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COMBINED NOTICE OF FINDING
OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND
INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE
OF FUNDS
grade, middle and high school complex
and within six blocks from the main gro
cery and a pharmacy. The units w il be
oriented toward courtyard areas rather
than the parking lot. All apartments ex
cept the one bedroom units will be con
structed as townhouses with the firs,
floor of each unit handicap accessible.
The units will be built as five four-plexes
and one six-plex on approximately two
acres.
Oregon Housing and Community
Services Dept.
1600 State Street
Salem, Or 97310
The remaining acreage will be open
space, including the wetland areas. The
wetland areas will be undisturbed.
TO ALL INTERESTED AGENCIES,
GROUPS AND PERSONS:
The above-named applicant propos
es to request the office of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to release
Federal funds under the HOME Invest
ment Partnership Program to be used for
the following project:
The project sponsor has submitted
an application to FEMA requesting a
CLOMA, as a small portion of the project
is located in a floodplain. No activities
will occur on the site until receipt of a
CLOMA from FEMA.
Name of Sponsor: Community Action
Team
Address of Sponsor: 310 Columbia
Blvd., St. Helens
Purpose of Project: New Construc
tion of 26 units
Location: 500 California Avenue,
Vernonia
Estimated Cost: $1,890,100
HOME funds to be Requested:
$400,000
An Environmental Review Record re
specting the within project has been
made by the Oregon Housing and Com
munity Services Department which docu
ments the environmental review of the
project and more fully sets forth the rea
sons why such Statem ent is no, re
quired. This Environm ental Review
Record is on file and is available for pub
lic examination and copying upon re
quest at the Department at 1600 State
Street, Salem, Oregon between the
hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
It has been determined that such re
quest for release of funds will not consti
tute an action significantly affecting the
quality of the human environment; and,
accordingly the Oregon Housing and
Community Services Department has
decided not to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement under the National En
vironmental Policy Act of 1969 (PL 91-
190).
The reasons for such decision not to
prepare such Statement are as follows:
No further environmental review of
such project is proposed to be conducted
prior to the request for release of Federal
funds.
All interested agencies, groups and
persons disagreeing with this decision
are invited to submit written comments
for consideration by the Oregon Housing
and Community Services Department.
Such written comments should be re
ceived a, 1600 State Street, Salem, Ore
gon, Attention: HOME Program on or be
fore February 1, 1996. All such com
ments received will be considered and
the Oregon Housing and Community
Services Dept. will no, request the re
lease of Federal funds or take any ad-
Blue Heron Hollow is a 26 unit town-
house project located in the city of Ver
nonia. The project will include one, two
and three bedroom apartm ents with
rents affordable to families from 45% to
47% of area median income. The project
is located one block from Vernonia's
Cftli
ministrative action on the within project
prior to the date specified in the preced
ing sentence.
ceived after February 17, 1996 will be
considered by HUD. This combined no
tice is intended to meet the separate pro
cedural requirements for publication of
the Finding of No Significant Impact and
the Request for Release of Funds. Com
menters should specify in their com
Community Action Team will under
take tne project described above with
HOME Investment Partnership Program
funds from the U.S. Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development (HUD), ad
ministered by the Oregon Housing and
Community Services Department, under
Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Nation
al Affordable Housing Act passed by
Congress in October 1990, and amend
ed by the Housing and Community De
velopment Ac, of 1992. The Oregon
Housing and Community Services De
partment is certifying to HUD that the
Department and Lynn Schoessler in his
official capacity as Certifying Officer,
consent to accept the jurisdiction of the
Federal courts if an acion is brought to
enforce responsibilities in relation to en
vironmental reviews, decisionmaking,
and action; and that these responsibili
ties have been satisfied. The legal effect
of the certification is that upon approval,
Community Action Team may use the
HOME Investment Partnership Program
funds, and the Department will have sat
isfied its responsibilities under the Na
tional Enviromental Policy Ac, of 1969.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development will accept an objec
tion to its approval of the release of
funds and acceptance of the certification
only if it is on one of the following basis:
(a) That the certification was no, in fact
executed by the certifying officer of the
Department; or (b) tha, the environmen
tal review record for the project indicates
omission of a required decision, finding,
or step applicable to the project in the
environmental review process. Objec
tions must be prepared and submitted in
accordance with the required procedure
(24 CFR Part 58), and may be ad
dressed to the U.S. Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development, Portland
Office, Region X, Attention: Roy Scholl,
400 Southwest Sixth Avenue, Suite 700,
Portland, Oregon 97204-1632. Objec
tions to the release of funds on basis
other than those stated above will not be
considered by HUD. No objection re-
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