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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
TRAINING

Training program set up to make funding available to support programs

of State, local, and tribal governments and university-sponsored programs designed to improve emergency planning preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery capabilities; also, program to provide technical and financial assistance through the States to support State, local and Indian Tribal governments in oil and hazardous materials emergency planning, training, and exercising (83.011, Hazardous Materials Training Program for Implementation of the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986; 83.012, Hazardous Materials Exercise Assistance Program).

HEALTH TRAINING

Project grant program to increase the number of minority students

trained to pursue careers in biomedical research through the use of National Research Service Awards, institutional education project (Bridge Program), and conferences (93.960, Special Minority Initiatives).

HOUSING

Fair housing initiatives program to establish, organize and build the ca

pacity of fair housing enforcement organizations, particularly in those areas of the country which are currently underserved by fair housing enforcement organizations, as well as those areas where large concentrations of protected classes exist; also, program set up to enable a current or new owner to continue the low income rental use or new owner to acquire project as rental or Resident Homeownership Program. This program will preserve the low income housing stock that otherwise could have prepaid the mortgage and dissolved the low income affordability restrictions (14.187, Preservation of Affordable Housing; 14.413, Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) Fair Housing Organization Initiative).

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Grant program to establish prototypes which reach out to young Ameri

cans and promote the practical study and teaching of leadership through programs specially prepared to foster the development of nev generations of leaders in the areas of national and international affairs (84.261, Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Development).

MARINE FISHERIES

Program to provide grants and cooperative agreements for biological,

economic, sociological, public policy, and other research, administration, and public education projects on the coastal environment to benefit U.S. fisheries, conserve protected resources, and add to the economic and social well being of the Nation (11.463, Habitat Conservation).

MARINE RESEARCH

Grant program to establish regional research programs under effective

Federal oversight to set priorities for regional marine and coastal research in support of efforts to safeguard water and ecosystem health of each region; also, program to provide financial assistance for research and development with regard to the advancement of technology, technology transfer and related activities concerning marine instrumentation for ship operation, and performance of ocean-related scientific missions (11.464, Marine Research-Regional Programs; 11.466, Marine Instrumentation Special Projects).

MASS TRANSIT

Program set up to improve mass transit service to contribute toward

meeting total transit needs at minimum cost, and to assist in the reduction of transit needs by improving the ability of transit industry operating officials to plan, manage, and operate their systems more effectively and safely (20.514, Transit Planning and Research).

MENTAL HEALTH

Block grant program to provide financial assistance to States and Terri

tories to enable them to carry out the State's Plan for providing comprehensive services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a serious emotional disturbance; evaluate programs and services, carried out under the plan; and conduct planning, administration and educational activities related to providing services under the plan (93.958, Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services).

METEOROLOGY RESEARCH

Grant program to facilitate education, research and development in the

fields of marine and atmospheric science, through the provision of assistance for the construction of suitable facilities for these activities; also, program to support specific applied meteorological and hydrological research and development issues of interest to the National Weather Service (11.468, Applied Meteorology Research; 11.469, Congressionally Identified Construction Projects).

MINORITY BUSINESS

Program set up to develop support mechanisms, including liaison and

assistance programs, that will enable disadvantaged business enterprises to increase their participation in existing Department of Transportation programs and contracting opportunities; also, provide opportunities for disadvantaged business enterprises to enhance their knowledge and skills in the field of transportation and their involvement with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and minority students (20.902, Student Training and Education Program; 20.903, Support Mechanisms for Disadvantaged Businesses (Liaison and Outreach Services Program)).

POLLUTION

Program set up to encourage greater State participation in response to

actual or threatened discharges of oil (20.006, State Access to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund).

REHABILITATION TRAINING

Program designed to develop new types of training programs for reha

bilitation personnel and to demonstrate the effectiveness of these new types of training programs for rehabilitation personnel in providing rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities; also, programs set up to support special projects for training State vocational rehabilitation unit personnel and training centers that serve either a Federal region or another geographical area (84.263, Rehabilitation Training-Experimental and Innovative Training; 84.264, Rehabilitation Training-Continuing Education; 84.265, Rehabilitation Training, State Vocational Rehabilitation Unit In-Service Training).

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Programs set up to provide basic human amenities, alleviate health haz

ards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas of the Nation by meeting the need and improved rural water and waste disposal facilities. Funds may be used for the installation, repair, improvement, or expansion of a rural water facility including distribution lines, well pumping facilities and costs related thereto, and the installation, repair, improvement or expansion of a rural waste disposal facility including the collection, and treatment of sanitary, storm, and solid wastes (10.762, Solid Waste Management Grants; 10.770, Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants (Section 306C)).

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Block grant program to provide financial assistance to States and Terri

tories to support projects for the development and implementation of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation activities directed to the diseases of alcohol and drug abuse (93.959, Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse).

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Project grant program to provide grants to nonprofit institutions of

higher learning for the purpose of establishing and operating University Research Institutes. The Institutes will address surface transportation problems and issues and will seek solutions to both long-range and intermediate transportation problems; also, program to increase the emphasis on transportation in an ongoing effort to improve the capability of communities to plan for and respond to the full range of potential risks posed by accidents involving hazardous materials (20.702, University Research Institutes Program; 20.703, Interagency Hazardous Materials Public Sector Training and Planning Grants).

VETERANS BENEFITS

Program set up to provide direct loans to certain Native American vet

erans for the purchase or construction of homes on trust lands (64.126, Native American Veteran Direct Loan Program).

WASTE MANAGEMENT

Program designed to generate new processes and/or equipment which

can significantly reduce generation of high-volume wastes in industry and conserve energy and energy-intensive feedstocks; also, program to enlist cooperation between the tribes, the southern, western, and midwestern State, on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) corridors and Department of Energy in developing plans and procedures for the safe and uneventful transportation of Transuranic waste for current temporary storage facilities to the WIPP (81.105, National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics; 81.106, Transport of Transuranic Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: States and Tribal Concerns and Proposed Solutions).

INTRODUCTION

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government.

In 1984, Public Law 98-169 authorized the transfer of responsibilities of the Federal Program Information Act from the Office of Management and Budget to the General Services Administration (GSA). The transfer took place in July 1984. These responsibilities include the dissemination of Federal domestic assistance program information through the Federal Assistance Programs Retrieval System (FAPRS) and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, pursuant to the Federal Program Information Act, Public Law 95-220, as amended by Public Law 98-169. GSA now maintains the Federal assistance information data base from which program information is obtained. The Office of Management and Budget serves as an intermediary agent between the Federal agencies and GSA, thus providing oversight to the necessary collection of Federal domestic assistance program data.

As the basic reference source of Federal programs, the primary purpose of the Catalog is to assist users in identifying programs which meet specific objectives of the potential applicant, and to obtain general information on Federal assistance programs. In addition, the intent of the Catalog is to improve coordination and communication between the Federal government and State and local governments.

The Catalog provides the user with access to programs administered by Federal departments and agencies in a single publication. Program information is cross referenced by functional classification (Functional Index), subject (Subject Index), applicant (Applicant Index), deadline(s) for program application submission (Deadlines Index), and authorizing legislation (Authorization Index). These are valuable resource tools which, if used carefully, can make it easier to identify specific areas of program interest more efficiently.

Other sections of the Catalog provide users with information on programs added and deleted since the last edition of the Catalog, a crosswalk of program numbers and title changes, regional and local offices, intergovernmental review requirements, definitions of the types of assistance under which programs are administered, proposal writing, grant application procedures, and additional sources of information on Federal programs and services. Also included is a chart on how to use the Catalog to locate programs of interest.

In previous editions, the Catalog has routinely provided information on Federal policy circulars, both in the program description text and in Appendix I. However, as the result of an OMB initiative, this information will only be partially reflected, as the agency liaisons and program staffs determine to be appropriate. In some cases, circular coordination references will still appear in program descriptions, but the Catalog no longer requires such coordination.

Since the 1989 Basic Edition of the Catalog, the only Federal policy document routinely being referenced and tracked is the Executive Order 12372, "Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs.” Appendix I, "Programs Requiring Executive Order 12372," provides general information on the Executive Order, a listing of all Catalog programs which are affected by it, and the Single Point of Contact List, to which State applicants may refer for application coordination and review. For the purpose of general information, the following is a listing of the policy circulars previously referenced throughout the Catalog.

OMB CIRCULAR NO. A-87, COST PRINCIPLES APPLICABLE TO GRANTS AND CONTRACTS WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. Reference: 34 CFR 255.

OMB CIRCULAR NO. A-102, UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. Reference: Federal Register, Vol. 53, No. 16, January 26, 1988, Revised Regulations.

OMB CIRCULAR NO. A-110, GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. Reference: Federal Register, Vol. 41, No. 148, July 30, 1976.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS). Reference: 42 U.S.C. 433212XC) and 34 FR 4247.

Programs selected for inclusion in the Federal assistance data base are defined as any function of a Federal agency that provides assistance or benefits for a State or States, territorial possession, county, city, other political subdivision, grouping, or instrumentality thereof; any domestic profit or nonprofit corporation, institution, or individual, other than an agency of the Federal government. A "Federal domestic assistance program” may in practice be called a program, an activity, a service, a project, a process,or some other name, regardless of whether it is identified as a separate program by statute or regulation. It will be identified in terms of its legal authority, administering office, funding, purpose, benefits, and beneficiaries. "Assistance" or "benefits” refers to the transfer of money, property, services, or anything of value, the principal purpose of which is to accomplish a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by Federal statute. Assistance includes, but is not limited to grants, loans, loan guarantees, scholarships, mortgage loans, insurance, and other types of financial assistance, including cooperative agreements; property, technical assistance, counseling, statistical, and other expert information; and service activities of regulatory agencies. It does not include the provision of conventional public information services.

The Catalog is published annually, using the most current data available on the status of programs at the time the Catalog or the Update to the Catalog are compiled. The Basic edition of the Catalog, which is usually published in June, reflects completed congressional action on program legislation. The Update, usually published in December, reflects completed congressional action on the President's budget proposals and on substantive legislation as of the date of compilation, and includes information on Federal programs that was not available at the time the latest edition of the Catalog was compiled. It is suggested that the Update be retained and used along with the Basic edition in order to obtain the most current information on program revisions.

GSA distributes a limited number of complimentary copies of the Catalog to National, State and local offices. At the national level copies are provided to: Members of Congress, congressional staff, Federal agencies, and all Federal Depository Libraries. At the State level copies of the Catalog are provided to: Governors, State Coordinators of Federal-State Relations, Directors of State Departments of Administration and Budget Offices, Directors of State Departments of Community Affairs, Directors of State Planning Agencies, Directors of State Agricultural Extension Services, State Municipal Leagues, State Association of Counties, Chief State School Officers, and State Employment Security Agencies. At the local level copies are provided to: Mayors, County Chairmen, Chairmen of Boards of Commissioners and city planners.

GSA regularly distributes the Catalog to the Federal Information Centers, Federal Regional Councils, Federal Executive Boards, and appropriate field and area offices of most Federal agencies. The Catalog is also provided to other agencies of State and local governments, down to and including those with a population size of 250. For the general public, the Catalog is available for sale through the Government Printing Office. Individuals who wish to purchase a copy of the Catalog should contact one of the U.S. Government Bookstores listed in Appendix V, Sources of Additional Information, or use the Mail Order Subscription Form included in this edition. (See inside back cover of the Catalog for a Mail Order Subscription Form.)

In addition to the hardcopy Catalog data, program information is available on machine-readable magnetic tape and on high-density floppy diskettes. Both contain all textual material published in the program description section of the Catalog, and a characteristics record of coded program information extracted from the textual material. The characteristics record format allows the user to retrieve program numbers and titles, along with the program function, types of assistance, applicants, beneficiaries, circular requirements, obligations, matching requirements, geographic data, and authorizing legislation. From the text record, users may retrieve the complete text or specific sections of the program text. The accompanying documentation describes the procedures for retrieving program information. The tape or diskettes may be purchased from GSA. Contact: Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Staff (WKU), General Services Administration, Ground Floor, Reporters Building, 300 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20407. Telephone: (202) 708-5126.

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