REACH Grants Awarded for FY 2002

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State, tribal and territory Residential Energy Assistance Challenge (REACH) Option Program FY 2002 grants were awarded on September 30, 2002.

The REACH Program is allocated 25% of the Leveraging funds under LIHEAP, which in FY 2002 amounted to $6,875 million. The program is designed to support a limited number of innovative pilot projects that seek to demonstrate the long term cost effectiveness of supplementing energy assistance payments with non-monetary benefits that can increase the ability of eligible households to meet energy costs and help them to achieve energy self-sufficiency.

The purposes of this program are to provide for the establishment of demonstration projects designed to determine ways to: (1) minimize health and safety risks that results from high energy burdens on low-income Americans; (2) prevent homelessness as a result of inability to pay energy bills; (3) increase efficiency of energy usage by low-income families; and (4) target energy assistance to individuals who are most in need.

State, tribal and territory REACH awards are listed below.

States	Award
Georgia	$1,100,000
Kentucky	$370,181
Maine	$900,000
Massachusetts	$1,000,000
Rhode Island	$1,100,000
Virginia	$1,000,000
Total	$5,470,181

Tribes and Territories	Award
American Samoa	$150,000
Blackfeet Nation (Montana)	$150,000
Central Council Tlingit and Haida (Alaska)	$175,000
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (Montana)	$150,000
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Michigan)	$150,000
South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency (Washington)	$150,000
The Klamath Tribes (Oregon)	$144,990
United Tribes of Kansas and SE Nebraska, Inc. (Kansas)	$70,000
Total	$1,139,990

For more information, visit the LIHEAP Clearinghouse website for state REACH summaries and tribal REACH summaries.

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