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(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to 
manage the property and cure all project deficiencies 
or seek a judicial order of specific performance re-
quiring the owner to cure all project deficiencies; 
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other re-
lated party to stabilize the property in an attempt 
to preserve the property through compliance, trans-
fer of ownership, or an infusion of capital provided 
by a third-party that requires time to effectuate; or 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual 
remedies available as deemed necessary and appro-
priate by the Secretary. 
(d) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps 
to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, 
subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies 
to assist relocation of tenants for major threats to health 
and safety after written notice to the affected tenants. To 
the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with 
the tenants and the local government, that the property 
is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments 
under such section 8 or other programs, based on consid-
eration of— 
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the 
property and all available Federal, State, and local 
resources, including rent adjustments under section 
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524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’); and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be 
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary 
may contract for project-based rental assistance pay-
ments with an owner or owners of other existing 
housing properties, or provide other rental assist-
ance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all prop-
erties covered by this section that are assessed through 
the Real Estate Assessment Center and have UPCS phys-
ical inspection scores of less than 60 or have received an 
unsatisfactory management and occupancy review within 
the past 36 months. The report shall include— 
(1) the enforcement actions being taken to ad-
dress such conditions, including imposition of civil 
money penalties and termination of subsidies, and 
identify properties that have such conditions mul-
tiple times; 
(2) actions that the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants 
of such identified properties; and 
(3) any administrative or legislative rec-
ommendations to further improve the living condi-
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tions at properties covered under a housing assist-
ance payment contract. 
SEC. 223. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under sec-
tion 8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assist-
ance program) and section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used by 
any public housing agency for any amount of salary, in-
cluding bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, 
or any other official or employee of which, that exceeds 
the annual rate of basic pay payable for a position at level 
IV of the Executive Schedule at any time during any pub-
lic housing agency fiscal year 2018. 
SEC. 224. None of the funds in this Act may be avail-
able for the doctoral dissertation research grant program 
at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 225. Section 24 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year’’ and all that follows through the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2018.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (o), by striking ‘‘September’’ 
and all that follows through the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2018.’’. 
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SEC. 226. None of the funds in this Act provided to 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development may 
be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary noti-
fies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
not less than 3 full business days before any project, 
State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organi-
zation, or other entity selected to receive a grant award 
is announced by the Department or its offices. 
SEC. 227. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs 
Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 228. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
the Government National Mortgage Administration, or the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to in-
sure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any 
mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or 
otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject to 
eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, mu-
nicipality, or any other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 229. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate the status of a unit of gen-
eral local government as a metropolitan city (as defined 
in section 102 of the Housing and Community Develop-
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ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 230. Amounts made available under this Act 
which are either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a 
reimbursable basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy 
Development and Research in the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development and functions thereof, for re-
search, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are 
unexpended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, 
or cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall 
immediately become available and may be reobligated in 
that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the re-
search, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which the 
amounts are made available to that Office subject to re-
programming requirements in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 231. Employees of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development who are subject to administrative 
discipline in fiscal year 2018, including suspension from 
work, shall not receive awards (including performance, 
special act, or spot) for the remainder of fiscal year 2018 
after the effective date of the disciplinary action. 
SEC. 232. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fis-
cal years 2016, 2017, and 2018 for the continuum of care 
(CoC) program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV 
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of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs 
paid by program income of grant recipients may count to-
ward meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, pro-
vided the costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the 
recipients CoC program. 
SEC. 233. (a) From amounts made available under 
this title under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance 
Grants’’, the Secretary may award 1-year transition 
grants to recipients of funds for activities under subtitle 
C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) to transition from one Continuum 
of Care program component to another. 
(b) No more than 50 percent of each transition grant 
may be used for costs of eligible activities of the program 
component originally funded. 
(c) Transition grants made under this section are eli-
gible for renewal in subsequent fiscal years for the eligible 
activities of the new program component. 
(d) In order to be eligible to receive a transition 
grant, the funding recipient must have the consent of the 
Continuum of Care and meet standards determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 234. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development to direct a grantee to undertake spe-
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cific changes to existing zoning laws as part of carrying 
out the final rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair 
Housing’’ (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) or the 
notice entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 
Assessment Tool’’ (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 
2014)). 
SEC. 235. Section 579 of the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2017’’ 
each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘Octo-
ber 1, 2022’’. 
SEC. 236. None of the funds made available under 
this Act for new guarantees of mortgages insured under 
the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund may be used to 
guarantee or insure any mortgage on a property that is 
subject to a loan or other obligation, including those billed 
as taxes or assessments, for the purpose of financing any 
improvements under a Property Assessed Clean Energy 
or substantially similar program, if any portion of such 
loan or obligation is or has the potential to be in a lien 
position superior to the mortgage to be insured or guaran-
teed under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. 
SEC. 237. The matter under the heading ‘‘Rental As-
sistance Demonstration’’ in the Department of Housing 
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and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f note), as amended, is amended— 
(1) in the 14th proviso— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or nonprofit’’ before ‘‘en-
tity, then a capable entity,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘preserves its interest’’ and 
inserting ‘‘or a nonprofit entity preserves an in-
terest’’; 
(2) by striking the 18th proviso and inserting 
the following: ‘‘Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2012 and hereafter, owners of properties assisted or 
previously assisted under section 101 of the Housing 
and Urban Development Act of 1965, section 
236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act, or section 
8(e)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
for which a contract expires or terminates due to 
prepayment on or after October 1, 2006, has caused 
or results in the termination of rental assistance or 
affordability restrictions or both and the issuance of 
tenant protection vouchers under section 8(o) or sec-
tion 8(t) of the Act, or with a project rental assist-
ance contract under section 202(c)(2) of Housing 
Act of 1959, shall be eligible, subject to require-
ments established by the Secretary, including but 
not limited to tenant consultation procedures, for 
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conversion of assistance available or provided for 
such vouchers or assistance contracts, to assistance 
under a long-term project-based subsidy contract 
under section 8 of the Act, which shall have a term 
of no less than 20 years, which shall have initial 
rents set at comparable market rents for the market 
area, with subsequent rent adjustments only by an 
operating cost factor established by the Secretary, 
and which shall be eligible for renewal under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f 
note), or, subject to agreement of the administering 
public housing agency, to assistance under section 
8(o)(13) of the Act, to which the limitation under 
subparagraph (B) of section 8(o)(13) of the Act 
shall not apply and for which the Secretary may 
waive or alter the provisions of subparagraphs (C) 
and (D) of section 8(o)(13) of the Act (‘Second 
Component’ herein):’’; 
(3) by inserting before the 19th proviso the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Provided further, That conversions of assist-
ance under the Second Component may not be the 
basis for re-screening or termination of assistance or 
eviction of any tenant family in a property partici-
pating in the demonstration:’’; 
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(4) in the 20th proviso, as so reordered by the 
amendments made by the preceding provisions of 
this section, by striking ‘‘previous proviso’’ and all 
that follows through the end of the proviso and in-
serting ‘‘Second Component, except for conversion of 
section 202 project rental assistance contracts, shall 
be available for project-based subsidy contracts en-
tered into pursuant to the Second Component:’’; 
(5) in the 21st proviso, as so reordered by the 
amendments made by the preceding provisions of 
this section, by striking ‘‘previous two provisos’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Second Component, except for conversion 
of section 202 project rental assistance contracts,’’; 
(6) in the 22nd proviso, as so reordered by the 
amendments made by the preceding provisions of 
this section, by striking ‘‘three previous provisos’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Second Component, except for con-
version of section 202 project rental assistance con-
tracts,’’; 
(7) by inserting before the last proviso the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Provided further, That the Secretary may 
transfer amounts made available under the heading 
‘Housing for the Elderly’ to the accounts under the 
headings ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ or ‘Ten-
ant-Based Rental Assistance’ to facilitate any sec-
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tion 202 project rental assistance contract conver-
sions under the Second Component, and any in-
crease in cost for ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ 
or ‘Tenant-Based Rental Assistance’ associated with 
such conversion shall be equal to amounts so trans-
ferred:’’; and 
(8) in the last proviso, by striking ‘‘previous 
four provisos’’ and inserting ‘‘Second Component, as 
applicable’’. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as au-
thorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
as amended, $8,190,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 
Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Mer-
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