S. 1769

One Hundred Third Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three

An Act

To make a technical amendment, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of

the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CDBG TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of Slidell,

Louisiana may submit, not later than 10 days after the enactment

of this Act, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

shall consider and accept, the final statement of community development objectives and projected use of funds required by section

104(a)(1) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974

in connection with a grant to the city of Slidell under title 1

of such Act for fiscal year 1994.

SEC. 2. INCREASE OF CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES CAP.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(8)) is amended—

(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the penultimate comma; and

(2) by inserting before the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, and except that of any amount of assistance under

this title (including program income) in fiscal year 1994 to

the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, such city may use not

more than 20 percent in each such fiscal year for activities

under this paragraph’’.

SEC. 3. CONVERSION PROJECTS.

(a) SECTION 23 CONVERSION.— (1) AUTHORIZATION.—Notwithstanding contracts entered into pursuant to section 14(b)(2) of the United States Housing

Act of 1937, the Secretary is authorized to enter into obligations

for conversion of Leonard Terrace Apartments in Grand Rapids,

Michigan, from a leased housing contract under section 23

of such Act to a project-based rental assistance contract under

section 8 of such Act.

(2) REPAYMENT REQUIRED.—The authorization made in

paragraph (1) is conditioned on the repayment to the Secretary

of all amounts received by the public housing agency under

the comprehensive improvement assistance program under section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for the

Leonard Terrace Apartment project and the amounts, as determined by the Secretary, received by the public housing agency

under the formula in section 14(k) of such Act by reason of

the project.

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SEC. 4. EXCEPTION TO FIRE SAFETY REQUIREMENT FOR NEWLY

CONSRUCTED MULTIFAMILY PROPERTY.

In the case of any newly constucted multifamily property, as defined in section 31(c)(2)(A)(ii) of the Federal Fire Prevention

and Control Act of 1974, in the city of New York in the State

of New York, the requirement contained in section 31(c)(2)(A)(i)

of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 with respect

to an automatic sprinkler system shall be deemed to be met if

such property meets an equivalent level of safety (as defined in

section 31(a)(3) of such Act).

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.

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