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Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
Division of Energy Assistance/OCS/ACF
Estimates of Quarterly Obligations for the FY 2005
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
THIS CONTAINS INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION FOR
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN LIHEAP ACTION TRANSMITTAL
NO. LIHEAP-AT-2004-4, DATED 6/29/04
TO: LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LIHEAP)
STATE GRANTEES
SUBJECT: Estimates of Quarterly Obligations for the FY 2005
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
RELATED
REFERENCES: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act, Title XXVI
of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981,
Public Law 97-35, as amended; P.L. 90-577
(Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968); Form
ACF-535 (OMB Clearance Number 0970-0037, approved
for use through 12/31/2004)
PURPOSE: To collect from LIHEAP state grantees estimates of
their quarterly obligations under the FY 2005
LIHEAP Program.
DUE DATE - September 1, 2004
CONTENT: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
approved the collection of certain data to be
used by the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) for the LIHEAP Program. The
data to be collected are grantees' estimates of
obligations they will make each quarter under the
FY 2005 program. Your participation in the data
collection is voluntary. However, if you wish to
receive more than 25% of your grant in each quarter,
you must submit this information. If the
information is not received, grant awards will be
made in the amount of 25 percent of the grantee's
allocation in four quarterly grant awards for FY
2005. Once the quarterly allocations are set, our
ability to change them is constrained by our OMB
apportionment. The data must be received by
September 1 in order to be used in our
apportionment request to OMB.
The information collected is used to
substantiate budget requests for low-income
energy assistance payments and to make awards
based on each state's needs. However, as you
know, the availability of funding is dependent on
Congressional action to provide funding via an
appropriation or continuing resolution and the
apportionment of funds by OMB.
We are providing a form (see attached) that you
may use to provide us with the estimates of your
quarterly obligations. This form will enable the
Administration for Children and Families to target
your needs for FY 2005 funding authority.
If you plan to carry over funds from your FY 2004
program to begin your program in October, please
make sure that your quarterly estimates take this
into account.
The form is due September 1, 2004. Please note that
submission should be sent to the ACF grants office
at the address listed below.
ATTACHMENT: Form ACF-535, Low Income Home Energy Assistance
Program Quarterly Obligation Estimates
SUBMISSIONS
TO: Administration for Children and Families
Office of Administration
Office of Grants Management
Division of Mandatory Grants
Attention: Peter Thompson,
Mail Stop: OA/OGM/DMG
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20447
Fax: (202) 401-5644
E-mail: pathompson@acf.hhs.gov
INQUIRIES TO: Nick St. Angelo
Division of Energy Assistance
Telephone: (202) 401-5306
E-mail: nstangelo@acf.hhs.gov
_____________/s_____________
Clarence H. Carter
Director
Office of Community Services
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Posted on 7/13/04
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