LIHEAP Allotments for FY 2007
THIS CONTAINS INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION FOR
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN LIHEAP INFORMATION MEMORANDUM TRANSMITTAL
NO. LIHEAP-IM-2007-7, DATED 8/9/07
TO: LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LIHEAP)
GRANTEES AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES
SUBJECT: LIHEAP Allotments for FY 2007
RELATED
REFERENCES: The Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution,
2007 (Public Law 110-5); the Low-Income Home
Energy Assistance Act, Title XXVI of the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-
35), as amended.
PURPOSE: To advise grantees of allocations for FY 2007
regular LIHEAP block grant funds based on the
funding level of $1.98 billion, as well as an
additional $181.17 million in emergency
contingency funds.
CONTENT: The Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution,
2007 (Public Law 110-5) was signed by the President
on February 15, 2007. This law appropriated FY
2007 funds for federal agencies including the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Public Law (P.L.) 110-5 provided $1,980,000,000 in
regular block grant funds for the LIHEAP program.
It includes a provision for an additional
$181,170,000 in LIHEAP emergency contingency funds.
Listed below is a detailed description of the
distribution of FY 2007 LIHEAP block grant funds.
Charts showing FY 2007 allotments for each State,
Territory and Tribal grantee are attached. Also
attached is a copy of the relevant statutory
provisions of P.L. 110-5 related to HHS programs,
including LIHEAP.
The funds were allocated using a formula developed
when LIHEAP was originally established. The LIHEAP
statute requires us to use the percentages derived
from that formula in any year when the block grant
(i.e., non-contingency) appropriation and grants
to states is less than $1.975 billion. While the
appropriation exceeded $1.975 billion, the new
formula did not kick in since grants to states
were below this level, after set asides for
leveraging and training and technical assistance
(T&TA) were determined.
FY 2007 LIHEAP Block Grant Funding
The Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution,
2007 (P.L. 110-5) was signed by the President on
February 15, 2007. It appropriated FY 2007 funds
for HHS programs, including $1,980,000,000 for
LIHEAP. Since October 1, 2006, a series of
continuing resolutions (CRs) were passed by
Congress, which provided a percentage of funds for
the LIHEAP program based on the FY 2006
appropriation level.
The FY 2007 funds available under the CRs enabled
us to make normal first quarter grant awards to
States, Territories and Tribal grantees after they
submitted complete funding applications. Also,
sufficient funds were available under the CRs to
allow us to honor up to 90 percent of the States'
first and second quarter allocation percentage
requests. Shortly after the FY 2007 appropriations
bill was passed on February 15, we recalculated
grant allocations based on the total appropriation
level of $1.98 billion, and began making
supplemental grant awards as soon as possible to
all LIHEAP grantees to reflect the additional
funding. We began making the supplemental grants
on March 15 and provided States, Territories and
Tribal grantees with their remaining block grant
funds for FY 2007 (i.e., their full-year
allocations at the $1.98 billion level).
P.L. 110-5 was passed on February 15, 2007 and
provides for a year-long CR in which most federal
programs are to be funded at their FY 2006
appropriation levels. The Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2006 (P.L.
109-149) appropriated $2 billion to the LIHEAP
block grant fund and $183 million to the LIHEAP
emergency contingency fund. The Department of
Defense Appropriations Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-148)
applied a 1 percent rescission that affected many
government programs, resulting in net
appropriations of $1.98 billion for the LIHEAP
block grant and $181.17 million for the emergency
contingency fund. The FY 2007 LIHEAP
appropriation reflects these funding amounts.
At least 90 percent of a grantee's total regular
block grant allotment for FY 2007 must be
obligated for use by September 30, 2007. No more
than 10 percent of this total may be carried over
to FY 2008, and those carryover funds must be
obligated no later than September 30, 2008.
Of the $1.98 billion appropriated for FY 2007,
$27,225,000 is earmarked for the leveraging
incentive program grant awards, including funds
for the REACH program. We originally set aside
$1,500,000 for REACH. Subsequently, we awarded
$1.135 million in REACH grants and $26,090,000 in
leveraging incentive grants. (Please refer to
LIHEAP Information Memoranda #8 and #9 for more
details on REACH and leveraging awards.)
Under the LIHEAP statute, grantees desiring
leveraging incentive funds or REACH funds must
submit a separate application to HHS each year.
Applications for FY 2007 leveraging incentive award
funds (based on leveraging activities carried out
during FY 2006), must have been postmarked no later
than November 30, 2006. An Action Transmittal (AT)
was issued on April 30, 2007 (AT-2007-2) with
instructions on applying for FY 2007 REACH funds.
The deadline for REACH applications was June 1,
2007.
In addition, we set aside the full $297,000 of FY
2007 funds allowed for training and technical
assistance (T&TA) projects. If we later determine
that less money is needed for this purpose, we will
redistribute the unused funds to LIHEAP grantees
under the regular block grant.
Attachment 1 shows the calculation of regular block
grant allotments for FY 2007 for States and
Territories, with each State's formula share in the
column marked "Allocation Percents". Using these
percents, we calculated each State's "Gross
Allotment", which appears in the next column.
Grants to Tribes and Tribal organizations were
deducted from their State's share (gross allotment)
and were determined either by calculating each
Tribe's number of eligible households as a
percentage of the number of eligible households in
the State(s) in which it is located, or by awarding
a higher amount specified in a Tribe-State
agreement. Total Tribal grantee allotments (or
"Tribal Set-Aside") for each State are shown in the
following column. The final column shows each
State's "Net Allotment", that is, the amount of the
gross allotment available to the States after
deducting the Tribal set-asides. Pending the
availability of federal funding, grant awards are
made as soon as grantees submit completed
applications.
Attachment 2 shows a breakout of the FY 2007
allocations for individual Tribes and Tribal
organizations that are directly funded by HHS.
These amounts, in some cases, may increase if
States and Tribes enter into or modify agreements
to provide additional funding.
FY 2007 LIHEAP Emergency Contingency Funds
P.L. 110-5, the Revised Continuing Appropriations
Resolution, 2007, provided for an appropriation of
$181.17 million in LIHEAP emergency contingency
funds. These funds will expire on September 30,
2007 if not released in FY 2007.
In addition to the $181.17 million in emergency
contingency funds that were appropriated in
February, $20.35 million of emergency contingency
funds that were not released in FY 2006 were
carried over to FY 2007. The Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2005 (P.L. 108-447)
designated FY 2005 emergency contingency funds as
"no-year" funds. As a result, a total of $201.52
million of emergency contingency funds are
available for release in FY 2007.
ATTACHMENTS: (1) LIHEAP allocations (gross and net allotments)
for all States and Territories for FY 2007 funds,
at the funding level of $1.98 billion, including
$27,225,000 earmarked for leveraging incentive
grants and REACH
(2) LIHEAP allocations for Tribes and Tribal
organizations receiving direct funding from HHS
for FY 2007 funds, at the funding level of $1.98
billion
(3) A copy of relevant portions of the Revised
Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Public
Law 110-5)
_____________/s_____________
Nick St. Angelo
Director
Division of Energy Assistance
Office of Community Services
Attachment 3
H.J. RES. 20 (P.L. 110-5)
Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Enrolled as
Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year
2007, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this
joint resolution may be cited as the `Revised Continuing
Appropriations Resolution, 2007'.
Sec. 2. The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007
(Public Law 109-289, division B), as amended by Public Laws
109-369 and 109-383, is amended to read as follows:
DIVISION B--CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2007
The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of
applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds,
for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and
other organizational units of Government for fiscal year
2007, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I--FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at the level
specified in subsection (c) and under the authority and
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for
fiscal year 2006, for projects or activities (including the
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not
otherwise provided for and for which appropriations, funds,
or other authority were made available in the following
appropriations Acts:
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2006.
(2) The Energy and Water Development Appropriations
Act, 2006.
(3) The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006.
(4) The Department of the Interior, Environment, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
(5) The Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2006.
(6) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2006.
(7) The Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs
Appropriations Act, 2006.
(8) The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
(9) The Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban
Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia,
and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
(b) For purposes of this division, the term `level' means an
amount.
(c) The level referred to in subsection (a) shall be the
amounts appropriated in the appropriations Acts referred to
in such subsection, including transfers and obligation
limitations, except that--
(1) such level shall not include any amount designated
as an emergency requirement, or to be for overseas
contingency operations, pursuant to section 402 of H.
Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006; and
(2) such level shall be calculated without regard to
any rescission or cancellation of funds or contract
authority, other than--
(A) the 1 percent government-wide rescission made
by section 3801 of division B of Public Law 109-
148;
