[ 11961 ] FUNDING AVAILABILITY FOR THE INDIAN HOUSING DRUG ELIMINATION PROGRAM Program Overview Purpose of the Program: The purpose of the Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program (IHDEP) is to provide grants to eliminate drugs and drug-related crime in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. Available Funds: Approximately $12,000,000 million is being made available for Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program (IHDEP) grants. Eligible Applicants: Indian tribes who are eligible to be recipients of assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA recipients) which means an Indian tribe or the entity for one or more Indian tribes that is authorized to receive grant amounts under NAHASDA on behalf of the tribe or tribes. Application Deadline: April 24, 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, Submission Address, Application Kits, Further Information, and Technical Assistance Application Due Date: Your completed application (one original and two copies) is due on or before April 24, 2001. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures that you must follow for the form of application submission (e.g., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried). Address For Submitting Applications. Please Note: We are instituting a new submission policy. Please submit an original and one identical copy to the Indian Housing Drug Elimination Information & Resource Center (IHDE-IRC), P.O. Box 14970, Silver Spring, MD 20911. You must also send one identical copy of your IHDEP application by the application due date to the local Area Office of Native American Programs (AONAP) Attention: HUD Administrator, Area Office of Native American Programs (AONAP). A list of local offices is provided below. The timely submission of your application will be based on the date and time it is submitted to the AONAP listed below, not the date and time it is received at the Indian Housing Drug Elimination Information & Resource Center. Again, please see the General Section of the SuperNOFA for specific procedures on the application due date. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send your If you are applying from this geographic location application to this then * * * AONAP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All states East of the Mississippi River, Plus Eastern/Woodlands Iowa and Minnesota. Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Room 2400, Chicago, IL 60604-3507, Telephone: (312) 886-4532, Ext. 2815. Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, except Southern Plains West Texas. Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, 500 W. Main Street, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, OK 73102-3202, Telephone: (405) 553-7525. Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Northern Plains Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, Wells Fargo Tower North, 633 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202- 3607, Telephone: (303) 672-5465. Arizona, California, and Nevada................... Southwest Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, Two Arizona Center, 400 N. Fifth Street, Suite 1650, Phoenix, AZ 85004- 2361, Telephone: (602) 379-3865. New Mexico and West Texas......................... Southwest Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, Albuquerque Plaza, 201 3rd Street N.W., Suite 1830, Albuquerque, NM 87102-3368, Telephone: (505) 346-6923. Idaho, Oregon, Washington......................... Northwest Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, Federal Office Building, 909 First Avenue, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98104-1000, Telephone: (206) 220-5271. Alaska............................................ Alaska Office of Native American Programs, Grants Management Division, 949 E. 36th Avenue, Suite 401, Anchorage, AK 99508-4399, (907) 271-4603. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In order to expedite the review of your application and to ensure that your application is given a thorough and complete review of all responses to each of the components of the selection criteria, HUD strongly requests that when you respond to each of the selection criterion and sub-criterion that you separate each selection criterion and sub-criterion with tabs. In order for your IHDEP application to be rated, make sure the response for each criterion is beneath the appropriate tab (heading). Keep the responses in the same order as the NOFA. Limit your narrative explanations to 200 words or less and provide the necessary data that supports the response. Include all relevant material to a response under the same tab. Do not assume the reviewer will search for the answer or information to support the answer elsewhere in the application. Do not include documentation that is not required by the selection criteria because irrelevant information will be disregarded during the review of your application. For Application Kits. To receive a copy of the IHDEP application kit, please call the Indian Housing Drug Elimination Information & Resource Center (IHDE-IRC) at 1-800-839-5561. Persons with hearing or speech impairments may call the Center's TTY number at 1-800-483-2209. When requesting an application kit, please refer to the Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program (IHDEP). Please provide your name, address, including zip code, and telephone number (including area code). The application kit contains information on all exhibits, forms, and certifications required for IHDEP. For Further Information and Technical Assistance. Please call the AONAPs with jurisdiction over your tribe/tribally designated housing entity (TDHE) or HUD's IHDE-IRC at1-800-839-5561 or Tracy C. Outlaw, Denver Program Office of Native American Programs (ONAP), Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Denver, CO 80202, telephone 1-800-561-5913 or (303) 675-1600 (this is not a toll- free number). Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. Also, please see ONAP's website at http:// www.codetalk.fed.us.html where you will be able to download a copy of the IHDEP NOFA and application kit from the Internet. Before the application deadline, we will be available to provide you with general guidance. We cannot, however, provide you with guidance on the actual contents of your application. [[Page 11964]] If applicable, after the rating and ranking process has been completed but before award, we will be available to assist you in clarifying or confirming technical, curable deficiency information that is required to address a pre-award requirement. If the pre-award conditions as outlined in Section VIII of the NOFA are not met by the applicant, we will award those grant amounts to another eligible applicant in accordance with the provisions of Section V of this NOFA. II. Amount Allocated Approximately $12 million is being made available under this NOFA from the FY 2001 HUD Appropriations Act (Pub.L. 106-377, approved October 27, 2000). III. Program Description; Eligible Applicants; Eligible/Ineligible Activities (A) Program Description. Funds are only available for Indian tribes who are eligible to be recipients under NAHASDA to develop and finance drug and drug-related crime elimination efforts in their affordable housing developments. You may use funds for enhancing security within your developments, making physical improvements to enhance security; and/or developing and implementing prevention, intervention and treatment programs to stop drug use in Indian housing communities. (B) Eligible Applicants. Indian tribes who are eligible to be recipients under NAHASDA. ``NAHASDA recipient'' means an Indian tribe or the tribally designated housing entity (TDHE) for one or more Indian tribes that is authorized to receive grant amounts under NAHASDA on behalf of the tribe or tribes. ``Tribe'' means an Indian tribe, band, nation or other organized group or community of Indians, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. A tribe can apply either in its own name or through its TDHE. A TDHE cannot apply on behalf of a tribe that is applying on its own behalf. A tribe's application supersedes the application of a TDHE applying on behalf of that tribe. Resident Management Corporations (RMCs) and Resident Organizations (ROs) are eligible for funding as sub-grantees. RMCs, and ROs that were operating pursuant to 24 CFR part 950 are eligible for funding from tribes or TDHEs as subgrantees to develop security and substance abuse prevention programs. In addition, an applicant must meet all the applicable threshold requirements found in Section II(b) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA. (C) Eligible/Ineligible Activities. IHDEP grants may be used for seven types of activities: (1) The employment of security personnel; (2) reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services; (3) physical improvements which are specifically designed to enhance security; (4) the employment of one or more individuals to (A) investigate drug-related crime on or about the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted affordable housing project; and (B) provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding; (5) the provision of training, communications equipment, and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials; (6) programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and around public or other federally assisted affordable housing projects, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs; and (7) where a tribe or TDHE receives a grant, providing funding to nonprofit resident management corporations and resident organizations to develop security and drug abuse prevention programs involving site residents. Following is a discussion by activity type of what can and cannot be funded and specific requirements or items that need to be discussed in your application if you are including that activity in your application. (1) Physical Improvements to Enhance Security. (a) Physical improvements specifically designed to enhance security may include: installing barriers, speed bumps, lighting systems, fences, surveillance equipment (e.g., Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), computers and software, fax machines, cameras, monitors, and supporting equipment), bolts, locks, and landscaping or reconfiguring common areas to discourage drug-related crime. (i) All physical improvements must be accessible to persons with disabilities. For example, locks or buzzer systems that are not accessible to persons with restricted or impaired strength, mobility, or hearing may not be funded by IHDEP. Defensible space improvements must comply with civil rights requirements and cannot exclude or segregate people because of their race, color, or national origin from benefits, services, or other terms or conditions of housing. All physical improvements must meet the accessibility requirements of 24 CFR part 8 and the provisions found in section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and other relevant Federal, state and local statutes that apply. (ii) Funding is permitted for the purchase or lease of house trailers of any type that are not designated as a building if they are used for eligible community policing, educational programs for youth and adults, employment training facility, youth activities, and drug abuse treatment activities. A justification of purchase versus lease must be supported by your cost-benefit analysis. (2) Programs to Reduce Drug Use (Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, Structured Aftercare and Support Systems). (a) Eligible activities may include: (i) Drug abuse prevention, intervention, and referral programs; (ii) Programs of local, social, faith-based and/or other organizations that provide treatment services (contractual or otherwise) for dependency/remission; and (iii) Structured aftercare/support system programs. (b) General Requirements and Strategies. HUD is looking for you to structure your drug abuse prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare program using a ``continuum of care'' approach. A ``continuum of care'' approach includes not just treating the addiction or dependency but also providing aftercare, mentoring, and support services such as day care, family counseling, education, training, employment development opportunities, and other activities. You must develop a drug abuse/sobriety (remission)/treatment (dependency) strategy to adequately plan your drug abuse prevention, intervention, treatment, and structured aftercare efforts. In many cases, you may want to include education, training, and employment opportunities for residents. When undertaking these activities, you should be leveraging your IHDEP resources with other Federal, state, local and tribal resources. For example, your application may propose providing space and other infrastructure for these efforts with other tribal agencies providing staff and other resources at limited or no cost. Your application should also discuss how your strategy incorporates existing community resources and how they will be used in your program. The strategy should also document how community resources [[Page 11965]] will be provided on-site or how participants will be referred and transported to treatment programs that are not on-site. A community-based approach also requires you to develop a culturally appropriate strategy. Curricula, activities, and staff should address the cultural issues of the local community which requires your application to indicate your familiarity and facility with the language and cultural norms of the community. As applicable, your strategy should discuss cultural competencies associated specifically with your Native American or Alaskan Native community. Your activities should focus resources directly to tribal residents and families. For all activities involving education, training and employment, you should demonstrate efforts to coordinate with Federal, Tribal, state and local employment training and development services, including ``welfare to work'' efforts. The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association dated July 2000, contains information on drug abuse, dependency and structured aftercare. For more information about this reference, contact: APPI, 1400 K. Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005 or 1(800) 368-5777 or World Wide Web site at http://ww.appi.org. (c) Activities must be in and around the affordable housing development in your ``Indian area''. IHDEP funding is permitted for programs that reduce/eliminate drug-related crime in affordable housing developments in the ``Indian area''. ``Indian area'' is defined in 24 CFR 1000.10 of the NAHASDA regulations as the area in which an Indian tribe operates affordable housing programs or the area in which a TDHE is authorized by one or more Indian tribes to operate affordable housing programs. (d) Eligible costs. (i) Funding is permitted for reasonable, necessary, and justified purchasing or leasing (whichever is documented as the most cost effective) of vehicles for transporting adult and youth residents for education, job training, and off-site treatment programs directly related to reducing drugs and drug-related crime. The cost reasonableness can be determined by a comparison of the number of participants in and anticipated costs of these programs compared to the purchase or lease cost of the vehicles. If these costs are included in your application, you must include a description of why the expenses are necessary. Under no circumstances are these vehicles to be used for other than their intended purpose under your grant. (ii) Funding is permitted for reasonable, necessary and justified program costs, such as meals and beverages incurred only for training, education and employment activities, including provisions for daycare and youth services directly related to reducing drugs and drug-related crime. Refer to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-87, Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian Tribal Governments. (e) Prevention. Prevention programs must demonstrate that they will provide directly, or otherwise make available, services designed to distribute drug education information, to foster effective parenting skills, and to provide referrals for treatment and other available support services including daycare in the housing development or the community for tribal residents and families. Prevention programs should provide a comprehensive prevention approach for residents that address the individual resident and his or her relationship to family, peers, and the community. Your prevention programs activities should identify and change the causal factors present in tribal communities that lead to drug-related crime thereby lowering the risk of drug usage. Many components of a comprehensive approach, including refusal and restraint skills training programs or drug, drug abuse/dependency and family counseling, and daycare may already be available in the tribal community developments and should be included to the maximum extent possible in your proposed program of activities. The following eligible activities under a prevention program are discussed below: (i) Educational Opportunities. The causes and effects of illegal drug abuse must be discussed in a culturally appropriate and structured setting. As a grantee, you may use contractors or subgrantees (in accordance with 24 CFR 85.36) to provide such knowledge and skills through training programs. The professionals contracted to provide these services are required to base their services on your needs assessment and program plan. These educational opportunities may be a part of resident meetings, youth activities, or other gatherings of tribal housing residents. (ii) Family and Other Support Services. ``Supportive services'' are services that allow families to have access to prevention, educational and employment opportunities. Supportive services may include: child care, employment training, computer skills training, remedial education, drug abuse counseling, help in getting a high school equivalency certificate, and other services to reduce drug-related crime. (iii) Youth Services. Proposed youth prevention programs must demonstrate that they have included groups composed of young people ages 8 through 18. Your youth prevention activities should be coordinated by adults but have tribal youth actively involved in organizing youth leadership, sports, recreational, cultural and other activities. Eligible youth services may include: youth sports, youth leadership skills training, cultural and recreational activities/camps, youth entrepreneurship, negotiation and mediation/peacemaking, and cross-cultural communication. These youth services provide an alternative to drugs and drug-related criminal activity for Native American youth. Youth leadership skills training may include training in leadership, peer pressure reversal, resistance or refusal skills, life skills, goal planning, parenting skills, youth entrepreneurship, negotiation and mediation/peacemaking, and cross-cultural communication and other relevant topics. Youth leadership training should be designed to place youth in leadership roles including: mentors to younger program participants, assistant coaches, managers, and team captains. Cultural and recreational activities may include ethnic heritage classes, art, dance, drama and music appreciation. The following are eligible youth services expenses: (1) Salaries and expenses for staff for youth sports programs and cultural activities and leadership training; (2) Sports and recreation equipment to be used by participants; (3) Funding for non-profit subgrantees that provide scheduled organized sports competitions, cultural, educational, recreational or other activities, including but not limited to: United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. (UNITY), Wings of America, Native America Sports Council, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Girl Scouts of America, First Tee Program, YMCAs, YWCAs, the Inner City Games, Association of Midnight Basketball Leagues, and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America. (4) Liability insurance costs for youth sports activities. (iv) Economic and Educational Opportunities for Resident Adult and Youth. Your proposed economic and educational activities must provide residents opportunities for interaction [[Page 11966]] with, or referral to, established higher education, vocational institutions and/or private sector businesses in the immediate surrounding communities with the goal of developing or building on the residents' skills to pursue educational, vocational and economic goals and become self-sufficient. You should discuss your economic and educational opportunities for residents and youth activities in the context of ``welfare to work'' and related Federal, tribal, state and local government efforts for employment training, education and employment opportunities related to the goals of ``welfare to work.'' Establishing or referring adults and youths to computer learning centers, employment service centers (coordinated with Federal, tribal, state and local employment offices), and micro-business centers are eligible activities. Funding is permitted for the purchase or lease of house trailers if they are used for the activities listed above and as specified in Section III.C(1)(a)(ii) of this NOFA. Limited educational scholarships are permitted under this section. For the purpose of this IHDEP NOFA, educational scholarships will be defined as merit-based financial assistance for high-school and college students who have demonstrated a need for financial assistance and academic excellence. No one individual award may exceed $500, and there is a total maximum scholarship program cap of $10,000. Educational scholarship IHDEP funds must be obligated and expended during the term of your IHDEP grant which is (24) twenty-four months. You must demonstrate in your plan a timetable, the strategy or method for awarding scholarships to students, and, the financial/management controls that will be used and projected outcomes. In addition, section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 12 U.S.C. 1701u is applicable to many of the activities eligible under this NOFA. Therefore, to the greatest extent feasible, training, employment and other economic opportunities that you develop must be directed to (1) low- and very low-income persons and (2) business concerns which provide economic opportunities to low- and very low- income persons. For more information about section 3, see Section II(E) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA or HUD's section 3 implementing regulations at 24 CFR Part 135. (f) Intervention. The aim of intervention is to identify or detect residents with substance abuse issues, assist them in modifying their behavior, getting early treatment, and obtaining structured aftercare. (g) Drug Abuse/Dependency Treatment. (1) Treatment funded under this program should be ``in and around'' the premises of the affordable housing development(s) you proposed for funding. In undertaking drug abuse/dependency treatment programs, you must establish a confidentiality policy regarding medical and disability related information. (i) Funds awarded for drug abuse/dependency treatment must be targeted towards developing and implementing, or expanding and improving sobriety maintenance, drug-free maintenance support groups, drug abuse counseling, referral treatment services, and short- or long- range structured aftercare for residents. (ii) Your proposed drug program must address the following goals for residents: (1) Increasing accessibility of treatment services; (2) Decreasing drug-related crime ``in and around'' your affordable housing development(s) by reducing and/or eliminating drug use; and (3) Providing services designed for youth and/or adult drug abusers and recovering addicts (e.g., prenatal and postpartum care, specialized family and parental counseling, parenting classes, domestic or youth violence counseling). (iii) You must discuss in your overall strategy the following factors: (1) Formal referral arrangements to other treatment programs in cases where the resident is able to obtain treatment costs from sources other than this program. (2) Family/youth counseling. (3) Linkages to educational and vocational training and employment counseling. (4) Coordination of services from and to appropriate local drug abuse/treatment agencies, HIV-related service agencies, and mental and public health programs. (iv) As applicable, you must demonstrate a working partnership with the Single State Agency or local, tribal or state license provider or authority with substance abuse program(s) coordination responsibilities to coordinate, develop and implement your drug dependency treatment proposal. (v) You must demonstrate that counselors (contractual or otherwise) meet Federal, state, tribal, and local government licensing, bonding, training, certification and continuing training re-certification requirements. (vi) You must get certification from the Single state Agency or tribal agency with drug abuse and dependency programs coordination responsibilities so that your proposed program is consistent with the tribal plan; and that the service(s) meets all Federal, state, tribal and local government medical licensing, training, bonding, and certification requirements. (vii) Funding is permitted for drug treatment of tribal residents at local in-patient medical treatment programs and facilities. IHDEP funding for structured in-patient drug treatment using IHDEP funds is limited to 60 days, and structured drug out-patient treatment, which includes individual/family aftercare, is limited to 6 months. If you are undertaking drug treatment programs, your proposal must demonstrate how individuals who complete drug treatment will be provided employment training, education and employment opportunities. (viii) Funding is permitted for detoxification procedures designed to reduce or eliminate the short-term presence of toxic substances in the body tissues of a patient. (ix) Funding is not permitted for maintenance drug programs. Maintenance drugs are medications that are prescribed regularly for a short/long period of supportive therapy (e.g. methadone maintenance), rather than for immediate control of a disorder. (3) Resident Management Corporations (RMCs) and Resident Organizations (ROs) Programs. RMCs, and incorporated ROs, may be a subcontractor to their tribe/TDHE, to develop security and drug abuse prevention programs for residents. Such programs may include voluntary tenant patrol activities, drug abuse education, intervention, and referral programs, youth programs, and outreach efforts. The elimination of drug-related crime within the tribal community must have the active involvement and commitment of tribal residents and their organizations. To enhance the ability of tribes/TDHEs, to combat drug-related crime within their developments, RMCs, and ROs may undertake program management functions as subcontractors. Sub-contracts with the RMC/RO must comply with the requirements of 24 CFR 85.36 and 37 and include the amount of funding, applicable terms, conditions, financial controls, payment mechanism schedule, performance and financial report requirements, special conditions, including sanctions for violating the agreement, and monitoring [[Page 11967]] requirements. Costs must not be incurred by the RMC or RO until a written contract is executed. (4) Employment of Security Personnel. You may employ security personnel to provide services in and around your affordable housing developments. Contracts for security personnel must be awarded on a competitive basis. Security personnel must perform services that are over and above those usually performed by local municipal law enforcement agencies on a routine basis. Eligible services may include patrolling inside buildings, providing personnel services at building entrances to check for proper identification or patrolling and checking car parking lots for appropriate parking decals. You are encouraged to involve police officials residing in tribal housing to partake in IHDEP security-related programs. The following specific requirements apply to all employment of security personnel activities funded under IHDEP: (a) Compliance. Security guard personnel must demonstrate compliance with all relevant Federal, state, tribal or local government insurance, licensing, certification, training, bonding, or other law enforcement requirements. (b) Law Enforcement Service Agreement. You (the applicant), the local law enforcement agency, and if relevant, the contract provider of security personnel services, must enter into a law enforcement service agreement with the local law enforcement agency. Your service agreement must be submitted with your IHDEP application and include: (i) The activities security guard personnel will perform; the scope of authority; written policies, procedures, and practices that will govern security personnel performance (i.e., a policy manual and how security guard personnel will coordinate activities with your local law enforcement agency); (ii) The types of activities that your approved security guard personnel are expressly prohibited from undertaking. (c) Policy Manual. Security guard personnel services must be guided by a policy manual that directs the activities of its personnel and contains the policies, procedures, and general orders that regulate conduct and describes in detail how jobs are to be performed. The policy manual must exist before you undertake this activity. (d) Data Management. A daily activity and incident complaint form approved by the tribe/TDHE must be used by security personnel and officers for the collection and analysis of criminal incidents and responses to service calls. Security guard personnel and tribal police departments must establish and maintain a system of records management for the daily activity and incident complaint forms that appropriately ensures the confidentially of personal criminal information. Management Information Systems (MIS) (computers, software, and associated equipment) are eligible costs that the tribe/TDHE may include in support of collection and analysis activities. (e) Employment of Residents. HUD encourages you to employ qualified resident(s) as security guard personnel, and/or to contract with security guard personnel firms that demonstrate a program to employ qualified residents as security guard personnel. (5) Reimbursement of Local Law Enforcement Agencies for Additional Security and Protective Services (Supplemental--Over and Above Local Law Enforcement Baseline Services). Additional security and protective services are permitted if services are over and above the local police department's current level of baseline services. Tribes/TDHEs are required to identify the level of local law enforcement services they are required to received and the increased level of services to be received in their local Cooperation Agreement. Local police department baseline services are defined as ordinary and routine services, including patrols, police officer responses to 911 communications and other calls for service, and investigative follow-up of criminal activity, provided to residents as a part of the overall deployment of police resources by the local jurisdiction in which the tribe/TDHE is located. (a) If you are an applicant seeking funding for this activity, you must describe the current level of local law enforcement agency baseline services being provided to the affordable housing development(s) proposed for assistance. Local law enforcement baseline services are defined as ordinary and routine services provided to the residents as part of the overall city and/or county wide deployment of police resources to respond to crime and other public safety incidents including: 911 communications, processing calls for service, routine patrol officer responses to calls for service and investigative follow- up of criminal activity. (b) Tribal police departments funded under this program that are not employing a community policing concept but would like to establish such a program for affordable housing developments must submit a plan and timetable for the implementation of community policing. Community policing has a variety of definitions; however, for the purposes of this program, it is defined as a method of providing law enforcement services that stresses a partnership among residents, police, schools, churches, government services, the private sector and other local, state, tribal and Federal law enforcement agencies to prevent crime and improve the quality of life by addressing the conditions and problems that lead to crime and fear of crime. Community policing uses proactive measures including foot patrols, bicycle patrols and motor scooter patrols. It also includes activities where police officers operate out of police mini-stations and other community based facilities in tribal communities providing human resource activities with youth and citizen contacts. This concept empowers police officers at the beat and zone level and residents in neighborhoods to: reduce crime and fear of crime; ensure the maintenance of order; provide referrals of residents, victims and homeless persons to social services and government agencies; ensure feedback of police actions to victims of crime; and promote a law enforcement value system based on the needs and rights of residents. (6) Employment of Investigators. Employment of, and equipment for, one or more individuals to investigate drug-related crime ``in and around'' the real property comprising your affordable housing development(s) for which the application is submitted and providing evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceedings is permitted. Under this section, reimbursable costs associated with the investigation of drug-related crimes (e.g., travel directly related to the investigator's activities, or costs associated with the investigator's testimony at judicial or administrative proceedings) may only be those directly incurred by the investigator. (a) If you are a tribe/TDHE that employs investigators funded by this program, you must demonstrate compliance with all relevant Federal, tribal, state or local government insurance, licensing, certification, training, bonding, or other similar law enforcement requirements. (b) Both you and the provider of the investigative services are required to execute a written agreement that describes the following: (i) The activities that your investigators will perform, their scope of authority, reports to be completed, established investigative policies, procedures, and practices that will govern their performance (i.e., a Policy Manual) and how your investigators will coordinate their activities with local, state, tribal, and Federal law [[Page 11968]] enforcement agencies; and prohibited activities. (ii) The activities the tribal investigators are expressly prohibited from undertaking. (c) Your investigator(s) may use IHDEP funds to purchase or lease any law enforcement clothing or equipment, such as uniforms, ammunition, firearms/weapons, or vehicles; including cars, vans, buses, protective vests, and any other supportive equipment. (d) Your investigator(s) shall report on drug-related crime in your developments. You must establish, implement and maintain a system of records management that ensures confidentiality of criminal records and information. Tribal-approved activity forms must be used for collection, analysis and reporting of activities by your investigators. You are encouraged to develop and use Management Information Systems (MIS) (computers, software, hardware, and associated equipment) and hire management personnel for crime and workload reporting in support of your crime prevention and security activities. (7) Voluntary Tenant Patrols. Members of tenant patrols must be volunteers and must be residents of the affordable housing development(s). Volunteers must have extensive background investigations to ensure there are no outstanding warrants or arrest records for past crimes, especially crimes against children. Voluntary tenant patrols are expected to patrol in and around your affordable housing development(s) proposed for assistance, and to report illegal activities to appropriate local, state, tribal, and Federal law enforcement agencies, as appropriate. (a) Training equipment, including uniforms for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with officials of local law enforcement agencies is permitted. All costs must be reasonable, necessary and justified. Bicycles, motor scooters, all-season uniforms, communications equipment and associated equipment to be used, exclusively, by the members of your voluntary tenant patrol are eligible items. Voluntary tenant patrol uniforms and equipment must be identified with your specific tribal development(s) identification and markings. (b) Tribes/TDHEs are required to obtain liability insurance to protect themselves and the members of the voluntary tenant patrol against potential liability for the activities of the patrol under this program. The cost of this insurance is eligible. (c) Before expending grant funds for voluntary tenant patrol activities, you, your local law enforcement agency, and the tenant patrol are required to execute a written agreement that includes: (i) The nature of the activities to be performed by your voluntary tenant patrol, the patrol's scope of authority, assignment, policies, procedures, and practices that will govern the voluntary tenant patrol's performance and how the patrol will coordinate its activities with the law enforcement agency; (ii) The activities the voluntary tenant patrol is expressly prohibited from undertaking including the carrying or use of firearms, weapons, nightsticks, clubs, handcuffs, or mace; (iii) Required initial and on-going voluntary tenant patrol training members will receive from the local law enforcement agency; (please note that training by HUD-approved trainers and/or the local law enforcement agency is required before putting a voluntary tenant patrol into effect); and (iv) That voluntary tenant patrol members will be subject to individual or collective liability for any actions undertaken outside the scope of their authority (described in paragraph (ii) above) and that such acts are not covered under your housing authority liability insurance. (d) IHDEP grant funds must not be used for any type of financial compensation, such as full-time wages or salaries for voluntary tenant and/or patrol participants. Funding for tribe/TDHE personnel or resident(s) to be hired to coordinate this activity is permitted. Excessive staffing is not permitted. (D) Ineligible Activities. IHDEP funding is not permitted for any of the activities listed below. (1) Costs incurred before the effective date of your grant agreement (Form HUD-1044), including, but not limited to, consultant fees related to the development of your application or the actual writing of your application. (2) The purchase of controlled substances for any purpose. Controlled substance shall have the meaning provided in section 102 of the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 802). (3) Compensation of informants, including confidential informants. These should be part of the baseline services provided and budgeted by local law enforcement agencies. (4) Direct purchase or lease of clothing or equipment, vehicles (including cars, vans, and buses), uniforms, ammunition, firearms/ weapons, protective vests, and any other supportive equipment for use in law enforcement or military enforcement except for eligible tribal police department, voluntary tenant patrols and investigator activities listed in this NOFA. (5) Construction of facility space in a building or unit, and the costs of retrofitting/modifying existing buildings owned by the tribe/ TDHE for purposes other than: community policing mini-station operations, adult/youth education, employment training facilities, and drug abuse treatment activities. (6) Organized fund raising, advertising, financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests, rallies, marches, community celebrations, stipends and similar expenses. (7) Court costs and attorneys fees related to screening or evicting residents for drug-related crime. (8) Transfer of IHDEP grant funds to any Federal agency. (9) Costs to establish resident associations, resident organizations, and resident corporations. (10) Indirect costs. (11) The supplanting of existing positions/activities. For purposes of the IHDEP, supplanting is defined as ``taking the place of or to supersede''. (12) Alcohol-exclusive activities and programs are not eligible for funding under this NOFA, although activities and programs may address situations of multiple abuse involving controlled substances and alcohol. (13) Physical improvements that involve demolishing any units in a development or that would displace persons. (14) Acquiring real property. IV. Program Requirements The following requirements apply to IHDEP funding: (A) Grant Award Amounts. HUD is distributing grant funds for the IHDEP under this NOFA on a national competition basis. The maximum grant award amounts are computed for IHDEP on a sliding scale, using an overall maximum cap, depending upon the number of tribe/TDHE units eligible for funding. This figure (number of eligible units for funding) will determine the grant amount that the tribe/TDHE is eligible to receive if they meet the IHDEP criteria and score a minimum of 70 out of 100 points. (1) Amount per unit. (a) For tribes/TDHEs with 1-1,250 units: The maximum grant award cap is $300 multiplied by the number of eligible units. (b) For tribes/TDHEs with 1,251 or more units: The maximum grant award cap is $260 multiplied by the [[Page 11969]] number of eligible units; up to, but not to exceed, a maximum grant award of $1.5 million dollars. (2) Units counted. (a) The unit count includes rental, Turnkey III and Mutual Help Homeownership units which have not been conveyed to a homebuyer, and Section 23 lease housing bond-financed projects. Such units must be counted as Formula Current Assisted Stock under the Indian Housing Block Grant Program for FY 2001. (b) Eligible units are those units which are under management and fully developed. (c) Use the number of units counted as Formula Current Assisted Stock for Fiscal Year 2001 as defined in 24 CFR 1000.316 and which is included in the FY 2001 IHDEP application kit. Please verify your Formula Current Assisted Stock figures with your local AONAP for accuracy. (d) Affordable housing units that are developed or assisted under NAHASDA are not included in the unit count outlined above, however, they are eligible to receive assistance under the IHDEP. (e) If it is determined that the unit count listed in your application is incorrect compared to the unit count listed in the application kit and your application is eligible for funding, you will be awarded the funding amount for which you are eligible based on the FCAS list or the amount requested in your application, whichever is less. (B) Complying with Civil Rights Requirements. To protect and insure the civil rights of occupants of HUD-sponsored housing and residents around that housing, your proposed strategies should ensure that you do not undertake crime-fighting and drug prevention activities that violate civil rights and fair housing statutes. You may not use race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability or familial status to profile persons as suspects or otherwise target them in conducting these activities. You are encouraged to involve as many segments of your intended population as possible in developing and implementing your strategies. (C) Confidentiality of Records Requirements. You must establish a confidentiality policy regarding medical and disability-related information for programs involving prevention, intervention, or drug abuse/dependency treatment and aftercare. (D) Term of Grant. Your grant funds must be expended within 24 months after HUD executes a Grant Agreement. The AONAP may grant a one- time extension of 6 months at the end of the grant term in accordance with the requirements of HUD Handbook 7490.1. However, if no extension is requested and granted and the grants funds are not expended within 24 months after execution of the Grant Agreement, the funds will be recaptured by the Department. (E) Reports and Close-out. (1) In accordance with 24 CFR 761.35, if funded, you are required to submit semi-annually an IHDEP Semi-Annual Performance Report and the Semi-Annual Financial Status Report (SF- 269A) to the appropriate HUD AONAP. These IHDEP Semi-Annual Performance Reports shall cover the periods ending June 30 and December 31, and must be submitted to HUD by July 30 and January 31 of each year. The grantee must also comply with additional reporting requirements to be outlined in the near future which will include an annual survey of residents and additional supporting documentation for the semi-annual report including the close-out report. (2) At grant completion, you must comply with the close-out requirements described in Public Housing Notice PIH 98-60(HA), entitled ``Grant Close-out Procedures,'' and by the end of the grant term, return unexpended grant funds to the Department, according to applicable requirements. (F) Federal Labor Standards. When grant funds are used to undertake physical improvements to increase security, Federal Labor standards set out in 24 CFR 761.40 apply. V. Application Selection Process (A) Rating and Ranking. General. HUD will rate and rank applications based on the 5 rating factors listed in Section V.(B) of this NOFA, below. HUD will select and fund the highest ranking applications based on total score, and will continue the process until all funds allocated to it have been awarded or to the point where there are insufficient acceptable applications to award funds. The maximum number of points for this program is 100. Tiebreakers. In the event of a tie, HUD will select the highest ranking application that can be fully funded. In the event that two eligible applications receive the same score, and both cannot be funded because of insufficient funds, the applicant with the highest score in rating factor two will be funded. If rating factor two is scored identically, the scores in rating factors one and four 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 in order to promote the more efficient use of resources. Pre-award requirements. If there are technical deficiencies in successful applications, you must satisfactorily address these deficiencies before we can make a grant award. Please see Section VIII. Correction of Technical Deficiencies of this NOFA for a definition of such a deficiency and a description of the process to address and correct the deficiency. You must correct all technical deficiencies within the time frame established by HUD. If they are not corrected, we will not make the grant award and will reject your application. (B) Factors For Award to Evaluate and Rank Applications. Your application must address the five (5) factors, and sub-factors listed below. If your application does not address each of the five factors and sub-factors, it will not be scored and will be considered ineligible for funding. The maximum number of points for this program is 100. Your application must receive a score of at least 70 points to be eligible for funding. Rating Factor 1: Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Experience (30 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have the capacity, the proper organizational experience and resources to implement the proposed activities in a timely and effective manner. The rating of the ``applicant'' or the ``applicant's organization and staff'' for technical merit, unless otherwise specified, includes any subcontractors, consultants, sub-recipients, and members of consortia which are firmly committed to your project. Your application must include descriptive evidence demonstrating that you possess managerial, technical and/or administrative capability necessary to carry out the proposed project. Your application must address who will administer the project and how you plan to handle all aspects of executing the project. Your application must describe the experience and expertise of existing staff in the implementation of the specific activity for which you are applying and what responsibilities they will have in project implementation, as well as those aspects of project implementation that will be contracted to outside entities. If any subcontractors, consultants, sub-recipients and/or members of consortia are used, your application must demonstrate that the entity is firmly committed to the project. If applicable, past performance in administering previous IHDEP grants will be taken into consideration. In [[Page 11970]] rating this factor, HUD will consider the following: (15 points) The knowledge and experience of your staff and your administrative capability to manage grants of this size and type. This includes your administrative support and procurement entities, defined organizational lines of authority, and demonstrated fiscal management capacity. (15 points) Past performance in administering Drug Elimination grants during the last three (3) years. If you do not have any open IHDEP grants, then you will receive 15 points under this sub-factor unless there are unresolved findings and/or outstanding recommendations from prior HUD reviews or audits undertaken by HUD, the Office of Inspector General, the General Accounting Office or independent public accountants. The extent of any findings or recommendations will then be considered. If you have an open IHDEP grant from FY 1998 or a prior year, you will receive 0 points for this sub-factor. For tribes/TDHEs that had previously applied as IHAs under the Drug Elimination Program, HUD will consider any open grants for which the tribe/TDHE has the responsibility to administer. Rating Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem (25 Points) This factor examines the extent to which there is a need for funding the proposed program activities to address a documented problem in your proposed target area (i.e., the degree of the severity of the drug-related crime problem in the project proposed for funding). In responding to this factor, you will be evaluated on: (1) The extent to which a critical level of need for your proposed activities is explained; and (2) the urgency of meeting the need in the target area. You must include in your response a description of the extent and nature of drug-related crime ``in or around'' the housing units or developments proposed for funding. Applicants will be evaluated on the following: (1) (15 Points) Data Supporting the extent of Drug and Drug-related Crime. You must identify and include supporting data indicating the extent of drugs and drug-related crime problems in the developments proposed for assistance under your program. HUD will consider the extent and quality of the data provided. Examples of the data that should be included in your application include: (a) Surveys of residents and staff in your targeted developments about drugs and drug-related crime or on-site reviews to determine drug/crime activity; (b) Government or scholarly studies or other research in the past year that analyze drug-related crime activity in your targeted developments. (c) Annual vandalism cost at your targeted developments, to include elevator vandalism (where appropriate) and other vandalism attributable to drug-related crime as a ratio to total annual approved budget for the targeted developments. (d) 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, drug abuse, treatment (dependency/remission) or counseling professionals, or other social service providers). (e) The school dropout rate and level of absenteeism for youth that you can relate to drug-related crime as a percentage or ratio of the rate outside the area. (f) The number of lease terminations or evictions for drug-related crime at the targeted developments; and (g) 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. (h) The number of police calls for service from tribe/TDHE 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. (2) (10 points) Objective Crime Data relevant to your target area. To the extent that you can provide objective drug-related crime data specific to the community or targeted development proposed for funding, you will be awarded up to 10 points or up to a total of 5 points if substantial information is provided as to why Objective Crime Data could not be obtained. Objective Crime Data must include the most current and specific local law enforcement crime statistics or Part I Crime data and relevant Part II Crime data available from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) system. 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; and weapons violations. You may also detail other crimes which you are proposing to be targeted as part of your grant. In assessing this sub-factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you provide specific statistical data (records, not anecdotes) and the data's specificity to the targeted sites (e.g., data specific to those targeted developments proposed for funding by crime type versus tribal/TDHE-community or county-wide data by aggregated crimes). The objective crime data provided in your application will become a ``baseline'' tracking future changes in your crime rate. If you did not provide objective crime data, please provide information as to why objective crime data could not be obtained; the efforts being made to obtain it; what efforts will be made during the grant period to begin obtaining the data; and an explanation of how you plan to measure how grant activities will result in reducing drug- related crime in the targeted developments and what will be used as a baseline. Rating Factor 3: Soundness of Approach--(Quality of the Plan) (25 Points) This factor examines the quality and effectiveness of your proposed work plan. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the impact of your activities on the drug and drug-related crime problems identified in Factor 2, as appropriate, and the extent to which you identify attainable goals, objectives, and performance measures to ensure that tangible benefits can be attained by the community and by your target population. Your application must include a detailed narrative describing: each proposed activity for your developments proposed for assistance; the amount and extent of resources committed to each activity or service proposed; measurable goals and objectives for all major program activities that focus on outcome and results; and the process used to collect the data needed to report progress made against these goals. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the following: (1) (5 points) The strength of your plan to address the drug- related crime problem, and the problems associated with drug-related crime in your developments proposed for funding, the resources allocated, and how well the [[Page 11971]] proposed activities fit with the plan: The rationale for your proposed activities and methods used including written, descriptive evidence that proposed activities have been effective in similar circumstances in controlling drug-related crime in your community. (2) The extent to which you have: (a) (5 points) Stated performance goals that will measure program outcomes and designed your major activities to meet stated, measurable goals and objectives for drug and drug-related crime reduction. Outcomes include accomplishments, results, impact and the ultimate effects of your program on the drug or crime problem in your target/ project area. The goals must be objective, quantifiable, and/or qualitative and they must be stated in such a way that at the end of the 24 month grant, one can determine if the activities were effective. Specific crime reduction goals must be measurable. For example, ``eliminating or reducing crime and drug-related crime'' is not a specific nor measurable goal, whereas a goal of ``reducing inhalant sniffing etc. by 5% in development X by the end of the 24 month grant period based on measurements against the baseline year crime selection rate in the targeted development X as stated in the application'' is specific and measurable. (b) (5 points) Provided the actual baseline data which will establish a starting point against which program outcomes will be measured and stated expected results for all major grant activities proposed in your application. For example: ``The total population in community X is 1,400, we have 400 family units, 80% of the residents are under 18 years of age, total drug arrests is 23, there is still a lot of violence in our community and we want more programs to give youth positive influences. We conducted a resident survey in 1999 and 100 residents responded. Approximately 75% of the residents had the following concerns * * *'' (c) (5 points) Discussed what performance measurement system exists for providing information to HUD semi-annually on progress made in achieving the established outcome goals. For example: ``Unit of measure: Number of youth participants with a 2.0 through a 2.9 grade- point average (GPA). Community X met with residents to establish a mentoring/tutoring program to assist youth. The following performance indicators/outcomes measures was developed: 90% of participants maintain a C average. The following types of records were maintained during the course of the year: compilation of all GPAs for all participants, semi-annual summary of GPAs for each participant based on school report cards, monthly reports which included number of mentor/ tutor hours, number of participants for each session, and pre-post test results for each participant.'' (3) (5 points) Provide evidence of existing youth programs and activities in your community that reduce drug abuse among youth, aftercare services for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, social services for children with emotional and behavioral problems, programs to reduce delinquency and gang participation, programs that improve academic performance and reduce the dropout rate through the use of mentors, drug and alcohol education activities, conflict resolution and counseling sessions/programs that have been implemented. Rating Factor 4: Leveraging Resources (10 Points) This factor addresses your ability to secure community and government resources that can be combined with HUD's program resources to achieve program purposes. In assessing this factor, HUD will consider the following: (1) (5 points) Written evidence of firm commitment of funding, staff, or in-kind resources, partnership agreements, and on-going or planned cooperative efforts with law enforcement agencies, local, state, tribal or national entities who have committed services through a memoranda of understanding (MOU), or memorandum of agreements (MOA) 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 to increase the effectiveness of the proposed program activities. The signed, written agreement may be contingent upon an applicant receiving a grant award. Commitments can include 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 which may include descriptions of tribal TANF plans and participation in Native Employment Works (NEW) program, or any of the following programs administered by the Department of Justice such as Operation Weed and Seed, Community Oriented Policing Services Tribal Resources Grant Program (COPS), Indian Tribal Courts, Drug-Free Communities Support Program, Tribal Youth Program, Safe Start Initiative, STOP Violence Against Indian Women Discretionary Grants and Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Program. (2) (5 points) Successful coordination of your law enforcement, or other activities with local, state, Tribal or Federal law enforcement agencies to foster meaningful collaborations and strengthen community anti-drug coalition efforts to reduce drug abuse among youth and adults and actions implemented to eradicate violent crime. Letters from various agencies supporting the submission of your IHDEP application do not constitute a letter for firm commitment. Firm commitment must be demonstrated by these agencies with exact details of the partnership between the applicant and the agency and/or provides a commitment that specifically states the amount of funding, number of staff committed and their roles and responsibilities and a description of in-kind resources available for this project. Rating Factor 5: Comprehensiveness and Coordination (10 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have coordinated your activities with other known organizations and are working towards addressing a need in a holistic and comprehensive manner through linkages with other activities in your community. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you can demonstrate you have: (1) (5 points) Coordinated your proposed activities with those of other groups or organizations prior to submission in order to best complement, support and address the needs of your community as identified in Rating Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem. Any firm written agreements, MOUs/MOAs in place, or that will be in place after award should be described and/or included. (2) (2 points) Taken specific steps to become active in your community's Indian Housing Block Grant process by providing written evidence that you have addressed crime prevention and safety issues, and that your proposed activities reflect the priorities, needs, goals or objectives of crime prevention and safety in the Indian Housing Plan (IHP). Written evidence could include a copy of your tribe's Crime Prevention and Safety Plan that is included in your Indian Housing Plan (IHP) or a written statement or letter from the tribal official stating that the FY 2001 crime prevention and safety activities will be implemented in coordination with activities outlined in the IHP. [[Page 11972]] (3) (1 point) Taken 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 IHP; and other Federal, state, tribal, or locally funded activities, including those proposed, or on-going that will sustain a comprehensive system to address the needs of your community. (4) (1 point) Your application must describe what role residents in your targeted developments, applicable community leaders and organizations and law enforcement agencies have had in planning the activities described in your application, what role they will have in implementing such activities for the duration of your grant and how services may be sustained beyond the grant term. (5) (1 point) Your application must include a discussion and written evidence (i.e. comments from residents, minutes from community meetings) of the extent to which community representatives and tribal, local, state and Federal Government officials, including law enforcement agency officials were actively involved in the design and implementation of your plan and will continue to be involved in implementing such activities during and after the period of your IHDEP funding. VI. Application Submission Requirements (A) You must submit the required IHDEP FY 2001 Application Kit that contains all of the requisite forms in order to be considered for IHDEP funding. Your application submitted to HUD must also include items required under Section V. Application Selection Process, of this NOFA, including the plan to address the problem of drug-related crime in the developments proposed for funding. Please note that the address for submitting applications has changed. Please see the Program Overview, Section I., regarding the address for submitting applications. (B) You must submit no more than one application per tribe or TDHE on behalf of the tribe for the IHDEP. An application from a tribe will supersede an application from a TDHE on behalf of that tribe. In addition, joint applications that include more than one TDHE representing the tribe are permitted only in those cases where they have a single administration (such as a TDHE managing several tribes under contract or TDHEs sharing a common executive director). In those cases, a separate budget, plan and timetable, and unit count shall be supplied in the application. In addition, you must respond to the factors for award for each tribe/TDHE for which you are acting as administrator and requesting funds, if your responses would be different (e.g., the tribes are in different jurisdictions and, therefore, the Indian Housing Plans, crime data, etc. would all be different). The application kit includes the forms, certifications and assurances required under this NOFA. (C) To be considered eligible for review and scoring, each IHDEP application must include the following items: (1) An application cover letter. (2) A summary of the proposed program activities in five (5) sentences or less on the Congressional Notification Form. (3) A list of the sub-grantees, if applicable. The list must include the names of the sub-grantees, as well as the relative roles and contributions of each sub-grantee in implementing the IHDEP grant activities (Factor 1). (4) An overall budget and timetable that includes separate budgets, goals, and timetables for each activity, and addresses milestones towards achieving each described goal. You must also describe the contributions and implementation responsibilities of each partner for each activity, goal, and milestone. (5) A description of the number of staff, the titles, professional qualifications, and respective roles of the staff assigned full or part-time to grant implementation. (Factor 1) (6) Lines of accountability (including an organization chart) for implementing the grant activity, coordinating the partnership, and assuring that the commitment made by you and your sub-grantees, if any, will be met. (Rating Factor 1) (7) A list of open IHDEP grants, the grant amount and amount expended as of the date of this application. (8) A narrative of the plan that will address the problem of drug- related crime in the developments proposed for funding. (Rating Factor 3) (9) Narrative responses to each of the five Rating Factors and their sub-factors in this NOFA: (1) Capacity of the Applicant and relevant organizational Experience, (2) Need/Extent of the Problem, (3) Soundness of Approach, (4) Leveraging Resources and (5) Comprehensiveness and Coordination. (10) You must also include the following forms which are included in the FY 2001 IHDEP Application Kit: FY 2001 IHDEP Applicant Data Input Form, Application Cover Letter, Project Summary--Congressional Notification Information Sheet, Implementation Schedule, Standard Form--424, Application for Federal Assistance, Form HUD 424--M, Federal Assistance Funding Matrix, Standard Form--424A, Budget Information (non-construction programs), Standard Form--424B, Assurances (non-construction programs), FY 2001 IHDEP Summary Budget Information, Form HUD-2880, Applicant/Recipient Disclosure/Update Report, Form HUD-50070, Drug-Free Workplace Certification, Form HUD-50071, Lobbying Certification, SF-LLL Disclosure of Lobbying Activities Certification, Form HUD-2992, Certification of Debarment and Suspension, Certification of Consistency with the Indian Housing Plan, and Certification of Resident Management Corporations, Resident Organizations and Residents Acknowledgment of Application Receipt. VII. Clarifying Information After the application due date, HUD may not, consistent with its regulations in 24 CFR part 4, subpart B, consider any unsolicited information you, the applicant, may want to provide. HUD may contact you, however, to clarify an item in your application. You should note, however, that HUD may not seek clarification of items or responses that improve the substantive quality of your response to any selection factors. HUD will make any requests for clarifying information in writing and will specify the item, or items, that need clarification and a time frame for response. Failure on your part to provide such requested information will result in the rejection of the application. VIII. Correction of Technical Deficiencies The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. Additionally, please note that as indicated under Section V.(A)(3), only successful applicants will be required to address technical deficiencies and this must be done before we make a grant award. If you do not provide the information necessary to address the deficiency within the time allowed, we will not award you the grant and will reject your application. The AONAP will notify you in writing and will describe the technical deficiency, what [[Page 11973]] must be done to correct it, and the date by which you must submit this information. The AONAP will notify you by facsimile or by return receipt requested. Your response must be submitted (postmarked) within 14 calendar days from the date of receipt of the HUD notification. IX. Error and Appeals Judgments made within the provisions of this NOFA and the program regulations (24 CFR 761) are not subject to claims of error. You may bring arithmetic errors in the rating and ranking of applications to the attention of the AONAP Administrator within 30 days of being informed of your score. If an arithmetic error was made in the application review and rating process that, when corrected, would result in the award of sufficient points to warrant the funding of an otherwise approvable project, the AONAP may fund that project in the next funding round without further competition. X. Environmental Requirements Certain eligible activities under this IHDEP NOFA are categorically excluded from review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321) and are not subject to review under related laws, in accordance with 24 CFR 50.19(b)(4), (b)(12), or (b)(13). If the IHDEP application proposes the use of grant funds to assist any non- exempt activities, HUD will perform an environmental review to the extent required by 24 CFR part 50, prior to grant award. XI. Authority Chapter 2, Subtitle C, Title V of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 11901 et seq.), as amended. Appendix A--Required Forms and Certifications The non-standard forms, which follow this checklist, are required for your application (the standards form follow the General Section). 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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 [[Page 11997]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.160 [[Page 11998]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.161 [[Page 11999]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.162 [[Page 12000]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.163 [[Page 12001]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN26FE01.164 [[Page 12003]] FUNDING AVAILABILITY FOR DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR FEDERALLY ASSISTED LOW-INCOME HOUSING (MULTIFAMILY HOUSING DRUG ELIMINATION) Program Overview Purpose of the Program. The purpose of this Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grant Program is to enable owners of federally assisted low-income housing developments to deal effectively with drug- related criminal activity in and around their developments, through a plan of activities including enhanced security measures, support of tenant patrols, and drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs. Available Funds. Approximately $16.25 million. Eligible Applicants. Only owners of eligible developments may apply for and become the recipient of grant funds. Property management companies may administer grant programs, but are not eligible applicants. Application Deadline: May 23, 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 May 23, 2001 at the address shown below. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures concerning the form of application submission (e.g., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried). Address for Submitting Applications. Appendix A to this program section contains a list of HUD Field Offices where you must send your application by the deadline. Please address your application to the Director, Multifamily Housing Hub or Program Center in your local HUD Field Office. For Application Kits. For an application kit, please 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, please refer to Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grants, and provide your name, address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code). An application kit also will be available on the Internet at http:// www.hud.gov/grants. For Further Information and Technical Assistance. You may contact your local HUD Field Office staff for questions you have regarding this program section of the SuperNOFA and your application kit. Please contact the Resident Initiatives Specialist or Drug Elimination Grants contact person in your local office. If you have a question that the Field staff are unable to answer, please call Carissa Janis, Housing Project Manager, Office of Housing Assistance and Grants Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 6146, Washington, DC 20410; (202) 708-2866, extension 2487 (this number is not toll free). If you are hearing or speech impaired, you may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay Service 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/grants. II. Amount Allocated (A) Available Funding. HUD is allocating funds under this Multifamily Drug Elimination Grant Program section of the SuperNOFA to the eighteen Multifamily Housing Hub Offices, in accordance with the following schedule: Hub Offices and Field Office Jurisdictions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atlanta Hub (Atlanta, Caribbean, Knoxville, Nashville, $1,219,019 Louisville)............................................... Baltimore Hub (Baltimore, Richmond, Washington, DC)........ 801,213 Boston Hub (Boston, Hartford, Manchester, Providence)...... 1,310,033 Buffalo Hub................................................ 329,658 Chicago Hub (Chicago, Indianapolis)........................ 989,691 Columbus Hub (Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland)............. 945,259 Denver Hub................................................. 757,497 Detroit Hub (Detroit, Grand Rapids)........................ 619,184 Ft. Worth Hub (Ft. Worth, Albuquerque, Houston, Little 1,161,687 Rock, New Orleans, San Antonio, Shreveport)............... Greensboro Hub (Greensboro, Columbia)..................... 811,246 Jacksonville Hub (Jacksonville, Birmingham, Jackson)....... 1,006,891 Kansas City Hub (Kansas City, Des Moines, Oklahoma City, 1,183,903 Omaha, St. Louis, Tulsa).................................. Los Angeles Hub............................................ 761,080 Minneapolis Hub (Minneapolis, Milwaukee)................... 999,008 New York Hub............................................... 599,118 Philadelphia Hub (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston, 1,138,754 Newark)................................................... San Francisco Hub (San Francisco, Honolulu, Las Vegas, 909,427 Phoenix, Sacramento)...................................... Seattle Hub (Seattle, Portland, Anchorage)................. 707,332 ------------ Grand Total............................................ 16,250,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Multifamily Housing Hub offices will select applicants for award according to the process discussed in Section V of this program section of the SuperNOFA. (B) Maximum Grant Award. The maximum amount of funds you may receive for an application with one development is $125,000 and the maximum for an application for two or more developments is $200,000. (C) Reduction of Requested Grant Amounts. You may be awarded an amount less than requested if: (1) HUD determines that some elements of your proposed action plan are ineligible for funding; (2) Insufficient amounts remain under the allocation to fund the full amount you requested, and HUD determines [[Page 12004]] that partial funding is a viable option; or (3) HUD determines that a reduced grant would prevent duplicative Federal funding. III. Program Description; Eligible Applicants; Eligible Activities (A) Program Description. The Federally Assisted Low-Income Housing Drug Elimination Grant program is designed to assist property owners to reduce or eliminate drug-related criminal activity in and around their developments and to provide programs to prevent or eliminate drug use and abuse among their residents. While this program is centered in and around the premises of one or more HUD assisted multifamily housing sites, you are expected to work closely with other community social service and law enforcement organizations to achieve specific program objectives to reduce or eliminate drug-related criminal activity. The development of these strong working partnerships is an essential part of this program and is seen by the Department as necessary for long- term strategies to fight crime and drug abuse. Thus, while your activities are targeted in and around one or more developments, HUD expects you to link your activities with services available in your community. In particular, HUD is seeking plans that provide successful, proven, and cost-effective deterrents to drug-related crime and drug abuse that are designed to address the realities of federally assisted low-income housing environments. (B) Eligible Applicants (1) To be eligible for funding, you must meet all of the applicable threshold requirements of Section II(B) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA and must be owners of developments assisted under the following programs: (a) Sections 221(d)(3) below market interest rate, or 236 of the National Housing Act; (b) Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965; or (c) Any development receiving project-based assistance under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. This includes Section 202, Section 515, State Housing Finance Agency, Moderate Rehabilitation, Section 8 New Construction and Substantial Rehabilitation, 221(d)(3), 221(d)(4), and 236 developments. (2) If you are a management agent, you may prepare applications and sign application documents if you provide written authorization from the owner as part of your application. (3) If your eligibility status changes during the course of the grant term, making you ineligible to receive a grant (e.g. due to prepayment of mortgage, sale of property, or opting out of a Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract), HUD has the right to terminate your grant. (4) To be eligible, developments must also meet the following criteria: (a) Are current in mortgage payments or are current under a workout agreement; (b) Meet HUD's Uniform Physical Conditions Standards (codified in 24 CFR part 5, subpart G), based on the most recent physical inspection report and responses thereto, as evidenced by a score of 60 or better or an approved plan for developments scoring less than 60, and (c) Are in compliance with your regulatory agreement, HAP Contract, and other outstanding directives. (5) Eligible owners may apply for and receive both Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grants and New Approach Anti-Drug grants. (C) Eligible Activities. Your proposed drug elimination program should foster interrelationships among the residents, the housing owner and management, the local law enforcement agencies, and other community groups affecting your development. Resident participation in the determination of programs and activities to be undertaken is critical to the success of all aspects of your program. In addition to working closely with the development's residents, your program must include working with community groups, the neighborhood law enforcement precinct, residents of adjacent developments, and the community as a whole to enhance and magnify the effect of your specific program activities. HUD seeks result-oriented programs that promote stability, positive and lasting changes in and around your development and the surrounding community, and which use proven cost-effective measures to reduce drug use or prevent criminal activity. With the very real need to protect occupants of HUD-assisted 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. You may not use race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, or familial status to profile persons as suspects or otherwise target them in conducting these activities. In addition, all segments of the population should be represented in developing and implementing your crime-fighting strategies. (1) Physical Improvements To Enhance Security. All physical 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. In addition, such physical improvements must support or enhance visitability for people with mobility impairments. Your physical improvements may include systems to limit building access to development residents; installation of barriers, lighting systems, fences, bolts, locks; landscaping or reconfiguration of common areas to discourage drug-related crime; or other physical improvements that enhance security and discourage drug-related activities. Rehabilitation of existing space for use by drug-related intervention and prevention programs is an eligible activity. (2) The provision of training, communications equipment, and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials is an eligible activity. (3) Programs to Reduce the Use of Drugs. Programs to reduce the use of drugs in and around your development, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment are eligible for funding. Where appropriate, you must establish a confidentiality policy regarding medical and disability-related information. Funding is permitted for reasonable, necessary, and justified leasing of vehicles for resident youth and adult education and training activities directly related to ``programs to reduce the use of drugs'' under this section. All such services and educational and training programs must be fully accessible to people with disabilities. (a) Drug Prevention. Your drug prevention activities should provide a comprehensive drug prevention approach that will address the individual resident and his or her relationship to family, peers, and the community. Prevention activities should identify and change the conditions in federally assisted low-income housing that lead to drug- related problems and lower the risk of drug usage. Many components of a comprehensive approach, such as refusal and restraint skills training or drug-related family counseling, may already be available in your community. Your plan should include bringing [[Page 12005]] program components already available in the community onto the premises. Proposed activities may include the following: (i) Drug Education Opportunities for Residents. Activities should provide both young people and adults with the working knowledge and skills needed to avoid the potential and immediate dangers of illegal drugs. You may contract (in accordance with 24 CFR 85.36) with drug education professionals to provide training or workshops. Contracted drug education services must reflect or be tied to your program plan. (ii) Family and Other Support Services. Prevention programs should be designed to help foster successful family relationships that may inhibit or reduce drug use. Examples of services include parenting skills workshops, short-term family counseling, child care, or family, cultural or educational programs. You may provide these programs directly or refer residents to such services already available in your community. (iii) Youth Services. If you propose drug prevention services in your plan and your development has a substantial number of young residents, HUD strongly encourages you to include youth in your prevention programs. Your proposed prevention activities for youth must involve the active participation of youth in planning programs and service delivery. Such youth-oriented drug prevention programs may include youth leadership skills training; events incorporating dissemination of drug education information; and sports, recreational, cultural, and general education activities. (iv) Economic/Educational Opportunities. Eligible economic or educational programs should have the objectives of assisting residents in improving their educational status, vocational and job readiness skills, and opportunities for obtaining employment. The ultimate goal of services should be to assist residents in obtaining suitable lifelong employment and self-sufficiency to deter drug use, abuse, and related crime. (b) Intervention. The aim of intervention is to provide residents with substance abuse/dependency remission services to assist them in modifying their behavior; obtaining early treatment and structured aftercare; and maintaining remission. Your program should also be designed to prevent drug problems from continuing once detected. If you propose any intervention program that seeks to accomplish the above objectives, you must describe how you expect the activities to assist residents in reducing or ceasing their use of illicit drugs and involvement in drug-related crime. (c) Drug Treatment. If your program provides treatment services, they must be targeted to the development and its residents. Your program should be conducted in and around the premises of the development, or residents must be referred to receive treatment from other available sources within the community. You may include implementing new drug referral treatment or aftercare services, or improve or expand currently available services. Your proposed drug treatment program should aim to reduce illicit drug use among residents by increasing resident accessibility to, and effective participation in, drug treatment activities, and decreasing criminal activity in and around your development. Your proposed plan must demonstrate a working partnership with your Single State Agency (or State license provider or authority with drug program coordination responsibilities in your State) to coordinate, develop, and implement your drug treatment program. In particular, you and the appropriate agency must confirm that your proposed drug treatment provider(s) has provided these services to similar populations for two prior years and your drug treatment program is consistent with the State treatment plan, meeting all State licensing requirements. Services eligible for funding may include: (i) Drug treatment supportive services designed for youth and/or maternal drug abusers. Examples of services are: prenatal/postpartum care; specialized counseling for women; or, parenting classes. You are encouraged to draw upon approaches that have proven effective with similar populations. (ii) Formal referral arrangements to treatment programs not in and around the development when treatment funding from sources other than this program are available. (iii) Transportation for residents to out-patient treatment and/or support programs. (iv) Family/collateral counseling. (v) Linking programs with educational/vocational counseling. (vi) Coordinating services with appropriate local drug agencies, HIV-related service agencies, and mental health and public health programs. (D) Ineligible Activities. The following activities are not eligible for funding: (1) Hiring of or contracting employment security guards to provide security services in and around the development. (2) Any activity or improvement that is normally funded from project operating revenues for routine maintenance or repairs, or those activities or improvements that may be funded through reasonable and affordable rent increases; (3) The acquisition of real property or those physical improvements that involve the demolition of any units in your development or displacement of tenants; (4) Costs incurred prior to the effective date of your grant agreement, including consultant fees for surveys related to your application or its preparation; (5) Reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services; (6) Employment of one or more individuals to investigate drug- related crime in and around federally-assisted low-income developments and/or to provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding; (7) Treatment of residents at any in-patient medical treatment programs or facilities; (8) Detoxification procedures designed to reduce or eliminate the presence of toxic substances in body tissues of a patient; (9) Maintenance drug programs; [Maintenance drugs are medications that are prescribed regularly for a long period of supportive therapy (e.g., methadone maintenance), rather than for immediate control of a disorder.] (10) Programs to treat alcoholism; and (11) Funding of police informants who provide information about drug-related activity. IV. Program Requirements In addition to the requirements listed in Section II of the General Section of this SuperNOFA, you must also meet the additional requirements in Section IV of this program section of the SuperNOFA. These requirements apply to all activities, programs, and functions used to plan, budget, and evaluate the work funded under your program. (A) Administrative Costs. Administrative costs cannot exceed 10% of your proposed program's total cost. HUD will look more favorably upon proposals that target grant funds to hard program costs and propose minimal, if any, administrative expenses. (B) Term of Funded Activities. Your grant term cannot exceed twelve months. (C) Multiple Developments. There is no limit to the number of developments that can be included in your [[Page 12006]] application. However, if you include more than one development in your application, all developments must be eligible and located in the same Field Office jurisdiction. In addition, you must demonstrate in your response to Rating Factor 3 ``Soundness of Approach--(Quality of the Plan)'' that your program will be feasible to implement among all proposed developments. (D) Subgrants and Subcontracting. You may directly undertake or subcontract for any of the eligible activities under this Multifamily Drug Elimination Program section of the SuperNOFA. Resident groups that are not incorporated may work with you in the implementation of your program, but may not receive funds as subgrantees. (E) Collection of Crime Data. If you receive a grant, you will be required to collect and report on Parts I and II crime data. Parts I and II crime data are defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System (see Rating Factor 2, paragraph (1)(d)). (F) Forms, Certifications and Assurances. See the General Section of the SuperNOFA for the applicable forms, certifications, and assurances that you must submit. This includes a certification that you are in compliance with Federal Civil Rights laws, as specified in Section II(G)(7) of the General Section of this SuperNOFA. (G) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. You must comply with Section II(D) of the General Section of this SuperNOFA. (H) Federal Labor Standards. In accordance with 24 CFR 761.40, when grant funds are used to undertake physical improvements to assisted multifamily housing, you must comply with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements. V. Application Selection Process (A) Rating and Ranking. All applications will be evaluated competitively and ranked against applications in the same Field Office. The maximum number of points for this program is 102. This includes two Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) bonus points, as described in the General Section of the SuperNOFA. For bonus points related to activities located in Empowerment Zones or Enterprise Communities, you must demonstrate that there is a connection between such EZ or EC and tenant, local government, and local community support and participation in the design and implementation of the proposed activities to be funded under this program. (B) Distribution of Funds. This year HUD will distribute funds to each Multifamily Housing Hub Office, in proportion to the number of eligible developments in that area. 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 Offices will conduct the selection process as follows: Where a Multifamily Hub covers more than one 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. Any funds still remaining after the Hub Office distribution by rank will be forwarded to Headquarters, which shall make awards to fund as many remaining applications as possible by national rank order. All applications must receive a score equal to or greater than the minimum score of 70 without bonus points to be considered for funding. This process balances a geographic distribution with a process that gives priority to the most highly rated applications. Your application will primarily compete for funding with other applications submitted within that same Hub Office jurisdiction. (C) Procedure to Resolve Tied Scores. If two or more applications have the same score and there are insufficient funds to fund all of them, the application with the highest score for the Soundness of Approach rating factor shall be selected for funding. If a tie still remains, the application with the highest score for the Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Experience rating factor shall be selected. Further tied applications will be selected by their scores in the Need/Extent of Problem, Leveraging Resources, and Comprehensiveness and Coordination rating factors, in that order. If the applications received the same score for each of the five factors, the Multifamily Hub Office or Headquarters will break the remaining tie by selecting the application whose developments(s) are in most financial need based on a per unit negative cash flow analysis of the most recent Annual Financial Statement (AFS). (D) Factors for Award Used to Evaluate and Rate Applications. The five factors in this section total 100 points. An application must receive a score of at least 70 points to be eligible for funding under this competition. Each application submitted will be evaluated using the following selection criteria set forth below. Rating Factor 1: Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Experience (20 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you have organizational resources necessary to successfully implement your proposed activities in a timely manner. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which you demonstrate the capabilities described below. (1) (20 points) Administrative Capacity. (a) The knowledge and experience of your staff and your administrative capacity to manage grants, including administrative support functions, procurement, lines of authority, and fiscal management capacity. Your narrative must include a discussion of financial capacity, staff resources, and prior experience that will enable you to effectively administer a grant and meet reporting requirements. Your narrative should not exceed five pages. (b) HUD's evaluation approach. (i) For Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs) that had previously applied as IHAs, HUD will also consider such measurements as the uniform crime index, physical inspections, agency monitoring of records, Line of Credit Control System (LOCCS) Reports, audit and such other relevant information available to HUD on the capacity of the owner or manager to administer the grant. (ii) For owners of federally-assisted low income housing, HUD will also consider the most recent Management Review (including Rural Housing Management Review), HUD's Uniform Physical Conditions Standards review, State Agency review, physical inspection, and other relevant information available to HUD on the capacity of the owner and manager to undertake the grant. (2) (Deduct up to 5 points for prior poor performance) Your performance in administering Drug Elimination funding in the previous 5 years. HUD will consider your participation in HUD grant programs within the preceding five years and evaluate the degree of your success in implementing and managing these grant programs. HUD will look at program implementation, timely drawdown of funds, timely submission of required reports with [[Page 12007]] satisfactory outcomes related to the plan and timetable, audit compliance, whether there are any unresolved findings from prior HUD reports (e.g., performance or finance) reviews of audits undertaken by HUD, the Office of Inspector General, the General Accounting Office or independent public accountants). For PHAs, your past experience will be evaluated in terms of your ability to attain demonstrated measurable progress in tracking drug related crime, enforcement of screening and lease procedures in implementation of the ``One Strike and You're Out Initiative'' (as applicable), the extent to which you have formed a collaboration with Tribal, State and local law enforcement agencies and courts to gain access to criminal conviction records of potential tenants to determine their suitability for residence in public housing. Such data will be measured and evaluated based on your public housing assessment score (24 CFR parts 901/902). 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 a documented problem in the target area (i.e., the degree of the severity of the drug-related crime problem in the development(s) proposed for funding). In responding to this factor, HUD will evaluate your application based on the extent to which a critical level of need for your proposed activities is explained and you provide a justification for the urgency of meeting the need in your development(s) and the area around your development(s). Your application must include a description of the extent and nature of drug-related crime ``in and around'' the housing units or development(s) you propose for funding. (1) Drug-Related Crime Statistics. (23 Points) You will receive up to 23 points for this factor if your statistics and explanation of need establish critical crime problems and an urgency to address these problems in and around your development(s). To receive the maximum number of points, you must provide statistics for both the premises of your development(s) and the smallest geographic area surrounding your development(s) for which objective statistics are available in your community, town, or city. If you use statistics from institutions (e.g. hospitals or schools), the institutions must directly serve the residents of the targeted development(s). If the statistics you provide do not indicate a critical need, urgency to meet this need, or you do not provide statistics that document the need within your development(s) or the area around your development(s), you will not receive the maximum number of points. If you do not submit the letter or documentation for the ``non-objective'' data, indicated in paragraph 2(a), below, you will also receive fewer points. The statistics and information you provide must include the following: (a) ``Objective Crime Data'' relevant to the target area. Such data should 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 one-year period for distribution of heroin in a development with 100 residents reflects a 20% occurrence rate). Such data may include: (i) Police records or other verifiable information from records on the types or sources of drug related crime in the targeted development and surrounding area; (ii) The number of lease terminations or evictions for drug-related crime at the targeted development; and (iii) 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 your development 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. (iv) To the extent possible, you should obtain statistics on Part I and Part II crimes, as defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System. Part 1 crimes include: criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault two (including domestic violence through use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm), burglary-breaking or entering, larceny-theft (except motor vehicle theft), motor vehicle theft, and arson. Part II crimes include: assaults, forgery and counterfeiting, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons (carrying or possessing), prostitution and commercialized vice, sex offenses (except forcible rape, prostitution, and commercialized vice), drug abuse violations, gambling, offenses against the family and children, driving under the influence, violation of liquor laws, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, all other offenses related to curfew and loitering laws and runaways. 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. (b) Other Crime Data. If you are unable to attain objective crime statistics as mentioned above, you may submit other supporting, verifiable data on the extent of drug-related crime in the target area. If you submit other relevant information in place of objective data, you must provide the following to receive the maximum number of points: (i) A letter or supporting documentation from your local law enforcement agency or another relevant neighborhood organization explaining why the objective data mentioned above is not available, and (ii) A narrative explanation of the reasons why objective data could not be obtained, what efforts were made to obtain it, and what efforts will be made (if possible) during the grant period to begin obtaining the data. Such data may include the following: --Surveys of residents and staff in the targeted development 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 your targeted development. --Vandalism cost at your targeted development, to include elevator vandalism (where appropriate) and other vandalism attributable to drug- related crime. --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 your development 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.) --The school dropout rate and level of absenteeism for youth that you can relate to drug-related crime. --To the extent that the community's Consolidated Plan identifies the level of the drug abuse and related crime [[Page 12008]] problems in and around your targeted development, and the urgency in meeting the need, references to these documents should be included in your response. You will receive more points if you use these documents to identify need. (2) Development Need Based on Prior Award. (2 points) If you have not received an award for the development(s) submitted in your FY 2001 application in the FY 1998, 1999, or 2000 competitions, you will receive two points. If you submit an application with multiple developments and one or more developments did not receive an award in FY 1998, 1999, or 2000, you will receive one point. Rating Factor 3: Soundness of Approach--(Quality of the Plan) (35 Points) This factor addresses the quality and effectiveness of your proposed work plan. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the impact of your proposed activities and the tangible benefits that can be attained by the community and by the target population. Your application must include a detailed narrative describing each proposed activity for crime reduction and elimination efforts for each development proposed for assistance, the amount and extent of resources committed to each activity or service proposed, and process used 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. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the following: (1) (14 points) Your plan's approach to address the drug-related crime problem and associated problems in the development proposed for funding, the resources allocated, and the extent to which your proposed activities are targeted to residents, provide for linkages with existing community resources, and are likely to have long term impacts on reducing drug use and drug-related crime in and around your targeted development. Also, you must include the rationale for the proposed activities and methods to be used in developing your program and approach to reducing drug-related crime and drug abuse. If you propose drug prevention or intervention activities, these services must constitute a continuing and comprehensive approach to deter drug use or abuse among your residents and their neighbors. Your proposal must demonstrate how your activities work together with other on-going activities in the community and how these activities rely upon each other to form a holistic plan. Your plan must include the following items. If these are not included, you will receive fewer points under this subfactor: (a) An explanation of how any proposed physical improvements, services, and training programs will be accessible and visitable to persons with disabilities and a statement that they will 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; (b) A discussion of how any drug education services that you propose to undertake directly or through a subcontract will reflect the objectives of your program plan; (c) A specific explanation of how you plan to incorporate the active participation of youth in planning prevention programs and services targeted to their needs; and (d) If you propose drug treatment activities, you must provide a letter from your Single State Agency (or State license provider or authority with drug program coordination responsibilities in your State) that states that your program is effectively coordinating, developing, and implementing drug treatment programs in partnership with that entity. (2) (10 points) The anticipated effectiveness of your plan and proposed activities in reducing or eliminating drug-related crime problems immediately and over an extended period. This should include the following: (a) A description of established performance goals for the results to be achieved during the period of your grant. The goals must be objective, quantifiable, and measurable, and they must be outcome or result-oriented. Outcomes include accomplishments, results, impact and the ultimate effects of the program on the drug or crime problem in the target/development area. (b) An explanation of how your proposed activities enhance and are coordinated with on going or proposed programs sponsored by HUD, such as Neighborhood Networks, Campus of Learners, Operation Safe Home, ``One Strike and You're Out'', Department of Justice Weed and Seed efforts, or any other prevention/intervention/treatment activities in your community. Explain the specific steps you will take to share and coordinate information on solutions and outcomes with other law- enforcement and governmental agencies, and a description of any written agreements in place or that will be put in place by you with these entities. (3) (3 points) Evidence and explanation of how proposed activities have been effective in similar circumstances in controlling drug- related crime. If you are proposing new methods for which there is limited knowledge of effectiveness, you should provide the basis for modifying past practices and rationale for why you believe the modification will yield more effective results. (4) (3 points) The process you will use to maintain, analyze, and report Part I and II crimes, as well as police workload data. Police workload data may include, but are not limited to: all calls for service by residents of your development, crime pattern over a period of time by type of crime, and plans to improve data collection and reporting. Your proposed analysis of the data collected must include a method for assessing the impact of activities on the collected crime statistics throughout your award period. The results of your activities and the effect on statistics is of much greater importance than the method you will use to collect such data, so you should pay attention to the benchmarks you establish for measuring and evaluating your performance, particularly measuring changes in crime rates by Part I and Part II crime data. (5) (1 point deducted if not addressed) The extent to which your program to eliminate crime in your development or neighborhood will expand fair housing choice and will affirmatively further fair housing. Provide a brief statement outlining the benchmarks you will use to measure your success in affirmatively furthering fair housing through this program. This may include such items as making physical improvements accessible to persons with disabilities, lower vacancy and turnover rates and increased new applications for housing in your development and in other rental properties in your neighborhood, new businesses and other community development initiatives in your area, or increased rates of homeownership in your community. (6) (5 points) Resident Support. The extent to which you have sought the support of residents in planning and implementing the proposed activities. (a) You must provide evidence that you actively sought comments, suggestions, and support from residents for your proposed plan. State the steps you took to obtain this information and support. Demonstrate that you made your proposed plan available and that you requested comments in the language(s) of the tenants residing in your development(s). [[Page 12009]] (b) Describe and provide written documentation of these comments, suggestions, and support. HUD needs clear evidence that the residents agree with, support, and will work with your proposed program. If applicable, you must explain why you do not have written documentation of such support or did not receive any comments or suggestions. (c) Describe how residents will be involved in implementing your program. If involvement would be minimal or not appropriate, please state and explain why. Rating Factor 4: Leveraging Community Resources (10 Points) To receive points under this rating factor, you must provide evidence of the level and type of participation and support by the local government or law enforcement agency for your proposed activities. This should include the level of assistance received from local government, community organizations, and/or law enforcement agencies. If a community organization is providing you with staff or supporting services, you must include a letter from each organization providing staff or support in order to receive maximum points. Each letter must specify what type of participation or contributions the organization will make to your program. Such letters must be from businesses, non-profit or public agencies within your unit of general local government (i.e. county, town, city) or incorporated resident organizations. Letters stating general support or from people or organizations not in and around your development are not relevant and you should not include them in your application. Rating Factor 5: Comprehensiveness and Coordination (10 Points) This factor addresses the extent to which you coordinate 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. In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider your prior efforts and future plans to coordinate with other local agencies and organizations as follows: (1) (3 points) Describe past efforts to coordinate your proposed activities with those of other groups or organizations prior to submission of your application in order to best complement, support, and coordinate all known activities. Explain what specific steps you will take to share information on solutions and outcomes with others. Please describe any written agreements or memoranda of understanding that are or will be in place after award. (2) (6 points) Explain what specific steps you have taken or will take to develop linkages or coordinate comprehensive solutions through meetings, information networks, planning processes, or other mechanisms. Explain your past efforts or planned efforts for involvement with such programs or other HUD-funded projects/activities outside the scope of those covered by the Consolidated Plan; and/or other Federal, State, or locally funded activities, including those proposed or on-going in the community. (3) (1 point) Explain specific steps you have taken or will take to become active in your 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. VI. Application Submission Requirements (A) There is no limit to the number of developments per application. However, all developments in one application must be eligible and located in the same Field Office jurisdiction. You must demonstrate in Rating Factor 3 ``Soundness of Approach--(Quality of the Plan)'' that your program will be feasible to implement among all proposed developments. In addition, you must provide pertinent information for each Rating Factor for each proposed development. (B) 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, 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: Standard Forms --Standard Form for Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) (which includes civil rights/fair housing certification); --Federal Assistance Funding Matrix and Certifications (HUD-424M); --Standard Form for Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs (SF 424A); --Standard Form for Assurances--Non-Construction Programs (SF-424B); --Drug Free Workplace Certification (HUD-50070); --Certification of Payments to Influence Federal Transactions (HUD- 50071) and if engaged in lobbying, the Disclosure Form Regarding Lobbying (SF-LLL): --Applicant/Recipient Disclosure/Update Report Form (HUD-2880); --Acknowledgment of Application Receipt (HUD-2993) Other Application Items (1) Application Cover Letter that outlines and explains the application structure; includes the name of a contact person and a number where he/she can be reached, and provides any other information you feel would assist HUD in reviewing your application. (2) Applicant Data Input Form. (3) Abstract of Proposed Program, consisting of one paragraph which summarizes your proposed program. (4) Rating Factor 1 Narrative. A narrative, not to exceed five pages, which includes a discussion of your organization's financial capacity, staff resources, and prior experience that will enable you to effectively administer a grant and meet reporting requirements. (5) Rating Factor 2 Narrative and Statistics. The narrative and data must describe critical level of need for your proposed activities and a justification for the urgency of meeting the need in your development(s) and the area around your development(s). The description must indicate the extent and nature of drug-related crime. (a) ``Objective Crime Data'' (i.e. statistics and other information) relevant to the target area, or (b) Other supporting, verifiable data on the extent of drug-related crime in the target area. If you submit other relevant information in place of objective data, you must also provide the following: (i) A letter or supporting documentation from your local law enforcement agency or another relevant neighborhood organization explaining why objective data are not available, and (ii) A narrative explanation of the reasons why objective data could not be obtained, what efforts were made to obtain them, and what efforts will be made (if possible) during the grant period to begin obtaining the data. (6) Rating Factor 3 Narrative. A narrative describing your plan's approach to address the drug-related [[Page 12010]] crime problem and associated problems in the development proposed for funding. The narrative must include: (a) An explanation of the anticipated effectiveness of your plan and proposed activities in reducing or eliminating drug-related crime problems immediately and over an extended period. (b) Evidence and explanation of how proposed activities have been effective in similar circumstances in controlling drug-related crime. (c) A description of the process you will use to maintain, analyze, and report Part I and II crimes, as well as police workload data. (d) An explanation of the extent to which your program to eliminate crime in your development or neighborhood will expand fair housing choice and will affirmatively further fair housing. (e) Evidence that you actively sought comments, suggestions, and support from residents for your proposed plan. Provide written documentation of these comments, suggestions, and support. If applicable, you must explain why you do not have written documentation of such support or did not receive any comments or suggestions. Describe how residents will be involved in implementing your program. (f) Drug Treatment Program Certification (if applicable). (7) Rating Factor 4 Narrative and Letters. The narrative and letters must provide evidence of the specific type of participation, assistance, or other support received from local government, community organizations, and/or law enforcement agencies for your proposed activities. If a community organization is providing you with staff or supporting services, you must include a letter from each organization providing staff or support. (8) Rating Factor 5 Narrative. The narrative must describe your past efforts to coordinate your proposed activities with those of other groups or organizations prior to submission of your application. The narrative must include; (a) An explanation of the specific steps you have taken or will take to develop linkages or coordinate comprehensive solutions through meetings, information networks, planning processes, or other mechanisms. Explain your past efforts or planned efforts for involvement with relevant community activities. (b) An explanation of the specific steps you have taken or will take to become active in your community's Consolidated Planning process. VII. Corrections to Deficient Applications The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. VIII. Environmental Requirements It is anticipated that most activities under this program are categorically excluded from NEPA and related environmental authorities under 24 CFR 50.19(b)(3), (4), (12), or (13). If grant funds will be used to cover the cost of any activities which are not exempted from environmental review requirements--such as acquisition, leasing, construction, or building rehabilitation, HUD will perform an environmental review to the extent required by 24 CFR part 50, prior to grant award. IX. Authority This program is authorized under Chapter 2, subtitle C, title V of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 11901 et. seq.), as amended by section 581 of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 (Pub.L. 102-550) and section 161 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, (Pub.L. 102-550), and further amended by Title V, Subtitle F, section 586 of the Fiscal Year 1999 HUD Appropriations Act (Pub.L. 105- 276, approved October 21, 1998). The regulations for the program are found in 24 CFR part 761, Drug Elimination Programs. Appendix A--HUD Field Office List for Multifamily Housing Alabama Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Birmingham Office, 600 Beacon Parkway West, Rm. 300, Birmingham, AL 35209-3144, OFC Phone: (205) 290-7611, FAX: (205) 290-7632 Alaska Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Seattle Office, 909 First Avenue, Suite 190, MS-0AHM, Seattle, WA 98104-1000, OFC Phone: (206) 220-5228 ext. 3250, FAX: (206) 220-5206 Arizona Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Phoenix Office, 400 North Fifth Street, Suite 1600, Phoenix, AZ 85004-2361, OFC Phone: (602) 379-4434, FAX: (602) 379-3985 Arkansas Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Little Rock Office, 425 West Capitol Avenue #900, Little Rock, AR 72201-3488, OFC Phone: (501) 324-5401, FAX: (501) 324-6142 California Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--San Francisco Office, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, PO Box 36003, San Francisco, CA 94102-3448, OFC Phone: (415) 436-6505, FAX: (415) 436-8996 Los Angeles Multifamily Hub, 611 West Sixth Street, Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA 90017, OFC Phone: (213) 894-8000 x 3634, Fax: (213) 894- 8255 Colorado Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Denver Office, 633 17th Street, 11th Floor, Denver, CO 80202-3607, OFC Phone: (303) 672-5343, FAX: (303) 672-5153 Connecticut Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Hartford Office, One Corporate Center, 19th floor, Hartford, CT 06103-3220, OFC Phone: (860) 240-4800 Ext. 3068, FAX: (860) 240-4850 Delaware Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Philadelphia Office, The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square, East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3380, OFC Phone: (215) 656-0609 Ext. 3533, FAX: (215) 656-3427 District of Columbia Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Washington, DC Office, Suite 300, 820 First Street, 0, Washington, DC 20012-4205, OFC Phone: (202) 275-9200, FAX: (202) 275-9212 Florida Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--Jacksonville Office, 301 West Bay Street, Suite 2200, Jacksonville, FL 32202-5121, OFC Phone: (904) 232-1777 x2144, FAX: (904) 232-2731 Georgia Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--Atlanta Office, Five Points Plaza Building, 40 Marietta Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2806, OFC Phone: (404) 331-4976, FAX: (404) 331-4028 Hawaii Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Honolulu Office, 7 Waterfront Plaza, 500 Ala Moana Blvd. #500, Honolulu, HI 96813-4918, OFC Phone: (808) 522-8185 Ext. 244, FAX: (808) 522-8194 Idaho Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Seattle Office, 909 First Avenue, Suite 190, MS-0AHM, Seattle, WA 98104-1000, OFC Phone: (206) 220-5228 ext. 3250, FAX: (206) 220-5206 Illinois Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--Chicago Office, Ralph Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604-3507, OFC Phone: (312) 353-6236 Ext. 2202, FAX: (312) 886-2729 Indiana Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Indianapolis Office, 151 North Delaware Street, Suite 1200, Indianapolis, IN 46204-2526, OFC Phone: (317) 226-6303, FAX: (317) 226-7308 Iowa Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Des Moines Office, 210 Walnut Street, [[Page 12011]] Room 239, Des Moines, IA 50309-2155, OFC Phone: (515) 284-4736, FAX: (515) 284-4743 Kansas Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Kansas City Office, 400 State Avenue, Room 200, Kansas City, KS 66101-2406, OFC Phone: (913) 551-6844, FAX: (913) 551-5469 Kentucky Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Louisville Office, 601 West Broadway, PO Box 1044, Louisville, KY 40201-1044, OFC Phone: (502) 582-6124, FAX: (502) 582-6547 Louisiana Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD New Orleans Office, Hale Boggs Bldg.--501 Magazine Street, 9th Floor, New Orleans, LA 70130- 3099, OFC Phone: (504) 589-7236, FAX: (504) 589-6834 Maine Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Manchester Office, Norris Cotton Federal Bldg., 275 Chestnut Street, Manchester, NH 03101- 2487, OFC Phone: (603) 666-7684, FAX: (603) 666-7697 Maryland Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Baltimore Office, 5th Floor, 10 South Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-2505, OFC Phone: (410) 962-2520 Ext. 3474, FAX: (410) 962-1849 Massachusetts Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--Boston Office, O'Neil Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, Rm. 375, Boston, MA 02222-1092, OFC Phone: (617) 565-5162, FAX: (617) 565-6557 Michigan Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Detroit Office, 477 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226-2592, OFC Phone: (313) 226-7900, FAX: (313) 226- 5611 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Grand Rapids, Trade Center Building, 50 Louis Street, NW., Grand Rapids, MI 49503-2648, OFC Phone: (616) 456-2100, FAX: (616) 456-2191 Minnesota Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Minneapolis Office, 220 Second Street, South, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2195, OFC Phone: (612) 370-3051 Ext. 0, FAX: (612) 370-3090 Mississippi Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Jackson Office--McCoy, Federal Building, 100 W. Capitol Street, Room 910, Jackson, MS 39269-1096, OFC Phone: (601) 965-4738, FAX: (601) 965-4773 Missouri Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Kansas City Office, 400 State Avenue, Room 200, Kansas City, KS 66101-2406, OFC Phone: (913) 551-6844, FAX: (913) 551-5469 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD St. Louis Office, Robert A. Young Federal Building, 1222 Spruce Street--Third Floor, St. Louis, MO 63103-2836, OFC Phone: (314) 539-6382, FAX: (314) 539-6356 Montana Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Denver Office, 633 17th Street, 14th Floor, Denver, CO 80202-3607, OFC Phone: (303) 672-5343, FAX: (303) 672-5153 Nebraska Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Omaha Office, 10909 Mill Valley Road, Suite 100, Omaha, NE 68154-3955, OFC Phone: (402) 492- 3113, FAX: (402) 492-3184 Nevada Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Las Vegas Office, 333 N. Rancho Drive--Atrium Bldg. Suite 700, Las Vegas, NV 89106-3714, OFC Phone: (702) 388-6525, FAX: (702) 388-6244 New Hampshire Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Manchester Office, Norris Cotton Federal Bldg., 275 Chestnut Street, Manchester, NH 03101- 2487, OFC Phone: (603) 666-7684, FAX: (603) 666-7697 New Jersey Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Newark Office--13th Floor, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102-5260, OFC Phone: (973) 622-7900 Ext. 3400, FAX: (973) 645-2271. New Mexico Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Ft. Worth Office, 801 Cherry Street, PO Box 2905, Ft. Worth, TX 76102-2905, OFC Phone: (817) 978-5764, FAX: (817) 978-5520 New York Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--New York Office, 26 Federal Plaza-- Room 3214, New York, NY 10278-0068, OFC Phone: (212) 264-0777 Ext. 3713, FAX: (212) 264-1277 Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD--Buffalo Office, Lafayette Court, 5th Floor, 465 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1780, OFC Phone: (716) 551-5755 Ext. 5506, FAX: (716) 551-3252 North Carolina Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Greensboro Office--Koger Building, 2306 West Meadowview Road, Greensboro, NC 27407, OFC Phone: (336) 547- 4034, FAX: (336) 547-4121 North Dakota Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Denver Office, 633 17th Street, 14th Floor, Denver, CO 80202-3607, OFC Phone: (303) 672-5343, FAX: (303) 672-5153 Ohio Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Columbus Office, 200 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43215-2499, OFC Phone: (614) 469-5737, Ext. 8111 FAX: (614) 469-2432 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Cincinnati Office, 525 Vine Street, Suite 700, Cincinnati, OH, 45202-3188, OFC Phone: (513) 684- 2350, FAX: (513) 684-6224 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Cleveland Office, 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 500, Cleveland, OH 44115-1815, OFC Phone: (216) 522-4058 Ext. 7000, FAX: (216) 522-4067 Oklahoma Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Oklahoma City Office, 500 W. Main Street, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, OK 73102-2233, OFC Phone: (405) 553-7410, FAX: (405) 553-7406 Oregon Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Seattle Office, 909 First Avenue, Suite 190, MS-0AHM, Seattle, WA 98104-1000, OFC Phone: (206) 220-5228 Ext. 3250, FAX: (206) 220-5206 Pennsylvania Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Philadelphia Office, The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square, East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3380, OFC Phone: (215) 656-0609 Ext. 3533, FAX: (215) 656-3427 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Pittsburgh Office, 339 Sixth Avenue--Sixth Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2515, OFC Phone: (412) 644-6639, FAX: (412) 644-5872 Puerto Rico Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Caribbean Office, 171 Carlos E. Chardon Avenue, San Juan, PR 00918-0903, OFC Phone: (787) 766- 5401, FAX: (787) 766-5522 Rhode Island Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Providence Office, 10 Weybosset Street, Sixth Floor, Providence, RI 02903-2808, OFC Phone: (401) 528-5230, FAX: (401) 528-5097 South Carolina Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Columbia Office, 1835, Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201-2480, OFC Phone: (803) 765-5162, FAX: (803) 253-3043 South Dakota Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Denver Office, 633 17th Street, 14th Floor, Denver, CO 80202-3607, OFC Phone: (303) 672-5343, FAX: (303) 672-5153 Tennessee Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Knoxville Office, 710 Locust Street, SW, Knoxville, TN 37902-2526, OFC Phone: (423) 545- 4411, FAX: (423) 545-4578 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD--Nashville Office, 251 Cumberland Bend Drive, Suite 200, Nashville, TN 37228-1803, OFC Phone: (615) 736-5748, FAX: (615) 736-2018 Texas Multifamily Housing Hub, HUD Ft. Worth Office, 801 Cherry Street, PO Box 2905, Ft. Worth, TX 76102-2905, OFC Phone: (817) 978-5764, FAX: (817) 978-5520 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD Houston Office, 2211 Norfolk, #200, Houston, TX 77098-4096, OFC Phone: (713) 313-2274 Ext. 7015, FAX: (713) 313-2319 Multifamily Housing Program Center, HUD San Antonio Office, 800 Dolorosa, San Antonio, TX 78207-4563, OFC Phone: (210) 475-6831, FAX: (210) 472-6897