatives as Neighborhood Networks and Twenty/20 Education Communities (TEC) (formerly known as the Campus of Learners (COL)), and linking programs to Americorps activities; and (v) The Partnership for Advancing Technology in the Housing (PATH) Initiative. The Healthy Homes initiative implements a series of activities to protect children from home hazards such as lead-based paint, radon, fires and accidents around the home. The Neighborhood Networks (NN) Initiative enhances the self- sufficiency, employability, and economic self-reliance of low-income families and the elderly living in HUD-insured and HUD-assisted properties by providing such residents with on-site access to computer and training resources. The Twenty/20 Education Communities (TEC) (formerly known as the Campus of Learners (COL)) Initiative is designed to transform public housing into safe and livable communities where families undertake training in new telecommunications and computer technology and partake in educational opportunities and job training initiatives. The Partnership for Advancing Technology in the Housing (PATH) Initiative is a voluntary public/private partnership that seeks to speed the creation and widespread use of advanced technologies in order to radically improve the quality, durability, energy efficiency, and environmental performance and affordability of housing. For more information, you can go to the PATH website at www.pathnet.org. (2) Institutionalization of Project Activities (5 Points) The extent to which your project will result in the kinds of activities that will be sustained by the HBCU by becoming part of the mission of the HBCU. HUD will look at the HBCU's monetary commitment to continuing to work in the target area or other similar areas and to its longer term commitment of hard dollars to similar work. (3) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (5 Points) The extent to which you propose to undertake activities designed to affirmatively further fair housing, for example: (a) Working with other entities in the community to overcome impediments to fair housing, such as discrimination in the sale or rental of housing or in advertising, provision of brokerage services, or lending; (b) Promoting fair housing through the expansion of homeownership opportunities and improved quality of services for minorities, families with children, and persons with disabilities; or (c) Providing mobility counseling. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which your budget is consistent with the Work Plan and the dollars indicated on the Standard Form (SF) 424. Your budget submission must include: (i) A budget summary covering the Federal and non-Federal share of the costs proposed by cost category (Appendix D). You should pay particular attention to accurately estimating costs, determining the necessity for and reasonableness of costs; and correctly computing all budget items and totals. Indirect costs must be substantiated and approved by the cognizant Federal agency or you must provide an indirect cost rate plan. The indirect cost rate should be indicated in your budget; (ii) A budget justification, which should be a narrative statement indicating how you arrived at your costs. When possible, you should use quotes from vendors or historical data. You must support all direct labor and salaries with mandated city/state pay scales or other documentation; and (iii) A budget-by-activity (Appendix D) which includes a listing of tasks to be completed for each activity needed to implement the program, the overall costs for each activity, and the cost for each funding source. You must submit at least two reasonable appraisals/estimates supplied by qualified entities, other than the HBCU, if you are proposing to do any of the following: acquisition of real property; clearance and demolition; rehabilitation of residential, commercial and/or industrial structures; and/or acquisition, construction, or installation of public facilities and improvements. You may obtain guidance for securing these estimates from the local HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development. Rating Factor 4: Leveraging Resources (20 Points) This factor addresses your ability to secure resources which can be combined with HUD program funds to implement the proposed activities. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you have secured firm commitments for additional resources to increase the effectiveness of your proposed activities. Resources may include funding or in-kind contributions, such as services or equipment, allocated solely for the purpose(s) of the award you are seeking. A higher number of points will be awarded for a cash match than in-kind goods or services of the same value. The maximum number of rating points you can receive for leveraging is twenty (20). If you do not have evidence of a firm commitment you will receive zero points for this factor. Use the format in Appendix D, to respond to this factor. Rating Factor 5: Comprehensiveness and Coordination (5 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have coordinated your activities with other known organizations, participate or promote participation in your community's Consolidated Planning process, and are working towards addressing a need in a holistic and comprehensive manner through linkages with other activities in the community. For specific information about your locality's planning process, contact the local Community Development Agency or the local HUD Field Office. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you demonstrate you have: (1) Coordinated your proposed activities with those of other groups or organizations before 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. You should describe any written agreements, memoranda of understanding in place, or that will be in place after award. (2) 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 your proposed activities. (3) Taken or will take specific steps to develop linkages to coordinate comprehensive solutions through meetings, information networks, planning processes or other mechanisms with: (a) Other HUD-funded projects/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 (A) Forms, Certifications and Assurances. Your application must contain the items listed in this Section VI. 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 follow the General Section of the SuperNOFA. The remaining application items that are forms (i.e., excluding such items as narratives), referred to as the ``non-standard forms'' can be found in Appendix D to this program section of the SuperNOFA. Forms applicable to the HBCU application are as follows: (1) Standard Form SF-424, Application for Federal Assistance. (2) Standard Form SF-424B, Assurances for Non-Construction Programs. (3) Standard Form SF-4240, Assurances for Construction Programs. (4) Form HUD-HUD-50070, Certification for a Drug-Free Workplace. (5) Form HUD-50071, Certification of Payments to Influence Federal Transactions. If you did do any lobbying then you must also complete the Certification and Disclosure Form Regarding Lobbying (SF-LLL). (6) Form HUD-2880, Applicant/Recipient Disclosure Update Report. (7) Form HUD-2992, Certification Regarding Debarment and Suspension. This certification is required by 24 CFR 24.510. (The provisions of 24 CFR 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). (8) Form HUD-2991, Certification of Consistency with the Consolidated Plan; and (9) Form HUD-2990, Certification of Consistency with the EZ/EC Strategic Plan. EZ/EC bonus points will only be awarded when the HBCU is located within the geographic boundaries of a HUD or Department of Agriculture EZ/EC. If applicable, you will need to indicate on this form if the college or university is located within the geographic boundaries of the EZ/EC. (B) Transmittal Letter. A transmittal letter must accompany your application. Your cover letter must be signed by the Chief Executive Officer (usually the President or Provost) of your institution. If the Chief Executive Officer has delegated this responsibility to another official, that person may sign, but a copy of the delegation must also be included. (C) Letter Certifying Local Approval. This letter certifies that the jurisdiction in which your activities will take place approve the implementation of your activities. (D) Application Checklist (Appendix D). (E) Abstract/Executive Summary (one page limit) describing the goals and activities of your project. (F) Narrative Statement Responding To the Factors For Award (25 page limit, including tables and maps, but not including firm commitment letters, the performance narrative and progress reports). The narrative should be numbered in accordance with each factor and subfactor. Please note that all certification forms must be signed by the authorized certifying official. Also, HUD will not consider appendices to an application. You must submit your documentation, including firm commitment letters, the performance narrative and progress reports, with your responses to the pertinent factors in order to receive points for it. VII. Corrections to Deficient Applications The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. VIII. Environmental Requirements Selection for award does not constitute approval of any proposed sites. Following selection for award, HUD will perform an environmental review of activities proposed for assistance under this program part, in accordance with 24 CFR part 50. The results of the environmental review may require that your proposed activities be modified or that your proposed sites be rejected. You are particularly cautioned not to undertake or commit funds for acquisition or development of proposed properties prior to HUD approval of specific properties or areas. Your application constitutes an assurance that your institution will assist HUD to comply with part 50; will supply HUD with all available and relevant information to perform an environmental review for each proposed property; will carry out mitigating measures required by HUD or select an alternate property; and will not acquire, rehabilitate, convert, lease, repair or construct property and not commit or expend HUD or local funds for these program activities with respect to any eligible property, until HUD approval of the property is received. In supplying HUD with environmental information, you should use the same guidance as provided in the HUD Handbook entitled ``Field Environmental Review Processing for HUD Colonias Initiative Grants,'' issued January 27, 1998. IX. Authority This program is authorized under section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5307(b)(3)), which was added by section 105 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101-235, approved December 15, 1989). The HBCU Program is governed by regulations contained in 24 CFR 570.400 and 570.404, and in 24 CFR part 570, subparts A, C, J, K, and O. Appendices to the HBCU NOFA A Field Office Community Planning and Development Directors With Historically Black Colleges And Universities Located Within Their Jurisdiction B Historically Black Colleges and Universities Previously Unfunded By HUD During Fiscal Years 1991-2000 C Historically Black Colleges and Universities Previously Funded By HUD During Fiscal Years 1991-2000 D HBCU Application Forms Appendix A--Community Planning and Development (CPD) Directors with Historically Black Colleges and Universities Located Within Their Jurisdiction Harold Cole, Beacon Ridge Tower, 600 Beacon Parkway West, Suite 300, Birmingham, AL 35209-3144, 205-290-7630 ext. 1027 Anne Golnik, TCBY Tower, 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 900, Little Rock, AR 72201-3488, 501-324-6375 John Perry, Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 49 Marietta Street- Five Points Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303-2806, 404-331-5001 ext. 2449 Ben Cook, 601 West Broadway, PO Box 1044, Louisville, KY, 40201- 1044, 502-582-6163 ext. 214 Gregory Hamilton, Hale Boggs Federal Building, 501 Magazine Street, 9th Floor, New Orleans, LA 70130-3099, 504-589-7212 ext. 3047 Joseph O'Connor, City Crescent Building, 10 South Howard Street, 5th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201-2505, 410-962-2520 ext. 3071 Raymond Perry, Acting, Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building, 477 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226-2592, 313-226-7908 ext. 8055 Emily Eberhardt, Doctor A. H. McCoy Federal Building, 100 West Capitol Street, Room 910, Jackson, MS 39269-1096, 601-965-4700 ext. 3140 Ann Wiedl, Robert A. Young Federal Building, 1222 Spruce Street, Third Floor, St. Louis, MO 63103-2836, 314-539-6524 Charles T. Ferebee, Koger Building, 2306 West Meadowview Rd., Greensboro, NC 27407-3707, 336-547-4005 James Nichol, Southern Bell Tower, 301 West Bay Street, Suite 2200, Jacksonville, FL 32202-5121, 904-232-1777 ext. 2136 Carmen R. Cabrera, New San Juan Office Building, 159 Carlos E. Chardon Avenue, San Juan, PR 00918-0903, 787-766-5576 ext. 2005 Lana Vacha, 200 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43215-2499, 614-469- 5737 ext. 8240 David Long, 500 West Main Street, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-553-7569 Joyce Gaskins, The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3380, 215-656-0624 ext. 3201 [[Page 11755]] Louis E. Bradley, Strom Thurmond Federal Building, 1835 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201-2480, 803-765-5564 Virginia Peck, John J. Duncan Federal Building, 710 Locust Street SW, Third Floor, Knoxville, TN 37902-2526, 865-545-4391 ext. 121 Katie Worsham, 801 Cherry Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102, 817-978-5951 John T. Maldonado, Washington Square, 800 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, TX 78207-4563, 210-475-6820 ext. 2293 Carlos Renteria, The 3600 Centre, 3600 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230-4920, 804-278-4503 ext. 3229 Ronald J. Herbert, 820 First Street NE, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20002-4205, 202-275-0994 ext. 3163 Lynn Daniels, 339 Sixth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222- 2512, 412-644-2999 Jack Johnson, 909 SE First Avenue, Room 500, Miami, FL 33131-3028, 305-536-4431 ext. 2223 Appendix B--Historically Black Colleges and Universities Previously Unfunded By HUD During Fiscal Years 1991-2000 Alabama Concordia College Fredd State Technical College Selma University Trenholm State Technical College Arkansas Delaware Delaware State University Florida Florida Memorial College Georgia Morehouse School of Medicine Paine College Louisiana Southern University at Shreveport/Bossier City Maryland University Of Maryland Eastern Shore Michigan Lewis College of Business Mississippi Hinds Community College Mary Holmes College North Carolina Barber-Scotia College Ohio Wilberforce University Pennsylvania Cheyney University of Pennsylvania South Carolina Clinton Junior College Denmark Technical College Morris College Tennessee Knoxville College Lane College Texas Jarvis Christian College Southwestern Christian College Virginia West Virginia Bluefield State College U.S. Virgin Islands University of the Virgin Islands Appendix C--Historically Black Colleges and Universities Previously Funded By HUD During Fiscal Years 1991-2000 Alabama Alabama A&M University Alabama State University Bishop State Community College Gadsden State Community College J.F. Drake Technical College Lawson State Community College Miles College Oakwood College Stillman College Talladega College Tuskegee University Arkansas Arkansas Baptist College Philander Smith College Shorter College University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff District of Columbia Howard University University of the District of Columbia Florida Bethune-Cookman College Edward Waters College Florida A&M University Georgia Albany State University Clark Atlanta University Fort Valley State University Interdenominational Theological Center Morehouse College Morris Brown College Savannah State University Spelman College Kentucky Kentucky State University Louisiana Dillard Grambling State University Southern University A & M College System at Baton Rouge Southern University at New Orleans Xavier University of New Orleans Maryland Bowie State University Coppin State College Morgan State University Mississippi Alcorn State University Coahoma Community College Jackson State University Mississippi Valley State University Rust College Tougaloo College Missouri Harris-Stowe State College Lincoln University North Carolina Barber-Scotia College Bennett College Elizabeth City State University Fayetteville State University Johnson C. Smith University North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Central University St. Augustine's College Shaw University Winston-Salem State University Ohio Central State University Oklahoma Langston University Pennsylvania Lincoln University South Carolina Allen University Benedict College Claflin College South Carolina State University Voorhees College Tennessee Fisk University Lemoyne-Owen College Meharry Medical College Tennessee State University Texas Huston-Tillotson College Paul Quinn College Prairie View A&M University Saint Philip's College Texas Southern University Texas College Wiley College Virginia Hampton University Norfolk State University Saint Paul's College Virginia State University Virginia Union University West Virginia West Virginia State University Appendix D The non-standard forms, which follow, are required for your HBCU application. BILLING CODE 4210-32-P