IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 360 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 24, 2015 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Reauthorization Act of 2015’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. References. 
TITLE I—BLOCK GRANTS AND GRANT REQUIREMENTS 
Sec. 101. Block grants. 
Sec. 102. Recommendations regarding exceptions to annual Indian housing 
plan requirement. 
Sec. 103. Environmental review. 
Sec. 104. Deadline for action on request for approval regarding exceeding TDC 
maximum cost for project. 
TITLE II—AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 201. National objectives and eligible families. 
Sec. 202. Program requirements. 
Sec. 203. Homeownership or lease-to-own low-income requirement and income 
targeting. 
Sec. 204. Lease requirements and tenant selection. 
Sec. 205. Tribal coordination of agency funding. 
TITLE III—ALLOCATION OF GRANT AMOUNTS 
Sec. 301. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 302. Effect of undisbursed block grant amounts on annual allocations. 
TITLE IV—AUDITS AND REPORTS 
Sec. 401. Review and audit by Secretary. 
Sec. 402. Reports to Congress. 
TITLE V—OTHER HOUSING ASSISTANCE FOR NATIVE AMERICANS 
Sec. 501. HUD–Veterans Affairs supportive housing program for Native Amer-
ican veterans. 
Sec. 502. Loan guarantees for Indian housing. 
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 601. Lands Title Report Commission. 
Sec. 602. Limitation on use of funds for Cherokee Nation. 
Sec. 603. Leasehold interest in trust or restricted lands for housing purposes. 
Sec. 604. Clerical amendment. 
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TITLE VII—DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR ALTERNATIVE 
PRIVATIZATION AUTHORITY FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING 
Sec. 701. Demonstration program. 
Sec. 702. Clerical amendments. 
TITLE VIII—HOUSING FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS 
Sec. 801. Reauthorization of Native Hawaiian Homeownership Act. 
Sec. 802. Reauthorization of loan guarantees for Native Hawaiian housing. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 
section or other provision of the Native American Housing 
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 
4101 et seq.). 
TITLE I—BLOCK GRANTS AND 
GRANT REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 101. BLOCK GRANTS. 
Section 101 (25 U.S.C. 4111) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by adding after the period 
at the end the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall act 
upon a waiver request submitted under this sub-
section by a recipient within 60 days after receipt of 
such request.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘1’’ and in-
serting ‘‘an’’. 
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SEC. 102. RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING EXCEPTIONS 
TO ANNUAL INDIAN HOUSING PLAN RE-
QUIREMENT. 
Not later than the expiration of the 120-day period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and 
after consultation with Indian tribes, tribally designated 
housing entities, and other interested parties, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development shall submit 
to the Congress recommendations for standards and pro-
cedures for waiver of, or alternative requirements (which 
may include multi-year housing plans) for, the require-
ment under section 102(a) of the Native American Hous-
ing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
U.S.C. 4112(a)) for annual submission of one-year hous-
ing plans for an Indian tribe. Such recommendations shall 
include a description of any legislative and regulatory 
changes necessary to implement such recommendations. 
SEC. 103. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW. 
Section 105 (25 U.S.C. 4115) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘may’’ and inserting ‘‘shall’’; and 
(B) by adding after and below paragraph 
(4) the following: 
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‘‘The Secretary shall act upon a waiver request submitted 
under this subsection by a recipient within 60 days after 
receipt of such request.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(e) CONSOLIDATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW 
REQUIREMENTS.—If a recipient is using one or more 
sources of Federal funds in addition to grant amounts 
under this Act in carrying out a project that qualifies as 
an affordable housing activity under section 202, such 
other sources of Federal funds do not exceed 49 percent 
of the total cost of the project, and the recipient’s tribe 
has assumed all of the responsibilities for environmental 
review, decisionmaking, and action pursuant to this sec-
tion, the tribe’s compliance with the review requirements 
under this section and the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 with regard to such project shall be deemed 
to fully comply with and discharge any applicable environ-
mental review requirements that might apply to Federal 
agencies with respect to the use of such additional Federal 
funding sources for that project.’’. 
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SEC. 104. DEADLINE FOR ACTION ON REQUEST FOR AP-
PROVAL REGARDING EXCEEDING TDC MAX-
IMUM COST FOR PROJECT. 
(a) APPROVAL.—Section 103 (25 U.S.C. 4113) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(f) DEADLINE FOR ACTION ON REQUEST TO EX-
CEED TDC MAXIMUM.—A request for approval by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to exceed 
by more than 10 percent the total development cost max-
imum cost for a project shall be approved or denied during 
the 60-day period that begins on the date that the Sec-
retary receives the request.’’. 
(b) DEFINITION.—Section 4 (25 U.S.C. 4103) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (22) as para-
graph (23); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (21) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(22) TOTAL DEVELOPMENT COST.—The term 
‘total development cost’ means, with respect to a 
housing project, the sum of all costs for the project, 
including all undertakings necessary for administra-
tion, planning, site acquisition, demolition, construc-
tion or equipment and financing (including payment 
of carrying charges), and for otherwise carrying out 
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the development of the project, excluding off-site 
water and sewer. The total development cost 
amounts shall be based on a moderately designed 
house and determined by averaging the current con-
struction costs as listed in not less than two nation-
ally recognized residential construction cost indi-
ces.’’. 
TITLE II—AFFORDABLE 
HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 201. NATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND ELIGIBLE FAMILIES. 
The second paragraph (6) of section 201(b) (25 
U.S.C. 4131(b)(6); relating to exemption) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘1964 and’’ and inserting 
‘‘1964,’’; and 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘1968’’ the following: ‘‘, 
and section 3 of the Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Act of 1968’’. 
SEC. 202. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 203(a) (25 U.S.C. 4133(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘paragraph 
(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (2) and (3)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION
OF
TRIBAL
POLICIES.— 
Paragraph (2) shall not apply if the recipient has a 
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