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the issuance of the obligation of the Association. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to purchase any obligations of the association to be issued under this section, and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as now or hereafter in force, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as now or hereafter in force, are extended to include any purchases of the Association's obligations hereunder.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Association is authorized to enter into advance commitment contracts and purchase transactions which do not exceed $200,000,000 outstanding at any one time, if such commitments or transactions relate to mortgages with respect to which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall have issued pursuant to section 213 either a commitment to insure or a statement of eligibility; but such commitments in any one State shall not exced $20,000,000 outstanding at any one time: Provided, That (1) of the total amount of advance commitment contracts and purchase transactions authorized by this subsection, the amount of $50,000,000 shall be available solely for commitments or purchases of mortgages where the management or sales-type cooperative involved is certified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as a consumer cooperative, and (2) of the commitments in any one State, not more than $15,000,000 shall be outstanding at any one time for mortgages with respect to cooperative projects which are not of the type described in clause (1) of this proviso. On and after the date of enactment of the Housing Act of 1959, the Association is authorized to enter into advance commitment contracts and purchase transactions (in addition to those authorized by the preceding sentence) relating to mortgages with respect to which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall have issued pursuant to section 213 a commitment to insure or a statement of eligibility, without regard to any of the limitations contained in the preceding sentence; except that the total amount of the additional advance commitment contracts and purchase transactions authorized by this sentence which may be outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $25,000,000, of which the amount of $12,500,000 shall be available solely for commitments or purchases of mortgages where the management or sales-type cooperative involved is certified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as a consumer cooperative and the amount of $125,500,000 shall be available solely for commitments or purchases of mortgages where the cooperative involved is a builder-sponsor cooperative. Without regard to any of the limitations of this subsection except the total amount of authorizations available, the Association is authorized to enter into advance commitment contracts and purchase transactions on supplementary cooperative loans with respect to which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall have issued, pursuant to section 213(j), either a commitment to insure or a statement of eligibility; but such commitments and purchases shall be made solely where there is a management-type cooperative involved which is

certified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as a consumer cooperative.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Association is authorized to make commitments to purchase and to purchase, service, or sell, any mortgage (or participation therein) which is insured under title VII of this Act, as amended on or after August 11, 1955: Provided, That the total amount of purchases and commitments authorized by this subsection shall not exceed $500,000,000 outstanding at any one time: Provided further, That of the amount authorized in the preceding proviso not less than $58,750,000 shall be available for such purchases and commitments with respect to mortgages insured under section 809: Provided further, That any portion of the total amount of authority set forth in the first proviso of this subsection, which (1) is not required under the second proviso of this subsection to be kept available for purchases and commitments with respect to mortgages insured under section 809, and (2), on the date of enactment of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 and on each July 1 thereafter, would otherwise be available for making new purchases and commitments pursuant to this subsection, shall be transferred to and merged with the authority granted by subsection (a) and added to the amount of such authority which is available, as of the date of the transfer, for purchases and commitments under subsection (c); and the total amount of authority as set forth in the first proviso of this subsection shall progressively be reduced by the amount of each such transfer.

(g) With a view to further carrying out the purposes set forth in section 301(b), and notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Association is authorized to make commitments to purchase and to purchase, service, or sell any mortgages which are insured under title II of this Act or guaranteed under chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, if the original principal obligation of any such mortgage does not exceed the dollar limitation on maximum principal obligation that would be applicable to such mortgage if insured under section 235(i) of the National Housing Act. The total amount of such purchases and commitments made after August 1, 1966, shall not exceed $1,750,000,000 outstanding at any one time, and no such commitment shall be made unless the applicant therefor certifies that construction of housing to be covered by the mortgage has not commenced. For the purposes of this subsection $500,000,000 of the authority hereinabove provided shall be transferred from the amount of outstanding authority specified in subsection (c), and the amount of outstanding authority so specified shall be reduced by the amount so transferred.

(h) Notwithstanding clause (2) of section 302(b) and any provision of this Act which is inconsistent with this subsection, the Association is authorized (subject to Presidential action as provided in subsection (a), as limited by subsection (c) to purchase pursuant to commitments or otherwise, and to service, sell, or otherwise deal in, mortgages insured under the provisions of sections 221(d)(3) and 221(h) of this Act.

(i) In any case where the Association makes a commitment to purchase under this section (1) a mortgage insured under section 213, (2) a mortgage insured under section 220, or (3) a mortgage in

sured under section 221(d)(3) and executed by a cooperative (including an investor-sponsor), a limited dividend corporation, a private non-profit corporation or association, or a mortgagor qualified under section 221(e), or (4) a mortgage insured under section 236, such commitment may provide for participation by the Association in the making of insured advances on the mortgage during construction. Such participation shall be limited to 95 per centum of the amount of each of the advances involved, and the mortgagee providing the balance of such amount shall perform all necessary servicing and processing of such advances until the final insurance endorsement of the mortgage. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall approve the reasonableness of the fee to be paid a participating mortgagee, taking into account its services and the extent of its participation in the advances.

(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Association is authorized to purchase pursuant to commitments or otherwise mortgages otherwise eligible for purchase under this section at a price equal to the unpaid principal amount thereof at the time of purchase, with adjustments for interest and any comparable items, and to sell such mortgages at any time at a price within the range of market prices for the particular class of mortgages involved at the time of sale as determined by the Association. Mortgages insured under title V of the Housing Act of 1949, except mortgages for above moderate income families insured under section 517(a) of such Act, are eligible for purchase under this section. (k) During fiscal year 1982, the Association may not enter into commitments to purchase under this section mortgages with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $1,973,000,000, except that the Association may not enter into commitments to purchase mortgages secured by projects which do not contain units assisted under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $580,000,000.

INTERIM AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE CERTAIN MORTGAGES

SEC. 313. (a)(1) Whenever the Secretary finds inflationary conditions and related governmental actions or other economic conditions are having a severely disproportionate effect on the housing industry and the resulting reduction in the volume of home construction or acquisition threatens seriously to affect the economy and to delay the orderly achievement of the national housing goals contained in title XVI of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and if the Secretary determines that the implementation of this section will not significantly worsen inflationary conditions, the Secretary shall direct the Association to begin making commitments to purchase and to purchase mortgages and securities in accordance with the provisions of this section. To the extent feasible and consistent with the primary purpose of this section to stablize housing production, the Secretary may direct the exercise of the authority conferred by this section to promote homeownership opportunities for moderate-income families.

(2) The Secretary may direct the Association to terminate its activities under this section whenever he determines that the condi

tions which gave rise to his determination under paragraph (1) are no longer present.

(3) In carrying out the authority conferred by this section, the Secretary may require the Association to utilize a part of the authority to purchase mortgages under this section for the purchase of mortgages executed to finance the rehabilitation or acquisition and rehabilitation of housing in older or declining neighborhoods to the extent such action is feasible and consistent with the primary purpose of this section, and for the purpose of this paragraph, the Secretary is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be appropriate.

(b) Wherever the Secretary issues a directive under subsection (a)(1), the Association shall make commitments to purchase and purchase, and may service, sell (with or without resource), or otherwise deal in, (1) mortgages which cover more than four-family residences (including cooperatives and condominiums and the individual units therein) and which are insured under the National Housing Act and chapter 37 of title 38 of the United States Code, (2) securities guaranteed by the Association and backed by loans and advances of credit insured under title I of the National Housing Act, or guaranteed under chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, and made for the purchase of a manufactured home and lot, or manufactured home, or (3) mortgages which cover one- to four-family residences and which are insured under the National Housing Act or guaranteed under chapter 37 of title 38 of the United States Code or guaranteed under title V of the Housing Act of 1949 or by qualified private insurers as determined by the Association or the outstanding principal balances of which do not exceed 80 per centum of the value of the property securing the mortgages. A mortgage may be purchased under this section only if

(A) such mortgage was executed to finance the acquisition of a one- to four-family residence which will be the principal residence of the mortgagor or to finance the purchase of a more than four-family residence and is subject to a mortgage insured under the National Housing Act;

(B) such mortgage involves an original principal obligation not to exceed, for that part of the property attributable to dwelling use in the case of a more than four-family residence, the per unit limitations under the section of the National Housing Act under which the project mortgage is insured or, in the case of a manufactured home loan or advance of credit, the limitation contained in section 2(b) of this Act;

(C) such mortgage involves an interest rate which the Secretary may prescribe which shall be as high as feasible consistent with meeting the objectives of this section at the lowest feasible cost, but if such mortgage is executed to finance the acquisition of a one-to-four family residence, it may not bear interest at a rate lower than 3 percentage points below the average contract commitment rate for single family, thirty-year conventional mortgages with loan-to-value ratios of 90 per centum in the monthly survey of all major lenders conducted by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board which is most recently available at the time that funds are released, and if such mortgage is executed to finance the acquisition of a more than four

family residence, it may not bear interest at a rate lower than 42 percentage points below such average contract commitment rate, and no State or local usury law or comparable law establishing interest rates or prohibiting or limiting the collection or amount of discount points or other charges in connection with mortgage transactions or any State law prohibiting the coverage of mortgage insurance required by the Association shall apply to transactions under this section; and

(D) such mortgage involves a principal residence the sale price of which does not exceed 92 per centum of the applicable maximum principal obligation which may be insured in the area under section 203(b).

A security may be purchased under this section only if all of the loans or advances of credit backing such security (i) finance the purchase of manufactured homes and lots, or manufactured homes, which will be the principal residences of the borrowers, and (ii) involve an interest rate which the Secretary may prescribe which shall be as high as feasible consistent with meeting the objectives of this section at the lowest feasible cost, but in no event shall such rate be lower than 3 percentage points below the rate set by the Secretary and applicable to loans and advances of credit insured under title I of the National Housing Act.

(c) The Association may issue to the Secretary of the Treasury its obligations in an amount outstanding at any one time sufficient to enable the Association to carry out its functions under this section. Each such obligation shall mature at such time and be redeemable at the option of the Association in such manner as may be determined by the Association, and shall bear interest at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities during the month preceding the issuance of the obligation of the Association. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any obligations of the Association issued under this section, and for such purposes the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as now or hereafter in force, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as now or hereafter in force, are extended to include any purchase of the Association's obligations hereunder.

(d)(1) The Association is authorized to guarantee securities based on pools or trusts of the mortgages eligible for purchase by the Association under this section as provided in section 306(g) of this Act with respect to federally insured or guaranteed mortgages and to act as issuer of such guaranteed securities. Such securities shall bear interest at a rate equal to the rate on the underlying mortgages less an allowance for servicing and other expenses as approved by the Association. The Association shall possess with respect to securities under this section all the powers it possesses with respect to securities guaranteed under such section 306(g), and the provisions of such section shall apply to guarantees under this section, except that such section shall not be deemed to prohibit the Secretary from guaranteeing payment of only a part of the

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