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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3513 

To promote the development of local strategies to coordinate use of assistance 

under sections 8 and 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 

with public and private resources, to enable eligible families to achieve 

economic independence and self-sufficiency, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

AUGUST 2, 2012 

Mr. REED introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to 

the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

A BILL 

To promote the development of local strategies to coordinate 

use of assistance under sections 8 and 9 of the United 

States Housing Act of 1937 with public and private 

resources, to enable eligible families to achieve economic 

independence and self-sufficiency, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Family Self-Sufficiency 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 23 of the United States 

3 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u) is amended— 

4 (1) in subsection (a)— 

5 (A) by striking ‘‘public housing and’’; and 

6 (B) by striking ‘‘the certificate and vouch7 er programs under section 8’’ and inserting 

8 ‘‘sections 8 and 9’’; 

9 (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol10 lows: 

11 ‘‘(b) CONTINUATION OF PRIOR MANDATORY PRO12 GRAMS.— 

13 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each public housing agen14 cy that was required to administer a mandatory 

15 local Family Self-Sufficiency program on the date of 

16 enactment of the Family Self-Sufficiency Act, shall 

17 operate such local program for, at a minimum, the 

18 number of families the agency was required to serve 

19 on the date of enactment of such Act, subject only 

20 to the availability under appropriations Acts of suffi21 cient amounts for housing assistance and the re22 quirements of paragraph (2). 

23 ‘‘(2) REDUCTION.—The number of families for 

24 which an agency is required to operate such local 

25 program under paragraph (1) shall be decreased by 

26 one for each family that, after the date of enactment 


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1 of the Family Self-Sufficiency Act fulfills its obliga2 tions under the contract of participation. 

3 ‘‘(3) EXCEPTION.—The Secretary shall not re4 quire a public housing agency to carry out a manda5 tory program for a period of time upon the request 

6 of the public housing agency and upon a determina7 tion by the Secretary that implementation is not fea8 sible because of local circumstances, which may in9 clude— 

10 ‘‘(A) lack of supportive services accessible 

11 to eligible families, which shall include insuffi12 cient availability of resources for programs 

13 under title I of the Workforce Investment Act 

14 of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.); 

15 ‘‘(B) lack of funding for reasonable admin16 istrative costs; 

17 ‘‘(C) lack of cooperation by other units of 

18 State or local government; or 

19 ‘‘(D) any other circumstances that the Sec20 retary may consider appropriate.’’; 

21 (3) by striking subsection (i); 

22 (4) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), 

23 (f), (g), and (h) as subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), 

24 and (i) respectively; 


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1 (5) by inserting after subsection (b), as pre2 viously amended, the following: 

3 ‘‘(c) ELIGIBILITY.— 

4 ‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE FAMILIES.—A family is eligible 

5 to participate in a local Family Self-Sufficiency pro6 gram under this section if— 

7 ‘‘(A) at least 1 adult family member seeks 

8 to become and remain employed in suitable em9 ployment or to increase earnings; and 

10 ‘‘(B) the family resides in a unit assisted 

11 under sections 8 or 9. 

12 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—The following enti13 ties are eligible to administer a local Family Self14 Sufficiency program under this section: 

15 ‘‘(A) A public housing agency admin16 istering housing assistance to an eligible family 

17 under section 8 or 9. 

18 ‘‘(B) The owner or sponsor of a multi19 family property receiving rental assistance 

20 under section 8, in accordance with the require21 ments under subsection (l).’’; 

22 (6) in subsection (d), as redesignated— 

23 (A) in paragraph (1)— 


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1 (i) by striking ‘‘public housing agen2 cy’’ the first time it appears and inserting 

3 ‘‘eligible entity’’; 

4 (ii) by striking ‘‘the certificate and 

5 voucher programs of the public housing 

6 agency under section 8 or residing in pub7 lic housing administered by the agency’’ in 

8 the first sentence and inserting ‘‘sections 8 

9 or 9’’; and 

10 (iii) by striking the third sentence and 

11 inserting the following: ‘‘Housing assist12 ance may not be terminated as a con13 sequence of either successful completion of 

14 the contract of participation or failure to 

15 complete such contract.’’; 

16 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

17 (i) in the matter preceding subpara18 graph (A)— 

19 (I) in the first sentence, by strik20 ing ‘‘provide’’ and inserting ‘‘coordi21 nate the provision of’’; and 

22 (II) in the second sentence— 

23 (aa) by striking ‘‘provided 

24 during’’ and inserting ‘‘for’’; 


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1 (bb) by striking ‘‘section 8 

2 or residing in public housing’’ 

3 and inserting ‘‘sections 8 or 9’’; 

4 and 

5 (cc) by inserting ‘‘, but is 

6 not limited to’’ after ‘‘may in7 clude’’; 

8 (ii) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 

9 ‘‘or attainment of a GED’’ after ‘‘high 

10 school’’; 

11 (iii) by striking subparagraph (G); 

12 (iv) by redesignating subparagraphs 

13 (E), (F), (I), and (J) as subparagraphs 

14 (F), (G), (J), and (L) respectively; 

15 (v) by adding the following after sub16 paragraph (D): 

17 ‘‘(E) education in pursuit of a post-sec18 ondary degree or certification;’’; 

19 (vi) by adding the following subpara20 graph after subparagraph (H): 

21 ‘‘(I) health and mental health services as 

22 needed;’’; 

23 (vii) by adding the following subpara24 graph after subparagraph (J), as so redes25 ignated: 


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1 ‘‘(K) homeownership education and assist2 ance; and’’; 

3 (viii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 

4 subparagraph (J), as so redesignated; and 

5 (ix) in subparagraph (H), by inserting 

6 ‘‘financial literacy and’’ after ‘‘training 

7 in’’; 

8 (C) in paragraph (3), in the second sen9 tence— 

10 (i) by striking ‘‘public housing agen11 cy’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible entity’’; and 

12 (ii) by striking ‘‘of the agency’’; 

13 (D) by amending paragraph (4) to read as 

14 follows: 

15 ‘‘(4) EMPLOYMENT.—The contract of participa16 tion shall require participants to seek and maintain 

17 suitable employment.’’; and 

18 (E) by adding at the end the following: 

19 ‘‘(5) NONPARTICIPATION.—Assistance under 

20 sections 8 or 9 for a family that elects not to partici21 pate in a local program shall not be delayed by rea22 son of such election.’’; 

23 (7) in subsection (e), as so redesignated— 

24 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘whose 

25 monthly adjusted income does not exceed 50 


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1 percent’’ and all that follows through the period 

2 at the end of the third sentence, and inserting 

3 ‘‘shall be calculated under the rental provisions 

4 of section 3 or section 8(o), as applicable.’’; 

5 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

6 (i) by striking the first sentence and 

7 inserting the following: ‘‘For each partici8 pating family, an amount equal to any in9 crease in the amount of rent paid by the 

10 family in accordance with the provisions of 

11 section 3 or 8(o), as applicable, that is at12 tributable to increases in earned income by 

13 the participating family, shall be placed in 

14 an interest-bearing escrow account estab15 lished by the eligible entity on behalf of the 

16 participating family. Notwithstanding any 

17 other provision of law, an eligible entity 

18 may use funds it controls under section 8 

19 or 9 for purposes of making the escrow de20 posit for participating families residing in 

21 units assisted under section 8 or 9, respec22 tively, provided such funds are offset by 

23 the increase in the amount of rent paid by 

24 the participating family.’’; 


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1 (ii) by striking the second sentence, 

2 and inserting the following: ‘‘All family 

3 self-sufficiency programs administered 

4 under this section shall include an escrow 

5 account.’’; 

6 (iii) in the fourth sentence, by striking 

7 ‘‘subsection (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 

8 (d)’’; and 

9 (iv) in the last sentence— 

10 (I) by striking ‘‘A public housing 

11 agency’’ and inserting ‘‘An eligible en12 tity’’; and 

13 (II) by striking ‘‘the public hous14 ing agency’’ and inserting ‘‘such eligi15 ble entity’’; and 

16 (C) by amending paragraph (3) to read as 

17 follows: 

18 ‘‘(3) FORFEITED ESCROW.—Any amount placed 

19 in an escrow account established by an eligible entity 

20 for a participating family as required under para21 graph (2), that exists after the end of a contract of 

22 participation by a participant that does not qualify 

23 to receive the escrow, shall be used for the purposes 

24 of this section in accordance with the regulations 

25 promulgated by the Secretary.’’; 


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1 (8) in subsection (f), as so redesignated, by 

2 striking ‘‘, unless the income of the family equals or 

3 exceeds 80 percent of the median income of the area 

4 (as determined by the Secretary with adjustments 

5 for smaller and larger families)’’; 

6 (9) in subsection (g), as so redesignated— 

7 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

8 (i) by striking ‘‘public housing agen9 cy’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible entity’’; 

10 (ii) by striking ‘‘the public housing 

11 agency’’ and inserting ‘‘such eligible enti12 ty’’; and 

13 (iii) by striking ‘‘subsection (g)’’ and 

14 inserting ‘‘subsection (h)’’; and 

15 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

16 (i) by striking ‘‘public housing agen17 cy’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible entity’’ each 

18 place that term appears; 

19 (ii) by striking ‘‘or the Job Opportu20 nities and Basic Skills Training Program 

21 under part F of title IV of the Social Secu22 rity Act’’; 

23 (iii) by inserting ‘‘primary, secondary, 

24 and post-secondary’’ after ‘‘public and pri25 vate’’; and 


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1 (iv) in the second sentence, by insert2 ing ‘‘and tenants served by the program,’’ 

3 after ‘‘the unit of general local govern4 ment’’; 

5 (10) in subsection (h), as so redesignated— 

6 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

7 (i) by striking ‘‘public housing agen8 cy’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible entity’’; 

9 (ii) by striking ‘‘to the Secretary, for 

10 approval by the Secretary,’’; and 

11 (iii) by striking ‘‘participating in the’’ 

12 and inserting ‘‘carrying out a local’’; 

13 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

14 (i) by striking ‘‘public housing agen15 cy’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible entity’’; 

16 (ii) by striking ‘‘subsection (f)’’ and 

17 inserting ‘‘subsection (g)’’; 

18 (iii) by striking ‘‘residents of the pub19 lic housing’’ and inserting ‘‘the current 

20 and prospective participants of the pro21 gram’’; and 

22 (iv) by striking ‘‘or the Job Opportu23 nities and Basic Skills Training Program 

24 under part F of title IV of the Social Secu25 rity Act’’; and 


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1 (C) in paragraph (3)— 

2 (i) in subparagraph (C)— 

3 (I) by striking ‘‘subsection 

4 (c)(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 

5 (d)(2)’’; 

6 (II) by striking ‘‘provided to’’ 

7 and inserting ‘‘coordinated on behalf 

8 of participating’’; and 

9 (III) by striking ‘‘the section 8 

10 and public housing programs’’ and in11 serting ‘‘sections 8 and 9’’; 

12 (ii) in subparagraph (D)— 

13 (I) by striking ‘‘subsection (d)’’ 

14 and inserting ‘‘subsection (e)’’; and 

15 (II) by striking ‘‘public housing 

16 agency’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible enti17 ty’’; 

18 (iii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 

19 ‘‘deliver’’ and inserting ‘‘coordinate’’; 

20 (iv) in subparagraph (H), by striking 

21 ‘‘the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills 

22 Training Program under part F of title IV 

23 of the Social Security Act and’’; and 

24 (v) in subparagraph (I), by striking 

25 ‘‘public housing or section 8 assistance’’ 


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1 and inserting ‘‘assistance under section 8 

2 or 9’’; 

3 (11) by amending subsection (i), as so redesig4 nated, to read as follows: 

5 ‘‘(i) FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY FEES.— 

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to appropriations, 

7 the Secretary shall establish a fee to be awarded by 

8 formula or as otherwise determined by the Sec9 retary, for the costs incurred by an eligible entity in 

10 administering the self-sufficiency program under this 

11 section. 

12 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY FOR FEE.—The fee estab13 lished under paragraph (1) shall provide funding for 

14 family self-sufficiency coordinators as follows: 

15 ‘‘(A) BASE FEE.—An eligible entity serv16 ing 25 or more participants in the Family Self17 Sufficiency program under this section is eligi18 ble to receive a fee equal to the costs, as deter19 mined by the Secretary, of one full-time family 

20 self-sufficiency coordinator position. The Sec21 retary may, by regulation or notice, determine 

22 the policy concerning the fee for an eligible en23 tity serving fewer than 25 such participants, in24 cluding providing prorated fees or allowing such 


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1 entities to combine their programs under this 

2 section for purposes of employing a coordinator. 

3 ‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL FEE.—An eligible entity 

4 that meets performance standards set by the 

5 Secretary is eligible to receive an additional fee 

6 sufficient to cover the costs of filling a second 

7 family self-sufficiency coordinator position if 

8 such entity has 75 or more participating fami9 lies, and an additional coordinator for each ad10 ditional 50 participating families, or such other 

11 ratio as may be established by the Secretary 

12 based on the fee allocation evaluation under 

13 subparagraph (F). 

14 ‘‘(C) INITIAL YEAR.—For the first year in 

15 which an eligible entity implements a Family 

16 Self-Sufficiency program under this section for 

17 its residents, such entity is eligible for funding 

18 to cover the costs of up to one family self-suffi19 ciency coordinator, based on the size specified 

20 in its action plan for such program in accord21 ance with subparagraph (A). 

22 ‘‘(D) STATE AND REGIONAL AGENCIES.— 

23 For purposes of calculating the family self-suffi24 ciency portion of the administrative fee under 

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1 part of a State or regional eligible entity may 

2 be treated as a separate agency. 

3 ‘‘(E) DETERMINATION OF NUMBER OF CO4 ORDINATORS.—In determining whether an eligi5 ble entity meets a specific threshold for funding 

6 pursuant to this paragraph, the Secretary shall 

7 consider the number of participants enrolled by 

8 the eligible entity in its Family Self-Sufficiency 

9 program as well as other criteria determined by 

10 the Secretary. 

11 ‘‘(F) FEE ALLOCATION EVALUATION.—The 

12 Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report 

13 evaluating the fee allocation under this sub14 section, and make recommendations based on 

15 this evaluation and other related findings to 

16 modify such allocation within 4 years after the 

17 date of enactment of the Family Self-Suffi18 ciency Act, and not less frequently than every 

19 4 years thereafter. The report requirement 

20 under this subparagraph shall terminate after 

21 the Secretary has submitted 2 such reports to 

22 the Congress. 

23 ‘‘(3) ALLOCATION.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Funds allocated by 

2 the Secretary under this subsection shall be al3 located in the following order of priority: 

4 ‘‘(i) FIRST PRIORITY.—Renewal of the 

5 full cost of all coordinators in the previous 

6 year at each eligible entity with an existing 

7 Family Self-Sufficiency program that 

8 meets applicable size and performance 

9 standards set by the Secretary. 

10 ‘‘(ii) SECOND PRIORITY.—New or in11 cremental coordinator funding authorized 

12 under this section, up to 3 coordinators 

13 per eligible entity. 

14 ‘‘(iii) FINAL PRIORITY.—Any other 

15 new or incremental coordinator funding 

16 authorized under this section. 

17 ‘‘(B) GUIDANCE.—If the first priority, as 

18 described in subparagraph (A)(i), cannot be 

19 fully satisfied, the Secretary may prorate the 

20 funding for each eligible entity, as long as— 

21 ‘‘(i) each eligible entity that has re22 ceived funding for at least 1 coordinator in 

23 the prior fiscal year is provided sufficient 

24 funding for at least 1 coordinator as part 

25 of any such proration; or 


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1 ‘‘(ii) each eligible entity that has re2 ceived funding for at least 1 full-time coor3 dinator in the prior fiscal year is provided 

4 sufficient funding for at least 1 full-time 

5 coordinator as part of any such proration. 

6 ‘‘(4) RECAPTURE OR OFFSET.—Any fees allo7 cated under this subsection by the Secretary in a fis8 cal year that have not been spent by the end of the 

9 subsequent fiscal year or such other time period as 

10 determined by the Secretary may be recaptured by 

11 the Secretary and shall be available for providing ad12 ditional fees pursuant to paragraph (2)(B), or may 

13 be offset as determined by the Secretary. 

14 ‘‘(5) PERFORMANCE REPORTING.—Programs 

15 under this section shall be required to report the 

16 number of families enrolled and graduated, the num17 ber of established escrow accounts and positive es18 crow balances, and any other information that the 

19 Secretary may require. Program performance shall 

20 be reviewed periodically as determined by the Sec21 retary. 

22 ‘‘(6) INCENTIVES FOR INNOVATION AND HIGH

23 PERFORMANCE.—The Secretary may reserve up to 5 

24 percent of the amounts made available for adminis25 trative fees under this subsection to provide support 


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1 to or reward Family Self-Sufficiency programs based 

2 on the rate of successful completion, increased 

3 earned income, or other factors as may be estab4 lished by the Secretary.’’; 

5 (12) in subsection (j)— 

6 (A) by striking ‘‘public housing agency’’ 

7 and inserting ‘‘eligible entity’’; 

8 (B) by striking ‘‘public housing’’ before 

9 ‘‘units’’; 

10 (C) by striking ‘‘in public housing projects 

11 administered by the agency’’; 

12 (D) by inserting ‘‘or coordination’’ before 

13 ‘‘of supportive services’’; and 

14 (E) by striking the last sentence; 

15 (13) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘public hous16 ing agencies’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible entities’’; 

17 (14) by striking subsection (n); 

18 (15) by striking subsection (o); 

19 (16) by redesignating subsections (l) and (m) as 

20 subsection (m) and (n), respectively; 

21 (17) by inserting after subsection (k), the fol22 lowing: 

23 ‘‘(l) PROGRAMS FOR TENANTS IN PRIVATELY24 OWNED PROPERTIES WITH PROJECT-BASED ASSIST25 ANCE.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) VOLUNTARY AVAILABILITY OF FSS PRO2 GRAM.—The owner of a privately-owned property 

3 may voluntarily make a local Family Self-Sufficiency 

4 program available to the tenants of such property by 

5 entering into a cooperative agreement with a local 

6 public housing agency that administers a Family 

7 Self-Sufficiency program. 

8 ‘‘(2) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT.—Any coopera9 tive agreement entered into pursuant to paragraph 

10 (1) shall require the public housing agency to open 

11 its Family Self-Sufficiency program waiting list to 

12 any eligible family residing in the owner’s property 

13 who is assisted under project-based section 8. 

14 ‘‘(3) TREATMENT OF FAMILIES ASSISTED

15 UNDER THIS SUBSECTION.—A public housing agency 

16 that enters into a cooperative agreement pursuant to 

17 paragraph (1) may count any family participating in 

18 its Family Self-Sufficiency program as a result of 

19 such agreement as part of the calculation of the ad20 ministrative fee under subsection (i). 

21 ‘‘(4) ESCROW.—The cooperative agreement en22 tered into pursuant to paragraph (1) shall provide 

23 for the calculation and tracking of the escrow for 

24 participating residents and for the owner to make 

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1 escrow for participating residents, in accordance 

2 with subsection (e)(2), residing in units assisted 

3 under section 8. 

4 ‘‘(5) NO EXISTING LOCAL PROGRAM OPTION.— 

5 If there is no existing local Family Self-Sufficiency 

6 program or public housing agency willing and able 

7 to enter into a cooperative agreement with an owner 

8 pursuant to paragraph (1), such owner may admin9 ister a Family Self-Sufficiency program under this 

10 section without being eligible for funding under sub11 section (i). If such owner administers a program 

12 that serves at least 25 participants, that owner shall 

13 be eligible for funding under subsection (i) or may 

14 use funding from residual receipt accounts for the 

15 property for hiring a service coordinator for the pro16 gram. 

17 ‘‘(6) EXCEPTION.—This subsection shall not 

18 apply to properties assisted under section 8(o)(13). 

19 ‘‘(7) SUSPENSION OF ENROLLMENT.—In any 

20 year, the Secretary may suspend the enrollment of 

21 new families in Family Self-Sufficiency programs 

22 under this subsection based on a determination that 

23 insufficient funding is available for this purpose.’’; 

24 and 

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1 (A) by striking ‘‘REPORTS.—’’ and all that 

2 follows through ‘‘Each public housing agency’’ 

3 and inserting ‘‘REPORTS.—Each eligible enti4 ty’’; 

5 (B) by striking ‘‘The report shall include’’ 

6 and inserting ‘‘The contents of the report shall 

7 be determined by the Secretary and shall in8 clude.’’; and 

9 (C) in paragraph (2), by inserting before 

10 the first period the following: ‘‘and describing 

11 any additional research needs of the Secretary 

12 to evaluate the effectiveness of the program’’. 

13 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act, and any amend14 ments made by this Act, shall take effect on publication 

15 in the Federal Register of a notice by the Secretary of 

16 Housing and Urban Development to implement such 

17 amendments. 

18 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

19 There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 

20 the amendments made by this Act $100,000,000 for each 

21 of fiscal years 2013 through 2017. 

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