Minimum program requirements.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 10

Prior to the expenditure of any grant funds each grantee shall develop, publish, and implement procedures to ensure that: (a) No dwelling unit may be weatherized without documentation that the dwelling unit is an eligible dwelling unit as provided in § 440.22; (b) Priority is given to identifying and providing weatherization assistance to: (1) Elderly persons; (2) Persons with disabilities; (3) Families with children; (4) High residential energy users; and (5) Households with a high energy burden. (c) Financial assistance provided under this part will be used to supplement, and not supplant, State or local funds, and, to the maximum extent practicable as determined by DOE, to increase the amounts of these funds that would be made available in the absence of Federal funds provided under this part; (d) To the maximum extent practicable, the grantee will secure the services of volunteers when such personnel are generally available, training participants and public service employment workers, other Federal or State training program workers, to work under the supervision of qualified supervisors and foremen; (e) To the maximum extent practicable, the use of weatherization assistance shall be coordinated with other Federal, State, local, or privately funded programs in order to improve energy efficiency and to conserve energy; (f) The low-income members of an Indian tribe shall receive benefits equivalent to the assistance provided to other low-income persons within a State unless

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 10:§ 440.16