Public and Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program; Notice of Funding AvailabilityFY 1997

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4181-N-01]

Public and Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program; Notice of

Funding Availability--FY 1997

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Public and Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program Notice of

Funding Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 1997.

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SUMMARY: This NOFA announces HUD's FY 1997 funding of $250,649,052

under the Public and Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP)

for use in reducing/eliminating drug-related crime. Hereafter, the term

housing authority (HA) shall include public housing agencies (PHAs) and

Indian housing authorities (IHAs).

In the body of this document is information concerning the purpose

of the NOFA, applicant eligibility, available amounts, selection

criteria, financial requirements, management, and application

processing, including how to apply, how selections will be made, and

how applicants will be notified of results.

DATES: Applications must be received at the local HUD Field Office on

or before Friday, August 8, 1997, at 3:00 pm, local time. This

application deadline is firm as to date and hour. In the interest of

fairness to all competing applicants, the Department will treat as

ineligible for consideration any application that is received after the

deadline. Applicants should take this practice into account and make

early submission of their materials to avoid any risk of loss of

eligibility brought about by any unanticipated or delivery-related

problems. A FAX is not acceptable.

ADDRESSES:

(a) Application Kit: An application kit may be obtained, and

assistance provided, from the local HUD Field Office with delegated

public housing responsibilities over an applying public housing

authority, or from the Area Offices of Native American Programs

(AONAPs) having jurisdiction over an Indian housing authority making an

application, or by calling HUD's Drug Information and Strategy

Clearinghouse (DISC) on (800) 578-3472. The application kit contains

information on all exhibits and certifications required under this

NOFA. Applicants requiring additional information may use the funding

cross-reference under HUD's Business and Community Partner HomePage on

the Internet's World Wide Web (http://www.hud.gov/bushome.HTML).

(b) Application Submission: An applicant shall submit only one

application per housing authority under each NOFA. Joint applications

are not permitted under this program with the following exception:

housing authorities under a single administration (such as housing

authorities managing another housing authority under contract or

housing authorities sharing a common executive director) shall submit a

single application, even though each housing authority has its own

operating budget. Applications (Original and Three Identical Copies of

the Original Application) must be received by the deadline at the local

HUD Field Office with responsibilities over the applying public housing

authorities, Attention: Director, Office of Public Housing or, in the

case of Indian housing authorities, to the local HUD Administrator,

AONAPs with jurisdiction over the applying Indian housing authorities,

as appropriate. A complete listing of these offices is provided in

Appendix ``A'' of this NOFA. It is not sufficient for an application to

bear a postage date within the submission time period. Applications

submitted by facsimile are not acceptable. Applications received after

the deadline date of Friday, August 8, 1997, at 3:00 pm, Local Time,

Will Not be Considered.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions concerning the PHDEP

contact: the local HUD Field Office, Director, Office of Public Housing

or the National Office of Native American Programs (NONAPs)/local

Administrator, AONAPs (Appendix ``A'' of this NOFA), HUD's DISC on

(800) 578-3472 and/or Malcolm (Mike) E. Main in the Office of Crime

Prevention and Security, Office for Community Relations and

Involvement, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Room 4112, on (202)

708-1197, extension 4232.

For questions concerning the Federally Assisted Housing Low-Income

Housing Drug Elimination Program (AHDEP), and/or other Federally

Assisted Housing Low-Income Housing programs contact Michael E. Diggs,

Office of Multifamily Housing Programs, Office of Housing, Room 6130 on

(202) 708-0614, extension 2514. A separate NOFA will be published by

the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs, Office of Housing for AHDEP

and other programs. The address for the above Headquarters persons is:

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20410. Hearing-or-speech impaired persons may call (800)

877-8339. (Federal Information Relay Service TTY). Except for the

``800'' number, these telephone numbers are not toll-free.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Promoting Comprehensive Approaches to Housing and Community Development

HUD is interested in promoting comprehensive, coordinated

approaches to housing and community development. Economic development,

community development, public housing revitalization, homeownership,

assisted housing for special needs populations, supportive services,

and welfare-to-work initiatives can work better if linked at the local

level. Toward this end, the Department in recent years has developed

the Consolidated Planning process designed to help communities

undertake such approaches.

In this spirit, it may be helpful for applicants under this NOFA to

be aware of other related HUD NOFAs that have recently been published

or are expected to be published in the near future. By reviewing these

NOFAs with respect to their program purposes and the eligibility of

applicants and activities, applicants may be able to relate the

activities proposed for funding under this NOFA to the recent and

upcoming NOFAs and to the community's Consolidated Plan.

The related NOFAs HUD is publishing elsewhere in this issue of the

Federal Register are: the Federally Assisted Housing Drug Elimination

NOFA, the Drug Elimination Technical Assistance NOFA, and the Safe

Neighborhoods Grants NOFA.

To foster comprehensive, coordinated approaches by communities, the

Department intends for the remainder of FY 1997 to continue to alert

applicants to upcoming and recent NOFAs as each NOFA is published. In

addition, a complete schedule of NOFAs to be published during the

fiscal year and those already published appears under the HUD Homepage

on the Internet, which can be accessed at http://www.hud.gov/

nofas.html. Additional steps on NOFA coordination may be considered for

FY 1998.

For help in obtaining a copy of your community's Consolidated Plan,

please contact the community development office of your municipal

government.

Coordination With Local Law Enforcement Agencies

In addition to working closely with residents and local governing

bodies, it

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is critically important that housing authorities 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. The Department firmly believes that the war

on crime and violence in public and Indian housing can only be won

through the concerted and cooperative efforts of housing authorities

and law enforcement agencies working together in cooperation with

housing authority residents and local governing bodies. As such, the

Department expects housing authorities to demonstrate in their PHDEP

grant applications and anti-crime plans how they propose to establish

or enhance their working relationships and cooperation with law

enforcement agencies.

Under the revised Public Housing Management Assessment Program

(PHMAP) published on December 30, 1996 (61 FR 68894), Indicator #8,

Security, calls for housing authorities to establish cooperative

systems for tracking crime and reporting incidents of crime to police

authorities to improve law enforcement and crime prevention. The

Department encourages housing authorities participating in PHDEP to not

only establish and implement such systems, but to engage in ongoing

dialogue and special cooperative efforts with their local law

enforcement agencies as a means of developing and putting into effect

needed anti-crime initiatives at housing developments.

Operation Safe Home

Operation Safe Home was announced jointly by Vice President Albert

Gore, former HUD Secretary Henry G. Cisneros, former Treasury Secretary

Lloyd Bentsen, Attorney General Janet Reno, and representatives of the

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) at a White House

briefing on February 4, 1994. Operation Safe Home is a major

Departmental initiative focusing on violent and drug-related crime

within public housing authorities. As such, it is a holistic

enforcement approach which combines aggressive law enforcement

interdiction efforts with a housing authority's crime prevention and

intervention initiatives. Operation Safe Home is structured to combat

the level of violent crime activities occurring within public and

assisted housing, and enhance the quality of life within such complexes

via three simultaneous approaches:

--Strong, collaborative law enforcement efforts focused on reducing the

level of violent crime activities occurring within public and assisted

housing;

--Collaboration between law enforcement agencies and public housing

managers and residents in devising methods to prevent violent crime;

and

--The introduction of HUD, DOJ and other agency initiatives

specifically geared to preventing crime.

For more information on Operation Safe Home, contact Lee Isdell,

Office of the Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, Room 8256, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC. 20410,

telephone (202) 708-0430, fax number (202) 401-2505, Internet E:mail

www.hud.gov./oig/oigindex.html. A telecommunications device for hearing

or speech impaired persons (TDD) is available at (202) 708-0850. (These

are not toll-free telephone numbers.)

Operation Weed and Seed

Operation Weed and Seed, conducted through the U.S. Department of

Justice, is a comprehensive, multi-agency approach to combatting

violent crime, drug use, and gang activity in high-crime neighborhoods.

The goal is to ``weed out'' crime from targeted neighborhoods and then

to ``seed'' the targeted sites with a wide range of crime and drug

prevention programs, and human services agency resources to prevent

crime from reoccurring. Operation Weed and Seed further emphasizes the

importance of community involvement in combatting drugs and violent

crime. Community residents need to be empowered to assist in solving

crime-related problems in their neighborhoods. In addition, the private

sector needs to get involved in reducing crime. All of these entities,

Federal, State, and local government, the community and the private

sector should work together in partnership to create a safer, drug-free

environment.

The Weed and Seed strategy involves four basic elements:

Law enforcement must ``weed out'' the most violent offenders by

coordinating and integrating the efforts of Federal, State, and local

law enforcement agencies in targeted high-crime neighborhoods. No

social program or community activity can flourish in an atmosphere

poisoned by violent crime and drug abuse.

Local municipal police departments should implement community

policing in each of the targeted sites. Under community policing, law

enforcement should work closely with the housing authority and

residents of the community to develop solutions to the problems of

violent and drug-related crime. Community policing serves as a

``bridge'' between the ``weeding'' (law enforcement) and ``seeding''

(neighborhood revitalization) components.

After the ``weeding'' takes place, law enforcement and social

services agencies, the private sector, and the community must work to

prevent crime and violence from reoccurring by concentrating a broad

array of human services--drug and crime prevention programs, drug

treatment, educational opportunities, family services, and recreational

activities--in the targeted sites to create an environment where crime

cannot thrive.

Federal, State, local, and private sector resources must focus on

revitalizing distressed neighborhoods through economic development and

must provide economic opportunities for residents.

For further information on Operation Weed and Seed, contact the U.S

Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 366 Indiana Avenue,

Room 304S, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20531 on (202) 616-1152, FAX number:

(202) 616-1159, or Internet E:mail: [email protected].

Specific activities undertaken pursuant to Operation Safe Home and

Operation Weed and Seed may be eligible for PHDEP funding if they meet

the funding criteria outlined in this NOFA. All activities must relate

to one of the four selection criteria. Selection Criterion 4, in

section I.(d)(4) of this NOFA, below, identifies areas of collaboration

between applicants and Federal, State, Tribal and local law enforcement

agencies.

In this FY 1997 NOFA, the Department is focusing attention on three

specific characteristics of the PHDEP program. First, the PHDEP program

has proven to be one of the Department's most successful tools in

assisting housing authorities in leveraging commercial, cash, non-

profit and other local government resources for the purpose of reducing

or eliminating drug-related crime. One of the other important

characteristics of the PHDEP is that a large number of PHDEP activities

are implemented in community facilities that are owned and operated by

housing authorities. Finally, HUD wants to emphasize that a

comprehensive anti-crime strategy in housing authorities should include

effective administration of housing authority screening, leasing and

eviction policies. Bearing these issues in mind, housing authorities

applying for PHDEP funds are strongly encouraged:

To use PHDEP resources to establish collaborative

relationships with, and increase over and above existing levels, the

efforts of local

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municipal police departments and/or other law enforcement agencies,

local social and/or religious organizations, and other public and

private nonprofit organizations who provide community-wide services to

offer substance abuse prevention, intervention, treatment, aftercare,

education, assessment, and referral programs and services.

To include in their comprehensive anti-crime strategies a

discussion of how the proposed PHDEP drug and crime prevention

activities will be coordinated with larger Empowerment and Enterprize

Zone strategies and Welfare Reform efforts, especially in the areas of

training and employment of PHA residents. The PHDEP application may

include specific opportunities for resident employment and training

with such activities as contracting or hiring of residents as security

guard personnel, housing authority police officers, and for referrals

to employment and training opportunities. The applicant must

demonstrate how the employment and training qualifies as an eligible

activity. PHDEP applicants should coordinate with Federal, Tribal,

State and local agencies to increase employment and training

opportunities for low-income residents, and thereby decrease drug-

related crime. Many communities are already developing and providing

such services, and housing authorities are strongly encouraged to

provide community facility space to allow the provision of these

services for residents living ``in and around'' public and Indian

housing authorities.

To increase the use of housing authority community

facilities, and bring back a community focus to housing authority

properties. Expenses related to community policing; police mini-

stations; and resident training, substance abuse prevention,

intervention, treatment, structured aftercare, and other human

resources programs that comply with the requirements of this program

Are Eligible Program Expenses. The Department encourages applicants to

use housing authority community facilities in all eligible PHDEP

activities. Community policing, resident training, substance abuse

prevention, intervention and treatment (dependency, structured

aftercare, and support systems) are all activities most effectively

implemented in housing authority community facilities. While all PHDEP

activities must be carried out ``in and around'' housing authorities,

often the use of the community facilities is taken for granted, and not

considered when planning effective implementation of PHDEP activities.

The Department encourages applicants to consider current and future use

of their community facilities for eligible activities, and to

incorporate a strategy regarding facilities for on-site service

delivery.

As applicable, to incorporate ``One Strike and You're

Out'' elements in applications to ensure PHAs have available the

broadest range of tools for making and maintaining a safe residential

community. ``One Strike and You're Out'' activities in applications may

be eligible program expenses but to qualify as eligible activities,

they must be included in the plan to address the crime problem in

public housing developments required under Selection Criterion 2 in

section I.(d)(2). Factors related to the One Strike initiative, such as

screening applicants and lease enforcement, are examined under

Selection Criterion 3 in section I.(d)(3) of this NOFA. As a part of

the Public Housing Management Assessment Program (PHMAP), PHA

performance will be measured, in part, by PHMAP indicator #8,

``Security'', which was included in the revised PHMAP rule published on

December 30, 1996 (61 FR 68894). Any successful, comprehensive anti-

crime strategy in public housing should address the elements of the

PHMAP security indicator: tracking and reporting crime-related

problems, screening applicants, enforcing lease requirements, and

stating and achieving anti-crime strategies/goals in appropriate HUD

grant programs.

Any application that proposes any of the above activities must

relate the activity directly to one or more of the four selection

criteria in section I.(d) of this NOFA.

In addition, the Department is very concerned about PHDEP program

performance by grantees because of practices such as: lack of

implementation of the approved PHDEP grant plan/timetables;

inconsistent draw down of funds based upon the approved plan;

inadequate tracking and measuring of performance regarding the

reduction/elimination of crime in housing authorities and

developments(s). With funding of some grantees provided for over seven

years, tracking and measuring performance is necessary, and

requirements for performance and outcome measurements are outlined in

this NOFA. Applicants with previous unsatisfactory PHDEP, or other

grant program, performance will be at a disadvantage with respect to

the third selection criterion, the capability of the applicant to carry

out the plan, at section I.(d)(3), below, of this NOFA.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

The information collection requirements contained in this Notice

have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), and assigned OMB

control number 2577-0124, which expires October 31, 1999. An agency may

not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a

collection of information unless the collection displays a valid

control number.

I. Purpose and Substantive Authority

(a) Authority. These grants are 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 (NAHA), approved November 28, 1990, Pub. L. 101-625, and

section 161 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (HCDA

1992) (Pub. L. 102-550, approved October 28, 1992).

(b) Allocation amounts. (1) Fiscal Year 1997 Funding. The

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, (approved September 26,

1996, Pub. L. 104-204), (97 App. Act) appropriated $290 million for the

Drug Elimination Program. Of the total $290 million appropriated, $1

million will fund drug information clearinghouse services; $10 million

will fund drug elimination technical assistance, contracts and other

assistance training, program assessments, and execution for or on

behalf of public housing agencies and resident organizations (including

the cost of necessary travel for participants in such training); $10

million shall be used in connection with efforts to combat violent

crime in public and assisted housing under the Operation Safe Home

Program administered by the Inspector General of HUD; and $16.875

million for the Federally Assisted Low-Income Housing Drug Elimination

Program, which is administered by the Office of Housing and is made

available through a separate NOFA. Additionally, a funding amount of

$39,000 in FY 1997 funds is being awarded to the Randolph County

Housing Authority, Randolph County, IL, a successful FY 1996 PHDEP

grantee which was mistakenly denied this amount in FY 1996 funding for

eligible law enforcement activities; $1,524,501 is being awarded to the

Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago, IL., which was mistakenly denied

this amount in FY 1996 funding for treatment activities; $8,400 is

being

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awarded to the Tulsa Housing Authority which was incorrectly denied a

project expense in its FY 1995 application, and finally $400,100 is

being awarded to the Philadelphia Housing Authority, Philadelphia, PA,

which was incorrectly denied this amount for an eligible law

enforcement expense in its FY 1996 application. In addition, $496,053

of prior PHDEP carryover and recovery program funds will be made

available under the FY 1997 PHDEP NOFA. Accordingly, the total funding

available, to remain available until expended, for funding under this

FY 1997 PHDEP NOFA is $250,649,052. HUD is not funding the Youth Sports

Program (YSP) for FY 1997, although YSP-type activities under programs

to reduce/eliminate drug activities are eligible program expenses under

section I.(c)(6) of this NOFA.

(2) Maximum Grant Award Amounts. HUD is distributing grant funds

under this NOFA on a national competition basis. Maximum grant award

amounts are computed on a sliding scale, using an overall maximum cap,

depending upon the number of housing authority units. The unit count

includes rental, Turnkey III Homeownership, Mutual Help Homeownership

and Section 23 leased housing bond-financed projects, although units in

the Turnkey III Homeownership, Mutual Help Homeownership and Section 23

bond-financed programs are counted only if they have not been conveyed.

Applicants should note that in determining the unit count for PHA-owned

or IHA-owned rental housing, a long-term vacancy unit, as defined in 24

CFR 950.102 or 990.102, is still included in the count. Eligible

projects must be covered by an annual contributions contract (ACC)

during the period of the grant award. For information and specific

guidance regarding PHA/IHA unit count contact the local HUD Field

Office; or Headquarters, Joan Dewitt, Director, PIH Finance and Budget

Division, on (202) 708-1872, extension 4035, and/or Deborah Lalancette,

Director, NONAP, Housing Management on (303) 675-1600, extension 3300.

The maximum grant awards are as follows, although, as discussed

below, in section I.(b)(4) of this NOFA (Reduction of Requested Grant

Amounts and Special Conditions), the Department may adjust the amount

of any grant award. These estimates of the maximum grant awards are

based on the amount of funds available in FY 1997.

For housing authorities with 1-1,250 units: The Minimum grant award

amount is $50,000 or a Maximum grant award cap of $300.00 per unit;

For housing authorities with 1,251-24,999 units: The Maximum grant

award is a maximum grant award cap of $260.00 per unit;

For housing authorities with 25,000-49,999 units: The Maximum grant

award is a maximum grant award cap of $230.00 per unit; and

For housing authorities with 50,000 or more units: The Maximum

grant award is a maximum cap of $200.00 per unit; up to, but not to

exceed, a Maximum grant award of $35 million.

An applicant shall not apply for more funding than is permitted in

accordance with the maximum grant award amount as described above. Any

application requesting funding that exceeds the maximum grant award

amount permitted will be rejected and will not be eligible for any

funding unless a computational error was involved in the FY 1997 PHDEP

funding request. Section IV of this NOFA provides guidance regarding

curable and noncurable deficiencies in the application. A computational

error will be considered a curable deficiency in the application.

Section III.(d) (Checklist of Application Requirements) of this NOFA

requires applicants to compute the maximum grant award amount for which

they are eligible. In accordance with sections I.(b)(2)(i) through

(iii) of this NOFA, applicants are required to validate/confirm the

housing authorities unit count with the local HUD Field Office prior to

submission of the application. The amount computed in this way must be

compared with the dollar amount requested in the application to make

certain the amount requested does not exceed the maximum grant award.

Units identified after the application deadline date will not be

accepted as part of the unit count.

(3) Reallocation. All awards will be made to fully fund an

application, except as provided in section I.(b)(4) of this NOFA

(Reduction of Requested Grant Amounts and Special Conditions) below.

(4) Reduction of Requested Grant Amounts and Special Conditions.

HUD may approve an application for an amount lower than the amount

requested, withhold funds after approval, take other remedies that may

be legally available, and/or the grantee will be required to comply

with special conditions added to the grant agreement, in accordance

with 24 CFR 85.12 (PHAs), and 24 CFR 950.135 (IHAs) as applicable, and

the requirements of this NOFA, or where:

(i) HUD determines the amount requested for one or more eligible

activities is unreasonable or unnecessary;

(ii) The application does not otherwise meet applicable cost

limitations established for the program;

(iii) The applicant has requested an ineligible activity;

(iv) Insufficient amounts remain in that funding round to fund the

full amount requested in the application and HUD determines that

partial funding is a viable option;

(v) The applicant failed under previous PHDEP grants to drawdown

grant funds according to its plan, budget, and timetable, and/or failed

to submit HUD required performance and financial reports in a timely

manner. In addition, reports did not demonstrate satisfactory outcomes

that reduced/eliminated drug-related crime; or

(vi) The applicant has demonstrated an inability to manage other

HUD grants.

(c) Eligibility. Funding under this NOFA is available only for

housing authorities. Although section 161 of the Housing and Community

Development Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-550, approved October 28, 1992)

makes public housing resident management corporations (RMCs) eligible

for PHDEP funding, the 97 App. Act limited the funds appropriated ``for

grants to public and Indian housing agencies.'' RMCs may continue to

receive funding from housing authority grantees, as sub-grantees, to

develop security programs and substance abuse prevention programs

involving site residents as they have in the past. The Department has

determined that the term ``in or around'' means within, or adjacent to,

the physical boundaries of a public or Indian housing development. The

effect of this definition is to make certain that program funds and

program activities are targeted to benefit, as directly as possible,

the residents of public and Indian housing developments, the intended

beneficiaries of the program under the authorizing statute. The

definition is also consistent with, but not as strictly limited as, the

use of ``around'' in Federal criminal law, which makes it a Federal

crime to dispense drugs within 1,000 feet of public housing property.

An application for funding under this program may be for one or more of

the eligible activities. Every application must describe how the

proposed activities relate to the selection criteria in Section I.(d),

below, of this NOFA, and how the proposed activities will reduce or

eliminate drug-related crime. Concerning the definition of ``drug-

related crime'', the 97 App. Act provides that the term ``drug-related

crime'', as defined in 42 U.S.C.

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11905(2), shall also include other types of crime as determined by HUD.

Accordingly, for purposes of this NOFA, the term ``drug-related crime''

as defined in 42 U.S.C. 11905(2) shall also include other crimes as

reported under the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) system.

These crimes are divided into two sections, Part I and Part II crimes.

Part I crimes are: criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery,

aggravated assault (to include domestic violence--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 are other assaults, forgery and

counterfeiting, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons (carrying,

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, liquor laws, drunkenness, disorderly conduct,

vagrancy, all other offenses, suspicion, and offenses related to curfew

and loitering laws and runaways.

The following is a listing of eligible activities under this

program and guidance as to their parameters:

(1) Employment of Security Personnel. Employment of security

personnel is permitted under this section. Employment of security

personnel is divided into two categories: Security personnel services,

and housing authority police departments.

(i) General requirements. The following requirements apply to all

employment of security personnel activities funded under this NOFA:

(A) Compliance. Security guard personnel and public housing

authority police departments funded by this NOFA must meet, and

demonstrate compliance with, all relevant Federal, State, Tribal or

local government insurance, licensing, certification, training,

bonding, or other similar law enforcement requirements.

(B) Law enforcement service agreement. The applicant and the local

law enforcement agency, and if relevant, the contract provider of

security personnel services, are required to enter into a law

enforcement service agreement, in addition to the housing authority's

cooperation agreement, that describes the following:

(1) The activities to be performed by security guard personnel or

the public housing authority police department; the scope of authority,

written policies, procedures, and practices that will govern security

personnel or public housing authority police department performance

(i.e., a policy manual as described in section I.(c)(1)(i)(C), below,

of this NOFA); and how security guard personnel or the public housing

authority police department shall coordinate activities with the local

law enforcement agency;

(2) The types of activities that the approved security guard

personnel or the public housing authority police department are

expressly prohibited from undertaking.

(C) Policy manual. Security guard personnel services and public

housing authority police departments funded under this NOFA shall 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 describe in detail how jobs are to be performed. The policy

manual must exist before execution of the grant agreement. The housing

authority shall ensure all security guard personnel and housing

authority police officers are trained, at a minimum, in the following

areas that must be covered in the policy manual: use of force, resident

contacts, enforcement of HA rules, response criteria to calls,

pursuits, arrest procedures, reporting of crimes and workload, feedback

procedures to victims, citizens' complaint procedures, internal affairs

investigations, towing of vehicles, authorized weapons and other

equipment, radio procedures internally and with local police, training

requirements, patrol procedures, scheduling of meetings with residents,

reports to be completed, record keeping and position descriptions on

all personnel, post assignments, monitoring, and self-evaluation

program requirements.

(D) Data management. A daily activity and incident complaint form

approved by the housing authority must be used by security personnel

and officers funded under this NOFA for the collection and analysis of

criminal incidents and responses to service calls. Security guard

personnel and housing authority police departments funded under this

NOFA 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

Informational Systems (MIS) (computers, software, and associated

equipment) and management personnel in support of these activities are

eligible for funding.

(ii) Security Personnel Services. Contracting for, or direct

housing authority employment of, security personnel services in and

around housing development(s) is Permitted under this program.

Contracts for security personnel services must be awarded on a

competitive basis.

(A) Eligible services--over and above. Security guard personnel

funded by this program 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.

(B) Employment of residents. Housing authorities are Permitted and

encouraged to demonstrate in plans the employment of qualified

resident(s) as security guard personnel, and/or to contract with

security guard personnel firms that demonstrate in a proposed contract

a program to employ qualified residents as security guard personnel. An

applicant's program of eliminating drug-related crime should promote

``welfare to work'' in housing authorities and development(s).

(iii) Employment of Personnel and Equipment for HUD Authorized

Housing Authority Police Departments. Funding for equipment and

employment of housing authority police department personnel is

Permitted for housing authorities that already have their own public

housing authority police departments. The below-listed eleven (11)

housing authorities have been identified by HUD as having eligible

public housing police departments/agencies under the FY 1997 PHDEP:

Baltimore Housing Authority and Community Development, Baltimore, MD

Boston Housing Authority, Boston, MA

Buffalo Housing Authority, Buffalo, NY

Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago, IL

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, Cleveland, OH

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Housing Authority of the City of Oakland, Oakland, CA

Philadelphia Housing Authority, Philadelphia, PA

Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Waterbury Housing Authority, Waterbury, CT

Virgin Islands Housing Authority, Virgin Islands

(A) On September 22, 1995, the Department issued Notice PIH 95-58

(Guidelines for Creating, Implementing and Managing Public Housing

Authority

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Police Departments in Public Housing Authorities). This notice

identifies the prerequisites for creating public housing police

departments and provides guidance regarding technical assistance to

housing authorities to assist in making decisions regarding public

housing security, analysis of security needs, and performance measures

and outcomes.

(B) Housing authorities that have established their own public

housing authority police departments, but are not included on this

list, may file a written request to be recognized by the Department as

a public housing authority police department by contacting the Office

of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Relations and

Involvement, Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, Room 4126, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410.

This request must be submitted and approved by the Department prior to

the submission of the FY 1997 PHDEP application. Hearing-or-speech

impaired persons may call (800) 877-8339. (Federal Information Relay

Service TTY.) Except for the ``800'' number, these telephone numbers

are not toll-free.

(C) An applicant seeking funding for this activity must describe

the current level of local law enforcement agency baseline services

being provided to the housing authority/development(s) proposed for

assistance. Local law enforcement baseline services are defined as

ordinary and routine services provided to the residents as a part of

the overall city and 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.

(D) Applicants for funding of housing authority public housing

authority police department officers must have car-to-car (or other

vehicles) and portable-to-portable radio communications links between

public housing authority police officers and local municipal law

enforcement officers to assure a coordinated and safe response to

crimes or calls for services. The use of scanners (radio monitors) is

not sufficient to meet the requirements of this section. Applicants

that do not have such links must submit a plan and timetable for the

implementation of such communications links, which is an activity

eligible for funding. A housing authority funded under the FY 1994,

1995, and/or 1996 PHDEP for public housing police departments shall

demonstrate in its plan what progress has been made in implementing its

communications links. The Department will monitor results of the

housing authority's plan and timetable.

(E) Public housing authority police departments funded under this

program that are not employing a community policing concept must submit

a plan and timetable for the implementation of community policing. A

housing authority funded under the FY 1994, 1995, and/or 1996 PHDEP for

public housing police departments shall demonstrate in its plan what

progress has been made in implementing its community policing program.

The Department will monitor results of the housing authority's plan and

timetable.

(1) Community policing has a variety of definitions; however, for

the purposes of this program, it is defined as follows: Community

policing is 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 the fear of crime.

(2) This method of policing involves a philosophy of proactive

measures, such as foot patrols, bicycle patrols, motor scooters

patrols, KOBAN activities (community police officers who operate

through community-based facilities in housing authorities [e.g.,

community center, police mini station] providing human resource

activities as described in section I.(c)(6) of this NOFA with inner-

city youth who demonstrate high risk behaviors which can lead to drug-

related crime), and citizen contacts. For additional information

regarding KOBAN community policing contact Malcolm (Mike) E. Main,

(202) 708-1197, extension 4232. This concept empowers police officers

at the beat and zone level and residents in neighborhoods in an effort

to: Reduce crime and fear of crime; assure the maintenance of order;

provide referrals of residents, victims, and the homeless to social

services and government agencies; assure feedback of police actions to

victims of crime; and promote a law enforcement value system on the

needs and rights of residents.

(F) Housing authority police departments funded under this program

that are not nationally or state accredited must submit a plan and

timetable for such accreditation. Housing authorities may use either

their State accreditation program, if one exists, or the Commission on

Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) for this purpose.

Use of grant funds for public housing police department accreditation

activities is permitted. Housing authorities receiving grants under

section I.(c)(1)(iii) of this NOFA (public housing police departments)

are required to hire a public housing police department accreditation

specialist to manage the accreditation program. Housing authority

police departments must submit a plan and timetable in order to be

funded for this activity. Any public housing police department funded

under the FY 1994, 1995, and/or 1996 PHDEP shall demonstrate in its

plan what progress has been made in implementing its accreditation

program and the projected date of accreditation. The Department will

monitor results of the housing authority's plan and timetable.

(G) Housing authorities that have been identified by HUD in section

I.(c)(1)(iii), (public housing police departments) above, of this NOFA

as having authorized public housing police departments are permitted to

use PHDEP funds to purchase or lease any law enforcement clothing or

equipment, such as, vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, firearms/weapons,

police vehicles; including cars, vans, buses, and protective vests, or

any other equipment that supports their crime prevention and security

mission. Housing authorities not identified by HUD in Section

I.(c)(1)(iii), above, of this NOFA as having an authorized public

housing police department are not permitted to use PHDEP funds to

directly purchase any clothing or equipment for use by local municipal

police departments and/or other law enforcement agencies.

(2) Reimbursement of Local Law Enforcement Agencies for Additional

(Supplemental--Over and Above Baseline Services) Security and

Protective Services.

(i) Additional (supplemental) security and protective services Are

Permitted under this program, but such services must be over and above

the local police department's current level of baseline services.

Housing authorities are required to identify the level of local law

enforcement services that they are required to receive pursuant to

their local cooperation agreements, as well as the current level of

services being received. For purposes of this NOFA, 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

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criminal activity, provided to HA residents as a part of the overall

deployment of police resources by the local jurisdiction in which the

HA is located.

In addition to providing reimbursement to local law enforcement

agencies for an increase over current baseline services to housing

authorities, funds may be used in a manner consistent with the

requirements of this NOFA for the equipment and employment of a local

police division or bureau dedicated exclusively to providing law

enforcement services (over and above local law enforcement baseline

services) to a housing authority. For convenience of reference, the

particular eligible activity of the equipment and employment of a local

police division or bureau dedicated exclusively to providing law

enforcement services (over and above local law enforcement baseline

services) to a housing authority is referred to as an HA-dedicated

police division/bureau. All of the requirements of this section

I.(c)(2) apply to this activity. In addition, specific requirements for

an HA-dedicated police division/bureau appear at section

I.(c)(2)(viii), below.

(ii) An applicant seeking funding for activities under this section

I.(c)(2) of the NOFA must first define the local police department's

current level of baseline services to the HA residents. The description

of baseline services must include the number of officers and equipment

and the actual percent of their time assigned to the housing

authority's development(s) proposed for funding. The applicant must

then demonstrate in its plan to what extent the proposed funded

activity will represent an increase over and above these baseline

services.

(iii) Equipment and personnel funded under this NOFA shall be used

exclusively for the housing authority's crime prevention and

comprehensive security efforts, which must be conducted in connection

with the establishment of a law enforcement mini-station facility and/

or presence on the funded premises or scattered site developments of

the housing authority. Housing authorities are permitted to purchase,

but must demonstrate accountability for, communications and security

equipment to improve collection, analysis, and use of information about

drug-related crime in their development(s), such as surveillance

equipment (e.g., Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), software, cameras,

monitors, components and supporting equipment), computers accessing

national, Tribal, State or local government security networks and

databases, facsimile machines, telephone equipment, bicycles, and motor

scooters, or other communications and security equipment. The

communications and security equipment must be used in connection with

the establishment of law enforcement mini-station(s) and/or other law

enforcement facility(s) on the funded premises or scattered site

developments of the housing authority. The communication and security

equipment shall be the property of, and maintained by, the housing

authority.

(iv) The local law enforcement agency shall collect its police

officer's PHDEP-funded activity (not just hours of work) information

for the housing authority. The local law enforcement agency must use a

housing authority-approved activity form for the collection, analysis

and reporting of activities by officers funded under this NOFA.

(v) Expenditures for activities under this section must not be

incurred by the housing authority (grantee) and funds will not be

released by the local HUD Field Office until the grantee and the local

law enforcement agency execute a contractual agreement, with an

operational plan, for the additional (supplemental) law enforcement

services. The agreement must state that the funding to be provided by

the HA for additional services is over and above the police agency's

approved budget and that the PHDEP funds will not be used to replace

funds for law enforcement services in the local government's approved

budget. The local police department or law enforcement agency shall be

reimbursed in accordance with this contractual agreement.

(vi) The Department advocates and strongly encourages local

community policing collaborations, between housing authorities and

local police departments and agencies, regarding reduction/elimination

of drug-related crime to improve safety and security for residents in

housing authorities. For additional background on community policing

strategy, see the discussion at section I.(c)(1)(iii)(E) of this NOFA.

(vii) The Department advocates and strongly encourages housing

authorities to work closely with local police departments to permit the

admission to public housing of police officers and other security

personnel, whose visible presence may serve as a deterrent to drug-

related crime. Section 519 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable

Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 1437a-1) permits housing authorities to allow

police officers and other security personnel not otherwise eligible for

occupancy to reside in public or Indian housing dwelling units under a

plan that will increase security for residents while minimizing both

the reduction of available dwelling units and loss of housing authority

income. HUD's final rule implementing section 519 is located at subpart

E of 24 CFR part 960. For assistance regarding this program, contact

the local HUD Field Office and/or the Office of the Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Public and Assisted Housing Operations, Linda Campbell,

Director, Marketing and Leasing Management Division, (202) 708-0744

and/or Malcolm (Mike) Main, (202) 708-1197, extension 4232.

(viii) HA-dedicated police division/bureau. The following

additional requirements apply to an application proposing to establish

an HA-dedicated police division/bureau, which is a police division or

bureau of the local law enforcement agency, consisting of full-time

officers, dedicated exclusively to providing law enforcement services

to a housing authority:

(A) To be an eligible activity for funding under this NOFA, an HA-

dedicated police division must first be recognized by HUD. Local

governments who wish to establish an HA-dedicated police division must

file a written request to be recognized by the Department by contacting

the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Relations

and Involvement, Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, Room 4126, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20410. This request must be submitted to and approved by HUD prior to

the submission of the FY 1997 PHDEP application. Hearing-or-speech

impaired persons may call (800) 877-8339. (Federal Information Relay

Service TTY.) Except for the ``800'' number, these telephone numbers

are not toll-free.

(B) The HA and the local law enforcement agency must have executed

a written law enforcement service agreement that includes: a short (up

to two years) and long (up to three years) range operational plan that

identifies the strategy, number of law enforcement personnel and the

equipment that will be dedicated exclusively to providing law

enforcement services to the HA's developments; specific performance

measurements; procedures for communications and coordination with the

housing authority; job descriptions of the officers; and the local

government's and the housing authority's roles and responsibilities.

(viii) In order to assist housing authorities to develop and

administer relevant, fair, and productive law enforcement service

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police departments for the delivery of effective security services to

the housing authority residents, a sample contract for law enforcement

services is provided with the application kit. A sample model law

enforcement contract is provided in the application kit and also may be

obtained by calling HUD's DISC, on 1-800-578-3472.

(3) Physical Improvements to Enhance Security.

(i) Physical improvements that are specifically designed to enhance

security are permitted under this program. These improvements may

include (but are not limited to) the installation of barriers, speed

bumps, lighting systems, fences, surveillance equipment (e.g., Closed

Circuit Television (CCTV), software, fax, cameras, monitors, components

and supporting equipment) bolts, locks; and the landscaping or

reconfiguration of common areas so as to discourage drug-related crime

in the housing authorities and development(s) proposed for funding.

(ii) An activity cost that is funded under any other HUD program,

such as the modernization program at 24 CFR part 968, shall not also be

funded by this program. Housing authorities are encouraged to fund

physical security improvements under their approved modernization

programs whenever possible since the PHDEP program is designed

essentially to fund ``soft'' costs rather than ``hard'' costs. The

applicant must demonstrate program compliance, accountability,

financial and audit controls of PHDEP funds and prevent duplication of

funding any activity. Housing authorities shall not co-mingle funds of

HUD multiple programs such as: CIAP, CGP, OTAR, ED/SS, TOP, HOPE

projects, Family Investment, Elderly Service Coordinator, and Operating

Subsidy.

(iii) Funding is not permitted for physical improvements that

involve the demolition of any units in a development.

(iv) Funding is not permitted for any physical improvements that

would result in the displacement of persons.

(v) Funding is not permitted for the acquisition of real property.

(vi) Funding is permitted for purchase or lease of house trailers

used for eligible community policing, educational, employment, and

youth activities.

(vii) All physical improvements must also be accessible to persons

with disabilities. For example, some types of locks, buzzer systems,

and doors, are not accessible to persons with limited strength or

mobility, or to persons who are hearing impaired. All physical

improvements must meet the accessibility requirements of 24 CFR part 8.

(4) Employment of Investigators.

(i) Employment of and equipment for one or more individuals is

permitted under this program to:

(A) Investigate drug-related crime ``in or around'' the real

property comprising any housing authority's development(s); and

(B) Provide evidence relating to any such crime in any

administrative or judicial proceedings.

(ii) Housing authorities that employ investigators funded by this

program must meet and demonstrate compliance with all relevant Federal,

Tribal, State or local government insurance, licensing, certification,

training, bonding, or other similar law enforcement requirements.

(iii) The housing authority (grantee), and the provider of the

investigative services are required to enter into and execute a written

agreement that describes the following:

(A) The nature of the activities to be performed by the housing

authority investigators, their scope of authority, reports to be

completed, established policies, procedures, and practices that will

govern their performance (i.e., a Policy Manual as described in section

I.(c)(1)(i)(C) of this NOFA) and how housing authority investigators

will coordinate their activities with local, State, Tribal, and Federal

law enforcement agencies; and

(B) The types of activities that the housing authority

investigators are expressly prohibited from undertaking.

(iv) 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.

(v) Housing authority investigator(s) shall report on drug-related

crime and other part I and part II crimes in the housing authority and

developments. Housing authorities shall establish, implement and

maintain a system of records management that ensures confidentiality of

criminal records and information. Housing authority-approved activity

forms must be used for the collection, analysis and reporting of

activities by housing authority investigators funded under this

section. Management Informational Systems (MIS) (Computers, software,

hardware, and associated equipment) and management personnel are

encouraged and are eligible program expenses in support of a housing

authority's crime and workload data collection activity and its crime

prevention and security mission.

(vi) Funding is permitted for housing authority investigator(s) to

use PHDEP funds to purchase or lease any law enforcement clothing or

equipment, such as vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, firearms/weapons, or

vehicles; including cars, vans, buses, protective vests, and any other

supportive equipment, to support the activities of the investigators.

(vii) Expenditures for activities under this section will not be

incurred by the housing authority (grantee) and funds will not be

released by the local HUD Field Office until the grantee has met all of

the above requirements.

(5) Voluntary tenant patrols. Active voluntary tenant patrol

activities, to include purchase of uniforms, equipment and related

training, are permitted under this section. For the purposes of this

section, the elimination of drug-related crime within and around the

housing authority/development(s) requires the active involvement and

commitment of residents and their organizations.

(i) The provision of training and equipment (including uniforms)

for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with

officials of local law enforcement agencies is permitted under this

program. Members must be volunteers and must be residents of the

housing authority's development(s). Voluntary tenant patrols

established under this program are expected to patrol in the housing

authority's development(s) proposed for assistance, and to report

illegal activities to appropriate housing authority staff, and local,

State, Tribal, and Federal law enforcement agencies, as appropriate.

Housing authorities 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 an eligible program expense.

(ii) The housing authority (grantee) and cooperating local law

enforcement agency, and the members of the voluntary tenant patrol are

required, prior to expending any grant funds, to enter into and execute

a written housing authority/local municipal police department agreement

that describes the following:

(A) The nature of the activities to be performed by the voluntary

tenant patrol, the patrol's scope of authority, assignment, the

established policies, procedures, and practices that will govern the

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performance and how the patrol will coordinate its activities with the

law enforcement agency;

(B) The types of activities that a voluntary tenant patrol is

expressly prohibited from undertaking, including, but not limited to,

the carrying or use of firearms or other weapons, nightstick, clubs,

handcuffs, or mace in the course of their duties under this program;

(C) The initial and follow-up voluntary tenant patrol training the

members receive from the local law enforcement agency (training by the

local law enforcement agency is required before putting the voluntary

tenant patrol into effect); and

(D) Voluntary tenant patrol members must be advised that they may

be subject to individual or collective liability for any actions

undertaken outside the scope of their authority and that such acts are

not covered under a housing authority's liability insurance.

(iii) Uniforms, communication and related equipment eligible for

funding under this program shall be reasonable, necessary, justified

and related to the operation of the voluntary tenant patrol and must be

otherwise permissible under local, State, Tribal, or Federal law.

(iv) Under this program, bicycles, motor scooters, all season

uniforms and associated equipment (voluntary tenant patrol uniforms and

equipment must be identified with specific housing authority/

development(s) identification and markings) to be used, exclusively, by

the members of the housing authority's voluntary tenant patrol are

eligible items.

(v) PHDEP grant funds shall not be used for any type of financial

compensation, such as any full-time wages or salaries for voluntary

tenant and/or patrol participants. Funding for housing authority

personnel or resident(s) to be hired to coordinate this activity is

permitted.

(6) Programs to reduce/eliminate the use of drugs (prevention,

intervention, treatment, short/long range structured aftercare and

individual support systems). Programs that reduce/eliminate drug-

related crime ``in or around'' the premises of the housing authority/

development(s), including substance abuse prevention, intervention, and

referral programs, and programs of local social and/or religious and

other organizations that provide treatment services [contractual or

otherwise] for dependency/remission, and structured aftercare/support

system programs, are permitted under this program. The applicant must

establish a confidentiality policy regarding medical and disability-

related information. For purposes of this section, the goals of this

program are best served by focusing resources directly upon housing

authority residents and families. Successful strategies (best

practices) have incorporated substance abuse prevention, intervention

and treatment (dependency/remission and short and long term aftercare)

activities into a ``continuum of care'' approach that assists persons

that are using or are at-risk of using drugs and/or committing drug-

related crime by providing alternative activities, such as; education,

training and employment development opportunities. The applicant's goal

must be to reduce/eliminate drug-related crime through a program

designed to provide education, training and employment opportunities

for residents. Such programs create a prime opportunity for housing

authorities to leverage resources and bring additional Federal, State

and local resources into the housing authority community. While housing

authorities provide space and other infrastructure, other public or

private agencies can provide staff and other resources with limited

cost or no cost. Applicants are encouraged to use the PHDEP resources

in this fashion. A community-based approach requires a culturally

appropriate strategy. Curricula, activities, and staff should address

the cultural issues of the local community, which requires familiarity

and facility with the language and cultural norms of the community. As

applicable, this strategy should discuss cultural competencies

associated with Hispanic, African-American, Asian, Native American or

other racial or other ethnic communities. Applicants are encouraged to

develop a substance abuse/sobriety (remission)/treatment (dependency)

strategy to facilitate substance abuse prevention, intervention,

treatment, and structured aftercare efforts, that include outreach to

community resources, youth activities, and that facilitate bringing

these resources onto the premises, or providing resident referrals to

treatment programs or transportation to out-patient treatment programs

away from the premises. Funding is permitted for reasonable, necessary

and justified purchasing or leasing (whichever can be documented as the

most cost effective) of vehicles for grant administration, resident

youth and adult education, and training and employment opportunity

activities directly related to reducing/eliminating drug-related crime.

Based upon the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of

Mental Disorders, of the American Psychiatric Association dated May

1994, as it applies to substance abuse, dependency and structured

aftercare, related activities and programs are eligible for funding

under this program. For additional information regarding the DSM Manual

contact APPI, 1400 K Street, NW., Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005 on 1

(800) 368-5777 or World Wide Web site at http:\\www.appi.org. Funding

is permitted for reasonable, necessary and justified program costs,

such as meals, beverages and transportation, incurred only for

training, education and employment activities, as set forth in OMB

Circular A-87, directly related to reducing/eliminating drug-related

crime.

(i) Prevention. Prevention programs that will be considered for

funding under this part should provide a comprehensive prevention

approach for the housing authority resident(s) that addresses the

individual resident and his or her relationship to family, peers, and

the community and that reduces/eliminates drug-related crime.

Prevention programs should include activities designed to identify and

change the factors present in housing authorities that lead to drug-

related crime, and thereby lower the risk of drug usage. Many

components of a comprehensive approach, such as refusal and restraint

skills training programs or drug, substance abuse/dependency, family

counseling, may already be available in the community of the

applicant's housing developments.

(A) Educational Opportunities. The causes and effects of illegal

drug/substance abuse must be discussed in a culturally appropriate and

structured setting to educate young people with the working knowledge

and skills they need to reject illegal drugs, which has been identified

by the Office of National Drug Control Policy as one of the top five

goals and objectives to address in their 10-Year Strategy Commitment.

Grantees may contract (in accordance with 24 CFR 85.36) with

professionals to provide such knowledge and skills with training

programs or workshops. The professionals contracted to provide these

services shall be required to base their services upon the needs

assessment and program plan of the grantee. These educational

opportunities may be a part of resident meetings, youth activities, or

other gatherings of public and Indian housing residents.

(B) Family and Other Support Services. For purposes of this

section, the term ``supportive services'' means services to provide

housing authority families with access to prevention, educational and

employment

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opportunities, such as: Child care; employment training; computer

skills training; remedial education; substance abuse counseling;

assistance in the attainment of certification of high school

equivalency; and other services to reduce drug-related crime. In

addition, substance abuse and other prevention programs must

demonstrate that they will provide directly, or otherwise make

available, services designed to distribute substance/drug education

information, to foster effective parenting skills, and to provide

referrals for treatment and other available support services in the

housing development or the community for housing authority families.

(C) Adult and Youth Services. Prevention programs must demonstrate

that they have included groups composed of young people as a part of

their prevention programs. These groups should be coordinated by adults

with the active participation of youth to organize youth leadership,

sports, recreational, cultural and other activities involving housing

authority youth. The dissemination of information designed to reduce

drug-related crime, such as, prevention programs, employment

opportunities; employment training; literacy training; computer skills

training; remedial education; substance abuse and dependency/remission

counseling; assistance in the attainment of certification of high

school equivalency; and other appropriate services and the development

of peer leadership skills and other prevention activities must be a

component of youth services.

(D) Economic and Educational Opportunities for Resident Adult and

Youth Activities. Prevention programs must demonstrate a capacity to

provide housing authority residents the opportunities for interaction

with or referral to established higher education or vocational

institutions with the goal of developing or building on the residents'

skills to pursue educational, vocational and economic goals. Programs

such as computer learning centers for both adults and youth, employment

service centers coordinated with Federal, Tribal, State and local

employment offices, and micro-business centers are eligible under this

program. The application should demonstrate that the proposed

activities will provide housing authority residents the opportunity to

interact with private sector businesses in their immediate and

surrounding communities for the same desired goals. Economic and

educational opportunities for residents and youth activities should be

discussed 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 ``welfare to work''

goals. Limited educational scholarships are permitted under this

section. No one individual award may exceed $500.00, and there is a

total maximum cap scholarship program award of $25,000. Educational

scholarship FY 1997 PHDEP funds must be obligated and expended during

the term of the grant. The applicant must demonstrate in its plan and

timetable the scholarship strategy; the financial and audit controls

that will be used; and projected outcomes. Student financial assistance

is permitted for individual public housing scholarship activities.

These activities must be reasonable, necessary and justified.

(ii) Intervention. The aim of intervention is to provide housing

authority residents' substance abuse/dependency remission services, and

assist them in modifying their behavior and maintaining remission, and

in obtaining early substance abuse, treatment and structured aftercare,

if necessary.

(iii) Substance Abuse/Dependency Treatment.

(A) Treatment funded under this program should be ``in or around''

the premises of the housing authority/development(s) proposed for

funding. The Department has defined the term ``in or around'' to mean

within, or adjacent to, the physical boundaries of a public or Indian

housing development. The intent of this definition is to make certain

that program funds and program activities are targeted to benefit, as

directly as possible, public and Indian housing developments, the

intended beneficiaries of PHDEP. The goals of this program are best

served by focusing its resources directly upon the residents of housing

authorities and development(s). The applicant must establish a

confidentiality policy regarding medical and disability-related

information.

(B) Funds awarded under this program shall be targeted towards the

development and implementation of sobriety maintenance, substance-free

maintenance support groups, substance abuse counseling, referral

treatment services and short or long range structured aftercare, or the

improvement of, or expansion of, such program services for housing

authority residents.

(C) Each proposed drug program must address, but is not limited to,

the following goals:

(1) Increase resident accessibility to treatment services;

(2) Decrease drug-related crime ``in or around'' the housing

authority/development(s) by reducing and/or eliminating drug use among

residents; and

(3) Provide 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, or other supportive

services such as domestic or youth violence counseling.

(D) Independent approaches that have proven effective with similar

populations will be considered for funding. Applicants must consider in

the overall strategy the following criteria:

(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

substance abuse/treatment agencies, HIV-related service agencies,

mental health and public health programs.

(E) As applicable, applicants 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 the

substance dependency treatment proposal.

(F) Applicants must demonstrate that counselors (contractual or

otherwise) meet Federal, State, Tribal, and local government licensing,

bonding, training, certification and continuing training re-

certification requirements.

(G) The Single State Agency or authority with substance abuse and

dependency programs coordination responsibilities must certify that the

proposed program is consistent with the State plan; and that the

service(s) meets all Federal, State, Tribal and local government

medical licensing, training, bonding, and certification requirements.

(H) Funding is permitted for drug treatment of housing authority

residents at local in-patient medical (contractual or otherwise)

treatment programs and facilities. PHDEP funding for structured in-

patient drug treatment under PHDEP funds is limited to 60 days, and

structured drug out-patient treatment, which includes individual/family

aftercare, is limited to 6 months. The applicant must demonstrate how

individuals that complete drug treatment will be provided employment

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training, education and employment opportunities related to ``welfare

to work,'' if applicable.

(I) 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.

(J) 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.

(K) All activities described in this section I.(c)(6) of the NOFA

to reduce/eliminate the use of drugs and reduce/eliminate drug-related

crime should demonstrate efforts to coordinate with Federal, Tribal,

State and local employment training and development services, ``welfare

to work'' efforts, or other new ``welfare reform'' efforts related to

education, training and employment of housing authority residents

receiving Federal, Tribal, State or local assistance, in public and

Indian housing authorities/development(s).

(L) Funding is Permitted to contractually hire organizations and/or

consultant(s) to conduct independent assessments and evaluations of the

effectiveness of the PHDEP program.

(7) Resident management corporations (RMCs), resident councils

(RCs), and resident organizations (ROs). Funding under this program is

permitted for housing authorities RMCs and incorporated RCs and ROs to

develop security and substance abuse prevention programs involving site

residents. Such programs may include (but are not limited to) voluntary

tenant patrol activities, substance abuse education, intervention, and

referral programs, youth programs, and outreach efforts. For the

purposes of this section I.(c)(7), the elimination of drug-related

crime within housing authorities/developments requires the active

involvement and commitment of public housing residents and their

organizations. To enhance the ability of housing authorities to combat

drug-related crime within their developments, Resident Councils (RCs),

Resident Management Corporations (RMCs), and Resident Organizations

(ROs) will be permitted to undertake program management functions

specified in this part, notwithstanding the otherwise applicable

requirements of 24 CFR parts 950 and 964. In order to implement the

approved activity, the housing authority shall be the grantee and enter

into a sub-contract with the RMC/RC/RO setting forth the amount of

funds, applicable terms, conditions, financial controls, payment

mechanism schedule, performance and financial report requirements,

special conditions, including sanctions for violation of the agreement,

and monitoring. Expenditures for activities under this section will not

be incurred by the housing authority (grantee) and/or funds will not be

released by the local HUD Field Office until the grantee has met all of

the above requirements. Activities described in this section of the

NOFA should demonstrate efforts to coordinate with Federal, Tribal,

State and local employment training and development services, ``welfare

to work'' efforts, or other new but related ``welfare reform'' efforts

related to education, employment training and employment of housing

authority residents receiving Federal, Tribal, State or local

assistance.

(8) FY 1997 PHDEP program performance measurements and outcomes in

reducing and eliminating drug-related crime in housing authorities. HUD

will evaluate an applicant's performance under previous PHDEP grant(s).

The local HUD Field Office will evaluate the applicant's: financial

controls; audit compliance; program performance; drawdown of funds;

performance and financial reporting; grant agreement special condition

compliance; accomplishment of stated goals and objectives in reducing

and eliminating drug-related crime; and program adjustments made in

response to previous ineffective and/or unsatisfactory grant

performance. If the evaluation discloses a pattern under past PHDEP

grants of ineffective or unsatisfactory grant performance with no

corrective measures attempted, and with a lack of positive outcomes, it

will result in a deduction of points from the FY 1997 PHDEP application

under Selection Criterion 3, below. Since this is a competitive

program, HUD does not guarantee continued funding of any previously

funded PHDEP grant(s) or future PHDEP grants.

(9) PHA-owned housing. Funding may be used for the activities

described in Sections I.(c)(1) through (7) (eligible activities) of

this NOFA, to eliminate drug-related crime in housing owned by public

housing agencies that is not public housing assisted under the United

States Housing Act of 1937 and is not otherwise federally assisted (for

example, housing that receives tenant subsidies under Section 8 is

federally assisted and would not qualify, but housing that receives

only State, Tribal or local assistance would qualify), but only if they

meet all of the following:

(i) The housing is located in a high intensity drug trafficking

area designated pursuant to section 1005 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of

1988; and

(ii) The PHA owning the housing demonstrates, on the basis of

information submitted in accordance with the requirements of sections

I.(d)(1), below, of this NOFA, that drug-related crime at the housing

has a detrimental affect on or about the housing.

The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) are areas

identified as having the most critical drug trafficking problems that

adversely impact the rest of the country. These areas are designated as

HIDTAs by the Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),

pursuant to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. As of April 1997 the

following areas were confirmed by the ONDCP as designated HIDTAs:

--New York City HIDTA: consists of the city of New York and all the

municipalities therein and Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties

(in New york), and Union, Hudson, Essex, Bergen, and Passaic Counties

and all municipalities therein (in New Jersey);

--Washington, DC--Baltimore, MD HIDTA: consists of Washington, DC; the

city of Baltimore, and Baltimore, Howard, Anne Arundel, Prince

George's, Montgomery and Charles Counties (in Maryland); and the city

of Alexandria and Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, and Loundoun

Counties (in Virginia) and all municipalities therein;

--Miami HIDTA: consists of the city of Miami and the surrounding areas

of Broward, Dade, and Monroe Counties and all municipalities therein;

--Houston HIDTA: consists of the city of Houston and surrounding areas

of Harris, and Galveston Counties and all municipalities therein;

--Lake County HIDTA: consists of Lake County, Indiana, and all

municipalities therein;

--Gulf Coast HIDTA: consist of Baldwin, Jefferson, Mobile, and

Montgomery Counties (in Alabama); Caddo, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson,

and Orleans Parishes (in Louisiana); and Hancock, Harrison, Hinds, and

Jackson Counties (in Mississippi) and the municipalities therein;

--Midwest HIDTA: consists of Muscatine, Polk, Pottawattamie, Scott and

Woodbury Counties (in Iowa); Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Labette,

Leacenworth, Saline, Seward, and Wyandotte Counties (in Kansas); Cape

Garardeau, Christian, Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Ray, Scott,

and St. Charles Counties, and the City of St. Louis, MO (in Missouri);

Dakota,

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Dawson, Douglas, Hall, Lancaster, Sarpy, and Scott's Bluff Counties (in

Nebraska); Clay, Codington, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Lincoln,

Meade, Minnehaha, Penninton, Union, and Yankton Counties (in South

Dakota); and all municipalities therein;

--Rocky Mountains HIDTA: consists of Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas,

Eagle, El Pasco, Garfield, Jefferson, La Plate, and Mesa Counties (in

Colorado); Davis, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, and Weber Counties (in

Utah); Laramie, Natrona, and Sweetwater Counties (in Wyoming) and all

municipalities therein;

--Southwest Border HIDTA: consists of San Diego and Imperial Counties

(in California), and all municipalities therein; Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal,

Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise Counties, (in Arizona) and all

municipalities therein; Bernalillo, Hidalgo, Grant, Luna, Dona Ana,

Eddy, Lea, and Otero Counties, (in New Mexico) and all municipalities

therein; El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster,

Pecos, Terrell, Crockett Counties (in West Texas) and all

municipalities therein; exar, Val Verde, Kinney, Maverick, Zavala,

Dimmit, La Salle, Webb, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Starr, Hildago, Willacy and

Cameron Countries (in South Texas) and all municipalities therein;

--Northwest HIDTA: consists of King, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish,

Thurston, Whatcom and Yakima Counties (in the State of Washington) and

all municipalities therein;

--Los Angeles HIDTA: consists of the city of Los Angeles and

surrounding areas of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernadino

Counties, and all municipalities therein; and

--Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands HIDTA: consists of the U.S.

territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

For further information on HIDTAs contact Rich Yamamoto, at the

ONDCP, Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC 20500 on (202)

395-6755, and/or La'Wan A. Sweetenberg on (202) 395-6603, fax (202)

395-6721.

(10) Ineligible Activities. PHDEP funding is not permitted for any

of the activities listed below, unless otherwise specified in this

NOFA.

(i) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for costs incurred

before the effective date of the grant agreement (Form HUD-1044),

including, but not limited to, consultant fees related to the

development of an application or the actual writing of the application.

(ii) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for 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).

(iii) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for compensating

informants, including confidential informants. These should be part of

the baseline services provided and budgeted by local law enforcement

agencies.

(iv) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for the direct

purchase or lease of any law or military enforcement clothing or

equipment, such as vehicles, including cars, vans, buses, uniforms,

ammunition, firearms/weapons, protective vests, and any other

supportive equipment. Exceptions are set forth in sections

I.(c)(1)(iii)(G) and I.(c)(4)(vi) (public housing police departments,

and investigator activities) of this NOFA. In addition, funds may be

used to contract for the equipment and employment of a HA-dedicated

police division under section I.(c)(2) of this NOFA.

(v) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for any wages or

salaries for voluntary tenant patrol participants. Housing authorities

are permitted to fund housing authority/resident coordinator(s) to be

hired for this activity. Staffing must be reasonable, necessary and

justified. Excessive staffing is not permitted.

(vi) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for the costs of

constructing any facility space in a building or unit, although funding

is permitted for the costs of retrofitting/modifying existing building

space owned by the housing authorities for eligible activities/programs

such as: community policing mini-station operations, adult/youth

education, and employment training facilities. The goal of this funding

is to reduce/eliminate drug-related crime and form partnerships with

Federal, Tribal, State and local government resources. Program costs

are permitted if shared among other HUD programs. The applicant must

demonstrate the use of program compliance, accountability, financial

and audit controls of PHDEP funds and controls to prevent duplicate

funding of any activity. Housing authorities shall not co-mingle funds

of multiple programs such as CIAP, CGP, OTAR, TOP, ED/SS, Family

Investment Center, Elderly Service Coordinators, and Operating Subsidy.

House trailers of any type that are not designated as a building are

eligible items for purchase or lease for specific community policing,

educational, employment, and youth activities.

(vii) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for organized fund

raising, advertising, financial campaigns, endowment drives,

solicitation of gifts and bequests, rallies, marches, community

celebrations and similar expenses.

(viii) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for the costs of

entertainment, amusements, or social activities and for the expenses of

items such as meals, beverages, lodgings, rentals, transportation, and

gratuities related to these ineligible activities. However, under

section I.(c)(6) of this NOFA, funding is permitted for reasonable,

necessary and justified program costs, as defined in OMB Circular A-87,

such as meals, beverages and transportation, incurred only for

prevention programs, employment training, education and youth

activities directly related to reducing/eliminating drug-related crime.

(x) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for the costs (such

as, court costs, attorneys fees) related to screening or evicting

residents for drug-related crime. However, housing authority

investigators funded under this program may participate in judicial and

administrative proceedings as provided in Section I.(c)(4), Employment

of Investigator(s), of this NOFA.

(xi) Although participation in activities with Federal drug

interdiction or drug enforcement agencies is encouraged, the transfer

of PHDEP grant funds to any Federal agency is not permitted under this

NOFA.

(xii) Funding is not permitted under this NOFA for establishing

councils, resident associations, resident organizations, and resident

corporations since HUD funds these activities under a separate NOFA.

(xiii) Indirect costs as defined in OMB Circular A-87 are not permitted

under this program. Only direct costs are permitted.

(xiv) PHDEP grant funds shall not be used to supplant existing

positions/activities. For purposes of the PHDEP program supplanting is

defined as ``taking the place of or to supersede''.

(xv) The PHDEP is targeted by statute at controlled substances as

defined at section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.

802). Since alcohol is a legal substance, alcohol exclusive activities

and programs are not eligible for funding under this NOFA. When an

individual's condition meets medical criteria for more than one

substance abuse disorder, multiple diagnoses will generally be made,

which may include alcohol.

(d) Selection Criteria. HUD will review each application that it

determines meets the requirements of this NOFA and evaluate it by

assigning

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points in accordance with the selection criteria. An application for

funding under this program may be for one or more eligible activities.

An applicant shall submit only one application under each NOFA.

Joint applications are not permitted under this program with the

following exception: Housing authorities under a single administration

(such as housing authorities managing another housing authority under

contract or housing authorities sharing a common executive director)

shall submit a single application, even though each housing authority

has its own operating budget.

The number of points that an application receives will depend on

the extent to which the application is responsive to the information

requested in the selection criteria. An application must receive a

score of at least 70 points out of the maximum of 100 points that may

be awarded under this competition to be eligible for funding.

The scoring of applications under the first two criteria will be

done by a panel at the national PHDEP application processing site.

Scoring under Selection Criterion 3 will be done by the Field Offices

that receive the applications, and scoring under Selection Criterion 4

will be done by the Secretary's Representative for the area of the

country from which an application originates. After applications have

been scored, Headquarters will rank the applications on a national

basis. Awards will be made in ranked order until all funds are

expended. HUD will select the highest ranking applications that can be

fully funded. Applications with tie scores will be selected in

accordance with the procedures in Section I.(e) (Ranking Factors). The

terms ``housing'' and ``development(s)'' as used in the application

selection criteria and submission requirements may include, as

appropriate, housing described in Section I.(c)(9) (PHA-Owned Housing),

above, of this NOFA. Each application submitted for a grant under this

NOFA will be evaluated on the basis of the following selection

criteria:

(1) First criterion: the extent of the drug-related crime

associated with drug-related crime problems in the applicant's

development or developments proposed for assistance. (Maximum Points:

35) To permit HUD to make an evaluation on the basis of this criterion,

an application must include a description of the extent and nature of

drug-related crime, ``in or around'' the housing authority/

development(s) proposed for funding. The description must provide the

following information:

(i) Objective crime data. The best available objective data on the

nature, source, and frequency of drug-related crime ``in and around''

the housing authority and development(s) proposed for activity in this

grant. Such data should consist of verifiable records, and not

anecdotal reports. The requirements related to such data may include

(but not necessarily be limited to), as appropriate:

(A) The nature and frequency of drug-related crime ``in or around''

housing authorities/development(s) as reflected by crime statistics and

other supporting data from Federal, State, Tribal, or local law

enforcement agencies.

(B) Housing authority, police, or other verifiable information from

records on the types and sources of drug-related crime in the housing

authority's development(s) proposed for assistance.

(C) Verifiable, descriptive data as to the types of offenders

committing drug-related crime associated with drug-related local

problems in the applicant's housing authority and development(s) (e.g.,

age, residence).

(D) The number of lease terminations or evictions for drug-related

crime at the housing authority and development(s).

(E) The number of local 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

services agencies and hospitals.

(F) The number of police calls for service from housing authorities

development(s) 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.

(G) The number of residents placed in treatment and structured

aftercare, the number of residents that successfully completed

treatment, and number of residents that successfully completed long

range after-care treatment for substance abuse/dependency.

(H) 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). The data should cover the most recent two-year period. If the

data from the most recent two-year period is not used, an explanation

should be provided. To the extent feasible, the data provided should be

compared with data from the prior two year period to show whether the

current data reflects a percentage increase or decrease in drug-related

crime during that prior period of time within housing authorities.

(I) A reduction in drug-related crime in the housing authorities

and development(s) where previous PHDEP grants have been in effect will

not be considered a disadvantage to the applicant.

(J) If funding is being sought for housing owned by public housing

agencies that is not public housing assisted under the United States

Housing Act of 1937 and is not otherwise Federally assisted, the

application should demonstrate that the housing is located in a high

intensity drug trafficking area designated pursuant to section 1005 of

the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, and the application must demonstrate

that drug-related crime at the housing has a detrimental affect in or

around the real property comprising the public or other federally

assisted low-income housing. For the purposes of this NOFA in or around

means: within, or adjacent to, the physical boundaries of a housing

development. (Maximum Points: 25)

(ii) Other supporting data on the extent of drug-related crime. To

the extent that objective data as described above may not be available,

or to complement that data, the assessment may 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,

if other relevant information is to be used in place of, rather than to

complement, objective data, the application must indicate the reasons

why objective data could not be obtained and what efforts were made to

obtain it and what efforts will be made during the grant period to

begin obtaining the data. Examples of these data include (but are not

necessarily limited to):

(A) Surveys of residents and staff in the housing authority and

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 the housing authority and targeted

developments, to include 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

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individuals having direct knowledge of drug-related crime and the

nature and frequency of these problems in the 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

the applicant can relate to drug-related crime. If crime or other

statistics are not available at the development or precinct level the

applicant may use other verifiable, reliable and objective data.

(iii) In awarding points, HUD will evaluate the extent to which the

applicant has provided the above data that reflects drug-related crime

in the developments targeted for activity, both in terms of the

frequency and nature of the drug-related crime in the housing

authority's development(s) proposed for funding as reflected by

information submitted under paragraphs (1)(i)(ii) and (iii) of this

section; and the extent to which such data reflects an increase in

drug-related crime over a period of two year(s) in the housing

authority and development(s) proposed for assistance. (Maximum points:

5)

(iv) In awarding points, HUD will evaluate the extent to which the

applicant has analyzed the data compiled under paragraphs (1)(i)(ii)

and (iii) of this section, and has articulated its needs, analyzed the

data, performance measurements/outcomes, and strategies for reducing

drug-related crime in the housing authority and development(s) proposed

for assistance. (Maximum points: 5)

(2) Second criterion: the quality of the plan to address the crime

problem in the public or Indian housing developments proposed for

assistance, including the extent to which the plan includes initiatives

that can be sustained over a period of several years. (Maximum points:

35) In assessing this criterion, HUD will consider the following

factors:

(i) To permit HUD to make an evaluation on the basis of this

criterion, an application must include the applicant's plan for

addressing drug-related crime. The narrative must demonstrate the

relationship between the extent of the crime detailed in Selection

Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA, and the potential crime

reduction and elimination of specific drug-related crime described in

the implementation of the plan. The narrative must include a

description of the applicant's activities for addressing (solutions and

prevention) and the strategy to reduce the specific drug-related crime

in each of the developments proposed for assistance under this part.

The activities eligible for funding under this program are listed in

Section I.(c) of this NOFA, above. The applicant's plan must include

all of the activities that will be undertaken to address the problem,

whether or not they are funded under this program. If the same

activities are proposed for all of the developments that will be

covered by the plan, the activities do not need to be described

separately for each development. Where different activities are

proposed for different developments, these activities and the

developments where they will take place must be separately described

and the narrative must demonstrate the relationship between the extent

of the crime detailed in Selection Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of

this NOFA, and the potential crime reduction and elimination of

specific drug-related crime described in the implementation of the

plan.

The description of the plan in the application must include (but

not necessarily be limited to) the following information:

(A) A detailed narrative describing each activity proposed for

PHDEP funding in the applicant's plan, any additional relevant

activities being undertaken by the applicant (e.g., law enforcement

services, prevention, treatment, aftercare programs for residents

provided by an agency other than HUD, and modifications to community

facilities), and how the narrative demonstrates the relationship

between the extent of the crime detailed in Selection Criterion 1,

section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA, and the potential crime reduction and

elimination of drug-related crime described in the implementation of

the plan, and how all of these activities interrelate. The applicant

should specifically address how the activities form a comprehensive

strategy relating to drug-related crime. The strategy should include

(as applicable) management practices such as ``One Strike and You're

Out'' policy [Refer to Notice PIH 96-16 (HA) Subject: ``One Strike and

You're Out'' Screening and Eviction Guidelines for Public Housing

Authorities published April 12, 1996] that improves resident screening

and eviction policies and procedures, local law enforcement techniques

(such as community policing), and a combination of substance/drug abuse

prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment (dependency) and

aftercare programs. As applicable, the narrative should demonstrate how

the proposed activities will be coordinated with Federal, Tribal,

local, and State Empowerment or Enterprise Zones, ``welfare to work''

or other welfare reform measures related to specific drug-related crime

prevention through employment training, education, and employment

opportunities for housing authority residents. In addition, the

applicant should demonstrate how its proposed activities will

complement, and be coordinated with, current activities.

(B) The narrative must demonstrate how the applicant will provide

qualified staff/contractors to manage the proposed PHDEP activities.

The applicant must include the portion of the staff's time that will be

spent administering this grant, and the skills which qualify him/her

for administering the types of proposed activities (management, law

enforcement, security personnel, programs to reduce/eliminate drugs

such as: intervention, prevention, treatment). The applicant must

include a reasonable staffing plan and position descriptions which

relate to the proposed activities, and must justify the need for the

proposed staff.

(C) If grant amounts are to be used for contracting for/or

employment of security guard personnel services in housing authorities/

development(s), the application must describe how the requirements of

section I.(c)(1)(i) (Employment of Security Personnel) of this NOFA

will be met.

(D) If grant amounts are to be used for housing authority police

department equipment and personnel, the application must describe how

the requirements of Section I.(c)(1)(ii) (Housing Authority Police

Departments) of this NOFA will be met.

(E) If grant amounts are to be used for a dedicated district/

precinct/zone municipal public housing division and/or bureau, the

application must describe how the requirements of Section I.(c)(1)(iii)

(dedicated district/precinct/zone municipal public housing division

and/or bureau) of this NOFA will be met.

(F) If grant amounts are to be used for reimbursement of local

municipal law enforcement agencies for additional security and

protective services, the application must describe how the requirements

of Section I.(c)(2) (Reimbursement of Local Law Enforcement Agencies)

of this NOFA will be met.

(G) If grant amounts are to be used for physical improvements in

housing authority/development(s) proposed for funding under Section

I.(c)(3) (Physical Improvements) of this NOFA, the application must

describe how these

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improvements will be coordinated with the applicant's modernization

program, if any, under 24 CFR part 950, subpart I, or 24 CFR part 968.

(H) If grant amounts are to be used for employment of

investigators, the application must describe how the requirements of

Section I.(c)(4) (Employment of Investigators) of the NOFA will be met.

(I) If grant amounts are to be used for voluntary tenant patrols,

the application must describe how the requirements of Section I.(c)(5)

(Voluntary Tenant Patrol) of this NOFA will be met.

(J) If grant amounts are to be used for a ``Program to reduce/

eliminate criminal activity/drug use, etc.'' i.e.; prevention,

intervention or treatment, structured aftercare programs, to eliminate

crime/drug use ``in or around'' the premises of the housing authority/

development(s) as provided in I.(c)(6) of this NOFA, the application

should demonstrate the nature of the program, how the program

represents a prevention or intervention, treatment and aftercare

strategy, and how the housing authority's strategy will achieve and

demonstrate the relationship between the extent of the crime detailed

in Selection Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA, and the

potential crime reduction and elimination of specific drug-related

crime described in the implementation of the plan. The application must

include a description of how funding decisions were reached

(specifically how costs were determined for each element of each

activity in the same format as shown in the application kit) and

financial and other resources (including funding under this program,

and from other resources) that may reasonably be expected to be

available to carry out each activity.

(K) Implementation timetable and performance measurements/outcomes

that includes tasks, personnel assignments, deadlines, budget cost/

analysis, performance measurements and outcomes, that demonstrate the

relationship between the extent of the crime detailed in Selection

Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA, and the comprehensive crime

reduction/elimination of specific drug-related crime described in the

implementation of the plan, and a PHDEP manager responsible for

implementing (achieving identified milestones, measurements, outcomes)

each activity in the plan. The applicant shall demonstrate in its

application hiring of qualified personnel to manage its activities

(full-time, part time, and/or housing authority staff), including a

PHDEP manager.

(L) The resources that the applicant may reasonably expect to be

available at the end of the grant term to continue the plan, and how

they will be allocated to plan activities that can be sustained over a

period of years.

(M) A discussion of how the applicant's plan will serve to provide

training and employment or business opportunities for lower income

persons and businesses located in, or substantially owned by persons

residing within the area of the section 3 covered project (as defined

in 24 CFR part 135) in accordance with 24 CFR 761.40 and 24 CFR part 5,

subpart A, and how this plan will be coordinated with Federal, Tribal

or State ``welfare to work'' or other employment training and

employment creation efforts. Housing authorities are encouraged to hire

qualified residents to fill PHDEP positions.

(N) Program Evaluation. The plan must specifically demonstrate how

the activities funded under this program will be evaluated by the

applicant, so that the program's progress can be measured and provide

satisfactory outcomes. Performance measurements and outcomes must be

developed to demonstrate the relationship between the extent of the

crime detailed in Selection Criterion 1, Section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA,

and the potential crime reduction/elimination described in the

implementation of the plan. The evaluation shall also be used to modify

activities to make them more successful or to identify unsuccessful

strategies. The evaluation must identify the types of information the

applicant will use to measure the plan's success (e.g. tracking changes

in identified crime statistics); and indicate each crime or drug

indicator to be measured, the activities targeted to reducing that

indicator, and the method the applicant will use to gather and analyze

this information. Funding is permitted to hire an outside consultant to

conduct an independent assessment/evaluation of the effectiveness of

the PHDEP program and its goals/outcomes.

(ii) In assessing this criterion, HUD will consider the quality and

thoroughness of an applicant's plan in terms of the information

requested in Section I.(d)(2)(i), ``Quality of the plan,'' of this

NOFA, including the extent to which:

(A) The applicant's plan specifically describes the activities that

are being proposed by the applicant, including those activities to be

funded under this program and those to be funded or provided from other

sources; describes the status and effectiveness of the applicant's

current working relationship with local law enforcement agencies, as

well as other law enforcement agencies, including the extent of its

participation in any special Federal, State or local law enforcement

programs aimed at reducing and preventing crime in and around its

housing developments (e.g., Operation Safe Home, Weed and Seed, etc.);

demonstrates how such working relationships will be sustained during

and after the period of PHDEP funding and will further the objectives

of the PHDEP program; describes the potential crime reduction/

elimination of specific drug-related crime detailed in Selection

Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA; describes the activities

that are successful initiatives such as: improved screening, leasing

and eviction, community building, and the training, education and

employment of residents, and indicates how these proposed activities

provide for a comprehensive approach to reduce/eliminate drug-related

crime (as described under Selection Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1)

above) in the housing authority/development(s) proposed for funding.

(Maximum Points: 12)

(B) The applicant's plan provides a detailed budget narrative that

is realistic in terms of time, personnel and other resources. The

extent to which plan has supporting documentation (specifically how

costs were determined for each element of each activity in the same

format as shown in the application kit) for each activity and describes

the financial and other resources (under this program and other

sources) that may reasonably be expected to be available to carry out

each activity. (Maximum Points: 3)

(C) The plan describes how other entities (e.g., Federal, Tribal,

and State governments and community organizations) are involved in

planning and carrying out the applicant's plan. (Maximum Points: 2)

(D) The plan includes activities, to include resident training and

employment training and employment opportunities, that can be sustained

over a period of years and identifies resources that the applicant may

reasonably expect to be available for the continuation of the

activities at the end of the grant term. (Maximum Points: 2)

(E) The applicant's plan will serve to provide training and

employment or business opportunities for lower income persons and

businesses located in, or substantially owned by persons residing

within the area of the section 3 covered project (as defined in 24 CFR

part 135) in accordance with 24 CFR 761.40 and 24 CFR part 5, subpart

A, and will be coordinated with other Federal, Tribal, State or other

efforts to provide education, training, employment training and

employment opportunities

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for ``welfare to work'' or related strategies. (Maximum Points: 3)

(F) The applicant's plan contains a description of its process to

collect, maintain, analyze and report specific data related to the

drug-related crime problems and workload. Specifically this will

include Part I and II crimes, as defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting

(UCR) system; as well as other police workload data to include, but not

limited to, all calls for service at the housing authority and

development(s) proposed for funding; the process used to analyze the

data according to individual development, patterns over a period of

time, by type of crime, etc., and plans to improve the collection and

reporting of the data. (Maximum Points: 3)

(G) The applicant's plan includes an evaluation plan with a

specific process that measures performance and demonstrates outcomes

relative to crime workload and the extent of the crime detailed in

Selection Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of this NOFA, in the housing

authority/development(s) proposed for funding. (Maximum Points: 10)

(3) Third Criterion: the Capability of the Applicant to Carry out

the Plan. (Maximum Points: 15) In assessing this criterion, HUD will

consider the following factors:

(i) The extent of the applicant's successful and effective

administrative capability to manage its housing authority, as measured

by its performance with respect to operative HUD requirements under the

ACC or ACA and the Public Housing Management Assessment Program at 24

CFR part 901. In evaluating administrative capability under this

factor, HUD will also consider, and the application must include in the

form of a narrative discussion, the following information:

(A) Whether there are any unresolved findings from prior HUD

reports (e.g. performance or finance), reviews or audits undertaken by

HUD, the Office of the Inspector General, the General Accounting

Office, or independent public accountants;

(B) Whether the applicant is operating under court order.

(C) If the applicant is designated a ``troubled agency'' HUD will

not consider this status against the applicant provided the applicant

substantiates capability with the assignment of housing authority staff

employee(s) (Full-time/part-time), and a PHDEP manager, or

contractually hires a PHDEP manager.

(D) Whether the applicant has adopted and implemented policies,

procedures and practices and can document that it: Tracks drug-related

crime, screens applicants, and enforces lease requirements, for the

purpose of ensuring the health, safety/security, and the right to

peaceful enjoyment of the premises by residents and housing authority

personnel. (Maximum Points Under Paragraph (3)(I) (A) Through (D) of

this Section: 4)

(ii) The application must demonstrate, as authorized by applicable

Federal, Tribal, State and local law enforcement, the extent to which

the applicant has formed a collaboration with the Federal, Tribal,

State, and law enforcement officials and courts to gain access

regarding the criminal conviction records of applicants for, or tenants

of, housing authorities regarding applicant screening, lease

enforcement, and eviction. The application demonstrates the extent to

which the applicant has implemented effective screening procedures to

determine an individual's suitability for public housing (consistent

with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 3604(f), 24 CFR 100.202, 29 U.S.C.

794 and 24 CFR 8.4 which deal with individuals with disabilities);

implemented a plan to reduce vacancies; implemented eviction and lease

enforcement procedures in accordance with 24 CFR part 966, subpart B,

25 CFR 950.340 and Section 503 of NAHA; or undertaken other innovative

management actions to reduce/eliminate drug-related crime in its

developments. The application demonstrates that the housing authority

has established and implemented effective systems for tracking crime

and reporting incidents of crime to local law enforcement agencies, and

is effectively cooperating with such agencies to reduce and prevent

crime in and around its housing developments. (Maximum Points: 2)

(iii) The application must identify the applicant's participation

in HUD grant programs (such as CGP, CIAP, child care, resident

management, PHDEP, HOPE VI, Tenant Opportunities Program (TOP), Family

Investment Centers (FIC) grants, OTAR, ED/SS) within the preceding

three years, and discuss the degree of the applicant's success in

implementing and managing (program implementation, timely drawdown of

funds, timely submission of required reports with satisfactory outcomes

related to the plan and timetable, audit compliance and other HUD

reviews) these grant programs. (Maximum Points: 4)

(iv) The local HUD field office/AONAPS shall evaluate the extent of

the applicant's success or failure in implementing and managing an

effective program under previous PHDEP grants and/or other grants

(preceding three years). This evaluation will be based upon (but not

limited to) the relationship between the extent of the crime detailed

in Selection Criterion 1, section I.(d)(1) of grants during the

preceding years, and outcomes regarding reducing/eliminating drug-

related crime described in the implementation of the plans and

timetables, a review of how timely the grantee has drawn down PHDEP

funds from HUD's Line of Credit Control System (LOCCS) reports compared

to the timetable of proposed activities, achievements of proposed

strategy regarding crime reduction goals outlined in previous PHDEP

and/or other HUD program performance and financial reports, audits,

performance outcome measurements as related to reductions in drug and

crime activities at previously targeted developments, and HUD reviews.

(Maximum Points: 5 Points)

(4) Fourth criterion: the extent to which tenants, the local

Government and the local community support and participate in the

design and implementation of the activities proposed to be funded under

the application. (Maximum Points: 15) In assessing this criterion, HUD

will consider the following factors:

(i) To permit HUD to make an evaluation based on this criterion, an

application must describe what role residents in the targeted

developments, applicable community leaders and organizations, and law

enforcement agencies have had in planning the activities described in

the application and what role they will have in carrying out such

activities.

(ii) The application must include a discussion 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 the applicant's

plan, and will continue to be involved in implementing such activities

during and after the period of PHDEP funding. This must be evidenced by

descriptions of planning meetings held with community representatives

and local government and law enforcement agency officials; letters of

commitment to provide funding, staff, or in-kind resources, partnership

agreements; and ongoing or planned cooperative efforts with law

enforcement agencies designed to complement and further the objectives

of PHDEP. This also includes interagency activities already undertaken,

participation in local, State, Tribal or Federal anti-drug related

crime

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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. In evaluating

this factor HUD will also consider the extent to which these

initiatives are used to leverage resources for the housing authority

community, and are part of the comprehensive plan and performance

measures outlined in Selection Criteria Two. (Maximum Points: 5)

(iii) The application must demonstrate the extent to which the

relevant governmental jurisdiction has met its local law enforcement

obligations under the Cooperation Agreement with the applicant (as

required by the grantee's Annual Contributions Contract with HUD). The

application must also include a certification by the Chief Executive

Officer (CEO) of a State or a unit of general local government in which

the developments proposed for assistance are located that the city is

meeting its obligations under the Cooperation Agreement with the

housing authority, particularly with regard to the current level of

baseline local law enforcement services including a cost analysis,

deployment of personnel, and provision and analysis of crime data and

trends for the targeted developments. If the jurisdiction is not

meeting its obligations under the cooperation agreement, the CEO should

identify any special circumstances relating to its failure to do so.

Whether or not a locality is meeting its obligations under the

Cooperation Agreement with the applicant, the applicant must describe

the current level of baseline local law enforcement services being

provided to the housing authority/development(s) proposed for

assistance. (Maximum Points: 4)

(iv) The extent to which housing authority/development residents,

and/or an RMC, RC or RO, where they exist, are involved in the planning

and development and the implementation of the grant application and

plan strategy, and support and participate in the design and

implementation of the activities proposed to be funded under the

application. The application must include a description of how the

residents were involved, a resolution of support from any duly elected

resident council or RMC, a summary of resident and resident

organization meetings, with supporting documentation that addresses

(but is not limited to) subject matter, names of residents on

committees, copies of resident surveys and evaluations, as required by

24 CFR 761.25, and the applicant's response to and action on these

comments and suggestions. If there are no resident or resident

organization comments, the applicant must provide an explanation of the

steps taken to encourage resident participation, even though they were

not successful. (Maximum Points: 3)

(v) The extent to which the applicant is already undertaking, or

has undertaken, participation in local, State, Tribal or Federal anti-

drug related crime efforts, such as educational, training and

employment components of Welfare Reform efforts, Operation Weed and

Seed, Operation Safe Home, and/or has successfully coordinated its

local law enforcement or other activities with local, State, Tribal or

Federal law enforcement agencies. In evaluating this factor HUD will

also consider the extent to which these initiatives are used to

leverage resources for the housing authority community, and are part of

the comprehensive plan and performance measures outlined in Selection

Criteria 2. (Maximum Points: 3)

(e) Ranking factors.

(1) Each application for a grant award that is submitted in a

timely manner to the HUD Field Office with delegated public housing

responsibilities or, in the case of IHAs, to the appropriate AONAPs,

that otherwise meets the requirements of this NOFA, will be evaluated

in accordance with the selection criteria specified above.

(2) An application must receive a score of at least 70 points out

of the maximum of 100 points that may be awarded under this competition

to be eligible for funding.

(3) After applications have been scored, Headquarters will rank the

applications on a national basis.

(4) In the event that two eligible applications receive the same

score, and both cannot be funded because of insufficient funds, the

application with the highest score in Selection Criterion 3 ``The

capability of the applicant to carry out the plan'' will be selected.

If Selection Criterion 3 is scored identically for both applications,

the scores in Selection Criteria 1, 2, and 4 will be compared in this

order, one at a time, until one application scores higher in one of the

factors and is selected. If the applications score identically in all

factors, the application that requests less funding will be selected to

promote the more efficient use of resources.

(5) All awards will be made to fund fully an application, except as

provided in Section I.(b)(4) of this NOFA (Reduction of Requested Grant

Amounts and Special Conditions).

(f) General PHDEP Grant Administration/Management.

(1) Each grantee is responsible for ensuring that grant funds are

administered in accordance with the requirements of 24 CFR part 761,

any specific Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) issued for these

programs, 24 CFR part 85 (as applicable), applicable laws and

regulations, applicable OMB circular, HUD fiscal and audit controls,

grant agreements, grant special conditions, the grantee's approved

budget (SF-424A)/budget revisions, and supporting budget narrative,

plan, and activity timetable.

(2) Applicability of OMB Circular and HUD fiscal and audit

controls. The policies, guidelines, and requirements of this NOFA, 24

CFR part 761, 24 CFR part 85, 24 CFR part 84, and OMB Circular A-87

apply to the acceptance and use of assistance by grantees under this

program; and OMB Circular Nos. A-110 and A-122 apply to the acceptance

and use of assistance by private nonprofit organizations (including

RMCs, RCs and ROs). In addition, grantees and sub-grantees must comply

with fiscal and audit controls and reporting requirements prescribed by

HUD, including the system and audit requirements under the Single Audit

Act, OMB Circular No. A-128 and HUD's implementing regulations at 24

CFR part 44; and OMB Circular No. A-133. The provisions of 24 CFR 24

apply regarding ineligible contractors relating to employment,

engagement of services, awarding of subcontracts during any period of

debarment, suspension, or placement in ineligibility status.

(3) Cost Principles. Specific guidance in this NOFA, 24 CFR part

761, 24 CFR part 85, 24 CFR part 84, OMB Circular A-87, other

applicable OMB cost principles, HUD program regulations, Notices, HUD

Handbooks, and the terms of the grant agreement (Form HUD-1044 that

includes special conditions and subgrant agreements) will be followed

in determining the reasonableness and allocability of costs. All costs

must be reasonable, necessary and justified with cost analysis. PHDEP

Funds must be disbursed by the grantee within seven calendar days after

receipt of drawdown. Grant funds must be used only for PHDEP purposes.

Direct costs are those that can be identified specifically with a

particular activity or function in this NOFA and cost objectives in OMB

Circular A-87. Indirect cost are not permitted in this program.

Administrative requirements

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for the PHDEP grants will be in accordance with 24 CFR part 85.

Acquisition of property or services shall be in accordance with 24 CFR

85.36. All equipment acquisitions will remain the property of the

grantee in accordance with 24 CFR 85.32. NONAPs procurement standards

are in 24 CFR part 950. Housing authorities shall not co-mingle funds

of multiple HUD programs such as: CIAP, CGP, OTAR, Operating subsidy,

PHDEP.

(4) FY 1997 PHDEP Grant Staff Personnel. Compensation for personnel

hired for grant activities, including supervisory personnel, such as a

grant program managers, public housing police department accreditation

specialist (under section I.(c)(1)(iii)(F) of this NOFA), youth sports

coordinators, voluntary tenant patrol program coordinators, and support

staff such as counselors, security coordinators, public housing police

department CALEA coordinators, and clerical staff, is permitted and may

include wages, salaries, and fringe benefits. Housing authorities

awarded PHDEP funds are required and must demonstrate in their

applications plans to employ a PHDEP program manager (Full-time, part-

time, contractual). These positions must be described in the

applicants' plans. Appropriate PHDEP administrative costs include, but

are not limited to: Purchase of computer(s) (hardware/software),

printers, office supplies, furniture, HA staff training, and other

supportive administrative services. Administrative costs do not include

grant management personnel. The grantee must justify the need for the

above and relate it to the approved grant activities.

(iii) All grant personnel must be necessary, reasonable and

justified. Job descriptions must be provided, in the application, for

all grant personnel. Excessive PHDEP staffing is not permitted.

(iv) Housing authority staff responsible for management and

coordination of PHDEP programs may be compensated with grant funds only

for work performed directly for PHDEP grant-related activities and

shall document the time and activity involved in accordance with 24 CFR

85.20.

(5) Grant Agreement. After an application has been approved, HUD

and the applicant shall enter into a grant agreement (Form HUD-1044)

setting forth the amount of the grant and its applicable terms,

conditions, financial controls, payment mechanism, schedule,

measurements/outcomes, monitoring schedule and special conditions,

including sanctions for violation of the agreement. The grant agreement

will be effective immediately upon execution of Form HUD-1044 by the

Director, Office of Public Housing or Administrator, AONAP and

terminate within 24 months.

(6) Term of Grant Agreement. Terms of the FY 1997 PHDEP grant

agreement shall not exceed 24 months from the execution date of the

grant agreement (Form HUD-1044). Grant extensions during the FY 1997

PHDEP round are not permitted. Any funds not expended at the end of the

FY 1997 PHDEP grant term shall be remitted to HUD.

(7) Duplication of funds. To prevent duplicate funding of any

activity, the grantee must establish controls to assure that an

activity or program that is funded by other HUD programs, or programs

of other Federal agencies, shall not also be funded by the PHDEP. The

grantee must establish an auditable system to provide adequate

accountability for funds that it has been awarded. The grantee is

responsible for ensuring that there is no duplication of funds.

(8) Insurance. Each grantee shall obtain adequate insurance

coverage to protect itself against any potential liability arising out

of the eligible activities under this part. In particular, applicants

shall assess their potential liability arising out of the employment or

contracting of security personnel, law enforcement personnel,

investigators, and drug treatment providers, and the establishment of

voluntary tenant patrols; evaluate the qualifications and training of

the individuals or firms undertaking these functions; and consider any

limitations on liability under Tribal, State, or local law. Grantees

shall obtain liability insurance to protect the members of the

voluntary tenant patrol against potential liability as a result of the

patrol's activities under Sec. 761.15(b)(5). Voluntary tenant patrol

liability insurance costs are eligible program expenses. Subgrantees

shall obtain their own liability insurance.

(9) Risk Management. Grantees and subgrantees are required to

implement, administer and monitor the PHDEP so as to minimize the risk

of fraud, waste, and liability for losses from adversarial legal

action.

(10) Failure to Implement FY 1997 PHDEP Program(s). If the grant

plan, approved budget, and timetable, as described in the approved

application, are not operational within 90 days of the grant agreement

date, the grantee must report by letter to the HUD Field Office the

steps being taken to initiate the plan and timetable, the reason for

the delay, and the expected starting date. Any budget/timetable

revisions that resulted from the delay must be included. The HUD Field

Office will determine if the delay is acceptable, approve/disapprove

the revised plan and timetable, and take any additional appropriate

action.

(11) Sanctions. HUD may impose sanctions if the grantee:

(i) Is not complying with the requirements of this part or of other

applicable Federal law;

(ii) Fails to make satisfactory progress toward its PHDEP goals, as

specified in its plan/budget and/or revised budget/timetable and as

reflected in its semiannual performance and financial status reports;

(iii) Does not establish procedures that will minimize the time

elapsing between drawdowns and disbursements;

(iv) Does not adhere to grant agreement requirements or special

conditions;

(v) Proposes substantial plan changes to the extent that, if

originally submitted, the applications would not have been selected for

funding;

(vi) Engages in the improper award or administration of grant

subcontracts;

(vii) Does not submit reports; or

(viii) Files a false certification.

(12) HUD may impose the following sanctions:

(i) Temporarily withhold cash payments pending correction of the

deficiency by the grantee or subgrantee;

(ii) Disallow all or part of the cost of the activity or action not

in compliance;

(iii) Wholly or partly suspend or terminate the current award for

the grantee's or subgrantee's program;

(iv) Require that some or all of the grant amounts be remitted to

HUD;

(v) Condition a future grant and elect not to provide future grant

funds to the grantee until appropriate actions are taken to ensure

compliance;

(vi) Withhold further awards for the program; or

(vii) Take other remedies that may be legally available.

(g) Periodic Grantee Reports. In accordance with 24 CFR part 85,

grantees are responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of

grant and subgrant supported activities. Grantees must monitor grant

and subgrant supported activities to assure compliance with applicable

Federal requirements and that performance goals are being achieved.

Grantee monitoring must cover each program, function or activity of the

grant or sub-grant.

(1) Semiannual Grant Performance Status Reporting Requirements.

Grantees are required to provide the local HUD Field Office with a

semiannual performance report that

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evaluates the grantee's overall performance against its plan and

strategies. This report shall include in summary form (but is not

limited to) the following: Any change in the reduction/elimination of

drug-related crime or other indicators drawn from the applicant's plan/

strategy assessment and an explanation of any difference; successful

completion of any of the strategy components identified in the

applicant's plan/strategy; a discussion of any problems encountered in

implementing the plan and how they were addressed; an evaluation of

whether the rate of progress meets expectations and outcomes; a written

explanation of the grantee's efforts in encouraging resident

participation; a description of any other programs that may have been

initiated, expanded or deleted as a result of the plan, with an

identification of the resources and the number of people/residents

involved in the programs and their relation to the plan/strategy. If

required reports are not received by the local Field Office in a timely

manner, payment of grant funds to the grantee are subject to being

suspended.

(2) Semiannual Grantee Financial Status Reporting Requirements. The

grantee shall submit, in a timely manner, a semiannual financial status

report to the local HUD Field Office. The grantee shall use the SF-269A

to report the status of funds for nonconstruction programs. The grantee

shall use SF-269A, Block 12, ``Remarks,'' to report on the status of

programs, functions, or activities within the program. If required

reports are not received by the local Field Office in a timely manner,

payment of grant funds to the grantee are subject to being suspended.

(3) Semiannual Grantee Performance and Financial Status Reporting

Period and Due Dates. The semiannual performance and financial status

report shall cover the periods ending June 30 and December 31, and must

be submitted to the local HUD Field Office by July 30 and January 31 of

each year.

(4) Final Grantee Performance Status Report. Grantees are required

to provide the local HUD Field Office with a final cumulative

performance report that evaluates the grantee's overall performance

against its plan. This report shall include in summary form (but is not

limited to) the following:

(i) Any change or lack of change in crime statistics or other

indicators drawn from the applicant's plan assessment and an

explanation of any difference;

(ii) Successful completion of overall strategy that reduced/

eliminated drug-related crimes identified in the applicant's plan;

(iii) A discussion of any problems encountered in implementing the

plan and how they were addressed;

(iv) An evaluation of whether the rate of progress meets

expectations;

(v) A discussion of the grantee's efforts in encouraging resident

participation; and

(vi) A description of any other programs that may have been

initiated, expanded or deleted as a result of the plan, with an

identification of the resources and the number of people involved in

the programs and their relation to the plan.

(vii) A discussion of the grantee's adopted policies, procedures

and practices that have produced positive outcomes regarding: tracking

drug-related crime, screening of applicants, lease enforcement, and the

health, safety/security, and the right to peaceful enjoyment of the

premises by residents and housing authority personnel.

(5) Final Grantee Financial Status Report (SF-269A). The final

report will be a cumulative summary of expenditures to date and must

indicate the exact balance of unexpended funds. The grantee shall remit

all PHDEP funds, including any unexpended funds, owed to HUD within 90

days after the termination of the grant agreement.

(6) Final Grantee Performance Status Report and Financial Status

Report (SF-269A) Reporting Period. The final performance and financial

status report shall cover the period from the date of the grant

agreement, to include any extensions, to the termination date of the

grant agreement. The report is due to the HUD Field Office within 90

days after the termination of the grant agreement.

(7) Grantee Reporting Requirements. The grantee shall submit all

required reports to the HUD Field Office as directed above (for a

listing of Field Offices, refer to appendix A).

(8) HUD Field Office Reporting Requirements to Headquarters. Field

Offices, NONAPs and/or AONAPs shall submit, within 30 days of receipt,

a copy of the semiannual performance and financial and all final

performance and financial reports to the Office of Crime Prevention and

Security at HUD Headquarters. Further instruction will be provided by

Headquarters to local HUD Field Offices.

(9) Audits and Closeouts. Field Offices will make maximum use of

audits under 24 CFR Parts 44 and 45 as applicable in conducting grant

closeout.

(10) All grantees will access grant funds through the LOCCS-VRS.

II. Application Process.

(a) Application kit: An application kit may be obtained, and

assistance provided, from the local HUD Field Office with delegated

public housing responsibilities over an applying public housing agency,

or from the AONAPs having jurisdiction over the Indian housing

authority making an application, or by calling HUD's DISC on (800) 578-

3472. The application kit contains information on all exhibits and

certifications required under this NOFA.

(b) Application Submission: Applications are due on or before

Friday, August 8, 1997, at 3:00 pm, local time. Applications (original

and three identical copies of the original application) must be

received by the deadline at the local HUD Field Office with

responsibilities over the applying public housing authorities. This

application deadline is firm as to date and hour. In the interest of

fairness to all competing applicants, the Department will treat as

ineligible for consideration any application that is received after the

deadline. Applicants should take this practice into account and make

early submission of their materials to avoid any risk of loss of

eligibility brought about by unanticipated delays or other delivery-

related problems.

Applications (Original and three identical copies of the original

application) must be physically received by the deadline at the local

HUD Field Office with delegated public housing responsibilities

Attention: Director, Office of Public Housing, or, in the case of IHAs,

to the local HUD Administrator, AONAPs, as appropriate. It is not

sufficient for an application to bear a postage date within the

submission time period. Applications submitted by facsimile are not

acceptable. Applications received after Friday, August 8, 1997, at 3:00

pm, Local Time, will not be considered. Applications submitted in

response to this NOFA are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of

Information Act.

III. Checklist of Application Submission Requirements

To qualify for a grant under this program, the application

submitted to HUD shall include, in addition to those requirements

listed under Section I.(d) (Selection Criteria) of this NOFA, including

the plan to address the problem of drug-related crime in the

developments proposed for funding, at least the following items:

(a) Applicant Grant Data Form. The applicant must accurately

complete the form for HUD's application database

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entry. The form, with examples, is provided in the application kit.

(b) Application for Federal Assistance, Standard Form SF-424. The

SF-424 is the face sheet for the application. The applicant must

accurately complete and sign the form. The form, with example, is

provided in the application kit.

(c) Standard Form SF-424A Budget Information (non-construction

programs), with attached budget narrative(s) with supporting

justification and documentation (specifically showing how costs were

determined for each element of each activity in the same format as

shown in the application kit). The SF-424A, with attached budget

narrative, must be accurately completed and the applicant must

describe, as applicable, each major activity proposed for funding,

e.g., employment of security personnel (contracted security personnel

services and housing authority police departments), reimbursement of

local law enforcement services, HA-dedicated police division/bureau,

employment/equipment of investigators, voluntary tenant (resident)

patrols, programs to reduce drugs/crime, i.e., drug prevention,

intervention, and treatment programs. If additional housing authority

police are to be employed for a service that is also provided by a

local law enforcement agency, the housing authority must provide a cost

analysis that demonstrates the employment of housing authority police

is more cost efficient than obtaining the service from the local law

enforcement agency. Forms, with examples, are provided in the

application kit.

(d) Applicants must verify their unit count with the local HUD

Field Office/AONAPs prior to submitting the application . In accordance

with Sections I.(b)(2) (i) through (iii) of this NOFA, applicants MUST

COMPUTE the maximum grant award amount for which they are eligible

(eligible dollar amount per unit x (times) number of units and compare

it with the dollar amount requested in the application to make certain

the amount requested does not exceed the permitted maximum grant award.

Applicants should note that in determining the unit count for PHA-owned

or IHA-owned Rental Housing Program, a unit that is considered to be a

long-term vacancy, as defined in 24 CFR 950.102 or 990.102, is still

included in the count.

(e) Standard Form SF-424B, Assurances, (non-construction programs)

for pre-award assurances. The applicant must accurately complete and

sign the form. The form and example are provided in the application

kit.

(f) Certifications. Applications must accurately include the

following certifications (certifications are provided in the

application kit):

(1) A certification that the applicant will maintain a drug-free

workplace in accordance with the requirements of the Drug-Free

Workplace Act of 1988, 24 CFR part 24, subpart F. (Applicants may

submit a copy of their most recent drug-free workplace certification,

which must be dated within the past year.)

(2) Indian Housing Authorities (IHAs) established under State law

that are applying for funding under this NOFA are subject to the

provisions of Section 319 of the Department of Interior and Related

Agencies Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1991, 31 U.S.C. Section 1352

(the Byrd Amendment). An IHA established by an Indian tribe as a result

of the exercise of its sovereign power is excluded from coverage of the

Byrd Amendment.

The Byrd Amendment, which is implemented in regulations at 24 CFR

Part 87, prohibits applicants for Federal contracts and grants from

using appropriated funds to attempt to influence Federal Executive or

legislative officers or employees in connection with obtaining such

assistance, or with its extension, continuation, renewal, amendment or

modification. The Byrd Amendment applies to the funds that are the

subject of this NOFA.

A covered applicant must file a certification stating that it has

not made and will not make any prohibited payments and, if any payments

or agreement to make payments of nonappropriated funds for these

purposes have been made, an SF-LLL disclosing such payments must be

submitted. The certification and the SF-LLL are included in the

application package.

(3) If applying for drug prevention program funding, a

certification by the applicant that the applicant has notified and

consulted with the relevant Tribal commission, Single State Agency or

other local authority with substance program coordination

responsibilities concerning its application; and that the proposed

substance abuse prevention program has been reviewed by the relevant

local Tribal commission, Single State Agency or other authority and is

consistent with the Tribal or State prevention plan.

(4) A certification (provided in the application kit) by the Chief

Executive Officer (CEO) of a State, Tribe, or a unit of general local

government in which the developments proposed for assistance are

located that:

(i) Grant funds provided under this program will not substitute for

activities currently being undertaken on behalf of the applicant by the

jurisdiction to address drug-related crime;

(ii) Any reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for

additional security and protective services to be provided under

section I.(c)(2) of this NOFA meets the requirements of that section.

(5) A certification, (An example is provided in the application

kit), from the chief of the local law enforcement agency:

(i) If the application is for employment of security services, that

the law enforcement agency has entered into, or will enter into, an

agreement with the applicant and the provider of the security services

in accordance with the requirements of section I.(c)(1) (Security guard

personnel, and public housing police departments, and section I.(c)(2)

(HA-dedicated police division/bureau) of this NOFA;

(ii) If the application is for employment of investigators, that

the law enforcement agency has entered into, or will enter into, an

agreement with the applicant and the investigators, in accordance with

the requirements of Section I.(c)(4) (employment of investigators) of

this NOFA;

(iii) If the application is for voluntary tenant (resident) patrol

funding, that the law enforcement agency has entered into, or will

enter into, an agreement with the applicant and the voluntary tenant

patrol, in accordance with the requirements of section I.(c)(5)

(voluntary tenant (resident) patrol) of this NOFA.

(6) A certification (An example is provided in the application kit)

by the RMC, RC or RO, or other involved resident group where an RMC, RC

or RO does not exist, that the residents participated in the

preparation of the grant application with the applicant, and that the

applicant's description of the activities and program evaluation that

the resident group will implement under the program is accurate and

complete.

(7) A certification (an example is provided in the application kit)

by the applicant that programs will not violate civil rights laws, and

that there is a system in place to protect confidential information.

(8) A certification (an example is provided in the application kit)

by the applicant that there is a system in place to protect

confidential information regarding law enforcement records, and medical

and disability-related information.

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(g) HUD Form 2880, Applicant Disclosures. The form, with example,

is provided in the application kit.

IV. Corrections to Deficient Applications

(a) HUD will notify an applicant, in writing, of receipt of the

application and of any curable technical deficiencies in the

application. The applicant must submit corrections in accordance with

the information specified in HUD's letter within 14 calendar days from

the date on HUD's letter notifying the applicant of any such

deficiency.

(b) Curable technical deficiencies relate to items that would not

have any effect on the applicant's score.

(c) An example of a curable technical deficiency would be the

failure of an applicant to submit a required assurance, budget

narrative, certification, applicant data form, incomplete forms such as

the SF-424 or lack of such items as required signatures, appendixes and

documentation referenced in the application or a computational error

based on the use of an incorrect number(s) such as incorrect unit

counts. These items are discussed in the application kit and samples,

as appropriate, are provided.

(d) An example of a non-curable defect or deficiency would be a

missing SF-424A (Budget Information).

V. Other Matters

(a) Non-discrimination and equal opportunity. The following

nondiscrimination and equal opportunity requirements apply:

(1) The requirements of Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968,

42 U.S.C. 3600-20 (Fair Housing Act) and implementing regulations

issued at subchapter A of title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations,

as amended by 54 FR 3232 (published January 23, 1989); Executive Order

11063 (Equal Opportunity in Housing) and implementing regulations at 24

CFR part 107; and title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C.

2000d-2000d-4) (Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs) and

implementing regulations issued at 24 CFR Part 1;

(2) The Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) (Title II of the Civil

Rights Act of 1968, 25 U.S.C. 1301-1303) provides, among other things,

that ``no Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall *

* * deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of

its laws or deprive any person of liberty or property without due

process of law.'' The Indian Civil Rights Act applies to any Tribe,

band, or other group of Indians subject to the jurisdiction of the

United States in the exercise of recognized powers of self-government.

The ICRA is applicable in all cases where an IHA has been established

by exercise of Tribal powers of self-government;

(3) The prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of age

under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (42 U.S.C. 6101-07) and

implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 146, and the prohibitions

against discrimination against handicapped individuals under section

504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794) and implementing

regulations at 24 CFR part 8;

(4) The requirements of Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment

Opportunity) and the regulations issued under the Order at 41 CFR

Chapter 60;

(5) The requirements of Executive Orders 11625, 12432, and 12138.

Consistent with HUD's responsibilities under these Orders, recipients

must make efforts to encourage the use of minority and women's business

enterprises in connection with funded activities.

(b) Environmental Impact. A Finding of No Significant Impact

(FONSI) with respect to the environment has been made in accordance

with HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 50 implementing section 102(2)(C)

of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332). The

FONSI is available for public inspection and copying between 7:30 a.m.

and 5:30 p.m. weekdays at the Office of the Rules Docket Clerk, 451

Seventh Street, SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410. It is anticipated

that many of the eligible activities in this NOFA will only be subject

to 24 CFR 50.19 and, except for extraordinary circumstances, will not

require an environmental review. However, if activities such as

acquisition or capital improvements are proposed, the environmental

review will be performed in accordance with 24 CFR part 50 prior to the

award of grant funds.

(c) Federalism Impact. The General Counsel, as the Designated

Official under section 6(a) of Executive Order 12612, Federalism, has

determined that the policies contained in this NOFA will not have

substantial direct effects on States or their political subdivisions,

or the relationship between the Federal government and the States, or

on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various

levels of government and, therefore, the provisions of this NOFA do not

have ``Federalism implications'' within the meaning of the Order. The

NOFA implements a program that encourages housing authorities to

develop a plan for addressing the problem of drug-related crime and

other criminal activities associated with drug-related problems, and

makes available grants to housing authorities to help them carry out

their plans. As such, the program would help housing authorities combat

serious drug-related crime problems in their developments, thereby

strengthening their role as instrumentalities of the States. In

addition, further review under the Order is unnecessary, since the NOFA

generally tracks the statute and involves little implementing

discretion.

(d) Family Impact. The General Counsel, as the Designated Official

for Executive Order 12606, the Family, has determined that the

provisions of this NOFA have the potential for a positive, although

indirect, impact on family formation, maintenance and general well-

being within the meaning of the Order. This NOFA would implement a

program that would encourage housing authorities to develop a plan for

addressing the problem of drug-related crime, and to make available

grants to help housing authorities to carry out this plan. As such, the

program is intended to improve the quality of life of public and Indian

housing development residents, including families, by reducing the

incidence of drug-related crime.

(e) Section 102 HUD Reform Act--Accountability in the Provision of

HUD Assistance. Section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban

Development Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545) (HUD Reform Act) and

the final rule codified at 24 CFR part 4, subpart A, published on April

1, 1996 (61 FR 1448), contain a number of provisions that are designed

to ensure greater accountability and integrity in the provision of

certain types of assistance administered by HUD. On January 14, 1992,

HUD published, at 57 FR 1942, a notice that also provides information

on the implementation of section 102. The documentation, public access,

and disclosure requirements of section 102 are applicable to assistance

awarded under this NOFA as follows:

Documentation and public access requirements. HUD will ensure that

documentation and other information regarding each application

submitted pursuant to this NOFA are sufficient to indicate the basis

upon which assistance was provided or denied. This material, including

any letters of support, will be made available for public inspection

for a five-year period beginning not less than 30 days after the award

of the assistance. Material will be made available in accordance with

the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and HUD's implementing

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regulations at 24 CFR part 15. In addition, HUD will include the

recipients of assistance pursuant to this NOFA in its Federal Register

notice of all recipients of HUD assistance awarded on a competitive

basis.

Disclosures. HUD will make available to the public for five years

all applicant disclosure reports (HUD Form 2880) submitted in

connection with this NOFA. Update reports (also Form 2880) will be made

available along with the applicant disclosure reports, but in no case

for a period less than three years. All reports--both applicant

disclosures and updates--will be made available in accordance with the

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and HUD's implementing

regulations at 24 CFR part 15.

(f) Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. The Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance number for the Public and Indian Housing Drug

Elimination Program is 14.854.

(g) Section 103 HUD Reform Act. Section 103 of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, and HUD's

implementing regulation codified at subpart B of 24 CFR part 4, applies

to the funding competition announced today. These requirements continue

to apply until the announcement of the selection of successful

applicants. HUD employees involved in the review of applications and in

the making of funding decisions are limited by section 103 from

providing advance information to any person (other than an authorized

employee of HUD) concerning funding decisions, or from otherwise giving

any applicant an unfair competitive advantage. Persons who apply for

assistance in this competition should confine their inquiries to the

subject areas permitted under section 103 and subpart B of 24 CFR part

4.

Applicants or employees who have ethics related questions should

contact the HUD Office of Ethics (202) 708-3815. (This is not a toll-

free number.) For HUD employees who have specific program questions,

such as whether particular subject matter can be discussed with persons

outside HUD, the employee should contact the appropriate Field Office

Counsel, or Headquarters counsel for the program to which the question

pertains.

Authority: Sec. 5127, Public Housing Drug Elimination Act of

1988 (42 U.S.C. 11901 et seq.); sec. 7(d), Department of Housing and

Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(d)).

Dated: April 24, 1997.

Kevin E. Marchman,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

Appendix A: HUD, Public Housing, NONAP, and AONAP Office Addresses,

Phone Numbers and Office Hours

HUD--New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,

Rhode Island, Vermont

Massachusetts State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--Massachusetts State Office, Thomas

P. O'Neill, Jr. Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, Room 553,

Boston, MA 02222-1092, (617) 565-5196, TTY Number: (617) 565-5453,

Office hours: 8:30am-5:00pm local time

Connecticut State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--Connecticut State Office 330 Main

Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106-1860, (860) 240-4522, TTY

Number: (203) 240-4665, Office hours: 8:00am-4:30pm local time

New Hampshire State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--New Hampshire State Office, Norris

Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut Street, Manchester, New

Hampshire 03101-2487, (603) 666-7681, TTY Number: (603) 666-7518,

Office hours: 8:00am-4:30pm local time

Rhode Island State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--Rhode Island State Office, 10

Weybosset Street, Sixth Floor, Providence, Rhode Island 02903-2808,

(401) 528-5351, TTY Number: (401) 528-5364, Office hours: 8:00am-

4:30pm local time

HUD--New York, New Jersey

New York State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--New York State Office, 26 Federal

Plaza, Suite 3237, New York, New York 10278-0068, (212) 264-6500,

TTY Number: (212) 264-0927, Office hours: 8:30am-5:00pm local time

Buffalo State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--Buffalo State Office, Lafayette

Court, 5th Floor, 465 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14203-1780

(551) 846-5755, TTY Number: (716) 551-5787, Office hours: 8:00am-

4:30pm local time

New Jersey State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--New Jersey State Office, One Newark

Center, 12th Floor, Newark, New Jersey 07102-5260, (201) 622-7900,

TTY Number: (201) 645-6649, Office hours: 8:30am-5:00pm local time

HUD--Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Maryland,

Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia

Pennsylvania State Office

Office of Public Housing, DHUD--Pennsylvania State Office, The

Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

19107-3390, (215) 656-0579, TTY Number: (215) 597-5564, Office

hours: 8:00am-4:30pm local time

District of Columbia Office (Washington, DC)

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