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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 22, 2021 / Notices revised version, as approved by HUD, within 3 days of HUD approval. The grantees first QPR is due after the first full quarter after HUD signs the grant agreement. For example, a grant agreement signed in April requires a QPR to be submitted by October 30.
QPRs must be submitted on a quarterly basis until all funds have been expended and all expenditures and accomplishments have been reported. If a satisfactory report is not submitted in a timely manner, HUD may suspend access to CDBGDR funds until a satisfactory report is submitted, or may withdraw and reallocate funding if HUD
determines, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, that the jurisdiction did not submit a satisfactory report.
Each QPR will include information about the uses of funds in activities identified in the DRGR action plan during the applicable quarter. This includes, but is not limited to, the project name, activity, location, and national objective; funds budgeted, obligated, drawn down, and expended;
the funding source and total amount of any non-CDBGDR funds to be expended on each activity; beginning and actual completion dates of completed activities; achieved performance outcomes, such as the number of lowand moderate-income persons served; and the race and ethnicity of persons assisted under direct-benefit activities. For electrical power system improvements installed or applied on private lands, the address of each CDBGDR assisted property must be recorded in the QPR. Grantees must not include such addresses in its public QPR; when entering addresses in the QPR, the grantee must select Not Visible on PDF to exclude them from the report required to be posted on its website. The DRGR system will automatically display the amount of program income receipted, the amount of program income reported as disbursed, and the amount of grant funds disbursed in the QPR. In the section titled Overall Progress Narrative in the DRGR system, the grantee must report on its activities and progress in that quarter to implement steps necessary to meet the lowand moderate-income national objective for electrical power system improvements as provided in section V.A.8. of this notice. Each grantee must also include a description of active steps it has taken to affirmatively further fair housing, within the Overall Progress Narrative section.
V.A.5. Direct grant administration and means of carrying out eligible activities. Requirements at 42 U.S.C.
5306d are waived to the extent
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necessary to allow each grantee to use its CDBGDR grant directly to carry out CDBGDR eligible activities, rather than distribute all funds to local governments. Pursuant to this waiver, the standard at 24 CFR 570.480c and the provisions at 42 U.S.C. 5304e2
will also include activities that the grantee carries out directly. Eligible CDBGDR activities may be carried out by the grantee, subject to the grantees laws and consistent with the requirement of 24 CFR 570.200f, through its employees, through procurement contracts, or through assistance provided under agreements with subrecipients. Each grantee continues to be responsible for civil rights, labor standards, and environmental protection requirements, for compliance with 24 CFR 570.489 g and h relating to conflicts of interest and for compliance with 24 CFR
570.489m relating to monitoring and management of subrecipients.
V.A.5.a. Use of administrative funds across multiple grants. The Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 Pub. L. 116
20, approved June 6, 2019, authorizes special treatment of grant administrative funds for grantees that receive grants under certain CDBGDR appropriations acts. Accordingly, grantees that received CDBGDR or CDBGMIT funds under Public Laws 114113, 114223, 114
254, 11531, 11556, 115123, and 115
254, or any future act may use eligible administrative funds up to 5 percent of each grant award plus up to 5 percent of program income generated by the grant appropriated by these acts without regard to the particular disaster appropriation from which such funds originated. If the grantee chooses to exercise this authority, the grantee must ensure that it has appropriate financial controls to ensure that the amount of grant administration expenditures for each of the aforementioned grants will not exceed 5 percent of the total grant award for each grant plus 5 percent of program income generated by the grant, review and modify its financial management policies and procedures regarding the tracking and accounting of administration costs, as necessary, and address the adoption of this treatment of administrative costs in the applicable portions of the submissions it makes to HUD to support HUDs certifications as required by subsection V.A.1.a.
Grantees are reminded that all costs incurred for administration must still qualify as an eligible administration expense. HUD will issue additional guidance on this provision that grantees will be required to follow to ensure
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compliance and maintain proper financial controls.
V.A.6. Requirements for consultation.
Currently, the HCDA and HUD
regulations require a state grantee to consult with affected local governments in nonentitlement areas of the state in determining the states proposed method of distribution. HUD is waiving 42 U.S.C. 5306d2Civ, 42 U.S.C.
5306d2D, 24 CFR 91.325b2, and 24 CFR 91.110, and instituting the following alternative requirements. Each grantee that will receive an electrical power system improvement grant under Public Law 115123 shall consult with all disaster-affected local governments including any CDBG Entitlement grantees, Indian tribes, and local public housing authorities in determining the use of funds. This ensures that each grantee sufficiently assesses the impacts of all areas affected by the disaster.
Additionally, each grantee must complete consultation with the Federal members of the TCT required by section V.A.2.e. of this notice. Grantees must maintain documentation of all consultations required by this paragraph to demonstrate compliance with this requirement.
V.A.7. Grant Administration responsibilities and general administration cap.
V.A.7.a. Grantee responsibilities. Each grantee shall administer its award in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and shall be financially accountable for the use of all funds provided for CDBGDR funds.
V.A.7.b. General administration cap.
For this allocation, the CDBG program administration requirements must be modified to be consistent with the Appropriations Act. Accordingly, 5
percent of the grant and 5 percent of program income generated by the grant may be used for administrative costs by the grantee or by subrecipients. Thus, the total of all costs classified as administrative for the grantee must be less than or equal to the 5 percent cap.
1 Combined technical assistance and administrative expenditures cap. The provisions of 42 U.S.C. 5306d, 24 CFR
570.489a1i and iii, and 24 CFR
570.489a2 will not apply to the extent that they cap administration and technical assistance expenditures, limit the ability of each grantee to charge a nominal application fee for grant applications for activities it carries out directly, and require a dollar-for-dollar match of grantee funds for administrative costs exceeding $100,000. 42 U.S.C. 5306d5 and 6
are waived and replaced with the alternative requirement that the aggregate total for administrative and
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