Approved August 1, 1968.

EXCERPT FROM DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT ACT

[Public Law 89-174, 79 Stat. 667, 670, 42 U.S.C. 3536]

SEC. 8. The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the end of cach calendar year, make a report to the President for submission to the Congress on the activities of the Department during the preceding calendar year.

Approved September 9, 1965.

EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING ACT OF 1954

[Public Law 560, 83d Congress, 68 Stat. 590, 642, 12 U.S.C. 17010]

SEC. 802.1 (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, as soon as practicable during each calendar year, make a report to the President for submission to the Congress on all operations and programs (including but not limited to the insurance, urban renewal, public housing, and rent supplement programs) under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the previous calendar year. Such report shall contain recommendations for strengthening or improving such programs, or, when necessary to implement more effectively Congressional policies and purposes, for establishing new or alternative programs.

REPORT TO CONGRESS OF INFORMATION ON HOUSING

SEC. 817. The annual report made by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to the President for submission to the Congress on all operations provided for by section 802 hereof shall contain pertinent information with respect to all projects for which any loan, contribution, or grant has been made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including the amount of loans, contributions and grants contracted for, and shall also contain pertinent information with respect to all builders' cost certifications required by section 227 of the National Housing Act, as amended, including information as to the amounts paid by mortgagors to mortgagees for application to

1 Prior to amendment by sec. 1101. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 502, sec. 802 (a) read as follows: "(a) The Housing and Home Finance Administrator shall, as soon as practicable during each calendar year, make a report to the President for submission to the Congress on all operations under the jurisdiction of the Housing and Home Finance Agency during the previous calendar year."

Sec. 10. Public Law 90-19, approved May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 17, 22. substituted "Secretary of Housing and Urban Development" for "Housing and Home Finance Administrator” and "Department of Housing and Urban Development" for "Housing and Home Finance Agency" in order to make this section and other sections in this act conform to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act which placed all the functions of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator in the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. See also sec. 7(b), United States Housing Act of 1937.

the reduction of the principal obligations of the mortgages pursuant to that section.

Approved August 2, 1954.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT ACT

[Public Law 89-174, 79 Stat. 667; 42 U.S.C. 3531]

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AN ACT To establish a Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Department of Housing and Urban Development Act".

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and living standards of our peopie require, as a matter of national purpose, sound development of the Nation's communities and metropolitan areas in which the vast majority of its people live and work.

To carry out such purpose, and in recognition of the increasing importance of housing and urban development in our national life, the Congress finds that establishment of an executive department is desirable to achieve the best administration of the principal programs of the Federal Government which provide assistance for housing and for the development of the Nation's communities; to assist the President in achieving maximum coordination of the various Federal activities which have a major effect upon urban community, suburban, or metropolitan development; to encourage the solution of problems of housing, urban development, and mass transportation through State, county, town, village, or other local and private action, including promotion of interstate, regional, and metropolitan cooperation; to encourage the maximum contributions that may be made by vigorous private homebuilding and mortgage lending industries to housing, urban development, and the national economy; and to provide for full and appropriate consideration, at the national level, of the needs and interests of the Nation's communities and of the people who live and work in them.

ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT

SEC. 3. (a) There is hereby established at the seat of government. an executive department to be known as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the "Department"). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department shall be administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary.1

Public Law 90-83. approved Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 195, repealed provisions of the Department Act relating to salaries of the Secretary and other officials. See 5 U.S.C. 311, et seq., for salaries of these officers.

(b) The Secretary shall, among his responsibilities advise the Pres ident with respect to Federal programs and activities relating to hous ing and urban development; develop and recommend to the Presiden policies for fostering the orderly growth and development of the Nation's urban areas; exercise leadership at the direction of the Presi dent in coordinating Federal activities affecting housing and urban development; provide technical assistance and information, including a clearinghouse service to aid State, county, town, village, or othe local governments in developing solutions to community and metro politan development problems; consult and cooperate with State Gov ernors and State agencies, including, when appropriate, holding informal public hearings, with respect to Federal and State program for assisting communities in developing solutions to community and metropolitan development problems and for encouraging effective re gional cooperation in the planning and conduct of community and metropolitan development programs and projects; encourage compre hensive planning by the State and local governments with a view to coordinating Federal, State, and local urban and community develop ment activities; encourage private enterprise to serve as large a par of the Nation's total housing and urban development needs as it car and develop the fullest cooperation with private enterprise in achiev ing the objectives of the Department; and conduct continuing com prehensive studies, and make available findings, with respect to the problems of housing and urban development.

(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deny or limit the bene fits of any program, function, or activity assigned to the Department by this or any other Act to any community on the basis of its popula tion or corporate status, except as may be expressly provided by law

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UNDER SECRETARY AND OTHER OFFICERS AND OFFICES

SEC. 4. (a) There shall be in the Department an Under Secretary eight Assistant Secretaries, and a General Counsel, who shall be ap pointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall perform such functions, powers, and duties as the Secretary shall prescribe from time to time. There shall be in the Department a Federal Housing Commissioner, who shall be one of the Assistant Secretaries, who shall head a Federal Housing Administration within the Department, who shall have such duties and pow ers as may be prescribed by the Secretary, and who shall administer under the supervision and direction of the Secretary, departmenta programs relating to the private mortgage market.

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(b) There shall be in the Department a Director of Urban Program Coordination, who shall be designated by the Secretary. He shall as

1 Sec. 808, 1968 Civil Rights Act, Public Law 90-284, approved Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat 73, 84, provided that the Department should be provided an additional Assistant Secretary and substituted "five" for "four". Sec. 1708, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 Public Law 90-448, approved Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 606, substituted "six" for "five" Sec. 818(a)(1) of Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law 93-383 88 Stat. 633, approved Aug. 22, 1974, substituted "eight" for "six".

Sec. 818(a) (2) of Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public La 93-383, 88 Stat. 633, approved August 22, 1974, deleted subsection (b). Prior to enact ment this subsection read as follows: There shall be in the Department an Assistan Secretary for Administration, who shall be appointed, with the approval of the President by the Secretary under the classified civil service, who shall perform such functions powers, and duties as the Secretary shall prescribe from time to time.

Sec. 818(a) (3) of Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Lav 93-383, 88 Stat. 633, approved August 22, 1974, redesignated subsections (c) and (d) a subsections (b) and (c).