NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Emergency Solutions Grant Program

[44 Pa.B. 2517]
[Saturday, April 26, 2014]

 The Department of Community and Economic Development (Department), Center for Community Financing, is anticipating receiving funding through the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the Emergency Solutions Grant. The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), enacted into law on May 20, 2009, consolidates three of the separate homeless assistance programs administered by HUD under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a single grant program and revises the Emergency Shelter Grants program and renames it as the Emergency Solutions Grants program. The change in the program's name, from Emergency Shelter Grants to Emergency Solutions Grants, reflects the change in the program's focus from addressing the needs of homeless people in emergency or transitional shelters to assisting people to quickly regain stability in permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness, or both.

 The Department will accept applications from any general purpose units of local government, including cities, boroughs and townships, towns, counties, home rule municipalities and communities that desire to apply on behalf of other municipalities. Priority will be given to nonentitled jurisdictions. However, the Department will consider funding applications received from all eligible government jurisdictions listed previously. Eligible activities include street outreach, shelter, rapid rehousing and homelessness prevention.

 A fully executed application with all applicable attachments must be submitted to the Department through the Electronic Single Application only and during the time the application is open. The application will open on May 1, 2014, and close at 5 p.m. on June 30, 2014. Applications received during this window of time will be considered for funding. Hard copies will not be accepted. The application is located on the Department's web site at http://www.newpa.com/find-and-apply-for-funding/apply-for-programs-funding.

 A copy of the guidelines and application may be obtained by download from the Department's web site at http://www.newpa.com/find-and-apply-for-funding/funding-and-program-finder/emergency-solutions-grant-esg-formerly-emergency-shelter-grant. A hard copy may be requested by persons with a disability who wish to submit an application in accordance with the provisions stated herein and who require assistance with that application and persons who require copies of this notice in an alternate format (large type, Braille, and the like) should contact Ed Geiger, 4th Floor, Commonwealth Keystone Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 787-5327, to discuss how the Department may best accommodate those needs. Copies of the application may also be viewed at any Department regional office. The following is the listing of the Department regional offices and the counties they serve:

Regional Offices

Southeast
Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties

Department of Community and Economic Development
801 Market Street, Suite 6106
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 560-2083

Northeast
Berks, Bradford, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susque-hanna, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming Counties

Department of Community and Economic Development
409 Lackawanna Avenue
3rd Floor, Oppenheim Building
Scranton, PA 18503
(570) 963-4571

Central
Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, York, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Somerset and Union Counties

Department of Community and Economic Development
Commonwealth Keystone Building
400 North Street, 4th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17120
(717) 720-7302

Southwest
Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Washington and Westmoreland Counties

Department of Community and Economic Development
301 5th Avenue, Suite 250
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(412) 565-5002

Northwest
Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Venango and Warren Counties

Department of Community and Economic Development
100 State Street, Suite 205
Erie, PA 16507
(814) 871-4241

Main Office
Center for Community Financing
400 North Street, 4th Floor
Commonwealth Keystone Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
(717) 787-5327

C. ALAN WALKER, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 14-880. Filed for public inspection April 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.]

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