Rejection of grant applications; penalties for failure to meet application conditions.

Applications are ineligible for funding if any of the following circumstances arise:

(1) The application is not received by the department by the application deadline;

(2) The proposed project does not meet one of the three national objectives as contained in federal and state legislation;

(3) The proposed project is not an eligible activity as contained in the federal legislation;

(4) The application is not consistent with the local government’s comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to s. 163.3184;

(5) The applicant has an open community development block grant, except as provided in s. 290.046(2)(a)-(c) and department rules;

(6) The local government is not in compliance with the citizen participation requirements prescribed in ss. 104(a)(1) and (2) and 106(d)(5)(c) of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, s. 290.046(4), and department rules; or

(7) Any information provided in the application that affects eligibility or scoring is found to have been misrepresented, and the information is not a mathematical error which may be discovered and corrected by readily computing available numbers or formulas provided in the application.