[[Page 12403]] FUNDING AVAILABILITY FOR RENTAL CERTIFICATE/HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY (FSS) PROGRAM COORDINATORS Program Overview Purpose of Program. The Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program (referred to in previous NOFAs as the Section 8 FSS program) is intended to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the Rental Certificate and Housing Choice Voucher programs with public and private resources to enable participating families to achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency. An FSS program coordinator assures that program participants are linked to the supportive services they need to achieve self-sufficiency. Funding under this NOFA is not available to pay the salary of an FSS coordinator for a public housing FSS program. Operating subsidy may be used to fund the salary of a public housing FSS coordinator. Available Funds. This NOFA announces the availability of up to $45 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 to fund Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators. Eligible Applicants. Public housing agencies (PHAs) eligible to receive funding under this NOFA are: (1) those that received funding under the FY 2000 NOFA or one of the FY 1999 NOFAs for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinators and that continue to operate an FSS program; (2) PHAs that were not funded under one of the FY 1999 or FY 2000 FSS NOFAs that are authorized through their HUD-approved FSS Action Plan to administer a Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of at least 25 slots; or, if they are PHAs with HUD approval to administer Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs of fewer than 25 slots, they apply jointly with one or more other PHAs so that between or among them they have HUD approval to administer at least 25 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS slots. Under this NOFA, both the voluntary Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS slots and the mandatory Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS slots reflected in the PHA's HUD-approved FSS Action Plan are counted in determining the PHA's Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program size. All awards are subject to a cap of $60,000 per full time coordinator position funded. Evidence of salary comparability to positions in the local jurisdiction for each position must be kept on file in the PHA office. There is no maximum Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program size limit cap for PHAs eligible to apply for funding under this NOFA. Application Deadline. April 25, 2001. Match. None Additional Information If you are interested in applying for funding for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator funding under this NOFA, please review carefully the General Section of this SuperNOFA and the following additional information. I. Application Due Date, Application Kits, and Technical Assistance Application Due Date. Submit your completed application (an original and two copies) to HUD on or before 12 midnight, Eastern time, on April 25, 2001. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures concerning the form of application submission (i.e., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried). Address for Submitting Applications. Your completed application consists of one original and two copies. Submit your original application and one copy with an Acknowledgment of Application Receipt, form HUD-2993, to: Michael E. Diggs, Director, PIH Grants Management Center, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 501 School Street, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20024. Applications which are hand carried or sent via overnight delivery service should be delivered to this address. The Grants Management Center is the official place of receipt for all applications in response to this announcement of funding availability. Your application will be accepted at this address until 6:00 pm, Eastern time, on the application deadline. After 6:00 pm on the application deadline date, applications will be accepted in the South Lobby of HUD Headquarters, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410, until 12:00 midnight Eastern time. Submit the second copy of your application to your local HUD Field Office Hub or local HUD Field Office Program Center. A listing of HUD Field Offices is attached to the General Section of this SuperNOFA. For Application Kits. There is no application kit for this NOFA. This announcement contains all the information necessary for the submission of your application for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator funding. For Further Information and Technical Assistance. For answers to your questions, you may contact the Public and Indian Housing Resource Center at 1-800-955-2232 or the Hub Director of Public Housing or the Program Center Coordinator in the local HUD Field Office or you may contact the Grants Management Center at (202) 358-0221, extension 118. Hearing-or speech-impaired individuals may call HUD's TTY number 1-800- 877-8339, the Federal Information Relay Service TTY, (this is a toll free number). Information can be accessed via the Internet at http:// www.hud.gov. Prior to the application deadline, staff at the numbers given above will be available to provide general guidance, but not guidance in actually preparing the application. Following selection, but prior to award, HUD staff will be available to assist in clarifying or confirming information that is a prerequisite to the offer of an award by HUD. Satellite Broadcast. HUD plans to hold an information broadcast via satellite for potential applicants to learn more about the program and preparation of an application. For more information about the date and time of this broadcast, you should consult the HUD web site at www.hud.gov. II. Amount Allocated For FY 2001, up to $45 million may be made available for PHA administrative fees for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators. This amount is from HUD's Congressional justifications that were submitted in support of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Pub.L. 106-377, approved October 27, 2000). This is the eighth fiscal year of funding for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators. HUD Corrections to Funding Provided Under the FY 2000 NOFA If prior to award of funding under the FY 2001 Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS NOFA, HUD determines that any PHAs have been underfunded in amounts awarded under the FY 2000 FSS Program Coordinator NOFA, before funding any applications under the FY 2001 NOFA, the Department will increase funding of the FY 2000 awards to the amount that the PHAs should have received under the [[Page 12404]] FY 2000 NOFA with funding available under the FY 2001 FSS NOFA. III. Program Description; Eligible Applicants; Eligible Activities (A) Program Description. Through annual NOFAs, HUD has provided funding to PHAs that are operating a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program to enable those PHAs to hire a Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator. In this FY 2001 FSS Program Coordinator NOFA, HUD is making sufficient funding available to fund all applicants that received funding under either the FY 1999 or FY 2000 FSS program coordinator NOFAs to allow those PHAs to continue to pay a Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator for another year. Because of the importance of the FSS program in helping families increase earned income and develop assets, HUD is also making a sufficient amount available under this FY 2001 FSS NOFA to enable ``new'' PHAs that were not funded in FY 1999 or FY 2000 to apply. Each of these ``new'' PHAs may apply for funding to hire at least one Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator for one year at a reasonable cost, as determined by the PHA based on salaries for similar positions in the locality. Under this NOFA, for the first time both new and renewal state and regional PHAs that administer Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs in different parts of their jurisdiction may apply for up to one full time Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator in each area where they have HUD approval to administer a separate Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of at least 25 slots. Because the workload of a large FSS program is too heavy for a single FSS program coordinator, this NOFA invites each eligible new and renewal PHA with HUD-approval to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of 100 slots in a single jurisdiction to apply for up to one full time coordinator for each 50 HUD-approved slots above their initial 50 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program slots. A state or regional agency with HUD approval to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of 100 or more slots in more than one part of its jurisdiction may apply for one or more full time Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator for each additional 50 approved FSS slots above the initial 50 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher slot level in that area. (B) Eligible Applicants. Subject to the availability of sufficient funding, all PHAs in the following categories are eligible applicants under this NOFA: (1) PHAs that received funding under one of the FY 1999 NOFAs or the FY 2000 NOFAs for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators that are still operating FSS programs will be funded in FY 2001, except those PHAs submitting applications that are ineligible under Section VII.(B) of this NOFA, provided the PHA continues to operate an FSS program, has hired an FSS program coordinator with funding awarded for that purpose under one of the FY 1999 FSS or FY 2000 FSS program coordinator NOFAs, and has made progress in implementing the FSS program demonstrated by having completed activities in each of the categories in section 2 of the required Attachment A certification of this NOFA. Subject to the availability of funds, the eligible PHAs funded in FY 1999 or FY 2000 will receive 103 percent of the latest of its FY 1999 or FY 2000 funding (not to exceed $60,000) unless the PHA requests a higher or lower amount. All awards are subject to the cap of $60,000 per full time FSS program coordinator position. HUD will not provide FY 2001 funding to any PHA that received Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator funding in FY 1999 or FY 2000 that does not comply with all of the above requirements. (2) PHAs, including state and regional PHAs, that did not receive Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator funding in either FY 1999 or FY 2000, are eligible to apply under this NOFA if the PHA has a HUD-approved FSS Action Plan authorizing the PHA to administer a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of at least 25 FSS slots. PHAs with HUD approval to administer Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs of fewer than 25 slots may also apply if they apply jointly with one or more other PHAs so that between or among the PHAs they have HUD approval to administer at least 25 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS slots. If PHAs apply jointly, the $60,000 maximum amount that may be requested applies to each full time coordinator position in the application as a whole, not to each PHA separately. Joint applicants must specify a lead co- applicant which will receive and administer the FSS program coordinator funding. (3) State and regional PHAs that are eligible under (1) or (2) of this section may also apply for up to one additional Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator for each portion of their jurisdiction where they have HUD approval to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of at least 25 slots. (4) PHAs that are eligible applicants under (1), (2) or (3) of this section, with HUD approval to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of 100 or more slots may apply for one Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator for each 50 HUD approved Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS slots above the first 50 approved slots in the PHA's Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program. A state or regional PHA that has applied under this NOFA for FSS coordinators in different parts of its jurisdiction may apply for additional coordinators in any area where it is authorized to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program of 100 or more slots. In each of these areas, the PHA may apply for up to one additional coordinator for each 50 HUD approved Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher Program FSS slots above the first 50 slots in the PHA's Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program. (C) Eligible Activities. Funds are available to PHAs under this NOFA to employ or otherwise retain the services of Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators for one year. A part- time Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator may be retained where appropriate. In the Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program, PHAs are required to use rental assistance under the Rental Certificate and Housing Choice Voucher programs together with public and private resources to provide supportive services to enable participating families to achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency. Effective delivery of supportive services is a critical element in a successful FSS program. The FSS program supports the Department's objective of helping poor and disadvantaged families and individuals become self-sufficient and develop assets. The program provides critical tools that can be used by communities to support welfare reform and help families develop new skills that will lead to increased wages and self sufficiency. [[Page 12405]] IV. Program Requirements (A) Program Coordinator Role. PHAs administering the FSS program use program coordinating committees (PCCs) to assist them to secure resources and implement the FSS program. The PCC is made up of representatives of local government, job training and employment agencies, local welfare agencies, educational institutions, child care providers, nonprofit service providers, and businesses. An FSS program coordinator works with the PCC and with local service providers to assure that program participants are linked to the supportive services they need to achieve self-sufficiency. The FSS program coordinator may ensure, through case management, that the services included in participants' contracts of participation are provided on a regular, ongoing and satisfactory basis, and that participants are fulfilling their responsibilities under the contracts. (B) Staffing Guidelines. Under normal circumstances, a full-time FSS program coordinator should be able to serve approximately 50 FSS participants, depending on the coordinator's case management functions. (C) Other Requirements. In addition to the civil rights compliance and nondiscrimination requirements listed in the General Section of this SuperNOFA, PHAs must meet the following program requirements: (1) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. Each successful applicant will have a duty to affirmatively further fair housing. After the application is approved, applicants will be required to identify the specific steps that they will take to (a) address the elimination of impediments to fair housing that were identified in the jurisdiction's Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Housing Choice; (b) remedy discrimination in housing; or (c) promote fair housing rights and fair housing choice. Further, applicants have a duty to carry out the specific activities cited in their responses in a manner which will affirmatively further fair housing. V. Application Selection Process The funds available under this NOFA are not being awarded on a competitive basis. The Department anticipates that there will be sufficient funds available under the NOFA to fund all applications that meet the NOFA requirements. Applications will be reviewed by the Grants Management Center (GMC) to determine whether or not they are technically adequate based on the NOFA requirements. Categories of applications that will not be funded are stated in section VII(B) of this NOFA. All technically adequate applications will be funded to the extent funds are available. If HUD receives applications for funding greater than the amount made available under this NOFA, HUD will fund eligible applicants as follows: Applications will be divided into three categories of funding priority: Priority 1--Applications from PHAs, including state and regional PHAs, for continuation of the position most recently funded under either the FY 1999 for FY 2000 FSS NOFA. Priority 2--Priority 2 will consist of: (a) Applications for up to one initial FSS coordinator position from PHAs that were not funded under the FY 1999 and FY 2000 FSS NOFAs including, for state and regional PHAs with HUD approval to operate FSS programs in different parts of their jurisdictions, up to one FSS coordinator position per area where they are authorized to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of at least 25 FSS slots. (b) Applications from Priority 1 state and regional PHAs for up to one full time FSS program coordinator position in any area where they are authorized to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of at least 25 FSS slots, but have not received funding under this NOFA for a full time FSS program coordinator position for the area. Priority 3--Applications for one or more additional FSS coordinators submitted by PHAs eligible for funding in Priority 1 and 2 categories above with HUD approval to operate a Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS program of 100 or more slots. HUD will first fund all eligible Priority 1 applications to continue funding for up to one full time Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator. If funding remains, HUD will then provide funding to eligible Priority 2 applicants for up to one Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator position per PHA, or in the case of state and regional PHAs up to one full time coordinator for each area where they are authorized to operate a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program of at least 25 slots. If there is insufficient funding for all Priority 2 applicants, funding will be awarded to applicants in Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program size order starting from the PHAs with the smallest total combined Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher programs first. Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program size will be determined by HUD using baseline data developed by the Department. If there are not sufficient monies to fund all applications from Priority 2 PHAs with the same combined Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program size, funding will be provided based on the size of the PHA's Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program, reflected in the PHA's HUD-approved Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Action Plan, starting with the largest approved Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program first. If monies remain after funding all eligible Priority 2 applications, Priority 3 applications will be funded for up to the full number of additional FSS coordinator slots for which the PHA is eligible and which it has requested in its application. If there are not sufficient monies to fund all eligible Priority 3 applicants, applications will be funded in two stages. In stage 1, PHAs will first be sorted into three categories by HUD-approved FSS program size as follows: (a) PHAs with HUD approval to operate Rental Certificate/ Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs of 1,000 or more slots; (b) PHAs with HUD approval to operate Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs of 500 to 999 slots; and (c) PHAs with approval to operate Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs of 100 to 499 slots. In determining the FSS program size of a state or regional PHA that operates FSS programs in more than one area of their jurisdiction, the total number of approved slots for the entire PHA FSS program will be used to determine the appropriate size category for Priority 3 funding. HUD will then determine if there is sufficient funding to provide each eligible PHA with 1,000 or more slots with up to 5 additional coordinators, PHAs with 500 to 999 slots with three additional coordinators and PHAs with 100 to 499 slots with 1 additional coordinator. If not, HUD will begin awarding funding requests from the PHAs with the largest HUD-approved FSS programs first. If after funding all eligible positions requested in stage 1 funding remains, HUD will begin funding remaining applications in a second stage for up to the full number of positions each PHA is eligible to receive and has requested starting with the PHAs with the largest size HUD-approved FSS program first. In stage 2, state and regional PHAs approved to operate FSS programs may receive the full amount of eligible positions requested in each part of their jurisdiction where they are approved to operate a program of 100 or more FSS slots. If insufficient funding is available to fund for each separate area where the state or regional PHA operates the FSS [[Page 12406]] program, the PHA may decide how the total funding available in stage 2 will be divided among the areas where it operates its FSS program. If there is insufficient money remaining to fully fund the last application funded in any of the above priority categories, HUD will provide residual funding to that application in an amount less than the amount requested by the PHA, unless the PHA is unwilling to accept the lower amount. If funding remains after all eligible applications submitted in response to this NOFA are funded, the Grants Management Center will use any funding still available through the end of FY 2001 to fund applications submitted after the due date of this NOFA that meet all other requirements of this NOFA. These applications will be funded on a first-come, first-serve basis through September 30, 2001 as long as funds are available. VI. Application Submission Requirements (A) Application Requirement for PHAs that Received FY 1999 or FY 2000 FSS Program Coordinator Funding. Each PHA that received funding for a Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator under one of the FY 1999 NOFAs or under the FY 2000 FSS NOFA that wishes to receive funding under this NOFA must complete a certification in the format shown as ``Attachment A'' of this NOFA, and must include all information required in ``Attachment A'' of this FSS NOFA. The completed Attachment A certification along with the Fair Housing Certification (Attachment C of this NOFA) and the Certification Regarding Lobbying (Attachment D of this NOFA) constitute the entire PHA application for funding under this section. These certifications must be submitted to the GMC by the due date to be eligible for the initial round of funding under this NOFA. (B) Request for FSS Program Coordinator Funds by Eligible PHAs that were not Funded in FY 1999 or FY 2000. PHAs that did not receive funding under the FY 1999 or FY 2000 FSS Program Coordinator NOFAs must complete a certification in the format shown as ``Attachment B'' of this FSS NOFA and must include all information required in Attachment B. The completed Attachment B certification along with the Fair Housing Certification (Attachment C of this NOFA) and the Certification Regarding Lobbying (Attachment D of the NOFA) constitute the entire PHA application for funding under this section. These certifications must be submitted to the GMC by the due date to be considered for funding for the initial round of funding under this NOFA. (C) Fair Housing Certification and Certification Regarding Lobbying. All PHAs applying for funding under this NOFA must submit the Certification Regarding Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity which is included as Attachment C of this NOFA and the Certification Regarding Lobbying which is Attachment D of this NOFA. VII. Corrections to Deficient Applications (A) Acceptable Applications. The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications. (B) Unacceptable Applications (1) After the 14-calendar day technical deficiency correction period (as provided in the General Section), the GMC will disapprove PHA applications that it determines are not acceptable for processing under the initial round of funding. The HUD notification of rejection letter must state the basis for the decision. (2) Applications from PHAs that fall into any of the following categories are ineligible for funding under this NOFA and will not be processed: (a) An application from a PHA that is not an eligible PHA under III.(B) of this NOFA or an application that does not comply with the requirements of VI. of this NOFA. (b) An application from a PHA that does not meet the requirements of fair housing and civil rights compliance requirements of Section II(B) of the SuperNOFA. (c) An application from a PHA that at the end of the 14-calendar day technical correction period has not made progress satisfactory to HUD in resolving serious outstanding Inspector General audit findings, or serious outstanding HUD management review or independent public accountant (IPA) audit findings for one or more of the following programs: Housing Choice Voucher, Rental Certificate or Moderate Rehabilitation. Serious program management findings are those that would cast doubt on the capacity of the PHA to administer its Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher programs in accordance with applicable HUD regulatory and statutory requirements. (d) The application was not submitted to the official place of receipt as indicated in the paragraph entitled ``Address for Submitting Applications'' at the beginning of this announcement. (e) The applicant has been debarred or otherwise disqualified from providing assistance under the program. (3) Otherwise eligible applications that are not received by the due date of this NOFA will not be funded unless funds remain available after all eligible applications received by the due date have been funded. If at that time all the funding under this NOFA has not been awarded, then otherwise eligible applications received after the due date will be funded on a first come, first serve basis through the end of FY 2001, as long as funding remains available. If more than one such application is received at the same date and time, the application from the PHA with the smallest combined Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program will be funded first. VIII. Environmental Requirements No environmental review is required in connection with the award of assistance under this NOFA, because the NOFA only provides funds for employing a coordinator that provides public and supportive services, which are categorically excluded from environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321) and not subject to compliance actions for related environmental authorities under 24 CFR 50.19(b)(4) and (12). IX. Authority The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Pub.L. 106-377, approved October 27, 2000) allows funding for program coordinators under the Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program. As a result, the Department determined to make a sufficient amount available under this NOFA, under Part 984, in accordance with section 984.302(b), to enable PHAs to employ one or more Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator for one year at a reasonable cost as determined by the PHA and HUD, based on salaries for similar positions in the locality. Attachment A--Required Certification Format for FY 2001 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator Funding for PHAs That Received Funding Under a FY 1999 or FY 2000 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator NOFA Mr. Michael E. Diggs, Director, Grants Management Center, 501 School Street, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20024 Dear Mr. Diggs: In connection with the FY 2001 NOFA for Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators, I hereby certify for the ______ (enter PHA name. For joint applications, please indicate the names of all co-applicants and identify [[Page 12407]] the lead PHA that received and administered funds received under the FY 1999 or FY 2000 NOFA.) that: (1) The PHA received funding under the FY ______ FSS program coordinator NOFA (enter either FY 1999 or FY 2000 as appropriate), continues to operate an FSS program and has hired (Enter name of coordinator) as its FSS program coordinator at a salary of (Enter salary amount) using HUD funds provided for that purpose on ______ (enter the most recent ACC effective date for funding received by the PHA under the Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FY 1999 or FY 2000 FSS program coordinator funding increment), and (2) The PHA has (check all that apply): ____ (a) Formed and convened an FSS program coordinating committee, ____ (b) Obtained HUD approval of its FSS action plan, ____ (c) Executed contracts of participation with FSS participants. (3) The PHA is/is not (indicate appropriate choice) a state or regional PHA operating separate Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs in more than one part of its jurisdiction. (4) Total number of Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program slots based on the number of FSS slots (both voluntary and mandatory) identified in the PHA's HUD-approved Action Plan OR, when PHAs are applying jointly, the combined total of Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program slots in the HUD- approved Action Plans of the PHAs: ______. (A State or regional PHA applying for coordinator positions for programs operated in different parts of its jurisdiction must identify below in (7) each area where it is authorized to operate a program and the number of slots approved for each area.) (5) Total Number of Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher program coordinator positions requested under the FY 2001 Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS NOFA: ______. (6) Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator Salary level requested under this NOFA to continue the FSS program coordinator position that was funded under the FY 1999 or FY 2000 FSS NOFA based on salaries for comparable jobs: ______. (7) (If applicable) Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator salary level for each position requested, based on comparables, for any Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinator positions other than the position described in (6) above. (State/regional agencies applying for one or more positions in more than one location in their jurisdiction, must provide information in the format below for each location where positions are requested. If positions for the location are at different Salary levels, indicate the number of positions at each Salary level. Location: ____ # of approved slots: ____ # of positions requested: ____ Salary: ____) (8) Evidence demonstrating salary comparability to similar positions in the local jurisdiction for each of the above positions is on file at the PHA. If there are any questions, please contact ______ at ______ Sincerely, Executive Director Attachment B--Required Format for Certification from PHAs that Did Not Receive Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator Funding under FY 1999 or FY 2000 NOFAs Mr. Michael E. Diggs, Director, Grants Management Center, 501 School Street, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20024 Dear Mr. Diggs: In connection with the FY 2001 NOFA for FSS program coordinators, this is a request for funds to pay the salary of ______ (Enter number of positions) Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program coordinators for one year. I hereby certify for the ______ (Enter PHA name. For joint applications, indicate the names of all co-applicants and identify the lead PHA that will receive and administer the funding requested under this NOFA.) that: 1. The total number of HUD-approved Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program slots (both voluntary and mandatory) identified in the PHAs HUD-Approved FSS Action Plan OR when PHAs are applying jointly, the combined total of Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS program slots in the HUD-approved Action plans of the PHAs: ____ 2. The PHA is/is not (indicate appropriate choice) a State or regional PHA operating separate Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS programs in more than one part of its jurisdiction. 3. Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinator salary level for each position requested based on salaries for comparable jobs. (If funding is being requested by a state or regional PHA for one or more positions in more than one location in their jurisdiction, the PHA must provide information in the format below for each location where positions are requested. If positions for the location are at different Salary levels, indicate the number of positions at each Salary level. Location: ____ # of approved FSS slots: ____ # of positions requested: ____ Salary: ____) 4. Evidence demonstrating salary comparability to similar position in the local jurisdiction is on file in the PHA office. If there are any questions, please contact ____ at ____. Sincerely, Executive Director Attachment C--Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Certifications The housing agency (PHA) certifies that in administering the funding for the Rental Certificate/Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency program coordinators it will comply with the requirements of the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and will affirmatively further fair housing. CDBG recipients also must certify to compliance with section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of PHA Signature and Title of PHA Representative ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment D--Certification Regarding Lobbying The undersigned certifies, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, that: (1) No Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid, by or on behalf of the undersigned, to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with the awarding of any Federal contract, the making of any Federal grant, the making of any Federal loan, the entering into of any cooperative agreement, and the extension, continuation, renewal, amendment, or modification of any Federal contract, grant, loan, or cooperative agreement. (2) If any funds other than Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with this Federal contract, grant, loan, or cooperative agreement, the undersigned shall complete and submit Standard Form-LLL, ``Disclosure Form to Report Lobbying,'' in accordance with its instructions. (3) The undersigned shall require that the language of this certification be included in the award documents for all subawards at all tiers (including subcontracts, subgrants, and contracts under grants, loans and cooperative agreements) and that all subrecipients shall certify and disclose accordingly. This certification is a material representation of fact upon which reliance was placed when this transaction was made or entered into. Submission of this certification is a prerequisite for making or entering into this transaction imposed by section 1342, title 31, U.S. Code. Any person who fails to file the required certification shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such failure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature of PHA Representative ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of PHA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Signatory (Print or Type) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date signed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BILLING CODE 4210-32-P