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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2536 

To require all public housing revitalization projects assisted under the HOPE 

VI program to meet green communities standards. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 24, 2007 

Mr. OLVER (for himself, Ms. WATERS, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. 

HOBSON, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. 

PERLMUTTER, Mr. WALSH of New York, and Mr. WATT) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To require all public housing revitalization projects assisted 

under the HOPE VI program to meet green communities 

standards. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘HOPE VI Green 

5 Building and Technical Assistance Act of 2007’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GREEN COMMUNITIES REQUIREMENTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 24(e) of the United States 

8 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v(e)) is amended 

9 by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 


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1 ‘‘(4) GREEN COMMUNITIES REQUIREMENTS.— 

2 ‘‘(A) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary may 

3 not make a grant under this section to an appli4 cant unless the revitalization plan of the appli5 cant to be carried out with such grant amounts 

6 complies with the following requirements: 

7 ‘‘(i) AFFORDABLE HOUSING.—The 

8 plan complies with the green communities 

9 criteria checklist of the national Green 

10 Communities program that provides cri11 teria for the design, development, and op12 eration of affordable housing, as such 

13 checklist is in effect upon the date of the 

14 enactment of the HOPE VI Green Build15 ing and Technical Assistance Act of 2007, 

16 as follows: 

17 ‘‘(I) The revitalization plan shall 

18 comply with all items of the green 

19 communities criteria checklist that are 

20 identified as mandatory. 

21 ‘‘(II) The revitalization plan shall 

22 comply with such other nonmandatory 

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1 utable to such nonmandatory items 

2 under such checklist of not less 

3 than— 

4 ‘‘(aa) 25 points, in the case 

5 of any plan (or portion thereof) 

6 consisting of new construction; 

7 and 

8 ‘‘(bb) 20 points, in the case 

9 of any plan (or portion thereof) 

10 consisting of rehabilitation. 

11 ‘‘(ii) NONRESIDENTIAL STRUC12 TURES.—The plan provides that any non13 residential structure covered by the plan 

14 that has 50,000 square feet of gross floor 

15 area or more complies with version 2.2 of 

16 the Leadership in Energy and Environ17 mental Design green building rating sys18 tem for new construction and major ren19 ovations (LEED–NC 2.2) or version 2.0 of 

20 such green building rating system for core 

21 and shell (LEED–CS 2.0) at the certifi22 cation level. 

23 ‘‘(B) VERIFICATION.— 

24 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary 

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1 ficient to ensure that each revitalization 

2 plan carried out with amounts from a 

3 grant under this section complies with the 

4 requirements under subparagraph (A) and 

5 that the revitalization program is carried 

6 out in accordance with such requirements 

7 and plan. 

8 ‘‘(ii) TIMING.—In providing for such 

9 verification, the Secretary shall establish 

10 procedures to ensure such compliance with 

11 respect to each grantee, and shall report to 

12 the Congress with respect to the compli13 ance of each grantee, at each of the fol14 lowing times: 

15 ‘‘(I) Not later than 60 days after 

16 award of a grant under this section 

17 for the grantee. 

18 ‘‘(II) Upon completion of the re19 vitalization program of the grantee.’’. 

20 (b) SELECTION CRITERIA.—Section 24(e)(2) of the 

21 United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

22 1437v(e)(2)) is amended— 

23 (1) in subparagraph (K), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

24 the end; 


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1 (2) by redesignating subparagraph (L) as sub2 paragraph (M); and 

3 (3) by inserting after subparagraph (K) the fol4 lowing new subparagraph: 

5 ‘‘(L) the extent of compliance of the revi6 talization program proposed under the plan 

7 with the nonmandatory items of the national 

8 Green Communities criteria checklist identified 

9 in paragraph (4)(A); and’’. 

10 SEC. 3. PLANNING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS. 

11 Section 24(m) of the United States Housing Act of 

12 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v(m)) is amended by striking para13 graph (2) and inserting the following new paragraph: 

14 ‘‘(2) PLANNING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

15 GRANTS.—Subject only to approvable requests for 

16 grants under this paragraph, of the amount appro17 priated pursuant to paragraph (1) for any fiscal 

18 year, the Secretary shall use not less than two per19 cent for grants in such fiscal year to potential appli20 cants and applicants for grants under this section to 

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1 cipients in obtaining technical assistance in carrying 

2 out revitalization programs.’’. 

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