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(b) GRANTS. (1) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is authorized to make grants to finance energy conserving improvements (as defined in subparagraph (2) of the last paragraph of section 2(a) of the National Housing Act to projects which are financed with loans under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, or which are subject to mortgages insured under section 221(d)(3) or section 236 of the National Housing Act. The Secretary shall make assistance available under this subsection on a priority basis to those projects which are in financial difficulty as a result of high energy costs. In carrying out the program authorized by this subsection, the Secretary shall issue regulations requiring that any grant made under this subsection shall be made only on the condition that the recipient of such grant shall take steps (prescribed by the Secretary) to assure that the benefits derived from such grants in terms of lower energy costs shall accrue to tenants in the form of lower rentals or to the Federal Government in the form of lower operating subsidy if such a subsidy is being paid to such recipient. (2) The Secretary shall establish minimum standards for energy conserving improvements to multifamily dwelling units to be assisted under this subsection.

(3) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this subsection not to exceed $25,000,000.

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EXCERPTS FROM THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENTS OF 1981

[Public Law 97-35; 95 Stat. 384]

WITHDRAWAL FROM SECTION 8 PROGRAM; CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

SEC. 326.

(b)(1) Within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall conduct a survey to determine the number of projects which are assisted under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and are owned by developers or sponsors with five-year annual contributions contracts who plan to withdraw from the section 8 program when their contracts expire and who will increase rents in those projects to levels that the current residents of those projects will not be able to afford. Where such survey indicates that an owner intends to withdraw from the program, the Secretary shall notify affected residents of possible rent increases.

(c) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, after consultation with the Attorney General, shall develop regulations to prevent possible conflicts of interest on the part of Federal, State, and local government officials with regard to participation in projects assisted under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and shall make such regulations effective not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

AMOUNTS RECOVERED FROM PHA LEGAL ACTIONS

(d)(1) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall permit public housing agencies to retain, out of judgments obtained by them in recovering amounts wrongfully paid as a result of fraud and abuse in the housing assistance program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, an amount equal to the greater of (A) the legal expenses incurred in obtaining such judgments, or (B) 50 per centum of the amount actually collected on the judgments.

PAYMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS

SEC. 329A. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall develop and implement a revised fee schedule for development managers of lower income housing projects assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937 so that the percentage limitation applicable to fees chargeable in connection with smaller projects is increased to a minimum level which is practicable.

RECOGNITION OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SEC. 329D. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall permit the Kansas Department of Economic Development to participate as a public housing agency for the purposes of programs carried out under the United States Housing Act of 1937 and as a State agency for the purpose of section 883.203 of title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations as in effect June 1, 1981.

PURCHASE OF PHA OBLIGATIONS

SEC. 329E. In addition to any authority provided before October 1, 1981, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, on and after October 1, 1981, enter into contracts for periodic payments to the Federal Financing Bank to offset the costs to the Bank of purchasing obligations (as described in the first sentence of section 16(b) of the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973) issued by local public housing agencies for purposes of financing public housing projects authorized by section 5(c) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such contracts may be entered into only to the extent approved in appropriation Acts, and the aggregate amount which may be obligated over the duration of such contracts may not exceed $400,000,000. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated any amounts necessary to provide for such payments. The authority to enter into contracts under this subsection shall be in lieu of any authority (except for authority provided specifically to the Secretary before October 1, 1981) of the Secretary to enter into contracts for such purposes under section 16(b) of the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973.

Approved August 13, 1981.

MULTIFAMILY

PART III-MORTGAGE INSURANCE, EMERGENCY
MORTGAGE RELIEF, AND
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE

EXCERPTS FROM NATIONAL HOUSING ACT

[Public Law 479, 73d Congress; 48 Stat. 1246; 12 U.S.C. 1702 et seq.]

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 "National Housing Act."

TITLE I-HOUSING RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

SECTION 1. The powers conferred by this Act shall be exercised by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary").

In order to carry out the provisions of this title and titles II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI, the Secretary may establish such agencies, accept and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees, and appoint such other officers and employees as he may find necessary, and may prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure and fix their compensation,.1 The Secretary may delegate any of the functions and powers conferred upon him under this title and titles II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI, to such officers, agents, and employees as he may designate or appoint and may make such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere for law books and books of reference, and for paper, printing, and binding) as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title and titles II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI without regard to any other provisions of law governing the expenditure of public funds. All such compensation, expenses, and allowances shall be paid out of funds made available by this Act: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provisions of law except provisions of law hereafter enacted expressly in limitation hereof, all expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in connection with the examination and insurance of loans or investments under any title of this Act, all properly capitalized expenditures, and other necessary expenses not attributable to general overhead in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles shall be considered nonadministrative and payable from funds made available by this Act, except that, unless made pursuant to specific authorization by

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the Congress therefor, expenditures made in any fiscal year pursuant to this proviso, other than the payment of insurance claims and other than expenditures (including services on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, protection, completion, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property of the Department acquired under authority of this Act, shall not exceed 35 per centum of the income received by the Department of Housing and Urban Development from premiums and fees during the preceding fiscal year. The Secretary shall, in carrying out the provisions of this title and titles II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI be authorized, in his official capacity to sue and be sued in any court of competent jurisdiction, State or Federal.

INSURANCE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary is authorized and empowered upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, to insure banks, trust companies, personal finance companies, mortgage companies, building and loan associations, installment lending companies, and other such financial institutions, which the Secretary finds to be qualified by experience or facilities and approves as eligible for credit insurance, against losses which they may sustain as a result of loans and advances of credit, and purchases of obligations representing loans and advances of credit, made by them on and after July 1, 1939, and prior to October 1, 1985 for the purpose of (i) financing alterations, repairs, and improvements upon or in connection with existing structures or manufactured homes, and the building of new structures, upon urban, suburban, or rural real property (including the restoration, rehabilitation, rebuilding, and replacement of such improvements which have been damaged or destroyed by earthquake, conflagration, tornado, hurricane, cyclone, flood, or other catastrophe), by the owners thereof or by lessees of such real property under a lease expiring not less than six months after the maturity of the loan or advance of credit; and for the purpose of (ii) financing the purchase of a manufactured home to be used by the owner as his principal residence or financing the purchase of a lot on which to place such home and paying expenses reasonably necessary for the appropriate preparation of such lot, including the installation of utility connections, sanitary facilities, and paving, and the construction of a suitable pad, or financing only the acquisition of such a lot either with or without such preparation by an owner of a manufactured home; and for the purpose of financing the preservation of historic structures, and, as used in this section, the term "historic structures" means residential structures which are registered in the National Register of Historic Places or which are certified by the Secretary of the Interior to conform to National Register criteria; and the term "preservation" means restoration or rehabilitation undertaken for such purposes as are approved by the Secretary in regulations issued by him, after consulting with the Secretary of the Interior.

In no case shall the insurance granted by the Secretary under this section to any such financial institution on loans, advances of credit, and purchases made by such financial institution for such

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