Federal Register - "Clarifying Guidance, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements for Hurricane Sandy Grantees in Receipt of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds"

Title: Clarifying Guidance, Waivers, and Alternative Requirements for Hurricane Sandy Grantees in Receipt of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds Source: Federal Register Data/Action: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (Notice) Date: 4/19/2013 Text Preview: ...Hurricane Sandy Grantees in Receipt of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Previously, the Department allocated $5,400,000,000 of Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery (CDBG-DR) funds appropriated by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113-2) for the purpose of assisting recovery in the most impacted and distressed areas declared a major disaster...

...Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (Pub. L. 113-2, approved January 29, 2013) (Appropriations Act) makes available $16,000,000,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for necessary expenses related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, and economic revitalization in the most impacted and distressed areas resulting from a major disaster declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) (Stafford Act), due to Hurricane...

...disaster recovery grants from $15,980,000,000 to $15,181,000,000. The $10 million provided to CPD for administrative costs and the $10 million provided to the [[Page 23579]] Office of the Inspector General are also each reduced to $9.5 million. In a Federal Register Notice published March 5, 2013 (78 FR 14329), the Department allocated $5,400,000,000 after analyzing the impacts of Hurricane...