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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Notices a. Recipient must close Financial Products for Healthy Food Retail Outlets and Healthy Food Non-Retail Outlets in its approved Target Market in an amount equal to or greater than 100% of the total HFFI Financial Assistance provided. Eligible financing activities to Healthy Food Retail Outlets and Healthy Food Non-Retail Outlets require that the majority of the loan or investment be devoted to offering a range of Healthy Food choices, which may include, among other activities, investments supporting an existing retail store or wholesale operation upgrade to offer an expanded range of Healthy Food choices, or supporting a nonprofit organization that expands the availability of Healthy Foods in underserved areas.
b. Recipient must demonstrate that it has closed Financial Products to Healthy Food Retail Outlets located in Food Deserts in the Recipients approved Target Market in an amount equal to 75% of the total HFFI Financial Assistance provided.
Definitions Healthy Foods: Healthy Foods include unprepared nutrient-dense foods and beverages as set forth in the USDA
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020
2025 including whole fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fat free or lowfat dairy foods, lean meats and poultry fresh, refrigerated, frozen or canned.
Healthy Foods should have low or no added sugars, and be low-sodium,
reduced sodium, or no-salt-added. See USDA Dietary Guidelines: http
www.dietaryguidelines.gov.
Healthy Food Retail Outlets:
Commercial sellers of Healthy Foods including, but not limited to, grocery stores, mobile food retailers, farmers markets, retail cooperatives, corner stores, bodegas, stores that sell other food and non-food items along with a range of Healthy Foods.
Healthy Food Non-Retail Outlets:
Wholesalers of Healthy Foods including, but not limited to, wholesale food outlets, wholesale cooperatives, or other non-retail food producers that supply for sale a range of Healthy Food options; entities that produce or distribute Healthy Foods for eventual retail sale, and entities that provide consumer education regarding the consumption of Healthy Foods.
Food Deserts: Distressed geographic areas where either a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store. For the purpose of satisfying this requirement, a Food Desert must either:
1 Be a census tract determined to be a Food Desert by the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA, in its USDA Food Access Research Atlas; 2 be a census tract adjacent to a census tract determined to be a Food Desert by the USDA, in its USDA Food Access Research Atlas; which has a median family income less than or equal to 120% of the applicable Area Median Family Income; or 3 be a Geographic
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Unit as defined in 12 CFR part 1805.201b3iiB, which i individually meets at least one of the criteria in 12 CFR 1805.201b3iiD, and ii has been identified as having low access to a supermarket or grocery store through a methodology that has been adopted for use by another governmental or philanthropic healthy food initiative.
5. PPCFA Award: PPCFA award funds may only be expended for eligible FA activities referenced in Table 3. The PPCFA Recipient must close Financial Products in PPC in an Eligible Market or in the Applicants approved Target Market in an amount equal to or greater than 100% of the total PPC Financial Assistance provided. The specific counties that meet the criteria for persistent poverty can be found at:
https www.cdfifund.gov/Documents/
CDFIPPCFeb19-2020.xls.
III. Eligibility Information A. Eligible Applicants: For the purposes of this NOFA, the following tables set forth the eligibility criteria to receive an award from the CDFI Fund, along with certain definitions of terms.
There are four categories of Applicant eligibility criteria: 1 CDFI certification criteria Table 5; 2 requirements that apply to all Applicants Table 6; 3
requirements that apply to TA
Applicants Table 7; and 4
requirements that apply to FA
Applicants Table 8.

TABLE 5CDFI CERTIFICATION CRITERIA DEFINITIONS
Certified CDFI
Emerging CDFI TA Applicants

An entity that the CDFI Fund has officially notified that it meets all CDFI certification requirements.
A non-Certified entity that demonstrates to the CDFI Fund in its Application that it has an acceptable plan to meet CDFI certification requirements by the end of its Period of Performance, or another date that the CDFI Fund selects.
An Emerging CDFI that has prior awards must comply with CDFI certification PG&Ms stated in its prior Assistance Agreements.
An Emerging CDFI selected to receive a TA grant will be required to become a Certified CDFI by a date specified in the Assistance Agreement.

TABLE 6ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL APPLICANTS

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Applicant

Application type and submission overview through Grants.gov and Awards Management Information System AMIS.

Only the entity that will carry out the proposed award activities may apply for an award other than Depository Institution Holding Companies DIHC 9see below. Recipients may not create a new legal entity to carry out the proposed award activities.
The information in the Application should only reflect the activities of the Applicant, including the presentation of financial and portfolio information. Do not include financial or portfolio information from parent companies, Affiliates, or Subsidiaries in the Application unless it relates to the provision of Development Services.
An Applicant that applies on behalf of another organization will be rejected without further consideration, other than Depository Institution Holding Companies see below.
Applicants must submit the Required Application Documents listed in Table 10.

9 Depository Institution Holding Company or DIHC means a Bank Holding Company or a Savings and Loan Holding Company.

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