FUNDING AVAILABILITY FOR THE HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS ASSISTING COMMUNITIES PROGRAM (HSIAC) Program Overview Purpose of the Program. To assist Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education (HSIs) expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, consistent with the purposes of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. Available Funds. Approximately $6.5 million. Eligible Applicants: Only nonprofit Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education that meet the definition of an HSI established in Title V of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Pub.L. 105-244; enacted October 7, 1998). Application Deadline. June 1, 2001. Match. None. Additional Information If you are interested in applying for funds under the Hispanic- serving Institutions Assisting Communities Program (HSIAC), 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. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures covering the form of the application submission (e.g., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried). Address for Submitting Applications. Your completed application consists of an original signed application and two copies of the application. Submit your completed application 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 HSIAC and include your name, mailing address (including zip code), and telephone number (including area code). HUD will accept only one application per HSI campus for this program. If your institution submits more than one application, per campus, HUD will ask you to identify which application you want evaluated. Only one application may be evaluated. If you do not respond within the stipulated cure period (see Section V of the General Section of this SuperNOFA), all of your applications will be disqualified. You should take this policy into account and take steps to ensure that multiple applications are not submitted. For Application Kits. For an application kit and any supplemental material, 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 HSIAC and provide your name and address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code). You may also access the application on the Internet through the HUD web site at www.hud.gov/grants. For Further Information and Technical Assistance. You may contact Jane Karadbil of HUD's Office of University Partnerships at 202-708- 1537, extension 5918. 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 write to Ms. Karadbil via email at Jane_R._Karadbil@hud.gov. 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/grants. II. Amount Allocated Approximately $6.5 million in FY 2001 funds is being made available under this SuperNOFA for HSIAC. The maximum grant period is 24 months. The performance period will commence on the effective date of the grant agreement. The maximum amount to be requested and awarded is $400,000. Since the Statement of Work and other facets of the technical review are assessed in the context of the proposed budget and grant request, and in the interest of fairness to all applicants, if you submit an application requesting more than $400,000 in HUD funds, the application will be ruled ineligible. HUD reserves the right to make awards for less than the maximum amount or less than the amount requested in your application. III. Program Description; Eligible Applicants; Eligible Activities (A) Program Description. The purpose of HSIAC is to assist HSIs expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development. (1) For the purposes of this program, the term ``locality'' includes any city, county, township, parish, village, or other general political subdivision of a State, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands within which your HSI is located. (2) A ``target area'' is the locality or the area within the locality in which your institution will implement its proposed HUD grant. (B) Eligible Applicants. Only if your institution is a nonprofit institution of higher education and meets the statutory definition of an HSI in Title V of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (P.L. 105-244) are you eligible to apply. In order for you to meet this definition, at least 25 percent of the full-time undergraduate students enrolled in your institution must be Hispanic and not less than 50 percent of these Hispanic students must be low-income individuals. You are not required to be on the list of eligible institutions prepared by the U.S. Department of Education. However, if you are not, you will be required to certify in the application that you meet the statutory definition. If you are one of several campuses of the same institution, you may apply separately from the other campuses as long as your campus has a separate administrative structure and budget from the other campuses. In addition, in order to fund as many different HSIs as possible, you can only apply if you did not receive an HSIAC grant in FY 2000. If you received an HSIAC grant in FY 1999, you may reapply as long as: (1) you propose an entirely new project for a different activity; (2) you propose a different project director; and (3) you have drawn down at least 75% of your previous grant by the application due date. (C) Eligible Activities. (1) General. Each activity you propose for funding must meet both a Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) national objective and the CDBG eligibility requirements. A discussion of the national objectives can be found at 24 CFR part 570.208. There are three national objectives: (a) Benefit to low- and moderate-income persons; (b) Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight; or [[Page 11772]] (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. (You must ensure that of your aggregate grant expenditures under paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) above, at least 51% are for activities benefiting low- and moderate-income persons.) You can find the regulations governing activities eligible under the CDBG program at 24 CFR part 570, subpart C, particularly Secs. 570.201 through 570.206. Ineligible activities are listed at Sec. 570.207. The CDBG publication entitled ``Everything You Wanted to Know About CDBG'' discusses the regulations. You can obtain a copy from the SuperNOFA Information Center. 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. In addition, you may not propose the construction or rehabilitation of your institution's facilities unless you can demonstrate that such activities would meet the purpose of this program to expand the role and effectiveness of an HSI in its locality. HUD will scrutinize proposed activities for eligibility. As examples of eligible and ineligible on-campus activities, rehabilitating a library for use by your students would not be an eligible activity, but rehabilitating it to convert it to a micro-business enterprise center for the community would be; or as another example, just undertaking your normal activities (e.g., offering English as a Second Language classes) would not be considered eligible activities because they would not expand your role and effectiveness in community development activities. You should call Jane Karadbil at 202-708-1537, extension 5918 if you have any questions about the eligibility of any activities you may propose. You may also look at the Office of University Partnerships website at www.oup.org for summaries of last year's winners. (2) Examples of Eligible Activities. Examples of activities that generally can be carried out with these funds, under one of the three national objectives, include, but are not limited to: (a) Acquisition of real property; (b) Clearance and demolition; (c) Rehabilitation of residential structures to increase housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income persons and rehabilitation of commercial or industrial buildings to correct code violations or for certain other purposes, e.g., making accessibility and visitability modifications to housing; (d) 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; (e) Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or installation of public facilities and improvements, such as water and sewer facilities and streets; (f) Relocation payments and other assistance for temporarily and permanently relocated individuals, families, businesses, and non-profit organizations where the assistance is: (1) Required under the provision of 24 CFR 570.606 (b) or (c); or (2) Determined by your institution to be appropriate under the provisions of 24 CFR 570.606(d). (g) Lead-based paint hazard reduction, pursuant to the CDBG regulations; (h) Special economic development activities described at 24 CFR 570.203, including activities designed to promote training and employment opportunities; (i) Assistance to facilitate economic development by providing technical assistance or financial assistance for the establishment, stabilization, and expansion of microenterprises, including minority enterprises. (j) Assistance to community-based development organizations (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 CDBG Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy (NRS) or HUD approved State CDBG Community Revitalization Strategy (CRS); (k) Establishment of a Community Development Corporation (CDC) at the institution to undertake eligible activities. If you are proposing a Community Development Corporation (CDC) component, it may qualify for CBDO activities; (l) Up to 15 percent of the grant for eligible public services activities including: (i) Work study programs that meet the program requirements of the Hispanic-serving Institutions Work Study program, which can be found at 24 CFR 570.416; (ii) Outreach and other program activities as described in the Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program section of the SuperNOFA; (iii) Educational activities including English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, adult basic education classes, GED preparation and testing, and curriculum development of courses that will lead to a certificate or degree in community planning and development; (iv) Job and career counseling, assessment, training, and other activities designed to promote employment opportunities, not related to special economic development activities; (v) Capacity building for community organizations; (vi) Social and medical services for youths, adults, senior citizens, and the homeless; (vii) 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, familial status and/or disability aware of the range of housing opportunities available to them; (viii) Day care services and costs for the children of students attending your institution; (ix) Continuum of care services for the homeless; (x) Public access telecommunications centers including Twenty/20 Education Communities (formerly known as Campus of Learners) and Neighborhood Networks; (xi) Activities to use HUD's Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) technology; (xii) Services to assist low-income students to attend college, as part of the U.S. Department of Education's Gaining Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP). (For more information, call 202-502-7676 or visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at www.ed.gov). (m) Up to 20% of your grant for program administration costs related to the planning and execution of community development activities assisted in whole or in part with grant funds. Pre-award planning costs may not be paid out of grant funds. (D) Other Requirements. (1) Leveraging. Although a match is not required to qualify for funding, if you claim leveraging from any source, including your own institution, you must provide letters or other documentation evidencing the extent and firmness of commitments of leveraging from other Federal (e.g., Americorps Programs), State, local, and/or private sources (including the applicant's own resources). These letters or documents must be dated no earlier than the date of this published SuperNOFA. Potential sources of leveraging assistance include: your own [[Page 11773]] institution (for both direct and indirect costs); Federal, State and local governments; Housing authorities Local or national nonprofit organizations Banks and private businesses; foundations; and Faith-based communities. (2) 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. (3) Labor Standards. If you are awarded a grant, you must comply with the labor standards (Davis-Bacon) as found at 24 CFR 570.603. (4) OMB Circulars. Your grant will be governed by the provisions of 24 CFR part 84 (Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and other Nonprofit Organizations), A-21 (Cost Principles for Education Institutions, and A-133 (Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations. The application kit contains a detailed explanation of what these costs are. You can access the OMB circulars at the White House website at http://whitehouse.gov/ wh/eop/omb/html/circulars. (5) Nondiscrimination. In addition to the fair housing and other civil rights assurances described under Section II (B) of the SuperNOFA General Section, you 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 570, including, but not limited to, reporting and record-keeping requirements under 24 CFR 570.506 and 570.507. IV. Application Selection Process HUD will conduct two types of review: a threshold review to determine applicant eligibility; and a technical review to rate the application based on the rating factors in this section. (A) Threshold Factors for Funding Consideration. Under this threshold review, your application can only be rated if it is both in compliance with the requirements of the General Section of the SuperNOFA and the following additional standards are met: (1) You must be an eligible HSI and meet the other eligibility requirements under Section III(B) of this program NOFA; (2) Your application requests a Federal grant of $400,000 or less over the two-year grant period; (3) There is only one application from your institution or a campus of your institution; (4) At least one of the activities in your application is eligible. (B) Factors for Award Used to Evaluate and Rate Applications. The factors for rating and ranking applicants, and maximum points for each factor, are provided below. The maximum number of points for this program 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 (15 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have the organizational resources necessary to successfully implement the proposed activities in a timely manner. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which your application demonstrates the knowledge and experience of the overall project director and staff, including the day-to-day program manager, consultants, and contractors in planning and managing the kinds of programs for which funding is being requested. If this experience is found within the HSI, you will receive higher points on this factor than if you have secured this experience from consultants, contractors, and other staff outside your institution. In addition, if you demonstrate that the previous experience is for the project team from the institution proposed for this project, you will receive higher points than if the experiences are for people not proposed to work on this project. Experience will be judged in terms of recent, relevant, and successful experience of your staff to undertake activities in: (a) Outreach activities in specific communities to solve or ameliorate significant housing and community development issues; (b) Undertaking specific successful community development projects with community-based organizations; and (c) Providing proven leadership in solving community problems which have a direct bearing on the proposed activity. Rating Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem (15 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which there is a need for funding the 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 targeted community's Five (5) Year 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 Census reports, HUD Continuum of Care gaps analysis, law enforcement agency crime reports, Public Housing Authorities' Comprehensive Plans, community needs analyses such as provided by the United Way, your institution, etc., and other sound and reliable sources appropriate for HSIAC. You may also 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 the 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 (50 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) This factor includes your statement of work and budget. (a) Specific Services and/or Activities (12 Points). Specifically, HUD will consider the extent to which your proposed activities will: (i) Expand the role of your institution 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; (iv) Involve and empower the citizens of the target area in all stages of the proposed project (particularly through an committee, representative of the target community, to guide the project); and [[Page 11774]] (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) Work Plan Impact (13 Points). HUD will consider the feasibility of success of your program, the measurable objectives, and how timely your products will be delivered. Specifically, HUD will examine the extent to which: (i) The project you propose can be completed within the two year grant period; and (ii) The objectives are measurable (e.g., the number of loans made, the number of jobs created), result in measurable improvement to the community (e.g., fifteen more homeowners, twenty more jobs in a specific field), and how well you demonstrate that these objectives will be achieved by your proposed management plan and team and will result directly from your activities. (c) Involvement of the Faculty and Students (5 Points). The extent to which your application proposes to involve your students and faculty, as part of their coursework in outreach and applied research activities. HUD's goal is to encourage you to fund activities similar to those eligible under the COPC program to be undertaken as a complement to those proposed in your HSIAC application. For more information about the COPC program, you can look at the University Partnerships Clearinghouse web site at http://www.oup.org/techassist/ copc/techcopc.html. (d) HUD Priorities (5 Points). The extent to which your application will further and support at least one of the following priorities of HUD: (1) Promoting healthy homes; (2) Providing opportunities for self-sufficiency, particularly for persons enrolled in welfare-to-work programs; (3) Enhancing ongoing 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'' initiative; (4) Providing educational, job training, and homeownership opportunities through such initiatives as GEAR UP, Neighborhood Networks, Twenty/20 Education Communities, and linking programs to Americorps; or (5) HUD's Partnership for Advancing Technology in 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 GEAR UP initiative promotes partnerships between colleges and middle or junior high schools in low-income communities, to help teach students how they can go to college by informing them about college options, academic requirements, costs, and financial aid, and by providing support services, including tutoring, counseling, and mentoring. The Neighborhood Networks 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 them with on-site access to computer and training resources. The Twenty/20 Education Community initiative (formerly known as Campus of Learners) 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 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 web site at www.pathnet.org. (2) Institutionalization of Project Activities (10 Points). The extent to which your project will result in the kinds of proposed activities being sustained by becoming part of the mission of your institution. In reviewing this subfactor, HUD will consider the extent to which program activities relate to your institution's mission; demonstrate support and involvement of the institution's executive leadership; are linked by a formal organizational structure to other units related to outreach and community partnerships; are reflected in budget and planning documents; are part of a climate that rewards faculty work on these kinds of activities through promotion and tenure; benefits students because they are part of a service learning program at your institution; and are reflected in the curriculum. HUD will look at your monetary and non-monetary commitments to faculty and staff continuing work in the target area or other similar areas and to your longer term commitment (five years after the start of the grant) of hard dollars to similar work. If you have previously received an HSIAC grant, you must describe the progress your institution has made since you received the HSIAC grant in institutionalizing your project activities. (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 choice through the expansion of homeownership opportunities and improved quality of services for minorities, families with children, and persons with disabilities; or (c) Providing housing mobility counseling services. Rating Factor 4: Leveraging Resources (10 Points) This factor addresses your ability to secure community resources, which can be combined with HUD program funds to achieve program objectives. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you have established partnerships with other entities to secure additional resources to increase the effectiveness of the proposed activities. Resources may include funding or in-kind contributions, such as services or equipment. Resources may be provided by governmental entities, public or private nonprofit organizations, for- profit private organizations, or other entities. You may also establish partnerships with other program funding recipients to coordinate the use of resources in the target area. You may count overhead and other institutional costs (e.g., salaries) that are waived as leveraging. However, higher points will be awarded if you secure leveraging resources from sources outside your institution. You must provide letters or other documentation showing the extent and firmness of commitments of leveraged funds (including your own resources) in order for these resources to count in determining points under this factor. Any resource for which there is no commitment letter will not be counted, nor will the resource be counted without the proposed level of commitment being quantified. If your application does not include evidence of leveraging, it will receive zero (0) points for this Factor. [[Page 11775]] Rating Factor 5: Comprehensiveness and Coordination (10 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have coordinated your activities with other known organizations, participate or promote participation in a 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 process, contact the local Community Development Agency or the local HUD field office. If you propose to work in a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) non- entitlement jurisdiction, you will only need to address subfactors (1) and (3). In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you demonstrate that you have: (1) 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 with others. Any written agreements, memoranda of understanding in place, or that will be in place after award, should be described. (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 the activities you propose. (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 ongoing in the community. (C) Selections. In order to be funded, you must receive a minimum score of 70 points. HUD will fund applications in rank order, until it has awarded all available funds. If two or more applications have the same number of points, the application with the most points for Factor 3, Soundness of Approach, shall be selected. If there is still a tie, the application with the most points for Factor 4, Leveraging, shall be selected. HUD will not fund specific proposed activities that do not meet eligibility requirements (see 24 CFR part 570, subpart C) or do not meet a national objective in accordance with 24 CFR 570.208. HUD reserves the right to make selections out of rank order to provide for geographic distribution of funded HSIACs. If HUD decides to use this option, it will do so only if two adjacent HUD regions do not yield at least one fundable HSIAC on the basis of rank order. If this occurs, HUD will fund the highest ranking applicant within the two regions as long as the minimum score of 70 points is achieved. After all application selections have been made, HUD may require that you participate in negotiations to determine the specific terms of the Statement of Work and the grant budget. In cases where HUD cannot successfully complete negotiations, or you fail to provide HUD with requested information, an award will not be made. In such instances, HUD may elect to offer an award to the next highest ranking applicant, and proceed with negotiations with that applicant. V. Application Submission Requirements You should include an original and two copies of the items listed below. In order to be able to recycle paper, please do not submit applications in bound form; binder clips or loose leaf binders are acceptable. Also, please do not use colored paper. Please note the page limits for some of the items listed below and do not exceed them. Your application must contain the items listed in this section. 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), referred to as the ``non-standard forms'' can be found as Appendix A to this program section of the SuperNOFA. The items are as follows: (A) SF-424, Application for Federal Assistance. (B) HUD-424M, Federal Assistance Funding Matrix. (C) Application Checklist. (D) Transmittal Letter, signed by the Chief Executive Officer of your institution or his or her designee. If a designee signs, your application must include the official designation of signatory authority. (E) Abstract/Executive Summary (one page limit) describing the goals and activities of the project. (F) Narrative Statement Addressing the Factors for Award. (50 page limit, including tables, and maps, but not including any letters of commitment and budget forms) (Please note that although submitting pages in excess of the page limit will not disqualify your application, HUD will not consider the information on any excess pages, which may result in a lower score or failure to meet a threshold.) For FY 2001, the statement of work and the budget are now part of Factor 3, Soundness of Approach. (1) The Statement of Work incorporates all activities to be funded in your application and details how your proposed work will be accomplished. For each proposed activity, your Statement of Work must: (a) Arrange the presentation of major related activities (e.g., rehabilitation of a child care center, provision of tutoring services), summarize each activity, identify the primary persons (as described in addressing Rating Factor 1) involved in carrying out the activity and accountable for the deliverables, and delineate the major tasks involved in carrying it out. You should also describe how each activity meets a CDBG national objective. (b) Indicate the sequence in which tasks are to be performed, noting areas of work that must be performed simultaneously. The sequence, duration, and the products to be delivered should be presented in six month intervals, up to 24 months. (c) Identify the specific numbers of quantifiable intermediate and end products and objectives (e.g., the number of houses of be rehabilitated, the number of people to be trained, the number of minority businesses started, etc.) you aim to deliver by the end of the grant period as a result of the work performed. (2) The budget presentation should be consistent with the Statement of Work and include: (a) A budget by activity, using Form HUD-30004 included in the application kit and in the program area section of the SuperNOFA. This form separates the Federal and non-Federal costs of each program activity. Particular attention should be paid to accurately estimating costs; determining the necessity for and reasonableness of costs; and correctly computing all budget items and totals. (b) A narrative statement of how you arrived at your costs, for any line item over $5,000. Indirect costs must be substantiated and the rate must have been approved by the cognizant Federal [[Page 11776]] agency. If you are proposing to undertake rehabilitation of residential, commercial, or industrial structures or acquisition, construction, or installation of public facilities and improvements, you must submit reasonable costs supplied by a qualified entity other than your institution. Guidance for securing these estimates can be obtained from the CPD Director in your HUD field office or from your local government. (c) A statement of compliance with the 20 percent limitation on ``Planning and Administration'' costs. (3) Your narrative statement addressing the factors for award should address all factors for award. You should number the narrative in accordance with each factor and subfactor. (Please note that although submitting pages in excess of the page limit will not disqualify your application, HUD will not consider the information on any excess pages, which may result in a lower score or failure to meet a threshold.) In addressing Factor 4, for each leveraging source, cash or in kind, you must submit a letter, dated no earlier than the date of this SuperNOFA, from the provider on the provider's letterhead that addresses the following: The dollar amount or dollar value of the in-kind goods and/or services committed. For each leveraging source, the dollar amount in the commitment letter must be consistent with the dollar amount you indicated in the Budget; How the leveraging amount is to be used; The date the leveraging amount 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 HSIAC Grant; and The signature of the appropriate executive officer authorized to commit the funds and/or goods and/or services. (See the application kit and the program area section of the SuperNOFA for a sample commitment letter.) (G) Certifications. (1) SF-424B, Assurances for Non-Construction Programs. (2) HUD-50071, Certification of Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions; (3) SF-LLL, Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (if applicable); (4) HUD-2880, Applicant/Recipient Disclosure/Update Form; (5) HUD-50070, Certification of Drug-Free Workplace; (6) HUD-2992, Certification Regarding Debarment and Suspension; (7) HUD-2991, Certification of Consistency with the Consolidated Plan; and (8) HUD-2990, Certification of Consistency with the EZ/EC Strategic Plan (if applicable); (H) Acknowledgment of Receipt of Applications (HUD-2993). If you wish to confirm that HUD received your application, please complete this form. This form is optional. (I) Client Comment and Suggestions (HUD-2994). If you wish to offer comments on the HSIAC NOFA of this SuperNOFA or the SuperNOFA process, please complete this form. This form is optional. You may not submit appendices or general support letters or resumes. If you submit letters of leveraging commitment, they must be included in your response to Factor 4. If you submit other documentation, it must be included with the pertinent factor responses (taking note of the page limit). VI. Corrections to Deficient Applications The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. VII. 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, 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 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, 1999. VIII. Authority This program was approved by the Congress under the section 107 of the CDBG appropriation for Fiscal Year 2001, as part of the FY 2001 HUD Appropriations Act. HSIAC is being implemented through this program section of the SuperNOFA and the policies governing its operation are contained herein. Appendix A The non-standard forms, which follow, are required for your HSIAC application. BILLING CODE 4210-32-P [[Page 11777]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.073 [[Page 11778]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.074 [[Page 11779]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.075