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a. <br />Community Service Blocl. Grant <br />At the beginning of this year's EAP program, we received an allocation of <br />Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) funds which -ere made available to supple- <br />ment the funding for EAP. Those funds were to be used for EAP eligible house- <br />holds facing shut -offs, disconnects, or no deliveries situation where their <br />energy grant was not sufficient to restore service. The upper limit on these <br />funds was $400 per household. These fun^, could also be used for repairing or <br />replacing furnaces which had broken down. This program has continued to be <br />available to EAP eligible households during the summer. This was possible <br />as it is a separate program from EAP. <br />In the M-EAP area, 217 households were served with the average assistance being <br />$236/household. The total funds expended were $62.805.31. <br />1% Local Discretionary Funds <br />This program set aside 1% of all EAP funds to the area for meeting sperial local <br />needs. Because of the cap on the EAP grants, it was decided to use these funds <br />to help those whose EAP grant would not avert a shut-off, or to provide a fill, <br />if needed. A limit of this assistance was placed at $500 to be used only in <br />emergency situations. A total of $21,546.43 was spent from this program serving <br />91 households with an average payment of g236/household. This program and the <br />CSBG program were used to compliment each other. <br />