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F20000028 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN CERTIFICATION 8. It certifies that a detailed citizen participation plan is on file which includes: a. Providing and encouraging citizen participation with particular emphasis on participation by lower income persons who are residents of slum and blight areas in which funds are proposed to be used to include target areas as identified in the application for CDBG funds. b. Providing citizens with reasonable and timely access to local meetings, information, and records relating to the Applicant's proposed and actual use of CDBG funds. c. Fumish citizens with information, including but not limited to, the amount of CD8G funds expected to be made available for the current fiscal year, including CDBG funds and anticipated program income: the range of activities that may be undertaken with CDBG funds; the estimated amount of CDBG funds to be used for activities that will meet national objective of benefit to low- and moderate-income people, and the proposed CDBG activities likely to result in displacement and the grantee's anti-displacement and relocation plans. d. Providing technical assistance to groups representative of persons of low- and moderate income that request such assistance in developing groups. The level and type of assistance is to be identified with the plan. e. Provide for public hearings, for the purpose of obtaining citizen's views and responding to proposals and questions. The hearings must cover economic development needs, development of proposed activities and a review of program performance. There must be reasonable notice of the hearings and they must be held at times and locations convenient to potential or actual beneficiaries, with accommodations for the handicap. Public hearings are to be conducted in a manner to meet the needs of non-English speaking residents where a significant number of non- English speaking residents can be expected to participate. f. Provide citizens with reasonable advance notice of, and opportunity to comment on proposed activities in the application to the state and for grants already made, activities which are added to, deleted or substantially changed from the application to the state. g. Provide citizens the address, phone number and times for submitting complaints and grievances and provide timely written responses to written complaints and grievances within 15 working days where practicable. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AND ASSURANCES. 9. The Applicant will comply with the Administrative Requirements of the program, those applicable items in the 1995 Consolidated Plan, Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law 93-383, as amended, and 24 CFR Part 570 including parts not specifically cited below and the following laws, regulations and requirements, both federal and state, as they pertain to the design, implementation and administration of the local project. if approved: CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVISIONS. . Public Law 88-352. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000(d), et seq.) (24 CFR Part 1) . Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, As Amended . Age-Discrimination Act of 1975, As Amended (42 U.S.C. 6101, et. seq.) . Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, As Amended (29 U.S.C. 794) and the Americans with Disability Act . Executive Order 11246, As Amended . Executive Order 11063, As Amended by Executive Order 12259 (24 CFR Part 107) ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND PROVISIONS. . Section 104(f) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, As Amended . Title IV of the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 4831) and the Implementing Regulations found at 24 CFR Part 35 . The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. Section 4321, et. seq., and 24 CFR Part 58)