Notice2025-14086
Proposed Reallotment of Fiscal Year 2024 Funds for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
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Published
July 25, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
ACF OCS announces a preliminary determination that funds from the federal fiscal year 2024 (FY24) Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are available for reallotment to states, territories, tribes, and tribal organizations that received FY25 direct LIHEAP awards. The purpose of this proposed action is to redistribute FY24 annual LIHEAP funds that recipients were unable to obligate or carry over to FY25. No sub-recipients of these recipients or other entities may apply for these funds.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 141 (Friday, July 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35304-35305]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14086]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: 93.568]
Proposed Reallotment of Fiscal Year 2024 Funds for the Low Income
Home Energy Assistance Program
AGENCY: Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children
and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice for public comment.
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SUMMARY: ACF OCS announces a preliminary determination that funds from
the federal fiscal year 2024 (FY24) Low Income Home Energy Assistance
Program (LIHEAP) are available for reallotment to states, territories,
tribes, and tribal organizations that received FY25 direct LIHEAP
awards. The purpose of this proposed action is to redistribute FY24
annual LIHEAP funds that recipients were unable to obligate or carry
over to FY25. No sub-recipients of these recipients or other entities
may apply for these funds.
DATES: Comments are due by: August 25, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to: Raessa Singh, Senior Advisor,
Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and
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Families, 330 C Street SW, 5th Floor; Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC
20201 or via email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6e1c0f0b1d1d0f401d070009062e0f0d084006061d40090118"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="087a696d7b7b69267b61666f6048696b6e2660607b266f677e">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Thomas, Energy Assistance Program
Specialist, Office of Community Services, 330 C Street SW, 5th Floor;
Mail Room 5425; Washington, DC 20201. Telephone: 202-690-5737; email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#adc6ccd9c883d9c5c2c0ccdeedcccecb83c5c5de83cac2db"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bfd4decbda91cbd7d0d2deccffdedcd991d7d7cc91d8d0c9">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: After receiving Carryover and Reallotment
Reports (CRRs), ACF has determined that $2,425,645 in FY24 LIHEAP funds
may be available for reallotment for FY25. This determination was based
on the reports of unobligated balances of 22 recipients. LIHEAP
recipients submitted the FY24 CRRs to OCS, as required by regulations
applicable to LIHEAP at 45 CFR 96.81(b).
The LIHEAP statute allows recipients who have funds unobligated at
the end of the FY to request permission to carry over up to 10 percent
of their full-year allotments to the next FY (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
Sec. U.S.C. 8626(b)(1).
In accordance with 42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(3), beginning the week of May
19, 2025, ACF began notifying each of the 22 recipients with
unobligated funds above their carryover caps. In these notices, ACF
informed each recipient of the amount that, according to the
recipients' reports, the recipient needed to return for de-obligation
and redistribution to FY25 recipients as part of the reallotment. It
also gave each recipient 30 calendar days to provide comments directly
to ACF.
All LIHEAP recipients that receive a portion of these funds will be
notified of the final reallotment amount redistributed to them for
FY25. This decision will also be published in the Federal Register.
The FY24 LIHEAP funds ACF preliminarily expects to become available
for reallotment determination, come from the following recipients in
the following amounts:
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Preliminary
Name of recipient that has funds to be returned for amount available
reallotment for reallotment
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Alaska............................................... $487,444
District of Columbia................................. 21,181
Idaho................................................ 530,976
Michigan............................................. 477,229
Nebraska............................................. 371,160
Bishop Paiute........................................ 4,736
Chuathbaluk Traditional Council...................... 23,027
Conf. Tribes of Warm Springs......................... 19,514
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians..................... 3,667
Fort Sill Apache Tribe............................... 1,106
Hoh Tribe............................................ 7,614
Jicarilla Apache Tribe............................... 27,714
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.................. 7,586
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation................. 58,113
Nooksack Indian Tribe................................ 11,038
Orutsararmuit Native Council......................... 268,644
Passamaquoddy Tribe--Pleasant Point.................. 14,674
Quapaw Tribe......................................... 3,942
Quileute Tribe....................................... 49,452
Round Valley......................................... 26,850
Sac & Fox Tribe of Oklahoma.......................... 9,451
Samish Tribe......................................... 527
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Total............................................ 2,425,645
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\1\ Preliminary funds for reallotment consist of the funds in excess of
LIHEAP's 10 percent carryover cap that 22 recipients indicated on the
CRRs as unobligated. This amount to be reconciled with recipients'
Federal Financial Report (FFR) reports and PMS amounts. Final
reallocation amounts will differ once reconciled.
If funds are realloted, they will be allocated in accordance with
42 U.S.C. 8623 and must be treated by LIHEAP recipients as funds
appropriated for FY25. As FY25 funds, they will be subject to all
requirements of the LIHEAP statute, including 42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2),
which requires that a recipient obligate at least 90 percent of its
total block grant allocation for a FY by the end of the FY for which
the funds are appropriated; that is, by September 30, 2025.
Furthermore, recipients that receive these funds may use these funds
for any purpose authorized under LIHEAP and must add them to their
total LIHEAP funds payable for FY25 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
these funds are included in the amounts on Lines 1.1 of their FY24
CRRs; (2) reconcile these funds, to the extent that they received them,
on their corresponding FFRs; and (3) record, on their FY25 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 FY25 LIHEAP Performance Data
Forms.
Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 8626(b).
Anthony Petruccelli,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy, Office of
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-14086 Filed 7-24-25; 8:45 am]
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