Notice2023-20788
Proposed Reallotment of Fiscal Year 2022 Funds for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
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Published
September 26, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Service (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance announces a preliminary determination that funds from the Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2022 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are available for reallotment to States, Territories, Tribes, and Tribal organizations that received FFY 2023 direct LIHEAP grants. The purpose of this award is to redistribute FFY 2022 annual LIHEAP funds that grant recipients were unable to obligate or carry over to FFY 2023. No sub-recipients of these grant recipients or other entities may apply for these funds.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66005-66007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20788]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: 93.568]
Proposed Reallotment of Fiscal Year 2022 Funds for the Low Income
Home Energy Assistance Program
AGENCY: Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and
Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice of public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Community Service (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance announces a
preliminary determination that funds from the Federal fiscal year (FFY)
2022 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are available
for reallotment to States, Territories, Tribes, and Tribal
organizations that received FFY 2023 direct LIHEAP grants. The purpose
of this award is to redistribute FFY 2022 annual LIHEAP funds that
grant recipients were unable to obligate or carry over to FFY 2023. No
sub-recipients of these grant recipients or other entities may apply
for these funds.
DATES: Comments are due by: October 26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to: Peter Edelman, Program
Analyst, Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and
Families, 330 C Street SW, 5th Floor; Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC
20201 or via email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#374752435245195253525b5a565977565451195f5f4419505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8efeebfaebfca0ebeaebe2e3efe0ceefede8a0e6e6fda0e9e1f8">[email protected]</span></a>. Comments may also be
faxed to 202-401-5661.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Akm Rahman, Program Operations Branch
Chief, Division of Energy Assistance, Office of Community Services, 330
C Street SW, 5th Floor; Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC, 20201.
Telephone: 202-401-5306; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5e1f3533700c3f36333f301e3f3d387036362d70393128"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="40012b2d6e1221282d212e002123266e2828336e272f36">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: After receiving Federal Financial Reports
(FFRs) and Carryover and Reallotment Reports (CRRs) from FFY 2022
LIHEAP recipients, ACF has determined that $21,985,238 in FFY 2022
LIHEAP funds were available for reallotment for FFY 2023. This
determination was based on the reports of 73 recipients, the total
obligations of 3 recipients, and minor corrections to certain amounts
available for carryover. LIHEAP recipients submitted the FFY 2022 CRRs
to OCS, as required by regulations applicable to LIHEAP at 45 CFR
96.81(b).
The LIHEAP statute allows grant recipients who have funds
unobligated at the end of the FFY for which they are awarded to request
that they be allowed to carry over up to 10 percent of their full-year
allotments to the next FFY (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)). Funds in excess of
this amount must be returned to the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and are subject to reallotment under 42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(1).
FFY 2022 funds appropriated under the American Rescue Plan Act of
2022 (Pub. L. 117-2) were not subject to 42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(B), which
caps carryover at 10 percent. Therefore, these funds were not included
in the reallotment calculation.
In accordance with 42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(3), ACF notified each of the
76 recipients that reported or, in the absence of reporting, had
potentially $21,985,238 of unobligated funds above their carryover
caps. In these notices, ACF told each about the amount it returned for
de-obligation and the amount that will be redistributed to FFY 2023
grant recipients as part of the reallotment. It also gave each
recipient 30 calendar days to provide comments directly to ACF.
If funds are reallotted, then they will be allocated in accordance
with 42 U.S.C. 8623 and must be treated by LIHEAP grant recipients that
receive them as an amount appropriated for FFY 2023. As FFY 2023 funds,
they will be subject to all requirements of the LIHEAP statute,
including 42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2), which requires that a grantee obligate
at least 90 percent of its total block grant allocation for a fiscal
year by the end of the fiscal year for which the funds are
appropriated; that is, by September 30, 2023.
All LIHEAP grant recipients that receive a portion of these funds
will be notified of the final reallotment amount redistributed to them
for obligation in FFY 2023. This decision will also be published in the
Federal Register and in a Dear Colleague Letter that is posted to
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ACF's website under LIHEAP Dear Colleague Letters.
The FFY 2022 LIHEAP funds that ACF preliminarily expects to become
available for reallotment determination come from the following grant
recipients in the following amounts:
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Preliminary
amount
Name of grant recipient that has funds to be returned available for
for reallotment reallotment
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Alabama................................................. $2,378,088
Alaska.................................................. 2,431,911
American Samoa.......................................... 2,828
Delaware................................................ 199,360
Idaho................................................... 6,505,338
Michigan................................................ 2,087,677
Wyoming................................................. 81,133
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma........... 20,409
Berry Creek Rancheria................................... 747
Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians......................... 1,759
Bishop Paiute Tribe..................................... 13,779
Blackfeet Tribe......................................... 264,815
Catawba Indian Nation................................... 10,164
Cherokee Nation......................................... 134,641
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes............................. 18,097
Cocopah Indian Tribe.................................... 11,011
Colorado River Indian Tribes............................ 6,166
Comanche Nation......................................... 26,315
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes................. 212,244
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation...... 551,163
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon......... 79,365
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation.. 12,018
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of 28,859
Oregon.................................................
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs..................... 11,141
Delaware Nation......................................... 275
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians........................ 6,466
Eastern Shoshone Tribe.................................. 45,858
Fort Belknap Indian Community........................... 109,264
Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.................. 66,553
Gila River Indian Community............................. 17,267
Hoh Tribe............................................... 4,404
Hoopa Valley Tribe...................................... 45,051
Indian Township Tribal Government....................... 309,325
Inter-Tribal Council of MI, Inc......................... 1,363
Jicarilla Apache Nation................................. 15,384
Kalispel Tribe of Indians............................... 657
Kaw Nation.............................................. 3,441
Kialegee Tribal Town.................................... 50
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.............................. 25,505
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma................................. 64,055
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians..................... 159,939
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe............................... 1,928
Makah Tribe............................................. 1,890
Modoc Nation............................................ 2,078
Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians............................ 49,621
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey............ 56,056
Narragansett Indian Tribe............................... 2,927
Navajo Nation........................................... 1,153,394
Nooksack Indian Tribe................................... 18,243
Northern Arapaho Tribe.................................. 12,853
Northern Cheyenne Tribe................................. 12,378
Oglala Sioux Tribe...................................... 867,529
Osage Nation............................................ 22,894
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians......................... 3,960
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma................................ 4,457
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma............................... 5,866
Penobscot Indian Nation................................. 6,885
Poarch Band of Creek Indians............................ 81,075
Pueblo of Jemez......................................... 7,428
Pueblo of Zuni.......................................... 28,762
Quapaw Nation........................................... 13,244
Quileute Tribe.......................................... 5,009
Quinault Indian Nation.................................. 3,026
Round Valley Indian Tribes.............................. 28,912
Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.......................... 2,123
Seldovia Village Tribe.................................. 11,278
Seneca--Cayuga Nation................................... 8,961
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Seneca Nation of Indians................................ 20,244
South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency................. 739
Spirit Lake Nation...................................... 287,077
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe............................... 396,242
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town................................ 9,446
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians................ 2,376,042
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians............... 272,128
Ute Indian Tribe........................................ 1,672
Yankton Sioux Tribe..................................... 244,986
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Total............................................... 21,985,238
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\1\ Preliminary funds for reallotment consist of the funds in excess of
LIHEAP's 10 percent carryover cap that (1) 73 recipients indicated on
the FFRs or reported on the CRRs as unobligated; or (2) amounted to
100 percent of regular funds or IIJA funds for the 3 recipients that
failed to submit the associated FFRs and their CRRs.
If funds are reallotted, then grant recipients may use them for any
purpose authorized under LIHEAP and must add these funds to their total
LIHEAP funds payable for FFY 2023 for purposes of calculating statutory
caps on administrative costs, carryover, Assurance 16 activities, and
weatherization assistance.
Additionally, all recipients of these funds must (1) ensure that
they are included in the amounts on Lines 1.1 of their FFY 2023 CRRs;
(2) reconcile these funds, to the extent that they received them, on a
separate FFR; and (3) record, on their FFY 2023 Household Reports,
households that receive benefits at least partly from these funds.
State recipients must also ensure that these funds are included in the
Grantee Survey sections of their FFY 2023 LIHEAP Performance Data
Forms.
Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 8626(b).
Karen D. Shields,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy, Office of
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023-20788 Filed 9-25-23; 8:45 am]
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