tech correction appendix g mid-urn form plus final 3.23.15.pdf

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Community Planning and Development

National Disaster Resilience Competition

Technical Correction II

FR-5800-N-29

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5800-N-29]

Technical Correction II to HUD’s Notice

National Disaster Resilience Competition

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Technical Correction to HUD’s National Disaster Resilience Competition

Notice FR-5800-N-29 to add a summary checklist form applicants submit to track the most impacted and distressed area with unmet recovery needs (MID-URN) threshold requirements, and other miscellaneous and conforming changes.

SUMMARY: On September 17, 2014, HUD posted the National Disaster Resilience

Competition Notice of Fund Availability to Grants.gov. This Notice provides a summary form for the most impacted and distressed areas with unmet recovery needs thresholds that was requested by a commenter during the required Paperwork Reduction Act comment period. For clarity, this Notice makes conforming changes to the Crosswalk Checklist in Appendix J and adds the new form to the NOFA’s list of Attachments to be submitted. HUD is also updating the NOFA to include the extension of the Phase 1 deadline, conforming the duration of the comment period required for Phase 2 with the one required for Phase 1, and correcting miscellaneous format and terminology errors. For the ease of the reader, HUD is republishing the amended NOFA, Appendix A, Appendix G, and Appendix J in their entirety in this

Notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding specific program requirements should be directed to the agency contact identified in each program NOFA.

Questions regarding the FY2014 General Section should be directed to the Office of Strategic

Planning and Management, Grants Management and Oversight Division at 202-708-0667 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:

The following changes to the Notice of Funding Availability, to Appendix A, Appendix G

(Phase 1 and Phase 2 Most Impacted and Distressed and Unmet Recovery Needs Criteria and Instructions), and Appendix J (Crosswalk Checklist) are made by this Notice.

Section IV.B. of the NOFA, which is broken into lowercase alphabetical subsections, contains two subsections “c.” For readability in this Technical Correction, references to

Section IV.B.c. of the NOFA will refer to IV.B.c (first). and IV.B.c (second). to distinguish between the two subsection “c.”

Extend Phase 1 submission deadline

Note that this change has already been made on grants.gov; this change to the NOFA itself is a conforming update. In the NOFA header, the Date for applications is changed from

March 15, 2015, to March 27, 2015.

http://grants.gov/

In section IV.C, Application Submission Dates and Times, in the second paragraph, the application deadline date is changed from March 15, 2015, to March 27, 2015.

Adjust the period for Phase 2 citizen comment from 30 to 15 days

In section III.C. 1. Citizen participation waiver and alternative requirement and in

Appendix A, section V.A.3, second paragraph under the Citizen participation waiver and alternative requirement, the comment period for Phase 2 citizen comment is changed from

30 days to 15 days to match the Phase 1 period. Finally, a change is made to the sixth bullet in Appendix A, Section IV. Overview of Grant Process, to change the reference to the 30 day Phase 2 citizen comment period to a 15-day comment period.

Revision of the List of Attachments in the Notice of Fund Availability

Section IV.B.c(second).(3) Attachments in NOFA FR-5800-N-29 is changed as follows:

1. Subparagraph (h), which describes Attachment H, is amended to change the internal reference from “Appendix K” to “Appendix J”.

2. Subparagraph “(i) Standard Forms.” is re-designated as subparagraph “(j) Standard

Forms.”

3. A new subparagraph (i) is inserted in Section IV.B.c (second).(3). Attachments as follows:

“(i) Attachment I. MID-URN Summary Checklist. Complete and submit a MID-

URN Summary Checklist A or B, as appropriate, for each proposed target area for grant expenditure. (This is a checklist, no narrative inserted into the checklist beyond the labels, names, links or instructions for reviewers on how to find data will be considered for threshold or scoring purposes.)”

Appendix G: Addition of MID-URN Summary Checklist

Section I.A. of Appendix G is changed to add a subparagraph I.A.3., to read as follows:

“3. The Phase 1 Exhibit B narrative response must be accompanied by a completed MID-

URN Summary Checklist A or B, as appropriate, for each proposed target area for grant expenditure. The MID-URN Checklist(s) A or B is to be labeled Attachment I and is not subject to page limits.”

Appendix J: Addition of MID-URN Summary Checklist Reference to Crosswalk

Checklist

Appendix J is amended to include a reference to the MID-URN Summary Checklist in the required Crosswalk Checklist that will be submitted as Attachment H of a Phase 1 or Phase

2 applications.

Miscellaneous corrections to the NOFA.

In the Additional Overview Information section near the beginning of the NOFA, the first paragraph is changed to add the missing phrase and period, “2 below.” at the end of the last sentence.

The NOFA section I.A.Introduction is changed by inserting line breaks before Appendix C, Appendix D, and Appendix E.

The NOFA section I.A.Summary of Competition Details is corrected by replacing the word

“Grantees” at the beginning of the third sentence of the first paragraph with the word

“Applicants” and replacing the word “grantee’s” later in the sentence with the word

“applicant’s”. The last sentence of the fourth paragraph of the same section is corrected to add the following missing words at the end of the sentence, “based on Phase 2 submission information and point minimums.”

The next to last paragraph in the same section is corrected to read, “HUD will consider for funding any complete Phase 2 application that receives at least 75 percent of the total points available in Phase 2.”

NOFA section IV.B.c(first).5. Consultation Summary is corrected from referencing Appendix J to referencing Appendix I of the NOFA.

NOFA section IV.B.c (second)(3) Attachments, sub-paragraph (d) is corrected from referencing

Appendix J to referencing Appendix I of the NOFA and the verb, “submits” in that sentence is changed to “submit”.

NOFA section V.A.1. Factor 1: Phase 2 Capacity is corrected to eliminate bullets for “weather events, climate variability, and climate change” and “homes and businesses” in list of bulleted items under Technical Capacity and to attach these phrases to the bulleted items just above them, respectively. This section is also corrected to insert a line break after the word, “advocates” in the third bulleted item under Community Engagement and Inclusiveness

NOFA section V.A.1. Factor 2: Phase 2 Need/Extent of the Problem c. Appropriate approaches is corrected to insert a missing period after the phrase, “as applicable” and before the word, “Describe” to eliminate a run-on sentence in the first sentence of this paragraph.

NOFA section V.A.1. Factor 4: Phase 2 Leverage is corrected to insert a missing open parenthesis before the phrase, “Phase 1” in the first sentence.

NOFA section V.A.1. Factor 5: Phase 2 Regional Coordination and Long-term Commitment is corrected to eliminate an errant page number at the bottom of the first page of this section.

Appendix A, section V.A.1.e.(b)(ii) Temporary measures is corrected to conform with the

NOFA by finishing the fifth sentence (which is currently a fragment) to read as follows:

“However, projects for temporary measures, including those that are designed solely to prepare for future needs and not to address a recovery need of the Qualified Disaster (e.g. sandbags, bladders, geotubes, and newly established emergency operation centers) are not eligible for

CDBG-NDR assistance.”