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FY2024 Economic Development Initiative / Community Project Funding Grants 
Overview
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (P.L. 118-42) (the FY2024 Act) and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (P.L. 118-47) (the Further FY2024 Act) contain $3,290,054,336 in Congressional-directed "Economic Development Initiative-Community Project" (CPF) funding. In Fiscal Year 2024, 2,407 grants were awarded and funded.

If you have also been designated to receive as a FY2022 and/or a FY2023 CPF grant, HUD provided a separate correspondence regarding that grant and has provided additional detail on the FY2022 and/or FY2023 EDI-CPF section of the program website here.

HUD began sending out communications to CPF Fiscal Year 2024 grant recipients on May 3, 2024. If you have not received communications about your CPF Fiscal Year 2024 grant, please send an email to EDICPFgrants@hud.gov. HUD will continue to on-board CPF Fiscal Year 2024 grant recipients through a welcome webinar, orientation, virtual office hours, webinar series, cohorts, and communications regarding the grant award process, grant guide, grant award packages, and related materials.   

To help familiarize yourself with the HUD CPF grant process to receive a fully executed grant agreement and then to access funds, the following materials are available for reference:

  • Review the resources provided on the Community Project Funding Grants web page. Fiscal Year 2023 Grantees resources will closely resemble FY 2024 Grantees requirements. Guidance regarding Build America, Buy America (BABA) applicability for CPF Fiscal Year 2024 grantees is on the HUD Exchange Community Project Funding website, here.  
  • Be sure to visit the HUD Exchange CPF page, your one-stop shop for training and technical assistance resources related to CPF grant implementation. View resources and tools and access recordings from past trainings. 

Environmental Review Requirements

  • For FY2024 grants, the date of the Act's enactment (March 9, 2024) is the federal nexus for compliance with all environmental laws. Typically, the Federal nexus (for application of environmental requirements to a particular project) is the date when an application for federal assistance for a particular project is received. Once a project is federalized, the project must comply with federal environmental laws before taking choice limiting actions, such as acquisition, construction, ground disturbance, and entering into contracts for such work. However, these laws were not written to take into account projects that were already under construction prior to becoming federalized and before the environmental review process has been completed (including consultations with stakeholders prior to ground-disturbance).
  • While it is still best practice to stop all work after the federal nexus before the environmental review is complete, for EDI/CPF projects that are already underway at time of federal nexus, grantees are allowed to perform activities after the federal nexus, but only for activities which are part of a pre-nexus contract that obligates them to do so. However, grantees would be doing so at their own risk, as any activity performed, or proposed to be performed, after the federal nexus must be included in the project scope of a satisfactory environmental review in order for the project to be reimbursable.
  • A satisfactory review must show that the project activities will not result in unmitigable environmental harm and must not preclude consultation with the appropriate environmental authorities such as the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). Environmental authorities such as the SHPOs may refuse to consult if groundbreaking or physical impacts are made to a site before consultation.
  • HUD conducted a nationwide environmental review for most FY24 EDI/CPF soft costs including activities such as administrative, planning, and operations and maintenance costs (including costs to prepare an environmental review). After execution of the Grant Agreement, these soft costs may be reimbursed if incurred after March 9, 2024, and the costs would otherwise meet the allowability criteria in 2 CFR 200.403. Hard costs can be reimbursed if incurred after both the date of enactment (March 9, 2024) and a full environmental review is completed for costs that meet the allowability criteria in 2 CFR 200.403.
  • In keeping with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and HUD’s NEPA-implementing regulations at 24 CFR Part 50 or 24 CFR Part 58, environmental reviews must be completed, and all necessary HUD approvals must be obtained for all projects prior to taking any "choice limiting actions". If the environmental review is being conducted by a local government responsible entity under Part 58, a Request for Release of Funds and Certification must be approved by HUD, as applicable. If the environmental review is being completed by HUD under Part 50, the environmental review must be approved and certified by HUD. Environmental reviews must be completed before a grantee can undertake actions that prevent the grantee from choosing an alternative action to minimize or avoid environmental harm, or that would have an adverse environmental impact ("choice limiting actions"). This step is required to avoid violations under 24 CFR 58.22 and 50.3(h)(3) which provide limitations on activities pending clearance, and Section 110(k) of the National Historic Preservation Act which prohibits anticipatory demolition or significant harm of historic properties prior to completion of the historic preservation review process known as Section 106 review. Examples of "choice limiting actions" include, but are not limited to, purchasing land, entering into contracts for property acquisition, construction, or physical work on the project.
  • Further explanation and guidance on choice limiting actions and the environmental review process, including historic preservation review, will be provided to you shortly via the FY 2024 CPF Grant Guide and on the program’s webpage at: https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/cpf/.

Who do I contact with questions?

Please direct any inquiries to your Grant Officer, System Officer, or Regional Environmental Officer. The current list Regional Environmental Review Officers can be found on the HUD Exchange Community Project Funding website here. Grant Recipients may also use the HUD Exchange "Ask-A-Question" Help Desk to ask CPF grant-related questions, here. 
 

Grant Officers Regional Environmental Officers
Community Project Funding (CPF) Portfolio Assignments (Grant Officers) and HUD Regional Environmental Staff Contacts List
  • Primary contact for duration of award period
  • Overall grant administration
  • Reviews Project Narrative and Project Budget for completion and verifies with intent of Congress
  • Initiates Grant Agreement and grant award process
  • Coordinates the closeout of the award and post- closeout actions (i.e. real property disposition)
  • Provides technical assistance to grantees and their local government Responsible Entities in conducting environmental reviews under Part 58
  • Coordinates Part 50 Concept Meetings to determine level of environmental review, consultation needs, and a timeline
  • Reviews and analyzes Part 50 environmental review information provided by grantees
  • Responsible for Part 50 environmental findings and determinations


To stay abreast of updates, webinars, technical assistance opportunities, and resources available for CPF Fiscal Year 2024 grant recipients we encourage grant recipients and stakeholders to sign up for the HUD Exchange EDI-CPF listserv, here.

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Webinars and Trainings
  • HUD-hosted Webinars
  • All HUD CPF Webinars
    • HUD will continue to offer webinars to support FY2024 CPF grantees. A list of webinars and trainings along with the event materials (recording, slide presentations, transcripts and materials if provide) are on the HUD Exchange Community Project Funding website, here and on the related general resources and/or specific CPF grant fiscal year webpage on this site.
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Content current as of August 29, 2024
 

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