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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 22, 2021 / Notices
or likely to be available to, the grantee or its subrecipients e.g., obligated and projected FEMA funds, public utility resources, other grantee funds; and iii account for the costs of incorporating mitigation and resilience measures to protect against the anticipated effects of future extreme weather events and other natural hazards and long-term risks and the costs of incorporating improvements to address long term carbon reduction goals.
CDBGDR funds may be used to reimburse planning and administrative costs for developing the action plan, including the needs assessment, environmental review, and citizen participation requirements. Although the needs assessment for these CDBG
DR funds necessarily differs somewhat from what is conducted by grantees for CDBGDR allocations provided for housing, infrastructure, and economic revitalization needs, HUD has developed a Disaster Impact and Unmet Needs Assessment Kit that may be helpful to grantees as a guide through a process for identifying and prioritizing critical unmet needs for electrical power system improvements. The Kit is available on the HUD Exchange website at: https www.hudexchange.info/
resource/2870/disaster-impact-andunmet-needs-assessment-kit/. In preparing the needs assessment, grantees are advised to review the process and methodology previously used to assess the grantees unmet infrastructure needs for its recent allocations of CDBGDR funds for disaster recovery.
Electrical power system improvement needs evolve over time, and grantees must amend the needs assessment and action plan as additional resources become available, including through any additional needs that may be identified through an infrastructure plan developed for the use of FEMA Public Assistance funds for electrical power system improvements, through any utility integrated resource plan for Puerto Rico, and through any equivalent strategy or development plan adopted by the USVI for its energy sector, as such strategy or plans may be amended from time to time.
2 Connection of Electrical Power System Improvements to Unmet Needs and Expenditures. The grantee must address how the proposed expenditures for each distinct functional component of its planned electrical power system improvements, as identified in the definition in section V.A.8.a.ii of this notice, addresses an estimated unmet need identified in its electrical power system unmet needs assessment. For each functional component, the grantee
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shall also identify the amount of funds to be used as non-federal match for that component.
The grantees action plan and subsequent amendments must include a single chart or table that illustrates, at the most practical level, how all funds are budgeted e.g., by program, subrecipient, grantee-administered activity, or other category and that identifies each component of the electrical power system to be funded.
The budget shall identify the predevelopment, planning, construction, and installation costs of each component; the percentage of funds to be expended for each component; the percentage of funds for each component that are to be expended as the nonFederal match for other Federal funds;
and a timeline for the full expenditure of each system component and for the full grant allocation. Each grantee shall describe how its proposed expenditures are consistent with any infrastructure plan developed by the grantees public utility in consultation with FEMA for the expenditure of Public Assistance funds for electrical power system improvements, with any utility integrated resource plan adopted by Puerto Rico, and any strategy or development plan adopted by the USVI
for its energy sector, as such plans may be amended from time to time.
3 Long-term Planning Considerations. The grantee must describe how it plans to promote local and regional long-term planning and development as informed by its electrical power system needs assessment.
4 Coordination of Electrical Power System Improvements and Planned Leverage. Each grantee must describe how it will align its electrical power system improvements with other planned improvements to its other energy systems and its other infrastructure development efforts and foster the potential for additional electrical power system funding from multiple sources, such as leveraging other existing capital improvement projects and the potential for private investment. Grantees must describe how it plans to foster the potential to leverage these CDBGDR funds with other funding provided through publicprivate partnerships and by other Federal, State, local, public utility, private, and nonprofit sources to generate more effective and comprehensive mitigation and electrical power system improvement outcomes.
Examples of other Federal sources include funding provided by HUD, FEMA specifically the Public Assistance Program and the Hazard
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Mitigation Grant Program, the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Agriculture. The grantee must describe how it will seek to maximize the outcomes of electrical power system improvements and the degree to which CDBGDR funds are effectively leveraged, for example through public-private partnerships or partnerships with local, community and neighborhood organizations and a commitment of funding by the grantee.
The grantee shall identify any leveraged funds for each electrical power system improvement activity in the DRGR
system.
5 Plans to Minimize Displacement and Ensure Accessibility. The grantee must describe how it plans to minimize displacement of persons or entities, and assist any persons or entities displaced through its electrical power system improvement activities. This description shall focus on proposed activities that may directly or indirectly result in displacement and the assistance that shall be required for those displaced. The grantee is reminded that it must take into consideration the functional needs of persons with disabilities in the relocation process. Guidance on relocation considerations for persons with disabilities may be found in Chapter 3 of HUDs Relocation Handbook 1378.0 available on the HUD
Exchange website at: https
www.hud.gov/program_offices/
administration/hudclips/handbooks/
cpd/13780.
6 Construction and Resiliency Standards. Each grantee must describe how it plans to: a Emphasize quality, durability, resiliency, energy efficiency and sustainability in its electrical power system improvements; b promote sound, sustainable long-term recovery planning informed by a post-disaster evaluation of hazard risk, especially construction standards and land-use decisions that reflect responsible floodplain and wetland management and take into account continued sea level risethis information should be based on the history of FEMA flood mitigation efforts and take into account projected increase in sea level if applicable and the frequency and intensity of precipitation events; and c adhere to the elevation requirements established in section V.B.1. of this notice, if applicable. For grantees addressing flood risks, the grantee must describe how it will document its decision to elevate structures associated with its electrical power system improvements and how it evaluated and
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