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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 104 / Wednesday, June 2, 2021 / Notices
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State Office; you must meet the closing date and local time deadline.
Please note that you must locate the downloadable pre-application package for this program by the CFDA Number or FedGrants Funding Opportunity Number, which can be found at http
www.grants.gov.
Please Note: If you receive a grant award under this Notice, USDA reserves the right to post all information that is not protected by the Privacy Act submitted as part of the pre-application/
application package on a public website with free and open access to any member of the public.
E. Pre-Application Review Information 1. Criteria. All paper pre-applications for Section 533 HPG funds must be filed with the appropriate Rural Development State Office and all paper or electronic pre-applications must meet the requirements of this Notice and 7 CFR
part 1944, subpart N. Pre-applications determined not eligible and/or not meeting the selection criteria will be notified by the Rural Development State Office.
2. Review and Selection Process. The Rural Development State Offices will utilize the following threshold project selection criteria for applicants in accordance with 7 CFR 1944.679:
a Providing a financially feasible program of housing preservation assistance. Financially feasible is defined as proposed assistance which will be affordable to the intended recipient or result in affordable housing for very lowand low-income persons.
b Serving eligible rural areas with a concentration of substandard housing for households of very lowand lowincome.
c Being an eligible applicant as defined in 7 CFR 1944.658.
d Meeting the requirements of consultation and public comment in accordance with 7 CFR 1944.674.
e Submitting a complete preapplication as outlined in 7 CFR
1944.676.
3. Scoring. For applicants meeting all of the requirements listed above, the Rural Development State Offices will use weighted criteria in accordance with 7 CFR part 1944, subpart N as selection for the grant recipients. Each preapplication and its accompanying statement of activities will be evaluated and, based solely on the information contained in the pre-application, the applicants proposal will be numerically rated on each criterion within the range provided. The highest-ranking applicants will be selected based on allocation of funds available to the State.

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a Points are awarded based on the percentage of very low-income persons that the applicant proposes to assist, using the following scale:
1 More than 80%: 20 points 2 61% to 80%: 15 points 3 41% to 60%: 10 points 4 20% to 40%: 5 points 5 Less than 20%: 0 points b The applicants proposal may be expected to result in the following percentage of HPG fund use excluding administrative costs to total cost of unit preservation. This percentage reflects maximum repair or rehabilitation with the least possible HPG funds due to leveraging, innovative financial assistance, owners contribution, or other specified approaches. Points are awarded based on the following percentage of HPG funds excluding administrative costs to total funds:
1 50% or less: 20 points 2 51% to 65%: 15 points 3 66% to 80%: 10 points 4 81% to 95%: 5 points 5 96% to 100%: 0 points c The applicant has demonstrated its administrative capacity in assisting very lowand low-income persons to obtain adequate housing based on the following:
1 The organization or a member of its staff has at least one or more years experience successfully managing and operating a rehabilitation or weatherization type program: 10 points.
2 The organization or a member of its staff has at least one or more years experience successfully managing and operating a program assisting very lowand low-income persons obtain housing assistance: 10 points.
3 If the organization has administered grant programs, there are no outstanding or unresolved audit or investigative findings which might impair carrying out the proposal: 10
points.
d The proposed program will be undertaken entirely in rural areas outside Metropolitan Statistical Areas MSAs identified by Rural Development as having populations below 10,000 or in remote parts of other rural areas i.e., rural areas contained in MSAs with less than 5,000 population as defined in 7 CFR 1944.656: 10 points.
e The program will use less than 20
percent of HPG funds for administration purposes:
1 More than 20%: Not eligible 2 20%: 0 points 3 19%: 1 point 4 18%: 2 points 5 17%: 3 points 6 16%: 4 points 7 15% or less: 5 points
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f The proposed program contains a component for alleviating overcrowding as defined in 7 CFR 1944.656: 5 points.
In the event more than one preapplication receives the same amount of points, those pre-applications will then be ranked based on the actual percentage figure used for determining the points in item a in the Scoring section of this Notice 7 CFR 1944.679
b1.
Example of 1st tie-break:
Both Applicants score 80 points Applicant Xs percentage in Scoring section item a is 65%
Applicant Bs percentage in Scoring section item a is 75%
Applicant B is ranked higher than Applicant X
Applicant B will be funded before Applicant X
Further, in the event that preapplications are still tied, then those pre-applications still tied will be ranked based on the percentage figures used for determining the points in item b in the Scoring section of this Notice 7 CFR
1944.679 b2.
Example of 2nd tie-break:
Both Applicants score 80 points Both Applicants percentage in Scoring section item a is 65%
Applicant Xs percentage in Scoring section item b is 55%
Applicant Bs percentage in Scoring section item b is 60%
Applicant X is ranked with a lower percentage than Applicant B
Applicant X will be funded before Applicant B
Further, 7 CFR 1944.679 c, for applications where HPG assistance to rental properties or co-ops is proposed, those still tied will be further ranked based on the number of years the units are available for occupancy under the program a minimum of five years is required. For this part, ranking will be based from most to least number of years.
Example of 3rd tie-break:
Both Applicants score 80 points Both Applicants percentage in Scoring section item a is 65%
Both Applicants percentage in Scoring section item b is 55%
Applicant Xs rental unit will be available for occupancy under the program for 10 years Applicant Bs rental unit will be available for occupancy under the program for 5 years Applicant X is ranked higher than Applicant B
Applicant X will be funded before Applicant B
If any of the applicants that remain tied after the 1st and 2nd tie-breaks are
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