[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 242 (Monday, December 19, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-31055]
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[Federal Register: December 19, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. N-94-3617; FR-3444-N-07]
Office of Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Poisoning Prevention;
Announcement of Funding Awards for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard
Reduction in Priority Housing Category I and Category II Grants
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary--Office of Lead-Based Paint Abatement
and Poisoning Prevention, HUD.
ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a
competition for funding under the NOFA for Lead-Based Paint Hazard
Reduction in Priority Housing: Category I and Category II Grants. The
announcement contains the names and addresses of the award winners and
the amounts of awards.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellis G. Goldman, Office of Lead-Based
Paint Abatement and Poisoning Prevention, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 755-1822, ext. 112. The TDD
number for the hearing impaired is (202) 708-9300 (not a toll-free
number), or 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Lead-Based Paint program is authorized
by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and the Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1993
(Pub. L. 102-389, approved October 6, 1992).
The purpose of the competition was to award grant funding for
approximately $90,000,000 for a grant program for States and local
governments to undertake lead-based paint hazard reduction in priority
housing: and Category II, for up to $3,000,000, for grants to States
for assistance in implementing a State certification program after
passing enabling legislation. The 1994 awards announced in this Notice
were selected for funding in a competition announced in a Federal
Register notice published on June 4, 1993 (58 FR 31848). Applications
were scored and selected for funding on the basis of selection criteria
contained in that Notice.
A total of $94,328,617 has been awarded, to nineteen Category I
grantees, and thirteen Category II grantees. In accordance with section
102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101-235, approved December 15, 1989), the
Department has published the names, addresses, and amounts of all
Category I awards and eight Category II awards in the Federal Register
on October 14, 1994 (59 FR 52184). The remaining five Category II
awards, totaling $977,353 are as follows:
NOFA for Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction in Priority Housing: Category
II Grants
State of Minnesota......................................... $189,750
State of Virginia.......................................... 200,000
State of Ohio.............................................. 187,636
State of Connecticut....................................... 200,000
State of Rhode Island...................................... 199,967
Dated: December 5, 1994.
Ronald J. Morony,
Acting Director, Office of Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Poisoning
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 94-31055 Filed 12-16-94; 8:45 am]
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