Yes, becoming a CPA can be a challenging journey. Start Printed Page 32066 Due no later than April 30th, 2022* Start Printed Page 32064 Specifically, affirmatively furthering fair housing means taking meaningful actions that, taken together, address significant disparities in housing needs and in access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws. 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, which implement section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. The Green and Resilient Building Standard requires that all construction covered by the paragraph above and assisted with CDBGDR funds meet an industry-recognized standard that has achieved certification under (i) Enterprise Green Communities; (ii) LEED (New Construction, Homes, Midrise, Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance, or Neighborhood Development); (iii) ICC700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS) Green or NGBS Green+ Resilience; (iv) Living Building Challenge; or (v) any other equivalent comprehensive green building program acceptable to HUD. FEMA uses your household annual gross income and number of dependents to determine if you should be referred to the SBA. After 36 months, the grantee will be required to follow the criteria established in section 104(b)(3) of the HCDA and its implementing regulations in 24 CFR part 570 when using the urgent need national objective for any new programs and/or activities added to an action plan. HHS awarding agencies are expected to communicate this development with their recipients directly and also are expected to encourage recipients in the less-affected areas within each state to submit their audits as soon as possible. The grantee must meet the applicable environmental requirements before the use or commitment of funds for each activity. For fair housing and equal opportunity purposes, and as applicable, such records shall include data on the racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics of persons who are applicants for, participants in, or beneficiaries of the program. Start Printed Page 32076 5305(a)(8)) by using such assistance to. 5305(a) is waived and HUD is establishing the following alternative requirement to establish safe housing incentives as an eligible activity. The grantee must obtain a completed electronic or paper copy of the Federal agency's review and retain a copy in its environmental records.

the current document as it appeared on Public Inspection on It was viewed 64 times while on Public Inspection. State grantees shall establish requirements for procurement processes for local governments and subrecipients based on full and open competition consistent with the requirements of 24 CFR 570.489(g), and shall require a local government or subrecipient to evaluate the cost or price of the product or service being procured with CDBGDR funds. Alternatively, HUD is requiring that grantees enter information in the DRGR system on a quarterly basis through the performance reports. of the Consolidated Notice requires a grantee's agreement to also include the following language: Warning: Any person who knowingly makes a false claim or statement to HUD may be subject to civil or criminal penalties under 18 U.S.C. Additional action plan requirements for local governments. A lock ( Any assistance provided for a different purpose than the CDBGDR eligible activity, or a general, non-specific purpose ( The grantee must also submit documentation demonstrating that it has assessed staff capacity and identified positions for the purpose of: case management in proportion to the applicant population; program managers who will be assigned responsibility for each primary recovery area; staff who have demonstrated experience in housing, infrastructure (as applicable), and economic revitalization (as applicable); staff responsible for procurement/contract management, regulations implementing section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended (24 CFR part 75) (section 3), fair housing compliance, and environmental compliance. e.g., The assessment must include a list of any open CDBGDR findings and an update on the corrective actions undertaken to address each finding. The Stafford Act. Second, the grantee may increase the amount of an award if the applicant agrees to repay duplicative assistance it receives in the future (unless prohibited by a statutory order of assistance, as in the requirement to use FEMA or USACE assistance before CDBGDR assistance discussed in sections II. This change is in conformance with the waiver allowing a state to carry out activities directly. III.G.3. In general, non-federal entities submit their Single Audit reporting packages 30 days after receipt of the auditors report(s) or nine months after the end of the fiscal year, whichever comes first. 4624 and 42 U.S.C. Grantees must establish affordability restrictions on all newly constructed single-family housing (for purposes of the Consolidated Notice, single-family housing is defined as four units or less), that, upon completion, will be purchased and occupied by LMI homeowners. notices, as applicable. Allocation and award caps. Subsidized loans are assistance that must be included in the DOB analysis, unless an exception applies. Subsidized loans are financial assistance and therefore can duplicate financial assistance provided from another source unless an exception in IV.A.1. e.g., Such description must demonstrate a reasonably proportionate allocation of resources relative to areas and categories ( Section 570.200(h)(1)(i) is waived to the extent that it requires pre-agreement activities to be included in the local government's consolidated plan. (2) Each grantee must provide HUD its procurement processes for review, so HUD may evaluate the grantee's processes to determine that they are based on principles of full and open competition. HUD may extend the period of performance administratively, if good cause for such an extension exists at that time, as requested by the grantee, and approved by HUD. To meet the statutory requirement of most impacted in this legislative language, homes are determined to have a high level of damage if they have damage of major-low or higher. For all substantial amendments, the grantee must follow the same procedures required for the preparation and submission of an action plan for disaster recovery, with the exception of the public hearing requirements described in section III.D.1.b. If you receive a letter stating that you are ineligible for assistance or that your application is incomplete, you can still complete the application or appeal the decision within 60 days of receiving a decision letter. (f) it assists in investigating and taking action when fraud occurs within the grantee's CDBGDR activities and/or programs. Paragraph (g) of 24 CFR 570.482 and paragraph (c) and (d) under 570.209 are also waived to the extent these provisions are related to public benefit. housing, economic revitalization, and infrastructure) of greatest needs identified in the grantee's impact and unmet needs assessment or provide an acceptable justification for a disproportional allocation. Additionally, paragraph III.C.1.g of the Consolidated Notice requires grantees to provide a budget for the full amount of the allocation that is reasonably proportionate to its unmet needs (or provide an acceptable justification for disproportional allocation) and is consistent with the requirements to integrate hazard mitigation measures into all its programs and projects.. Grantees must be able to identify and document additional unmet need, for example, by completing a professional inspection to verify the revised estimate of costs to rehabilitate or reconstruct damaged property. II.B.2.d. The Secretary shall specify any such criteria and the resulting conditions in the grant conditions governing the award. For grants made in response to 2022 disasters under the Appropriations Acts, the following alternative requirement applies: A grantee may assist private for-profit, non-profit, or publicly owned utilities as part of disaster-related activities that are eligible under section 105(a) of the HCDA, or otherwise made eligible through a waiver or alternative requirement, provided that the grantee complies with the following: 1. The data HUD uses to calculate unmet needs for 2022 qualifying disasters come from the FEMA IHP data on housing-unit damage as of January 10, 2023, and reflect disasters occurring in 2022 and declared on or before October 30, 2022. In addition to the terms described in the remainder of the Consolidated Notice, grantees may only charge costs to the grant that meet the following requirements: Grantees are required to ensure that all costs charged to a CDBGDR grant are necessary expenses related to authorized recovery purposes. Grantees covered by the exception criteria as described in section IV.C. (1) RARAP requirements for CDBGDR. If your insurance doesnt cover all of your home repair or rebuilding expenses, FEMA may be able to help. III.C.6. (87 FR 6364, 87 FR 31636, and 88 FR 3198). Disaster Recovery Centers provide disaster survivors with information from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Additionally, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. Also, HUD reminds grantees that the Stafford Act states that A person receiving Federal assistance for a major disaster or emergency shall be liable to the United States to the extent that such assistance duplicates benefits available to the person for the same purpose from another source. A grantee's failure to collect duplication of benefits does not remove an applicant's potential liability to the United States. Action plan requirements related to infrastructure activities are found in section III.C.1.e. a time period commensurate with risk). Assessment & Appeal Calendar. Grantees must cite data sources in the impact and unmet needs assessment. If FEMA or USACE are accepting applications for the activity, the applicant must seek assistance from those sources before receiving CDBGDR assistance. This audit guide is divided into chapters. The underwriting guidelines are found at Appendix A of 24 CFR part 570. documents in the last year, 408 Like other projects, grantees may use CDBGDR funds as a matching requirement, share, or contribution for section 428 Public Assistance Projects. You will receive notification letters from FEMA either by mail or electronic correspondence explaining your next steps. 12706, 24 CFR 91.225(a)(5), and 24 CFR 91.325(a)(5)), because the effects of a major disaster alter a grantee's priorities for meeting housing, employment, and infrastructure needs. Accordingly, HUD is adopting the following alternative requirement to section 105(a): Grantees may carry out the activities described in section 105(a), as modified by waivers and alternative requirements, to the extent that the activities comply with the following: II.A.2.a.

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Federal Register The modified alternative requirement also makes clear that assistance to utilities is subject to all other requirements that apply to the use of funds, consistent with the requirement in the Appropriations Acts that funds must be for an eligible activity under section 105(a). If a grantee needs to submit a substantial amendment to add any activity based on these new alternative requirements, they must follow section III.C.6.a in the Consolidated Notice. III.B.2. Assistance for infrastructure.

The grantee must follow a detailed citizen participation plan that satisfies the requirements of 24 CFR 91.115 or 91.105 (except as provided for in notices providing waivers and alternative requirements). By law, (codified in the HCDA as a note to section 105(a)) only $250,000 or less of CDBGDR funds may be used for the non-Federal cost-share of any project funded by USACE. A buyout program that merely pays homeowners to leave their existing homes does not guarantee that those homeowners will occupy a new residential structure. A summary of comments on the plan or amendment, and the grantee's response to each, must be included (

documents in the last year, 506 5305(a)(12) is waived to the extent necessary so the types of planning activities that states may fund or undertake are expanded to be consistent with those of CDBG Entitlement grantees identified at 24 CFR 570.205. documents in the last year, 128

When undertaking buyout activities, to demonstrate that a buyout meets the low- and moderate-income housing (LMH) national objective, grantees must meet all requirements of the HCDA, and applicable regulatory criteria described below. II.A.1. the owner's need for additional assistance is documented. Once the Public Action Plan is approved, the use of all grant funds must be consistent with the Public Action Plan. However, 44 CFR 9.11(d)(3)(iii) allows for an alternative to elevation to the 100- or 500-year flood level, subject to FEMA approval, which would provide for improvements that would ensure the substantial impermeability of the structure below flood level. This agreement can be in the form of a subrogation agreement or similar document and must be signed by every applicant before the grantee disburses any CDBGDR assistance to the applicant. State grantees may permit a local government that receives or will receive program income to retain the program income but are not required to do so. Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. Category 3: To address any potential DOB, each applicant must also enter into an agreement with the CDBGDR grantee to repay any assistance later received for the same purpose for which the CDBGDR funds were provided. CDBGDR assistance may only pay for eligible activities to address unmet needs. 4012a) which mandates the purchase of flood insurance protection for any HUD-assisted property within a Special Flood Hazard Area. Implementation plan. In addition, 42 U.S.C. The objectives of CLA's audit are to (1) express an opinion on whether HUD's consolidated financial statements are fairly presented and adequately disclosed, in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. Nonsubstantial amendment. publication in the future. For example, HUD announced CDBGDR grants for disasters occurring in 2022 in this notice. The LMA benefit requirement is modified when fewer than one quarter of the populated-block groups in its jurisdictions contain 51 percent or more LMI persons. initial Start Printed Page 32072 Enter its action plan and amendments as described in III.C.1, including performance measures, into the Public Action Plan in DRGR; b. L. 117180, Division A) approved September 30, 2022, makes available $2,000,000,000 in CDBGDR funds. The grantee must determine that the costs of the activity to assist a utility are necessary and reasonable and that they do not duplicate other financial assistance. To comply with section 312, a person or entity may receive financial assistance only to the extent that the person or entity has a disaster recovery need that has not been fully met. Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons. FEMA is required to verify you lived at the address in your application as your primary residence before providing most types of assistance. Sections 104(b)(4), (c), and (m) of the HCDA (42 U.S.C. Each grantee must make all certifications included in section III.F.7 of the Consolidated Notice and submit them to HUD when it submits its Public Action Plan in DRGR described in III.C.1. It was expected that the reports would be released in an update to Chapter 2 of the HUD Audit Guide. 2023 California State Treasurer's Office, CTCAC Development Staff Regional Assignments, Placed in Service Package/Form 8609 Request, American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Information, CA, WA & OR Statement re Construction Costs of Affordable Housing, PlacedinService Application Submission Deadline Memorandum, Proposed Regulations: State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, IRS 2020-53 CTCAC Guidance for Recertifications and Monitoring, Increase opportunity for women and people of color, Empower individuals in distressed communities. HUD will monitor the grantee's actions and use of funds for consistency with the plan, as well as meeting the performance and timeliness objectives therein. Counts are subject to sampling, reprocessing and revision (up or down) throughout the day. (6) For each proposed program and/or activity, its respective CDBG activity eligibility category (or categories), national objective(s), and what disaster-related impact is addressed, as described in section II.A.1. Section 312(b) of the Stafford Act permits a grantee to provide CDBGDR assistance to an applicant who is or may be entitled to receive assistance that would be duplicative if: (1) the applicant has not received the other assistance at the time the CDBGDR grantee makes its award; and (2) the applicant agrees to repay the CDBGDR grantee for any duplicative assistance once it is received. URA replacement housing payments for tenants. f. The grantee certifies that it will comply with section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. If the beneficiary is eligible for additional assistance as a result of the fraudulent activity and the creation of remaining unmet need, the procedures must also address what steps the grantee will follow to provide the additional assistance. Typically, the steps include determining the total need for assistance, verifying the total assistance available from all sources of disaster assistance (using recent data available from FEMA, SBA, and other sources), excluding non-duplicative assistance from total assistance to calculate DOB, reducing the total award by the amount of the DOB, and obtaining an agreement from applicants to repay duplicative assistance. A grantee may not charge such pre-award or pre-application costs to grants if the grantee cannot meet all requirements at 24 CFR part 58.

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