RICPS, No. 76

Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas:

Fiscal Year 2003

Compiled by M. Louise Reynnells

Rural Information Center

Rural Information Center Publication Series, No. 76

Revised Edition

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Agricultural health and safety

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

FUNDING PROGRAMS BY DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

http://www.usda.gov/

10.167 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

10.212 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR Program)

10.215 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

10.221 TRIBAL COLLEGES EDUCATION EQUITY GRANTS

10.222 TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM (TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM)

10.225 COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS (Community Food Project Program)

10.405 FARM LABOR HOUSING LOANS AND GRANTS (Labor Housing)

10.406 FARM OPERATING LOANS

10.407 FARM OWNERSHIP LOANS

10.410 VERY LOW TO MODERATE INCOME HOUSING LOANS (Section 502 Rural Housing Loans)

10.411 RURAL HOUSING SITE LOANS AND SELF HELP HOUSING LAND DEVELOPMENT LOANS (Section 523 and 524 Site Loans)

10.415 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING LOANS

10.417 VERY LOW-INCOME HOUSING REPAIR LOANS AND GRANTS (Section 504 Rural Housing Loans and Grants)

10.420 RURAL SELF-HELP HOUSING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (Section 523 Technical Assistance)

10.421 INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL CORPORATION LOANS

10.427 RURAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS (Rental Assistance)

10.433 RURAL HOUSING PRESERVATION GRANTS

10.438 SECTION 538 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING GUARANTEED LOANS

10.441 TECHNICAL AND SUPERVISORY ASSISTANCE GRANTS

10.442 HOUSING APPLICATION PACKAGING GRANTS (Section 509 Grants)

10.443 OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS

10.444 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 504, Rural Housing Loans and Grants)

10.445 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER (Section 502 Very Low and Low Income Loans)

10.446 RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

10.557 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC Program)

10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM

10.567 FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS

10.570 NUTRITION SERVICES INCENTIVE (NSIP)

10.664 COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE

10.665 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO STATES (25 Percent Payments to States)

10.666 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO COUNTIES (Payments to Counties)

10.670 NATIONAL FOREST DEPENDENT RURAL COMMUNITIES (Economic Recovery)

10.671 SOUTHEAST ALASKA ECONOMIC DISASTER FUND

10.672 RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES (RURAL DEVELOPMENT)

10.760 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES

10.761 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING GRANTS

10.762 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS

10.763 EMERGENCY COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE GRANTS

10.766 COMMUNITY FACILITIES LOANS AND GRANTS

10.767 INTERMEDIARY RE-LENDING PROGRAM

10.768 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOANS

10.769 RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RBEG) (TDG)

10.770 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 306C)

10.771 RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RTDG)

10.772 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities)

10.773 RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (RBOG)

10.850 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES ( RUS)

10.851 RURAL TELEPHONE LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES (RUS)

10.852 RURAL TELEPHONE BANK LOANS (Rural Telephone Bank)

10.854 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS AND GRANTS

10.855 DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE LOANS AND GRANTS

10.859 ASSISTANCE TO HIGH ENERGY COST RURAL COMMUNITIES

10.901 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

10.910 RURAL ABANDONED MINE PROGRAM (RAMP)

10.912 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM (EQIP)

10.913 FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

http://www.arc.gov/

23.001 APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEE INDIVIDUAL APPALACHIAN PROGRAMS) (Appalachian Program)

23.002 APPALACHIAN SUPPLEMENTS TO FEDERAL GRANT-IN-AID (AREA DEVELOPMENT) (Supplemental Grants)

23.003 APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM (Appalachian Corridors)

23.008 APPALACHIAN LOCAL ACCESS ROADS

23.009 APPALACHIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ASSISTANCE (LDD)

23.011 APPALACHIAN STATE RESEARCH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS (State Research)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

http://www.doc.gov/

11.300 GRANTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES

11.302 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT– SUPPORT FOR PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND INDIAN PLANNING

11.303 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (National, University Center and Local Technical Assistance)

11.307 SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SUDDEN AND SEVERE ECONOMIC DISLOCATION AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DETERIORATION (Economic Adjustment Program)

11.550 PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES--PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (PTFP)

11.552 TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES (TOP)

11.801 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM (NAP)

11.806 MINORITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/

12.600 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT

12.607 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE (Community Planning Assistance)

12.611 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE FOR REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT

12.612 COMMUNITY BASE REUSE PLANS (Community Planning Assistance)

DENALI COMMISSION

http://www.denali.gov/

90.100 DENALI COMMISSION PROGRAM

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

http://www.ed.gov/

84.002 ADULT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM

84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES (Title I Basic, Concentration, and Targeted Grants)

84.011 MIGRANT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM

84.048 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BASIC GRANTS TO STATES

84.060 INDIAN EDUCATION GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

84.101 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INDIANS SET-ASIDE

84.141 MIGRANT EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM (HEP)

84.144 MIGRANT EDUCATION COORDINATION PROGRAM

84.149 MIGRANT EDUCATION COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM (CAMP)

84.169 INDEPENDENT LIVING STATE GRANTS

84.184 SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES NATIONAL PROGRAMS

84.203 STAR SCHOOLS

84.213 EVEN START STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

84.214 EVEN START MIGRANT EDUCATION

84.215 FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION (FIE)

84.216 CAPITAL EXPENSES

84.221 NATIVE HAWAIIAN SPECIAL EDUCATION

84.250 REHABILITATION SERVICES AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES

84.258 EVEN START INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS

84.259 NATIVE HAWAIIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

84.286 READY TO CHANGE

84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS

84.295 READY-TO-LEARN TELEVISION

84.296 NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION LEARNING CENTERS

84.297 NATIVE HAWAIIAN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT

84.298 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM STRATEGIES

84.316 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

84.320 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING, AND RECRUITMENT PROGRAM (ANE)

84.322 ALASKA NATIVE STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (Alaska Native Education)

84.341 COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

84.352 SCHOOL RENOVATION GRANTS

84.356 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

84.358 RURAL EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM (REAP)

84.360 DROPOUT PREVENTION PROGRAMS

84.362 NATIVE HAWAIIAN EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

http://www.doe.gov/

81.042 WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME PERSONS

81.106 TRANSPORT OF TRANSURANIC WASTES TO THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT: STATES AND TRIBAL CONCERNS, PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

http://www.epa.gov/

66.418 CONSTRUCTION GRANTS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS

66.458 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR STATE REVOLVING FUNDS (State Revolving Fund)

66.461 WETLANDS PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

66.468 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND (Drinking Water State Revolving Fund)

66.471 STATE GRANTS TO REIMBURSE OPERATORS OF SMALL WATER SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION COSTS (Operator Certification Expense Reimbursement Grants)

66.473 DIRECT IMPLEMENTATION TRIBAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS (DITCA)

66.604 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS TO SMALL COMMUNITY GROUPS (EJGSC)

66.709 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR STATES AND TRIBES

66.715 CHILDHOOD BLOOD-LEAD SCREENING AND LEAD AWARENESS (EDUCATIONAL) -  OUTREACH FOR INDIAN TRIBES (Tribal Lead Grants)

66.806 SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR CITIZEN GROUPS AT PRIORITY SITES (SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS)

66.808 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE

66.811 BROWNFIELD PILOTS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

66.812 HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS FOR TRIBES

66.926 INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (General Assistance Program (GAP) for Tribes)

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

http://www.fema.gov/

83.010 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

83.012 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

83.105 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM STATE SUPPORT SERVICES ELEMENT (CAP-SSSE)

83.537 COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS

83.544 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE GRANTS

83.552 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANTS (EMPG)

83.553 STATE FIRE TRAINING SYSTEMS GRANTS (National Fire Academy Training Grants)

83.554 ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT(FIRE GRANTS)

83.556 FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE GRANT

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

http://www.dhhs.gov/

93.005 PROJECT GRANTS FOR FACILITIES TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF MINORITY POPULATIONS

93.045 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE III, PART C NUTRITION SERVICES

93.047 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE VI, PART A, GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES PART B, GRANTS TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS

93.110 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH FEDERAL CONSOLIDATED PROGRAMS (Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS))

93.127 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN (EMS for Children)

93.129 TECHNICAL AND NON-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH CENTERS AND NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS (NHSC) DELIVERY SITES

93.130 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES RESOURCE COORDINATION AND DEVELOPMENT (STATE PRIMARY CARE OFFICES)

93.151 HEALTH CENTER GRANTS FOR HOMELESS POPULATIONS

93.155 RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERS

93.162 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM (NHSC Loan Repayment Program)

93.164 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE EDUCATIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT (IHS Loan Repayment Program)

93.191 ALLIED HEALTH SPECIAL PROJECTS

93.192 QUENTIN N. BURDICK PROGRAMS FOR RURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING (Interdisciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas)

93.202 CAPACITY BUILDING AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES

93.210 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM: PLANNING AND NEGOTIATION COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND IHS COMPACTS (Tribal Self-Governance)

93.211 RURAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS (Rural Telemedicine Grant Program)

93.219 MATCHING GRANTS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIAN TRIBES (Health Professions Scholarships)

93.223 DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION OF RURAL HEALTH SERVICES

93.224 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS

93.226 RESEARCH ON HEALTHCARE COSTS, QUALITY AND OUTCOMES

93.228 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (Indian Health)

93.241 STATE RURAL HOSPITAL FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM

93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS

93.244 MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL AND AIDS SERVICE-RELATED TRAINING GRANTS

93.246 HEALTH CENTERS GRANTS FOR MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS

93.252 COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM

93.259 RURAL ACCESS TO EMERGENCY DEVICES GRANT (RURAL ACCESS TO AEDS)

93.268 IMMUNIZATION GRANTS (Section 301 and 317, Public Health Service Act; Immunization Program)

93.284 INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKAN

NATIVES–COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

93.288 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (NHSC Scholarship Program)

93.301 SMALL RURAL HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

93.441 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION

93.558 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Programs; State Family Assistance Grants; Tribal Family Assistance Grants; Assistance Grants to Territories; Matching Grants to Territories; Supplemental Grants for Population Increases; Contingency Fund; High Performance Bonus; Decrease in Illegitimacy Bonus)

93.568 LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

93.569 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

93.570 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT DISCRETIONARY AWARDS

93.575 CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (Discretionary Fund of the Child Care and Development Fund)

93.581 IMPROVING THE CAPABILITY OF INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS TO REGULATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

93.582 MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS TO INDIAN LANDS DUE TO DEPARTMENT OF

93.590 COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY RESOURCE AND SUPPORT GRANTS

93.593 JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS (JOLI Program)

93.594 TRIBAL WORK GRANTS Native Employment Works (NEW) Grants (Grants for Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations that Received Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) Funds)

93.595 WELFARE REFORM RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS AND NATIONAL STUDIES (Welfare Reform Research)

93.596 CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (Child Care and Development Fund)

93.600 HEAD START (Head Start)

93.612 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS

93.667 SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (Social Services)

93.671 FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES/GRANTS FOR BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTERS GRANTS TO STATES AND INDIAN TRIBES

93.674 CHAFEE FOSTER CARE INDEPENDENT LIVING (CFCIP)

93.779 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EVALUATIONS (CMS RESEARCH)

93.910 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM (Family Life Centers)

93.912 RURAL HEALTH OUTREACH AND RURAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

93.913 GRANTS TO STATES FOR OPERATION OF OFFICES OF RURAL HEALTH

93.926 HEALTHY START INITIATIVE (Targeted Infant Mortality Initiative)

93.932 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH SYSTEMS

93.933 DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR INDIAN HEALTH

93.952 IMPROVING EMS/TRAUMA CARE IN RURAL AREAS (RURAL EMS/TRAUMA CARE)

93.954 TRIBAL RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTO INDIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS (Tribal Recruitment)

93.956 AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMS Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention; Community Partners for Healthy Farming (CPHF); Deep-South Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention

93.958 BLOCK GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CMHS Block Grant)

93.959 BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant)

93.960 SPECIAL MINORITY INITIATIVES

93.970 HEALTH PROFESSIONS RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR INDIANS (Recruitment Program)

93.971 HEALTH PROFESSIONS PREPARATORY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR INDIANS

93.972 HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

93.991 PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (PHHS Block Grants)

93.994 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT TO THE STATES

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

http://www.hud.gov/

14.110 MANUFACTURED HOME LOAN INSURANCE FINANCING PURCHASE OF MANUFACTURED HOMES AS PRINCIPAL RESIDENCES OF BORROWERS (Title I)

14.121 MORTGAGE INSURANCE HOMES IN OUTLYING AREAS (203(i))

14.157 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY (202)

14.219 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM (Small Cities)

14.227 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS/TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

14.228 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM

14.239 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME Program)

14.243 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH, YOUTH BUILD PROGRAM (YOUTH BUILD Program)

14.244 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities)

14.246 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (Section 108)

14.250 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

14.313 DOLLAR HOME SALES

14.511 COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

14.512 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK-STUDY PROGRAM

14.515 ALASKA NATIVE/NATIVE HAWAIIAN INSTITUTIONS ASSISTING COMMUNITIES

14.519 TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM

14.850 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING

14.862 INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM

14.865 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING INDIAN LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM (Loan Guarantees for Indian Housing)

14.867 INDIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS

14.869 TITLE VI FEDERAL GUARANTEES FOR FINANCING TRIBAL HOUSING ACTIVITIES

14.870 RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES (ROSS)

14.872 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND (CFP)

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

http://www.doi.gov/

15.020 AID TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS

15.022 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE

15.024 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT SUPPORT (CONTRACT SUPPORT)

15.025 SERVICES TO INDIAN CHILDREN, ELDERLY AND FAMILIES (SOCIAL SERVICES)

15.026 INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION

15.027 ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

15.028 TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS

15.029 TRIBAL COURTS

15.030 INDIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT (LAW ENFORCEMENT)

15.031 INDIAN COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION (COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION)

15.032 INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

15.033 ROAD MAINTENANCE INDIAN ROADS

15.034 AGRICULTURE ON INDIAN LANDS

15.035 FORESTRY ON INDIAN LANDS

15.036 INDIAN RIGHTS PROTECTION

15.037 WATER RESOURCES ON INDIAN LANDS

15.038 MINERALS AND MINING ON INDIAN LANDS

15.039 FISH, WILDLIFE, AND PARKS PROGRAMS ON INDIAN LANDS (WILDLIFE AND PARKS)

15.040 REAL ESTATE PROGRAMS INDIAN LANDS

15.041 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INDIAN PROGRAMS

15.042 INDIAN SCHOOL EQUALIZATION PROGRAM (ISEP)

15.043 INDIAN CHILD AND FAMILY EDUCATION (FACE)

15.044 INDIAN SCHOOLS STUDENT TRANSPORTATION (Student Transportation)

15.045 ASSISTANCE FOR INDIAN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES (Institutionalized Handicapped)

15.046 ADMINISTRATIVE COST GRANTS FOR INDIAN SCHOOLS

15.047 INDIAN EDUCATION FACILITIES, OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE

15.058 INDIAN POST SECONDARY SCHOOLS (Haskell and SIPI)

15.061 INDIAN JOB PLACEMENT UNITED SIOUX TRIBES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION UNITED SIOUX TRIBES)

15.062 REPLACEMENT AND REPAIR OF INDIAN SCHOOLS

15.063 CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF INDIAN DETENTION FACILITIES

15.064 STRUCTURAL FIRE PROTECTION BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FACILITIES (Fire Protection)

15.108 INDIAN EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (Employment Assistance Program)

15.113 INDIAN SOCIAL SERVICES GENERAL ASSISTANCE

15.114 INDIAN EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM (Higher Education)

15.124 INDIAN LOANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Loan Guaranty Program)

15.130 INDIAN EDUCATION ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS (Johnson-O'Malley)

15.141 INDIAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE

15.144 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT TITLE II GRANTS

15.225 RECREATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

15.228 WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE COMMUNITY AND RURAL FIRE ASSISTANCE

15.850 INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS DEVELOPMENT

15.875 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIES AND THE FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES

15.904 HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND GRANTS-IN-AID

15.916 OUTDOOR RECREATION ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING (Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants)

15.918 DISPOSAL OF FEDERAL SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY FOR PARKS, RECREATION, AND HISTORIC MONUMENTS (Surplus Property Program; Federal Lands-to-Parks Program; Historic Surplus Property Program)

15.921 RIVERS, TRAILS AND CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE (RTCA)

15.922 NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT (NAGPRA)

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

http://www.usdoj.gov/

16.308 INDIAN COUNTRY INVESTIGATIONS

16.563 LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY SUPPORT

16.579 BYRNE FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM

16.583 CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ACT PARTNERSHIPS FOR INDIAN COMMUNITIES

16.587 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DISCRETIONARY GRANTS FOR INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS

16.589 RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD VICTIMIZATION ENFORCEMENT GRANT PROGRAM

16.590 GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARREST POLICIES

16.592 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOCK GRANTS PROGRAM

16.596 CORRECTIONAL GRANT PROGRAM FOR INDIAN TRIBES

16.607 BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

16.608 TRIBAL COURT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

16.614 STATE AND LOCAL ANTI-TERRORISM TRAINING (SLATT)

16.615 PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS’ EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE (PSOEA)

16.616 INDIAN COUNTRY ALCOHOL AND DRUG PREVENTION

16.710 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS ("Cops" Grants)

16.726 JUVENILE MENTORING PROGRAM (JUMP)

16.731 Tribal Youth Program (TYP)

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

http://www.dol.gov/

17.253 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO STATES AND LOCALITIES (WELFARE-TO-WORK (WTW) GRANTS)

17.254 WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS TO FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES AND ALASKA NATIVES (INDIAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANT PROGRAM; INA WTW GRANTS)

17.263 YOUTH OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (YOG)

17.264 MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM)

17.265 NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING (SECTION 166 PROGRAM; INDIAN PROGRAM)

17.805 HOMELESS VETERANS REINTEGRATION PROJECT

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION

http://www.ncua.gov/

44.002 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN PROGRAM FOR CREDIT UNIONS (CDCU)

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

http://www.arts.endow.gov

http://www.neh.gov/

45.024 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

45.025 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS

45.026 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES

45.027 PROMOTION OF THE ARTS - CHALLENGE AMERICA GRANTS

45.164 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES PUBLIC PROGRAMS

45.166 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES-- EXTENDING THE REACH GRANTS TO UNDERSERVED AREAS

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SCIENCES

http://www.imls.fed.gov/

45.301 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES (GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT)

45.311 NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICES

45.312 INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

http://www.sba.gov/

59.007 MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES (7(J) Development Assistance Program)

59.011 SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANIES (SBIC; SSBIC)

59.012 SMALL BUSINESS LOANS (Regular Business Loans 7 (a) Loans)

59.041 CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LOANS (504 LOANS) (504 Loans)

59.043 WOMEN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE

59.044 VETERANS ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND COUNSELING (VET Program)

59.046 MICROLOAN DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM

59.049 OFFICE OF SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CERTIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY (OSDBC&E)

59.050 MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (PRIME)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

http://www.dot.gov/

20.106 AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP)

20.205 HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (Federal-Aid Highway Program)

20.219 RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM

20.500 FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (Capital Grants)

20.509 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR NONURBANIZED AREAS (Nonurbanized Area Formula Program)

20.513 CAPITAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR ELDERLY PERSONS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Program)

20.516 JOB ACCESS - REVERSE COMMUTE

20.518 CAPITAL AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR OVER-THE-ROAD BUS ACCESSIBILITY

20.600 STATE AND COMMUNITY HIGHWAY SAFETY

20.801 DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF PORTS AND INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION (Ports and Domestic Shipping and Intermodal Development)

20.901 PAYMENTS FOR ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICES

20.905 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES SHORT TERM LENDING PROGRAM (Short Term Lending Program)

20.907 HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ETTAP)

20.908 TRIBAL COLLEGES - ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ETTAP)

 CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

http://www.cns.gov/

94.004 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS

94.005 LEARN AND SERVE AMERICA HIGHER EDUCATION

94.006 AMERICORPS

94.007 PLANNING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

SUBJECT INDEX

INTRODUCTION

The federal funding programs available to rural areas included in this document were selected from the Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance 2002.

This information was obtained from the online system known as FAPRS (Federal Assistance Programs Retrieval System) and the print version of this database known as the Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance, which was compiled and edited for the Executive Office of the President by the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration. Both of these services are provided by the Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Staff of the General Services Administration.

The Catalog is an annual that provides extensive listings of federal assistance programs; national, regional, and local office contacts; and grant application procedures. For further information on the FAPRS database write the Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Staff (WKU), General Services Administration (GSA), Reporter’s Bldg, Room 101, 300 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20407 or call 1-800-669-8331. For obtaining printed copies of the Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance, write the Superintendent of Documents, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. The approximate price is $63.00. For more information on FAPRS and federal programs, consult the GSA Web site: <http://www.cfda.gov/>.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

10.167 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: The Transportation Services program develops and promotes efficient agriculture transportation systems to help improve farm income, expand exports and meet the needs of rural America. The program provides technical and administrative direction, coordination, and leadership in the development and execution of agricultural transportation policies. Transportation Services provides a basis for Federal-State decision-makers in regulatory, policy and legislative matters in order to assure the transportation needs of rural communities and agriculture.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and Counseling; Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance provided where it is determined that there is a significant regional impact at stake or significant policy at issue with potentially broad implications.

Applicant Eligibility: Any State government, public and private organization and institution, business and industry, or individual may apply for technical assistance or service.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Director, Transportation and Marketing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-1300.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.212 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting Federal research and development needs, increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from USDA-supported research and development efforts, and foster and encourage participation, by women-owned and socially disadvantaged small business firms in technological innovation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The selected areas for research are forests and related resources; plant production and protection; animal production and protection; air, water, and soils; food science and nutrition; rural and community development; aquaculture; industrial applications; and marketing and trade. The Small Business Innovation Research Program will be carried out in three separate phases: Phase I, USDA anticipates making awards during fiscal year 1998 to small businesses in amounts ranging up to $65,000 over periods normally not to exceed six months each. Phase I is to determine the scientific or technical feasibility of ideas submitted by proposers on the selected research areas; Phase II awards will be made during fiscal year 1998 to firms with approaches that appear sufficiently promising as a result of phase I studies. Only those small businesses previously receiving phase I awards in either fiscal years 1996 or 1997 are eligible to submit phase II proposals in fiscal year 1998. Phase II projects are limited to $250,000 with the average award being about $200,000, for a period normally not to exceed 24 months; phase III is to be conducted by the small business concern (including joint ventures and limited partnerships), and will be non-SBIR funded through the exercising of a follow-on funding commitment. The purpose of phase III is to stimulate technological innovation and the national return on investment from research through the pursuit of commercialization objectives resulting from the USDA-supported work carried out in phases I and II.

Applicant Eligibility: Small businesses which: (a) Are organized for profit, independently owned or operated, are not dominant in the proposed research field, have their principal places of business located in the United States, have a number of employees not exceeding 500 in all affiliated firms owned or controlled by a single parent concern, and meet the other regulatory requirements outlined in 13 CFR Part 121, as amended; (b) are at least 51 percent owned, or in the case of a publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of its voting stock is owned, by U.S. citizens or lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens; (c) are the primary source of employment for the principal investigator of the proposed effort at the time of award and during the actual conduct of proposed research; (d) are the primary performer of the proposed research effort. Because this program is intended to increase the use of small business firms in Federal research or research and development, the term "primary performer" means that a minimum of two-thirds of the research or analytical work, as determined by budget expenditures, must be performed by the proposing organization under phase I grants. For phase II awards, a minimum of one-half of the research or analytical effort must be conducted by the proposing firm.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: SBIR Director, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, Ag Box 2243, 14th and Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-2243. Telephone: (202) 401-4002.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Needleless Jet Injection System for Use in Cattle Injection Programs; A Comprehensive Model of Biomass Pyrolysis; Marketing Resources for Rural Enterprise Development; Practical Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens Utilizing Biochemically Stable Bacteriophage.

10.215 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To facilitate and increase scientific investigation and education in order to reduce the use of chemical pesticides, fertilizers and toxic materials in agricultural production; to improve management of on-farm resources to enhance productivity, profitability and competitiveness; to promote crop, livestock and enterprise diversification and to facilitate the conduct of research projects in order to study agricultural production systems that are located, in areas that possess various soil, climatic, and physical characteristics; to study farms that have been and continue to be managed using farm production practices that optimize the use of on-farm resources and conservation practices; to take advantage of the experience and expertise of farmers and ranchers through their direct participation and leadership in projects; to transfer practical, reliable and timely information to farmers and ranchers concerning sustainable practices and systems; and to promote a partnership between farmers, nonprofit organizations, agribusiness and public and private research and extension institutions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may not be used to pay indirect costs or tuition. Funds may be used for transportation, per diem, salaries, office supplies, printing, and other direct costs for conducting approved activities.

Applicant Eligibility: Land-grant colleges or universities, other universities, State agricultural experiment stations, State cooperative extension services, nonprofit organizations, and individuals with demonstrable expertise, or Federal or State governmental entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, Ag Box 2201, Washington, DC 20250-2201. Contact: Acting Administrator. Telephone: (202) 720-4423.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A funded project has helped farms use rotations to boost corn profits by $30 to $115 per acre, while protecting the environment. The rotation systems eliminate the need for corn rootworm insecticide, saving $15 to $20 per acre. When farmers used a 3-year rotation of soybeans, winter wheat with clover, and corn, the corn yields were boosted by 20 to 25 bushels per acre. This approach also reduced the need for commercial nitrogen fertilizer by an average of 30 percent.

10.221 TRIBAL COLLEGES EDUCATION EQUITY GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To enhance educational opportunities at the 29 Tribal Colleges designated as the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions by strengthening their teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in targeted need areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Public Law 103-382 targeted funds to benefit those schools specifically listed as the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions. Funds may be used to support teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in the targeted need areas of: 1) Curricula design and instructional materials development; 2) faculty development and preparation for teaching; 3) instruction delivery systems; 4) student experiential learning; 5) equipment and instrumentation for teaching, and 6) student recruitment and retention.

Applicant Eligibility: Bay Mills Community College, Blackfeet Community College, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Cheyenne River Community College, Dine Community College, D-Q University, Dullknife Memorial College, Fond Du Lac Community College, Fort Belknap Community College, Fort Berthold Community College, Fort Peck Community College, LacCourte Orielles Ojibwa Community College, Little Big Horn Community College, Nebraska Indian Community College, Northwest Indian College, Oglala Lakota College, Salish Kootenai College, Sinte Gleska University, Sisseton Wahpeton Community College, Sitting Bull College, Stonechild Community College, Turtle Mountain Community College, United Tribes Technical College, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, Institute of American Indian Arts, Crownpoint Institute of Technology, Haskell Indian Nations University, Leech Lake Tribal College, and College of the Menominee Nation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Higher Education Programs, Science and Education Resources Development, CSREES, USDA, Room 3912-S, Washington,DC 20250-2251. Telephone: (202) 720-7854.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Center for Integrated Rural Development Studies; Agricultural Degree Development Project; Implementation of a Comprehensive Horticulture Program; Educational Program in Nutrition; Strengthening Curricula and Services for Students in the Food and Agricultural Sciences.

10.222 TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM (TRIBAL COLLEGES ENDOWMENT PROGRAM)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To enhance educational opportunities at the 30 Tribal colleges designated as the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions by strengthening their teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in targeted need areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Public Law 103-382 established an endowment fund corpus, the interest of which was to be used to benefit the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions. Funds may be used to support teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in the targeted need areas of: 1) Curricula design and instructional materials development; 2) faculty development and preparation for teaching; 3) instruction delivery systems; 4) student experiential learning; 5) equipment and instrumentation for teaching; and, 6) student recruitment and retention.

Applicant Eligibility: Bay Mills Community College, Blackfeet Community College, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Cheyenne River Community College, Dine Community College, D-Q University, Dullknife Memorial College, Fond Du Lac Community College, Fort Belknap Community College, Fort Berthold Community College, Fort Peck Community College, LacCourte Orielles Ojibwa Community College, Little Big Horn Community College, Nebraska Indian Community College, Northwest Indian College, Oglala Lakota College, Salish Kootenai College, Sinte Gleska University, Sisseton Wahpeton Community College, Sitting Bull College, Stonechild Community College, Turtle Mountain Community College, United Tribes Technical College, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, Institute of American Indian Arts, Crownpoint Institute of Technology, Haskell Indian Nations University, Leech Lake Tribal College, College of the Menominee Nation; and Little Priest College.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Higher Education Programs, Science and Education Resources Development, CSREES, USDA, Room 3912-S, Washington DC 20250-2251. Telephone: (202) 720-7854.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.225 COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS (Community Food Project Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To support the development of community food projects designed to meet the food needs of low-income people; increase the self-reliance of communities in providing for their own needs; and promote comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and nutrition issues.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Community food projects are intended to take a comprehensive approach to developing long-term solutions that help to ensure food security in communities by linking the food sector to community development, economic opportunity, and environmental enhancement. Comprehensive solutions may include elements such as: (1)Improved access to high quality, affordable food among low-income households; (2) support for local food systems, from urban gardening to local farms that provide high quality fresh food, ideally with minimal adverse environmental impact; and (3) expanded economic opportunities for community residents through local business or other economic development, improved employment opportunities, job training, youth apprenticeship, school-to-work transition, and the like. Any solution proposed must tie into community food needs. Successful applicants must provide matching funds, either in cash or in-kind amounting to at least 50 percent of the total cost of the project during the term of the grant award.

Applicant Eligibility: Proposals may be submitted by private nonprofit entities. Because projects must promote comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and nutrition issues, applicants are encouraged to seek and create partnership among public, private nonprofit and private for-profit organizations or firms. To be further eligible for a grant, a private nonprofit applicant must meet three mandatory requirements: 1. Have experience in the area of: (a) community food work, particularly concerning small and medium-sized farms, including the provision of food to people in low-income communities and the development of new markets in low-income communities for agricultural producers; or (b) job training and business development activities in low-income communities; 2. demonstrate competency to implement a project, provide fiscal accountability and oversight, collect data, and prepare reports and other appropriate documentation; and 3. demonstrate a willingness to share information with researchers, practitioners, and other interested parties.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, Stop 2201, Washington, DC 20250-2201. Telephone: (202) 720-4423.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Connecting Small Farmers with Low- Income Communities of Color; Garden City Harvest Project; New Farmers/New Farms Project; Urban/Rural Community Food Project.

10.405 FARM LABOR HOUSING LOANS AND GRANTS (Labor Housing)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide decent, safe, and sanitary low-rent housing and related facilities for domestic farm laborers.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The loans and grants may be used for construction, repair, or purchase of year-round or seasonal housing; acquiring the necessary land and making improvements on land for housing; and developing related support facilities including central cooking and dining facilities, small infirmaries, laundry facilities, day care centers, other essential equipment and facilities or recreation areas. Funds may also be used to pay certain fees and interest incidental to the project. Restrictions on the use of funds are: The housing must be of a practical type and must be constructed in an economical manner and not of elaborate material or extravagant design. Housing financed with labor housing loan or grant funds must be occupied by domestic farm laborers and their families.

Applicant Eligibility: Loans are available to farmers, family farm partnership, family farm corporation, or an association of farmers. Loans and grants are available to States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, political subdivisions of States, broad-based public or private nonprofit organizations, federally recognized Indian Tribes and non-profit corporations of farm workers. Grants are available to eligible applicants only when there is a pressing need and when it is doubtful that such facilities could be provided unless grant assistance is available.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Multi-Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202) 720-1604.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples of funded projects are the projects sponsored by the Homestead Housing Authority in Homestead, Florida, or The Boulder County Housing Authority, Boulder, Colorado.

10.406 FARM OPERATING LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To enable operators of not larger than family farms through the extension of credit and supervisory assistance, to make efficient use of their land, labor, and other resources, and to establish and maintain financially viable farming and ranching operations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used to: (1) Purchase livestock, poultry, fur bearing and other farm animals, fish, and bees;(2) purchase farm equipment; (3) provide operating expenses for farm enterprise; (4) meet family subsistence needs and purchase essential home equipment; (5) refinance secured and unsecured debts subject to certain restrictions; (6) pay property taxes; (7) pay insurance premiums on real estate and personal property; and (8) finance youth projects. Use restrictions are shown under Applicant Eligibility.

Applicant Eligibility: Except for youth loans, individual applicants must: 1) Have the necessary education and/or farm experience or training (1 year's complete production and marketing cycle within the last 5 years) 2) Do not exceed the limitation on the number of years that assistance may be received; 3) possess the legal capacity to incur the obligations of the loan; 4) be unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere at reasonable rates, and terms; 5) project the ability to repay the loan; 6) be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States; 7) after the loan is closed, be an owner/tenant operator of a family farm; and 8) comply with the highly erodible land and wetland conservation provisions of Public Law 99-198 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (FSA); Certain corporations, cooperatives, partnerships and joint operations ("entities") operating family-sized farms are also eligible for farm operating loans. In brief, entity applicants must meet some of the same eligibility requirements as individual applicants. In addition, if members, stockholders or shareholders of the entity are related by blood or marriage, at least one stockholder, shareholder partner or joint operator must operate the family-sized farm. In the case when members are not related by blood or marriage, the majority interest holders in the entity must actually operate the family-sized farm to be eligible. The entity must be authorized to operate a farm in the State in which it is located. Limited resource applicants must meet the above requirements. In addition, they must have a low income and show a need for increased farm income. In the case of limited resource entities, all the partners, joint operators, members, or stockholders must be citizens and the entity must be the owner-operator of the family farm with at least one partner, joint operator, member or stockholder operating the farm. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the 50 States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and to the extent the Secretary determines it to be feasible and appropriate, the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. To be eligible to obtain a direct or guaranteed loan, a borrower must agree to abide by any "borrower training" requirements.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate FSA State Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, Director, Loan Making Division, Ag Box 0522, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1632.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.407 FARM OWNERSHIP LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FARM SERVICE AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist eligible farmers, ranchers, and aquaculture operators, including farming cooperatives, corporations, partnerships, and joint operations, through the extension of credit and supervisory assistance to: Become owner-operators of not larger than family farms; make efficient use of the land, labor, and other resources; carry on sound and successful farming operations; and enable farm families to have a reasonable standard of living.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used to: (1) Enlarge, improve, and buy family farms; (2) provide necessary water and water facilities; (3) provide basic soil treatment and land conservation measures; (4) construct, repair, and improve essential buildings needed in the operation of a family farm; (5) construct or repair farm dwellings; (6) provide facilities to produce fish under controlled conditions.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant must: (1) Be unable to obtain suitable credit from other sources at reasonable rates and terms; (2) be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and possess the legal capacity to incur the obligations of the loan; (3) have the necessary education and/or experience, training, and managerial ability to operate a family farm; (4) realistically project the ability to repay the loan; (5) be the owner-operator of a not larger than family farm after the loan is closed; and (6) if an individual, the applicant must not have a combined farm ownership, soil and water, and recreation loan indebtedness to FSA of more than $200,000, for direct loans; and $300,000 for a guaranteed loan(s), or a combination of direct and guaranteed indebtedness; or a total indebtedness against the property securing the loan(s) of more than the market value of the security, whichever is the lesser amount. If a cooperative, corporation, joint operation or partnership, the entity must be controlled by farmers or ranchers engaged primarily and directly in farming in the U.S., after the loan is made, and must consist of members, stockholders, partners, or joint operators (7) have a minimum of 3 years farming experience. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the 50 States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and, to the extent the Secretary determines it to be feasible and appropriate, the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. Applicants must also comply with the highly erodible land and wetland conservation provisions of Public Law 99-198 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (FSA). To be eligible to obtain a direct or guaranteed loan, a borrower must abide by the Agency's borrower training requirements.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate FSA State Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, Director, Loan Making Division, Ag Box 0522, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1632.

10.410 VERY LOW TO MODERATE INCOME HOUSING LOANS (Section 502 Rural Housing Loans)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist lower-income rural families through direct loans to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve and to provide the applicant with modest, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings and related facilities as a permanent residence. Subsidized funds are available only on direct loans for low and very low-income applicants. Nonsubsidized funds (loan making) are available for very low and low-income applicants who are otherwise eligible for subsidy, but at the present time, the subsidy is not needed. Loan guarantees are also available to assist moderate income rural families in home acquisition.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Direct loans may be used for construction, repair or purchase of housing; to provide adequate sewage disposal facilities and/or safe water supply for the applicant's household; for weatherization; to purchase or install essential equipment if the equipment is normally sold with dwellings in the area; to buy a minimum adequate site on which to place a dwelling for the applicant's own use; and under certain conditions to finance a manufactured home and its site. Housing debts may under certain circumstances be refinanced with direct loans. Dwellings financed must be modest, decent safe and provide sanitary housing. Cost of dwelling financed cannot exceed the maximum dollar limitation established under section 2036(b) of the National Housing Act for the area in which the property is located. The property must be located in a place that is rural in character and does not exceed 10,000 population or in certain cases a place whose population exceeds 10,000 but is not in excess of 25,000, provided the place has a serious lack of mortgage credit for low and moderate-income families as determined by the Secretary of agriculture and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Assistance is available in the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. Loans are made at the interest rate(s) specified in RD Instruction 440.1, Exhibit B (available in any RD local office) for the type of assistance involved, and are repaid over an amortization period of up to 33 years for regular loans and 38 years for loans to applicants whose adjusted annual income do not exceed 60 percent of the area median income, if necessary to show repayment ability. Payment assistance is granted annually which would reduce the monthly installment on the note to an amount equal to what it would be if the note were amortized to as low as one percent, depending on the loan amount, the size and income of the family. Payment assistance is subject to recapture by the government upon liquidation of the account. The Deferred Mortgage Demonstration Program was available during fiscal years 1991-1995 however, there was no funding provided for deferred mortgage authority or loans for deferred mortgage assumptions. Deferred mortgage payment assistance is available to make home ownership affordable for a greater number of very low-income families who lack repayment for the mortgage when a mortised at 1 percent for a 38 year period, or 30 years for a manufactured home. The guaranteed program is an acquisition only program. Guaranteed loans are amortized over 30 years. The interest rate is negotiated with the lender.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must be without adequate resources to obtain housing, or related facilities. The applicants must be unable to secure the necessary credit from other sources at prevailing terms and conditions for residential type financing; be a natural person (individual) who resides as a citizen in the United States or its Territories after having been legally admitted for permanent residence or on indefinite parole; have adequate and dependable available income to meet family living expenses, including taxes, insurance and maintenance, and repayments on debts including the proposed loan. For direct loans, applicants must be eligible for payment assistance and income may not exceed the low-income limits set forth in RD Instructions. The income limits are according to the size of household as is established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the county or MSA where the property is or will be located. For a guaranteed loan the applicant's income may not exceed the moderate income limit.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory under United States Department of Agriculture for RD county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Housing, Processing Division, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.411 RURAL HOUSING SITE LOANS AND SELF HELP HOUSING LAND DEVELOPMENT LOANS (Section 523 and 524 Site Loans)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist public or private nonprofit organizations interested in providing sites for housing; to acquire and develop land in rural areas to be subdivided as adequate building sites and sold on a cost development basis to families eligible for low and very low income loans, cooperatives, and broadly based nonprofit rural rental housing applicants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For the purchase and development of adequate sites, including necessary equipment which becomes a permanent part of the development; for water and sewer facilities if not available; payment of necessary engineering, legal fees, and closing costs; for needed landscaping and other necessary facilities related to buildings such as walks, parking areas, and driveways. Restrictions: loan limitation of $200,000 without national office approval; loan funds may not be used for refinancing of debts, payment of any fee, or commission to any broker, negotiator, or other person for the referral of prospective applicant or solicitation of a loan; no loan funds will be used to pay operating costs or expenses of administration other than actual cash cost of incidental administrative expenses if funds to pay those expenses are not otherwise available. Repayment of loan is expected within two years.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

 Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single-Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Caver County Housing and Redevelopment Agency, Chanhassen, Minnesota.

10.415 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide economically designed and constructed rental and cooperative housing and related facilities suited for rural residents.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans can be used to construct, purchase and substantially rehabilitate rental or cooperative housing or to develop manufactured housing projects. Housing as a general rule will consist of multi-units with two or more family units and any appropriately related facilities. Funds may also be used to provide approved recreational and service facilities appropriate for use in connection with the housing and to buy and improve the land on which the buildings are to be located. Loans may not be made for nursing, special care, or institutional-type homes.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants may be individuals, cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, State or local public agencies, profit corporations, trusts, partnerships, limited partnerships, and be unable to finance the housing either with their own resources or with credit obtained from private sources. However, applicants must be able to assume the obligations of the loan, furnish adequate security, and have sufficient income for repayment. They must also have the ability and intention of maintaining and operating the housing for purposes for which the loan is made. Loans may be made in communities up to 10,000 people in MSA areas and some communities up to 20,000 population in non-MSA areas. Applicants in towns of 10,000 to 20,000 should check with their local Rural Development; office to determine if the agency can serve them. Assistance is available to eligible applicants in States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD county or district office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Multi-Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1604.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.417 VERY LOW-INCOME HOUSING REPAIR LOANS AND GRANTS (Section 504 Rural Housing Loans and Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To give very low-income rural homeowners an opportunity to make essential repairs to their homes to make them safe and to remove health hazards to the family or the community.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist very low-income owner occupants in rural areas to repair or improve their dwellings. Grant funds may only be used to make such dwellings safe and sanitary and to remove health and safety hazards. This includes repairs to the foundation, roof or basic structure as well as water and waste disposal systems, and weatherization. Loans bear an interest rate of one percent and are repaid over a period of up to 20 years. In addition to the above purpose, loan funds may be used to modernize the dwelling. Maximum loan amount cannot exceed a cumulative total of $20,000 to any eligible person and maximum lifetime grant assistance is $7,500 to any eligible person 62 years of age or older for home improvement. The house must be located in a place which is rural in character and does not exceed 10,000 population. Some places with population between 10,000 and 25,000 may be eligible if not within a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and has a serious lack of mortgage credit for low and moderate-income families as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Assistance is available in States, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must own and occupy a home in a rural area; and be a citizen of the United States or reside in the United States after having been legally admitted for permanent residence or on indefinite parole. Loan recipients must have sufficient income to repay the loan. Grant recipients must be 62 years of age or older and be unable to repay a loan for that part of the assistance received as a grant. Applicant's income may not exceed the very low-income limit set forth in RD Instructions. Very low-income limits range from $6,300 to$22,650 for a single person household, depending on an area's median income.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single-Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.420 RURAL SELF-HELP HOUSING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (Section 523 Technical Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial support for programs of technical and supervisory assistance that will aid needy very low and low-income individuals and their families in carrying out mutual self-help housing efforts in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not-for-profit organizations may use technical assistance funds to hire the personnel to carry out a program of technical assistance for self-help housing in rural areas; to pay necessary and reasonable office and administrative expenses; to purchase or rent equipment such as power tools for use by families participating in self-help housing construction; and to pay fees for training self-help group members in construction techniques or for other professional services needed. Funds will not be used to hire personnel to perform any construction work, to buy real estate or building materials, or pay any debts, expenses or costs other than previously outlined for participating families in self-help projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Must be a State or political subdivision, public nonprofit corporation or a private nonprofit corporation. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Marianas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single-Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: An example of a funded project is Self-Help Enterprises, Visalia, California and the City of Casa Grande, Casa Grande, and Arizona.

10.421 INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL CORPORATION LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To enable federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal corporations to acquire land within tribal reservations and Alaskan communities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loan funds may be used to acquire land for the use of the tribe or its members for purposes such as rounding out farming and ranching units or elimination of fractional heirships. Funds may also be used for incidental costs connected with land purchase such as appraisals, title clearance, legal services, land surveys, and loan closing. Loan funds cannot be used for any improvement or development purposes, acquisition or repair of buildings or personal property, payment of operating costs, refinancing of debts, payment of finder's fees, or similar costs.

Applicant Eligibility: Limited to any Indian tribe recognized by the Secretary of the Interior or tribal corporation established pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act or community in Alaska incorporated by the Secretary of Interior pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act which does not have adequate uncommitted funds to acquire lands within the tribe's reservation or in a community in Alaska. The tribe must be unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere at reasonable rates and terms and must be able to show reasonable prospects of repaying the loan as determined by an acceptable repayment plan and a satisfactory management plan for the land being acquired.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate FSA State office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, Director, Loan Making Division, Ag Box 0522, Washington, DC 0250. Telephone: (202) 720-1632.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.427 RURAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS (Rental Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To reduce the tenant contribution paid by low-income families occupying eligible Rural Rental Housing (RRH), Rural Cooperative Housing (RCH), and Farm Labor Housing (LH) projects financed by the Rural Housing Service (RHS) through its Sections 515, 514 and 516 loans and grants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Assesses.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Rental assistance may be used to reduce the rents paid by low-income senior citizens or families and domestic farm laborers and families whose rents exceed 30 percent of an adjusted annual income which does not exceed the limit established for the State as indicated in 7 CAR Exhibit C to Part 1944, Sub part A (RD Instruction 1944-A, Exhibit C).Tenants who may be eligible must occupy units ineligible RRH, RCH and LH projects financed by RNS.

Applicant Eligibility: To be eligible to participate in the rental assistance program, borrowers must have an eligible project. All projects must convert to Interest Credit Plan II before they are eligible, except direct RRH and insured RRH loans approved prior to August 1, 1968, and LH loans and grants. For a borrower to have an eligible project, the loan must be an RRH insured or direct loan made to a broad-based nonprofit organization, or State or local agency or; an RRH insured loan made to an individual or organization who has or will agree to operate the housing on a limited profit basis as defined in CAR 1944.215(l) or; an RCH insured or direct loan or; an LH loan, or an LH loan and grant combination made to a broad-based nonprofit organization or nonprofit organization of farm workers or a State or local public agency. New construction and/or rehabilitation projects, utilizing the Section 8 program from HUD will not be considered eligible projects, although it may be used for eligible families in existing projects utilizing Section 8 for part of the units.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD district office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Multi-family Housing Portfolio Management Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202) 720-1600.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.433 RURAL HOUSING PRESERVATION GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist very low- and low-income rural residents individual homeowners, rental property owners (single/multi-unit) or by providing the consumer cooperative housing projects (co-ops) the necessary assistance to repair or rehabilitate their dwellings. These objectives will be accomplished through the establishment of repair/rehabilitation, projects run by eligible applicants. This program is intended to make use of and leverage any other available housing programs which provide resources to very low and low-income rural residents to bring their dwellings up to development standards.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Organizations may use less than 20 percent of the Housing Preservation Grant funds for program administration purposes, such as to hire the personnel to carry out a project of housing rehabilitation to meet the needs of very low and low-income persons in rural areas; to pay necessary and reasonable office and administrative expenses; and to pay reasonable fees for training of organization personnel. Eighty percent or more of funds must be used for loans, grants or other assistance on individual homes, homeowners, rental properties or co-ops to pay any part of the cost for repair or rehabilitation of structures; funds may not be used to hire personnel to perform construction or to pay any debts, expenses or costs other than previously outlined and approved in the project application.

Applicant Eligibility: Must be a State or political subdivision, public nonprofit corporation, Indian tribal corporations, authorized to receive and administer housing preservation grants, private nonprofit corporation, or a consortium of such eligible entities. Applicants must provide assistance under this program to persons residing in open country and communities with a population of 10,000 that are rural in character and places with a population of up to 25,000 under certain conditions. Applicants in towns with population of 10,000 to 25,000 should check with local RD office to determine if the Agency can serve them. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate RD State office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Multiple Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1660.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects generally provide financial assistance to very low-income persons for bringing their dwellings up to local code standards through an HPG grant combined with other Federal funding, such as HUD's community development block grants or HHS's weatherization program. Other variations funded includes using HPG funds to establish a revolving loan fund that provides homeowners a long term, interest subsidized loan; "lending homeowners the money and "forgiving" 20 percent per year until the loan becomes a grant after five years; using the grantee's own employees to perform the rehabilitation work to reduce the costs; and, in a few instances, leveraging State resources for repair loans or grants. In most cases, grantees that are currently active in home repair and rehabilitation were selected and were able to leverage their existing programs with the new HPG funds.

10.438 SECTION 538 RURAL RENTAL HOUSING GUARANTEED LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: This program has been designed to increase the supply of affordable multifamily housing through partnerships between RHS and major lending sources, as well as State and local housing finance agencies and bond insurers. The program provides effective new forms of Federal credit enhancement for the development of affordable multifamily housing by lenders.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The guarantee will encourage the construction of new rural rental housing and appropriate related facilities. Housing as a general rule will consist of multi-units with two or more family units. The guarantee may not be made for nursing, special care or industrial type housing.

Applicant Eligibility: The applicant in this program is the lender that will use the guarantee as a credit enhancement and therefore be more likely to make the loan. The lender must be approved by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD or be a State Housing Finance Agency. The projects must be located in rural areas as defined by the Agency.

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD country or district office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Multi-Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone (202) 720-1604.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.441 TECHNICAL AND SUPERVISORY ASSISTANCE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist low-income rural families in obtaining adequate housing to meet their family's needs and/or to provide the necessary guidance to promote their continued occupancy of already adequate housing. These objectives will be accomplished through the establishment or support of housing delivery and counseling projects run by eligible applicants. This program is intended to make use of any available housing program that provides the low-income rural resident access to adequate rental properties or home ownership.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant purposes: Grant funds are to be used for a housing delivery system and counseling program to include a comprehensive program of technical and supervisory assistance as set forth in the grant agreement and any other special conditions as required by RHS. Uses of grant funds may include, but are not limited to:(a) The development and implementation of a program of technical and supervisory assistance as defined in RD Instruction 1944-K,1944.506(h) and (i); (b) payment of reasonable salaries of professional, technical, and clerical staff actively assisting in the delivery of the TA project; (c) payment of necessary and reasonable office expenses such as office supplies and office rental, office utilities, telephone services, and office equipment rental; (d) payment of necessary and reasonable administrative costs such as workers' compensation, liability insurance, audit reports, travel to and attendance at RD approved training sessions, and the employer's share of Social Security and health benefits. Payments to private retirement funds are prohibited unless prior written authorization is obtained from the Administrator;(e) payment of reasonable fees for necessary training of grantee personnel. This may include the cost of travel and per diem to attend regional training sessions when authorized by the State Director; and(f) other reasonable travel and miscellaneous expenses necessary to accomplish the objectives of the specific TA grant which were anticipated in the individual TA grant proposal and which were included as eligible expenses at the time of grant approval. Ineligible activities: Grant funds may not be used for:(1) Acquisition construction, repair, or rehabilitation of structures or acquisition of land, vehicles, or equipment; (2) replacement of or substitution for any financial support which would be available from any other source; (3)duplication of current services in conflict with the requirements of RD Instruction 1944-k, 1944.514(c);(4) hiring personnel to perform construction; (5) buying property of any kind from families receiving technical or supervisory assistance from the grantee under the terms of the TA grant; (6) paying for or reimbursing the grantee for any expenses or debts incurred before RHS/RD executes the grant agreement;(7) paying any debts, expenses or costs which should be the responsibilities of the individual families receiving technical and supervisory assistance; (8) any type of political activities, and (9)other costs including contributions and donations, entertainment, fines and penalties, interest and other financial costs, legislative expenses and any excess of cost from other grant agreements. Advice and assistance may be obtained from the national office where ineligible costs are proposed as part of the TA project or where a proposed cost appears ineligible. The grantee may not change fees or accept compensation or gratuities from TA recipients for the grantee's assistance under the program.

Applicant Eligibility: Technical and Supervisory Assistance Grants may be made to public or private nonprofit corporations, agencies, institutions, organizations, Indian Tribes, and other associations. Listed below are a description and definition of eligible applicants: 1.Sponsored organization - A public purpose group other than a unit of government that is a beneficiary under a plan or program administered by a State, or political subdivision of a State or local government, and which is subject to approval by a Federal agency. Usually organized to work for a specific purpose. Examples: Community development agencies, model cities, and community action agencies; 2.public nonprofit institution/organization - A public owned agency or organization established to perform specialized functions or services for the benefit of all or part of the general public either without charge or at cost, making no profits and having no shareholders or receive dividends, includes institutions of higher education and hospitals.3. Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Government - the governing body or a governmental agency of an Indian tribe, nation, pueblo, or other organized group or community (including native village as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) certified by the Secretary of the Interior as eligible for the special programs and services provided through the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and 4.private nonprofit institution/organization privately owned organization or institution which represent community service networks, public information, technical assistance, and public education. Operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes such that no part of its earnings is for the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, includes private institutions of higher education and hospitals. Examples: Girl Scouts, American Civil Liberties Union.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Rural Development (RD) Community Program manager of the area to be served by the Technical Supervisory Assistance project. If the Technical and Supervisory Assistance area encompasses more than one District office, the preapplication will be filed at the district office which serves the area in which the grantees will provide the greatest amount of Technical Supervisory Assistance.

Headquarters Office: Rural Housing Service (RHS), USDA, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250.Telephone:(202) 720-1474.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.442 HOUSING APPLICATION PACKAGING GRANTS (Section 509 Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To package single family housing applications for very low and low-income rural residents in colonials and designated counties who wish to buy, build, or repair houses for their own use and to package applications for organizations wishing to develop rental units for lower income families.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants reimburse eligible organizations for part or all of the costs of conducting, administering, and coordinating an effective housing application packaging program in colonials and designated counties. Eligible organizations aid very low and low-income individuals and families in obtaining benefit from federal, State, and local housing programs. The following are restrictions under the housing application packaging grants:(1) These funds are available only in the areas defined in Exhibit D of RD Instruction 1944-B; (2) the packager may not charge fees or accept compensation or gratuities directly or indirectly from the very low and low-income families being assisted under this program; (3) the packager may not represent or be associated with anyone else, other than the applicant, who may benefit in any way in the proposed transaction; (4) if the packager is compensated for this service from other sources, then the packager is not eligible for compensation from this source except as permitted by RHS; (5) grantees who are funded to do self-help housing effort; and (6) the authorized representatives must have no pecuniary interest in the award of the architectural or construction contracts, the purchase of equipment, or the purchase of the land for the housing site.

 Applicant Eligibility: An eligible grantee is an organization which is defined as any of the following entities which are legally authorized to work in designated counties and/or colonials and are: (1)A State, State agency, or unit of general local government; or (2) a private nonprofit organization or corporation that is owned and controlled by private persons or interests, is organized and operated for purposes other than making gains or profits for the corporation, and is legally precluded from distributing any gains or profits to its member.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory under United States Department of Agriculture for RD county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Housing Processing Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1474.

10.443 OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF OUTREACH

OBJECTIVES: To reverse the decline of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers across the United States. The intended outcome is to encourage and assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate their own farms and ranches, participate in agricultural programs, and thus allow them to become an integral part of the agricultural community and strengthen the rural economy.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide outreach, training and technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers on agricultural programs.

Applicant Eligibility: 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, including Tuskegee University, Indian Tribal Community Colleges, Alaska Native cooperative colleges, Hispanic serving post-secondary educational institutions, other post-secondary educational institutions providing Agricultural education or other agriculturally-related services to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in their region and community-based organizations that: (1) Have demonstrated experience in providing agricultural education or other agriculturally related services to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in their region; (2) provides documentary evidence of its past experience in working with socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers during the 2 years preceding its application for assistance; and (3) does not engage in activities prohibited under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate USDA State Office listed in your local telephone directory

Headquarters Office: Department of Agriculture, USDA Office of Outreach, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., AG STOP 1710, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)720-6350. Fax: (202) 720-7489.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Under the current funded projects, the grantees proposed a one-year plan for outreach and technical assistance to encourage and assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate farms and ranches and to participate in agricultural programs.

10.444 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 504, Rural Housing Loans and Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist qualified recipients to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).For the purpose of administering these funds, natural disaster will only include those counties identified by a Presidential declaration.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist very-low income owner occupants to repair or replace damaged property as a direct result of a natural disaster. Loans are made in counties named by the Federal Management Agency as being eligible for Federal assistance under an emergency declaration by the President.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must own and occupy the home in a rural area. Loan recipients must have sufficient income to repay the loan. Grant recipients must be 62 years of age or older and be unable to repay a loan for that part of the assistance received as a grant. The applicant's income for a loan may not exceed the very low-income limit set forth in Appendix 9 of the Direct Single Family Housing Programs Handbook which can be located in any Rural Development (RD) field office. Very low-income limits range from $6,300 to $22,650 for a single person household, depending on an area's median income.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory under United States Department of Agriculture for RD county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Processing Division, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202) 720-1474.

10.445 DIRECT HOUSING NATURAL DISASTER (Section 502 Very Low and Low Income Loans)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist qualified lower income rural families to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve dwellings in rural areas. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).For the purpose of administering these funds, natural disaster will only include those areas identified by a Presidential declaration.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Direct loans may be used for construction, repair, or purchase of housing. Payment subsidy is available to eligible low and very low-income applicants. The term payment subsidy refers to either payment assistance or interest credit. A payment subsidy reduces the borrower's scheduled payment to an amount equal to what it would be if the note were amortized to as low as one percent. Payment subsidies are subject to recapture by the government when the borrower transfers title or ceases to occupy the property.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must be without adequate resources to obtain housing or related facilities. Applicants must be unable to secure the necessary credit from other sources at prevailing terms and conditions for residential financing.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory under United States Department of Agriculture for RD county office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Single Family Processing Division, Rural Housing Service (RHS), Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.Telephone: (202) 720-1474.

10.446 Rural Community Development Initiative

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To develop the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and community development organizations, and low income rural communities to improve housing, community facilities, community and economic development projects in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Rural Community Development Initiative grants may be used for but are not limited to (a) training sub-grantees to conduct a program on home-ownership education; (b) training sub- grantees to conduct a program for minority business entrepreneurs; (c) providing technical assistance to sub-grantees on how to effectively prepare a strategic plan; (d) provide technical assistance to sub- grantees on how to access alternative funding sources; (e) building organizational capacity through board training; (f) developing training tools, such as videos, workbooks, and reference guides to be used by the sub-grantee; (g) providing technical assistance and training on how to develop successful child care facilities; and (h) providing training on effective fund raising techniques.

Applicant Eligibility: Rural Community Development Initiative grants may be made to a qualified private or public (including tribal) organization that provides technical assistance to nonprofit community-based housing and community development organizations, and low income rural communities. The grantee must provide a program of technical assistance to the sub-grantee. The grantee must have at least three years prior experience working with nonprofit organizations or low-income rural communities in the areas of housing, community facilities, or community and economic development. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palaw, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for Rural Development field office numbers.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Administrator, Community Programs, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250- 3222. Telephone: (202) 720-1490. Community Programs, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250- 0787. Telephone: (202) 720-1498.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grants were made to (a) hire a staff person to provide technical assistance to the sub-grantee; (b) the sub-grantee organization hires a staff person, under the supervision of the grantee, to carry out the technical assistance; (c) develop the capacity of sub-grantees to conduct community development programs; (d) develop the capacity of sub-grantees to conduct home-ownership education programs; and (e) develop the capacity of sub-grantees to conduct training for minority business entrepreneurs.

10.557 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide, at no cost, supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health care to low-income pregnant, breast-feeding and postpartum women, infants, and children to age five determined to be at nutritional risk. TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are made to State health departments or comparable agencies, Indian tribes, bands, or intertribal councils, or groups recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, or the Indian Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These agencies distribute funds to participating local public or nonprofit private health or welfare agencies. Funds are expended to pay for supplemental foods, nutrition education and health care referrals for participants, as well as specified administrative costs, including certification services. State agencies are provided Federal funds according to legislative and regulatory formulae. Only local agencies qualifying under State agency applications may operate WIC programs.

Applicant Eligibility: A local agency is eligible to apply to locally deliver the services of the WIC program provided: 1) it serves a population of low-income women, infants, and children at nutritional risk; 2) it is a public or private nonprofit health or human service agency. All local agencies must apply through the responsible State or U.S. Territory agency.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Food and Nutrition Service regional offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Supplemental Food Programs Division, Food and Consumer Service, Department of Agriculture, Alexandria, VA 22302. Telephone:(703) 305-2746.

10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to initiate and maintain nonprofit food service programs for children, elderly or impaired adults in nonresidential day care facilities and children in emergency shelters.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are made available for disbursement to eligible institutions to reimburse their costs in providing meals and snacks to homeless children in emergency shelters and children and adults receiving nonresidential day care, including after school programs. Disbursement is made on the basis of the number of lunches, suppers, breakfasts, and snacks served, using annually adjusted reimbursement rates specified by law. Program institutions may receive reimbursement for not more than three meals per day, per participant. The program in child care institutions and homeless emergency shelters is limited to children 12 years old and younger, except for children of migrant workers, who may participate if aged 15 years and younger, and individuals with disabilities, who if over 12 years of age would be eligible to participate only in a center or home where the majority of those enrolled are 18 and younger. In after school care programs, reimbursement is available for snacks served to children aged 18 and under In adult day care centers, functionally impaired adults 18 years of age and older and adults 60 years of age and older who are not residents of an institution are eligible. Meals must meet minimum requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Applicant Eligibility: The State or U.S. Territory agency applies for, and signs an annual agreement to receive Federal funds for disbursement. In Virginia, where the State does not administer the program, institutions may receive funds directly from USDA.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director, Child Nutrition Division, Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Alexandria, VA. Telephone: (703) 305- 2590.

10.567 FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To improve the diets of needy persons in households on or near Indian reservations through the distribution of commodities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Sale, Exchange, or Donation of Property and Goods.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Indian Tribal Organizations and State Distributing Agencies make food available for distribution to qualifying households. Households may not be charged. Donated foods may not be sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of (authorized distribution excepted) without prior, specific approval of the Department. FNS administrative funds must be expended to meet expenses incurred in operating the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. These funds may not be used to purchase real property(land or buildings).

Applicant Eligibility: Authorized Indian Tribal Organizations and State agencies designated by the Governor, legislature, or other authority may receive and distribute donated foods. State agencies that administer the program are eligible to receive Federal cash assistance (administrative funds) to assist in meeting operating expenses incurred in administering the program. Indian tribal organizations may be their own State agency for the administration of the program on reservations if determined capable by FNS.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Food and Nutrition Service Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director, Food Distribution Division, Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture, Alexandria, VA 22302. Telephone: (703) 305-2680.

10.570 Nutrition Services Incentive (NSIP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To improve the diets of the elderly and to increase the market for domestically produced foods acquired under surplus removal or price support operations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Food is made available for use in the preparation of congregate or home-delivered meals by nutrition programs for the elderly. Each provider may solicit voluntary contributions for meals furnished in accordance with guidelines established by the Commissioner, taking into consideration the income ranges of eligible individuals in local communities and other sources of income to the provider. However, each individual participant decides what he or she will contribute toward the cost of the meal; meals are free to eligible persons who do not make any contribution. Donated foods may not be sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of (authorized distribution excepted) without prior, specific approval of the Department.

Applicant Eligibility: Such State, Trust Territories and Federal agencies that are designated as distributing agencies by the Governor, legislature, or other authority may receive and distribute donated foods. Elderly nutrition programs that are funded under Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 must apply to their State Agency on Aging for commodities or cash in lieu thereof; elderly nutrition programs for Indians on reservations that are funded under Title VI of the Older Americans Act must apply to FNS Regional Offices for food assistance after receiving approval from the Department of Health and Human Services.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Food and Nutrition Service Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Food Distribution Division, Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture, Alexandria, VA 22302. Telephone: (703) 305-2680. Contact: Les Johnson, Director.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Programs 93.045 and 93.047 Special Programs for the Aging relating to nutrition services and Indian programs respectively are examples of projects that have been funded under this program. Both of these programs supply supportive services including nutrition services to older Americans.

10.664 COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: With respect to nonfederal forest and other rural lands to assist in the advancement of forest resources management; the encouragement of the production of timber; the control of insects and diseases affecting trees and forests; the control of rural fires; the efficient utilization of wood and wood residues, including the recycling of wood fiber; the improvement and maintenance of fish and wildlife habitat; and the planning and conduct of urban and community forestry programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants; Use of Property, Facilities, and Equipment.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist State Forester or equivalent agencies in forest stewardship programs on private, State, local, and other nonfederal forest and rural lands. Programs may include production of timber and efficient processing and use of wood products; developing genetically improved tree seeds; producing and distributing tree seeds and seedlings; reforestation; timber stand improvement; improving wildlife habitat; assisting private woodland owners in harvesting, processing, and marketing activities; conversion of wood to energy; protection and improvement of forest soil fertility; forest insect and disease management; urban and community forestry; Development and transfer of new and improved fire control technologies; organization of shared fire suppression resources, and achievement of more efficient State fire protection; provision of financial, technical and related assistance to local rural fire fighting forces; acquisition and loan of Federal excess property; organizational improvement; forestry resources planning; conservation of forest land; and technology transfer.

Applicant Eligibility: State Forestry or equivalent State agencies are eligible. All States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States are eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for Regional and Area State and Private Forestry offices of the Forest Service and for addresses and telephone numbers of Regional Foresters and Area Director of the Forest Service.

Headquarters Office: State and Private Forestry, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (202) 205-1657.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funding is for State Forestry Agency programs as set forth in USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

10.665 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO STATES (25 Percent Payments to States)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To share receipts from the National Forests with the States in which the National Forests are situated.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To be used for the benefit of public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the National Forest is situated.

Applicant Eligibility: Grant recipients must be States (including commonwealths) or territories of the United States containing National Forest land.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Fiscal branch of appropriate Forest Service Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director of Acquisitions Management, Forest Service, USDA, Room 706 RPE, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (703) 235-8007.

10.666 SCHOOLS AND ROADS GRANTS TO COUNTIES (Payments to Counties)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To share receipts from National Grasslands and Land Utilization Projects with the counties in which the National Grasslands and Land Utilization Projects are situated.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To be used for school or road purposes or both.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Fiscal Branch of appropriate Forest Service Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Director of Procurement and Property, Forest Service, USDA, Room 706 RPE, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (703) 235-8007.

10.670 NATIONAL FOREST DEPENDENT RURAL COMMUNITIES (Economic Recovery)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Provide accelerated assistance to communities faced with acute economic problems associated with Federal, State or private sector resource management decisions and policies and that are located in or near a national forest and are economically dependent upon forest resources. Aid is extended to these communities to help them develop strategic action plans to diversify their economic base and to improve the economic, social, and environmental well-being of rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Use of Property, Facilities, and Equipment; Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Eligible economically disadvantaged rural communities may request assistance in identifying opportunities that will promote economic improvement, diversification and revitalization. Assistance is coordinated through a community action team and plan. Programs may include upgrade of existing industries, development of new economic activity in non-forest related industries, technical assistance, training and education directed towards meeting the community's planned goals. Assistance requested will be coordinated with other USDA agencies and targeted to provide immediate help to those rural communities in greatest need. Grants and technical assistance are available to those communities meeting the eligibility requirements.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicant must be a general purpose local government or area represented by a nonprofit corporation or institution under State or Federal law to promote broad based economic development having a population of not more than 10,000; or any county that is not contained within a metropolitan statistical area. In both cases, the county must derive 15 percent or greater primary and secondary labor and proprietary income from forestry and forest related industries, such as recreation and tourism, range, minerals, and wildlife. In all cases, the community or county must also be within 100 miles of the boundary of a national forest. Communities or counties associated solely with national grasslands are not eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for Regional and Area State and Private Forestry offices of the Forest Service and for addresses and telephone numbers of Regional Foresters and Area Director of the Forest Service.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief, State and Private Forestry, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090. Telephone: (202) 205-1657.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training and placing out-of-work loggers into environmental restoration jobs in northern California, Oregon and Washington. Developing and implementing an ecosystem management plan which includes commercial opportunities for utilizing small diameter, second-growth pine in Montezuma, Delores, and La Plata counties in southwestern Colorado. Strategic planning resulting in maintaining the rural character, yet enhancing social and economic benefits of community change in Wakulla County, Florida. Local development and construction of a riverfront park in Libby, Montana. Establishment of the Forest Technology and Training Institute in Clallum County, Washington. Increasing awareness and development of non-farm industries in the historically agriculturally based area around Rust College, Mississippi, with a special emphasis on recreation and tourism opportunities as well as value added forest products. Eco-tourism training and small business management in Newton County, Arkansas. Establishing state-of-the-art computer technology in Wasatch County, Utah, to help revise the master plan.

10.671 SOUTHEAST ALASKA ECONOMIC DISASTER FUND

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To employ former timber workers and for related community development projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Local communities/boroughs named in Public Law 104-134.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: USDA Forest Service, 3301 C Street, Suite 522, Anchorage, Alaska 99503-3956, Telephone: (907) 271- 2519.

Headquarters Office: Not applicable.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

10.672 RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES (RURAL DEVELOPMENT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To identify, assist and support local strategic planning objectives by joining State Foresters, tribal, State and Federal agencies, local governments, not-for-profit organizations and others in finding, developing and sustaining rural development activities that extend and diversify natural resource use.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Use of Property, Facilities, and Equipment; Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funding may be allocated for such things as technical assistance, training and education, technology transfer, marketing and all costs associated with making these services available to State Foresters, tribal State and Federal agencies, local governments, not-for-profit organizations, and others working with communities.

Applicant Eligibility: State Foresters, tribal, State and Federal agencies (matching programs), local governments, not-for-profit organizations and others. Forest Service Region/Area/Institute policies will further define and focus resources to meet the needs of communities that these administrative units serve.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for Regional and Area State and Private Forestry offices of the Forest Service.

Headquarters Office: USDA Forest Service, Washington DC. Telephone: (202) 205-1657.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available at this time. This is a new program.

10.760 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide basic human amenities, alleviate health hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas of the nation by meeting the need for new and improved rural water and waste disposal facilities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for the installation, repair, improvement, or expansion of a rural water facility including distribution lines, well pumping facilities and costs related thereto, and the installation, repair, improvement, or expansion of a rural waste disposal facility including the collection, and treatment of sanitary, storm, and solid wastes. Grant funds may not be used to pay: Interest on loans, operation and maintenance costs, or to acquire or refinance an existing system. No maximum loan amount is established by statute. The maximum term on all loans is 40 years. However, no repayment period will exceed any statutory limitation or the organization's borrowing authority nor the useful life of the improvement or facility to be financed. There are currently three interest rates for direct loans: A 4.5 percent rate when the loan is required to meet health or sanitary standards and the median household income of the service area is below the higher of the poverty line or 80 percent of the statewide Non-metropolitan median household income; the intermediate rate, halfway between 4.5 percent and market rate, if the median household income of the service area is not more than 100 percent of the Non-metropolitan median household income of the State; and market rate for those applicants that do not qualify for 4.5 percent or intermediate rate. The interest rate on guaranteed loans is negotiable between the applicant and the lender.

Applicant Eligibility: Municipalities, counties, and other political subdivisions of a State, such as districts and authorities, associations, cooperatives, corporations operated on a not-for-profit basis, Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations and other federally recognized Indian tribes. Facilities shall primarily serve rural residents and rural businesses. The service area shall not include any area in any city or town having a population in excess of 10,000 inhabitants according to the latest decennial census of the United States. The applicant must: (1) Be unable to finance the proposed project from its own resources or through commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms; and (2) have the legal authority necessary for constructing, operating, and maintaining the proposed facility or service, and for obtaining, giving security for, and repaying the proposed loan. Plans and specifications must be developed to comply with State and local health and pollution regulations and other requirements. Grants are made only when necessary to reduce the average annual benefitted user charges to a reasonable level. Normally, grants are considered only when the debt service portion of the cost to grant eligible users exceeds the following percentages of median household incomes (MHI) for the applicant service area; 0.5 percent when the MHI of the service area is below the poverty line or below 80 percent (whichever is higher) of the State's non-metropolitan household income (NMHI); 1.0 percent when the NMHI of the service area exceeds the 0.5 percent requirement but is not more than 100 percent of the State's NMHI; no RUS grant funds will be used in any project when the MHI of the service area is above the poverty line and more than 100 percent of the State's NMHI. The RUS grant may not exceed 75 percent of the eligible project development cost when the MHI of the service area is below the poverty line or below 80 percent (whichever is higher) of the State's NMHI and the project is necessary to alleviate a health or sanitary problem; 45 percent when the MHI of the service area exceeds the 75 percent requirements, but is not more than 100 percent of the State's NMHI. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and to the extent the Secretary determines feasible and appropriate, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD local number.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and Environmental Programs Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following areas received funds for specified projects: Construct new water system consisting of water lines, pumping stations, wells, storage tanks and treatment plants; water system improvements consisting of additional water lines, new water treatment facility and booster pump; renovation of existing water system which includes new distribution lines, wells and pressure tanks; construct new waste water collection and treatment systems; replace waste water treatment plant and improve waste water collection lines; rehabilitate waste water collection lines and construct lift station; purchase site for landfill; and purchase trucks and equipment for solid waste disposal.

10.761 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas; to assist applicants in preparing applications made in accordance with 7 CFR 1780; to improve operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to pay expenses associated with providing technical assistance and/or training (TAT) to identify and evaluate solutions to water problems relating to source, storage, treatment, and distribution, and to waste disposal problems relating to collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants that have filed a preapplication with RUS in the preparation of water and/or waste disposal loan and/or grant applications; and to provide training that will improve the management, operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Grant funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current services such as those performed by a consultant in developing a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets, purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made.

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofit organizations that have been granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. Applicants must have proven ability, background, experience, legal authority and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD district office number.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and Waste Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Recipients of this program received funds to administer technical assistance and training to small communities experiencing water and waste disposal problems.

10.762 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to: Evaluate current landfill conditions to determine threats to water resources in rural areas; provide technical assistance and/or training to enhance operator skills in the maintenance and operation of active landfills in rural areas; provide technical assistance and/or training to help associations reduce the solid waste stream; and provide technical assistance and/or training for operators of landfills in rural areas which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements. Grant funds may not be used to: Recruit preapplications/applications for any loan and/or grant program including RUS Water and Waste Disposal Loan and/or Grant Program; duplication of current services, replacement or substitution of support previously provided such as those performed by an association's consultant in developing a project; fund political activities; pay for capital assets, the purchase of real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space, or repair and maintain privately-owned property; pay for construction or operation and maintenance costs of water and waste facilities; and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made under this sub-part.

Applicant Eligibility: Entities eligible for grants are nonprofit organizations, including: Private nonprofit organizations that have been granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); and public bodies including local governmental-based multi-jurisdictional organizations. Applicants must have the proven ability, background, experience, legal authority, and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to eligible beneficiaries.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and Waste Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Recipients of this program received funds to administer technical assistance in areas of solid waste management to small communities.

10.763 EMERGENCY COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Through the Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant Program, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is authorized to help rural residents who have experienced a significant decline in quantity or quality of water to obtain adequate quantities of water that meet the standards of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used to extend waterlines on existing systems; to construct new water lines; to repair existing systems; to perform significant maintenance on existing systems; to construct new wells, reservoirs, transmission lines, treatment plants, storage tanks, etc.; to replace equipment; to provide connection and/or tap fees; to pay costs incurred within six months of the date an application was filed with USDA to correct an emergency situation that would have been eligible for funding under this program; to provide funds for any other appropriate related purposes, such as, legal fees; engineering fees; recording costs; environmental impact analyses; archaeological surveys; possible salvage or other mitigation measures; planning, establishing, or acquiring rights associated with developing sources of treating, storing, or distributing water; and to assist rural water systems in complying with the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act, when failure to comply is directly related to a recent decline in quality of potable water. Grants provided under this program shall not be used to assist a rural area or community with a population in excess of 10,000; to assist a rural area that has a median household income in excess of the statewide Non-metropolitan median household income according to the most recent decennial census of the U.S.; to finance facilities which are not modest in size, design, and cost; to pay loan or grant finder's fees; to pay any annual recurring costs considered to be operational expenses; to pay rental for the use of equipment or machinery owned by the rural community; to purchase existing systems; to refinance existing indebtedness; and to make reimbursement for projects developed with other grant funds. Grants made to alleviate a significant decline in quantity or quality of water available from the water supplies in rural areas that occurred within two years of filing an application with USDA cannot exceed $500,000. Grants for repairs, partial replacement, or significant maintenance on an established system cannot exceed $75,000.

Applicant Eligibility: Rural Utilities Service may make grants to public bodies, private nonprofit corporations, and political subdivisions of a State, as well as Indian tribes.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory under United States Government, Department of Agriculture for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Water and Environmental Programs, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Rural communities can use these funds to correct drinking water problems that have been created by a significant decline in quantity or quality of their water supply. The communities use the funds for new systems, waterline extensions, construction of water sources and treatment facilities, storage tanks, and repairs or renovation of existing systems.

10.766 COMMUNITY FACILITIES LOANS AND GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (RHS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Community facilities include but are not limited to those providing or supporting overall community development such as fire and rescue services, transportation, community, social, cultural, and health benefits: industrial park sites, access ways, and utility extensions. All facilities financed in whole or in part with RHS funds shall be for public use.

Applicant Eligibility: City, county, and State agencies, political and quasi-political subdivisions of States and associations including corporations, Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations and other Federally Recognized Indian tribes and existing private corporations which: (1) Are operated on a not-for-profit basis; (2) have or will have the legal authority necessary for constructing, operating, and maintaining the proposed facility or service and for obtaining, giving security for, and repaying the loan; and (3) are unable to finance the proposed project from its own resources or through commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa. The commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palaw, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for Rural Development numbers.

Headquarters Office: Director, Community Facilities Division, Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-3222. Telephone: (202) 720-1490.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Loans were made to: (1) Establish rural health clinics in medically undeserved areas; (2) purchase fire fighting equipment for rural towns; (3) construct new municipal buildings; (4) build new schools to serve rural counties; and (5)renovate hospitals to meet current life/safety codes.

10.767 INTERMEDIARY RE-LENDING PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To finance business facilities and community development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: An entity that receives an Intermediary RE-LENDING Program (IRP) loan from the Rural Business-Cooperative Service(RBS) is referred to as an intermediary. Intermediaries must re-lend all of the loan funds received from the IRP loan, for business facilities or community development in rural areas. An entity that receives a loan from an intermediary is referred to as an ultimate recipient. The maximum loan to any one intermediary is $2 million. The maximum term is 30 years and the interest rate is one percent per annum. Intermediaries may not use IRP funds to finance more than 75 percent of the cost of an ultimate recipient's project or for a loan of more than $150,000 to one ultimate recipient.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible intermediaries may include: Private nonprofit organizations, State or local governments, and Federally recognized Indian tribes and cooperatives.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: RBS State Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Room 6321, South Agriculture Building, Washington, DC 20250-0700. Telephone: (202) 690-4100.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) $1,560,000 loan to a nonprofit corporation to re-lend to businesses within a State; (2) $1,300,000 loan to a nonprofit corporation to re-lend to businesses within six counties in two States; (3) $2,120,000 loan to a nonprofit corporation with a nationwide service area, for RE-LENDING to rural transportation facilities; and (4) $510,000 loan to a nonprofit corporation serving an eight-county area for RE-LENDING to businesses.

10.768 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assist public, private, or cooperative organizations (profit or nonprofit), Indian tribes or individuals in rural areas to obtain quality loans for the purpose of improving, developing or financing business, industry, and employment and improving the economic and environmental climate in rural communities including pollution abatement and control.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/ Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Direct loans may be extended for: (a) modernization, development costs; (b) purchasing and development of land, easements, rights-of-way, buildings, facilities, leases or materials; purchasing equipment, leasehold improvements, machinery and supplies; and (d) pollution control and abatement. Maximum loan size is$10 million and maximum time allowable for final maturity is limited to 30 years for land and buildings, the usable life of machinery and equipment purchased with loan funds, not to exceed 15 years, and 7 years for working capital. Interest rates for direct loans change quarterly and are equal to the prime interest rate in effect on the first day of the quarter. Loans may not be made (a) to pay off a creditor in excess of the value of the collateral; (b) for distribution or payment to the owner, partners, shareholders, or beneficiaries of the applicant or members of their families when such persons shall retain any portion of their equity in the business; for projects involving agricultural production; (d) for the transfer of ownership of a business unless the loan will keep the business from closing, or prevent the loss of employment opportunities in the area, or provide expanded job opportunities; (e) for financing community antenna television services or facilities; (f) for charitable and educational institutions, churches, fraternal organizations, hotels, motels, tourist homes, convention centers, tourist, recreation or amusement facilities, lending and investment institutions and insurance companies; (g) for any legitimate business activity where more than 10 percent of the annual gross income is derived from legalized gambling; and (h) for any project which is likely to result in the transfer of business or employment from one area to another or cause production which exceeds demand. Guaranteed loans may be extended for: (a) modernization, development costs; (b)purchasing and development of land, easements, rights-of-way, buildings, facilities, leases or materials; purchasing equipment, leasehold improvements, machinery and supplies; (d) projects involving agricultural production, when not eligible for Farm Service Agency farmer program assistance and when it is part of an integrated business also involved in the processing of agricultural products and the agricultural production portion of the loan does not exceed the lessor of 50 percent of the total loan or $1 million; and (e) pollution control and abatement. Maximum loan size is $25 million and maximum time allowable for final maturity is limited to 30 years for land and buildings, the usable life of machinery and equipment purchased with loan funds, not to exceed 15 years, and 7 years for working capital. Interest rates for guaranteed loans are negotiated between the lender and the borrower. For loans of $5 million or less, the maximum percentage of guarantee is 80 percent. For loans over $5 million but not over $10 million, the maximum percentage of guarantee is 70 percent. For loans in excess of $10 million up to $25 million, the maximum percentage of guarantee is 60 percent. Losses on principal advanced, including protective advances, and accrued interest, may be guaranteed by the Agency, but the maximum loss paid by RBS will never exceed the original principal plus accrued interest. Loans may not be made for: (a) distribution or payment to the owner, partners, shareholders, or beneficiaries of the applicant or members of their families when such persons shall retain any portion of their equity in the business; (b) the transfer of ownership of a business unless the loan will keep the business from closing, or prevent the loss of employment opportunities in the area, or provide expanded job opportunities; the guarantee of lease payments; (d) charitable institutions, churches, fraternal organizations, lending and investment institutions and insurance companies; (e) any legitimate business activity where more than 10 percent of the annual gross income is derived from legalized gambling;(f) the guarantee of loans made by other Federal agencies except those made by Banks for Cooperatives, Federal Land Bank or Production Credit Associations; (g) golf courses; (h) racetracks where individual prizes are awarded in the amount of $500 or more; (I) owner-occupied housing;(j) projects eligible for the Rural Rental Housing and Rural Cooperative Housing loans under sections 515, 521, and 538 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended; and (I) any project which is likely to result in the transfer of business or employment from one area to another or cause production which exceeds demand. Interested parties should contact the Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) or the nearest Rural Development State Office which administers the programs at the local level.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be a cooperative, corporation, partnership, trust, or other legal entity organized and operated on a profit or nonprofit basis; an Indian tribe; a municipality, county, or other political subdivision of a State; or individuals in rural areas. Applicants for direct loans must be located in one of the fifty States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in rural areas other than a city, town, or an unincorporated area that has population of 50,000 inhabitants or less, other than an urbanized area immediately adjacent to a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population in excess of 50,000 inhabitants. In addition to the eligible locations for direct loans, applicants for guaranteed loans may also be located in the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Preference is given to loans in open country, rural communities and towns with populations of 25,000 or less, and, on applications of equal priority, to veterans. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or reside in the U.S. after being legally admitted for permanent residence and, if corporations, at least 51 percent owned by such individuals.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for appropriate Rural Development State Office.

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 20250-3201. Telephone: (202) 690-4730. FAX: (202)690-4737.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Loans made and guaranteed by RBS have been in order to assist a wide variety of manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and service businesses. Some recent loans and loan guarantee shave assisted an agribusiness in expanding its service area, helped a radio station begin operations, provided access to capital for a catfish farm, assisted a textile firm in modernizing and expanding its operations, and provided working capital and financing for machinery and equipment for a printing company.

10.769 RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RBEG) (TDG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To facilitate the development of small and emerging private business, industry, and related employment for improving the economy in rural communities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Rural business enterprise grant (RBEG)funds may be used to establish revolving funds, provide operating capital and finance industrial sites in rural areas including the acquisition and development of land and construction, conversion, enlargement, repair or modernization of buildings, plants, machinery, equipment, access streets and roads, parking areas, transportation serving the site, utility extensions, necessary water supply and waste disposal facilities, pollution control and abatement incidental to site development, provide technical assistance, pay fees, and refinancing. Television demonstration grant (TDG) funds may be used for television programming to demonstrate the effectiveness of providing information on agriculture and other issues of importance to farmers and other rural residents.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants eligible for RBE grants are public bodies and nonprofit corporations serving rural areas such as States, counties, cities, townships, and incorporated towns and villages, boroughs, authorities, districts and Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations which will serve rural areas. Applicants eligible for TD grants are statewide, private, nonprofit, public television systems whose coverage is predominantly rural. Rural area for this program is defined as a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population of 50,000 inhabitants or less, other than an urbanized area immediately adjacent to a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population in excess of 50,000 inhabitants. Priority for such grants will be given to areas having a population of not more than 25,000. Priority for such grants will be given to areas having a population of not more than 25,000.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Specialty Lenders Division, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-3222. Telephone: (202) 720-1400.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grant funds were used to assist rural communities in developing small industrial parks or sites by acquiring land, the purchase of necessary equipment, construction of buildings, to provide water and waste disposal facilities, and to pay for costs of streets, parking areas and access roads. Also, grant funds were utilized to establish/capitalize revolving loan funds to assist in the development of small and emerging private business enterprises in rural areas, and provided technical assistance (i.e., a problem solving function) to qualifying small businesses in rural areas.

10.770 WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL LOANS AND GRANTS (SECTION 306C)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Provide water and waste disposal facilities and services to low income rural communities whose residents face significant health risks.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for 100 percent of costs to: Construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve a community water or waste system; extend service lines and connect individual residences to a system. Allow applicant to make grants directly to individuals to: Extend service lines, connect resident's plumbing to system, pay reasonable charges and fees for connecting to system, installation of plumbing and related fixtures, and construction indwelling of a bathroom.

Applicant Eligibility: Local level governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, U.S. Territories and possessions, and nonprofit associations can receive assistance under this program. Except for rural areas known as "Colonia" along the U.S./Mexico border, the projects funded under this program must primarily provide water and/or waste disposal services to residents of a county where the per capita income of the residents is not more than 70 percent of the most recent national average per capita income, as determined by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and unemployment rate of the residents is not less than 125 percent of the most recent national average unemployment rate, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Also the residents must face significant health risks due to not having access to an affordable community water and/or waste disposal system.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult local telephone directory under United States Government, Department of Agriculture, for RD office number.

Headquarters Office: Water and Environmental Programs, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-3200. Telephone: (202) 690-2670.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

10.771 RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (RTDG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To establish and operate centers for rural cooperative development to improve economic conditions in rural areas by promoting the development of new cooperatives and/or improvement of existing cooperatives.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants eligible are nonprofit corporations and institutions of higher education. Rural area for this program is defined as all territories of a State, that is not within the outer boundary of any city having a population of 50,000 or more according to the latest decennial census of the United States.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate RD State Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Deputy Administrator, Cooperative Services, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-8460.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grant funds were used to provide technical assistance, applied research, technical training, and cooperative education activities for rural cooperatives.

10.772 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this program is to provide for the establishment of empowerment zones and enterprise communities in rural areas to stimulate the creation of new jobs, particularly for the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed, and to promote revitalization of economically distressed areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) program is the first step in rebuilding communities in America's poverty-stricken inner cities and rural heartlands. It is designed to empower people and communities all across this Nation by inspiring Americans to work together to create jobs and opportunity. Under this program the Federal government has designated 104 areas that meet certain poverty and distress criteria and which have prepared creative strategic plans for revitalization, as Ezs and Ecs (Round I).The Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture will designate up to fifteen additional urban empowerment zones and five additional rural empowerment zones by January 1, 1999 (Round II). All designations will be made in consultation with the Community Enterprise Board, which the President established on September 9, 1993. Designation as an Enterprise Community: Enterprise communities are eligible for private activity tax exempt bonding authority for qualifying enterprises and facilities. These issues are subject to State private activity bond caps and special limits on issue size. Enterprise communities are eligible for employer wage credits, with a phase out beginning in year 2002. Enterprise communities are eligible for accelerated section 179 expending for eligible property. Certain environmental remediation expenditures for cleaning up sites in enterprise communities may be deducted in the year incurred by taxpayers, where those expenses would ordinarily be capitalized and depreciated over time. Enterprise communities are also eligible for qualified academy zone taxable bonding authority, where the holder receives a tax credit, which is a function of the face amount of the bond. The benefits described above may or may not be all inclusive. Enterprise communities may be the objects of additional legislated benefits in the future. Enterprise communities receive special consideration in competition for funding under numerous Federal programs, including the National Service and Community Policing initiatives. The Federal government will focus special attention on working cooperatively with designated enterprise communities to overcome regulatory impediments, to permit flexible use of existing Federal Funds, and to assist these communities in meeting essential mandates. Designation as an Empowerment Zone: With one exception, Empowerment zones receive all the benefits provided to enterprise communities and other communities with innovative visions for change. In addition, Round II Empowerment Zones have authority to issue private activity bonds for qualified enterprises and facilities, which are not subject to State private activity bond caps, and enjoy a greater allowance for section 179 expending. Round II Empowerment Zones will not enjoy the employer wage credits mentioned above. All EC and EZ employers, however, may avail themselves of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, as such credit may be extended. Historic Grants: Round I Ezs and Ecs received Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Social Services Block Grants pursuant to Title XX of the Social Security Act.

Applicant Eligibility:(Note: This eligibility is for the"Rural Zone and Community" applicants. See the Department of Housing and Urban Development section for "Urban Zone and Community" applicant eligibility.) Applicants on behalf of nominated beneficiary areas may include, but are not limited to, State governments, local governments, regional planning agencies, non-profit organizations, community-based organizations, or a partnership of community members and other entities. Applications must be nominated by one or more local governments and the State(s) in which a nominated rural area is located. Nominations can be considered for designation only if: (1) the area meets the beneficiary eligibility requirements, (2) the area is within the jurisdiction of the nominating local and State governments, (3) the State and local governments provide assurances that the required strategic plan submitted by the applicant will be implemented, (4) all information furnished by the nominating State and local governments is determined by the Secretary of USDA to be reasonably accurate, (5) the State and local government certify that no portion of a nominated rural area is already in an empowerment zone or enterprise community or an area otherwise nominated for designation (however, an existing EC may apply for Round II EZ designation); and (6) the State and local governments certify that they possess the legal authority to make the nomination.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for the USDA Rural Development County or District Office number.

Headquarters Office: USDA, Office of Community Development, 3007th Street SW., Reporters Building, Room 701, Washington, DC, 20024,Deputy Administrator. Telephone: (202) 619-7980. Web Site: www.ezec.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples of previous projects are available, upon request, from the Headquarters Office.

10.773 RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY GRANTS (RBOG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS-COOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To promote sustainable economic development in rural communities with exceptional needs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used to assist in the economic development of rural areas by providing technical assistance, training, and planning for business and economic development.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants may be made to public bodies, nonprofit corporations, Indian tribes on Federal or State reservations or other Federally recognized tribal groups, and cooperatives with members that are primarily rural residents and that conduct activities for the mutual benefit of the members.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Rural Development State Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA, Specialty Lenders Division, STOP 1521, Room 6767, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-1521. Telephone: (202) 720-1400.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

10.850 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES ( RUS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access to electric services comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Long-term, direct loans to qualified organizations for the purpose of supplying central station electric services on a continuing basis in rural areas. RUS also makes loan guarantees primarily for generation and transmission projects.

Applicant Eligibility: Rural electric cooperatives, public utility districts, power companies, municipalities, and other qualified power suppliers including those located in the U.S. Territories.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-1500. Telephone: (202)720-9540.

10.851 RURAL TELEPHONE LOANS AND LOAN GUARANTEES (RUS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access to Telecommunications services comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Long-term direct and guaranteed loans to qualified organizations for the purpose of financing the improvement, expansion, construction, acquisition, and operation of telephone lines, facilities, or systems to furnish and improve Telecommunications service in rural areas. "Rural area" is defined as any area of the United States, its territories and insular possessions (including any areas within the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau) not included within the boundaries of any incorporated or unincorporated city, village, or borough having a population exceeding 5,000 inhabitants. The population figure is obtained from the most recent data available, such as from the Bureau of Census and Rand McNally and Company. For purposes of the "rural area" definition, the character of an area is determined at the time the initial loan for the system is made.

Applicant Eligibility: Telephone companies or cooperatives, nonprofit associations, limited dividend associations, mutual associations or public bodies including those located in the U.S. TERRITORIES and countries included in the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985, providing or propose to provide the basic local exchange telephone service needs of rural areas, and it must be incorporated.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-9554.

10.852 RURAL TELEPHONE BANK LOANS (Rural Telephone Bank)

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To provide supplemental financing to extend and improve telecommunications services in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Long-term loans to qualified organizations for the purpose of supplying and improving telecommunications services in rural areas.

Applicant Eligibility: Borrowers, including those located in the U.S. Territories, or possessions which have received a loan or loan commitment under Section 201 of Rural Electrification Act or which have been certified by the Administrator as qualified to receive such a loan, are eligible to borrow from the Rural Telephone Bank.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Governor, Rural Telephone Bank, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202)720-9554.

10.854 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS AND GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL BUSINESS- COOPERATIVE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To promote rural economic development and job creation projects, including funding for project feasibility studies, start-up costs, incubator projects, and other reasonable expenses for the purpose of fostering rural development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects which promote rural economic development and job creation. For fiscal year 1998, maximum amount of grant is $330,000; maximum amount of loan is $750,000. Maximum term of loan is ten years at zero interest rate.

Applicant Eligibility: Electric and telephone utilities that have current loans with the rural Utilities Service (RUS) or Rural Telephone Bank loans or guarantees outstanding and are not delinquent on any Federal debt or in bankruptcy proceedings.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult your local telephone directory for RD District Office number.

Headquarters Office: Director, Specialty Lenders Division, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: (202) 720-1400.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Establishment or expansion of factories or businesses, medical facilities, water and sewer industrial development parks, business incubators for rural economic development activities and other job creation projects. Grants were used to establish revolving loan funds.

10.855 DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE LOANS AND GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To encourage and improve the use of telemedicine, telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies to provide educational and medical benefits through distance learning and telemedicine projects to people living in rural areas and to improve rural opportunities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Telecommunications, computer networks and related advanced technologies that provide educational and/or medical benefits to students, teachers, medical professionals and rural residents. Grants are limited up to 70 percent of the eligible costs of a project. Cost of money loans may be provided up to 90 percent of the eligible costs. No funding will be provided for the following: Telecommunication transmission facilities if the local telephone company will provide service through the use of expedited RUS loans; or other means for medical equipment, except that required for encoding and decoding data such as images for transmission over a telecommunications or computer network; for salaries, wages, or employee benefits of medical or educational personnel providing medical or educational services; for salaries or administrative expenses of the applicant for the project; to purchase equipment to be owned by the local exchange carrier or other telecommunications service provider, to provide duplicate current services or to refinance indebtedness prior to receipt of the completed application; or for projects in areas covered by the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, or projects that would adversely affect the environment; the costs of preparing the application; use to solely link personnel in the same facility; purchased land, buildings or building construction; when success of the project depends on other financing; any purpose not specifically approved by the Administrator.

Applicant Eligibility: Organizations such as schools, libraries, hospitals, medical centers, or other eligible organizations that will be users of a telecommunications, computer network, or related advanced technology system to provide educational and/or medical benefits to rural residents. The applicant must not be delinquent on any Federal debt.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Assistant Administrator, Telecommunications, Rural Utilities Service, Room 4056, South Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 202500-1500. Telephone: (202) 720-9554.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Interactive rural education networks, remote health care units linkups, computer terminals video and audio equipment, and other medical link or distance learning projects.

10.859 ASSISTANCE TO HIGH ENERGY COST RURAL COMMUNITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, (RUS) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Assistance to rural communities with extremely high energy costs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds must be used to acquire, construct, extend, upgrade, and otherwise improve energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities serving communities in which the average residential expenditure for home energy is at least 275 percent of the national average residential expenditure for home energy. Not more than 4 percent of amounts made available in grant funds may be used for planning and administrative expenses.

Applicant Eligibility: Persons, States, subdivisions of States, and other entities organized under the laws of States are eligible, including, but not limited to, corporations, partnerships, associations, cooperatives, public bodies, and tribal entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

 Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250-1500. Telephone: (202) 720-9540.

10.901 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To encourage and improve the capability of State and local units of government and local nonprofit organizations in rural areas to plan, develop and carry out programs for resource conservation and development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Advisory Services and Counseling; Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Technical and limited financial assistance is available only to RC&D sponsors within areas authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture for assistance. Grants are not available to individuals or businesses. Technical and limited financial assistance is available for the planning and installation of approved projects specified in RC&D area plans, for land conservation, water management, community development and environmental enhancement elements.

Applicant Eligibility: State and local governments and nonprofit organizations with authority to plan or carry out activities relating to resource use and development in multi jurisdictional areas. This program is also available in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Mariana Islands.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: State and field offices of the Natural Resources Conservation Service are listed in your local telephone directory. For loans, contacts should be made with the Rural Economic and Community Development office serving the county in which the RC&D project is located.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief for Programs, RC&D Division, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone:(202) 720-2241.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following examples reflect the concepts that make RC&D a truly unique government program. These concepts include: The value of public/private partnerships in making the best use of limited resources; the value of grass-roots involvement in making decisions about local issues; bringing USDA agencies together to focus on the same problems and opportunities; the ability to leverage limited federal dollars with private funds to accomplish goals; and achieving a balance between rural economic development and natural resource protection. The Potomac Headwaters RC&D Council in West Virginia helped two soil conservation districts, a county, and several fire departments plan and implement a project to improve safety and reduce fire insurance rates. These partners have invested just over $40,000 into the installation of 76 dry fire hydrants. This has resulted in over 5,000 home owners annually saving more than $875,000 on insurance premiums. The increased safety due to quicker response time will be measured in reduced property losses. The Trailblazer RC&D has helped over 60 percent of Louisiana reach what is commonly called the"superhighway" or Internet. They negotiated local access dates that are affordable to all people in the area. They also provided eight free workshops on how to use the Internet. Approximately 500 people have participated. Complimentary subscriptions have been offered to the other RC&Ds in the State. Trailblazer has also placed a home page on the Internet with connections with several home pages of foundations, agencies, databases, and other RC&Ds. The Cherokee Hills RC&D in Oklahoma organized a business development program that includes services of a business planner that assists the person with development of a business plan and other needed records. This helps them when they apply to the loan pool that has been established. The loan pool of $236,000 was established by a partnership of the Cherokee Hills RC&D, Rural Development, Banc First of Oklahoma, Forest Service, and Natural Resources Conservation Service. One hundred, twenty applications for assistance have resulted in 18 loans (16 to Native Americans) from the loan pool and two from conventional sources. This has created 12 new and six expanded businesses resulting in 31 new jobs. Almost 1,000 hours of time have been invested by volunteers such as council members, banking institutions, and the Loan Review Committee to develop the pool and implement the project. The Two Rivers RC&D in Illinois is helping landowners develop alternate sources of income with a pilot project entitled: "Access Illinois Outdoors." They partnered with the Rural Development and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to provide three field coordinators and an office administrator who match the landowner profiles to the land user profiles. The landowner is provided three to four land user profiles to select from to arrange for goods and services. This has resulted in 140 landowners with 42,000 acres taking part in the program. Profiles of 450 land users have led to 140 of them reaching agreement with 50 landowners. This has resulted in landowners forming 50 alternate business that generate over $250,000 of income per year. The Cocopai RC&D in Arizona has helped the Kaibab-Paiute Reservation improve the quality of the natural resources on the reservation. The council helped develop agreements that made it possible for the reservation and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to utilize $141,000 of 319(h) Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) program funds from Arizona's allocation for a demonstration. The project included planting 47,000 trees that control stream bank erosion and will provide resources for weaving baskets. A complete range management plan was developed for 30,000 acres. The needed improvements have created six jobs that will last three years on this project and then move to other ranches as the increased income is shown. The demonstration will keep over 500 tons of sediment from damaging property on the reservation each year. The Tennessee Valley RC&D identified the problem of unsuitable soils for septic drain fields causing limitations for many businesses and residential homes. The council working with the Tri-County Health Department, NRCS, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),and the Alabama A&M developed a demonstration of wetlands to treat effluent from septic tanks to assist businesses comply with health needs. Three companies were selected for the demonstration; a dairy queen restaurant, a sign company, and a tree stand manufacturer. The State Department of Health developed standards, the NRCS Plant Materials Center provided wetland plants, the Tri-County Health Department provided technical assistance, TVA and Alabama A&M monitored the project, and the businesses paid the cost with some assistance from the NRCS. The demonstration resulted in the acceptance of wetlands for treating septic tank effluent, bringing three businesses into compliance with Health Department regulations, and saving the jobs associated with the businesses. Twenty part-time jobs were saved at the dairy queen wile six jobs were saved at the tree stand company. The demonstration resulted in the sign company not only retaining twenty-five jobs, but the business actually expanded and added 17 new jobs. The wetland was approved for treating effluent in the area. An additional six businesses and forty residences are now installing systems. Job creation, a healthy environment, and the rural setting are providing for a quality life for the Tennessee Valley RC&D people. The Big Country RC&D in Texas initiated a demonstration project to provide an alternate to placing paper in sanitary landfills, to address nonpoint source pollution, wind erosion, and to improve productivity of cropland soils. News-paper was pelleted and applied to cropland at the rate of five tons per acre to achieve a 30 percent ground cover on the five acre plots. One site was on sandy loan soil designated as a Highly Erodible Soil due to wind erosion and the second site was on a clay loan soil subject to water erosion. EPA, NRCS, National Soil Dynamics Laboratory of Auburn, Alabama, Mitchell County Economic Development Board, and the Scurry County Board of County Development cooperated with the RC&D on the project. The analysis of the project shows that soil loss from sediment was reduced 41 percent surface runoff reduced 20 percent and wind erosion reduced 50 percent. At the same time, cotton yield increased 32 percent. Samples of cotton collected at mid-bloom on cotton showed no accumulations of heavy metals. The Golden Sands RC&D has conducted trials in the vegetable growing area of Central Wisconsin demonstrating ways to control wind erosion. When the trials were complete they held the "Wind Erosion Control at a Crossroads Conference" to discuss what should be done now. One result was the formation of the Central Wisconsin Windshed Board which has representatives from the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association, County Conservation Commission, and RC&D. They established a program to help fund the planting and maintenance of field windbreaks. The fund is provided by the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association, the State of Wisconsin, and the involved counties. The first year goal is 95 percent survival of 22 miles of windbreaks. The windbreak will be expanded to 40 miles in 1997. The Black River-St. Lawrence RC&D, in partnership with regional development groups, studied the demand for wood products in the furniture industry in Canada. They also studied the limitations of the Northern New York forest industries. Cooperating with NRCS, the New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation and Economic Development, Key Bank, and other forest industry development groups, a series of workshops was conducted. Over 300 people representing 198 forest industries attended the workshops. This resulted in an increase of 200 portable bandsaw mills and kilns. One firm indicated that their profits have increased over 30 percent. Another firm has established an export market in Milan, Italy.

10.910 RURAL ABANDONED MINE PROGRAM (RAMP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To protect people and the environment from the adverse effects of past coal mining practices, and to promote the development of soil and water resources of unreclaimed mined lands.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use; Advisory Services and Counseling.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Cost-share funds are available only for conservation practices determined to be needed for the reclamation, conservation, and development of up to 320 acres per owner of rural abandoned coal mine land or lands and waters affected by coal mining activities.

Applicant Eligibility: Individuals, groups, or units of government who own or control the surface or water rights of abandoned coal land or lands, and water affected by coal mining practices before August 3, 1977. These areas are not eligible if: (1) There is continuing reclamation responsibility on the part of the mine operator or The State; (2) the lands are in Federal ownerships; and (3) the surface rights are under easement or lease to be remined.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Natural Resources Conservation Service State offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief for Programs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202) 720-2847.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A 70 acre site near a small community exposed approximately 125 residents to health and safety hazards. Reclamation includes eliminating subsidence holes through filling and grading to eliminate dangerous water pits and illegal trash dumps; surface water control; wildlife plantings; firebreaks; fencing for exclusion of grazing animals; and stabilizing the site by planting pine seedlings. A 40 acre site near a small borough presented a constant hazard to life and property. Reclamation consists of shaping and stabilization of eroding and unsightly "refuse" piles; disposal of "red dog" boulders; removal of a hazardous tipple; filling open mine shafts; back filling to reduce height of "high walls"; removal of acid debris and soil deposition in streams; establishment of diversions, rock and grass waterways; establishing permanent vegetation on the site; and stabilization of stream banks.

10.912 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM (EQIP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: Technical, educational, and financial assistance to eligible farmers and ranchers to address soil, water, and related natural resource concerns on their lands in an environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner. This program provides assistance to farmers and ranchers in complying with Federal, State, and tribal environmental laws, and encourages environmental enhancement. The purpose of this program are achieved through the implementation of structural, vegetative, and land management practices on eligible land. This program is funded through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). NRCS provides overall program management and implementation leadership for conservation planning and implementation. The Farm Service Agency provides leadership for administrative processes and procedures for the program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Technical assistance is provided in conservation planning for eligible participants. Education and financial assistance is provided for implementation of structural, vegetative, and land management practices. Cost-share payments may be made to implement one or more eligible structural or vegetative practices. Incentive payments can be made to implement one or more land management practices. Fifty percent of the funding available for technical, cost-share payments, incentive payments, and education shall be targeted at practices relating to livestock production.

Applicant Eligibility: Individual/family farmers and ranchers who face serious threats to soil, water, and related natural resources, or who need assistance with complying with Federal and State environment laws. A participant may be an owner, landlord, operator, or tenant of eligible agricultural lands. Limited resource producers, small-scale producers, producers of minority groups, Federally recognized Indian tribal governments, Alaska natives, and Pacific Islanders are encouraged to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Use your local telephone directory for NRCS, FSA, contact listings.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Chief for Natural Resource conservation Programs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890, Washington, DC 20013. Attn: Deputy Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Programs. Telephone: (202)720-1845. FAX: (202) 720-4265.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: No projects were funded at the time of publication.

10.913 FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

OBJECTIVES: To purchase conservation easements or other interests on lands to limit conversion to non-agricultural uses of farmland with prime, unique, or other productive soils.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are provided to establish partnerships with States, Tribes, or local government entities to leverage their purchase of development rights programs. Federal share for any easement acquisition is limited to a maximum of 50 percent of the fair market easement value. A conservation plan is required for each easement acquired. Acquisition of an easement or other interests on land is for a minimum duration of 30 years, preferably, in perpetuity. A contingent remainder right would be incorporated in the easement deed for the protection of the Federal investment. A failure of title would require the cooperating entity to reimburse the United States for the Federal share of the easement value.

Applicant Eligibility: Any local or State agency, county or groups of counties, municipality, town or township, soil and water conservation district, or Indian tribe or tribal organization, that has a farmland protection program that purchases conservation easements for the purpose of protecting topsoil by limiting conversion to non-agricultural uses of land, and that has pending offers may apply for funds. This program is available in all 50 States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoas, the Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. Individuals must apply through their local agency that handles purchase of development rights programs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: NRCS State Office telephone numbers and addresses, see your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Community Assistance and Rural Development Division, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, P. O. Box 2890, Washington, D. C. 20013. Telephone: (202)720-2847, fax: (202) 690-0639.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: 1) California Department of Conservation's Agricultural Land Stewardship Program; 2) Florida St. Johns River Water Management District's Georgia-Pacific Project; 3) Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture's Agricultural Preservation Restriction Program; 4) Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's Farmland Purchase of Development Rights Program; and 5) Vermont Housing and Conservation Board's Farmland Conservation Easement Program. The Farmland Protection Program provides an opportunity to expand the Federal partnerships with States, Tribes, and local government entities to preserve farmland for future generations; to protect strategic farmland from urbanization; maintain, restore, and enhance ecosystem; protect historic landscapes, scenic beauty, and open space; and sustain rural economic stability and development.

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

23.001 APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT(SEE INDIVIDUAL APPALACHIAN PROGRAMS) (Appalachian Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and an improved quality of life for the people of Appalachia through joint Federal-State-local efforts; to stimulate investments in public services and facilities that will attract private sector investments and result in accelerated social and economic development; to help establish a set of institutions in Appalachia capable of permanently directing the long-term development of the Region; and on a joint Federal-State-local basis, to develop comprehensive plans and programs to help accomplish the overall objectives of Appalachian development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Appalachian funds enable the States and local areas to develop networks of facilities and services. The individual programs following this description illustrate the types of investments that can be made. In considering programs and projects to be given assistance under this Act, and in establishing a priority ranking of the requests for assistance presented to the Commission, the Commission follows procedures insuring consideration of the following factors: (1) the relationship of the project or class of projects to overall regional development, including its location in an area determined by the State as having a significant potential for growth;(2) the population and area to be served by the project or class of projects including the relative per capita income and the unemployment rates in the area; (3) the relative financial resources available to the State or political subdivision or instrumentalities thereof which seek to undertake the project; (4) the importance of the project or class of projects in relation to other projects or classes of projects which maybe in competition for the same funds; (5) the prospects that the project for which assistance is sought will improve, on a continuing rather than a temporary basis, the opportunities for employment, the average level of income, or the economic and social development of the area served by the project; and (6) the degree and manner of private sector involvement. No financial assistance can be used: (a) to assist establishments relocating from one area to another; (b) to finance the cost of facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy; (c) to finance the cost of facilities for the production, transmission, distribution of gas (natural, manufactured, or mixed); or (d) to finance non-capital projects with no prior year obligations. Each State is required by the Commission to file a State Appalachian development plan, appraising prospects for development in its Appalachian area and relating to them all projects for which Appalachian funding is requested in that year. All projects proposed for funding must be included in an annual Strategy Statement and Investment Program. Once an application is submitted for the individual projects and given final approval, the grant is generally administered by the basic Federal agency involved in that type of program. Certain grants are administered directly by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The counties (including any political subdivision located within such area)in which investment under the Appalachian Act (40 App. U.S.C.A. 403) can be made are: in Alabama, the counties of Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert, Coosa, Cullman, DeKalb, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Pickens, Randolph, Saint Clair, Shelby, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston; in Georgia, the counties of Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson, Douglas, Fannin, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnet, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Heard, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White, and Whitfield; in Kentucky, the counties of Adair, Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Casey, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd, Garrard, Green, Greenup, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Lincoln, McCreary, Madison, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan, Russell, Wayne, Whitley, and Wolfe; in Maryland, the counties of Allegany, Garrett, and Washington; in Mississippi, the counties of Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, and Winston; in New York, the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqa, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins; in North Carolina, the counties of Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Davie, Forsyth, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yancey; in Ohio, the counties of Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, Clermont, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Ross, Scioto,Tuscarawas, Vinton, and Washington; in Pennsylvania, the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Luzerne, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, and Wyoming; in South Carolina, the counties of Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg; in Tennessee, the counties of Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon, Carter, Claiborne, Clay, Cocke, Coffee, Cumberland, De Kalb, Fentress, Franklin, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Macon, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Overton, Pickett, Polk, Putman, Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Smith, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, Van Buren, Warren, Washington, and White; in Virginia, the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, Buchanan, Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles, Garyson, Highland,Lee, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Wythe; all the counties of West Virginia.

Applicant Eligibility: States, and through the States, public bodies and private nonprofit organizations. All proposed projects must meet the requirements of the State Appalachian plan and the annual State strategy statement and investment program, all of which must be approved annually by the Commission.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects should be submitted to the Appalachian State office designated by the Governor. Address other inquiries to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

23.002 APPALACHIAN SUPPLEMENTS TO FEDERAL GRANT-IN-AID (AREA DEVELOPMENT) (Supplemental Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To help the regional economy become more competitive by putting in place the building blocks for self-sustaining economic development, while continuing to provide special assistance to the Region's most distressed and underdeveloped counties. This program focuses on activities which support ARC's mission to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life for the people of Appalachia. Activities funded must advance ARC's strategic plan. Specific goals for this program are: (1)Appalachian residents will have the skills and knowledge necessary to compete in the world economy in the 21st century; (2) Appalachian communities will have the physical infrastructure necessary for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life; (3) The people of Appalachia will have the vision and capacity to mobilize and work together for sustained economic progress and improvement of their communities; (4) Appalachian residents will have access to financial and technical resources to help build dynamic and self-sustaining local economies; and (5) Appalachian residents will have access to affordable, quality health care. Specific objectives were developed for each goal. Grants may supplement other Federal grants or, when sufficient Federal funds are unavailable funds may be provided entirely by this program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The grants may be used for providing supplemental funds under any Federal grant-in-aid programs authorized on or before December 31, 1980. To be eligible for special basic grants, projects must be of high priority in the State's Appalachian development plan and be either of critical importance to a phased investment and development program for a multi-county area, or of unusual economic benefit to such area. Refer to "General Provisions for Area Development Program" of the Appalachian Regional Commission Code for additional use restrictions.

Applicant Eligibility: States, their subdivisions and instrumentalities and private nonprofit agencies.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

23.003 APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM (Appalachian Corridors)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To provide a highway system which, in conjunction with other federally-aided highways, will open up areas with development potential within the Appalachian region where commerce and communication have been inhibited by lack of adequate access.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The grants may be used for preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and construction of highways meeting the objectives stated above. Total highway construction may not exceed 3,025 miles for the 13-State system. The highways must be accepted and maintained as a Federal-aid highway. Refer to general use restrictions stated in the Appalachian Regional Development program (23.001).

Applicant Eligibility: State governments only are eligible for development highways within their Appalachian portions. INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

23.008 APPALACHIAN LOCAL ACCESS ROADS

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To provide access to industrial, commercial, educational, recreational, residential, and related transportation facilities which directly or indirectly relate to the improvement of the areas determined by the States to have significant development potential, and to meet the objectives stated under the program entitled Appalachian Regional Development (23.001).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The grant may be used for engineering, right-of-way, relocation, and construction of projects relating to the objectives stated above, and those identified in the State Appalachian Development Plan as submitted to, and accepted by the Commission. Total access road construction may not exceed 1,400 miles and the roads must be accepted by the Federal Highway Administration and the State. The State is responsible to see that they are properly maintained. Refer to the Appalachian Regional Development Program (23.001).

Applicant Eligibility: States, and through the States, public bodies and private groups within Appalachia.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office designated by the State Member. Other inquiries may be addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20235. Telephone: (202) 884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

23.009 APPALACHIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ASSISTANCE (LDD)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To provide planning and development resources in multi-county areas; to help develop the technical competence essential to sound development assistance; and to meet the objectives stated under the program entitled Appalachian Regional Development (23.001).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For administrative expenses, including technical services of certified local development districts; in addition to the uses and use restrictions detailed in the Appalachian Development Program (23.001), the local development district may use grant funds for the purchase of real estate and vehicles; and for space improvement and construction only with the express approval of ARC. Funds may be used only in the performance of grantees program and in accord with the budget, and amendments thereto, as approved by the Commission.

Applicant Eligibility: Multi-county organizations certified by the State.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20235. Telephone: (202)884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

23.011 APPALACHIAN STATE RESEARCH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS (State Research)

FEDERAL AGENCY: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: To expand the knowledge of the region to the fullest extent possible by means of State-sponsored research (including investigations, studies, technical assistance and demonstration projects) in order to assist the Commission in accomplishing the objectives of the Act, and implementation of the ARC strategic plan.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To research or demonstrate the feasibility of plans and programs for concerted economic and social development. Priority will be given to technical assistance related to job creation projects. States can carry out investigations, research, studies, evaluations, and assessments of needs, potentials, or attainments of the people of the region, technical assistance, training programs, demonstrations and the construction of necessary facilities incident to such activities. All developments resulting from such research, and demonstration projects must be made freely available to the general public. Existing research by other agencies is to be utilized as much as possible. State research projects are also subject to the uses and use restrictions described under the Appalachian Regional Development program (23.001).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Inquiries and proposals for projects should be submitted first to the Appalachian State office designated by the Governor. Other inquiries may be addressed to: Executive Director, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20235. Telephone: (202)884-7700.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: See USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

11.300 GRANTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To promote long-term economic development and assist in the construction of public works infrastructure and economic development facilities needed to support the creation or retention of high-skill, high wage private-sector jobs in areas experiencing substantial economic distress.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Investments in facilities such as water and sewer system improvements, industrial access roads, industrial and business parks, port facilities, railroad sidings, distance learning facilities, skill-training facilities, business incubator facilities, redevelopment of brownfields, eco-industrial facilities, and telecommunications infrastructure improvements needed for business retention and expansion. Eligible activities include the acquisition, rehabilitation, design and engineering, or improvement of public land or publically-owned and operated development facilities, including machinery and equipment. Projects may also include infrastructure for broadband deployment and other types of telecommunications-enabling projects and other kinds of technology infrastructure. Eligible projects must fulfill a pressing need of the area and must: 1) improve the opportunities for the successful establishment or expansion of industrial or commercial plants or facilities; 2) assist in the creation of additional long-term employment opportunities; or 3) benefit the unemployed/underemployed residents of the area or members of low-income families. In addition, all proposed investments must be consistent with the currently approved Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the area in which the project will be located, and the applicant must have the required local share of funds committed and available. Also, the project must be capable of being started and completed in a timely manner.

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, counties, an institution of higher education or a consortium of institutions of higher education, and other political subdivisions, Indian tribes, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Commonwealths and territories of the U.S. flag, Economic Development Districts, and private or public nonprofit organizations or associations acting in cooperation with officials of a Political Subdivision of a State or Indian Tribe. Individuals, companies, corporations, and associations organized for profit are not eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for EDA Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Director, Public Works Division, Economic Development Administration, Room H7326, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-5265.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS:

1) Infrastructure for industrial park development; 2) port development and expansion; 3) infrastructure necessary for economic development (e.g. water/sewer facilities); 4) renovation and recycling of old industrial buildings; 5) construction of vocational-technical facilities and skill centers; 6) construction of incubator facilities; 7) redevelopment of brownfields and 8) Eco- industrial development.

11.302 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT– SUPPORT FOR PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND INDIAN PLANNING

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants are used for staff salaries and other planning and administrative expenses of the economic development organization.

Applicant Eligibility: (1) Public bodies and other nonprofit organizations representing groups of state-delineated and EDA-approved adjoining counties, which include at least one area designated as a Redevelopment Area by the Secretary of Commerce and one or more growth centers not over 250,000 population; (2) Indian Tribes; and (3) counties designated as Redevelopment Areas or nonprofit organizations representing redevelopment areas or parts of such areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for EDA Regional Office addresses.

Headquarters Office: Director, Planning and Development Assistance Division, Economic Development Administration, Room H7317, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-3027. Fax: (202) 482-0466.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Support to hire professional staff or the following types of areas; a 10-county rural planning organization; a 6-county rural/urban organization; a 5-county rural organization that includes an Indian reservation; and a 30,000-acre Indian reservation.

11.303 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (National, University Center and Local Technical Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To promote economic development and alleviate under-employment and unemployment in distressed areas, EDA operates a technical assistance program. The program provides funds to: (1) enlist the resources of designated university centers in promoting economic development; (2) support innovative economic development projects; (3)disseminate information and studies of economic development issues of national significance; and (4) finance feasibility studies and other projects leading to local economic development.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Technical assistance is used to provide information, data, and know-how in evaluating, shaping and implementing specific projects and programs that promote economic development in economically depressed areas.

Applicant Eligibility: Most technical assistance recipients are private or public nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, municipal, county or State governments and U.S. Territories or entities thereof. Individuals and for profit organizations are not eligible applicants under this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for EDA Regional Office addresses.

Headquarters Office: Initial contact should be with Economic Development Representatives except for projects that are national in scope. For those projects the initial contact should be with Headquarters Office, Director, Research and National Technical Assistance Division, Economic Development Administration, Room H7019, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-4085.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: University Center projects provide management and technical assistance services to communities, counties, districts, nonprofit development groups, and technology transfer assistance to firms. Many local technical assistance projects help to determine the economic feasibility of various local development projects involving industrial, commercial, and other activities. National technical assistance projects fund reports on innovative economic development and the dissemination of economic development information.

11.307 SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SUDDEN AND SEVERE ECONOMIC DISLOCATION AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DETERIORATION (Economic Adjustment Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OBJECTIVES: To assist State and local areas develop and/or implement strategies designed to address structural economic adjustment problems resulting from sudden and severe economic dislocation such as plant closings, military base closures and defense contract cutbacks, and natural disasters (SSED), or from long-term economic deterioration in the area's economy (LTED).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be made to develop an economic adjustment strategy (Adjustment Strategy Grant), or to implement such strategies (Adjustment Implementation Grants).Implementation grants may be made for the construction of public facilities, business development and financing (including revolving loan funds (RLFs)), technical assistance, training or any other activity that addresses the economic adjustment problem.

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, counties or other political subdivisions of a State, consortia of such political subdivisions, public or private nonprofit organizations representing redevelopment areas designated under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, Economic Development Districts established under Title IV of the Act, Indian tribes. Applicants/projects using EDA defense appropriations are limited to defense-impacted areas. Applicants/projects using EDA supplemental disaster assistance will generally be restricted to disaster-impacted areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Refer to your local telephone directory for EDA regional office addresses.

Headquarters Office: Director, Economic Adjustment Division, Economic Development Administration, Room H7327, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of Commerce, Washington DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-2659.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Grants received under the Economic Adjustment Program: (1) develop strategy for recovery from plant closure and major permanent job loss; (2) rehabilitate vacant industrial facility for multi-tenant use or as an incubator; (3) finance employee buy-out to prevent plant closings, and (4) establishment of revolving loan funds, and/or recapitalization of revolving loan funds.

11.550 PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES--PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (PTFP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To assist in the planning, acquisition, installation and modernization of public telecommunications facilities, through planning grants and matching construction grants, in order to: a) extend delivery of public telecommunications services to as many citizens of the United States and territories as possible by the most efficient and economical means, including the use of broadcast and nonbroadcast technologies; b) increase public telecommunications services and facilities available to, operated by and owned by minorities and women; and c) strengthen the capability of existing public television and radio stations to provide public telecommunications service to the public.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Provides grants for the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities. Matching grants are given for apparatus necessary for production, dissemination, interconnection, captioning, broadcast, or other distribution of programming and reception of noncommercial educational, cultural radio and television programs, and related noncommercial instructional or informational material. Costs associated with filing for Federal assistance, installation costs, and other pre-operational costs are eligible to be included in requests for matching funds. Buildings and renovations of buildings, land, operational expenses, and indirect costs are ineligible.

Applicant Eligibility: A public or noncommercial educational broadcast station; a noncommercial telecommunications entity; a system of public telecommunications entities; a nonprofit foundation, corporation, institution or association organized primarily for educational or cultural purposes; State, local, and Indian Tribal governments (or an agency thereof); or a political or special purpose subdivision of a state. Special consideration is given to applications which would increase minority and women's ownership of, operation of, and participation in public telecommunications entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Director, Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications/NTIA, Room 4625, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482- 5802.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: To activate a new noncommercial FM radio station on 88.5 MHz, in Owyhee, Nevada. The new station will carry the signal of KNBA-FM, Anchorage, Alaska, and programming from the American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network. These programs will be delivered via satellite. Initially the station will have 4 hours/day of local programming. New station will provide a first noncommercial FM service to about 1,550 Native Americans. To convert public station KCET-TV, Channel 28 in Los Angeles, CA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 59 by purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL, encoder and test equipment. The station serves a population of over 18 million people. To expand the distance learning service provided by National Technological University (NTU), by converting 41 universities with MPEG-2 digital encoding equipment at their satellite uplinks and by placing such equipment at the NTU headquarters in Ft. Collins, CO. Conversion of the NTU system to MPEG-2 digital equipment will permit NTU to provide distance learning directly to small business and home viewers through the use of 90 cm antennas and standard digital equipment.

11.552 TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES (TOP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To promote the widespread use and availability of advanced telecommunications and information technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors. By providing matching grants for information infrastructure projects, this program will help develop a nationwide, interactive, multimedia information infrastructure that is accessible to all citizens, in rural areas as well as urban areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funding under the TOP will be awarded to: support projects that improve the quality of, and the public's access to, cultural, education, and training resources; reduce the cost, improve the quality, and/or increase the accessibility of health care and public health services; promote responsive public safety services; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government services; and foster communication, resource-sharing, and economic development within communities, both rural and urban.

Applicant Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, universities and colleges; and nonprofit entities are eligible to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Director, Technology Opportunities Program, Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications/NTIA, Room 4092, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-2048.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Second Harvest in Illinois will provide near real-time communication links between food banks and organizations that feed the hungry to help alleviate the nearly 60 million pounds of food that gets wasted each year in the U.S.; the Georgia-based Shepherd Center will place laptops with video-conferencing capability in the homes of victims of spinal cord and brain injuries. These victims, who face a lifetime of challenges, will have greater access to their care givers as well as to clinics and seminars that can help them in their recovery; the Cleveland Housing Network in Ohio will use Internet-based technology to let community based organizations share data resources and collaborate on solutions for community revitalization. The project addresses common national problems, such as access to affordable housing, and allows those closest to the problems to have the tools to address them. Dance partners, a project of Ballet Arts Minnesota, will use interactive telecommunications technology to spread the reach of cultural dance to underserved communities, including the elderly and disabled. Whereas the 50 largest dance companies are concentrated in only ten of our largest cities, this project has the potential to bring increased exposure to dance in rural areas. The Southwest Navajo Nation Virtual Alliance will implement a wireless community network to link five local tribal government entities spread over a 5,000 square mile region in southwest Arizona that suffers severe economic, ecological, and health problems.

11.801 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM (NAP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: To provide business development service to Native Americans interested in entering, expanding or improving their efforts in the marketplace. To help Native American business development centers and Native American business consultants to provide a wide range of services to Native American clients, from initial consultation to the identification and resolution of specific business problems.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) competitively selects and funds eight Native American Business Development Centers (NABDC's) to provide management and technical assistance to Native Americans located throughout the country. Recipients of NAP funds provide clients with advice and counseling in such areas as preparing financial packages, business counseling, business information and management, accounting guidance, marketing, business/industrial site analysis, production, engineering, construction assistance, procurement and identification of potential business opportunities. MBDA does not have the authority to make loans to Native American firms. Program funds are restricted to providing management and technical assistance.

Applicant Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions for this program. Eligible applicants may include individuals, nonprofit organizations, for-profit firms, local and State governments, Native American Tribes, and educational institutions.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the nearest Minority Business Development Agency Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Business Development Specialist for the Office of Operations, Room 5079, Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-6022.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: An NABDC located in Arizona received a $197,825 award to provide one-to-one management and technical assistance to eligible Native American clients to develop business plans and promote the development and operation of businesses.

11.806 MINORITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE

FEDERAL AGENCY: MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OBJECTIVES: Facilitate opportunities for minority businesses through the utilization of Federal State and local governmental entities and private sector organizations that provide minority business owners/individuals with enhanced access to the marketplace by identifying and facilitating procurement and contract awards, marketing and sales opportunities, financing resources, potential joint venture partners, timely market leads and other current business information; promote relationship building and sharing of business information between organizations in a geographic service area conducting substantial purchasing activity; assist in the identification of sources of capital; conduct media outreach, disseminate economic data, sponsors workshops, conferences and seminars within service area; maintain inventories of resources such as bid opportunities, sources of debt and equity funds, business ownership possibilities such as franchises, and prospective joint venture partners.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:

Funds will be used in support of the MBDA policy statement on funding business development programs. MBDA is charged under Executive Order 11625 with fostering new minority business enterprises and maintaining and strengthening existing firms to increase their opportunities to participate and receive the benefits of our economic system. MBDA uses a portion of its program funds to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to public and private sector entities which have the greatest potential for developing access to capital, market, and other opportunities on behalf of minority business. The performance of each funded recipient is evaluated on a scheduled basis. Renewals are based on Agency priorities, funding availability, and performance of recipients.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants for this program are Federal, State or local government entities or quasi governmental entities American Indian Tribes, colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

 Regional or Local Office: Contact the nearest Minority Business Development Agency Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Business Development Specialist, Room 5079, Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Telephone: (202) 482-6022.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year 2002, the Los Angeles MBOC's is required to generate through its partners, contract and procurement opportunities to minority businesses totaling $750,000,000. strategic outreach efforts can account for $1.1 billion in minority contracting, over 21,000 new jobs and will pave the way for future competitive efforts to stimulate growth in a challenged economy.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

12.600 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT, DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (DUSD), INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS AND INSTALLATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To help communities, regions and States alleviate serious economic impacts that result from Defense program changes, e.g., base openings, expansions and closings, contract changes and personnel reductions and increases.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Provision of Specialized Services; Advisory Services and Counseling.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Economic Adjustment Program helps alleviate serious community economic impacts that result from changes in Defense activities. The Executive Order designates the heads of 23 Federal Executive agencies as members of the Economic Adjustment Committee (EAC) with the responsibility to support, to the extent permitted by law, the economic adjustment activities of the Secretary of Defense. The following agencies are members of the EAC: Departments of Agriculture; Commerce, Defense; Education; Energy; Health and Human Services; Housing and Urban Development; Interior; Labor; State; Transportation; Treasury; Veterans Affairs; Justice; Office of Management and Budget; Council of Economic Advisors; Office of Personnel Management; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Emergency Management Agency; General Services Administration; Small Business Administration; Postal Service; and the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Economic Adjustment assistance consists of assessment of the impact, evaluation of specific needs, identification of alternative courses of action, identification of resource requirements and possible sources, and the preparation of the development strategy and action plan. The resources of Federal agencies (technical expertise and assistance programs) are utilized to augment State, local, and private sector resources to develop and implement a consensus plan. Federal agency participation is governed by local requirements and needs for assistance (e.g. DOED assists on educational projects, DOT on transportation projects, etc.)

Applicant Eligibility: States and political subdivisions, other public organizations, and responsible community leadership groups.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment, DUSD (IA&I) Western Regional Office, 1325 J Street, Suite 1500, Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone: (916) 557-7365.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic Adjustment, DUSD (IA&I), 400 Army Navy Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884. Telephone: (703)604-6020.

12.607 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE (Community Planning Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY (ECONOMIC SECURITY), DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To assist local governments or States, on behalf of local governments, to undertake community economic adjustment planning activities to respond to military base closures and realignments.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DOD funding may be provided for military base reuse studies required for reuse of former military property. DOD may also provide community planning assistance funding to help a State, on behalf of a local government, or local government to undertake community economic adjustment planning activities to support the closure or realignment of a military installation. Activities include, but are not limited to: Staffing, operating and administrative costs; and general or specialized community economic adjustment studies.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be eligible for DOD funding if the Secretary of Defense has announced that the local military installation is a candidate for closure or realignment; or that a final decision has been made that the installation will be closed or realigned; and the Director, OEA, has determined that the action will result in a direct and significantly adverse consequence to the affected community. State or local governments, regional organizations composed of State or local governments, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Guam are eligible if the above criteria are met.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment ODASD Western Regional Office, 1325 J Street, Suite 1500, Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone: (916) 557-7365.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic Adjustment, OASD (ES), 400 Army Navy Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884. Telephone: (703) 604-6020. FTS is not available.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds were provided for reuse planning to convert former military installations into airports, industrial parks, recreation, education, training, and business centers, and accommodations for the homeless.

12.611 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT PLANNING ASSISTANCE FOR REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT, OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY (INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS AND INSTALLATIONS), DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To assist States on behalf of local governments and local governments to undertake economic adjustment planning activities to respond to major reductions in defense industry employment resulting from the cancellation, termination or failure to proceed with a major DOD acquisition.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DOD funding may be provided for community economic adjustment planning activities in response to publicly-announced planned reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously approved major Defense acquisition program. Planning assistance funding may be provided through a cooperative agreement or grant. Activities include, but are not limited to staffing, operating and administrative costs, and general or specific community adjustment studies.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be eligible for DOD funding Defense industry adjusting planning if the cancellation, termination, or failure to proceed with a major weapons system involves the loss of: a) 2,500 or more full-time contractor employee positions in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA); b) 1,000 or more jobs in a labor market area outside an MSA; and c) one percent of the total number of civilian jobs in that area. Additionally, the Secretary of Defense must make a determination that the action is likely to impose a direct and significantly adverse consequence. States on behalf of local governments or local government, and Federally recognized Indian tribes located within the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Guam are eligible if the above criteria are met.

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment, DUSD (Industrial Affairs and Installations) Western Regional Office, 1325 J Street, Suite 1500, Sacramento, CA 95814, Telephone: (916)557-7365.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic Adjustment, DUSD (Industrial Affairs and Installations), 400 Army Navy Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884. Telephone: (703)604-5948.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Economic adjustment strategies prepared for communities in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, and California.

12.612 COMMUNITY BASE REUSE PLANS (Community Planning Assistance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY (ECONOMIC SECURITY), DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

OBJECTIVES: To assist local governments or States, on behalf of local governments, to conduct community base reuse plans at closing or realigning military installations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DOD funding may be provided for development of the community base reuse plan that is required as part of the Environmental Impact Statement for disposal and reuse of military installations.

Applicant Eligibility: An applicant may be eligible for DOD funding if the Secretary of Defense announced in 1988, 1992, or 1993 or will announce in 1995 that the local military installation is a candidate for closure or realignment or that a final decision has been made that the installation will be closed or realigned; and that a community reuse plan is required for the DOD Environmental Impact Statement or Environmental Assessment. State or local governments, regional organizations composed of State and local organizations, and federally recognized Indian tribes located within the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Guam are eligible if the above criteria are met.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Economic Adjustment, ODASD Western Regional Office, 1325 J Street, Suite 1500, Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone: (916) 557-7365.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Economic Adjustment, ODASD (Installation), 400 Army Nave Drive, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22202-2884 Telephone: (703) 604-5948.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds were provided for community reuse plans for Pueblo Army Depot Naval Station Puget Sound, Woodbridge Research Laboratory, Hancock Field, and Hamilton Military Complex.

DENALI COMMISSION

90.100 DENALI COMMISSION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: DENALI COMMISSION

OBJECTIVES: The Denali Commission is an Innovative Federal and State partnership designed to provide critical utilities and infrastructure throughout Alaska, particularly in distressed communities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Infrastructure or utility needs benefitting Alaskans.

Applicant Eligibility: Awards are available to State and local governments, private, public, profit, nonprofit organizations and institutions or individuals eligible in Alaska.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Denali Commission, 510 L Street, Suite 410, Anchorage, AK 99501. Telephone: (907) 271-1414..

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Bulk Fuel Tank Storage- Consolidation at isolated site to prevent catastrophic failure of leaking facilities; (2) hydroelectric generation at remote coastal community; (3) regional electric intertie serving economically distressed communities not on national grid; (4) water supply to community owned and operated fish processing facility; and (5) statewide planning and construction of health care infrastructure.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

4.002 ADULT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To improve educational opportunities for adults and to encourage the establishment of adult education programs that will enable all adults to acquire basic educational skills necessary to function in a literate society, enable adults who so desire to complete secondary school, and enable adults to benefit from job training and retraining programs and obtain productive employment to more fully enjoy the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Special emphasis is given to programs of instruction in computational skills and in speaking, reading, or writing English for those adults who are educationally disadvantaged. Not less than 10 percent of the State allocation must be used for corrections education and education for other institutionalized adults. Not less than 15 percent of the State allocation must be used for special experimental demonstration projects and teacher training projects; at least 10 percent must be spent for teacher training. From its allotment, States must use an amount of funds (determined by the State) for competitive two-year grants to public housing authorities for literacy programs and related activities. State advisory councils may be established and represent allowable expenditures under the Act. Not more than 20 percent of the State allocation can be used for programs of equivalency for a certificate of graduation from a secondary school.

Applicant Eligibility: Formula grants are made to designated State educational agencies. Local educational agencies, public or private nonprofit agencies, correctional education agencies, community-based organizations, post secondary educational institutions, institutions that serve educationally disadvantaged adults, and any other institutions that have the ability to provide literacy services to adults and families, are eligible for sub-grants. A public or private nonprofit entity may apply on behalf of a consortium that includes a for-profit agency, organization, or institution.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC 20202-7320. Telephone: (202) 205-8270.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES (Title I Basic, Concentration, and Targeted Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help local education agencies (LEAs) and schools improve the teaching and learning of children failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet challenging State academic standards.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Use of funds varies, depending on whether a school is operating a school wide program under Section 1114 of Title I or a targeted assistance program under Section 1115. A participating school with at least a 50 percent poverty rate may choose to operate a school wide program that allows Title I funds to be combined with other Federal, State, and local funds to upgrade the school's overall instructional program. All other participating schools must operate targeted assistance programs, and select children deemed most needy for Title I services. Targeted assistance programs must supplement, not supplant the regular education program normally provide by State and local educational agencies.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs) and the Secretary of the Interior. Local educational agencies (LEAs) and Indian tribal schools are subgrantees.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Compensatory Education Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Depart of Education, 1250 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 4400, Portals Bldg. Washington, DC 20202-6132. (202) 260-0826. EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.011 MIGRANT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist States to ensure that migratory children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging State content and performance standards that all children are expected to meet.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Program funds are used to support high quality and comprehensive educational programs that address the needs of migratory children. This program is subject to non-supplanting requirements and must use a restricted indirect cost rate which is referenced under 34 CFR 76-564-76.569. For assistance call the Office of the Chief Financial Officer/Indirect Cost Group on 202-708-7770.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies or consortia of State educational agencies and other appropriate entities may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., FB6-Room 3E341, Washington, DC 20202-6135. Telephone: (202) 260-1334.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Program funds are used to establish or improve programs to meet the special educational needs of migratory children in such areas as academic instruction; remedial and compensatory instruction; bilingual and multicultural instruction; vocational instruction and career education services; special guidance, counseling, and testing services; health services; and preschool services.

84.048 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BASIC GRANTS TO STATES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: Basic grants assist States and outlying areas to expand and improve their programs of vocational education and provide equal access in vocational education to special needs populations. The populations assisted by Basic Grants range from secondary students in pre-vocational courses through adults who need retraining to adapt to changing technological and labor market conditions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Each State must allocate its basic grant in the following manner: Up to 5 percent of the allotment or$250,000, whichever is greater, for State Administration, including at least $60,000 for sex equity leadership; and the remaining balance as follows: (1) An amount equal to at least 75 percent of the allotment to be distributed to eligible recipients; (2) an amount equal to 10.5 percent for the program for single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women, and for individuals participating in programs to eliminate sex bias and stereotyping; (3) an amount not more than 8.5 percent for State programs and State leadership; and (4) an amount equal to one percent for programs for criminal offenders in correctional institutions.

Applicant Eligibility: The Department of Education makes formula grants to States. Eligible recipients for subgrants are local educational agencies and post secondary institutions.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of Vocational Technical Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202-7323. Telephone: (202) 205-9441.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.060 INDIAN EDUCATION GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: Support local educational agencies in their efforts to reform elementary and secondary school programs that serve Indian students in order to ensure that programs are based on challenging State content standards and student performance standards that are used for all students, and are designed to assist Indian students meet those standards in reaching the National Education Goals.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grantees may use funds for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of supplementary projects specifically designed to assist Indian students in meeting State content and student performance standards. Projects must be designed in response to a locally conducted needs assessment and with the full cooperation and involvement of an elected committee representing parents of the Indian students to be served. Permissible activities include, but are not limited to: (1) Culturally related activities; (2) early childhood and family programs emphasizing school readiness; and (3)enrichment programs that directly support the attainment of State content and performance standards.

Applicant Eligibility: Local educational agencies (LEAs) that enroll at least 10 Indian children or in which Indians constitute at least 25 percent of the total enrollment. These requirements do not apply to LEAs serving Indian children in Alaska, California, and Oklahoma or located on, or in proximity to, an Indian reservation. Schools that receive funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs under Section 1130 of the Education Amendments of 1978, 25 U.S.C. 2001, are deemed to be eligible to participate in this program.

 INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Director, Division of Program Operations. Telephone: (202)260-1441.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Instruction in reading and mathematics; counseling and guidance; native language and cultural education instruction; early childhood and family programs emphasizing school readiness; and school-to-work transition programs.

84.101 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INDIANS SET-ASIDE

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to or enter into contracts with Indian tribes or tribal organizations and Bureau of Indian Affairs funded schools to plan, conduct, and administer programs or portions of programs authorized by and consistent with the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements);Project Grants (Contracts).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide vocational and technical education opportunities for Indians and Alaskan Natives.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must either be eligible to contract with the Secretary of the Interior for the administration of programs under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act or under the Act of April 16, 1934, or be Bureau-funded schools offering a secondary education program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of National Programs, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202-7242. Telephone: (202) 205-5680.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is conducting a three-year program for basic skills, tribal manufacturing, tribal and local business, and tribal enterprises. The project is housed and operated out of Choctaw Vocational Center, Philadelphia, Mississippi. The Salish Kootenai College is conducting a three-year program in building trades secretarial science, computer science, forest technology and basic skills. The College also conducts a State licensed associate degree nursing program. The project is located at Pablo, Montana.

84.141 MIGRANT EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM (HEP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist students who are engaged, or whose parents are engaged, in migrant and other seasonal farm work to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently to gain employment or be placed in an institution of higher education or other post secondary education or training.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Project funds may be used to recruit and provide academic and support services (including counseling, health services, stipends, and placement) to migrant students to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and to subsequently gain employment or be placed in an institution of higher education or other post secondary education or training.

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education or private nonprofit agencies in cooperation with institutions of higher education may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4100, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 260-1164.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Project funds are used for recruitment, instruction designed to help participants pass an examination and obtain a high school equivalency certificate, counseling, health services, housing for on-campus residential programs, exposure to academic programs, cultural events, and other activities not usually available to migrant youth, and appropriate in-service training activities for project staff members.

84.144 MIGRANT EDUCATION COORDINATION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To encourage the interstate and intrastate coordination of migrant education including consortium arrangements to reduce the administrative costs of state educational agencies (SEAs)receiving Title I Migrant Education Program funds under 84.011.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary); Project Grants (Contracts).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used to: (A) Support activities to improve interstate and intrastate coordination of migrant education among State and local educational agencies; and (B) provide incentive grants to SEAs that participate in an approved consortium under the program.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education and other public or nonprofit private entities may apply for funds to improve interstate and intrastate coordination of migrant education. SEAs participating in MEP consortium may apply for incentive grant awards.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4100, Washington, DC 20202-6135. Telephone: (202) 260-1164.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects have included projects to increase the use of technology for teaching and learning in the migrant community and programs to increase services to students by reducing administrative costs.

84.149 MIGRANT EDUCATION COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM (CAMP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist students that are engaged, or whose parents are engaged in migrant and other seasonal farmwork, and are enrolled or are admitted for enrollment on a full-time basis in the first academic year at an institution of higher education.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education or private nonprofit agencies in cooperation with institutions of higher education may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Migrant Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4100, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 260-1164.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Project funds are used to recruit potential participants and to provide services to students in such areas as: tutoring; academic, career, and personal counseling; health services; housing support; exposure to academic programs, cultural events, and other activities not usually available to migrant youth; and appropriate in-service training activities for project staff members.

84.169 INDEPENDENT LIVING STATE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist States to promote a philosophy of independent living, including a philosophy of consumer control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal access, and individual and system advocacy, in order to maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence, and productivity of individuals with disabilities, and the integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the mainstream American society, by providing financial assistance for providing, expanding, and improving the provision of independent living services.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds received under this Part may be used to support the operation of the Statewide Independent Living Councils, States may also use funds received under this Part for one or more of the following purposes: to provide independent living services to individuals with significant disabilities; to demonstrate ways to expand and improve independent living services; to support the operations of centers for independent living; to increase the capacities of public or nonprofit agencies and organizations and other entities to develop comprehensive approaches or systems for providing independent living services; to conduct studies and analyses, gather information, develop model polices and procedures, and present information, approaches, strategies, findings, conclusions, and recommendations to Federal, State, and local policy makers in order to enhance independent living services for individuals with disabilities; to train individuals with disabilities and individuals providing services to individuals with disabilities and other persons regarding the independent living philosophy; and to provide outreach to populations that are unserved or under served by programs under this title, including minority groups and urban and rural populations.

Applicant Eligibility: State agencies (including Territories)designated as the State unit to administer the State's independent living rehabilitation services program may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for a list of regional offices.

Headquarters Office: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, 600 Independence Ave., Independent Living Branch Office SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 205-8937.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

84.184 SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES NATIONAL PROGRAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To enhance the Nation's efforts to prevent the illegal use of drugs and violence among, and promote safety and discipline for, students at all educational levels.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Contracts); Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements). Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects funded under this program support drug and violence prevention and education activities. The Secretary may fund applications that address specific priorities published in the Federal Register.

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit organizations, and individuals and institutions of higher education.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Director, Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-6123. Telephone: (202) 260-3954.

84.203 STAR SCHOOLS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To encourage improved instruction in mathematics, science, and foreign languages as well as other subjects, such as literacy skills and vocational education. To serve under served populations, including the disadvantaged, illiterate, limited-English proficient, and individuals with disabilities. Grants are made to telecommunication partnerships for telecommunications facilities and equipment, educational and instructional programming, and technical assistance in the use of such facilities and instructional programming.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions and priorities include: Eligible telecommunications partnerships must be organized on a statewide or multi-state basis. Partnerships must assure that a significant portion of the facilities and equipment, technical assistance and programming for which assistance is sought will be made available to elementary and secondary schools of local education agencies that have a high percentage of children counted for purposes of Part A of Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act. Priority is given to those partnerships that provide services to meet the needs of traditionally under served populations, individuals traditionally excluded from careers in mathematics and science because of discrimination or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, areas with scarce resources, and areas with limited access to courses in mathematics, science and foreign languages. Funds through this grant may not supplant funds otherwise available for these purposes. Not less than 25 percent of the funds appropriated during any fiscal year shall be used for the cost of instructional programming. Not less than 50 percent of the funds appropriated during any fiscal year shall be used for the cost of facilities, equipment, teacher training or retraining, technical assistance or programming for school districts which are eligible to receive assistance under Part A of Title I. No grant may exceed $10,000,000 in any single fiscal year. Applicant Eligibility: Eligible telecommunications partnerships must be organized on a statewide or multistage basis. Two types of partnerships are eligible: (1) A public agency or corporation established for the purpose of developing and operating telecommunications networks to enhance educational opportunities provided by educational institutions, teacher training centers, and other entities, provided that the agency or corporation represents the interests of elementary and secondary schools eligible to participate under Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; or (2) a partnership that will provide telecommunications services and includes three or more of the following entities, at least one of which shall be State or local educational agency: (a) A local educational agency, that serves a significant number of elementary and secondary schools that are eligible for assistance under Part A, of Title 1 or elementary and secondary schools operated or funded for Indian children by the Department of the Interior; (b) A State educational agency; (c)adult and family education programs; (d) an institution of higher education or a State higher education agency; (e) a teacher training center or academy; (f) a public or private entity with experience and expertise in the planning and operation of a telecommunications network, including entities involved in telecommunications through satellite, cable, telephone, or computer; or a public broadcasting entity with such experience; or (g) a public or private elementary or secondary school.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20208-5644. Telephone: (202) 219-1919.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: TEAMS (Telecommunications Education for Advances in Mathematics and Science Education) is the project operated by the Los Angeles County Office of Education. This was the first Star Schools Program to specifically address the needs of large urban districts. The partners in the project include the Los Angeles County Educational Telecommunications Network, the Los Angeles Unified School District, District of Columbia Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, Atlanta Public Schools and Salt Lake City public schools. Science and technology experiences have been developed for grades four and five, multi cultural mathematics and problem solving were the focus for grades seven through ten, and student-to-student teleconferences and career exploration were emphasized for grades seven through twelve. Special programs were also developed for students with limited English proficiency. A parent education component and staff development teleconference are key to enriching the educational opportunities of students in these major cities. Since its first award in 1990, TEAMS has added Charlotte-Mecklenburg, and the States of Arizona, Missouri, Georgia, and New Mexico to its partnership.

84.213 EVEN START STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy, and improve the educational opportunities of low-income families, by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Subgrants are used for activities such as recruitment and screening of children and parents, design of programs, instruction of children and parents, support services, staff training, evaluation, and coordination with other programs. Funds may not be used for indirect costs.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs). The subgrantees are partnerships of a local educational agency (LEA) and a nonprofit community-based organization, a public agency other than an LEA, an institution of higher education or other public or private nonprofit organizations. Any of the latter, with demonstrated quality, may apply in collaboration with a LEA.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Department of Education, Compensatory Education Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-0991.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Fiscal year 1995 projects include Project Even Start in Brooklyn, New York, a family-centered education program to assist children in reaching their potential as learners, to provide literacy training for their parents, and to help parents become partners with the schools in the education of their children. The project includes pre-kindergarten programs and parent-child home training. The Waterville Even Start Project, in Waterville, Maine, provides instructional services that are home based, with supplemental activities provided at an Even Start Center. The adult element of the program provides literacy education in the context of parenting. Early childhood and primary education specialists work with families using a curriculum developed in conjunction with the Head Start program. At a monthly meeting adults attend parenting workshops while children participate in educational programs.

84.214 EVEN START MIGRANT EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To improve the educational opportunities of migrant families through family literacy programs that integrate early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used for activities such as recruitment and screening of children and parents, design of programs, instruction for children and parents, staff training, support services, evaluation, and coordination with other programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Any entity may apply. The Secretary specifically invites application from State educational agencies (SEAs) that administer migrant programs; local educational agencies (LEAs) that have a high percentage of migrant students; and nonprofit community-based organizations that work with migrant families.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20208-5645. Telephone: (202) 219-2147.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year 1997, under the specific FIE authority for the Partnerships in Character Education Pilot Project, four new Character Education Projects were funded in four States: Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, and South Carolina. In South Carolina, the State Department of Education has formed a partnership with four school districts to serve as pilot sites for the statewide transformation of South Carolina's schools. These four represent urban, small rural, and large rural districts. The districts plan to provide extensive professional development opportunities for teachers, use published character education materials innovatively, and have technology play a major role in facilitating the exchange of information among the districts. In New Jersey, the State Department of Education is working with the Newark School District and the Newark Do Something Fund, a community development agency, to develop an urban pilot project in character education. The program intends to infuse character education into the curriculum renewal process in the 62 Newark schools that have any combination of grades K-8. The project also plans to establish the New Jersey Character Education Network that will provide public and private schools a range of character education strategies, procedures, and program designs.

84.215 FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION (FIE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To conduct nationally significant programs to improve the quality of education, assist all students to meet challenging State content standards, and contribute to the achievement of the National Education Goals.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to support a wide range of projects under the FIE general authority for programs, and additional specific program authorities. Each year competitions are announced in the Federal Register. Specific limitations and restrictions for each competition are provided in the Federal Register notice.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, public and private organizations and institutions may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20208-5645. Telephone: (202) 219-2147.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year 1997, under the specific FIE authority for the Partnerships in Character Education Pilot Project, four new Character Education Projects were funded in four States: Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, and South Carolina. In South Carolina, the State Department of Education has formed a partnership with four school districts to serve as pilot sites for the statewide transformation of South Carolina's schools. These four represent urban, small rural, and large rural districts. The districts plan to provide extensive professional development opportunities for teachers, use published character education materials innovatively, and have technology play a major role in facilitating the exchange of information among the districts. In New Jersey, the State Department of Education is working with the Newark School District and the Newark Do Something Fund, a community development agency, to develop an urban pilot project in character education. The program intends to infuse character education into the curriculum renewal process in the 62 Newark schools that have any combination of grades K-8. The project also plans to establish the New Jersey Character Education Network that will provide public and private schools a range of character education strategies, procedures, and program designs.

84.216 CAPITAL EXPENSES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help local educational agencies (LEAs) pay for capital expenses incurred as a result of implementing alternative arrangements to provide equitable Title I services to eligible private school children, in compliance with the Aguilar v. Felton decision.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants. USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: LEAs use funds for non-instructional expenses incurred as a result of implementing alternative arrangements for providing Title I services to private-school students, including the costs of purchasing, leasing, and renovating portable classrooms and vans, and transporting private-school students to and from neutral classroom sites.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs). Local educational agencies (LEAs) are subgrantees.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Department of Education, Compensatory Education Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Bldg., Room 4400, Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-0826.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funds are used for such costs as rental of classroom space in neutral sites; rental or purchase of mobile vans; and transportation of private school students to public schools or neutral sites.

84.221 NATIVE HAWAIIAN SPECIAL EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To fund projects addressing the special education needs of Native Hawaiian students

.TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements or Contracts).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects may include: (1) The identification of Native Hawaiian children that are learning disabled, mentally or physically handicapped, or require special education services; (2) the identification of the emotional and psychosocial needs of these students and their families; (3) the conduct of educational activities consistent with Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that hold reasonable promise of improving the provisions of special education and related services to Native Hawaiian children that are identified as being handicapped; (4) the conduct of educational, psychosocial, and developmental activities that may result in substantial progress with these students, including the use of Native Hawaiian language and cultural traditions; and (5) appropriate research, evaluation and related activities pertaining to the needs of such children. No more than seven percent of the funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of this program for any fiscal year may be used for administrative purposes. Each application for funds under this program must be accompanied by the comments of each local educational agency serving students participating in the project. No more than seven percent of grant funds may be used for administrative purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: State of Hawaii or Native Hawaiian organizations may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 205- 9805.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Hawaii State Department of Education is currently receiving funds to support preservice teacher training, pre-referral intervention and mainstreaming, and promoting parent and community involvement.

84.250 REHABILITATION SERVICES AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with disabilities that reside on Federal or State reservations in order to prepare them for suitable employment.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects provide financial assistance for the establishment and operation of tribal vocational rehabilitation service projects for American Indians with disabilities residing on reservations.

Applicant Eligibility: Governing bodies of Indian tribes or consortia of those governing bodies on Federal and State reservations may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: The RSA Regional Offices. See your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Rehabilitation Services Administration, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 205-8292.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects provide vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with disabilities who reside on reservations comparable to the services provided under Title I to other individuals with disabilities who reside in the State. These projects increase the successful outreach and outcome of services to an under served population.

84.258 EVEN START INDIAN TRIBES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy and improve the educational opportunities of low-income families through family literacy programs that integrate early childhood education, adult basic education, and parenting education.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Discretionary).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used for activities such as recruitment and screening of children and parents, design of programs, instruction for children and parents, staff training, support services, evaluation, and coordination with other programs. Indirect costs are not an allowable project cost unless a waiver is obtained from the Secretary of Education.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations as defined in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, Section 4, may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Department of Education, Compensatory Education Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-0991.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Northwest Indian College (NWIC) Even Start program has established an ongoing relationship with the Lumni Tribal Headstart Program for Even Start children. A parenting class has been established on the NWIC campus where a wide range of family activities are sponsored in addition to formal parenting studies.

84.259 NATIVE HAWAIIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to organizations primarily serving and representing Native Hawaiians for programs or portions of programs authorized by, and consistent with, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To provide vocational education opportunities for Native Hawaiians.

Applicant Eligibility: Any organization primarily serving and representing Native Hawaiians and recognized by the Governor of Hawaii may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of National Programs, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202.Telephone: (202) 205-5563. Internet: Katherine_Holmberg@ed.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Computer training centers, small business ownership project, community college guidance and counseling, and tech-prep projects have been funded with one grant award to Alu Like, Inc.

84.286 READY TO CHANGE

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To carry out a national telecommunications-based program to improve the teaching in core curriculum areas. The program shall be designed to assist elementary school and secondary school teachers in preparing all students to achieve challenging State academic standards in core curriculum areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not more than five percent of the amount received under the grant may be used for administrative costs.

Applicant Eligibility: A local public telecommunications entity or partnership of such entities, as defined in section 397(12) of the Communications Act of 1934, that is able to demonstrate a capacity for the development and distribution of educational instructional television programming of high quality. The applicant shall: (a) demonstrate that it will use the public broadcasting infrastructure, the Internet, and school digital networks, where available, to deliver video and data in an integrated service to train teachers in the use of materials and learning technologies; (b) ensure that the project will be conducted in cooperation with appropriate State educational agencies, local educational agencies and State or local nonprofit public telecommunications entities; and (c) ensure that a significant portion of the benefits from the project will be available to schools of local educational agencies that have a high percentage of children counted for purpose of part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

 INFORMATION CONTACTS:

 Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20208-5644. Telephone: (202) 219-2143.

84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To enable rural and inner city public elementary and secondary schools or consortia of such schools to plan, 0implement, or expand projects that benefit the educational, health, social service, cultural, and recreational needs of their community.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects funded under this program must be for the purpose of meeting the needs of the residents of rural and inner city communities, through the creation or expansion of community learning centers. Centers must include not less than four of the activities listed in Section 10905 of Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Priority will be given to those applications that provide expanded learning opportunities for children and youth in a safe and drug-free environmental and engage the support of citizens in those efforts.

Applicant Eligibility: Rural and inner city public elementary and secondary schools or consortia of such schools.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Reform Assistance and Dissemination, State and Local Service Division, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education, Washington, DC 20208-5524. Telephone: (202) 219-2128.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects include one center which expanded an existing community center to provide education and support services to at-risk families, in order to empower these families to become economically self-sufficient. Another created a learning center and six "satellite" centers, which provide information about employment, education, and social service opportunities. A third center provides services in the areas of literacy, technology, parenting skills, and employment. All of these centers are located in economically depressed areas.

84.295 READY-TO-LEARN TELEVISION

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND IMPROVEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To develop educational programming for preschool an dearly elementary school children and their families. To develop educational television, programming and ancillary materials to increase school readiness for young children in limited English proficient households and to increase family literacy. To develop support materials and services that promote effective use of educational programming.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants (Contracts);Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Administrative costs are limited by the authorizing statute. Entities receiving a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement from the Secretary, may not use more than five percent of the amounts received under this Section for the normal and customary expenses of administering the grant.

Applicant Eligibility: To be eligible to receive a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under Subsection (a) an entity shall be: 1) A nonprofit entity (including a public telecommunications entity) able to demonstrate a capacity for the development and distribution of educational and instructional television programming of high quality for preschool and elementary school children; and 2) able to demonstrate a capacity to contract with the producers of children's television programming for the purpose of developing educational television programming of high quality for preschool and elementary schoolchildren. In fiscal year 1995, Congress required that funds be awarded to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the amount that the Secretary determines appropriate.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education, Office of Education Research and Improvement, Department of Education, 600 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20208-5524. Telephone: (202) 219-1596.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) awarded $4.2 million to the Children's Television Workshop and Columbia TriStar Television Distribution in 1995. They will use the funds to develop and produce 40 episodes of Dragon Tales, a daily animated half-hour preschool series which will help children develop life skills necessary for learning. The series will feature Max and his big sister Margarita whose parents came to the U.S. from Latin America. The series will encourage children to face new experiences with confidence by helping them to pursue challenges, overcome fears, and make difficult tasks easier through teamwork. Targeted to children between 2 to 5 years of age, it is anticipated that over 6 million children will view the series on a regular basis. Show and Tell Me, is a related weekly designed to educate parents to and care givers about ways they can help children become ready to learn. It is anticipated that 4.5 million adults will tune into this series on PBS. Children's Television Workshop will also produce an interactive Internet component for children, parents, and other care givers. CPB is also providing $4.2 million to public broadcaster WGBH Boston, in partnership with Sirius Thinking, Inc., to develop and co-produce 40 episodes of an innovative half-hour daily literacy series, Between the Lions, for 4 to 7 year olds. WGBH will produce a related 13 part weekly half-hour series Kids and How to Grow Them for parents and care givers, along with an interactive online component for the Internet. CPB has also used funds to expand CPB's "First Book" a free book program, from three PBS stations to 120 stations. These stations have distributed more than 650,000 books to disadvantaged children who would not otherwise own them. In addition to providing a regular allotment for free books to these stations on a monthly basis, a matching book fund has been established to encourage the stations to purchase additional books. Many stations have ordered these books in Spanish, English, and other languages. The Educational Publishing Group, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts, in association with WBGH

84.296 NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION LEARNING CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To support collaborative efforts between community- based Native Hawaiian organizations and community colleges, to develop, establish, and operate a minimum of three community-based education learning centers.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are used to develop and operate community-based education learning centers. To meet the needs of families and communities through coordination of new and existing preschool, after-school, and vocational and adult education programs. No more than seven percent of grant funds may be used for administrative purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: Community-based Native Hawaiian organizations and community colleges in Hawaii.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, School Improvement Programs, 600 Maryland Ave., SW.,Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 260-2502.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Centers have been established at the following sites: (1) Halau Na`auao at Hawaii Community College; (2) NHCBELC at Kaua`i Community College; (3) NHCBELC at Leeward Community College; and (4) Mohala Ka`ike Institute at Maui Community College. The educational programs offered at each site include culturally relevant learning experience for adult, preschool, and elementary and secondary students.

84.297 NATIVE HAWAIIAN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To fund native Hawaiian programs designed to conduct instruction in the Native Hawaiian language for curriculum development or teacher training.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects should address one or more of the following: 1) To develop curricula to address the needs of Native Hawaiian students in programs of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language and/or mathematics and science curricula incorporating the relevant applications of Native Hawaiian culture and traditions; 2) to develop and implement pre-teacher training programs in order to ensure that student teachers are better prepared to meet the needs of Native Hawaiian students; 3) to develop and implement teacher recruitment programs to enhance recruitment in Native Hawaiian communities to increase the number of teachers that are of Native Hawaiian ancestry; and 4) to develop and implement in service teacher training programs to ensure that teachers are better prepared to meet the unique educational needs of Native Hawaiian students. Priority must be given to projects that focus on the needs of at-risk youth or that employ a program of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language. No more than seven percent of grant funds may be used for administrative purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: Native Hawaiian education organizations or education entities with experience in developing or operating native Hawaiian programs or programs of instruction conducted in the native Hawaiian language.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, School Improvement Programs, 600 Maryland Ave., SW.,Washington, DC 20202. Contact: Beth Baggett. Telephone: (202) 260-2502.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: No examples.

84.298 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM STRATEGIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist State and local educational agencies in the reform of elementary and secondary education.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for:(1)Acquiring and use of instructional materials;(2) technology and training in technology related to the implementation of school-based reform;(3) promising educational reform projects;(4) improving educational services for disadvantaged students;(5) reforming activities associated with Goals 2000; (6) education needs of gifted and talented children;(7) combating illiteracy among children and adults; an(8) implementing school improvement and parental involvement activities authorized under ESEA, Title I.

Applicant Eligibility: All States including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: School Improvement Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-6140, Telephone: (202) 260-2551.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

84.316 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To make direct grants to Native Hawaiian education organizations or education entities with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language to enable them to provide a program of baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate fellowship assistance to Native Hawaiian students.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants must be used to provide full or partial fellowship support for Native Hawaiian students enrolled at two or four year degree granting institutions of higher education. Awards are based on: (1) Academic potential and (2) financial need. Full or partial fellowship support for Native Hawaiian students enrolled at post-baccalaureate degree granting institutions of higher education will receive grants. Priority will be given to providing fellowship support for professions that are underrepresented in the Native Hawaiians community. Funds may also be used for: (1) Counseling and support services for students receiving fellowship assistance; (2) college preparation and guidance counseling at the secondary level for students who may be eligible for fellowship support; (3) research, evaluation; and (4) implementation of faculty development programs for the improvement and matriculation of Native Hawaiian students. No more than seven percent for grant funds may be used for administrative purposes.

Applicant Eligibility: Native Hawaiian education organizations or entities with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs may apply

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Higher Education Programs, Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 260-3439.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

84.320 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING, AND RECRUITMENT PROGRAM (ANE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Alaska Native organizations or educational entities to operate Alaska Native programs or programs of instruction conducted in the Alaska Native language, for the following purposes: (1) The consolidation of existing educational plans, recommendations, and research into implementation methods and strategies to improve schooling for Alaska Natives; (2) the adoption and implementation of specific educational plans; (3) the development of curricula to address the needs of elementary and secondary Alaska Natives students, including innovative programs, pilots, and demonstration programs that reflect cultural diversity or contributions of Alaska Native people; (4) the development and implementation of pre-teacher training programs to ensure student teachers are prepared to address the cultural diversity and unique needs of Alaska Native students; (5) the development and implementations of teacher recruitment programs; and (6) the development and implementation of in service teacher training programs to ensure teachers are better prepared to address the uniqueness of Alaska Native students.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not more than 10 percent of grant funds may be used for administrative costs.

Applicant Eligibility: Alaska Native organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or operating Alaska Native programs or programs of instruction conducted in Alaska Native languages, or to partnerships involving Alaska Native organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, School Improvement Programs, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC Telephone: (202) 260-1431.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

84.322 ALASKA NATIVE STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (Alaska Native Education)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Alaska Native organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or operating Alaska Native programs, for enrichment programs for Alaska Native students in the areas of science and mathematic education. The program will be designed to: (1) Prepare qualified students from rural areas who are preparing to enter village high schools to excel in sciences and mathematics; and (2) provide support services to the families of such students to benefit from the program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Not more than 10 percent of grant funds may be used for administrative cost.

Applicant Eligibility: Alaska Native organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or operating Alaska Native programs or programs of instruction conducted in Alaska Native languages, or to partnerships involving Alaska Native organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, School Improvement Programs, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone (202)260- 1431.

84.341 COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To promote the use of technology in education through the development of model programs that demonstrate the educational effectiveness of technology in urban and rural areas and economically distressed communities.

 TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects funded under this program must be for the purpose of meeting the needs of residents of rural and urban areas and economically distressed communities through development of community technology centers. Application priorities, if any, will be published in a notice in the Federal Register if awards are to be made during a fiscal year. Contact the Headquarters Office listed below for information on priorities.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, other public and private nonprofit or for-profit agencies and organizations, or groups of such agencies, institutions or organizations are eligible to receive grants under this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202-7240. Telephone: (202) 205-8270.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects funded under this program will be used to support community centers that provide access to technology to residents of their local communities.

84.352 SCHOOL RENOVATION GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To assist local educational agencies (LEAs) with urgent school repair and renovation, activities authorized under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and technology activities related to school renovation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: State educational agencies must use 75 percent of their allocations for competitive grants to LEAs for specified urgent school repairs. States must ensure that high poverty LEAs with 30 percent or greater poverty or with at least 10,000 poor children receive, in the aggregate, an amount proportional to the aggregate amount those LEAs receive under Title I, Part A. In addition, States must ensure that rural LEAs receive, in the aggregate, an amount proportional to the aggregate amount they receive under Title I, Part A. States distribute the remaining 25 percent to LEAs on a competitive basis for activities authorized under Part B of the IDEA, technology activities related to school renovation, or some combination thereof, at the discretion of the State. LEAs that receive direct grants from the Department based on their eligibility for Impact Aid may use the funds to construct new school facilities as well as for school renovation and repair.

Applicant Eligibility: States and outlying areas are eligible for grants. LEAs that are eligible for Impact Aid and at least 50 percent of children in average daily attendance reside on Indian lands are eligible for direct grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: State School Repair and Renovation Grants - Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, FB-6 Room 3E121, Washington, DC 20202. E-mail address: Sylvia.Wright@ed.gov. Telephone: (202) 260-3778; Native American School Repair and Renovation Grants - Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, FB-6, Room 3E105, Washington, DC 20202. E-mail address: Catherine.Schagh@ed.gov. Telephone: (202) 260-3858.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new program; examples are not yet available.

84.356 ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To support projects that recognize and address the unique educational needs of Alaska Native students, parents and teachers.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

 USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Successful applicants must use these funds to carry out the activities described in their approved applications. An eligible entity may use not more than 10 percent of the funds received under this subpart for the administrative costs of carrying out its responsibilities under this Subpart.

Applicant Eligibility: Alaska Native educational organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or operating Alaska Native Programs, or partnerships including Alaska Native organizations.

 INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

 Headquarters Office: School Improvement Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 260-1541. E-mail: lynn.thomas@ed.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new program; examples are not yet available.

84.358 RURAL EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM (REAP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to rural districts to carry out activities to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in their schools.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grantees under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program component may use program funds to carry out activities authorized under: Title I-Part A (Grants to LEAs); Title II- Part A (Improving Teacher Quality State Grants); Title II-Part D (Educational Technology State Grants); Title III (Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students); Title IV-Part A (Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities State Grants); Title IV-Part B (21st Century Community Learning Centers); and Title V-Part A (State Grants for Innovative Programs). Grantees under the Rural and Low- Income School Program component may use program funds for: teacher recruitment and retention; teacher professional development; educational technology; parental involvement activities; activities authorized under ESEA Title IV-Part A (Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities); activities authorized under ESEA Title I-Part A (Grants to LEAs); and activities authorized under ESEA Title III (Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students). Rural Education program funds must be used to supplement not supplant other funding provided for programs activities.

Applicant Eligibility: For the Small, Rural School Achievement Program eligible recipients are local educational agencies (LEAs) in which (1) the total number of students in average daily attendance at all of the schools served by the LEA is less than 600 or where each school in the LEA is located in a county with a total population density of less than 10 persons per square mile; and (2) all of the schools served by the LEA are designated with a School Locale Code of 7 or 8 under the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) locator system or the LEA is located in an area of the State defined as a rural by a State governmental agency. For the Rural and Low-Income School Program eligible recipients are State educational agencies. States then must distribute funds to local educational agencies (LEAs) on a formula or competitive basis. An LEA is eligible to receive a grant under this program only if (1) it is not eligible for funds under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program; (2) at least 20% of the school children ages 5-17 in the LEA come from families with incomes below the poverty line; and (3) all of the schools served by the LEA are designated with a School Locale Code of 6, 7 or 8 under the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) locator system. If an SEA chooses not to participate in the program, the Secretary uses the State's allocation to make direct grants to eligible LEAs in the State.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Office of School Support and Technology Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 401-0039. E-mail: charles.lovett@ed.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

84.360 DROPOUT PREVENTION PROGRAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To support programs that provide assistance to help schools implement effective school dropout prevention and reentry programs.

 TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant recipients must implement proven strategies for reducing the number of students who drop out before completing secondary school and for assisting youth to reenter school after they have dropped out. These strategies may include: 1 identify students at risk of dropping out; 2. providing at-risk students with services designed to prevent them from dropping out; 3. identifying and encouraging youth who already have dropped out to reenter school; and 4. implementing other comprehensive approaches, such as breaking large schools into smaller learning communities. Specifically authorized activities include: professional development; reduction in pupil-teacher ratios; counseling and mentoring for at-risk students; and implementing comprehensive school reform models.

Applicant Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) serving communities with dropout rates above the State's average annual dropout rate will be eligible to apply for funding.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Academic Improvement Demonstration Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, FOB-6, Room 2W114, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202-6254. Internet: Christine.Jackson@ed.gov. Telephone: (202) 260-2516.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new program. No examples are available.

84.362 NATIVE HAWAIIAN EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: To provide supplementary education services to Native Hawaiians.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Program funds may be used to carry a variety of authorized activities including, but not limited to: the development and maintenance of a statewide early childhood education system; operation of family-based education centers; literacy and early reading activities; educational activities for Native Hawaiian students with disabilities; professional development; and the operation of community-based learning centers. Not more than 5 percent of the funds received under this program may be used for administrative costs.

Applicant Eligibility: An eligible entity is-Native Hawaiian educational organizations; Native Hawaiian community-based organizations; public and private nonprofit organizations, agencies, and institutions with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs of instruction in the Native Hawaiian language; and consortia of the organizations, agencies, and institutions described in this paragraph.

 INFORMATION CONTACTS:

 Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: School Improvement Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 260-1541. E-mail: lynn.thomas@ed.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new program. No examples are available.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

81.042 WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME PERSONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

OBJECTIVES: To insulate the dwellings of low-income persons, particularly the elderly and handicapped low-income, in order to conserve needed energy and to aid those persons least able to afford higher utility costs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Improvement of the thermal efficiency of dwellings by the installation of weatherization materials such as attic insulation, caulking, weatherstripping and storm windows, furnace efficiency modifications certain mechanical measures to heating and cooling systems, and replacement furnaces and boilers. States may average expenditures per dwelling unit for materials, program support and labor costs not to exceed $2002 adjusted annually for inflation. Up to 10 percent of each grant may be spent by a State and its subgrantees for administrative expenses (a State may not use more than 5 percent of the total State grant for such purposes).

Applicant Eligibility: States, including the District of Columbia, and in certain instances, Native American tribal organizations. In the event a State does not apply, a unit of general purpose local government, or community action agencies and/or other nonprofit agencies within that State becomes eligible to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Boston: Telephone: (617) 565-9710. Philadelphia: Telephone: (215) 656-6954. Atlanta: Telephone: (404) 347-2888. Chicago: (312) 886-8575. Denver: Telephone: (303) 275-4801. Seattle: Telephone: (206) 553-1132.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of State and Community Programs, Mail Stop EE-44, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Washington, DC 20585. Telephone: (202) 586-4074.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: State funded local action agencies install energy conservation measures in the homes of low-income persons.

81.106 TRANSPORT OF TRANSURANIC WASTES TO THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT: STATES AND TRIBAL CONCERNS, PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

OBJECTIVES: To enlist cooperation among the tribes, the southern, western, and Midwestern States on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) shipping corridors, and DOE in developing plans and procedures for the safe and uneventful transportation of transuranic waste from current temporary storage facilities to the WIPP.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The participating States, tribes, and the DOE will work to develop, coordinate, and implement activities in accident prevention, emergency preparedness, and public information programs to help ensure the safe transportation of transuranic waste to the WIPP site and safe disposal operations. Financial assistance is provided to support cooperation among the tribes, the southern, western, and Midwestern States on the WIPP corridors, and DOE in developing plans and procedures for the safe uneventful transportation of transuranic waste from current temporary storage facilities to WIPP. Restrictions on the use of funds depends on the specific collaborative agreement. Applicants must meet the guidelines established by DOE.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligibility is restricted by action of the Western Governors' Association, Southern Governors' Association, the State of New Mexico and tribal governments along WIPP transportation routes. Southern governors authorized the Southern States Energy Board to act as their agent to negotiate and administer a cooperative agreement between DOE, ten southern, and three Midwestern State governments. The Western Governors' Association is the negotiating body for nine western States on the WIPP transportation route. The State of New Mexico has negotiated a separate agreement. Each tribal government on the WIPP transportation route will elected to represent themselves. Participation in this program is restricted to the above list of organizations and to the 10 affected tribal governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: DOE Carlsbad Area Office, Department of Energy, P.O. Box 3090, Carlsbad, NM 88221-3090. Contact: Telephone: (505) 234-7335.

Headquarters Office: Office of Western Operations, Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585. Contact: Telephone: (301) 903-8466.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Details on funded projects for transportation and emergency response planning activities are contained in State and tribal work plans submitted to the Carlsbad Area Office.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

66.418 CONSTRUCTION GRANTS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To assist and serve as an incentive in construction of municipal wastewater treatment works which are required to meet State and/or Federal water quality standards and improve the water quality in the waters of the United States.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For construction of municipal wastewater treatment works including privately owned individual treatment systems, if a municipality applies on behalf of a number of such systems. Such works may serve all or portions of individual communities, metropolitan areas, or regions. A project may include, but may not be limited to, treatment of industrial wastes. The grantee must require pretreatment of any industrial wastes which would otherwise be detrimental to efficient operation and maintenance, or the grantee must prevent the entry of such waste into the treatment plant. The grantee must initiate an acceptable system of user charges.

Applicant Eligibility: Any municipality, intermunicipal agency, State, or interstate agency, or Federally-recognized Indian tribal government, having jurisdiction over waste disposal. This program is available to each State, territory and possession of the U.S., including the District of Columbia. Title VI funds that are allotted as Title II to the District of Columbia (DC), American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands and Virgin Islands can be utilized to award construction grants in the same territories respectively, as per the allotment formula of the Clean Water Act of 1987, as amended.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Information regarding appropriate waste treatment requirements and State and Federal assistance may be obtained from the State water pollution control agency. Individuals may also communicate with the appropriate EPA Regional Office listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog. Also, contact your State agency concerning possible assistance under a State revolving fund (Title VI) of the 1987 Amendments of the Clean Water Act.

Headquarters Office: Gajindar Singh, Municipal Assistance Branch, MC-4204M, Municipal Support Division, Office of Wastewater Management, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 564-0634. Fax: (202) 501-2396.

66.458 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR STATE REVOLVING FUNDS (State Revolving Fund)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To create State Revolving Funds (SRFs) through a program of capitalization grants to States which will provide a long term source of State financing for construction of wastewater treatment facilities and implementation of other water quality management activities (see 66.418).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Capitalization grants are available to each State for the purpose of establishing a clean water State revolving fund for providing assistance for: (1) construction of publicly owned wastewater treatment works; (2) implementing nonpoint source management activities included in State Plans developed pursuant to Section 319; and (3) developing and implementing an estuary conservation and management plan under Section 320. The capitalization grant is deposited in the SRF, which is used to provide loans and other types of financial assistance, but not grants, to local communities and intermunicipal and interstate agencies. Assistance may be provided to persons for implementing nonpoint source and estuary management activities if provided for in State Plans developed under Sections 319 and 320. Up to 4 percent of the grant amounts may be used for the cost of administering the SRF.

Applicant Eligibility: States, territories and possessions of the U.S., including the District of Columbia may use allotments under Title II as grants for the construction of municipal wastewater facilities. Indian tribes are eligible to receive capitalization grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: State Revolving Fund Branch, Municipal Support Division, (4204), Office of Wastewater Management, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202)260-7366.

66.461 WETLANDS PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and Indian tribes in developing new or enhancing existing wetlands protection programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: These grants are intended to encourage wetlands protection program development or to enhance/augment existing effective programs. The projects that will be funded under this program should support the initial development of a wetlands protection program or support enhancement/refinement of a existing program. It is anticipated that funding will fall into two broad categories of projects: (1) encouragement of developing new programs or (2) augmentation of ongoing, effective wetlands programs. Grant funds cannot be used for operational support of wetlands protection programs. Projects must clearly demonstrate a direct link to increasing a State's or tribe's ability to protect its wetlands resources.

Applicant Eligibility: State or tribal agencies; interstate/inter- tribal entities and associations; and local governmental entities are eligible to receive funding.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA, Region I, Boston, MA 02203. Telephone: (617) 565-3227. Wetlands Protection Section, EPA, Region II, New York, NY 10278. Telephone: (212) 637-3801. Environmental Services Division, EPA, Region III, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Telephone: (215) 566-2714. Wetlands Protection Section, EPA, Region IV, Atlanta, GA 30365. Telephone: (404) 562-9414., EPA, Region V, Chicago, IL 60604. Telephone: (312) 886-6115. EPA, Region VI, Dallas, TX 75202. Telephone: (214) 655-8334. Water Resources Protection Branch, EPA, Region VII, Kansas City, KS 66101. Telephone:(913) 551-7930. EPA, Region VIII, Denver, CO 80202. Telephone: (303) 312-6223. Water Management Division, EPA, Region IX, San Francisco, CA 94105. Telephone: (415) 974-1974. Aquatic Resources Unit, EPA, Region X, Seattle, WA 98101. Telephone: (206) 553-6221.

Headquarters Office: Wetlands Division, Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (4502F), EPA, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-5084.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

66.468 CAPITALIZATION GRANTS FOR DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND (Drinking Water State Revolving Fund)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF GROUND WATER AND DRINKING WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To create Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (DWSRFs) through a program of capitalization grants to States which will provide a long-term source of State financing for the costs of infrastructure needed to achieve or maintain compliance with SDWA requirements, and to protect public health. State may also use the Federal funds to establish new programs that emphasize preventing contamination problems through source water protection and enhanced water systems management.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Capitalization grants are available to each State for the purpose of establishing a DWSRF for providing assistance for construction of drinking water and systems. The capitalization grant is deposited in the DWSRF, which is used to provide loans and other types of financial assistance to eligible public water systems. A State may elect to use up to 31 percent of the capitalization grant for other eligible activities, including 4 percent for administration. States may also elect to transfer up to one-third of the DWSRF capitalization grant to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) or an equivalent amount from the CWSRF to the DWSRF one year after establishing their program.

Applicant Eligibility: States and Puerto Rico are eligible to receive capitalization grants. The District of Columbia, Territories, and Indian tribes are eligible for direct grants from the program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Implementation and Assistance Division, Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-5526.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.

66.471 STATE GRANTS TO REIMBURSE OPERATORS OF SMALL WATER SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION COSTS (Operator Certification Expense Reimbursement Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: The grants provide funds to States to reimburse the costs of training, including an appropriate per diem for unsalaried operators, and certification for persons operating community and nontransient noncommunity public water systems serving 3,300 persons or fewer that are required to undergo training pursuant to EPA's operator certification guidelines.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used by States to reimburse operators of community and nontransient noncommunity water systems serving 3,300 persons or fewer for the costs of training and certification needed to meet EPA guidelines. Unsalaried operators may also be reimbursed for per diem costs. States are allowed to use a portion of their grant to administer the program. If a State has reimbursed all such costs, the State may, after notice to the Administrator of EPA, use any remaining funds from the grant for any of the other purposes authorized for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) capitalization grants under section 1452 of the 1996 SDWA Amendments.

Applicant Eligibility: States, Puerto Rico and Territories are eligible to receive grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Jenny Jacobs, Protection Branch (4606), Drinking Water Protection Division, Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-2939.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

66.473 DIRECT IMPLEMENTATION TRIBAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS (DITCA)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF WATER, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: Direct Implementation Tribal Cooperative Agreements provide financial assistance to allow Tribes and Intertribal Consortia to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implement Federal environmental programs for Indian Tribes, notwithstanding the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act. The program promotes Tribal involvement in EPA direct implementation of Federal environmental programs for Tribes depending upon each Tribe's interest and ability. It will help Tribes build the capacity to carry out EPA-approved Tribal programs in the future if they wish to do so. EPA retains final decision-making authority and ultimate responsibility for the environmental programs including all regulatory activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: DITCAs assist Tribes in helping EPA directly implement Federal environmental programs required or authorized by law in the absence of an acceptable Tribal program, and may only be awarded to Tribes to assist the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law.

Applicant Eligibility: Tribes and Intertribal Consortia are eligible. An Intertribal Consortium is eligible to receive cooperative agreements under this authority only if the Consortium demonstrates that all members of the Consortium are Federally recognized and authorize the Consortium to apply for and receive a cooperative agreement on their behalf. (See Guidelines for Direct Implementation Tribal Cooperative Agreements (DITCAs) for fiscal year 2002.)

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Grants Administration Division, EPA. Telephone: (202) 564-5084. Anthony Hanson, American Indian Environmental Office. Telephone: (202)564-0286.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

66.604 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANTS TO SMALL COMMUNITY GROUPS (EJGSC)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to grassroots community-based groups to support projects to design, demonstrate or disseminate practices, methods or techniques related to environmental justice. Specifically, EPA will grant funding assistance to be used for: 1. environmental justice education and awareness programs; 2. environmental Justice Programs (for example, river monitoring and pollution prevention programs); 3. technical assistance in gathering and interpreting existing environmental justice data; and 4. technical assistance to access available public information.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds shall be used to support projects, programs or activities that promote environmental justice. Projects may include: 1. design, demonstration, or dissemination of environmental justice curricula, including development of education tools and materials; 2. design and demonstration of field methods, practices, and techniques, including assessment of environmental and ecological conditions and analysis of environmental and public health problems; 3. identification, assessment or improvement of a specific local environmental justice issue or a specific environmental problem; 4. provision of environmental justice training or related education for teachers, faculty, or related personnel in a specific geographic area or region. Priority will be given to community-based/grassroots organizations, tribes, and organizations whose projects will help improve the environmental quality of affected communities by a) developing an environmental justice project, activity, method, or technique that has wide application, b) enhancing the community's skills in addressing environmental justice issues and problems, and c) establishing or expanding environmental and public health information systems for local communities. No funds made available for this program shall be used for the acquisition of real property (including building) or the construction or substantial modification of any building. Grant funds also are not available for use in lobbying or underwriting legal actions, including the preparation of court testimony and hiring of expert witnesses. Applicant Eligibility: Community-based grassroots organizations, other incorporated nonprofit organizations and federally recognized Tribal Governments are eligible. Individuals may have their organizations, institutions, government or association apply. Organizations must be incorporated to receive funds.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact EPA Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Environmental Justice, (2201A), Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 564-2515.

Environmental Justice Hotline: 1-800-962-6215.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

66.709 CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR STATES AND TRIBES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To build and improve the capacity of States, multi-jurisdictional State organizations and federally recognized tribes by providing assistance agreements to foster environmental enforcement and compliance assurance activities and to improve compliance with environmental laws. Such capacity building efforts may include economic, social science, statistical research, development, studies, surveys, demonstrations, investigations, public education, training and fellowships to the extent authorized under the Acts listed above.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance identifies special focus areas each funding cycle (approximately every 2 years). Previous years have included calls for proposals for innovative enforcement and compliance assurance projects including performance measurement, data quality, and public access to information

Applicant Eligibility: State agencies, U.S. territories, multi-jurisdictional State organizations, and federally recognized tribes, including the District of Columbia, with enforcement and compliance assurance responsibilities or responsibilities that support enforcement and compliance assurance including but not limited to data management or research.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.

Headquarters Office: The Office of Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg., 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202)564-2280.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The focus area within enforcement and compliance assurance changes from year to year. The focus area for a given year is announced in a solicitation (Notice of Availability of Funds) which is distributed by EPA Regions and posted on the OECA web-site above. Previous focus areas included performance measurement, data quality, and public access to information.

66.715 CHILDHOOD BLOOD-LEAD SCREENING AND LEAD AWARENESS (EDUCATIONAL) OUTREACH FOR INDIAN TRIBES (Tribal Lead Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF PREVENTION, PESTICIDES AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To encourage Indian Tribes to recognize the risks to children associated with lead exposure and address them by conducting blood-lead screening for tribal children and providing lead awareness activities to Indian Tribes.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance may be available for activities which relate to blood-lead screening of tribal children and outreach efforts to educate Indian families about the dangers of exposure to lead-based paint hazards among children.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible recipients are Federally recognized Indian Tribes or Tribal consortiums (an association or partnership with one or more Federally recognized Indian Tribes) only.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See EPA Regional Offices listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.

Headquarters Office: For general information: Director, National Program Chemicals Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (7404), Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg., 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-1866. Information is also available on the EPA Home web page at http://www.epa.gov/lead.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not Applicable.

66.806 SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR CITIZEN GROUPS AT PRIORITY SITES (SUPERFUND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide resources under CERCLA, Section 117(e) for community groups to hire technical advisors who can assist them in interpreting technical information concerning the assessment of potential hazards and the selection and design of appropriate remedies at sites eligible for cleanup under the Superfund program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (a) Activities for which Federal funds may be used: Federal funds may be used at sites listed or proposed for listing on the NPL where cleanup is underway to obtain technical assistance in interpreting information with regard to the nature of the hazard, remedial investigation and feasibility study, record of decision, selection and construction of remedial action, operation and maintenance, or removal action. (b) Limitations on the use of Federal Funds: 1) Federal funds may not be used to develop new information, such as conducting independent testing and monitoring activities at a site. 2) Under CERCLA, as amended, grant funds also are not available for use in underwriting legal actions, including the preparation of court testimony and hiring of expert witnesses. 3) Grant funds are not available for any activities or expenditures for recipient group members' travel. 4) Grant funds may not be used for political activity and lobbying. 5) Grant funds may not be used for epidemiological or health studies, such as blood or urine testing. 6) Grant funds are not available for activities inconsistent with the cost principles stated in OMB Circular No. A-122.

Applicant Eligibility: EPA is authorized to make technical assistance grants (TAG) available to any qualified group of individuals which may be affected by a release or threatened release at any Superfund facility. "Affected" individuals are those who can demonstrate direct effects from the site, such as actual or potential health or economic injury. The recipient group must incorporate to receive funds. EPA is proposing to allow Tribes to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Check your local telephone directory for a list of the Regions and their States.

Headquarters Office: Community Involvement and Outreach Center, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response, Mail code: 5204G, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (703) 603-8889.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Each project provides funds to local groups of citizens active at Superfund clean-up sites to hire independent technical advisors. The grants help citizens acquire technical advisors to help them understand proposed clean-up remedies, to better understand the technical problem at the site, and respond to EPA actions.

66.808 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To promote use of integrated solid waste management systems to solve municipal solid waste generation and management problems at the local, regional and national levels.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Available for the allowable direct cost expenditures incident to program performance plus allocable portions of allowable indirect costs of the institution, in accordance with established EPA policies. Projects can include the following types of activities: training, surveys, education materials and programs, studies, and demonstrations; assistance to such projects shall not include any element of construction, or any acquisition of land or interest in land, or any subsidy for the price of recovered resources. Financial assistance to States, local, regional, and interstate authorities for development and implementation of plans approved by the Administrator under subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is not allowed.

Applicant Eligibility: These funds can be awarded to the following types of nonprofit entities: public authorities (Federal, State, interstate, intrastate and local), public agencies and institutions; private organizations and agencies, institutions and individuals; and Indian Tribes. Profit-making organizations are not eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Individuals are encouraged to communicate with the appropriate EPA Regional Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: For information concerning grant applications and procedures, contact the Environmental Protection Agency, Grants Administration Division, 3903F, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-9266.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) National Solid Waste Information Clearinghouse: Provides information to the nation on solid waste management alternatives. (2) Targeted Media Recycling Outreach: Funded television and radio commercials that received over $80,000,000 in free air play. (3) Peer Match Program: Provides technical assistance to local government by matching local government experts with local governments requesting assistance. (4) Report on Scrap-Based Manufacturing: funded production of a report to assist communities in attracting scrap-based manufacturing.

66.811 BROWNFIELD PILOTS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: Brownfield sites are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. The objectives of the Brownfield Pilot Cooperative Agreement are to: (1) generally develop administrative, managerial, and technical models to assist States or political subdivisions thereof or Indian Tribes establish self-sustaining independent processes to assess and respond to environmental conditions inhibiting redevelopment of brownfield sites including development of creative financing solutions for brownfield problems; (2) specifically provide opportunities for creative two-year demonstrations of site assessment activities leading to actions to respond to environmental contamination and return "brownfield" sites to productive use; and (3) provide financial assistance for capitalization of revolving loan funds for follow up brownfield response actions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (1) Funds for assessment pilot activities must show direct links to site assessment, site identification, site investigation, planning and or site characterization at sites which have an actual, threatened, or suspected release of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, and may be used to develop creative financing solutions (e.g. tax incentives, revolving loan funds) for brownfield response actions. (2) Pilot funds may only be used for activities associated with "removal actions" as that term is defined at Section 101(23) of CERCLA. Funds may not be used to pay for "remedial actions" as that term is defined at Section 101(24) of CERCLA. (3) Funds may not be used for actual development activities (e.g. construction of a new facility) or to pay for job training. (4) Funds for pilot activities may not be used at sites contaminated by petroleum products except to the extent they are believed to be co-mingled with a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. (5) Funds may not be used to match any other Federal funds. (6) Funds awarded for capitalization of revolving loan programs must be used for follow up response actions at Brownfield assessment pilot sites that have completed or have substantially completed assessment activities, unless unique circumstances warrant an exception to this restriction.

Applicant Eligibility: States and political subdivisions, Commonwealths, and U.S. Territories and Possessions, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: EPA Regional Brownfield Coordinators.

Headquarters Office: Director, Outreach and Special Projects Staff, OSWER, EPA, Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-1223.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Developing inventory of Brownfield sites; development of site response and reuse program; coordination of response and reuse group meetings; establishment of community involvement, public participation, environmental justice components of a response plan; development of communication strategies for conveyance of technical information to communities; and investigation of alternative funding strategies.

66.812 HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANTS FOR TRIBES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes is to provide financial assistance to Tribal governments and Intertribal Consortia for the development and implementation of programs to manage hazardous waste; including building capacity to improve and maintain regulatory compliance, and developing solutions to address hazardous waste mismanagement impacting Tribal lands. Fiscal year 2002 funding priorities include support for Tribes potentially affected by regulated RCRA "Treatment Storage and Disposal Facilities" and "Large Quantity Generators."

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This grant program will support Tribal programs to manage hazardous waste. These programs should improve the applicant's ability to properly identify, manage, or dispose of hazardous waste. All hazardous waste management program activities that address the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C "cradle to grave" approach are eligible. Assistance will be provided under this program only for activities which the agency determines are appropriate to carry out the purposes of RCRA.

Applicant Eligibility: The following are eligible to receive financial assistance: (a) an Indian tribal government; and (b) an intertribal consortium or consortia. An Indian tribal government is any tribe, band nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation (as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. 1601, et seq.), which is recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior as eligible for the special services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians. A consortium is a partnership between two or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance under this program and that meet the requirements of 40 CFR 35.504.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Designated Regional Tribal Hazardous Waste Management Program Contacts may be listed in local telephone directories or check headquarters office.

Headquarters Office: Luke Jones, Office of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., (5303W) Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (703) 605-0728.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following activities are suggestive and do not limit the range of activities considered eligible under this grant program. These activities are eligible only when they are performed in support of developing and implementing a tribal program to manage hazardous waste: (1) Develop and implement codes, regulations, and ordinances to regulate hazardous waste management activities including generators, transporters, and treatment, storage and disposal facilities; and policies and guidance consistent with national standards to direct regulatory operations; (2) Develop and implement hazardous waste program enforcement policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance, including monitoring and inspection schemes; (3) Develop legal and administrative infrastructure adequate to implement and maintain regulatory and/or non-regulatory hazardous waste management programs. Includes support for Tribal Emergency Response Committees (TERC); (4) Identify and assess hazardous waste generation and ongoing management of concern to the community, including: (a) inventory active and inactive hazardous waste dump/disposal sites and assess contamination potential; (b) characterize hazardous waste stream, including illegal dump-sites; and (c) identify sensitive hazardous waste sites with potential or actual impacts on water bodies, soil, air, cultural/historic resources, threatened or endangered species, etc. (5) Develop and implement tribal integrated hazardous waste management plans (including, but not limited to, source reduction/recycling, household hazardous waste collection programs, pesticide container collection); (6) Implement used oil collection/re- use and other programs to reduce the mismanagement of hazardous waste in the community; (7) Develop outreach/education documents and other resource materials; (8) Plan and conduct hazardous waste management training; (9) Establish qualifications for hazardous waste management personnel relative to the tribe's needs and plan for program implementation; (10) Establish a communications plan for hazardous waste management program activities; (11) Identify multi-jurisdictional opportunities for hazardous waste management, including feasibility for intergovernmental (Tribal, Federal, State, local) cooperative efforts.

66.926 INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (General Assistance Program (GAP) for Tribes)

FEDERAL AGENCY: AMERICAN INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide general assistance grants (GAP) to Indian tribal governments and intertribal consortia to build capacity to administer environmental regulatory programs on Indian lands; and provide technical assistance from EPA to Indian tribal governments and intertribal consortia in the development of multimedia programs to address environmental issues on Indian lands.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Activities eligible for funding under this program are those for planning, developing, and establishing capability to implement environmental protection programs including development of solid and hazardous waste programs. General assistance agreements offer the opportunity for a tribe to develop an integrated environmental program, develop the capability to manage specific programs and establish a core program for environmental protection. These assistance agreements provide the opportunity for the tribes to define and develop administrative and legal infrastructures; to conduct assessments, monitoring, planning, and other actions; and to undertake additional activities within a simplified administrative framework. The primary purpose of these assistance agreements is to support the development of elements of a core environmental program, such as: providing for tribal capacity-building to assure an environmental presence for identifying programs and projects, including developing proposals for environmental program grants and managing environmental work; fostering compliance with Federal environmental statutes by developing appropriate tribal environmental programs, ordinances and services; and establishing a communications capability to work with Federal, State, local and other tribal environmental officials. Restrictions: The principal focus of this program is on the development of general tribal environmental capability. Assistance will be provided under this program only for activities which the agency determines are appropriate to carry out the purposes of the Act. No single grant awarded under this program may be for an amount exceeding ten percent of the total annual funds appropriated under Section (h) of the Act. As with many of EPA's grants to States and Tribes, GAP grants may now be combined with one or more other EP grants into a Performance Partnership Grant for administrative savings and, with EPA concurrence, programmatic flexibility.

Applicant Eligibility: The following are eligible to receive financial assistance: (a) an Indian tribal government; and (b) an intertribal consortium or consortia. An Indian tribal government is any tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation (as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 43 U.S.C. 1601, et seq.), which is recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior as eligible for the special services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians. A consortium is a partnership between two or more Indian tribal governments authorized by the governing bodies of those tribes to apply for and receive assistance under this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applicants are encouraged to communicate with their Regional Indian Program Coordinator listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: American Indian Environmental Office (4104) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460. Telephone: (202) 260-7939.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Purpose: The general assistance program is intended to provide general assistance grants for planning, developing and establishing the capability to implement programs administered by EPA on Indian lands. Examples of past funded projects include: establishment of a water quality assessment program; an environmental assessment inventory; establishment of an environmental code; establishment of a multi-media program to address water quality, air quality, safe drinking water, solid waste, hazardous waste and pesticides; establishment of a management plan with emphasis on wastewater sludge reclamation and tire recovery; establishment of a program to address underground storage tanks, SARA Title III and radon.

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

83.010 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY, UNITED STATES FIRE ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To increase the professional level of the fire service and others responsible for fire prevention and control. TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Training.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Training is provided at the resident facility in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and in the field in cooperation with State or local fire training agencies on specific subjects to specific audiences. The program is not open to the general public or to individuals who do not have a need for the information as part of their normal responsibilities.

Applicant Eligibility: Any individual who is a member of a fire department or has significant responsibility for fire prevention and control.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: National Emergency Training Center, Educational and Technology Services Branch, 16825 S. Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: (301) 447-1000.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Students are provided an opportunity to attend courses at the National Fire Academy resident facility or at a convenient off-campus location with a minimal cost to the individual or the fire department represented.

83.012 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: CHEMICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESS DIVISION, PREPAREDNESS, TRAINING AND EXERCISES DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: Provide technical and financial assistance through the States to support State, local and Indian tribal governments in oil and hazardous materials emergency planning and exercising. To encourage State, Tribal and local governments to support the National Response System (NRS). To support the Comprehensive Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Emergency Response - Capability Assessment Program (CHER-CAP) Activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Equipment purchases (e.g. ADP, facsimile), training and reimbursement of salaries and benefits are restricted. Funding must be used for planning and/or exercising projects that will serve to enhance emergency management capability for dealing with oil and hazardous materials releases.

Applicant Eligibility: States, locals, tribes, U.S. territories, State Emergency Response Committees (SERCs), and Local Emergency Planning Commissions (LEPCs).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: FEMA regional office responsible for coordinating program activities.

Headquarters Office: Chemical and Radiological Preparedness Division, 500 C St., S.W., Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-4542.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Planning and/or exercise projects.

83.105 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM STATE SUPPORT SERVICES ELEMENT (CAP-SSSE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: MITIGATION DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To ensure that communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are achieving flood loss reduction measures consistent with program direction. The CAP-SSSE is intended to identify, prevent and resolve floodplain management issues in participating communities before they develop into problems requiring enforcement action.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The CAP-SSSE is a product-oriented program directly related to the flood loss reduction objectives of the NFIP. Available CAP-SSSE funding is provided on a 75 percent maximum Federal and 25 percent minimum State cost-sharing basis. Both cash and in-kind resources must be specifically identified to designated activities. States estimate product completion as described in a mutually negotiated cooperative agreement under FEMA's Performance Partnership Agreement (PPA).

Applicant Eligibility: FEMA's ten Regional Offices will provide each State Governor's Office with the Cooperative Agreement Performance Partnership Agreement (PPA) Package. While all States receive copies of the solicitation package, the Request for Application does not establish eligibility to participate in the SSSE. FEMA annually informs each State of its eligibility to participate in the SSSE under notification separate from the solicitation package. The SSSE is administered through the Mitigation Division of each FEMA Regional Office. FEMA's Regional Offices will contact eligible States to negotiate a mutually acceptable cooperative agreement. Funding is made available when the cooperative agreement is negotiated and agreed upon. Participation in the SSSE is dependent upon the above described factors and completing activities described in the cooperative agreement.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local telephone directory for list for FEMA Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mitigation Directorate, Program Implementation Division, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-3121.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Community Assistance Visits/Contacts (CAV/CAC), Ordinance Assistance, Coordination Meeting with Regional Office, Community Rating System Application Assistance and Review/Workshops, Flood Loss Reduction Assistance and Publications, General Technical Assistance.

83.537 COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RESPONSE AND RECOVERY DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide loans to any local government that has suffered substantial loss of tax and other revenue in an area in which the President designates a major disaster exists. The funds can only be used to maintain existing functions of a municipal operating character and the local government must demonstrate a need for financial assistance.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Loans are made only to local governments or other political subdivisions of the State, and are based on need, not to exceed 25 percent of the annual operating budget of the local government for the fiscal year in which the disaster occurs. The funds cannot be used to meet the nonfederal share of any Federal program, finance capital improvements, or repair or restore public facilities. FEMA may cancel repayment of all or part of the loan. Cancellation depends on the extent that revenues in the 3 full fiscal years following fiscal year of the major disaster are insufficient to meet the operating budget of the local government, as a result of the disaster, including additional disaster-related operating expenses.

Applicant Eligibility: Applicants must be in a designated major disaster area and must demonstrate that they meet the specific conditions of FEMA Disaster Assistance Regulations 44 CFR Part 206, Subpart K, Community Disaster Loans. To be eligible the applicant must demonstrate: 1) a substantial loss of tax and other revenues, as a result of a major disaster; and 2) a need for financial assistance to perform its governmental functions.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for a listing of addresses for FEMA's Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Response and Recovery Directorate, 500 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-3683.

83.544 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: RESPONSE AND RECOVERY DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide supplemental assistance to States, local governments, and political subdivisions to the State, Indian Tribes, Alaskan Native Villages, and certain nonprofit organizations in alleviating suffering and hardship resulting from major disasters or emergencies declared by the President.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

Applicant Eligibility: State and local governments, other political subdivisions such as a special districts, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, Alaska Native villages or organizations, but not Alaska Native Corporations, and certain Private Non-Profit organizations in designated emergency or major disaster areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Use FEMA's Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Response and Recovery Directorate, Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-2751.

83.552 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANTS (EMPG)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To encourage the development of comprehensive emergency management, including for terrorism consequence management, at the State and local level and to improve emergency planning, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery capabilities. By combining several funding streams into a consolidated Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG),FEMA's purpose is to ensure that recipients have the flexibility necessary to achieve measurable results in key functional areas of emergency management. Incorporated into EMPG are the following: 83.011, Hazardous Materials Training Program for Implementation of the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986; 83.505, State Disaster Preparedness Grants; and 83.535, Mitigation Assistance. Indian tribal governments must still apply under 83.011. This flexibility will be achieved within the standard grant administration process. The thirteen key functional areas of emergency management are: Laws and Authorities; Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment; Hazard Management; Resource Management; Planning; Direction, Control, and Coordination; Communications and Warning; Operations and Procedures; Logistics and Facilities; Training; Exercises; Public Education and Information; and Finance and Administration.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: EMPGs may be used for necessary and reasonable expenses to accomplish program purposes consistent with statutory authorization.

Applicant Eligibility: All States are eligible (including the District of Columbia and territories and possessions of the United States).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Local telephone directory for a listing of FEMA Regional Office addresses. State and local government officials are encouraged to contact their State and local emergency management departments or agencies.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-7057. FAX: (202) 646-4157. E-mail: jonna.long@fema.gov.

83.553 STATE FIRE TRAINING SYSTEMS GRANTS (National Fire Academy Training Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: FIRE ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to State Fire Training Systems for the delivery of a variety of National Fire Academy courses/programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds are to be used within each State to deliver NFA training courses/programs and for marketing, administrative costs and electronic feedback of student data. Each State shall spend at least $20,000 in costs relating directly to the delivery of course materials. Computer purchases are restricted.

Applicant Eligibility: Representatives from the 50 State Fire Training Systems.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: FEMA regional offices.

Headquarters Office: National Fire Academy, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727. Attention: Field Training Specialist. Telephone: (301) 447-1376.

83.554 ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT(FIRE GRANTS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: UNITED STATES FIRE ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide direct assistance, on a competitive basis, to fire departments of a State or tribal nation for the purpose of protecting the health and safety of the public and firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Firefighting Operations and Firefighter Safety, Eligible Uses: Training, Wellness and Fitness, Firefighting Equipment, Personal Protective Equipment, Other Equipment and Supplies; Restrictions: One-year Funds, Funding Restrictions and/or Limits on Certain Equipment, Personnel, Construction, Vehicles. Protecting the Public from Fire and Fire Related Hazards, Eligible Uses: Public Awareness, Public Education, Inspector Certifications, Building Code Development and Enforcement, Arson Prevention and Detection, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medical Vehicles, Training, Equipment/Props/Supplies, Transportation, Contracts/Consultants, Program Personnel; Restrictions: One-year Funds, Funding Limits on Certain Equipment, Construction. Firefighting Vehicles, Eligible Uses: Pumpers/Engines, Tankers/Tenders, Brush Trucks/Attack Pumpers, Rescue, Quints, Aerial Apparatus, Hazardous Material, Ambulance/Transport, Communications/Command, Foam Units, Boats, Equipment for the Vehicle; Restrictions: Aircraft, Hazardous Material, Construction, Personnel, 1- year Funding, Funding Limits on Certain Equipment.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants for this grant program are limited to fire departments located in the fifty United States, tribal nations, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. A fire department is defined as an agency or organization that has a formally recognized arrangement with a State or local authority (city, county, parish, fire district, township, town, or other governing body) to provide fire suppression, fire prevention and rescue services within a fixed geographical area. An emergency medical services unit can apply for assistance provided the unit falls organizationally under the auspices of a fire department as defined above. Also, States, Tribal Nations, U.S. Territories, and national, local, or community organizations, that currently have a fire prevention or fire safety program or activity focused on the prevention of injuries to children from fire, are eligible for funding under this grant program expand or enhance their existing fire prevention or fire safety program. Fire departments, which are Federal or contracted by the Federal government and whose sole responsibility is suppression of fires on Federal installations, are not eligible for funding under this grant program. Also not eligible for this program are Ambulance Services, Rescue Squads, Auxiliaries, Dive Teams, Urban, Search and Rescue Teams, Fire Service Organizations and Associations, and State/local agencies such as Forest Service, Fire Marshals, Hospitals, and Training Facilities. Tribal fire departments are not eligible to apply for functions, activities, or materials under this program that are funded by other Federal agencies.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Detailed information about the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program can be obtained from the FEMA Fire Liaisons in FEMA's regional offices. See your local telephone directory for a listing of FEMA Regional Offices or check with headquarters.

Headquarters Office: Detailed information about the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program can also be obtained from the National Fire Programs Division of the U.S. Fire Administration. The specific contacts, addresses, and phone numbers are as follows: Director, National Fire Programs Division, Room 307, N Building, National Emergency Training Center, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: (301) 447-1362; Chief, Fire Grants Program Branch, Room 304, Federal Center Plaza, 500 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-2821.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training: A fire department where a high percentage of firefighting staff needs basic firefighting training. Wellness and Fitness: A fire department that wants to establish a wellness and fitness program that offers an entry-level physical and a job-related immunization program. Firefighting Vehicle: A fire department that has few or no vehicles of the type for which they are applying and whose existing fleet is old with high mileage and/or high volume of calls. Firefighting Equipment: A fire department that needs basic firefighting equipment to satisfy a statutory requirement but has never been able to purchase such equipment. Personal Protective Equipment: A fire department where a high percentage of firefighting staff has never had personal protective equipment and wants to purchase enough equipment to protect all of the firefighting staff. Fire Prevention Programs: A fire department that wants to establish a public education program that focuses on children under 16 years of age, seniors, and/or firefighters, in a community that has no such program.

83.556 FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE GRANT

FEDERAL AGENCY: READINESS, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY DIRECTORATE, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to States, Indian tribal governments and local governments for the mitigation, management and control of any fire burning on publicly (nonfederal) or privately owned forest or grassland that threatens such destruction as would constitute a major disaster.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Provision of Specialized Services.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Fire Management Assistance Grants are made in the form of cost-sharing grants for the mitigation, management, and control of any fire on publicly (nonfederal) or privately owned forestland or grassland that threatens such destruction as would constitute a major disaster.

Applicant Eligibility: State governments and Indian tribal governments are eligible for fire management assistance grants. The State or Indian tribal government may be the Grantee. The Grantee is the government to which a grant is awarded, and is accountable for the use of funds provided.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for a listing of addresses for FEMA's Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Readiness, Response and Recovery Directorate, Washington, DC 20472. Telephone: (202) 646-4535.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

93.005 PROJECT GRANTS FOR FACILITIES TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF MINORITY POPULATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH, OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SCIENCE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To construct, renovate, expand, repair, or modernize facilities designed to promote the improvement of the health status of minority under served communities and populations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded should be expended solely for carrying out approved projects in accordance with the provisions of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 1997 (Public Law 104-208).

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact:, Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, DHHS, Rockwall II Building, Suite 1000, 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5084. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Rockwall II, Suite 1000, 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 594-0758.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Construction of National Primary Care Center; construction and renovation of facility for the promotion of the wellness of African-American women; construction of a facility to enhance educational programs in the pre-health/health and regulatory sciences programs.

93.045 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE III, PART C NUTRITION SERVICES

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to States to support nutrition services including nutritious meals, nutrition education and other appropriate nutrition services for older Americans in order to maintain health, independence and quality of life. Meals may be served in a congregate setting or delivered to the home.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Local projects must provide a hot or other appropriate meal which provides one-third of the "recommended dietary allowance" (RDA), at least once per day, five or more days per week, except in rural areas where a lesser frequency is determined feasible, to eligible people aged 60 and over and their spouses.

Applicant Eligibility: All States and Territories may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrator, Administration on Aging, Office of the Secretary, Regional Offices. (See your local telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: Office of State and Community Programs, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201. Telephone: (202) 619-0011.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.047 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING TITLE VI, PART A, GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES PART B, GRANTS TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION ON AGING, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To promote the delivery of supportive services, including nutrition services, to older Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians and to enable tribal organizations to provide multifaceted systems of support services to family caregivers . Services are comparable to services provided under Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are available through grants to eligible Indian Tribal Organizations for services comparable to those provided under Title III. Services must include nutrition services and information and referral, and may include transportation and other services authorized under Title III. Funds may be used for staffing the center. Indian Tribes receive funds based on a formula that considers the number of eligible elder Indians represented by the tribal organizations with population ranges from 50-100; 101-200; 201-300; 301-400; 401-500; and 501 to 1,500 and 1,501 over. Grants also are available to private or nonprofit organizations having the capacity to provide services to older Native Hawaiians.

Applicant Eligibility: Tribal organizations of Indian tribes eligible for assistance under Section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b) and public or nonprofit private organizations which serve Native Hawaiian Elders, which represent at least 50 Indians or Hawaiians 60 years of age or older. Applicants must document that they have or will have the ability to deliver social and nutrition services. To receive a Part C grant, the organization must have a Part A or Part B grant.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrator, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services Regional Offices in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Programs, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, 330 Independence Avenue, SW., Wilbur Cohen Building, Room 4743, Washington, DC 20201. Telephone: (202) 619-2713.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Supportive and Nutrition Services for Older Indian Persons - Passamaquoddy Tribe, Perry, Maine; (2) Supportive and Nutrition Services to Older Indian Persons -San Carlos Apache Tribe; (3) Supportive and Nutrition Services to Older Indian Persons - Yakima Indian Nation; (4) Supportive and Nutrition Services to Older Indian Persons - St. Croix Tribal Council, Wisconsin; (5) Supportive and Nutrition Services to Older Indians - Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

93.110 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH FEDERAL CONSOLIDATED PROGRAMS (Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS))

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To carry out special maternal and child health (MCH) projects of regional and national significance; to conduct training and research; to conduct genetic disease testing, counseling, and information development and dissemination programs; and to support comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic and treatment centers. These grants are funded with a set-aside from the MCH Block grant program. SPRANS grants are funded with 15 percent of the Block Grant appropriation of up to $600 million, and when the appropriation exceeds $600 million, an additional 12.75 percent is set aside for the Community Integrated Service Systems grants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Training grants are made to institutions of higher learning for training personnel for health care and related services for mothers and children. Research grants are for the purpose of research activities which show promise of a substantial contribution to the advancement of maternal and child health services. Genetic grants are for genetic disease testing, counseling and information development and dissemination. Hemophilia grants are for the support of centers which provide hemophilia diagnostic and treatment services. Other special project grants are designed to support activities of a demonstration nature which are designed to improve services for mothers and children. The grant program, the Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) program, is initiated whenever the total appropriation for a year exceeds $600 million. The sum of 12.75 percent of the amount over $600 million is used to fund this program in which communities employ a variety of strategies including: (1) Home visitation; (2) increased participation of obstetricians and pediatricians; (3) integrated service delivery systems; (4) maternal and child health centers for women and infants, under the direction of a not-for-profit hospital; (5) services for rural populations; and (6) community-based services for children with special health care needs in order to enhance or develop an integrated services system.

Applicant Eligibility: Training grants may be made to public or private nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Research grants may be made to public or private nonprofit institutions of higher learning and public or private nonprofit private agencies and organizations engaged in research or in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) or Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) programs. Any public or private entity is eligible for hemophilia and genetics grants and other special project grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Consult appropriate DHHS Regional Office in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 18-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-2170. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 18-12, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1440.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Health Professional Training Projects; (2) Schools of Public Health; (3) Maternal and Child Health Research; (4) Genetic Screening, Testing and Counseling; (5) Hemophilia diagnosis and treatment centers; (6) Child and Adolescent Health Services Demonstration Projects; (7) Healthy Tomorrows Community Based Partnerships; and (8) Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) to develop comprehensive community based systems to services.

93.127 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN (EMS for Children)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support demonstration projects for the expansion and improvement of emergency medical services for children who need treatment for trauma or critical care. It is expected that maximum distribution of projects among the States will be made and that priority will be given to projects targeted toward populations with special needs, including Native Americans, minorities, and the disabled.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds granted should be expended solely for carrying out the approved project in accordance with Section 1910 of the Public Health Service Act.

Applicant Eligibility: State governments and schools of medicine.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 18A-39, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-4026 or Office of Emergency Enforcement Services, Traffic Safety Program, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NTS-42, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-5440. Grants Management Contact: Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 18-12, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-1440.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The project funded at the Utah Department of Health is designed to expand and improve a state-wide system of emergency medical services for children. The project is regional in scope, working closely with the Idaho, Oregon, and Washington EMSC projects. Components include development of a comprehensive inter-mountain pediatric EMS database, reducing the morbidity and mortality of Native American children living in the region, educating emergency care providers within the region about the capability, availability and response times of existing inter-mountain regional air transport, and establishing regional protocols and educational programs for the EMS systems through the region.

93.129 TECHNICAL AND NON-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH CENTERS AND NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS (NHSC) DELIVERY SITES

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to health centers and NHSC delivery sites in the following areas: (1) Collaborative activities on State, regional or market area levels; (2) involvement of State agencies in assuring primary care to medically underserved populations; (3) development of shared services and joint purchasing arrangements; and (4) provision of, or arrangement for, training, assessment and technical assistance -- for purposes including, but not limited to, primary care provider retention and recruitment, clinical development, assessment of community health needs, expertise in dealing with homeless, public housing, farmworkers, children, rural health and other special populations, and management and maximization of nonfederal resources.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Recipients will be expected to provide certain technical and non-financial assistance to health centers and NHSC delivery sites.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants are private nonprofit entities, including State and regional primary care associations, and a limited number of public agencies.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HRSA Field Office or the Director, Office of State and National Partnerships of the Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA.

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Office of State and National Partnerships, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 3rd Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301) 594-4488. Grants Management, Office of Grants Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A grant to a State regional primary care association for any or all of the following activities: (1) Supporting the use of State resources (including Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, Maternal and Child Health and Special Population funding) for primary care purposes to medically underserved populations; (2) assisting Health Centers in preparing their applications for Federal, State and local funding; (3) providing training and technical assistance in management and governance; (4) developing shared services and joint purchasing agreements; (5) assisting health centers, NHSC delivery sites and other similar providers in retaining and recruiting primary care providers; (6) promoting partnerships with State and local health departments, State Offices of Rural Health, Area Health Education Centers, Ryan White programs, Maternal and Child Health programs, hospitals, specialty and social service providers and residency programs; (7) coordinating activities with National Health Service Corps State loan repayment activities, and other State health profession loan repayment/scholarship programs and encouraging students to pursue careers in primary care; and (8) planning and developing resources for activities in support of pregnant women and children as well as activities targeted towards special needs populations such as the homeless, substance abusers, HIV-infected individuals, rural populations, the elderly and migrant/seasonal farmworkers.

93.130 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES RESOURCE COORDINATION AND DEVELOPMENT (STATE PRIMARY CARE OFFICES)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To coordinate local, State, and Federal resources contributing to primary care service delivery and workforce issues in the State to meet the needs of medically-underserved populations through health centers and other community-based providers of comprehensive primary care and the retention, recruitment, and oversight of health professions for medically underserved populations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Recipients will be expected to perform State-wide primary care planning and resource coordination, including Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance program, State Offices of Rural Health, Ryan White Area Health Education Centers, Maternal and Child Health, etc.; support health systems development, primary care practitioners retention and recruitment, National Health Services Corps monitoring activities, as well as activities relating to other special populations including rural populations; and conduct operational and administrative support activities.

Applicant Eligibility: Cooperative agreements will be made to a State, State agency, or other statewide public or nonprofit entity that operates solely within one State.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HRSA Field Office.

Headquarters Office: Program Contacts: Director, Division of State, Community and Public Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-105, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1648. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants Management, Bureau of Health Professions, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8C-26, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Telephone 301-443-6880.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A State health department was engaged in the following: statewide primary care planning and resource coordination, including coordination with Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, Ryan White Program Area Health Education Centers, Maternal and Child Health and State Offices of Rural health, health systems development; National Health Service Corps monitoring activities, and perinatal activities.

93.151 HEALTH CENTER GRANTS FOR HOMELESS POPULATIONS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To award grants for the purpose of enabling grantees, directly or through contracts, to provide for the delivery of primary health services and substance abuse (alcohol and/or illicit drugs) services to homeless individuals including homeless children. The grants may be used to continue to provide the services listed above for up to 12 months to individuals who have obtained permanent housing if services were provided to these individuals when they were homeless. For the purpose of this program, the term "homeless individual" means an individual who lacks housing (without regard to whether the individual is a member of a family), including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations or an individual who is a resident in transitional housing.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds must be used to provide the following services, directly or through contract: (1) primary health care and substance abuse services at locations accessible to homeless individuals; (2) 24-hour emergency primary health and substance abuse services; (3) referral, as appropriate to medical facilities, for necessary hospital services; (4) referral of homeless individuals who are mentally ill to entities that provide mental health services; (5) outreach services to inform homeless individuals of the availability of primary health and substance abuse services; and (6) aid in establishing eligibility for assistance, and in obtaining services under entitlement programs. Federal funds may not supplant existing public or private resources that are currently allocated to assist homeless populations. Separate grants will be awarded to a limited number of organizations to provide outreach, primary care services, and referral exclusively to homeless children. These grants will be limited to the same restrictions as the other grants.

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit private organizations and public entities, including State and local governmental agencies. Grantees and other organizations with whom they may contract for services under this program must have an agreement with a State under its Medicaid program, Title XIX of the Social Security Act (if they provide services that are covered under the Title XIX plan for the State), and be qualified to receive payments under the agreement.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact HRSA Field Offices.

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Programs for Special Populations, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 9th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4420. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A Health Care for the Homeless Program formed a coalition of community representatives and providers for the provision of primary health, substance abuse, and mental health services to homeless individuals. Health care provider teams will travel to areas with heavy concentrations of homeless individuals. Homeless persons will be provided with primary care outpatient services either at a community health center or in off-site locations, such as shelters for the homeless or welfare hotels. The program will refer for inpatient hospitalization services if necessary. Substance abuse services and mental health services will be provided through existing facilities within the community. The community coalition represents organizations responsible for the provision of other services for homeless individuals such as food, clothing and shelter. Through a system of case management, the program will serve to guide homeless persons to these services. Arrangements for 24-hour emergency services have been made through a community hospital.

93.155 RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support the operation of rural health research centers to provide an information base and policy analysis capability on the full range of rural health services issues, including financing, recruitment and retention of health professionals, access to care, and rural delivery systems.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded should be expended solely for carrying out the approved projects in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 102-170.

Applicant Eligibility: All public and private entities, nonprofit and for-profit, are eligible to apply. Eligible entities may include, but are not limited to, public and private institutions for higher education, public or private health research organizations, and foundations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Rural Health Policy, Office of the Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Parklawn Building, Room 9-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management Contact: Chief, Grant Award Operations Section, Grants Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) The Maine Rural Health Research Center is based in the Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine. This center's research focuses on issues in rural primary mental health services, and rural aging and long-term care. (2) The University of North Carolina Rural Health Research Program is a multi-disciplinary health policy analytic unit in the Health Services Research Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This program addresses issues in rural hospitals, including the expanded rural hospital and the limited service hospital; collects and publishes data on rural health care providers and the rural workforce; and produces maps displaying the location of a variety of rural health resources. (3) The Project HOPE Walsh Center for Rural Health Analyses, located in Bethesda, Maryland prepares issue analyses on a breadth of rural health issues of current national interest such as proposed changes in Medicare and Medicaid, and the health insurance coverage of rural children. This center is creating a data base that will permit speedy analyses of the impact of proposed changes in Federal health programs. (4) The University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center focuses on rural networks and managed care, the impact of the changing health care market on rural providers and consumers, and implications of the diffusion of health care technology in rural areas. (5) The WADI Rural Health Research Center is based in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. It has close working relationships with the other health science schools at the university as well as the other major universities in the five WADI States (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho). This center focuses on the rural health professions workforce, perinatal care in rural areas, and health care restructuring and its influence on clinical performance and outcomes.

93.162 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM (NHSC Loan Repayment Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Awards provide payments of up to $25,000 a year plus a tax assistance payment of 39% towards participants' qualified government and commercial health professions undergraduate and graduate education loans during the first 2 years of practice at a selected NHSC Loan Repayment Service Site (2-year service minimum and up to $35,000 plus a tax assistance payment of 39% in the third year and beyond), under a written agreement with this program. Health professions given priority for selection are those determined by the manpower needs of the NHSC. For fiscal year 1998, priority for selection is given to: (1) primary care physicians; (2) dentists; (3) certified nurse midwives; (4) certified nurse practitioners; (5) physicians assistants; (6) clinical psychologists; (7) clinical social workers; (8) psychiatric nurse specialists; (9) marriage and family therapists; and (10) dental hygienists. Contracts may be awarded to those who are available for service during the period from October 1997 to September 30, 1998.

Applicant Eligibility: Individuals are eligible to apply if they have (1) U.S. citizenship; (2) a health professions degree or are in professional practice (they must hold an unrestricted health professions license in the State for which they will be working, and be eligible for selection for a Federal civil service appointment, or hold an appointment as a commissioned officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service); (3) not defaulted on any Federal debt or do not have a court judgement against them; and (4) no existing service obligation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Loan Repayment Programs Branch, Division of Scholarships and Loan Repayments, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 10th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4400.

Public Information Phone: 1-800-435-6464.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: During fiscal year 1997, the program matched a total of 515 contracts to students and graduates in health professions training or with health professions degrees or licenses.

93.164 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE EDUCATIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT (IHS Loan Repayment Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To insure that the Indian Health Service (IHS) has an adequate supply of trained health professionals for Indian health program facilities by providing for the repayment of educational loans for participants who agree (by written contract) to serve an applicable period of time at a facility IHS has designated as a loan repayment priority site or in a designated specialty at a site with an appropriate position.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This program will provide repayment of loans incurred for health professions educational expenses in exchange for service in a designated loan repayment priority site. Recipients must agree by written contract to serve an applicable period of time in such a site; individuals who have conflicting service obligations may not participate in this program until those obligations are satisfied. The minimum period of participation is 2 years. Maximum payment to a program participant is $30,000 per year and an additional 31 per cent of the $30,000 for tax liability.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible individuals must be enrolled: (1) in a course of study or program in an accredited institution, as determined by the Secretary, within any State and be scheduled to complete such course of study in the same year such as individual applies to participate in such program; (2) in an approved graduate training program in a health profession; (3) have a degree in health profession and a license to practice a health profession; (4) be eligible for, or hold, an appointment as a commissioned officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service (PHS); (5) be eligible for selection for civilian service in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the PHS; (6) meet the professional standards for civil service employment in the IHS; (7) be employed with an Indian health program funded under Public Law 93-638, Indian Self-Determination, Title V of Public Law 94-437 and its amendments or the Buy Indian Act (25 U.S.C. 47); (8) submit an application to participate in the IHS Loan Repayment Program; and (9) sign and submit to the Secretary for Health and Human Services at the time of such application, a written contract agreeing to accept loan repayment of health professions educational loans and to serve for an applicable period of service at loan repayment priority site as determined by the Secretary. The term "State" is defined in Section 331 (i)(4) of the PHS Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local IHS Area Offices.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Loan Repayment Program, Indian Health Service, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100A, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-3369.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Physicians, nurses, mental health, and other health professionals who have agreed to provide full-time clinical services at an appropriate site for an applicable period of time (2 years) in return for repayment of their health profession education loans.

93.191 ALLIED HEALTH SPECIAL PROJECTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: Grants are awarded to assist eligible entities in meeting the costs associated with expanding or establishing programs that will: (1) Expand enrollments in allied health disciplines that are in short supply or whose services are most needed by the elderly; (2) provide rapid transition training programs in allied health fields to individuals who have baccalaureate degrees in health-related sciences; (3) establish community-based training programs that link academic centers to rural clinical settings; (4) provide career advancement training for practicing allied health professionals; (5) expand or establish clinical training sites for allied health professionals in medically underserved or rural communities in order to increase the number of individuals trained; (6) develop curriculum that will emphasize knowledge and practice in the areas of prevention and health promotion, geriatrics, long-term care, home health and hospice care, and ethics; (7) expand or establish interdisciplinary training programs that promote the effectiveness of allied health practitioners in geriatric assessment and the rehabilitation of the elderly; (8) expand or establish demonstration centers to emphasize innovative models to link allied health, clinical practice, education, and research; and (9) meet the costs of projects to plan, develop, and operate or maintain graduate programs in behavioral and mental health practice.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used for personnel, equipment, supplies, domestic travel, consultants and guest lectures, rental of space, renovation and other costs directly related to the project as described in the approved application. Grant funds may not be used for construction of facilities, acquisition of land, foreign travel or support of students, including fellowships, stipends, tuition, fees, or travel allowances.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible entities are health professions schools, academic health centers, State or local governments or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities. Eligible academic institutions shall also be required to use funds in collaboration with two or more disciplines.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Division of State, Community and Public Health, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 8C-02, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-3353. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 8C-26, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-6857.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Multi-Tiered Geriatric Education and Training Projects; Recruitment and Development of Allied Health Professionals; Enhancement and Expansion of Existing Allied Health Training Programs; Enhancement of Faculty, Curriculum and Student Recruitment; Interdisciplinary Training Programs; Video Disc and Computer-Based Instructional Technologies Development; Development of auto-tutorial teaching materials; distance learning project using satellite technologies; outcomes assessment projects; and Model geriatric clinical education in Allied Health, Rural Health Education Projects.

93.192 QUENTIN N. BURDICK PROGRAMS FOR RURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING (Interdisciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: The goal of this program is to provide or improve access to health care in rural areas. Specifically, projects funded under this authority shall be designed to: (a) Use new and innovative methods to train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas; (b) demonstrate and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary methods and models designed to provide access to cost-effective comprehensive health care; (c) deliver health care services to individuals residing in rural areas; (d) enhance the amount of relevant research conducted concerning health care issues in rural areas; and (e) increase the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners from rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career choice for health care practitioners.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds are awarded to eligible applicants to carry out their interdisciplinary training projects using various methods, including student stipends, post-doctoral fellowships, faculty training, and the purchase or rental of (transportation) and (telecommunication) equipment where appropriate to the rural area.

Applicant Eligibility: Applications will be accepted from health professions schools, academic health centers, State or local governments or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities for funding and participation in health professions and nursing training activities. Applications shall be jointly submitted by at least two eligible entities with the express purpose of assisting individuals in academic institutions in establishing long-term collaborative relationships with health care providers in rural areas. Applicants must designate a rural health care agency or agencies for clinical treatment or training hospitals, community health centers, migrant health centers, rural health clinics, community behavioral and mental health centers, long-term care facilities, Native Hawaiian health centers or facilities operated by the Indian Health Service or an Indian Tribe organization or Indian organization under a contract with the Indian Health Service under the Indian Self Determination Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact:, CDR US Public Health Service, Interdisciplinary, Geriatrics and Allied Health Branch, Division of Associated, Dental and Public Health Professions, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 8C02, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-6867. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 8C26, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. (301) 443-6880.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded programs were jointly sponsored, usually by academic and rural health care entities; several programs had health department sponsors. There was no preference as to whether academia took the lead and worked with rural health care entity or vice versa. Funded programs involved three or more of the eligible health care disciplines. Emphasis was on opportunities for providing clinical services in rural areas and efforts to promote rural practice options.

93.202 CAPACITY BUILDING AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To address the Tribal public health issues that result from hazardous substances in the environment by: 1) building Tribal environmental health capacity 2) addressing health issues from releases of hazardous substances into the environment, and 3) develop culturally appropriate health education materials and/or vehicles to engage Tribal community members in public health activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To enhance the Tribes ability to collaborate with Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in conducting public health activities related to potential human exposures from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized American Indian Tribal Governments: Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Coville Confederated Tribes; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; Kalispel Tribe; Kootenai Tribe of Idaho; Nez Perce Tribe; Spokane Tribe; Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; and Yakama Indian Nation.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Program contact, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Mailstop E32, Atlanta, GA 30333. Telephone: 404-498-0457. E-mail address: zkg8@cdc.gov. Grants Management Contact: Acquisition & Assistance Branch A, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2920 Brandywine Road., Room 3000, Atlanta, GA 30341. Telephone: 770-488-2743. Fax: 770-488-2777. ECG4@cdc.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects include grants to American Indian Tribal governments to conduct public health activities related to potential human exposures from the Hanford Nuclear reservations. Examples of funded projects are: Health assessments, health consultations, community involvement and health education.

93.210 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM: PLANNING AND NEGOTIATION COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND IHS COMPACTS (Tribal Self-Governance)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make financial assistance awards to Indian tribes to enable them to assume programs, functions, services, and activities (PFSA) of the Indian Health Service (IHS), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and of the Department of Interior that are otherwise available to Indian tribes or organizations. Such assumptions will be by compact awards. The Self- Governance (SG) Demonstration Projects initially limited the number of compacts that could be awarded to 30. However, the 1994 Amendments authorize the addition of up to 30 tribes per fiscal year for the 10 year demonstration period not to exceed 18 years. In preparation for additional tribes each fiscal year, the IHS will make planning cooperative agreements available. The planning cooperative agreement allows a tribe to gather information to determine the current types and extent of PFSAs and funding levels available within its service area and to plan for the types and extent of PFSAs and funding to be made available to the tribe under a compact. The IHS will also award funding of negotiating cooperative agreements which allows tribes to prepare to negotiate for compact status.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and operating programs to provide planning and negotiation resources to tribes interested in participating in the SGDP. These cooperative agreements will be awarded on a one-time basis. Compacts awarded as the result of the negotiation cooperative agreements will be multi-year for the length of the demonstration phase.

Applicant Eligibility: For planning projects, any federally recognized tribe which (1) formally requests, through a governing body action, a planning cooperative agreement for the purpose of participation in the SGDP (2) has operated two or more mature contracts; and (3) has furnished organization wide single audit reports as prescribed by Public Law 96-502, the Single Audit Act of 1984, for the previous 3 years that contain no significant or material audit exceptions. For each fiscal year, an additional 30 tribes may be eligible for selection to participate in the SGDP.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Tribal Self-Governance, Indian Health Service, Parklawn Building, Room 5A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-7821. Grants Management Contact Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-5204.

93.211 RURAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS (Rural Telemedicine Grant Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this grant program is to expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve the quality of essential health care services, including preventive and emergency services, through the development of integrated health care delivery systems or networks in rural areas and regions. Specifically the purpose of the Rural Telemedicine Grant Program is to demonstrate how Telemedicine can be used as a tool in developing integrated systems of health care, improving access to health services for rural citizens and reducing the isolation of rural health care practitioners. The purpose is also to collect information for a systematic evaluation on the feasibility, costs, appropriateness and acceptability of rural Telemedicine.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to demonstrate the use of Telemedicine in facilitating the development of rural health care networks and for improving access to health care services for rural citizens; provide a baseline of information for a systematic evaluation of Telemedicine systems serving rural areas; purchase or lease and install equipment; and to operate the Telemedicine system and evaluate the Telemedicine system. Not more than 40 percent of grant funds may be expended for equipment. Not more than 20 percent of grant funds may be expended for indirect costs. Grant funds may not be used for purchasing and installing telecommunications transmission equipment (e.g., microwave towers, satellite dishes, amplifiers, digital switching equipment or laying cable or telephone lines). Constructions costs are allowable only for minor renovations related to the installation of equipment.

Applicant Eligibility: An entity that is a health care provider and a member of an existing or proposed Telemedicine network, or an entity that is a consortium of health care providers that are members of an existing or proposed Telemedicine network shall be eligible for a grant under this section . An eligible network may include for-profit entities so long as the network grantee is a nonprofit entity.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-05, Rockville, MD, 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management contact: Grants Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, PHS, East-West Building, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Rockville, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: High Plains Rural Health Network, Fort Morgan, Colorado: Lee Green, 303-867-6195. The High Plains Rural Health Network is a consortium of hospitals, clinics, and physician practices in the tri-state region encompassing Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. Its telemedicine network will have two hub facilities--one in Denver and one in Ft. Collins--serving nine rural hospitals, one community health center, and a long-term care facility. The telemedicine system will utilize a videoconferencing system and an electronic bulletin board for ongoing communications among all network practitioners. The network also will facilitate "shared call," so a single physician can be "on call" for the largely frontier area served by the network. University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky: Dr. James Norton, 606-323-8018. The University of Kentucky Medical Center (UKMC) and Outpatient Clinic will provide specialty consultations to 13 rural clinics, 2 small rural hospitals, 5 rural secondary care level hospitals, and one community college student health service clinic. The secondary care hospitals will also provide consultations. The telemedicine system will use a variety of technologies, including video conferencing and computer-based image transfer. This project builds upon a 1-800 telephone consultation and referral system called UKMDs. One goal of the project is to alleviate the isolation experienced by health professions in the Appalachian region served by the project.

93.219 MATCHING GRANTS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIAN TRIBES (Health Professions Scholarships)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide scholarships to Indians for health professions education through Indian tribes and tribal organizations. Scholarships must be for health careers listed in the current fiscal year Federal Register Notice for the Indian Health Professions Scholarship Program. Related objectives of the program are the proper administration of a project, selection of scholarship recipients by fair and consistent means, monitoring of recipients to assure compliance with scholarship requirements, and eventual job placement within the service area of the grantee organization to fulfill service obligation. One of the monitoring objectives is assuring satisfactory academic performance which is defined as: (1) a 2.0 grade point average (GPA); (2) the GPA required by the college/university; or (3) a 3.0 GPA for most graduate level programs. A project awarded under this program will be by a grant to the tribe or tribal organization.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and operating a program to provide matching grants to Indian tribes and tribal organizations to assist them in educating Indians to serve as health professionals in Indian communities. Under these grants, Indian tribes and tribal organizations shall provide scholarships to Indians pursuing health professions careers as listed in the current Federal Register Notice for the Indian Health Professions Scholarship Program. The grantees shall provide 20 percent matching of such scholarship costs. A scholarship recipient under this program is required to sign a service obligation contract with the Indian Health Service (IHS). The service obligation is the number of years equal to the number of years for which the scholarship is awarded but not less than 2 years. There are penalties for recipients because of: failure to maintain academic standing, dismissal, voluntary termination of training, failure to accept payment under the scholarship, or failure to begin or complete service. The IHS is responsible for collection of penalties.

Applicant Eligibility: Any federally recognized Indian tribe or tribal organization is eligible to apply for a grant. The definitions of federally-recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations are found under Sections 4(d) and 4(e) of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Public Law 94-437, as amended.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: The Chief, Scholarships Branch, Indian Health Service, DHHS, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100A, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852. (301) 443-6197. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852. (301) 443-5204.

93.223 DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION OF RURAL HEALTH SERVICES

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To develop and disseminate information to assist rural communities and rural health care organizations in developing and coordinating rural health care services. Sources of information include, but are not limited to, Federal and State agencies working in rural health care, health publications, research reports, and reports from national health care associations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are to be expended solely for carrying out the approved activities in accordance with the intent of the cooperative agreement as stipulated in the notice of grant award.

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit private organizations that represent national, State and local rural health constituencies. The applicant must represent National, State, and local constituency groups who are interested in and committed to improvements in rural health care.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, DHHS, Parklawn Building, Room 9-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, East-West Building, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Two National and three Regional meetings of State Offices. Two workshops on Rural Minority Health. Meetings and support for the National Recruitment Network, and technical assistance to States and local organizations.

93.224 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support the development and operation of community health centers which provide preventive and primary health care services, supplemental health and support services and environmental health services to medically under served areas/populations. Priorities will be focused on providing services in the most medically under served areas and maintaining existing centers which are serving high priority populations. Centers must have demonstrated sound capacities in the following areas: fiscal and management capabilities; monitoring and assessment of project performance; development and implementation of mechanisms for improving quality of care; and maximization of third-party reimbursement levels, through improved project administration and management.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Applications should be designed to improve the availability, accessibility and organization of health care within medically under served communities.

Applicant Eligibility: Public or nonprofit private agency, institution, or organization and a limited number of State and local governments. Profit-making organizations are not eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: HRSA Offices of Field Coordination.

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Community and Migrant Health, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 7th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4300. Grants Management Contact: Office of Grants Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Health centers; (2) health networks to support systems of care; (3) a community health program; and (4) planning grants.

93.226 RESEARCH ON HEALTHCARE COSTS, QUALITY AND OUTCOMES

FEDERAL AGENCY: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE POLICY AND RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support health services research to create new knowledge and better understanding of the process by which health services are made available, and how they may be provided more efficiently and effectively. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a broad legislative mandate to support, conduct, and disseminate research that improves the outcomes, quality, access to, and cost and utilization of health care services. Major categories of research include outcomes and effectiveness, clinical effectiveness trials, evidence-based practice centers (EPCs) translating research into practice, quality measurement and improvement, health information technology, dissemination activities, primary care, rural health, and managed care.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The research should contribute to the health services knowledge base from which empirically based information can be derived by policymakers, both immediately and over the coming decades. Grants include funds for direct costs (such as personnel, travel, equipment, or supplies) necessary to carry out an approved project as well as funds for the reimbursement of applicable indirect costs. Unallowable costs, as well as those for which prior written approval is required, are indicated in the PHS Grants Policy Statement. Discretionary funds are available.

Applicant Eligibility: Federal, State or local government agencies, federally-recognized Indian Tribal Governments, U.S. Territories, sponsored organizations, non-government organizations, minority groups, specialized groups, public or private institutions of higher education, and other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, or organizations. Research project grants may also be awarded to individuals. For-profit organizations are eligible to apply for these grants only if "cooperative agreement" is the designated funding mechanism.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Suite 601, Executive Office Center, 2101 East Jefferson Street, Rockville, MD 20852. Program and Grants Management Contact: Mable Lam, Grants Management Officer. Telephone: (301) 594-1844. Use the same number for FTS.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Risk Adjustment Methods for Hysterectomy Complications; (2) Quality of Care for Newborn Jaundice; (3) Improving Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities; 4) Medical Intervention Effectiveness and Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; (5 Comparison of Treatment Efficacy for Prostate Cancer; and (6) Organization Determinants of HIV Care Improvement.

93.228 INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (Indian Health)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To improve the quality of the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives by providing a full range of curative, preventive and rehabilitative health services; and to improve the management capability of American Indians and Alaska Natives to assume operation of all or part of an existing Indian Health Service (IHS) direct-operated health care program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The assistance is used for six types of management related projects: (1) Feasibility Studies; (2) Planning; (3) Tribal Health Management Structure Development; (4) Evaluation; (5) Technical Assistance; and (6) Federal Programs Analysis. Tribal management grants may not be used to support operational programs, or to supplant existing public and private resources. Assistance is also provided for health-related services such as injury prevention. This assistance is available to federally-recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally-recognized tribes and tribal organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for Indian Health Service Area Offices.

Headquarters Office: For Tribal Management Program: The Division of Community Services, Office of Tribal Programs, Indian Health Service, Room 6A-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-6840. For Injury Prevention Program: The Division of Community & Environmental Health, Office of Public Health, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-1054. For Health Services Projects and Grants Management Contact: The Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisitions and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The development of: (1) A management structure (2) an evaluation of tribal health programs; (3) a feasibility study and comprehensive health plan; (4) a management information system; (5) technical assistance; (6) a development of financial/management systems for Public Law 93-638 programs; (7) a Federal program analysis; and (8) development of an infrastructure for injury prevention.

93.241 STATE RURAL HOSPITAL FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To help States work with rural communities and hospitals to develop and implement a rural health plan, develop integrated networks of care, improve emergency medical services and designate critical access hospitals (CAHS).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are to be expended solely for the purposes outlined in the approved projects.

Applicant Eligibility: States that have submitted a State rural health Plan to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) can apply. All other States need to submit an application to the Regional Administrator of their HCFA Regional Office that expresses the State's interest in developing a Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program before they can apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Associate Director, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9-05, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management: Grants Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To increase knowledge of basic biological and behavioral processes that underlie mental and behavioral disorders and of processes that contribute to maintaining mental health; to improve methodologies for research relevant to these disorders; and to conduct research on mental health services. Research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health may employ theoretical, laboratory, clinical, methodological and field studies. Studies may involve individuals with a mental disorder diagnosis, individuals with symptom levels that do not meet diagnostic thresholds, and healthy individuals of all ages. Research also may involve animal, computational and mathematical models appropriate to the system being investigated and the state of the field. Areas eligible for research support are: neuroscience, including molecular genetics; behavioral sciences; epidemiology; clinical assessment; etiological studies; treatment; prevention; services research; and research on HIV/AIDS behavior. The Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program provides awards to increase the capacity of institutions with a substantial enrollment of racial ethnic minority students to conduct mental health research projects. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program provide awards to increase small business participation in Federal research and development by means of increasing cooperative research and development between small businesses and research institutions (SBIR); and encouraging participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation (STTR).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (1) Research project grants provide support for clearly defined projects or a small group of related research activities, and when appropriate, support of research conferences; (2) Program Project and Center grants support large-scale, broad-based programs of research, usually interdisciplinary consisting of several projects with a common focus; (3) Research Resources Development, Research Demonstrations, special Research Exploratory projects, and Dissertation Support; and (4) Small grants support small-scale exploratory and pilot studies or exploration of an unusual research opportunity. Standard small grants are limited to $50,000 direct costs for a period of 2 years or less, while newer small grants are for less time and funds. SBIR and STTR grants are awarded in two stages: Phase I grants are awarded to establish the technical merit and feasibility of a proposed research and development effort; only Phase I awardees are eligible to receive Phase II support.

Applicant Eligibility: Public, private, profit, or nonprofit agencies (including State and local government agencies), eligible Federal agencies, universities, colleges, hospitals, and academic or research institutions may apply for research grants. SBIR grants can be awarded only to domestic small businesses, and STTR grants can be awarded only to domestic small businesses which "partner" with a research institution in cooperative research and development. For further definitions, requirements, and restrictions see the Omnibus Solicitation of the Public Health Service for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (PHS 97-2) and the Omnibus Solicitation of the National Institutes of Health for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Applications (PHS 97-3).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Director, Division of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Research (Branches: Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Research; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Research; Genetics Research; Preclinical and Clinical Therapeutics. Other Programs: Translational Research and Scientific Technology; Research Training and Research Development) (301) 443-3563. Division of Mental Disorders, Behavioral Research and AIDS (Branches: Behavioral Science Research; Developmental Psychopathology Research; Prevention, Early Intervention, and Risk Factors Research; Office on AIDS Research. Other Programs: Research Training; Children and Adolescents; Aggression and Trauma; Technology Transfer) (301) 443-7281. Division of Services and Treatment Research (Branches: Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology; Adult and Geriatric Treatment and Prevention Intervention Research; Child and Adolescent Treatment and Prevention Intervention Research. Other Programs: Research Training; Multisite Studies; Preventive Interventions; Disability Research. Other Units: Research Publication; and Biostatistics and Data Management) (301) 443-3648. Human Brain Project and SBIR/STTR:(301) 443-3563. AIDS-related SBIR/STTR: (301) 443-3175. Office of Rural Mental Health Research (301) 443-3664.The Associate Director for Special Populations (Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program) (301) 443-2847. Grants Management Contact: National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 7C-08, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-2811.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Basic and clinical neuroscience approaches to normal and disordered behavior; Genetic studies of depressive disorders; (2) prospective study of children of schizophrenic parents; (3) neural bases of major psychiatric disorders; (4) genomic control of CNS development; (5) Psychosocial interventions in senile dementia; (6) legal impact on mental health practice; (7) processes in learning and behavioral change; (8) prevention of high-risk AIDS behavior; and (9) antibodies to rationally modulate specific neurotransmitter receptors.

93.244 MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL AND AIDS SERVICE-RELATED TRAINING GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: (1) Institutions Clinical Training Grants: To encourage mental health specialists to work in areas and settings where severe shortages exist; to increase the number of qualified minority personnel in the mental health professions, and the number of mental health personnel trained to deal with the special problems of children, adolescents, the elderly, the seriously mentally ill, and rural populations; and to assure that the skills and knowledge of mental health personnel are appropriate to the needs of those they serve. (2) State Human Resource Development (HRD) Grants: To assist State mental health authorities in the development of human resources.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used by Clinical Training grantees: (1) to defray institution costs of the training program (personnel, supplies, equipment, travel, and other necessary expenses) according to formula: $10,008 per predoctoral trainee, $19,608 to $32,300 per postdoctoral trainee depending on years of relevant experience; and (2) to provide trainee stipends and other allowances (tuition and fees, etc.) for individuals enrolled in the training program. Funds may be used only for expenses directly related to the training program. Individual Faculty Scholar Awards: Salary support, $25,000 in educational expenses, etc. State HRD Grants: Varies according to project.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants are awarded to public or private nonprofit institutions and organizations, and State and local government agencies for training relevant to mental health service priorities in the mental health disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, marriage and family therapy and in specialized areas of high priority and need such as State manpower development projects; and for State mental health agencies to plan, implement, and evaluate systems for mental health services manpower development. Trainees in psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, social work, or marriage and family therapy unless training program is of limited duration or experimental nature, will be subject to payback requirements of Section 303 of the PHS Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Human Resource Planning and Development Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 15C-18, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-5850. AIDS Training, HIV/AIDS Program, CMHS, SAMHSA, Rm. 15-81, (301) 443-7817. Grants Management Contact: SAMHSA, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockwall II Building, Room 630, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857(301) 443-9666.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Psychosocial pediatrics for primary care physicians; (2) social work training in community mental health; (3) a graduate program in nursing for ethnic minorities; (4) training foster parents as mental health workers; and (5) an interdisciplinary mental health care education program.

93.246 HEALTH CENTERS GRANTS FOR MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support the development and operation of Health Centers and Migrant health programs which provide primary health care services, supplemental health services, technical assistance and environmental health services, which are accessible to migrant and seasonal agricultural farm workers and their families as they move and work.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Migrant health centers program funds may be used for the planning, development, and operation of health programs for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers. Health Centers Programs for migrant farmworkers include the defined primary and supplemental services as specified in the legislation. Funds may also be used to assist in the implementation of acceptable environmental health programs. In addition, program funds may be used to conduct projects and studies to assist States and entities which have received grants or contracts under Section 330 (g) in the assessment of problems related to camp and field sanitation, pesticide hazards, and other environmental health hazards to which migrant agricultural workers, seasonal agricultural workers, and members of their families are exposed.

Applicant Eligibility: Any public or nonprofit private entity. Priority will be given to applications submitted by community-based organizations which are representative of the populations to be served. Profit-making organizations are not eligible.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HRSA Field Office.

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Adolfo Mata, Chief, Migrant Health Branch, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 7th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301) 594-4303. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Primary or comprehensive ambulatory health care projects include: outreach, transportation, lab pharmacy, x-ray services, occupational hazards and environmental studies, as well as technical and nonfinancial assistance to migrant health centers and programs, children's health insurance program.

93.252 COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist communities and consortia of health care providers to develop the infrastructure necessary to fully develop or strengthen integrated health care systems of care that coordinate health services for the uninsured.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Examples of activities that could be supported with this funding include: (1) Offering a comprehensive delivery system for the uninsured and underinsured through a network of safety net providers (single registration, eligibility systems); (2) integrating preventive, mental health, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health services within the system (Block Grant funded services, other DHHS programs, State and local programs); (3) developing a shared information system among the community's safety net providers (tracking, case management, medical records, financial records); (4) developing and incorporating shared clinical protocols, quality improvement systems, utilization management systems, and error prevention systems; (5) sharing core management functions (finance, purchasing, appointment systems); (6) coordinating and strengthening priority services to specific targeted patient groups; (7) developing affordable pharmaceutical services. Funding provided through this program may not be used to substitute for or duplicate funds currently supporting similar activities. Grant funds may support costs such as: (1) Project staff salaries; (2) consultant support; (3) management information systems (e.g. hardware and software); (4) project related travel; (5) other direct expenses necessary for the integration of administrative, clinical, and information systems, of financial functions; and (6) program evaluation activities. With appropriate justification on why funds are needed to support the following costs up to 15 percent of grant funds may be used for: (1) Alteration or renovation of facilities; (2) primary care site development; (3) service expansions or direct patient care. Grant funds may not be used for: (1) Construction; (2) reserve requirements for State insurance licensure. Twenty-five million is available for up to 20 communities to further their development of integrated delivery systems for the uninsured. Approximately 95 percent will be used for discretionary activities. Grants will vary in size based on the scope of the project and the size of the service area. A typical grant may not to exceed $1 million.

Applicant Eligibility: Applications may be submitted by the public, private, and nonprofit entities who demonstrate a commitment to and experience with providing a continuum of care to uninsured individuals. Each applicant must represent a community-wide coalition that is committed to the project and includes safety net providers (where they exist) that have traditionally provided care to the community's uninsured and underinsured regardless of ability to pay. The community-wide coalition must consist of partners from all levels of care (i.e., primary, secondary, tertiary) and partners who represent a range of services (e.g., mental health and substance abuse treatment, maternal and child health care, oral health, HIV/AIDS). Examples of eligible applicants that may apply on behalf of the community-wide coalition include but are not limited to: (1) A consortium or network of providers (e.g. public and charitable hospitals; community, migrant, homeless, public housing, and school-based health centers; rural health clinics; free health clinics; teaching hospitals and health professions education schools); (2) local government agencies (e.g., local public health departments with service delivery components); (3) Tribal governments; (4) managed care plans or other payers (e.g., HMOs, insurance companies); (5) agencies of State governments, multi-state health systems, or special interest groups may submit applications on behalf of multiple communities if they demonstrate the ability to coordinate community health care delivery systems and bring resources to the community. Competing applications for the same patient population will not be considered for funding; therefore, applicants from the same community should collaborate.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Boston (617) 565-1420: New York (212) 264-2549 - Primary Care; Philadelphia (215) 861-4414 : Atlanta (404) 562-4127 - Public Health Advisor; Chicago (312) 353-1254 -Regional Program Consultant; Kansas City (816) 426-5296 ext. 239 - Regional Program Consultant; Dallas (214) 767-4533 - Associate Field Director for Primary Care; Denver (303) 844-3203 - Public Heath Advisor; San Francisco (415) 437-8113 - Public Health Advisor; and Seattle (206) 615-2490 - Regional Program Consultant.

Headquarters Office: Community Access Program Office, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Suite 9A-30, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-0536. Fax: (301) 443-0248.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This is a new program no examples are available.

93.259 RURAL ACCESS TO EMERGENCY DEVICES GRANT (RURAL ACCESS TO AEDS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To help community partnerships within States to purchase and obtain training on use of Access to Emergency Devices (AEDs). A limited amount of funds may also be used for medical dispatcher training addressing the use of AEDs for the layperson until EMS arrives, maintenance costs and data reporting costs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are to be expended solely for the purposes outlined in the approved projects.

 Applicant Eligibility: Grantees applying as a community partnership may apply. These grantees must be located in rural areas as defined in the grant guidance may include local first response entities such as fire, EMS and police as well as for and nonprofit entities concerned with cardiac arrest survival rates. Statewide or regional offices may apply as part of the community partnership, but such participation must be documented in the grant application and clearly delineate how funds would be disseminated to local rural entities within the community partnership.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9A-55, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301)443-0835. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Grants Management Office, Bureau or Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, East-West Tower, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301)594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Pilot AED projects funded by the State Offices of Rural Health in Vermont, Maine and Wisconsin during fiscal year 2001.

93.268 IMMUNIZATION GRANTS (Section 301 and 317, Public Health Service Act; Immunization Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and communities in establishing and maintaining preventive health service programs to immunize individuals against vaccine-preventable diseases (including measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, hepatitis A, varicella, mumps, haemophilus influenza type b, influenza, and pneumococcal pneumonia).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used for costs associated with planning, organizing, and conducting immunization programs directed toward vaccine-preventable diseases and for the purchase of vaccine; and for the implementation of other program elements, such as assessment of the problem; surveillance and outbreak control; information and education; adequate notification of the risks and benefits of immunization; compliance with compulsory school immunization laws; vaccine storage, supply, and delivery; citizen participation; and use of volunteers. Vaccine will be available "in lieu of cash" if requested by the applicants. Requests for personnel and other items "in lieu of cash" will also be considered. Vaccine purchased with grant funds may be provided to private practitioners who agree not to charge for vaccine. Grant funds may be used to supplement (not substitute for) existing immunization services and operations provided by a State or locality.

Applicant Eligibility: Any State, and in consultation with State health authorities, political subdivisions of States and other public entities. Private individuals and private nonprofit agencies are not eligible for immunization grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Immunization Services Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, GA 30333 (404) 639-8208; Fax: (404) 639-8627; E-mail: JNK2@cdc.gov. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 300, 255 E. Paces Ferry Road, NE., Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 842-6517.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The majority of official State Health Departments (such as California, Michigan, and Texas) and some large local health departments (such as New York and Chicago) have ongoing disease control programs utilizing these grants. Immunization Projects: The national program goals for immunization are to reduce morbidity and mortality due to vaccine-preventable diseases; maintain interruption of indigenous measles transmission; prevent perinatal transmission of hepatitis b; maintain 95 percent immunization levels for school enterers, and 90 percent immunization levels for children enrolled in licensed day-care centers against measles, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, rubella, mumps, and Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib); develop, test, and implement systems for use in the States to ensure that 90 percent or more of children complete basic immunizations by age 2; and promote appropriate immunization programs for adults. Effective comprehensive programs, include the following elements: (1) surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases; (2) development and implementation of specific plans to raise immunization levels within pre-school age high-risk groups; (3) assessment of immunization status in public clinics, private physician offices, and schools; (4) public information and education programs; (5) participation of citizens groups and volunteers; and (6) consistent enforcement of compulsory school immunization laws.

93.284 INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKAN NATIVES–COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To improve the quality of the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives by providing a full range of injury preventive health services.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The assistance is used for three types of injury prevention related projects: (1) Part I: Build or enhance local injury prevention capacity; (2) Part II: Implement a proven or promising injury prevention intervention; or (3) Part III: Provide training meetings or conferences related to injury prevention and control. This assistance is available to federally-recognized Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally-recognized tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for Indian Health Service Area Offices.

Headquarters Office: Injury Prevention, NCIPC, CDC, 4700 Buford Highway, NE, Mail Stop K-63, Atlanta, GA 30341. Telephone: (770) 488-4712. For Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisitions and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Basic Core Capacity Injury Prevention Program Development or Enhanced Injury Prevention Program Development, implementation of proven or promising injury prevention projects that are based on addressing local injury problems and provision of training for tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to address local injury prevention issues and concerns.

93.288 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (NHSC Scholarship Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide service-obligated scholarships to health professions students to assure an adequate supply of primary care physicians, certified nurse midwives, certified family nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in Health Professional Shortage Areas of the U.S.A.; and, if needed by the National Health Service Corps, an adequate supply of other health professionals.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Service-obligated scholarships for full-time students of allopathic (M.D.) and osteopathic (D.O.) medicine, family nurse practitioner, nurse midwifery, and primary care physician assistants. Other health disciplines may be included after 1998 if needed by National Health Service Corps. Scholarship pays funds to school for tuition and required fees for the year, pays monthly stipend to student ($935 for 12 months of the 1998-1999 school year) and a single annual payment to cover cost of all other reasonable educational expenses (books, supplies, equipment, uniforms, clinical travel, etc.) based on average costs by school and class year. Awards are limited to U.S. citizens due to potential for Federal employment during service. Applicant must be enrolled in an U.S. accredited school. Each year of support incurs 1 year of service. A 2-year minimum service obligation is required. A maximum of 4 years of support may be awarded. Service may be as Federal or salaried nonfederal employee providing full-time primary health services. Service sites are selected from those listed by National Health Service Corps 1 year prior to service in federally-designated Health Professional Shortage Areas for physicians and in May of the year of graduation for nurse practitioners, nurse mid-wives, and physicians assistants. Service sites are limited to the United States, territories, and successor States to the Trust Territories, the Republic of Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Deferments of service are granted physicians to complete residencies in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, and OB/GYN.

Applicant Eligibility: At the time of award, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national. At the time of award, the applicant must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment in accredited school in U.S. The applicant must submit application and signed contract to the Public Health Service (PHS) by the last Friday in March, agreeing to accept payment of scholarship and provide full-time primary health services in a Health Professional Shortage Area.

Headquarters Office: Scholarship Programs Branch, Division of Scholarships and Loan Repayments, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, 10th Floor, Bethesda MD 20814. Public Information (301) 594-4410. For 24-hour toll-free calls from outside MD: 1-800-638-0824, use for requesting applications.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Scholarships covering tuition, monthly stipends and payments for other reasonable education expenses made to medical school students, as well as for students of nurse practitioner, nurse midwifery and physician assistant programs.

93.301 SMALL RURAL HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To help hospitals: (1) pay for costs related to implementation of PPS; (2) comply with provisions of HIPAA; and (3) reduce medical errors and support quality improvement.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

 USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are to be expended solely for carrying out the approved projects.

Applicant Eligibility: All small rural hospitals located in the 50 States and Territories.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Program contact: Office of Rural Health Policy, Parklawn Building, Room 9A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857, 301-443-0835, 301-443-2803 (fax). Grants Management contact: Grants Management Officer, Grants Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA, East-West Towers, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, 301-594-42350.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

93.441 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION (Indian Self-Determination 638 Contracts)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To enable Indian tribes to assume the management and operation of programs, functions, services, and activities (PFSA) for the delivery of health care to Indian people. To enter into a self- determination contract or contracts with Indian tribes or tribal organizations (T/TO) interested in transferring the responsibility for the administration and provision of health services from the government to tribal leadership.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are for the tribes to provide the PFSAs transferred from the Indian Health Service (IHS). The funds are not available for construction unless specifically authorized by Congress. Tribes can reallocate funds within their budget from one line item to another without contract modifications. Tribes also receive administrative funds for the contracted programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Any federally-recognized tribe that formally requests, through a governing body action, a resolution, to enter into a self-determination contract or contracts for the purpose of planning, conducting, and administering programs, or portions thereof, including construction programs, provided that the T/TO submits a contract proposal that conforms to the requirements contained in 25 CFR 900.8 may apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Aberdeen Area IHS, Alaska Area IHS, Albuquerque Area IHS, Bemidji Area IHS, Billings Area IHS, California Area IHS, Nashville Area IHS, Navajo Area IHS, Oklahoma City Area IHS, Phoenix Area IHS, Portland Area IHS, and Tucson Area IHS.

Headquarters Office: Mr. Douglas Black, Director, Office of Tribal Programs, Indian Health Service, Parklawn Building, Room 6A-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1104.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Hospitals and Health Clinics, Dental Health, Mental Health, Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Contract Health Service, HIV/AIDS, Public Health Nursing, Health Education, Community Health Representatives, Immunization AK, Indian Health Professionals, Director Operations, Contract Support Costs, Diabetes, Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund, Facilities Maintenance and Improvement, Sanitation Facilities Construction, Health Care Facilities Construction, Facilities and Environmental Health Support, Equipment, and Personnel Quarters.

93.558 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Programs; State Family Assistance Grants; Tribal Family Assistance Grants; Assistance Grants to Territories; Matching Grants to Territories; Supplemental Grants for Population Increases; Contingency Fund; High Performance Bonus; Decrease in Illegitimacy Bonus)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to needy families with children so that children can be cared for in their own homes; to reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; to reduce and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Cash grants, work opportunities and other services are made directly to needy families with children. States, Territories, or Tribes have broad flexibility to use the grant funds in any manner that meets the purposes of the program (including providing low-income households with assistance in meeting home heating and cooling costs) and in ways that the State, Territory and Tribe was authorized to use funds received under the predecessor Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) and Emergency Assistance (EA) programs. States and Territories may also transfer a limited portion of their assistance grant funds to the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) Programs. Not more than 15 percent of any grant may be spent on administrative costs, exclusive of certain computerization and information technology expenses.

Applicant Eligibility: In general, all States, Territories, the District of Columbia, and all Tribes, as defined by the Indian Self-Determination Act, are eligible except in Alaska, where only 13 specified entities are eligible. State and local agencies and Tribes that operate TANF programs must do so under plans determined to be complete or approved by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). For contingency funds, all States and the District of Columbia are eligible if they are determined to be a "needy State" by satisfying either an unemployment trigger or a food stamp trigger. Territories and Tribes are not eligible for Supplemental funds. Eligibility for the High Performance Bonus is based on performance in certain criteria as determined by the Secretary. Eligibility for the Decrease in Illegitimacy Bonus is based on available statistical data.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: States, Territories and Tribes should contact the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Regional Offices. (See your local telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: For all grants except Tribal grants: Office of the Director, Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 5th Floor, Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. For Tribal Grants: Office of the Director, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 5th Floor, Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447.

93.568 LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: Energy Assistance Block Grants: To make Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grants available to States and other jurisdictions to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy. Supplemental Leveraging Incentive Funds may be awarded to reward States and other jurisdictions that provide additional benefits and services to LIHEAP-eligible households beyond what could be provided with Federal funds. Up to 25 percent of the leveraging incentive funds may be set aside for LIHEAP grantees that provide services through community-based nonprofit organizations to help LIHEAP-eligible households reduce their energy vulnerability; under the Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Program (REACH). Training and Technical Assistance: To provide training and technical assistance to States and other jurisdictions administering the LIHEAP block grant program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants; Project Grants; Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements); Project Grants (Contracts).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Energy Assistance Block Grants: Funds are awarded to States and other jurisdictions, which then make payments directly to an eligible low-income household or, on behalf of such household, to an energy supplier to assist in meeting the cost of home energy. Up to 10 percent of these funds may be used for State and local planning and administration. Up to 15 percent may be used for low-cost residential weatherization. Grantees may request that DHHS grant a waiver for the fiscal year that increases from 15 percent to 25 percent funds that can be allotted for residential weatherization.) Depending upon specific appropriations, DHHS may allocate supplemental LIHEAP leveraging incentive funds to grantees that have acquired nonfederal leveraged resources for their LIHEAP programs. Beginning in fiscal year 1996, up to 25 percent of leveraging incentive funds may be allocated by DHHS to LIHEAP grantees that provide services through community-based nonprofit organizations to LIHEAP-eligible households to reduce their energy vulnerability, under the Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Program (REACH). Up to $600,000,000 is authorized as emergency contingency funds to be used to meet additional needs arising from a natural disaster or other emergency. Such funds will be made available only after submission to Congress of a formal budget request for all or part of the funds by the President that designates the amount of the request as an emergency under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Training and Technical Assistance: The Secretary has authority to set aside up to $250,000 from each year's appropriation for training and technical assistance relating to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. These activities are accomplished through grants, contracts, or jointly financed cooperative agreements with States, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, public agencies, or private nonprofit organizations. The nature of and amount awarded for training and technical assistance vary from year to year.

Applicant Eligibility: Energy Assistance Block Grants: All States, the District of Columbia, federally and State-recognized Indian Tribal governments which request direct funding, and specified Territories may receive direct grants. The prospective grantee must submit an annual application. Grantees desiring leveraging incentive funds and REACH funds must submit special applications each year. Instructions will be issued if emergency contingency funds are released. Training and Technical Assistance: States, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, Territories, public agencies, and private nonprofit organizations may apply. Nothing in the statute precludes a business concern that applies jointly with a private nonprofit organization from receiving a training and technical assistance grant.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of Energy Assistance, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9351. FAX: (202)401-5718.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Training and Technical Assistance: Training workshops and clearinghouses have been conducted.

93.569 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: (1) To provide services and activities having a measurable and potential major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem; (2) to provide activities designed to assist low-income participants, including the elderly poor, to: (a) secure and retain meaningful employment; (b) attain an adequate education; (c) make better use of available income; (d) obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (e) obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including health services, nutritious food, housing, and employment-related assistance; (f) remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency; (g) achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and (h) make more effective use of other related programs; (3) to provide on an emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious foodstuffs, and related services, as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among the poor; (4) to coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social services programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low-income individuals; and (5) to encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: (1) States receive block grants to ameliorate the causes of poverty in communities. The block grant approach gives the States flexibility to tailor their programs to the particular services needs in their communities. (2) States are required to use at least 90 percent of their allocations for grants to "eligible entities" as defined in the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Act, as amended; this includes primarily locally-based community action agencies and/or organizations that serve seasonal or migrant farm workers. States are allowed to grant up to 7 percent of the funds available under Section 675 (a)(2)(A)(i) of the CSBG Act to organizations which were not eligible entities in the previous fiscal year. (3) No more than the greater of $55,000 or 5 percent of each State's allocation may be used for administrative expenses at the State level. (4) States may transfer up to 5 percent of their allocation for services under the Older Americans Act, the Head Start program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983.

Applicant Eligibility: The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States. This means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The Secretary also provides assistance directly to the governing body of an Indian Tribe or Tribal organization upon application by the tribe. Only State-recognized tribes, as evidenced by a statement to that effect by the Governor, or tribes formally recognized by the Secretary of the Interior under the procedure for such recognition in 25 CFR, Part 54 are eligible to receive direct grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of State Assistance, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9343.

93.570 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT DISCRETIONARY AWARDS

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support program activities of national or regional significance to alleviate the causes of poverty in distressed communities which promote: (1) full-time permanent jobs for poverty level project area residents; (2) income and/or ownership opportunities for low-income community members; (3) a better standard of living for rural low-income individuals in terms of housing or water and waste-water treatment; (4) the implementation of projects, including projects proposing new and innovative strategies for addressing the special needs of migrants and seasonal farm workers; and (5) national or regional programs designed to provide character building, sports and physical fitness activities for low-income youth.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal funds awarded under the Secretary's Discretionary Authority may be used for activities that: improve the quality of the economic and social environment of low-income residents by providing resources to eligible applicants, by arresting tendencies toward dependency, chronic unemployment and community deterioration in urban and rural areas; address the two major needs of housing, repair and rehabilitation, and water and wastewater treatment; focus on the special needs of migrant and seasonal farm workers to improve their quality of life and advance self-sufficiency; provide national or regional character building, sports and physical fitness programs for low-income youth; and involve significant new combinations of resources. (1) Projects must result in direct benefits targeted toward low-income people as defined in the most recent Department of Health and Human Services Annual Revision of Poverty Income Guidelines, which are published in the Federal Register. (2) Generally, the project must be capable of being completed within 12 to 36 months of the award of the grant. Each project will have an expiration date. (3) OCS will give favorable consideration to projects which document public/private partnership which mobilize cash and/or in-kind contributions.

Applicant Eligibility: For economic development projects, eligibility is restricted to private, locally initiated, nonprofit community development corporations (or affiliates of such corporations) governed by a board consisting of residents of the community and business and civic leaders. For all other projects, the Secretary is authorized to make direct grants to States, cities, counties, and private nonprofit organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of Community Discretionary Programs, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9345.

93.575 CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (Discretionary Fund of the Child Care and Development Fund)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to States and Tribes to assist low- income families with child care and to: (1) to allow each State maximum flexibility in developing child care programs and policies that best suit the needs of children and parents within State; (2) to promote parental choice to empower working parents to make their own decisions on the child care that best suits their family's needs; (3) to encourage States to provide consumer education information to help parents make informed choices about child care; (4) to assist States to provide child care to parents trying to achieve independence from public assistance; and (5) to assist States in implementing the health, safety, licensing, and registration standards established in State regulations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Lead agencies shall assure that a substantial portion of the Discretionary Funds will be used to provide assistance to low-income working families. Not more than 5 percent of the aggregate amount of funds available to the State may be expended for administrative costs incurred by the State to carry out all of its functions and duties. The term `administrative costs' does not include the costs of providing direct services. A State shall use not less than 4 percent of the amount of funds for activities that are designed to provide comprehensive consumer education to parents and the public, activities that increase parental choice, and activities designed to improve the quality and availability of child care (such as resource and referral services). Except for approved construction of child care facilities by Tribal grantees, no CCDF funds may be used for purchase or improvement of land, or for the purchase, construction, or permanent improvement (other than minor remodeling) of any building or facility. A portion of discretionary funds separately allocated must be used for Child Care Resource and Referral and/or school-age child care services. Another portion of the discretionary funds separately allocated must be used for improving infant/toddler child care services.

Applicant Eligibility: All States, the District of Columbia, Territories (Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands), Federally recognized Tribal Governments, Tribal organizations, Alaska Native organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Regional Administrators. (See your local telephone directory for addresses of Regional Offices.)

Headquarters Office: Child Care Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 independence Avenue, S.W., 3rd Floor, Room 300-F, Washington, D.C. 20201. Telephone; (202) 690-6782.

93.581 IMPROVING THE CAPABILITY OF INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS TO REGULATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to advance tribal capacity and capability to plan for, develop, and implement enhancements to tribal environmental regulatory infrastructure required to support a tribal environmental program and to regulate and enforce environmental activities on Indian lands; to develop regulations, ordinances and laws to protect the environment; to develop the technical and program capacity to carry out a comprehensive tribal environmental program and perform essential environmental program functions; to promote training and education of tribal employees; to develop technical and program capability to meet tribal and Federal regulatory requirements; to develop technical and program capability to monitor compliance and enforcement of tribal environmental regulations, ordinances, and laws; and to ensure the tribal court system enforcement requirements are developed in concert with and support the tribe's comprehensive environmental program.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for planning, developing and implementing tribal environmental regulatory programs through competitive grants.

Applicant Eligibility: The following organizations are eligible to apply: Federally-recognized Indian tribes; consortia of Indian tribes; incorporated non-Federally-recognized tribes; Alaska Native villages as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and/or nonprofit village consortia; and tribal governing bodies (IRA or traditional councils) as recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 348-F, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 690-6326.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None are available at this time.

93.582 MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS TO INDIAN LANDS DUE TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages to mitigate environmental impacts to their lands due to Department of Defense activities by assisting the tribes and villages in the planning, development and implementation of programs for such mitigation.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used to support one or more of the following phases of mitigation work: Phase I: Research and planning to identify environmental impacts to tribal and village lands due to Department of Defense activities; Phase II: Examination of alternative approaches for mitigation of impacts identified in Phase 1; Phase III: Development of a comprehensive plan for conducting all aspects of mitigation actions; and Phase IV: Implementation of the mitigation plan.

Applicant Eligibility: The following organizations are eligible to apply: Federally-recognized Indian tribes; incorporated non- Federally-recognized and State-recognized Indian tribes; Alaska Native villages, tribes or tribal governing bodies (IRA or traditional councils) as recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Federal Register Notice dated October 21, 1993; nonprofit Alaska Native Regional Associations and/or Corporations with village-specific projects; nonprofit Native organizations in Alaska with village-specific projects; other tribal or village organizations or consortia of Indian tribes.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services, Room HHH,348-F, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 690-5780.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: None.

93.590 COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY RESOURCE AND SUPPORT GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist States to develop and implement, or expand and enhance, a comprehensive, statewide system of community-based family resource and support services.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To receive funds, States must meet eligibility requirements stated in the authorizing statute and use funds to establish and expand statewide networks of community-based family resource support programs.

Applicant Eligibility: States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, P.O. Box 1182, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202) 205-8879.

93.593 JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS (JOLI Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To promote the ability of welfare recipients and other low-income individuals and families to become financially self-sufficient by awarding grants to certain nonprofit organizations and community development corporations that will create new employment and business opportunities through: self-employment; micro enterprise; new business ventures; and the expansion of existing businesses through technical and financial assistance that will result in full-time permanent jobs for eligible participants.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Projects must: (1) create new employment and/or business opportunities for welfare recipients and other low-income individuals; (2) each nonprofit organization funded under this demonstration must enter into a cooperative relationship with the agency responsible for administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program in the area served by the project; (3) develop a comprehensive project design that describes the work program and strategy, the training design, support services and counseling, technical and financial assistance plan, access to business capital and follow up support services; and (4) include an independent, methodologically sound evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities in creating new jobs and/or business opportunities. Funds awarded under this demonstration program cannot be used for new construction or the purchase of real property.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants are made to nonprofit organizations (including community development corporations) exempt from taxation under Section 501(c) 3 or 4 of the Internal Revenue Code, to develop demonstration projects as authorized.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Richard Saul, Director, Division of Community Demonstration Programs, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9341.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Micro enterprise business development, self-employment business training, specialized job training related to new business ventures and/or a specific business expansion project that is designed to create permanent full-time jobs for eligible AFDC and low-income individuals to move toward economic self-sufficiency.

93.594 TRIBAL WORK GRANTS Native Employment Works (NEW) Grants (Grants for Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations that Received Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) Funds)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To allow Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations to operate a program to make work activities available.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Tribes have broad flexibility to use the grant for the purpose of making work activities available.

Applicant Eligibility: An Indian tribe or Alaska Native organization that conducted a JOBS program in fiscal year 1995.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Tribes should contact ACF Regional Offices. (See your local telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: Office of the Director, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 5th Floor, Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-9333.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Currently, 78 tribal grantees operate work activity programs under NEW.

93.595 WELFARE REFORM RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS AND NATIONAL STUDIES (Welfare Reform Research)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF PLANNING, RESEARCH AND EVALUATION, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support research on the benefits, effects, and costs of different welfare reform interventions; to fund studies such as on the effects of different programs on welfare dependency, illegitimacy, teen pregnancy, employment rates, child well-being, and related areas; to assist in the development and evaluation of innovative approaches for reducing welfare dependency and increasing the well-being of minor children in welfare families; to study and analyze outcome measures for evaluating the success of the States in moving individuals out of the welfare system into employment; and to evaluate how Welfare- to-Work grants to States and Indian tribes have been used.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements); Project Grants (Contracts).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts are awarded for innovative research, demonstrations, and evaluations that are responsive to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) program priorities. All applications must meet standards of excellence in research, demonstration, or evaluation design.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants and cooperative agreements may be made to or with governmental entities, colleges, universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations (if fee is waived). Contracts may be awarded to nonprofit or for-profit organizations. Grants or cooperative agreements cannot be made directly to individuals.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for ACF Regional Offices.

Headquarters Office: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 7th Floor, Aerospace Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-4535.

93.596 CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (Child Care and Development Fund)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to States and Tribes to assist low-income families with child care and to: (1) to allow each State maximum flexibility in developing child care programs and policies that best suit the needs of children and parents within such State; (2) to promote parental choice to empower working parents to make their own decisions on the child care that best suits their family's needs; (3) to encourage States to provide consumer education information to help parents make informed choices about child care; (4) to assist States to provide child care to parents trying to achieve independence from public assistance; and (5) to assist States in implementing the health, safety, licensing, and registration standards established in State regulations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: States must ensure that not less than 70 percent of the total amount of Mandatory and Matching funds from the Child Care and Development Fund are used to provide child care assistance to families who are receiving assistance under a State program under title IV-A of the Social Security Act as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, families who are attempting through work activities to transition off of temporary assistance programs, and families who are at risk of becoming dependent on temporary assistance programs. Not more than 5 percent of the aggregate amount of funds available to the State may be expended for administrative costs incurred by the State to carry out all of its functions and duties. The term administrative costs does not include the costs of providing direct services. A State shall use not less than 4 percent of the amount of funds for activities that are designed to provide comprehensive consumer education to parents and the public, activities that increase parental choice, and activities designed to improve the quality and availability of child care (such as resource and referral services).

Applicant Eligibility: All States, the District of Columbia, Federally recognized Tribal Governments, Tribal organizations, and Alaskan Native Corporations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory Headquarters Office: Child Care Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 independence Avenue, S.W., 3rd Floor, Room 300-F, Washington, D.C. 20201. Telephone; (202) 690-6782.

93.600 HEAD START (Head Start)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide comprehensive health, educational, nutritional, social and other services primarily to economically disadvantaged preschool children, including Indian children on federally recognized reservations, and children of migratory farmworkers and their families; and to involve parents in activities with their children so that the children will attain overall social competence.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

Applicant Eligibility: Any local government, federally recognized Indian tribe, or public or private nonprofit agency which meets the requirements may apply for a grant. However, new applications will be considered only when submitted in response to a specific announcement, published in the Federal Register, which solicits proposals to establish new Head Start Programs. Grantee agencies may subcontract with other child-serving agencies to provide services to Head Start children.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Regional Administrator for Children, and Families. (See your local telephone directory.)

Headquarters Office: Administration for Children and Families/Head Start, Department of Health and Human Services, P.O. Box 1182, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202) 205-8569.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Full-Year and Full-Day Head Start Programs; and (2) Full-Year and Part-Day Head Start Programs.

93.612 NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance, training and technical assistance, and research, demonstration and evaluation activities to public and private nonprofit organizations including Indian Tribes, urban Indian centers, Alaska Native villages, Native Hawaiian organizations, rural off-reservation groups, and Native American Pacific Island groups for the development and implementation of social and economic development strategies that promote self-sufficiency. These projects are expected to result in improved social and economic conditions of Native Americans within their communities and to increase the effectiveness of Indian Tribes and Native American organizations in meeting their economic and social goals. Additional competitive areas include: 1) Environmental Regulatory Enhancement, designed to assist Tribal and Alaska Village governments in developing environmental programs responsive to tribal needs; and 2) Native Languages Preservation and Enhancement, a program to assist Native American tribes and communities in ensuring the survival and continued vitality of their languages.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Contracts); Direct Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used for such purposes as, but not limited to: (1) Governance Projects which assist tribal and village governments, Native American institutions, and local leadership to exercise local control and decision-making over their resources; (2) Economic Development Projects, which promote the long term mobilization and management of economic resources necessary to achieve a diversified economy; and (3) Social Development Projects which support local access to, control of, and coordination of services and programs for the social benefit of community members. Funds may be used for Financial Assistance Grants; Training and Technical Assistance; and Research, Demonstration and Evaluation.

Applicant Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit agencies, including but not limited to, governing bodies of Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations, Alaska Native villages and regional corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, such public and nonprofit private agencies serving Native Hawaiians, Indian and Alaska Native organizations in urban or rural nonreservation areas, and Native American Pacific Islanders (American Samoan Natives, and indigenous peoples of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana and the Republic of Palau).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services, HHH Building, Room 348-F, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201. Director, Program Operations. Telephone: (202) 690-5780.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) Improved Governance Capabilities; (2) Native American social development projects; and (3) Native American economic development projects.

93.667 SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (Social Services)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To enable each State to furnish social services best suited to the needs of the individuals residing in the State. Federal block grant funds may be used to provide services directed toward one of the following five goals specified in the law: (1) to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency; (2) to achieve or maintain self-sufficiency; (3) to prevent neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults; (4) to prevent or reduce inappropriate institutional care; and (5) to secure admission or referral for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal funds may be used by States for the proper and efficient operation of social service programs. Except for items (1) and (4) below, for which a waiver from the Secretary may be requested, Federal funds cannot be used for the following: (1) the purchase or improvement of land, or the purchase, construction, or permanent improvement of any building or other facility; (2) the provision of cash payments for costs of subsistence or the provision of room and board (other than costs of subsistence during rehabilitation, room and board provided for a short term as an integral but subordinate part of a social service, or temporary shelter provided as a protective service); (3) the payment of wages to any individual as a social service (other than payment of wages to welfare recipients employed in the provision of child day care services); (4) the provision of medical care (other than family planning services, rehabilitation services or initial detoxification of an alcoholic or drug dependent individual) unless it is an integral but subordinate part of a social service for which grants may be used; (5) social services (except services to an alcoholic or drug dependent individual or rehabilitation services) provided in and by employees of any hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or prison, to any individual living in such institution; (6) the provision of any educational service which the State makes generally available to its residents without cost and without regard to their income; (7) any child day care service unless such service meets applicable standards of State and local law; (8) the provision of cash payments as a service; or (9) for payment for any item or service (other than an emergency item or service) furnished by an individual or entity during the period when such individual or entity is excluded pursuant to Section 1128 or Section 1128(A) of the Social Security Act from participation in this program; or at the medical direction or on the prescription of a physician during the period when the physician is excluded based on Section 1128 or 1128(A) from participation in the program and when the person furnishing such item or service knew or had reason to know of the exclusion (after a reasonable time period after reasonable notice has been furnished to the person). A State may transfer up to 10 percent of its allotment for any fiscal year to the preventive health and health services, alcohol and drug abuse, mental health services, maternal and child health services, and low-income home energy assistance block grants.

Applicant Eligibility: The 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Services, Division of State Assistance, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-2333.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: States and other eligible jurisdictions determine their own social services programs. Examples of funded services include child day care, protective and emergency services for children and adults, homemaker and chore services, information and referral, adoption, foster care, counseling, and transportation.

93.671 FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES/GRANTS FOR BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTERS GRANTS TO STATES AND INDIAN TRIBES

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and Indian Tribes in the prevention of family violence and the provision of immediate shelter and related assistance for victims of family violence and their dependents.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal funds are used by States for grants to local public agencies and nonprofit private organizations to prevent incidents of family violence and to provide immediate shelter and related assistance to victims of family violence. States must give special emphasis to the support of community-based projects of demonstrated effectiveness carried out by nonprofit private organizations, particularly those projects where the primary purpose is to operate shelters for victims of family violence, and those which provide counseling, advocacy, and self-help services to victims and their children. States and Indian Tribes may not impose an income eligibility standard on individuals receiving services supported by funds appropriated under this Act and Federal funds may not be used as direct payment to any victim of family violence. No less than 70 percent of the funds distributed must be used for immediate shelter and related assistance, and no less than 25 percent for related assistance.

Applicant Eligibility: The 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and certain federally recognized Indian Tribes. INFORMATION CONTACTS

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-5529.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: States determine the sub-State services and activities to be funded. These may include funding for shelters for victims of family violence, counseling and self-help services, and projects to address elder abuse.

93.674 CHAFEE FOSTER CARE INDEPENDENT LIVING (CFCIP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To assist States and localities in establishing and carrying out programs designed to assist foster youth likely to remain in foster care until 18 years of age and youth who have left foster care because they attained 18 years of age, have not yet attained 21 years of age, to make the transition from foster care to independent living.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants may be used to assist youth: to make the transition to self-sufficiency; to receive education, training and services; to obtain employment; to prepare for and enter post secondary training and educational institutions; to provide personal and emotional support to youth through mentors and the promotion of interactions with dedicated adults; and to provide financial, housing, counseling, employment, education, and other appropriate support and services to current and former foster care recipients up to the age of 21.

Applicant Eligibility: State governments, including the 50 States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact Regional Administration for Children and Families. (See local telephone directory for addresses.)

Headquarters Office: Associate Commissioner, Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, P.O. Box 1182, Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202) 205-8618.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.779 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EVALUATIONS (CMS RESEARCH)

FEDERAL AGENCY: CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To support analyses, experiments, demonstrations and pilot projects in efforts to resolve major health care financing issues and to develop innovative methods for the administration of Medicare and Medicaid. These awards are in the form of research grants and cooperative agreements; small business grants; dissertation fellowship grants; Hispanic health services grants; historical black colleges and university grants. For fiscal years 2002 and 2003, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) has identified a number of areas where specific information or experience is necessary to improve program effectiveness or guide decisions anticipated in the near future. These priority areas for CMS's discretionary contracts, cooperative agreements or grants are as follows: (1) Monitoring and evaluating CMS's programs; (2) improving managed care payment and delivery; (3) improving fee-for-service payment and delivery; (4) future trends influencing our programs; (5) strengthening medicaid (SCHIP), and State programs; (6) meeting the needs of vulnerable populations; (7)outcomes, quality, and performance; and (8)building research capacity.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

 USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Under all authorizations, all applications must meet standards of excellence in research or evaluation design. Funds may not be used for construction or renovation of buildings. Funds authorized by Section 1115 of the Social Security Act are limited to State agencies administering the Medicaid program.

Applicant Eligibility: Grants or cooperative agreements may be made to private, or public agencies or organizations, including State agencies that administer the Medicaid program. Private profit organizations may apply. For the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program, only for-profit organizations may apply. Awards cannot be made directly to individuals.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

 Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate CMS Regional Administrator. (See your local telephone directory for Regional Offices.)

 Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Research, Development, and Information (ORDI), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Room C-3-20-11, Central Building, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850. Telephone: (410) 786-6503.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Examples for fiscal year 2001 include: (1) Real Choice System Change grants; (2) Community -integrated Personal Assistance Services and Support grants; (3) Nursing Facility Transition grants; (4) Dissertation Fellowship grants; (5) Grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and (6)grants to Hispanic serving Institutions.

93.910 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM (Family Life Centers)

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH, OFFICE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To establish a consortium of nineteen Family Life Centers on the campuses of minority institutions of higher education to: 1) Assess local community resources for violence prevention projects; 2) Coordinate activities with existing violence prevention projects; 3) Design and implement educational interventions addressing interpersonal family violence; and 4) Design and implement a project to identify students from dysfunctional families and support them with coping strategies.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds will be used to support a cooperative agreement for a family and community violence consortium to prevent minority related violence and improve health and human services to minorities. Grants funds may not be used for construction of facilities, including additions and extensions; acquisition of land; or any costs prohibited by the cost principles in 45 CFR, Parts 74 and 92. Grants may not be used for sectarian instruction or any religious purposes, or for lobbying.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible Applicants: An institute of higher education representing 4-year undergraduate institutions historically identified as providing education primarily to minority students, or having a majority enrollment of minority students.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division of Program Operations, Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Suite 1000, Rockwall II Building, 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 594-0769. Grants Management Contact: Division of Management Operations, Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Suite 1000, Rockwall II Building, 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, MD 20852 (301)594-0758.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following are examples of projects funded under the cooperative agreement: 1) A database and resource directory was developed on viable violence and substance abuse services and resources; 2) A variety of education experiences were provided to youth and families to assist them in making positive life style choices and facilitating their educational pursuits; 3) Community outreach services were provided to neighborhoods.

93.912 RURAL HEALTH OUTREACH AND RURAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve the quality of essential health services, including preventive and emergency services, through the development of integrated health care delivery systems or networks in rural areas and regions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds awarded are to be expended solely for carrying out the approved projects. The applicant must apply in conjunction with two or more other entities as part of a network.

Applicant Eligibility: Rural public or non-profit private entities that include three or more health care providers or other entities that provide or support the delivery of health care services. The administrative headquarters of the organization must be located in a rural county or a rural census tract of an urban county; or an organization is constituted exclusively to provide services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in rural areas and supported under Section 330G of the Public Health Service Act; or the applicant is a Native American Tribal or quasi-tribal entity for services delivered on reservation or recognized tribal lands.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Grant Programs Coordinator, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Room 9A-55, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-7529. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Grants Management Office, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, East-West Towers, 11th Floor, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: (301)594-4235. EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Funded projects include efforts to provide primary care services in rural areas, including mental health services, emergency medical services, prenatal care, free clinical services, and preventive health services. In addition, projects designed to increase the number of health professionals available to provide services in rural areas have also been funded. These include upgrading nursing skills from R.N. to N.P. or C.N.S. levels or upgrading the skills of emergency medical services personnel. In addition, projects designed to improve access to rural health services (such as transportation or services on mobile vans) have also been funded. More recently projects to develop or enhance vertically integrated networks have been supported.

93.913 GRANTS TO STATES FOR OPERATION OF OFFICES OF RURAL HEALTH

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To improve health care in rural areas through the establishment of State Offices of Rural Health.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: This is a matching grant program with States to support the establishment and ongoing operation of Offices of Rural Health. Each State may determine the appropriate location for the office. While a wide range of activities can be conducted to address unique State needs, each State Office of Rural Health must (1) establish an information clearinghouse, (2) coordinate State and Federal rural health programs throughout the State, and (3) provide TA that will improve participation in State and Federal programs.

Applicant Eligibility: The 50 States.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: State Office of Rural Health Grant Program, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Parklawn Building, Room 9-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0835. Grants Management Contact: Chief, Grant Award Operations Section, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, 4350 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 594-4235.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: This program establishes State Offices of Rural Health in each State. A few of the projects in State Offices of Rural Health include: 1) providing technical assistance to rural communities seeking to develop or improve primary health care; 2) training community leaders and providers of health services so that they may better respond to the needs of their rural clientele; and 3) taking lead roles in drafting, obtaining, and implementing the rural physician loan repayment program to increase the likelihood of recruiting physicians to remote rural area. In general, these projects tend to address problems and issues unique to their particular State, therefore, projects cover a broad range of activities.

93.926 HEALTHY START INITIATIVE (Targeted Infant Mortality Initiative)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To reduce infant mortality and improve maternal and infant health and well-being by targeting 15 communities with high infant mortality rates and directing resources and interventions to improve access to, utilization of, and full participation in comprehensive maternity and infant care services.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To build a community-oriented, multi-faceted approach to integrate a variety of health care, social, and support services including development of: an aggressive program of outreach and case management to bring pregnant women into prenatal care early; to increase the number of primary care and obstetrical providers available to low-income women in targeted areas; and to link health department, community health centers, State maternal and child health programs, community residents and other groups in local consortia in a joint effort to identify problems and to develop a flexible array of solutions intended to reduce the infant mortality rate by 50 percent within 5 years.

Applicant Eligibility: Urban and rural communities which have average annual infant mortality rates of 15.7 deaths or more per 1,000 live births. Eligible applicants are local or State health departments or authorities or other publicly supported organizations, tribal organizations, private nonprofit organizations, or consortia of the same, approved by the chief elected official of the city or county in which the project area is located (or, if there is more than one county, the chief elected officials acting in concert), or by the tribal leadership of the tribe or tribal organization which has jurisdiction over the project area. No more than one application may be made for a given project area, and each application must be endorsed by the Governor of the State or the head of the tribal organization. Applicants must be public or nonprofit private organizations, or tribal and other organizations representing American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians, or Pacific Islanders. Applicants must be in partnership with a current consortium which has been (1) in operation at least the last 2 years prior to date of the application; and (2) involved in Maternal and child health activities in the project area.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: DHHS Regional Office.

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Division of Healthy Start, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 11A-05, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-0543. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 18-12, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-1440.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A number of the projects have developed one-stop models of co-located services and experienced a marked reduction of infant mortality in these neighborhood-based models.

93.932 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH SYSTEMS

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To raise the health status of Native Hawaiians living in Hawaii to the highest possible level through the provision of comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention services, as well as primary health services, and to provide existing Native Hawaiian health care programs with all resources necessary to effectuate this policy.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The services of this program will be developed around outreach, case management, and referral components and will attempt to integrate traditional health concepts with western medicine so that existing barriers to and disparities in health care can be removed. It is anticipated that the primary care and the health promotion and disease prevention components will be integrated into one system of care and that the existing health resources of the community will be used to the greatest extent possible.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible entities include Papa Ola Lokahi and the "Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems." The term Native Hawaiian health care system is defined as an entity (1) which is organized under the laws of the State of Hawaii; (2) which provides or arranges for health care services through practitioners licensed by the State of Hawaii, where licensure requirements are applicable; (3) which is a public or nonprofit private entity; (4) in which Native Hawaiian health practitioners significantly participate in the planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation of health care services; (5) which may be composed of as many Native Hawaiian health systems as necessary to meet the health care needs of each island's Native Hawaiians; and (6) which is recognized by Papa Ola Lokahi (a consortium of Hawaiian and Native Hawaiian organizations) for the purpose of planning, conducting, or administering programs or portions of programs, authorized by this act for the benefit of Native Hawaiians, and is certified by Papa Ola Lokahi as having the qualifications and the capacity to provide the services and meet the requirements of this Act for the benefit of Native Hawaiians.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the HRSA Field Office.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Each recipient of funds shall provide outreach, health education, a link to primary care providers, case management, immunizations, preventive measures for diabetes, high blood pressure and otitis media; pregnancy and infant care, improvement in nutrition, chronic disease prevention, and collection of data to prevent disease. Papa Ola Lokahi is responsible for: planning; training; research; dissemination of information on Native Hawaiian health; and coordination of resources for Native Hawaiian; advocacy, and special projects.

93.933 DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR INDIAN HEALTH

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To promote improved health care among American Indians and Alaska Natives through research studies and demonstration projects, addressing such issues as Elder Care, Women's Health Care, and Child Protection and Child Abuse Prevention.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Federal assistance is to be used for the following purposes: (1) research, analysis, and investigation of a broad range of issues affecting the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives; and (2) demonstration projects and studies that provide American Indians/Alaska Natives with impetus and involvement in their health care and that promote improved health care to Indian people.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes; tribal organizations; nonprofit intertribal organizations; nonprofit urban Indian organizations contracting with the Indian Health Service under Title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act; public or private nonprofit health and education entities; and State and local government health agencies.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Management Analyst, Office of Managed Care, Indian Health Service, Parklawn Bldg., Room 6A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-3024. For Indian Women's Health Demonstration Program Contact: Public Health Nurse Consultant, Office of Public Health, Parklawn Building, Room 6A-44, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1840. For Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) National Indian Health Board is conducting a tribal health care advocacy demonstration project to provide advice and consultation on behalf of Indian health care consumers to improve health care delivery in Indian communities; and (2) Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is providing a smoking cessation project aimed at improving women's health.

93.952 IMPROVING EMS/TRAUMA CARE IN RURAL AREAS (RURAL EMS/TRAUMA CARE)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the purpose of carrying out research and demonstration projects with respect to improving the availability and quality of emergency medical services in rural areas.

 TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

 USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds received under a grant are to be used for the following purposes: (1) Developing innovative uses of communications technologies and the use of new communications technology; (2) developing model curricula for training emergency medical services personnel, including first responders, emergency medical technicians, emergency nurses and physicians, and paramedics; (a) In the assessment, stabilization, treatment preparation for transport, and resuscitation of seriously injured patients, with special attention to problems that arise during long transport and to methods of minimizing delays in transport to the appropriate facility; and (b) in the management of the operation of the emergency medical services system; (3) making training for original certification, and continuing education, in the provision and management of emergency medical services more accessible to emergency medical personnel in rural areas through telecommunications, home studies, providing teachers and training at locations accessible to such personnel, and other methods; (4) developing innovative protocols and agreements to increase access to pre-hospital care and equipment necessary for the transportation of seriously injured patients to the appropriate facilities; and (5) evaluating the effectiveness of protocols with respect to emergency medical services and systems.

Applicant Eligibility: Any public or private nonprofit entity which has as its primary objective improving the availability and quality of emergency medical services in rural areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Injury/EMS Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Parklawn Building, Room 18A-38, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-0324. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Parklawn Building, Room 18-12, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1440.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: For fiscal year 2001, existing Emergency Medical Services for Children grants were supplemented with these funds.

93.954 TRIBAL RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTO INDIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS (Tribal Recruitment)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make financial assistance awards to Indian tribes and tribal and Indian health organizations to enable them to recruit, place, and retain health professionals to fill critical vacancies and to meet the staffing needs of Indian health programs and facilities including those administered by the Indian Health Service (IHS).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and operating programs designed to recruit and retain health professionals into Indian health programs and facilities.

Applicant Eligibility: Any federally recognized Indian tribe or tribal or Indian health organization is eligible to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: The Leader Health Professions Support Team, Division of Health Professions Support, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100A, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-4242. For grants management information, contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852. (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.956 AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMS (Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention; Community Partners for Healthy Farming (CPHF); Deep-South Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention)

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: Centers for Agricultural Research: To address the research, education, and intervention activities that are unique to agriculture by establishing centers for agricultural research, education, and disease and injury prevention. Musculoskeletal: To assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of a model program for the diagnosis, evaluation, and rehabilitation of individuals with occupational respiratory disease and occupational musculoskeletal disorders. Additionally, this program will report and disseminate findings, relevant health and safety education and training information to State health officials, health care providers, workers, management, unions, and employers. CPHF: This project is a component of the NIOSH Agriculture Initiative which consists of cooperative agreements between NIOSH and State Health Departments to fund the placement of public health/occupational health nurses in agricultural communities. Local recruiting of nurses with farm background and interests in agriculture has enhance their ability to become a part of the communities they serve, to establish effective disease and injury reporting systems based on the cooperation of health care providers, hospitals and other potential sources and to follow up their information-gathering activities with public health interventions (usually education or the recruitment of other resources such as cooperative extension services, NIOSH, etc.). Nurses in this project are practicing community health and providing a public health infrastructure which targets the farming community. Deep-South Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention: This cooperative agreement program will significantly strengthen the occupational and public health infrastructure by building on past Agricultural Center accomplishments aimed at integrating resources for occupational safety and health research and public health prevention programs at the State and local levels. Deep-South Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention will serve as a regional Center to address the research, education, and intervention activities that are unique to agriculture in the deep-south. The Center will also have a special charge to address agricultural health and safety problems among minority, migrant and low-income agricultural communities in this region.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Eligible Uses: Funds may be used for salaries of personnel specifically employed for the project; consultant fees; supplies and equipment necessary to conduct the project; essential travel expenses; and other expenses related to the project.

Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicants are: Centers for Agricultural Research State and private universities and university-affiliated, not-for-profit medical centers within the United States of America. CPHF Nonprofit and for-profit organizations, thus, universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, and other public and private organizations, State and local health departments, and small, minority and/or women-owned businesses.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 255 E. Paces Ferry Road, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30305 (404) 842-6517. Program Contact: Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road, MS-P04/18, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888 (304) 285-5711. Program Contact: Occupational Respiratory Disease Evaluation and Rehabilitation: Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, MS-122, NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505 (304) 285-5726. Program Contact: Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders Evaluation and Rehabilitation: Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies, MS-R13, N10SH 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226 (513) 841-4486. Program Contact: Centers for Agricultural Research: Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH, MS-P04/18. 304/285-5711. CPHF: Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH, MS-P03/R21 513/841-4353. CDC, PHS, 5555 Ridge Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45213. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Procurement and Grants Office, CDC, PHS, 255 East Paces Ferry Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30305 404/842-6517.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The following are cooperative agreements funded: Research on Experimental Exposures to Grain Dust, Assessment of Respiratory Disease Among Dairy Farmers, Research on Redesign of Tools, Hearing Conservation Studies, and Improving Detection of Exposure of Workers to Chemicals.

93.958 BLOCK GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CMHS Block Grant)

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to States and Territories to enable them to carry out the State's Plan for providing comprehensive community mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a serious emotional disturbance; monitor the progress in implementing a comprehensive community based mental health system; provide technical assistance to states and the Mental Health Planning Council that will assist the states in planning and implementing a comprehensive community based mental health system.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used at the discretion of the State to achieve the described objectives except for certain requirements. State plans must meet prescribed criteria. Services under the plan will be provided only through appropriate, qualified community programs (which may include community mental health centers, child mental-health programs, psychosocial rehabilitation programs, mental health peer-support programs and mental-health primary consumer-directed programs). Services under the plan will be provided through community mental health centers only if the centers meet prescribed criteria. For fiscal year 1994, the State must expend not less than 10 percent of the grant to increase (relative to fiscal year 1993) funding for such system and for any subsequent fiscal year, the State must expend for such system not less than an amount equal to the amount expended by the State for fiscal year 1994. Up to 5 percent of grant funds may be used for administering the funds. In general, any amount paid to a State under the program shall be available for obligation until the end of the fiscal year for which the amounts were paid and if obligated by the end of such year, shall remain available for expenditure until the end of the succeeding fiscal year. Funds may not be used to provide inpatient services; to make cash payments to intended recipients of health services; to purchase or improve land, purchase, construct, or permanently improve (other than minor remodeling) any building or other facility, or purchase major medical equipment; to satisfy any requirement for the expenditure of nonfederal funds as a condition for the receipt of Federal funds; or to provide financial assistance to any entity other than a public or nonprofit private entity.

Applicant Eligibility: State and U.S. Territory Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: State Planning and System Development Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 15C-26, Parklawn Bldg, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857 (301) 443-4257. Grants Management Contact: Division of Grants Management, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 15C-05, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857 (301) 443-4456.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.959 BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant)

FEDERAL AGENCY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide financial assistance to States and Territories to support projects for the development and implementation of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities directed to the diseases of alcohol and drug abuse.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used at the discretion of the States to achieve the statutory objectives, including the fulfillment of certain requirements. Not less than 20 percent of the funds shall be spent for programs for individuals who do not require treatment for substance abuse, but to educate and counsel such individuals and to provide for activities to reduce the risk of such abuse by the individuals by developing community-based strategies for prevention of such abuse, including the use of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products by individuals to whom it is unlawful to sell or distribute such beverages or products. States, for fiscal year 1994, shall expend not less than 5 percent of the grant to increase (relative to fiscal year 1992) the availability of treatment services designed for pregnant women and women with dependent children (either by establishing new programs or expanding the capacity of existing programs). States, for fiscal year 1994, shall also expend not less than 5 percent of the grant to increase (relative to fiscal year 1993) the availability of such services to pregnant women and women with dependent children. States must require programs of treatment for intravenous drug abuse to admit individuals into treatment within 14 days after making such a request or 120 days of such a request, if interim vices are made available within 48 hours. States will provide, directly or through arrangements with other public or nonprofit entities, tuberculosis services such as counseling, testing, treatment, and early intervention services for substance abusers at risk for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Other statutory requirements also apply.

Applicant Eligibility: State and U.S. Territory Governments; Indian Tribes or Tribal Organizations.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Division for State and Community Assistance, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II, Suite 880, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-3820. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Office of Resource Management, Office of Program Support, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II, Suite 618, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-4456.

93.960 SPECIAL MINORITY INITIATIVES

FEDERAL AGENCY: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To increase the number of under represented minority students trained to pursue careers in biomedical research through the use of National Research Service Awards, institutional education projects, and technical assistance workshops. National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowships are available to under represented minorities at all institutions to prepare them for research careers in the biomedical sciences. Institutional Education Projects (Bridges Program) encourage the development of new and innovative programs and the expansion of existing programs to improve the academic competitiveness of under represented minority students and facilitate their transition into the next stage of preparation for careers in biomedical research, whether in a post-secondary or graduate school setting. Technical assistance workshops promote or enhance biomedical research conducted by minority students and investigators who receive support from the Division of Minority Opportunities in Research of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: NRSAs are made directly to individuals for research training leading to a Ph.D. or combined professional degree-Ph.D. in disciplines supporting biomedical research. Responsibilities of grantees and restrictions on use of funds are set forth in the Public Health Service Policy Statement on Grants for Research Projects, which is available upon request from the Office of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. The Bridges Program targets two different under represented minority student populations: those in colleges and universities offering only master of science degree programs in biomedically related sciences, and those in 2-year junior or community colleges. Grants are given for partnership programs involving: (1) institutions awarding the master's degree and universities awarding the Ph.D. degree, or (2) 2-year colleges awarding the associate's degree and institutions awarding the baccalaureate degree. Funds may be used for the costs of administering and coordinating the partnership programs within and between each of the participants. Although compensation for student participation in research experiences may be requested, stipends, housing, tuition, and fees are not allowable costs under this program. However, salary/wages, tuition remission, and other forms of compensation paid in lieu of wages to students performing necessary work are allowable, provided there is an employer-employee relationship between the student and the institution, the total compensation is reasonable for the work performed, and it is the institution's practice to provide compensation for all students in similar circumstances, regardless of the source of support for the activity. Funds for equipment, supplies, travel, and other expenses are limited to those necessary for program development. Funds for technical assistance workshops can support international or national meetings and conferences as well as workshops.

Applicant Eligibility: NRSA eligibility is limited to students who are U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals, or permanent residents from ethnic/racial groups that are under represented in research in the biomedical sciences in the United States. These groups include, but are not limited to, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and natives of the U.S. Pacific Islands. Individual NRSA awardees must be nominated and sponsored by a public or nonprofit private institution having staff and facilities appropriate to the proposed research training program. Applications for the Bridges Program may be submitted by domestic, private or public educational institutions, and by State or local systems of higher education. Programs developed or modified under this initiative must be specifically designed to target under represented minorities. Applications must include a partnership between: (1) a 2-year institution that offers the associate degree as the only undergraduate degree in the sciences within the participating departments and that has a significant enrollment of under represented minorities, and a college or university offering the baccalaureate degree in areas relevant to the biomedical sciences; or (2) an institution that offers the master of science degree as the only postgraduate degree in the sciences within the participating departments and that has a significant enrollment of under represented minorities, and a research university providing Ph.D. degree programs in areas relevant to the biomedical sciences. Applications must involve a partnership of at least two colleges or universities. Technical assistance workshop applications may be submitted by public, private or nonprofit agencies or organizations including State and local government agencies, universities, colleges, and academic or research institutions.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: For Predoctoral NRSA awards, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 (301) 594-3900. For the Bridges Program, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 (301) 496-0533. For technical assistance workshop support, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 (301) 594-3833. Grants Management, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive MSC 6200, Bethesda, MD 20892-6200. Telephone: (301) 594-5135.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Individual predoctoral NRSA fellowships, institutional education projects, and technical assistance workshops.

93.970 HEALTH PROFESSIONS RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR INDIANS (Recruitment Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: (1) To identify American Indians and Alaska Natives with a potential for education or training in the health professions, and to encourage and assist them to enroll in health or allied health professional schools; (2) to increase the number of nurses, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists who deliver health care services to American Indians and Alaska Natives; and (3) to place health professional residents for short-term assignments at Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities as a recruitment aid.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants; Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements).

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Establishing and operating programs designed to recruit American Indians and Alaska Natives into health and allied health professional schools.

Applicant Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit health or educational entities or Indian tribes or tribal organizations as specifically provided in legislative authority.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: For Health Professions Recruitment and Health Resident Recruitment Contact: Division of Health Professions Support, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100A, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-4242. For Nursing Recruitment Contact: Nursing Program, Indian Health Service, Room 6A-44, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-1840. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisitions and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-5204.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) The University of North Dakota recruited Indians into its medical and health care programs; (2) the Salish-Kootenai College recruited students for nursing careers, and provided scholarship support through the grant; and (3) University of South Dakota places medical residents at IHS facilities as recruitment aid.

93.971 HEALTH PROFESSIONS PREPARATORY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR INDIANS

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To make scholarships to American Indians and Alaska Natives for the purpose of completing compensatory pre-professional education to enable the recipient to qualify for enrollment or re-enrollment in a health professions school or curriculum.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Scholarship awards are limited to persons of American Indian or Alaska Native descent. Awards are limited to a maximum of 2 years of full-time scholarship support under this section of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

Applicant Eligibility: Scholarship awards are made to individuals of American Indian or Alaska Native descent, who have successfully completed high school education or high school equivalency and who have been accepted for enrollment in a compensatory, pre-professional general education course or curriculum.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for Indian Health Service Area Offices.

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: Scholarship Branch, Division of Health Professions Support, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100A, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-6197. Grants Contact: Grants Management Officer, Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-0243.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year 1998, continuing scholarship recipients will be funded in the pre-professional categories of pre-nursing, pre-medical technology, pre-physical therapy, pre-engineering, pre-sanitation, and pre-pharmacy only.

93.972 HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide scholarships to American Indians and Alaska Natives at health professions schools in order to obtain health professionals to serve Indians. Upon completion, scholarship recipients are obligated to serve in the Indian Health Service or an Indian health organization for each year of support with a minimum of 2 years.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Scholarships support students who pursue full-time or part-time courses of study in health professions needed by the Indian Health Service (IHS). Disciplines have included allopathic and osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing (baccalaureate and graduate), public health nutrition (graduate), medical social work (graduate), speech pathology/audiology (graduate), optometry, pharmacology and health care administration. Not all disciplines participate each year. Scholarships may not be awarded to students who have conflicting service obligations after graduation or who are not enrolled members of Federally recognized tribes. Recipients are required to perform 1 year of obligated service for each year of scholarship support, with a minimum obligation of 2 years in the Indian Health Service, or in a program conducted under a contract entered into under the Indian Self-Determination Act; or in an Indian health organization assisted under Title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act; or in private practice in a Health Manpower Shortage Area which addresses the health care needs of a substantial number of Indians. Deferment for internship, residency, or other advanced clinical training for medical, osteopathy, and dental students is generally not to exceed 3 years, consistent with the specialty needs of the IHS. Currently, 4-year deferments may be granted for obstetrics-gynecology and psychiatry residencies.

Applicant Eligibility: Individuals of American Indian or Alaska Native who are enrolled members of a Federally-recognized tribe are eligible. Applicants for new awards: (1) must be accepted by an accredited U.S. educational institution for a full-time or part-time course of study leading to a degree in medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, or other participating health profession which is deemed necessary by the Indian Health Service; (2) be eligible for or hold an appointment as a Commissioned Officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service; or (3) be eligible for civilian service in the Indian Health Service.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See your local telephone directory for Indian Health Service Area Program Offices.

Headquarters Office: IHS Scholarship Program, Division of Health Professions Support, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook Metro Plaza, Suite 100A, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 443-6197. Grants Contact: Grants Management Branch, Division of Acquisition and Grants Management, Indian Health Service, Twinbrook, Metro Plaza, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 443-0243.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: In fiscal year 1997, there were 390 scholarships awarded to students in the following categories: nursing, medicine, medical technology, health administration, x-ray technology, optometry, dentistry, pharmacy, dental hygiene, dietetics, masters of public health, health education, chemical dependency counseling, health records, engineering, physician assistant, sanitation, and physical therapy.

93.991 PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (PHHS Block Grants)

FEDERAL AGENCY: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To provide States with the resources to improve the health status of the population of each grantee through: (A) activities leading to the accomplishment of the year 2000 objectives for the nation; (B) rodent control and community-school fluoridation activities; (C) specified emergency medical services excluding most equipment purchases; (D) services for sex offense victims including prevention activities; and (E) for related administration, education, monitoring and evaluation activities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Except as described below, Block Grant funds may be used for preventive health service programs for: (A) activities to achieve improvements in the health status of populations through achievement of the year 2000 health objectives for the nation; (B) preventive health service programs for the control of rodents and for community and school-based fluoridation programs; (C) feasibility studies and planning for emergency medical services systems and the establishment, expansion, and improvement of such systems; (D) providing services to victims of sex offenses and prevention of sex offenses; and (E) related planning, administration, and educational activities. Funds may not be used to operate emergency medical services systems or to purchase more than 50 percent of the cost of communications equipment for such systems.

Applicant Eligibility: Only State and territorial governments, the District of Columbia, the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas and the Sante Sioux Tribe of Nebraska are eligible for Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Program Contact: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (K30), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., Atlanta, GA 30341-3724. Telephone: (404) 488-5299. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Grants Management Branch, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 255 E. Paces Ferry Road, NE., Atlanta, GA 30303. Telephone: (404) 842-6508.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

93.994 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT TO THE STATES

FEDERAL AGENCY: HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

OBJECTIVES: To enable States to maintain and strengthen their leadership in planning, promoting, coordinating and evaluating health care for pregnant women, mothers, infants, and children and children with special health care needs in providing health services for mothers and children who do not have access to adequate health care.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: States may use funds to develop systems of care for the provision of health services and related activities, including planning, administration, education and evaluation consistent with the State's annual application. Funds may not be used for (1) inpatient services other than those provided to children with special health care needs or to high-risk pregnant women and infants and such other inpatient services as the Secretary may approve; (2) cash payments to intended recipients for health services; (3) purchase and improvement of land, construction or permanent improvement of buildings or purchase of major medical equipment; (4) matching other Federal grants; or (5) providing funds for research or training to any entity other than a public or private nonprofit entity. Beginning in FY 1991, States must use at least 30 percent of their Federal allotment for preventive and primary care services for children, and at least 30 percent for services for children with special health care needs. In addition, each State must establish and maintain a toll-free information number for parents on maternal and child health (MCH) and Medicaid providers. No more than 10 percent of each State's allotment may be used for administration.

Applicant Eligibility: Maternal and Child Health Block Grants are limited to States and insular areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Headquarters Office: Central Office Contacts: Program Contact: Office of State and Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 18-31, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-2204. Grants Management Contact: Grants Management Officer, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Room 18-12, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Telephone: (301) 443-1440.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Each of the 59 States and jurisdictions determines its individual program priorities under its Block grant.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

14.110 MANUFACTURED HOME LOAN INSURANCE FINANCING PURCHASE OF MANUFACTURED HOMES AS PRINCIPAL RESIDENCES OF BORROWERS (Title I)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To make possible reasonable financing of manufactured home purchases.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: HUD insures lenders against loss on loans. Insured loans may be used to purchase manufactured home units by buyers intending to use them as their principal places of residence. The maximum amount of the loan is $48,600, whether single or multiple modules. The borrower must give assurance that the unit will be placed on a site which complies with local zoning and land development requirements.

Applicant Eligibility: All persons are eligible to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact HUD Headquarters for program information.

Headquarters Office: Home Improvement Branch, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 8272, Washington, DC 20410 (202) 708-6396.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.121 MORTGAGE INSURANCE HOMES IN OUTLYING AREAS (203(i))

FEDERAL AGENCY: HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help people purchase homes in outlying areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: HUD insures lenders against loss on mortgage loans. These loans may be used to finance the purchase of proposed, under construction, or existing one-family nonfarm housing, or new farm housing on two and one-half or more acres adjacent to an all-weather public road. The maximum insurable loan for an occupant mortgagor on a one-family home is 75 percent of the Section 203(b) limit.

Applicant Eligibility: All families are eligible to apply.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the Home ownership Center serving their State, or the nearest local HUD Office. See your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: None.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.157 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY (202)

FEDERAL AGENCY: HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To expand the supply of housing with supportive services for the elderly.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Capital advances shall be used to finance the construction or rehabilitation of a structure or portion thereof, or the acquisition of a structure from the Resolution Trust Corporation to provide supportive housing for the elderly, which may include the cost of real property acquisition, site improvement, conversion, demolition, relocation and other expenses of supportive housing for the elderly. Project rental assistance is used to cover the difference between the HUD-approved operating cost per unit and the amount the tenant pays.

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofit corporations and consumer cooperatives. Public bodies and their instrumentalities are not eligible Section 202 applicants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HUD field office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Business Products, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-2556.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.219 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM (Small Cities)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this program is the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Small Cities develop their own programs and funding priorities. Generally, as in the case of entitlement grants, most activities previously eligible under the categorical program consolidated under the Act, and defined by the statute and regulations may be carried out, i.e., acquisition, rehabilitation or construction of certain public works facilities and improvements, clearance, housing rehabilitation, code enforcement, direct assistance to facilitate and expand Home ownership among persons of low and moderate income, relocation payments and assistance, administrative expenses, economic development, completing existing urban renewal projects, and certain public services within certain limits. Neighborhood-based nonprofit organizations, local development corporations, Small Business Investment Companies, or other nonprofit organizations serving the development needs of nonentitlement areas may act as subgrantees to carry out neighborhood revitalization or community economic development projects in furtherance of block grant objectives. Recipients may provide assistance to for-profit entities when the recipient determines that the provision of such assistance is appropriate to carry out an economic development project. Communities are restricted from constructing or rehabilitating public facilities for the general conduct of government and from making housing allowances or other income maintenance-type payments. The projected use of funds must be developed to give maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and moderate income persons or aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight. The projected use of funds may also include activities which the applicant certifies are designed to meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community where other financial resources are not available to meet such needs. At least 70 percent of each grant made available to a unit of general local government must benefit low and moderate income persons.

Applicant Eligibility: HUD continues to administer the Small Cities Program only for the nonentitlement communities within the jurisdictions of the States of New York and Hawaii. Eligible applicants are units of general local government (including counties), except metropolitan cities, urban counties or units participating in an urban county's CDBG program, and Indian tribes eligible for assistance under Section 106(a) of the Act, as amended. Under the CDBG Program/State Program (14.228) each State may now elect to administer all aspects of the Small Cities Program for the nonentitlement communities within its jurisdiction. All other States have elected to administer the Small Cities Program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Field Office for New York or Hawaii listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: State and Small Cities Division, Office of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-1322. Use the same number for FTS.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Neighborhood revitalization projects emphasizing rehabilitation of private homes, and including appropriate improvements of public facilities; economic development projects for expanded employment opportunities; and projects to address serious deficiencies in public facilities such as water and sewer.

14.227 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS/TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help States, units of general local government, Indian tribes and area wide planning organizations to plan, develop and administer local Community Development Block Grant programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements); Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance may be used to transfer skills and knowledge in planning, developing and administering the Community Development Block Grant programs from those individuals and institutions which possess them to eligible block grant entities and affiliated CDBG participants which need them. Project activities show how they will increase the effectiveness with which eligible block grant communities can use CDBG funds to meet community development national and local program objectives. May take several forms, such as the provision of written information, person-to-person exchange, seminars, workshops or training sessions.

Applicant Eligibility: States, units of general local government, Indian tribes, area wide planning organizations, groups designated by such governmental units to assist them in carrying out assistance under Title I of Public Law 93-383 and qualified groups. Specifications for respondents to competitive request for proposals are stated in the request documents.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HUD Field Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Management and Technical Assistance, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th St., SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-3176.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.228 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this program is the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: States develop their own programs and funding priorities. Each State may elect to administer Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for areas which do not receive CDBG entitlement grants (14.218). If, after a State decides to administer the CDBG program, it decides not to, the funds that would have been allocated to the State will be reallocated among the other States. In States which elect to administer the nonentitlement funds, HUD awards the formula grants to the States under the CDBG/State's Program. In States which do not elect to administer the nonentitlement funds, HUD awards competitive grants to units of general local government under the CDBG/Small Cities Program (14.219). Each State may use up to $100,000 plus two percent of its grant to administer the program and must match each Federal dollar in excess of $100,000 used for administration with a dollar of its own. Each State may use up to one percent of its grant to provide technical assistance to local governments and nonprofit program recipients. Units of general local government funded by the State may undertake a wide range of activities directed toward neighborhood vitalization, economic development, or provision of improved community facilities and services. Specific activities that can be carried out with block grant funds include acquisition of real property, relocation and demolition, rehabilitation of residential and nonresidential structures, direct assistance to facilitate and expand Home ownership among persons of low and moderate income, and provision of public facilities and improvements, such as water and sewer facilities, streets, and neighborhood centers. In addition, block grant funds may be used to pay for certain public services within certain limits. Neighborhood-based nonprofit organizations, local development corporations, Small Business Investment Companies, or other nonprofit organizations serving the development needs on nonentitlement areas may act as subgrantees to carry out neighborhood revitalization or community economic development projects in furtherance of block grant objectives. Recipients may provide assistance to for-profit entities when the recipient determines that the provision of such assistance is appropriate to carry out an economic development project. The projected use of funds must be developed to give maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and moderate-income persons or aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight and the projected use of funds may also include activities which the applicant certifies are designed to meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community where other financial resources are not available to meet such needs. The aggregate use of over a period specified by the State, but not exceeding three years, must ensure that not less than 70 percent of the funds received benefit low and moderate income persons.

Applicant Eligibility: State governments. States must distribute the funds to units of general local government in nonentitlement areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact the appropriate HUD Field Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: State and Small Cities Division, Office of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-1322.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Projects are selected by States.

14.239 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: (1) To expand the supply of affordable housing, particularly rental housing, for low and very low income Americans; (2) to strengthen the abilities of State and local governments to design and implement strategies for achieving adequate supplies of decent, affordable housing; (3) to provide both financial and technical assistance to participating jurisdictions, including the development of model programs for developing affordable low income housing and; (4) to extend and strengthen partnerships among all levels of government and the private sector, including for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in the production and operation of affordable housing.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: For use by participating jurisdictions or Insular Areas for housing rehabilitation, tenant-based rental assistance, assistance to home buyers, acquisition of housing and new construction of housing. Funding may also be used for other necessary and reasonable activities related to the development of non-luxury housing, such as site acquisition, site improvements, demolition and relocation. Ten percent of a participating jurisdiction's allocation may be used for administrative costs. Funds may not be used for public housing modernization, matching funds for other Federal programs, reserve accounts or operating subsidies for rental housing, Annual Contributions Contracts, or activities under the Low Income Housing Preservation Act except for priority purchasers.

Applicant Eligibility: States, cities, urban counties, and consortia (of contiguous units of general local governments with a binding agreement) are eligible to receive formula allocations; funds are also set aside for grants to Insular Areas.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Field Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Affordable Housing Programs, Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410 (202) 708-2685.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.243 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH, YOUTH BUILD PROGRAM (YOUTH BUILD Program)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The YOUTH BUILD program provides funding assistance for a wide range of multi-disciplinary activities and services to assist economically disadvantaged youth. The opportunities are designed to help disadvantaged young adults who have dropped out of high school to obtain the education and employment skills necessary to achieve economic self-efficiency and develop leadership skills and a commitment to community development in low income communities. Another important objective of the YOUTH BUILD program is to expand the supply of permanent affordable housing for homeless persons and members of low income and very low income families. By giving disadvantaged young adults participating in the program meaningful on-site training experiences constructing or rehabilitating housing as a community service, they are helping to meet the housing needs of homeless and low income families in their community.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds can be used to fund eligible educational and supportive services and activities composed of basic skills development, and counseling, referral and support services. Funds can also be used for architectural and engineering fees, construction, rehabilitation, acquisition, operating expenses and replacements reserves. If YOUTH BUILD funds are used for these construction related activities, certain housing related restrictions apply. Use of YOUTH BUILD funds in this way will also negatively affect a proposal's chances of being funded. See the Final Rule for specifics.

Applicant Eligibility: A public or private nonprofit agency, including: (1) a community-based organization which is accountable to low income community residents through representation on the governing board and which has a history of serving the local community where the YOUTH BUILD program is to be located; (2) an administrative entity designated under section 103(b)(1)(B) of the Job Training Partnership Act; (3) a community action agency; (4) a State or local housing development agency; (5) a community development corporation; (6) a public and/or Indian housing authority and resident management corporations, resident councils and resident organizations; (7) a State and local youth service and conservation corps; and (8) any other entity (including States, units of general local government, and Indian Tribes) eligible to provide education and employment training under other Federal employment training programs.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Office of Economic Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410, Room 7134. Telephone: (202) 708-2035.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.244 EMPOWERMENT ZONES PROGRAM (Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities)

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this program is to provide for the establishment of Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities in urban areas, to stimulate the creation of new jobs empowering low-income persons and families receiving public assistance to become economically self-sufficient, particularly for the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed, and to promote revitalization of economically distressed areas. The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) program is the first step in rebuilding communities in America's poverty-stricken inner-cities and rural heartland. It is designed to empower people and communities all across this nation by inspiring Americans to work together to create jobs and opportunity. Under this program, the Federal government has designated areas that meet certain poverty and distress criteria and prepare creative strategic plans for revitalization. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development has designated eight urban Empowerment Zones and 65 Enterprise Communities, and the Secretary of Agriculture has designated 33 rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities. All designations were made in consultation with the Community Empowerment Board, which the President established on September 9, 1993. Designated areas receive Federal grant funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, Social Services Block Grant (Title XX). In addition they receive special tax benefits and special consideration for funding under other Federal programs. The Secretary of HUD will designate 15 additional urban Empowerment Zones before January l, l999. New designated EZs will receive tax incentives and the Administration has proposed funding the urban zones at $l00 million, $10 million each year over a ten-year period.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Designation as an empowerment zone. There is $l.5 million in HUD funding for planning grants and approximately $502 million in tax benefits. Each of the l5 areas that receives EZ designations will be awarded a $l00,000 planning grant. Each urban EZ will receive $10 million a year over the 10 year life of the program.

Applicant Eligibility: (Note: This eligibility is for the "urban zone" applicants. See the Department of Agriculture section for "rural zone" applicant eligibility). A nominated urban area may be eligible for designation if the area: (a) Has a maximum population which is the lesser of (1) 200,000 or (2) the greater of 50,000 or 10 percent of the population of the most populous city located within the nominated area; (b) Is one of pervasive poverty, unemployment and general distress; (c) Does not exceed twenty square miles in total land area; (d) Demonstrates a poverty rate which is not less than: (1) 20 percent in each census tract; (2) For at least 90 percent of the census tracts within the nominated urban area, the poverty rate must be not less than 25 percent; (3) Census tracts with no population are treated as having a poverty rate that meets the standards of (l) and (2) above; and (4) A census tract that has a population of less than 2,000 is treated as having a poverty rate that meets the requirements of (l) and (2) above if more than 75 percent of the tract is zoned for commercial or industrial use. (e) Has a continuous boundary, or consists of not more than six(6) noncontiguous parcels. A nominated urban area must not contain a noncontiguous parcel unless such parcel separately meets the criteria set forth in (1) and (2) above, except for sites that can be developed. The total area of the noncontiguous parcels must not exceed 2,000 acres. (f) Is located entirely within the jurisdiction of the unit or units of general local government making the nomination, and is located in no more than two contiguous States, and (g) Does not include any portion of a central business district, as this term is used in the most recent Census of Retail Trade, unless the poverty rate for each census tract in the district is not less than 35 percent.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: All HUD Field offices with a Community Planning and Development Division, ATTN: Director of Community Planning and Development.

Headquarters Office: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD (202) 708-6339. A dedicated 1-800-998-9999 number has been established to answer questions and make referrals for information concerning eligibility criteria, the application process, technical assistance and workshops.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.246 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (Section 108)

FEDERAL AGENCY: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help public entities eligible under the Section 108 Loan Guarantee program carry out economic development projects authorized by Section 108(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. Grant assistance must enhance the security of loans guaranteed under the Section 108 program or improve the viability of projects financed with loans guaranteed under the Section 108 program. In addition, this program will make competitive economic development grants in conjunction with Section 108 loan guarantees for qualified Brownfields projects.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Assistance may be used for any activity eligible under Section 108(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. Grant funds may only be used in conjunction with projects and activities assisted under the Section 108 Loan Guarantee program.

Applicant Eligibility: Units of general local government that are eligible public entities under the Section 108 Loan Guarantee program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Field Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Financial Management Division, Office of Block Grant Assistance, Community Planning and Development, 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-1871.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: A wide-range of economic development projects including commercial, industrial and economic development revolving loan funds. Brownfields EDI grants will result in similar activities for the qualified Brownfields sites.

14.250 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

FEDERAL AGENCY: COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To expand the supply of affordable housing and access to economic opportunities in rural areas.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grants can be used for capacity building, innovative housing and economic development programs and seed money for these programs. More specific information will be available in the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA).

Applicant Eligibility: Local, rural, and non-profit community development corporations and Indian Tribes are eligible applicants for all three types of grants. State Housing Financing Agencies and State Community and Economic Development Agencies can apply only for the Innovative Grants.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: Deputy Director of Economic Development and Empowerment Services, Community Planning and Development, 451 7th St., SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-2290 x4660.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.313 DOLLAR HOME SALES

FEDERAL AGENCY: OFFICE OF HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To expand HUD's partnership with local governments in helping to foster housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families and address specific community needs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Sale, Exchange, or Donation of Property and Goods.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Single family homes that are acquired in foreclosure actions by the Federal Housing Administration will be eligible for sale to local governments around the nation for $1 when the homes have been listed for sale for at least six months and remain unsold. Local governments buying HUD homes for $1 can sell or rent them to low- and moderate-income families, to first-time homebuyers, or to groups that will use the homes to provide services such as child care centers or job training centers.

Applicant Eligibility: Local governments must identify the intended disposition strategies and clear public purpose goals and objectives it will pursue with properties purchased through this program.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Philadelphia Home Ownership Center, The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3389, telephone: 1-800-440-8647; Atlanta Home Ownership Center, Five Points Plaza, 40 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2806, telephone: 1- 888-696-4687; Denver Home Ownership Center, Wells Fargo Tower North, 633 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202-3607, telephone: 1-800-543-9378; Santa Ana Home Ownership Center, 1600 North Broadway, Suite 100, Santa Ana, CA 92706-3927, telephone: 1-888-827-5605.

Headquarters Office: Dennis White, telephone (202) 708-1672; E-mail: Dennis_A._White@hud.gov.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.511 COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: This program is a five-year demonstration program to determine the feasibility of facilitating partnerships among institutions of higher education and communities to solve urban problems through research, outreach and exchange of information.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Research and outreach activities funded under this program must focus on problems associated with housing, economic development, neighborhood revitalization, infrastructure, health care, job training, education, crime prevention, planning, community organizing and other areas deemed appropriate by the Secretary.

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education with demonstrated ability to carry out eligible activities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: For application kits contact HUD: User, P.O. Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20849. Telephone: 1-800-245-2691. For answers to technical questions, contact the Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and Research, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410 (202) 708-1537, extension 218.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: The University of Illinois at Champaign was awarded $500,000 to work in East St. Louis, Illinois, to expand neighborhood planning and organizational development in five neighborhoods, expand a Neighborhood College for leaders of nonprofit organizations, establish a Neighborhood Technical Assistance Center for community groups and small minority and women-owned businesses, and conduct research on how to maximize housing and other opportunities. The University of Texas at Austin was awarded $500,000 to work with two existing networks of community organizations on housing, infrastructure and community development in colonies in South Texas and job training in Dallas, Fort Worth and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

14.512 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK-STUDY PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Institutions of higher education, area wide planning organizations or States may apply for grants to assist economically disadvantaged and minority students who participate in CDWSP's and are enrolled in full-time graduate programs in community and economic development, community planning or community management, or other related fields of study. Related fields include public administration, urban management, urban planning, and exclude social and humanistic fields such as law, economics (except urban economics) psychology, education and history.

Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education offering graduate degrees in a community development academic program are eligible. An area wide planning organization (APO) or a State may apply for assistance for a program that will be conducted by two or more institutions of higher education. Institutions of higher education participating in an APO program must be located within the metropolitan or non-metropolitan area served by the APO. Institutions of higher education participating in a State program must be located within the State.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: For application kits, contact HUD USER, P.O. Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20849. Telephone: 1-800-245-2691. Direct technical questions to the Office of University Partnerships, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 8110, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-1537, extension 218.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.515 ALASKA NATIVE/NATIVE HAWAIIAN INSTITUTIONS ASSISTING COMMUNITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help Alaska Native Institutions (ANIs) of higher education and Native Hawaiian Institutions (NHIs)of higher education enhance their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development, consistent with the purposes of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Only nonprofit institutions of higher education that meet the statutory definition of an ANI or an NHI contained in the 1988 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965, Public Law 105-244, are eligible to submit applications for funding.

Applicant Eligibility: Nonprofit Alaska Native Institutions of higher education and Native Hawaiian Institutions of higher education that are either on the U.S. Department of Education lists of eligible ANIs or NHIs or ANIs or NHIs that certify that they meet the statutory definition of an ANI or NHI. Each campus of an ANI is permitted to submit a separate application. An NHI may submit only one application per year, no matter how many campuses it has.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: None.

Headquarters Office: For application kits, contact the Super NOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929. For answers to technical questions, contact in the Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and Research, 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC 2-410. Telephone: (202) 708-1537, extension 5918.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: New program.

14.519 TRIBAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To help tribal colleges and universities, build, expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds can be used by tribal colleges to build, expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities. No other activities can be funded; nor can facilities not owned by tribal colleges and universities be assisted.

Applicant Eligibility: Tribal colleges and universities that meet the statutory definition of such institutions contained in Title V of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965, Public Law 105- 244.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.

Headquarters Office: For application kits, contact the Super NOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929. For answers to technical questions, contact either the Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and Research, or Office of Native American Programs, HUD, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, D.C. 20410. Telephone numbers: (202) 708-1537, extension 5918 or (202) 401-7914, extension 4200.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.850 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide and operate cost-effective, decent, safe and affordable dwellings for lower income families through an authorized local Public Housing Agency (PHA).

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: To assist PHAs developing lower-income housing by (1) acquiring existing housing from the private market (acquisition); (2) obtaining construction or rehabilitation contracts by competitive bidding where the PHA acts as the developer (conventional); or (3) executing new construction or rehabilitation Contracts of Sale with private developers (turnkey). Annual contributions are made to PHAs for debt service payments for commitments approved on or prior to September 30, 1986, or direct funding of capital costs (grants) is provided to PHAs for commitments approved after September 30, 1986. In addition, operating subsidy funds are available to achieve and maintain adequate operating and maintenance service and reserve funds. Emphasis on housing type (i.e., acquisition with or without rehabilitation versus new construction and household type (i.e., large family). Funds may also be used for the major reconstruction of obsolete existing public housing projects. The statute requires that priority in development be given to housing larger families requiring 3 or more bedrooms.

Applicant Eligibility: Public Housing Agencies established in accordance with State law are eligible. The proposed program must be approved by the local governing body. Pursuant to the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act of 1996, Indian Housing Authorities (IHAs) are no longer eligible for funding under the US Housing Act (of 1937) or the Indian Housing Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: HUD Field Office listed your local telephone directory that has jurisdiction over the area in which the dwellings are to be located.

Headquarters Office: Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-0950. Use the same number for FTS.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.862 INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide assistance to Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages in the development of viable Indian communities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages may use block grants to improve the housing stock, provide community facilities, make infrastructure improvements, and expand job opportunities by supporting the economic development of their communities. Activities which are eligible for funding include housing rehabilitation programs, acquisition of land for housing, direct assistance to facilitate home ownership among low and moderate income persons, construction of tribal and other facilities for single or multi-use, streets and other public facilities, and economic development projects particularly those by nonprofit tribal organizations or local development corporations when the recipient determines that the provision of such assistance is appropriate to carry out an economic development project. Tribes and Alaska Native villages are restricted from using block grants for construction and improvement of governmental facilities, the purchase of equipment, general government expenses, operating and maintenance expenses, political activities, new housing construction (except through community-based development organizations (CBDOs), and income payments.

Applicant Eligibility: Any Indian tribe, band, group, or nation, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, and any Alaska Native village that is eligible for assistance under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act or which had been eligible under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Contact appropriate HUD Office of Native American Programs Field Office listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Native American Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Suite 3990, P.O. Box 90, 1999 North Broadway, Denver, CO 80202. Telephone: (303) 675-1600.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Fire station; housing rehabilitation grant program; cooperative store development; water lines and storage facility, community building.

14.865 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING INDIAN LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM (Loan Guarantees for Indian Housing)

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide home ownership opportunities to Native Americans, Tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs, formerly Indian Housing Authorities) on Indian land, through a guaranteed mortgage loan program available through private financial institutions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Mortgage loans are for the acquisition or rehabilitation of existing homes, purchase and rehabilitation of a home or construction of a new home. The financial institution which originates the mortgage loan must meet certain requirements noted in the law.

Applicant Eligibility: The loan applicant must be a Native American, which includes Alaska Natives, or a Tribally Designated Housing Authority (TDHE) or a Tribe which meets certain requirements.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: The Administrator, Office of Native American Programs at the appropriate field office (see your local telephone directory for HUD field office addresses in Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Oklahoma City and Anchorage).

Headquarters Office: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Box 90, Denver, Colorado 80202. Telephone: (303) 675-1600.

14.867 INDIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To provide Federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Affordable housing activities such as: Indian Housing Assistance; Development; Housing Services; Housing Management Services; Crime Prevention and Safety Activities; and Model Activities.

Applicant Eligibility: Indian tribes or tribally designated housing entities (TDHE) (to be eligible for Indian housing block grant funds the tribe or TDHE must submit an Indian housing plan that is in compliance with the requirements of Section 102 of NAHASDA).

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office:The Administrator, Office of Native American Programs at the appropriate field office in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: National Office of Native American Programs, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Box 90, Denver, CO 80202. Telephone: (303)675-1600.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.869 TITLE VI FEDERAL GUARANTEES FOR FINANCING TRIBAL HOUSING ACTIVITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS, OFFICE OF LOAN GUARANTEE, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To assist an Indian tribe or Tribally Designated Housing Entity (TDHE) to obtain financing where an obligation cannot be completed without such guarantee.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Guaranteed/Insured Loans.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Limited to the eligible affordable housing activities listed in Section 202 of the NAHASDA to include Indian Housing Assistance, Development, Housing Services, Housing Management Services, Crime Prevention and Safety Activities, and Affordable Housing Activities, as approved by the Secretary.

Applicant Eligibility: The Borrower must be a Federally recognized Indian tribe or TDHE that is an approved recipient for Indian Housing Block Grants (IHBG) funds.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Director of the Office of Loan Guarantee, National Office of Native American Programs, Denver, CO. Telephone: (303) 675-1660.

Headquarters Office: None.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Development of multiple-family housing projects; integration of infrastructure resources on reservations lands; large scale developments such as subdivisions; increase access to private capital through the issuance of bonds; and mortgage assistance to Native American families.

14.870 RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES (ROSS)

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: To programmatically address the needs of public housing residents by providing supportive services, resident empowerment activities and/or assisting residents in becoming economically self- sufficient. The primary focus of the program is on "welfare to work" and on independent living for the elderly and persons with disabilities.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Grant funds may be used for both economic development and supportive services activities, organizational development, mediation, including the employment of service coordinators/case managers.

Applicant Eligibility: Public and Indian Housing (PHAs/IHAs), and Tribally Designated Housing entities (TDHEs), resident management corporations, resident councils or resident organizations (including nonprofit entities supported by residents) must establish partnerships to leverage resources with other Federal and nonfederal entities.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Offices of Public Housing and Native American Programs listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Customer Services and Amenities Division, Office of Public and Assisted Housing Delivery, Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 4224, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-4214. A telecommunications device for hearing and speech impaired persons (TDD) is available at (202) 708-0850. These are toll-free numbers.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

14.872 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND (CFP)

FEDERAL AGENCY: PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVES: The Capital Fund Program provides funds, annually, to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and management activities, including modernization and development of public housing.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Formula Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: The funds may be used for the development, financing and modernization of public housing developments and for management improvements. The funds may not be used for luxury improvements; direct social services; cost funded by other HUD programs; and ineligible activities as determined by HUD on a case-by-case basis.

Applicant Eligibility: The PHA must demonstrate that it has the legal authority to develop, own, modernize and operate a public housing development in accordance with the 1937 Act.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Inquiries should be addressed to the Public Housing Director of the appropriate FO that has jurisdiction over the PHA. (See your local telephone directory for HUD FO addresses).

Headquarters Office: Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing Development, Washington, DC 20410. Telephone: (202) 708-0950.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

15.020 AID TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Indian tribal governments to support general tribal government operations, to maintain up-to-date tribal enrollment, to conduct tribal elections, and to develop appropriate tribal policies, legislation, and regulations.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used in a variety of ways to strengthen the capabilities of Indian tribes in self-government, community planning, and maintenance of membership records.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office.

Headquarters Office: Chief, Division of Tribal Government Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW., MS-4641 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-4097.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.022 TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To further the goals of Indian Self-Determination by providing funds to Indian tribes to administer a wide range of programs with maximum administrative and programmatic flexibility.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

 USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used by Federally Recognized Tribal Governments to support programs such as law enforcement, social services, welfare payments, housing improvement, and road maintenance. Funds may be used only for programs previously administered by the Department of the Interior or for programs specifically authorized by Federal statute and may not be used for the operation of elementary and secondary schools or for community colleges. The Indian tribe must ensure adequate protection of trust resources.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments and tribal consortia authorized by the Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments to be served.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Office of Self Governance, Department of the Interior, Northwest Field Office, 500 West 12th Street, Room 170, Vancouver, WA 98660. Telephone: (206) 699-1010.

Headquarters Office: Director, Office of Self-Governance, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, 1849 "C" Street, NW., MS- 2542-MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-0240.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Among the activities supported by one consortium was the organization of a tourism alliance, provision of 300 college scholarships, repair of 16 homes, and the initiation of job readiness training for welfare recipients. A tribe in the northwest managed over 3800 acres of forest land, helped 27 tribal members move from welfare to paid employment, and supported 20 members in adult education/training programs. Another tribal consortium provided life skills assistance (tax preparation, driver's education, resume writing, etc.) to over 500 members, provided assistance to village groups in preparing economic development proposals which resulted in increased funding being provided by other Federal agencies, and worked with the Reindeer Herders Association to improve the health and economic value of the reindeer herds.

15.024 INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION CONTRACT SUPPORT (CONTRACT SUPPORT)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments and to tribal organizations to fund some or all of the indirect costs incurred in administering Federal programs for which direct appropriations are made to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used in accordance with indirect cost rate proposals which have been approved by the cognizant Federal agency or for lump sum administrative cost rates negotiated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments and tribal organizations authorized by Indian Tribal Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office as listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Division of Self-Determination Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW., MS-4603 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202)208-5727.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not applicable.

15.025 SERVICES TO INDIAN CHILDREN, ELDERLY AND FAMILIES (SOCIAL SERVICES)

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide funds to Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments to administer welfare assistance programs for both adults and children; to support caseworkers and counselors; and to support tribal programs to reduce the incidence of substance abuse and alcohol abuse in Indian country.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for staff support and related costs of processing welfare applications, determining suitable placement of children in need of foster care, staffing and operational costs of emergency shelters, and similar services.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: Applications may be filed with the local Bureau of Indian Affairs agency or area office as listed in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Division of Social Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 "C" Street, NW., MS-4641-MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 208-2479.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Not available.

15.026 INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To improve the educational opportunities for Indian adults who lack the level of literacy skills necessary for effective citizenship and productive employment and to encourage the establishment of adult education programs.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Direct Payments for Specified Use.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: All funds must be for direct services. Funds may not be used for administration.

Applicant Eligibility: Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers' addresses in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MB, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1129.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Courses include Adult Basic Education (ABE), preparation for the General Educational Development Test (GED); life-coping skills such as budgeting, driver training and filing of Federal and State taxes; and continuing education courses such as typing and computer literacy.

15.027 ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants for the operation and improvement of tribally controlled community colleges to insure continued and expanded educational opportunities for Indian students, and to allow for the improvement and expansion of the physical resources of such institutions.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds may be used for the general operating costs of the Tribally Controlled Community College to defray, at the determination of the College, expenditures for academic, educational and administrative purposes and for the operation and maintenance of the College. Funds must not be used in connection with religious worship or sectarian instruction.

Applicant Eligibility: Colleges sponsored by Federally Recognized Indian Tribes or tribal organizations which are governed by a board of directors, are in operation more than one year, admit students with a certificate of graduation from a secondary institution or equivalent, provide certificates, associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees, are nonprofit and nonsectarian.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers' addresses in your local telephone directory.

Headquarters Office: Office of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS-3512 MIB, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone: (202) 219-1127.

EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Twenty-four Tribally Controlled Community Colleges received financial assistance.

15.028 TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS

FEDERAL AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OBJECTIVES: To provide grants to establish endowments for the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE: Project Grants.

USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Funds are to be used to establish endowments. Interest earned on the invested funds may be used to defray expenditures associated with the operation of the College including maintenance, administration, academic and support costs, and community and student services programs. No part of the net earnings of the trust fund may be used to benefit any private person.

Applicant Eligibility: Colleges chartered by Federally Recognized Indian Tribes which are governed by an Indian board of directors, are in operation more than one year, admit students with a certificate of graduation from a secondary institution or equivalent, provide certificates, associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees.

INFORMATION CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office: See Education Line Officers' addresses in your local telephone directory.