SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

In accordance with section 2607(b)(1) of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, as amended, (the Act) (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(1)), ACF published a notice in the Federal Register on September 19, 2024, 89 FR 76844, announcing the Secretary's preliminary determination that $18,363,980 of FY23 funds for LIHEAP may be available for reallotment. ACF received no comments on this notice. After publication, ACF reduced this amount to $15,603,143 because of (1) reporting revisions made by recipients; (2) insufficient Payment Management System balances; and (3) minor rounding adjustments. ACF redistributed $15,494,946 of these funds as though they were appropriated for FY24, in accordance with section 2607(b)(2)(C) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(C)).

The $15,494,946 became available from the following recipients in the following amounts:

The list of recipients that were awarded these funds was published in a Dear Colleague Letter that is posted to ACF's website.

Pursuant to the statute cited above, these funds were reallotted on September 23, 2024, to all but two types of FY24 LIHEAP recipients by distributing them under the formula that Congress set for FY24 funding. The two types of recipients that did not receive funds were (1) those whose allocations would have been less than $25 ( see45 CFR 96.81(c)); and (2) tribes or tribal organizations that agreed with their co-territorial states to receive set amounts for the entire fiscal year ( see42 U.S.C. 8623(d)(2)). No sub-recipients of these recipients or other entities may apply for these funds.

The reallotted funds may be used for any purpose authorized under LIHEAP. Recipients must add these funds to their total LIHEAP funds payable for FY24 for purposes of calculating statutory caps on administrative costs, carryover, Assurance 16 activities, and weatherization assistance. Recipients must also (1) ensure that these funds are included in the amounts that ACF pre-populates on Line 1.1 of their FY24 Carryover and Reallotment Reports; (2) on the associated Federal Financial Report (FFR), reconcile these funds, to the extent that they received them, with all other sources that ACF categorized under an award number ending in “LIEA”; and (3) record, on their FY24 Household Reports, households that receive benefits at least partly from these funds. State recipients must also ensure that these funds are included in the Grantee Survey sections of their FY24 LIHEAP Performance Data Forms.

OCS recommends that, after receiving them, recipients obligate these funds before obligating any other federal LIHEAP funds.

Statutory Authority:42 U.S.C. 8626(b)

90 FR 33384