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SEC. 215. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, subject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), 
for fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may authorize the transfer of 
project-based assistance, debt and statutorily required 
low-income and very low-income use restrictions, associ-
ated with one multifamily housing project to another mul-
tifamily housing project. 
(b) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is sub-
ject to the following conditions: 
(1) the number of low-income and very low-in-
come units and the net dollar amount of Federal as-
sistance provided by the transferring project shall 
remain the same in the receiving project; 
(2) the transferring project shall, as determined 
by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or eco-
nomically non-viable; 
(3) the receiving project shall meet or exceed 
applicable physical standards established by the Sec-
retary; 
(4) the owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
project shall notify and consult with the tenants re-
siding in the transferring project and provide a cer-
tification of approval by all appropriate local govern-
mental officials; 
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(5) the tenants of the transferring project who 
remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the 
receiving project shall not be required to vacate their 
units in the transferring project until new units in 
the receiving project are available for occupancy; 
(6) the Secretary determines that this transfer 
is in the best interest of the tenants; 
(7) if either the transferring project or the re-
ceiving project meets the condition specified in sub-
section (c)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project 
resulting from additional financing obtained by the 
owner shall be subordinate to any FHA-insured 
mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, such 
project by the Secretary; 
(8) if the transferring project meets the re-
quirements of subsection (c)(2)(E), the owner or 
mortgagor of the receiving project shall execute and 
record either a continuation of the existing use 
agreement or a new use agreement for the project 
where, in either case, any use restrictions in such 
agreement are of no lesser duration than the exist-
ing use restrictions; 
(9) any financial risk to the FHA General and 
Special Risk Insurance Fund, as determined by the 
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Secretary, would be reduced as a result of a transfer 
completed under this section; and 
(10) the Secretary determines that Federal li-
ability with regard to this project will not be in-
creased. 
(c) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in-
come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the stat-
ute and/or regulations governing the program under 
which the project is insured or assisted; 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 
means housing that meets one of the following con-
ditions— 
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
insured under the National Housing Act; 
(B) housing that has project-based assist-
ance attached to the structure; 
(C) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as amended by 
section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales National 
Affordable Housing Act; 
(D) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as such sec-
tion existed before the enactment of the Cran-
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ston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; 
or 
(E) housing or vacant land that is subject 
to a use agreement; 
(3) 
the 
term 
‘‘project-based 
assistance’’ 
means— 
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937; 
(B) assistance for housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assist-
ance provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act 
(as such section existed immediately before Oc-
tober 1, 1983); 
(C) rent supplement payments under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Act of 1965; 
(D) additional assistance payments under 
section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act; 
and, 
(E) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; 
(4) the term ‘‘receiving project’’ means the mul-
tifamily housing project to which the project-based 
assistance, debt, and statutorily required use low-in-
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come and very low-income restrictions are to be 
transferred; 
(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 
multifamily housing project which is transferring the 
project-based assistance, debt and the statutorily re-
quired low-income and very low-income use restric-
tions to the receiving project; and, 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 216. The funds made available for Native Alas-
kans under the heading ‘‘Native American Housing Block 
Grants’’ in title III of this Act shall be allocated to the 
same Native Alaskan housing block grant recipients that 
received funds in fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 217. Incremental vouchers previously made 
available under the heading, ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’ 
or renewed under the heading, ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental As-
sistance’’, for family unification shall, to the extent prac-
ticable, continue to be provided for family unification. 
SEC. 218. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act or any other Act may be 
used to develop or impose policies or procedures, including 
an account structure, that subjects the Government Na-
tional Mortgage Association to the requirements of the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.). 
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This section shall not be construed to exempt that entity 
from credit subsidy budgeting or from budget presentation 
requirements previously adopted. 
SEC. 219. (a) No assistance shall be provided under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f) to any individual who— 
(1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of 
higher education (as defined under section 102 of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1002)); 
(2) is under 24 years of age; 
(3) is not a veteran; 
(4) is unmarried; 
(5) does not have a dependent child; 
(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such 
term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United 
States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance 
under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; and 
(7) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has 
parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, 
to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 
(b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a 
person to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 
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States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any finan-
cial assistance (in excess of amounts received for tuition) 
that an individual receives under the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), from private 
sources, or an institution of higher education (as defined 
under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1002)), shall be considered income to that individual, ex-
cept for a person over the age of 23 with dependent chil-
dren. 
(c) Not later than 30 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall issue final regulations to carry out the 
provisions of this section. 
SEC. 220. Notwithstanding the limitation in the first 
sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act 
(12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(g)), the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may, until September 30, 2008, in-
sure and enter into commitments to insure mortgages 
under section 255 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 
1715z–20). 
SEC. 221. The National Housing Act is amended— 
(1) in sections 207(c)(3), 213(b)(2)(B)(i), 
221(d)(3)(ii)(II), 
221(d)(4)(ii)(II), 
231(c)(2)(B), 
and 
234(e)(3)(B) 
(12 
U.S.C. 
1713(c)(3), 
1715e(b)(2)(B)(i), 
1715l(d)(3)(ii)(II), 
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1715l(d)(4)(ii)(II), 
1715v(c)(2)(B), 
and 
1715y(e)(3)(B))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘140 percent’’ each place 
such term appears and inserting ‘‘170 percent’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘170 percent in high cost 
areas’’ each place such term appears and in-
serting ‘‘215 percent in high cost areas’’; and 
(2) in section 220(d)(3)(B)(iii)(III) (12 U.S.C. 
1715k(d)(3)(B)(iii)(III)) by striking ‘‘206A’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘project-by-project basis’’ and 
inserting the following: ‘‘206A of this Act) by not to 
exceed 170 percent in any geographical area where 
the Secretary finds that cost levels so require and by 
not to exceed 170 percent, or 215 percent in high 
cost areas, where the Secretary determines it nec-
essary on a project-by-project basis’’. 
SEC. 222. (a) During fiscal year 2008, in the provi-
sion of rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in con-
nection with a program to demonstrate the economy and 
effectiveness of providing such assistance for use in as-
sisted living facilities that is carried out in the counties 
of the State of Michigan notwithstanding paragraphs (3) 
and (18)(B)(iii) of such section 8(o), a family residing in 
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an assisted living facility in any such county, on behalf 
of which a public housing agency provides assistance pur-
suant to section 8(o)(18) of such Act, may be required, 
at the time the family initially receives such assistance, 
to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of the 
monthly adjusted income of the family by such a percent-
age or amount as the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development determines to be appropriate. 
SEC. 223. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the recipient of a grant under section 202b of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q–2) after Decem-
ber 26, 2000, in accordance with the unnumbered para-
graph at the end of section 202(b) of such Act, may, at 
its option, establish a single-asset nonprofit entity to own 
the project and may lend the grant funds to such entity, 
which may be a private nonprofit organization described 
in section 831 of the American Homeownership and Eco-
nomic Opportunity Act of 2000. 
SEC. 224. The Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall give priority consideration to applications 
from the housing authorities of the Counties of San 
Bernardino and Santa Clara and the City of San Jose, 
California to participate in the Moving to Work Dem-
onstration Agreement under section 204, title V, of the 
Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act 
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of 1996 (Public Law 104–134, April 26, 1996): Provided, 
That upon turnover, existing requirements on the 
reissuance of section 8 vouchers shall be maintained to 
ensure that not less than 75 percent of all vouchers shall 
be made available to extremely low-income families. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS 
COMPLIANCE BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Architectural and 
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, as authorized 
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 
amended, $6,150,000: 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-
chant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. App. 1111), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger 
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motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b); and 
uniforms or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901–5902, $22,072,000: Provided, That not to 
exceed $2,000 shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902) $85,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 
may be used for official reception and representation ex-
penses. The amounts made available to the National 
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 
necessary to make lease payments due in fiscal year 2008 
only, on an obligation incurred in fiscal year 2001 for a 
capital lease. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
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