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OPENING PARAGRAPH: We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the State of Texas Hurricane Harvey Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant fund for Disaster Recovery allocated by Federal Register Notice 6047 on December 27, 2017. The $57.8 million in CDBG-DR funds allocated to Texas were originally appropriated by Congress in the Continuing Appropriation Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 114-22, September 29, 2016) for disaster relief and recovery “resulting from a major disaster declared in 2016 and occurring prior to enactment of the Appropriations Act”. (81 F.R. 224; 83254, November 21, 2016). On September 8, 2017, the Supplemental Appropriation for Disaster Relief Requirements, 2017 (Pub. L. 115-56) was approved, appropriating an additional $7.39 billion in CDBG-DR funds for major disasters declared in 2016. The Federal Register Notice for those funds was issued on February 9, 2018.