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high cost areas, where the Secretary determines it necessary 
on a project-by-project basis’’. 
SEC. 222. During fiscal year 2008, in the provision of rental 
assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in connection with a program to dem-
onstrate the economy and effectiveness of providing such assistance 
for use in assisted 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 an assisted 
living facility in any such county, on behalf of which a public 
housing agency provides assistance pursuant 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 percentage 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 December 26, 2000, in accordance 
with the unnumbered paragraph 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 Economic 
Opportunity Act of 2000. 
SEC. 224. Section 24 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘2003’’ and inserting 
‘‘2008’’; and 
(2) in subsection (o), by striking ‘‘September 30, 2007’’ 
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2008’’. 
SEC. 225. Public housing agencies that own and operate 400 
or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any 
asset management requirement imposed by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development in connection with the operating 
fund rule: Provided, That an agency seeking a discontinuance of 
a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula shall 
not be exempt from asset management requirements. 
SEC. 226. With respect to the use of amounts provided in 
this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement 
and management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) 
and 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g(d) and (e)), the Secretary shall not impose any requirement 
or guideline relating to asset management that restricts or limits 
in any way the use of capital funds for central office costs pursuant 
to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Provided, however, that a public 
housing agency may not use capital funds authorized under section 
9(d) for activities that are eligible under section 9(e) for assistance 
with amounts from the operating fund in excess of the amounts 
permitted under section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 
SEC. 227. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall report quarterly to the House of Representatives and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations on the status of all section 8 project- 
based housing, including the number of all project-based units 
by region as well as an analysis of all federally subsidized housing 
being refinanced under the Mark-to-Market program. The Secretary
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shall in the report identify all existing units maintained by region 
as section 8 project-based units and all project-based units that 
have opted out of section 8 or have otherwise been eliminated 
as section 8 project-based units. The Secretary shall identify in 
detail and by project all the efforts made by the Department to 
preserve all section 8 project-based housing units and all the reasons 
for any units which opted out or otherwise were lost as section 
8 project-based units. Such analysis shall include a review of the 
impact of the loss of any subsidized units in that housing market-
place, such as the impact of cost and the loss of available subsidized, 
low-income housing in areas with scarce housing resources for low- 
income families. 
SEC. 228. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall report quarterly to the House of Representatives and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations on HUD’s use of all sole source 
contracts, including terms of the contracts, cost, and a substantive 
rationale for using a sole source contract. 
SEC. 229. Section 9(e)(2)(C) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)(2)(C)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(iv) EXISTING CONTRACTS.—The term of a contract 
described in clause (i) that, as of the date of enactment 
of this clause, is in repayment and has a term of 
not more than 12 years, may be extended to a term 
of not more than 20 years to permit additional energy 
conservation improvements without requiring the re-
procurement of energy performance contractors.’’. 
SEC. 230. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall increase, pursuant to this section, the number of Moving- 
to-Work agencies authorized under section 204, title II, of the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Develop-
ment and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public 
Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321–281) by making individually the 
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and the housing authorities 
of the counties of San Bernardino and Santa Clara and the city 
of San Jose, California, a Moving-to-Work Agency under such sec-
tion 204. 
SEC. 231. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may not rescind 
or take any adverse action with respect to the Moving-to-Work 
program designation for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City 
based on any alleged administrative or procedural errors in making 
such designation. 
SEC. 232. Paragraph (4) of section 102(a) of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Notwithstanding 
any other provision of this paragraph, with respect to any fiscal 
year beginning after September 30, 2007, the cities of Alton and 
Granite City, Illinois, shall be considered metropolitan cities for 
purposes of this title.’’. 
SEC. 233. (a) The amounts provided under the subheading 
‘‘Program Account’’ under the heading ‘‘Community Development 
Loan Guarantees’’ may be used to guarantee, or make commitments 
to guarantee, notes, or other obligations issued by any State on 
behalf of non-entitlement communities in the State in accordance 
with the requirements of section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That, any State receiving such
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a guarantee or commitment shall distribute all funds subject to 
such guarantee to the units of general local government in non- 
entitlement areas that received the commitment. 
(b) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
promulgate regulations governing the administration of the funds 
described under subsection (a). 
SEC. 234. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall establish and maintain on the homepage of the Internet 
website of the Department of Housing and Urban Development— 
(1) a direct link to the Internet website of the Office of 
Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development; and 
(2) a mechanism by which individuals may anonymously 
report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse with respect to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 235. (a) REQUIRED SUBMISSIONS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2007 
AND 2008.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall submit to the relevant authorizing commit-
tees and to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives for fiscal years 2007 and 
2008— 
(A) a complete and accurate accounting of the actual 
project-based renewal costs for project-based assistance 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f); 
(B) revised estimates of the funding needed to fully 
fund all 12 months of all project-based contracts under 
such section 8, including project-based contracts that expire 
in fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2008; and 
(C) all sources of funding that will be used to fully 
fund all 12 months of the project-based contracts for fiscal 
years 2007 and 2008. 
(2) UPDATED INFORMATION.—At any time after the expira-
tion of the 60-day period described in paragraph (1), the Sec-
retary may submit corrections or updates to the information 
required under paragraph (1), if upon completion of an audit 
of the project-based assistance program under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), such 
audit reveals additional information that may provide Congress 
a more complete understanding of the Secretary’s implementa-
tion of the project-based assistance program under such section 
8. 
(b) REQUIRED SUBMISSIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009.—As part 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget 
request for fiscal year 2009, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall submit to the relevant authorizing committees 
and to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives complete and detailed information, 
including a project-by-project analysis, that verifies that such 
budget request will fully fund all project-based contracts under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f) in fiscal year 2009, including expiring project-based contracts.
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SEC. 236. No official or employee of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder 
unless the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined 
that such allotment holder has implemented an adequate system 
of funds control and has received training in funds control proce-
dures and directives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that, 
not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
a trained allotment holder shall be designated for each HUD sub- 
account under the headings ‘‘Executive Direction’’ and ‘‘Administra-
tion, Operations, and Management’’ as well as each account 
receiving appropriations for ‘‘personnel compensation and benefits’’ 
within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 237. Payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation 
must be paid from individual program office personnel benefits 
and compensation funding. The annual budget submission for pro-
gram office personnel benefit and compensation funding must 
include program-related litigation costs for attorney fees as a sepa-
rate line item request. 
SEC. 238. Of the unobligated balances remaining from funds 
appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
under the heading ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental Assistance’’ under section 
21033 of Public Law 110–5, $723,257,000 are rescinded from the 
$4,193,000,000 which became available pursuant to such section 
on October 1, 2007. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing 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 Transpor-
tation 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 Merchant Marine Act, 1936 
(46 U.S.C. App. 1111), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; hire of passenger 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.