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recipients and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) 8.1 How would you categorize the primary responsibility of your State agency? Administration Agency Commerce Agency Community Services Agency Energy/Environment Agency Housing Agency State Department of Welfare (administers TANF, SNAP, and/or Medicaid) Economic Development Agency Other - Describe: H-HEAP coordinator is administratively attached to the Department of Human Services, Benefit Employment & Support Ser vices Division (BESSD) that is responsible for the State's welfare program. H-HEAP's policies and procedures are developed by the H-HEAP coordinator but the intake of applications and eligibility determination is completed by community agencies on each island. Payments are made by the State H-HEAP coordinator. Include current list of subrecipient name, main office address (do not list P.O. Box), phone number, county(s) served, Congressional District, and UEI number. Used for Near hotline and OCS Service Provider Tool and clearinghouse. Alternate Outreach and Intake, 2605(b)(15) - Assurance 15 If you selected "State Department of Welfare (administers TANF, SNAP, and/or Medicaid)" in question 8.1, you must complete questions 8.2, 8. 3, and 8.4, as applicable. 8.2 How do you provide alternate outreach and intake for heating assistance? Contracted Community Action Agencies provide information about the energy assistance program including basic eligibility rules, assist applicants in completing the application, copy all required verifications and documentation, and make provisions for applicants who are homebound to receive the same services by utilizing home visits. Community agencies will make arrangements with senior centers and community centers t o intake applications on site as well as at Senior/Disabled Housing rental sites. Community agencies also go door to door in housing complexes to inform households of H-HEAP. Aloha United Way, a non-profit organization provides a hotline/referral service. Volunteers manage a hotline which has a data base filled with helping agencies. A person seeking assistance with heating/cooling needs can call "211" and they will search for local agencies who can as sist. H-HEAP information is available for search on their data base. 8.3 How do you provide alternate outreach and intake for cooling assistance?> Contracted Community Action Agencies provide information about the energy assistance program including basic eligibility rules, assistapplicants in completing the application, copy all required verifications and documentation, and make provisions for applicants who are homebound to receive the same services by utilizing home visits. Community agencies will make arrangements with senior centers and community centers t o intake applications on site as well as at Senior/Disabled Housing rental sites. Community agencies also go door to door in housing complexes to inform households of H-HEAP. Aloha United Way, a non-profit organization provides a hotline/referral service. Volunteers manage a hotline which has a data base filled with helping agencies. A person seeking assistance with heating/cooling needs can call "211" and they will search for local agencies who can as sist. H-HEAP information is available for search on their data base. 8.4 How do you provide alternate outreach and intake for crisis assistance? Contracted Community Action Agencies provide information about the energy assistance program including basic eligibility rules, assistapplicants in completing the application, copy all required verifications and documentation, and make provisions for applicants who are homebound to receive the same services by utilizing home visits. Community agencies will make arrangements with senior centers and community centers t o intake applications on site as well as at Senior/Disabled Housing rental sites. Community agencies also go door to door in housing complexes to inform households of H-HEAP. Aloha United Way, a non-profit organization provides a hotline/referral service. Volunteers manage a hotline which has a data base filled with helping agencies. A person seeking assistance with heating/cooling needs can call "211" and they will search for local agencies who can as sist. H-HEAP information is available for search on their data base. 8.5 LIHEAP Component Administration. Heating Cooling Crisis Weatherization 8.5a Who determines client eligibility? Community Action Agencies Community Action Agencies Community Action Agencies Community Action Agencies 8.5b Who processes benefit payments to gas and electric vendors? State Administration Agency State Administration Agency State Administration Agency 8.5c who processes benefit payments to bulk fuel vendors? Non-Applicable Non-Applicable Non-Applicable 8.5d Who performs installation of weatherization measures? Other Include a current list of subrecipient(s) name, main office address (do not list P.O. Box), phone number, county(s) served, Congressional District, and UEI number. If any of your LIHEAP components are not centrally-administered by a state agency, you must complete questions 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, and, if applicable, 8.9. 8.6 What is your process for selecting local administering agencies? H-HEAP has an exemption from the Hawaii procurement process as LIHEAP laws required a condition for State grantees to receive LIHE AP funds, the Governor shall assure that special consideration be given only to local non-profit agencies which 1) were receiving federal funds un der any low income energy assistance or weatherization program under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and 2) have the capacity to undertake a timely and effective energy crisis intervention program and the ability to carry out the program in the local community. There are the only four such community action agencies, Honolulu Community Action Program (HCAP) for Oahu, Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council (H CEOC) for Hawaii Island, Kauai Economic Opportunity (KEO) on Kauai, and Maui Economic Opportunity (MEO) for Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. These are the agencies that meet the conditions and criteria to administer LIHEAP and were therefore selected 8.7 How many local administering agencies do you use? 4 8.8 Have you changed any local administering agencies in the last year? Yes No 8.9 If so, why? Agency was in noncompliance with Grant recipient requirements for LIHEAP - Agency is under criminal investigation Added agency Agency closed Other - describe 8.10 If a subrecipient is no longer providing LIHEAP, are you aware of prior-year LIHEAP funds being mismanaged or misspent? Yes No 8.10a If yes, please explain. 8.10b If you are aware, were other federal programs impacted such as CSBG, SSBG, Head Start, TANF, and Department of Energy Weatherization funding, etc. Yes No 8.10c If yes, please explain. If any of the above questions require further explanation or clarification that could not be made in the fields provided, attach a document with said explanation here.