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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $81,910,000, of which $22,343,000 shall be
provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing
Administration and $10,000,000 shall be provided from
the amount earmarked for Operation Safe Home in the
‘‘Drug Elimination Grants for Low-Income Housing’’ ac-
count.
OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, $16,551,000,
to remain available until expended, to be derived from the
Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Fund: Provided,
That not to exceed such amount shall be available from
the General Fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary
to incur obligations and make expenditures pending the
receipt of collections to the Fund: Provided further, That
the General Fund amount shall be reduced as collections
are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not
more than $0.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING RENTS, PREFERENCES,
AND FLEXIBILITY
SEC. 201. (a) Section 402(a) of The Balanced Budg-
et Downpayment Act, I (Public Law 104–99; (110 Stat.
40)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1997 and 1998’’
and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999’’.
(b) Section 402(f) of The Balanced Budget Downpay-
ment Act, I (42 U.S.C. 1437aa note) is amended by in-
serting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, except
that subsection (d) and the amendments made by such
subsection shall also be effective for fiscal year 1999’’.
(c) Section 201(a)(2) of the Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Inde-
pendent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (42 U.S.C.
1437l note), is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2) APPLICABILITY.—Section 14(q) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 shall be effective
only with respect to assistance provided from funds
made available for fiscal year 1999 or any preceding
fiscal year, except that the authority in the first sen-
tence of section 14(q)(1) to use up to 10 percent of
the allocation of certain funds for any operating sub-
sidy purpose shall not apply to amounts made avail-
able for fiscal years 1998 and 1999.’’
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DELAY REISSUANCE OF VOUCHERS AND CERTIFICATES
SEC. 202. Section 403(c) of The Balanced Budget
Downpayment Act, I (Public Law 104–99; (110 Stat. 44))
is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1996, 1997, and
1998’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998,
and 1999’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘1997 and October’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘1997, October’’; and
(3) by inserting before the semicolon the follow-
ing: ‘‘, and October 1, 1999 for assistance made
available during fiscal year 1999’’.
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
GRANTS
SEC. 203. (a) ELIGIBILITY.—Notwithstanding sec-
tion 854(c)(1)(A) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act
(42 U.S.C. 12903(c)(1)(A)), from any amounts made
available under this title for fiscal year 1999 that are allo-
cated under such section, the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development shall allocate and make a grant, in
the amount determined under subsection (b), for any
State that—
(1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year
under clause (ii) of such section; and
(2) is not otherwise eligible for an allocation for
fiscal year 1999 under such clause (ii) because the
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areas in the State outside of the metropolitan statis-
tical areas that qualify under clause (i) in fiscal year
1999 do not have the number of cases of acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome required under such
clause.
(b) AMOUNT.—The amount of the allocation and
grant for any State described in subsection (a) shall be
an amount based on the cumulative number of AIDS cases
in the areas of that State that are outside of metropolitan
statistical areas that qualify under clause (i) of such sec-
tion 854(c)(1)(A) in fiscal year 1999 in proportion to
AIDS cases among cities and States that qualify under
clauses (i) and (ii) of such section and States deemed eligi-
ble under subsection (a).
(c) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—For purposes of en-
vironmental review, pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 and other provisions of law that
further the purposes of such Act, a grant under the AIDS
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.) from
amounts provided under this or prior Acts shall be treated
as assistance for a special project that is subject to section
305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition
Reform Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 3547), and shall be sub-
ject to the regulations issued by the Secretary to imple-
ment such section. Where the grantee under the AIDS
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Housing Opportunity Act is a nonprofit organization and
the activity is proposed to be carried out within the juris-
diction of an Indian tribe or the community of an Alaska
native village, the role of the State or unit of general local
government under sections 305(c)(1)–(3) of such Act may
be carried out by the Indian tribe or Alaska native village
instead.
DRAWDOWN OF FUNDS
SEC. 204. Section 14(q)(1) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437l(q)(1)) is amended
by inserting after the first sentence the following sentence:
‘‘Such assistance may involve the drawdown of funds on
a schedule commensurate with construction draws for de-
posit into an interest earning escrow account to serve as
collateral or credit enhancement for bonds issued by a
public agency for the construction or rehabilitation of the
development.’’.
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES AND VOUCHERS TO SINGLE
PERSONS
SEC. 205. (a) CERTIFICATE
PROGRAM.—Section
8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42
U.S.C. 1437f(c)(1)) is amended by inserting after the
third sentence the following new sentence: ‘‘The maximum
monthly rent for a single person (other than an elderly
person or person with disabilities, if such elderly person
or person with disabilities is living with one or more per-
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sons determined under the regulations of the Secretary to
be essential to such person’s care or well-being) receiving
tenant-based rental assistance in the certificate program
under subsection (b)(1) shall not exceed by more than the
amount permitted under the second sentence of this para-
graph the fair market rental for an efficiency unit, except
that the Secretary, or the public housing agency in accord-
ance with guidelines established by the Secretary, may de-
termine not to apply the limitation in this sentence if there
is an insufficient supply of efficiency units in the market
area or if necessary to meet the needs of persons with dis-
abilities.’’.
(b) VOUCHER PROGRAM.—Section 8(o) of such Act
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) is amended by inserting the follow-
ing at the end of paragraph (1): ‘‘The payment standard
for a single person (other than an elderly person or person
with disabilities, if such elderly person or person with dis-
abilities is living with one or more persons determined
under the regulations of the Secretary to be essential to
such person’s care or well-being) shall be based on the fair
market rental for an efficiency unit, except that the Sec-
retary, or the public housing agency in accordance with
guidelines established by the Secretary, may determine not
to apply the limitation in this sentence if there is an insuf-
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ficient supply of efficiency units in the market area or if
necessary to meet the needs of persons with disabilities.’’.
(c) APPLICABILITY.—This section shall take effect 60
days after the later of October 1, 1998 or the date of en-
actment of this Act.
ELIMINATION
OF
SHOPPING
INCENTIVE
FOR
VOUCHER
FAMILIES WHO REMAIN IN SAME UNIT UPON INITIAL
RECEIPT OF ASSISTANCE
SEC. 206. (a) Section 8(o)(2) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(2)) is amended
by inserting the following new sentence at the end: ‘‘Not-
withstanding the preceding sentence, for families being ad-
mitted to the voucher program who remain in the same
unit or complex, where the rent (including the amount al-
lowed for utilities) does not exceed the payment standard,
the monthly assistance payment for any family shall be
the amount by which such rent exceeds the greater of 30
percent of the family’s monthly adjusted income or 10 per-
cent of the family’s monthly income.’’.
(b) This section shall take effect 60 days after the
later of October 1, 1998 or the date of enactment of this
Act.
RENEGOTIATION OF PERFORMANCE FUNDING SYSTEM
SEC. 207. Section 9(a)(3)(A) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(a)(3)(A)) is
amended—
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(1) by inserting after the third sentence the fol-
lowing new sentence to read as follows:
‘‘Notwithstanding the preceding sentences, the Secretary
may revise the performance funding system in a manner
that takes into account equity among public housing agen-
cies and that includes appropriate incentives for sound
management.’’; and
(2) in the last sentence, by inserting after ‘‘va-
cant public housing units’’ the following: ‘‘, or any
substantial change under the preceding sentence,’’.
CDBG AND HOME EXEMPTION
SEC. 208. The City of Oxnard, California may use
amounts available to the City under title I of the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1974 and under sub-
title A of title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-
fordable Housing Act to reimburse the city for its cost
in purchasing 19.89 acres of land, more or less, located
at the northwest corner of Lombard Street and Camino
del Sol in the city, on the north side of the 2100 block
of Camino del Sol, for the purpose of providing affordable
housing. The procedures set forth in sections 104(g)(2)
and (3) of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974 and sections 288(b) and (c) of the Cranston-Gon-
zalez National Affordable Housing Act shall not apply to
any release of funds for such reimbursement.
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CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES CAP
SEC. 209. Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.
5305(a)(8)) is amended by striking ‘‘1998’’ and inserting
‘‘1999’’.
TITLE III—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
of the American Battle Monuments Commission, including
the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign coun-
tries; purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of
national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United
States and its territories and possessions; rent of office
and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for
replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign coun-
tries, 
when 
required 
by 
law 
of 
such 
countries,
$26,431,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That where station allowance has been authorized
by the Department of the Army for officers of the Army
serving the Army at certain foreign stations, the same al-
lowance shall be authorized for officers of the Armed
Forces assigned to the Commission while serving at the
same foreign stations, and this appropriation is hereby
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made available for the payment of such allowance: Pro-
vided further, That when traveling on business of the Com-
mission, officers of the Armed Forces serving as members
or as Secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for
expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commis-
sion: Provided further, That the Commission shall reim-
burse other Government agencies, including the Armed
Forces, for salary, pay, and allowances of personnel as-
signed to it.
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, as amend-
ed, including hire of passenger vehicles, and for services
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals
not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C.
5376, $6,500,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety
and Hazard Investigation Board shall have not more than
three career Senior Executive Service positions.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For grants, loans, and technical assistance to qualify-
ing community development lenders, and administrative
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expenses of the Fund, including services authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for ES–3,
$80,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2000, of which $12,000,000 may be used for the cost of
direct loans, and up to $1,000,000 may be used for admin-
istrative expenses to carry out the direct loan program:
Provided, That the cost of direct loans, including the cost
of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That these funds are available to subsidize gross obli-
gations for the principal amount of direct loans not to ex-
ceed $32,000,000: Provided further, That not more than
$25,000,000 of the funds made available under this head-
ing may be used for programs and activities authorized
in section 114 of the Community Development Banking
and Financial Institutions Act of 1994.
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
alent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376,
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal offi-
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cials’ contributions to Commission activities, and not to
exceed $500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $46,000,000. No funds shall be expended in pro-
mulgating a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking or Final Rule
under the Flammable Fabrics Act, which could directly
or indirectly lead to increased chemical treatment of up-
holstery fabrics, unless the published Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking or Final Rule includes the final recommenda-
tions of the Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel.
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS
OPERATING EXPENSES
Of the funds appropriated under this heading in Pub-
lic Law 105–65, the Corporation for National and Com-
munity Service shall use such amounts of such funds as
may be necessary to carry out the orderly termination of:
(1) the programs, activities, and initiatives under the Na-
tional and Community Service Act of 1990 (Public Law
103–82); the Corporation; and (2) the Corporation’s Of-
fice of Inspector General: Provided, That such sums shall
be utilized to resolve all responsibilities and obligations in
connection with said Corporation and the Corporation’s
Office of Inspector General.
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COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the operation of the
United States Court of Veterans Appeals as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. 7251–7298, $10,195,000, of which
$865,000, shall be available for the purpose of providing
financial assistance as described, and in accordance with
the process and reporting procedures set forth, under this
heading in Public Law 102–229.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for
maintenance, operation, and improvement of Arlington
National Cemetery and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Na-
tional Cemetery, including the purchase of one passenger
motor vehicle for replacement only, and not to exceed
$1,000 for official reception and representation expenses,
$11,666,000, to remain available until expended.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For science and technology, including research and
development activities, which shall include research and
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
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1980 (CERCLA), as amended; necessary expenses for per-
sonnel and related costs and travel expenses, including
uniforms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; procurement of
laboratory equipment and supplies; other operating ex-
penses in support of research and development; construc-
tion, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, 
not 
to 
exceed 
$75,000 
per 
project,
$656,505,000, which shall remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 2000: Provided, That the obligated balance of such
sums shall remain available through September 30, 2007
for liquidating obligations made in fiscal years 1999 and
2000.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for
personnel and related costs and travel expenses, including
uniforms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
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craft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers
who are not members; construction, alteration, repair, re-
habilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, $1,856,000,000,
which shall remain available until September 30, 2000:
Provided, That the obligated balance of such sums shall
remain available through September 30, 2007 for liquidat-
ing obligations made in fiscal years 1999 and 2000: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this
Act shall be used to develop, propose, or issue rules, regu-
lations, decrees, or orders for the purpose of implementa-
tion, or in contemplation of implementation, of the Kyoto
Protocol which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in
Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II,
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25
of such Protocol: Provided further, That none of the funds
made available in this Act may be used to implement or
administer the interim guidance issued on February 5,
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1998 by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to
title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and designated
as the ‘‘Interim Guidance for Investigating Title VI Ad-
ministrative Complaints Challenging Permits’’ with re-
spect to complaints filed under such title after the date
of enactment of this Act and until guidance is finalized.
Nothing in the above proviso may be construed to restrict
the Environmental Protection Agency from developing or
issuing final guidance relating to title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964: Provided further, That any limitation
on funds for the Environmental Protection Agency or the
Council on Environment Quality in this Act shall not
apply to conducting educational outreach or informational
seminars.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $31,154,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2000: Provided,
That the obligated balance of such sums shall remain
available through September 30, 2007 for liquidating obli-
gations made in fiscal years 1999 and 2000.
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BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of,
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency,
$60,948,000, to remain available until expended.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sec-
tions 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C.
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000
per project; not to exceed $1,500,000,000, consisting of
$650,000,000 as appropriated under this heading in Pub-
lic Law 105–65, notwithstanding the second proviso under
this heading of said Act, and not to exceed $850,000,000
(of which $100,000,000 shall not become available until
September 1, 1999), all of which is to remain available
until expended, consisting of $1,175,000,000, as author-
ized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended by
Public Law 101–508, and $325,000,000 as a payment
from general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Super-
fund for purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of
SARA, as amended by Public Law 101–508: Provided,
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That funds appropriated under this heading may be allo-
cated to other Federal agencies in accordance with section
111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That $12,237,000
of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be
transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appro-
priation to remain available until September 30, 2000:
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 111(m) of
CERCLA or any other provision of law, $74,000,000 of
the funds appropriated under this heading shall be avail-
able to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Reg-
istry to carry out activities described in sections 104(i),
111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f)
of SARA: Provided further, That $40,000,000 of the funds
appropriated under this heading shall be transferred to
the ‘‘Science and Technology’’ appropriation to remain
available until September 30, 2000: Provided further, That
none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall
be available for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Dis-
ease Registry to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles
pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year
1999.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair,
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rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$75,000 per project, $70,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That hereafter, the Adminis-
trator is authorized to enter into assistance agreements
with Federally recognized Indian tribes on such terms and
conditions as the Administrator deems appropriate for the
same purposes as are set forth in section 9003(h)(7) of
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990, $15,000,000, to be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, and to remain available
until expended.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants,
$3,233,132,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $1,250,000,000 shall be for making capitalization
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, and $775,000,000 shall be for capitalization
grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds
under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as
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amended, $55,000,000 for architectural, engineering,
planning, design, construction and related activities in
connection with the construction of high priority water
and wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-
Mexico border, after consultation with the appropriate
border commission, $15,000,000 for grants to the State
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater infra-
structure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages as
provided by section 303 of Public Law 104–182,
$253,475,000 for making grants for the construction of
wastewater and water treatment facilities and ground-
water protection infrastructure in accordance with the
terms and conditions specified for such grants in the re-
port 
accompanying 
this 
Act 
(H.R. 
4194); 
and
$884,657,000 for grants, including associated program
support costs, to States, Federally recognized tribes, inter-
state agencies, Tribal consortia, and air pollution control
agencies for multi-media or single media pollution preven-
tion, control and abatement and related activities, includ-
ing activities pursuant to the provisions set forth under
this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making
grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particu-
late matter monitoring and data collection activities: Pro-
vided, That, consistent with section 1452(g) of the Safe
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(g)), section 302
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of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996
(Public Law 104–182) and the accompanying joint ex-
planatory statement of the committee on conference (H.
Rept. No. 104–741 to accompany S. 1316, the Safe
Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996), and notwith-
standing any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal
year 1999 and thereafter, States may combine the assets
of State Revolving Funds (SRFs) established under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended,
and title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
as amended, as security for bond issues to enhance the
lending capacity of one or both SRFs, but not to acquire
the State match for either program, provided that reve-
nues from the bonds are allocated to the purposes of the
Safe Drinking Water Act and the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act in the same portion as the funds are used
as security for the bonds: Provided further, That hereafter,
the Administrator is authorized to enter into assistance
agreements with Federally recognized Indian tribes on
such terms and conditions as the Administrator deems ap-
propriate for the development and implementation of pro-
grams to manage hazardous waste, and underground stor-
age tanks: Provided further, That beginning in fiscal year
1999 and thereafter, pesticide program implementation
grants under section 23(a)(1) of the Federal Insecticide,
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Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, as amended, shall be
available for pesticide program development and imple-
mentation, including enforcement and compliance activi-
ties: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the matching
requirement in Public Law 104–204 for funds appro-
priated under this heading for grants to the State of Texas
for improving wastewater treatment for the Colonias, such
funds that remain unobligated may also be used for im-
proving water treatment for the Colonias, and shall be
matched by the State funds from State resources equal
to 20 percent of such unobligated funds.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire
of passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception
and representation expenses, and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia, $5,026,000.
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
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ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No.
1 of 1977, $2,675,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, no funds other than those ap-
propriated under this heading shall be used for or by the
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environ-
mental Quality: Provided further, That notwithstanding
section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of
1970, the Council shall consist of one member, appointed
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all powers,
functions, and duties of the Council.
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $34,666,000, to be de-
rived from the Bank Insurance Fund, the Savings Asso-
ciation Insurance Fund, and the FSLIC Resolution Fund.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
DISASTER RELIEF
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $307,745,000, and, notwith-
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standing 42 U.S.C. 5203, to remain available until ex-
pended.
DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans, $1,355,000, as author-
ized by section 319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $25,000,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct loan program, $440,000.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
including hire and purchase of motor vehicles as author-
ized by 31 U.S.C. 1343; uniforms, or allowances therefor,
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not
to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C.
5376; expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and
individuals at meetings concerned with the work of emer-
gency preparedness; transportation in connection with the
continuity of Government programs to the same extent
and in the same manner as permitted the Secretary of
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a Military Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to
exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $171,138,000.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $4,930,000.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
to carry out activities under the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protec-
tion Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.),
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake
Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control
Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C.
App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the National
Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404–405),
and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $231,674,000:
Provided, That for purposes of pre-disaster mitigation
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5131(b) and (c) and 42 U.S.C.
5196(e) and (i), $30,000,000 of the funds made available
under this heading shall be available until expended for
project grants. The United States Fire Administration is
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to conduct a pilot project, to be completed within 15
months from the date of enactment of this Act, to promote
the installation and maintenance of smoke detectors in the
localities of highest risk for residential fires. The United
States Fire Administration shall transmit the results of
its pilot project to the Consumer Product Safety Commis-
sion and to the Committee on Science of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the Senate.
RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND
There is hereby established in the Treasury a Radio-
logical Emergency Preparedness Fund, which shall be
available under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amend-
ed, and Executive Order 12657, for offsite radiological
emergency planning, preparedness, and response. Begin-
ning in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, the Director of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
shall promulgate through rulemaking fees to be assessed
and collected, applicable to persons subject to FEMA’s ra-
diological emergency preparedness regulations. The aggre-
gate charges assessed pursuant to this paragraph during
fiscal year 1999 shall not be less than 100 percent of the
amounts anticipated by FEMA necessary for its radiologi-
cal emergency preparedness program for such fiscal year.
The methodology for assessment and collection of fees
shall be fair and equitable; and shall reflect costs of pro-
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viding such services, including administrative costs of col-
lecting such fees. Fees received pursuant to this section
shall be deposited in the Fund as offsetting collections and
will become available for authorized purposes on October
1, 1999, and remain available until expended.
For necessary expenses of the Fund for fiscal year
1999, $12,849,000, to remain available until expended.
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM
To carry out an emergency food and shelter program
pursuant to title III of Public Law 100–77, as amended,
$100,000,000: Provided, That total administrative costs
shall not exceed three and one-half percent of the total
appropriation.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities under the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968, the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973,
as amended, not to exceed $22,685,000 for salaries and
expenses associated with flood mitigation and flood insur-
ance operations, and not to exceed $78,464,000 for flood
mitigation, including up to $20,000,000 for expenses
under section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act,
which amount shall be available for transfer to the Na-
tional Flood Mitigation Fund until September 30, 2000.
In fiscal year 1999, no funds in excess of: (1) $47,000,000
for operating expenses; (2) $343,989,000 for agents’ com-
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missions and taxes; and (3) $60,000,000 for interest on
Treasury borrowings shall be available from the National
Flood Insurance Fund without prior notice to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations. For fiscal year 1999, flood insur-
ance rates shall not exceed the level authorized by the Na-
tional Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER FUND
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information
Center, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$2,619,000, to be deposited into the Consumer Informa-
tion Center Fund: Provided, That the appropriations, rev-
enues and collections deposited into the fund shall be
available for necessary expenses of Consumer Information
Center activities in the aggregate amount of $7,500,000.
Appropriations, revenues, and collections accruing to this
fund during fiscal year 1999 in excess of $7,500,000 shall
remain in the fund and shall not be available for expendi-
ture except as authorized in appropriations Acts.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in the conduct and support of human space flight research
and development activities, including research, develop-
ment, operations, and services; maintenance; construction
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of facilities including repair, rehabilitation, and modifica-
tion of real and personal property, and acquisition or con-
demnation of real property, as authorized by law; space
flight, spacecraft control and communications activities in-
cluding operations, production, and services; and pur-
chase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation of mis-
sion and administrative aircraft, $5,309,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2000.
SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics and
technology research and development activities, including
research, development, operations, and services; mainte-
nance; construction of facilities including repair, rehabili-
tation, and modification of real and personal property, and
acquisition or condemnation of real property, as author-
ized by law; space flight, spacecraft control and commu-
nications activities including operations, production, and
services; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and
operation 
of 
mission 
and 
administrative 
aircraft,
$5,541,600,000, to remain available until September 30,
2000.
MISSION SUPPORT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in carrying out mission support for human space flight
programs and science, aeronautical, and technology pro-
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grams, including research operations and support; space
communications activities including operations, production
and services; maintenance; construction of facilities in-
cluding repair, rehabilitation, and modification of facili-
ties, minor construction of new facilities and additions to
existing facilities, facility planning and design, environ-
mental compliance and restoration, and acquisition or con-
demnation of real property, as authorized by law; program
management; personnel and related costs, including uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
5901–5902; travel expenses; purchase, lease, charter,
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative
aircraft; not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and
representation expenses; and purchase (not to exceed 33
for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, $2,458,600,000, to remain available until September
30, 2000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $19,000,000.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science,
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this
appropriations Act, when any activity has been initiated
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by the incurrence of obligations for construction of facili-
ties as authorized by law, such amount available for such
activity shall remain available until expended. This provi-
sion does not apply to the amounts appropriated in ‘‘Mis-
sion support’’ pursuant to the authorization for repair, re-
habilitation and modification of facilities, minor construc-
tion of new facilities and additions to existing facilities,
and facility planning and design.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science,
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this
appropriations Act, the amounts appropriated for con-
struction of facilities shall remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 2001.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Mission support’’ and ‘‘Office of
Inspector General’’, amounts made available by this Act
for personnel and related costs and travel expenses of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall re-
main available until September 30, 1999 and may be used
to enter into contracts for training, investigations, costs
associated with personnel relocation, and for other serv-
ices, to be provided during the next fiscal year.
NASA shall develop a revised appropriation structure
for submission in the Fiscal Year 2000 budget request
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consisting of two basic appropriations (the Human Space
Flight Appropriation and the Science, Aeronautics and
Technology Appropriation) with a separate (third) appro-
priation for the Office of Inspector General. The appro-
priations shall each include the planned full costs (direct
and indirect costs) of NASA’s related activities and allow
NASA to shift civil service salaries, benefits and support
between and/or among appropriations or accounts, as re-
quired, for the safe, timely, and successful accomplishment
of NASA missions.
None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used for feasibility studies for, or construction or pro-
curement of satellite hardware for, a mission to a region
of space identified as an Earth LaGrange point, other
than for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO),
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), or Genesis mis-
sion. Such funds shall also not be used for the addition
of an Earth-observing payload to any of the missions
named in the preceding sentence.
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY
During fiscal year 1999, gross obligations of the Cen-
tral Liquidity Facility for the principal amount of new di-
rect loans to member credit unions, as authorized by the
National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility Act (12
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U.S.C. 1795), shall not exceed $600,000,000: Provided,
That administrative expenses of the Central Liquidity Fa-
cility in fiscal year 1999 shall not exceed $176,000: Pro-
vided further, That $2,000,000, together with amounts of
principal and interest on loans repaid, to be available until
expended, is available for loans to community development
credit unions.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1861–1875), and the Act to establish a National Medal
of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–1881); services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and operation of aircraft
and purchase of flight services for research support; acqui-
sition of aircraft, $2,745,000,000, of which not to exceed
$244,960,000, shall remain available until expended for
Polar research and operations support, and for reimburse-
ment to other Federal agencies for operational and science
support and logistical and other related activities for the
United States Antarctic program; the balance to remain
available until September 30, 2000: Provided, That re-
ceipts for scientific support services and materials fur-
nished by the National Research Centers and other Na-
tional Science Foundation supported research facilities
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may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further,
That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less
than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for
included program activities, all amounts, including floors
and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for those pro-
gram activities or their subactivities shall be reduced pro-
portionally: Provided further, That none of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available to the National
Science Foundation in this or any prior Act may be obli-
gated or expended by the National Science Foundation to
enter into or extend a grant, contract, or cooperative
agreement for the support of administering the domain
name and numbering system of the Internet after Septem-
ber 30, 1998.
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
For necessary expenses of major construction
projects pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act
of 1950, as amended, $90,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and
engineering education and human resources programs and
activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation
Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and rental
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia,
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$642,500,000, to remain available until September 30,
2000: Provided, That to the extent that the amount of
this appropriation is less than the total amount authorized
to be appropriated for included program activities, all
amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in the au-
thorizing Act for those program activities or their sub-
activities shall be reduced proportionally.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out
the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed
$9,000 for official reception and representation expenses;
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
5901–5902; rental of conference rooms in the District of
Columbia; reimbursement of the General Services Admin-
istration for security guard services; $144,000,000: Pro-
vided, That contracts may be entered into under ‘‘Salaries
and expenses’’ in fiscal year 1999 for maintenance and
operation of facilities, and for other services, to be pro-
vided during the next fiscal year.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General as authorized by the Inspector General Act of
1978, as amended, $5,200,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2000.
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NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT
CORPORATION
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities,
as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $90,000,000, of which
$25,000,000 shall be for a pilot homeownership initiative,
including an evaluation by an independent third party to
determine its effectiveness.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective
Service System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for
civilian employees; and not to exceed $1,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, $24,176,000: Pro-
vided, That during the current fiscal year, the President
may exempt this appropriation from the provisions of 31
U.S.C. 1341, whenever he deems such action to be nec-
essary in the interest of national defense: Provided further,
That none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended for or in connection with the induction of any
person into the Armed Forces of the United States.
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TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and
III of this Act are expendable for travel expenses and no
specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expendi-
tures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts
set forth therefore in the budget estimates submitted for
the appropriations: Provided, That this provision does not
apply to accounts that do not contain an object classifica-
tion for travel: Provided further, That this section shall
not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials
of local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service
System; to travel performed directly in connection with
care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connec-
tion with major disasters or emergencies declared or deter-
mined by the President under the provisions of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act; to travel performed by the Offices of Inspector Gen-
eral in connection with audits and investigations; or to
payments to interagency motor pools where separately set
forth in the budget schedules: Provided further, That if
appropriations in titles I, II, and III exceed the amounts
set forth in budget estimates initially submitted for such
appropriations, the expenditures for travel may cor-
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respondingly exceed the amounts therefore set forth in the
estimates in the same proportion.
SEC. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and the Selective Service System
shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase
of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 403. Funds of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora-
tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of
1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations
on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract
or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Asso-
ciation, Government National Mortgage Association, Fed-
eral Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financ-
ing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any member thereof,
Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within
the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 404. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
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SEC. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by,
or is part of, a voucher or abstract which de-
scribes the payee or payees and the items or
services for which such expenditure is being
made; or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to
such certification, and without such a voucher
or abstract, is specifically authorized by law;
and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit
by the General Accounting Office or is specifically
exempt by law from such audit.
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency may be expended for the trans-
portation of any officer or employee of such department
or agency between their domicile and their place of em-
ployment, with the exception of any officer or employee
authorized such transportation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or
5 U.S.C. 7905.
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to re-
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cipients that do not share in the cost of conducting re-
search resulting from proposals not specifically solicited
by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost
sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of in-
terest of the grantee or contractor and the Government
in the research.
SEC. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used,
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimburse-
ment for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether
retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more
than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of
the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by
law.
SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act
shall be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise com-
pensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or
adjudicatory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the au-
thority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission pur-
suant to section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act
(15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under an existing Executive Order issued pur-
suant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of
any appropriation under this Act for contracts for any
consulting service shall be limited to contracts which are:
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(1) a matter of public record and available for public in-
spection; and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available
list of all contracts entered into within twenty-four months
prior to the date on which the list is made available to
the public and of all contracts on which performance has
not been completed by such date. The list required by the
preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall
include a narrative description of the work to be per-
formed under each such contract.
SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for a contract for services unless such
executive agency: (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning: (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared; and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to
such contract.
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SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section
406, none of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide
a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to
any officer or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 414. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of
real property if the estimated annual rental is more than
$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress
and a period of 30 days has expired following the date
on which the report is received by the Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act
should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
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greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office
of Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1999 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity,
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private
property rights, or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are sub-
ject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as
amended, are hereby authorized to make such expendi-
tures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority
available to each such corporation or agency and in accord
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by
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section 104 of the Act as may be necessary in carrying
out the programs set forth in the budget for 1999 for such
corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: Pro-
vided, That collections of these corporations and agencies
may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commit-
ments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act
(unless such loans are in support of other forms of assist-
ance provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), ex-
cept that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage in-
surance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or
where loans or mortgage purchases are necessary to pro-
tect the financial interest of the United States Govern-
ment.
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding section 320(g) of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)),
funds made available pursuant to authorization under
such section for fiscal year 1999 and prior fiscal years
may be used for implementing comprehensive conservation
and management plans.
SEC. 421. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to na-
tional service education awards shall mean any loan made
directly to a student by the Alaska Commission on Post-
secondary Education, in addition to other meanings under
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section 148(b)(7) of the National and Community Service
Act.
SEC. 422. Notwithstanding any other law, funds
made available by this or any other Act to the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, the National Science Founda-
tion, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion for the United States/Mexico Foundation for Science
may be used for the endowment of such Foundation.
SEC. 423. (a) Subparagraph (A) of section 203(b)(2)
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(2)(A))
is amended by striking clause (ii) and all that follows
through the end of the subparagraph and inserting the
following:
‘‘(ii) 87 percent of the dollar amount
limitation 
determined 
under 
section
305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation Act for a residence
of the applicable size; except that the dol-
lar amount limitation in effect for any area
under this subparagraph may not be less
than 48 percent of the dollar limitation de-
termined under section 305(a)(2) of the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Act for a residence of the applicable size;
and’’,
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and, in addition to the amounts appropriated in other
parts of this Act, $10,000,000 is appropriated to the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, ‘‘Medical and prosthetic re-
search’’, and $70,000,000 is appropriated to the National
Science Foundation, ‘‘Research and related activities’’.
(b) The first sentence in the matter following section
203(b)(2)(B)(iii) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1709(b)(2)(B)(iii) is amended to read as follows: ‘‘For
purposes of the preceding sentence, the term ‘area’ means
a metropolitan statistical area as established by the Office
of Management and Budget; and the median 1-family
house price for an area shall be equal to the median 1-
family house price of the county within the area that has
the highest such median price.’’.
SEC. 424. (a) The Consumer Product Safety Com-
mission shall contract with the National Institute on Envi-
ronmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to conduct a thor-
ough study of the toxicity of all the flame retardant chemi-
cals identified by the Commission as likely candidates for
addition to residential upholstered furniture for the pur-
pose of meeting regulations proposed by the Commission
for flame-resistance of residential upholstered furniture.
Where NIEHS has existing adequate information regard-
ing the chemicals identified by the Commission, such in-
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formation can be transmitted to the Commission in lieu
of an additional study on those chemicals.
(b) The Commission shall establish a Chronic Hazard
Advisory Panel, according to the provisions of section 28
of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2077),
convened for the purpose of advising the Commission on
the potential health effects and hazards, including carcino-
genicity, neurotoxicity, mutagenicity, and other chronic
and acute effects on consumers exposed to fabrics in-
tended to be used in residential upholstered furniture
which would be chemically treated to meet the Commis-
sion’s proposed flame-resistant standards. In lieu of the
requirements of section 31(b)(2)(B) of such Act (15
U.S.C. 2080(b)(2)(B)), the Panel may meet for up to 1
year.
(c) The Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel convened by
the Commission under subsection (b) for purposes of ad-
vising the Commission concerning the chronic hazards of
flame-retardant chemicals in residential upholstered fur-
niture shall complete its work and furnish its report to
the Commission not later than one year after the date of
the establishment of the Panel, except that if the Panel
finds that it is unable to complete its work adequately
within the one year after its establishment, it shall—
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(1) advise the Commission that it will be unable
to complete its work within one year;
(2) furnish the Commission with an interim re-
port at the expiration of such year discussing its
findings to date; and
(3) provide the Commission with an estimated
date on which it will complete its work and submit
a final report to the Commission.
(d) The Commission shall furnish the interim report,
and the estimated date on which the Panel will complete
its final report, to the House Committee on Commerce,
the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Trans-
portation, the House Committee on Appropriations and
Senate Committee on Appropriations. The Commission
shall furnish the final report to the House Committee on
Commerce, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science
and Transportation, the House Committee on Appropria-
tions and Senate Committee on Appropriations.
(e) No additional funds shall be expended by the
Commission on developing flammability standards for resi-
dential upholstered furniture until 3 months after the
Commission has furnished either the interim report or the
final report of the Panel to the House Committee on Com-
merce, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and
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Transportation, the House Committee on Appropriations
and Senate Committee on Appropriations.
(f) The Commission, before promulgating any final
rule setting flammability standards for residential uphol-
stered furniture shall report to the House Committee on
Commerce, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science
and Transportation, the House Committee on Appropria-
tions and Senate Committee on Appropriations on the re-
port of the Panel, and the anticipated costs of the flam-
mability standards regulation, including costs resulting
from—
(1) public exposure to flame-retardant chemi-
cals in residential upholstered furniture;
(2) exposure of workers to flame-retardant
chemicals in the manufacture, distribution and sale
of textiles and residential upholstered furniture;
(3) the generating, tracking, and disposing of
flame-retardant chemicals and hazardous wastes
generated from the handling of flame-retardant
chemicals used on textiles and residential uphol-
stered furniture; and
(4) limited availability in particular geographic
regions of competing flame-resistant chemicals ap-
proved for use for residential upholstered furniture.
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(g) In addition to amounts appropriated elsewhere in
this Act, there is appropriated to the Consumer Product
Safety Commission $5,000,000 to carry out this section.
SEC. 425. The amount otherwise provided by this Act
for ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Ad-
ministration, Medical care’’ equipment, land, and struc-
tures 
object 
classification, 
is 
hereby 
reduced 
by
$69,000,000.
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available under
this heading may be used to develop and enforce the
standard for the flammability of children’s sleepware sizes
0 through 6X (contained in regulations published at 16
CFR part 1615) and sizes 7 through 14 (contained in reg-
ulations published at 16 CFR part 1616) as the standard
was amended effective January 1, 1997.
SEC. 427. The amounts otherwise provided by this
Act are revised by reducing the amount made available
under the heading ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT—FEDERAL HOUSING
ADMINISTRATION—FHA—MUTUAL
MORTGAGE
INSUR-
ANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT’’ for non-overhead administra-
tive expenses necessary to carry out the Mutual Mortgage
Insurance guarantee and direct loan program, and in-
creasing the amount made available for ‘‘DEPARTMENT
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OF VETERANS AFFAIRS—VETERANS HEALTH AD-
MINISTRATION—MEDICAL CARE’’, by $199,999,999.
SEC. 428. The amounts otherwise provided by this
Act are revised by reducing the amount made available
under the heading ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT—FEDERAL HOUSING
ADMINISTRATION—FHA—GENERAL
AND
SPECIAL
RISK
PROGRAM ACCOUNT’’ for non-overhead administrative ex-
penses necessary to carry out the guaranteed and direct
loan programs, and increasing the amount made available
for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS—VET-
ERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION—MEDICAL CARE’’, by
$103,999,999.
SEC. 429. None of the funds made available in this
Act (including amounts made available for salaries and ex-
penses) may be used by the Director of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency to take any action—
(1) to permit Kaiser Permanente to transfer
any of the funds made available to the Kaiser
Permanente hospital in Panorama City, California,
under the Seismic Hazard Mitigation Program for
Hospitals (including funds made available before Oc-
tober 1, 1998) to any other facility; or
(2) to permit Kaiser Permanente to use any of
the funds described in paragraph (1) to relocate the
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hospital to a site that is located more than 3 miles
from the current site of the hospital.
If, before October 1, 1998, the Director takes an action
described in paragraph (1) or (2), the Director shall re-
scind the action.
SEC. 430. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for researching methods to reduce meth-
ane emissions from cows, sheep, or any other ruminant
livestock.
SEC. 431. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to carry out Executive Order No. 13083.
SEC. 432. The amounts otherwise provided by this
Act are revised by reducing the amount made available
for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DE-
VELOPMENT—COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOP-
MENT—HOUSING
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR
PERSONS
WITH
AIDS’’, and increasing the amount made available for
‘‘DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS—DE-
PARTMENTAL
ADMINISTRATION—GRANTS
FOR
CON-
STRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES’’, by
$21,000,000.
SEC. 433. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be used to implement section 12B.2(b) of the Admin-
istrative Code of San Francisco, California.
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Titles I, II, III, and IV of this Act may be cited as
the ‘‘Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1999’’.
DIVISION B—HOUSING OPPOR-
TUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This division may be cited as the
‘‘Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 1998’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this division is as follows:
DIVISION B—HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Sec. 1001. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 1002. Permanent applicability.
Sec. 1003. Declaration of policy to renew American neighborhoods.
TITLE XI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 1101. Statement of purpose.
Sec. 1102. Definitions.
Sec. 1103. Organization of public housing agencies.
Sec. 1104. Determination of adjusted income and median income.
Sec. 1105. Community work and family self-sufficiency requirements.
Sec. 1106. Local housing management plans.
Sec. 1107. Review of plans.
Sec. 1108. Reporting requirements.
Sec. 1109. Pet ownership.
Sec. 1110. Administrative grievance procedure.
Sec. 1111. Headquarters reserve fund.
Sec. 1112. Labor standards.
Sec. 1113. Nondiscrimination.
Sec. 1114. Prohibition on use of funds.
Sec. 1115. Inapplicability to Indian housing.
Sec. 1116. Regulations.
TITLE XII—PUBLIC HOUSING
Subtitle A—Block Grants
Sec. 1201. Block grant contracts.
Sec. 1202. Grant authority, amount, and eligibility.
Sec. 1203. Eligible and required activities.
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Sec. 1204. Determination of grant allocation.
Sec. 1205. Sanctions for improper use of amounts.
Subtitle B—Admissions and Occupancy Requirements
Sec. 1221. Low-income housing requirement.
Sec. 1222. Family eligibility.
Sec. 1223. Preferences for occupancy.
Sec. 1224. Admission procedures.
Sec. 1225. Family choice of rental payment.
Sec. 1226. Lease requirements.
Sec. 1227. Designated housing for elderly and disabled families.
Subtitle C—Management
Sec. 1231. Management procedures.
Sec. 1232. Housing quality requirements.
Sec. 1233. Employment of residents.
Sec. 1234. Resident councils and resident management corporations.
Sec. 1235. Management by resident management corporation.
Sec. 1236. Transfer of management of certain housing to independent manager
at request of residents.
Sec. 1237. Resident opportunity program.
Subtitle D—Homeownership
Sec. 1251. Resident homeownership programs.
Subtitle E—Disposition, Demolition, and Revitalization of Developments
Sec. 1261. Requirements for demolition and disposition of developments.
Sec. 1262. Demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and choice-
based assistance grants for developments.
Sec. 1263. Voluntary voucher system for public housing.
Subtitle F—Mixed-Finance Public Housing
Sec. 1271. Authority.
Sec. 1272. Mixed-finance housing developments.
Sec. 1273. Mixed-finance housing plan.
Sec. 1274. Rent levels for housing financed with low-income housing tax credit.
Sec. 1275. Carry-over of assistance for replaced housing.
Subtitle G—General Provisions
Sec. 1281. Payment of non-Federal share.
Sec. 1282. Authorization of appropriations for block grants.
Sec. 1283. Funding for operation safe home.
Sec. 1284. Funding for relocation of victims of domestic violence.
TITLE XIII—CHOICE-BASED RENTAL HOUSING AND
HOMEOWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES
Subtitle A—Allocation
Sec. 1301. Authority to provide housing assistance amounts.
Sec. 1302. Contracts with PHA’s.
Sec. 1303. Eligibility of PHA’s for assistance amounts.
Sec. 1304. Allocation of amounts.
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Sec. 1305. Administrative fees.
Sec. 1306. Authorizations of appropriations.
Sec. 1307. Conversion of section 8 assistance.
Sec. 1308. Recapture and reuse of annual contract project reserves under
choice-based housing assistance and section 8 tenant-based as-
sistance programs.
Subtitle B—Choice-Based Housing Assistance for Eligible Families
Sec. 1321. Eligible families and preferences for assistance.
Sec. 1322. Resident contribution.
Sec. 1323. Rental indicators.
Sec. 1324. Lease terms.
Sec. 1325. Termination of tenancy.
Sec. 1326. Eligible owners.
Sec. 1327. Selection of dwelling units.
Sec. 1328. Eligible dwelling units.
Sec. 1329. Homeownership option.
Sec. 1330. Assistance for rental of manufactured homes.
Subtitle C—Payment of Housing Assistance on Behalf of Assisted Families
Sec. 1351. Housing assistance payments contracts.
Sec. 1352. Amount of monthly assistance payment.
Sec. 1353. Payment standards.
Sec. 1354. Reasonable rents.
Sec. 1355. Prohibition of assistance for vacant rental units.
Subtitle D—General and Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 1371. Definitions.
Sec. 1372. Rental assistance fraud recoveries.
Sec. 1373. Study regarding geographic concentration of assisted families.
Sec. 1374. Study regarding rental assistance.
TITLE XIV—HOME RULE FLEXIBLE GRANT OPTION
Sec. 1401. Purpose.
Sec. 1402. Flexible grant program.
Sec. 1403. Covered housing assistance.
Sec. 1404. Program requirements.
Sec. 1405. Applicability of certain provisions.
Sec. 1406. Application.
Sec. 1407. Training.
Sec. 1408. Accountability.
Sec. 1409. Definitions.
TITLE XV—ACCOUNTABILITY AND OVERSIGHT OF PUBLIC
HOUSING AGENCIES
Subtitle A—Study of Alternative Methods for Evaluating Public Housing
Agencies
Sec. 1501. In general.
Sec. 1502. Purposes.
Sec. 1503. Evaluation of various performance evaluation systems.
Sec. 1504. Consultation.
Sec. 1505. Contract to conduct study.
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Sec. 1506. Report.
Sec. 1507. Funding.
Sec. 1508. Effective date.
Subtitle B—Housing Evaluation and Accreditation Board
Sec. 1521. Establishment.
Sec. 1522. Membership.
Sec. 1523. Functions.
Sec. 1524. Powers.
Sec. 1525. Fees.
Sec. 1526. GAO audit.
Subtitle C—Interim Applicability of Public Housing Management Assessment
Program
Sec. 1531. Interim applicability.
Sec. 1532. Management assessment indicators.
Sec. 1533. Designation of PHA’s.
Sec. 1534. On-site inspection of troubled PHA’s.
Sec. 1535. Administration.
Subtitle D—Accountability and Oversight Standards and Procedures
Sec. 1541. Audits.
Sec. 1542. Performance agreements for authorities at risk of becoming trou-
bled.
Sec. 1543. Performance agreements and CDBG sanctions for troubled PHA’s.
Sec. 1544. Option to demand conveyance of title to or possession of public
housing.
Sec. 1545. Removal of ineffective PHA’s.
Sec. 1546. Mandatory takeover of chronically troubled PHA’s.
Sec. 1547. Treatment of troubled PHA’s.
Sec. 1548. Maintenance of records.
Sec. 1549. Annual reports regarding troubled PHA’s.
Sec. 1550. Applicability to resident management corporations.
Sec. 1551. Advisory council for Housing Authority of New Orleans.
TITLE XVI—REPEALS AND RELATED AMENDMENTS
Subtitle A—Repeals, Effective Date, and Savings Provisions
Sec. 1601. Effective date and repeal of United States Housing Act of 1937.
Sec. 1602. Other repeals.
Subtitle B—Other Provisions Relating to Public Housing and Rental
Assistance Programs
Sec. 1621. Allocation of elderly housing amounts.
Sec. 1622. Pet ownership.
Sec. 1623. Review of drug elimination program contracts.
Sec. 1624. Amendments to Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act
of 1990.
Subtitle C—Limitations Relating to Occupancy in Federally Assisted Housing
Sec. 1641. Screening of applicants.
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Sec. 1642. Termination of tenancy and assistance for illegal drug users and al-
cohol abusers.
Sec. 1643. Lease requirements.
Sec. 1644. Availability of criminal records for tenant screening and eviction.
Sec. 1645. Definitions.
TITLE XVII—AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
Sec. 1701. Rural housing assistance.
Sec. 1702. Treatment of occupancy standards.
Sec. 1703. Implementation of plan.
Sec. 1704. Income eligibility for HOME and CDBG programs.
Sec. 1705. Prohibition of use of CDBG grants for employment relocation activi-
ties.
Sec. 1706. Regional cooperation under CDBG economic development initiative.
Sec. 1707. Use of American products.
Sec. 1708. Consultation with affected areas in settlement of litigation.
Sec. 1709. Treatment of PHA repayment agreement.
Sec. 1710. Use of assisted housing by aliens.
Sec. 1711. Protection of senior homeowners under reverse mortgage program.
Sec. 1712. Conversion of section 8 tenant-based assistance to project-based as-
sistance in the Borough of Tamaqua.
Sec. 1713. Housing counseling.
Sec. 1714. Transfer of surplus real property for providing housing for low- and
moderate-income families.
Sec. 1715. Effective date.
SEC. 1002. PERMANENT APPLICABILITY.
Upon effectiveness pursuant to section 1601(a), the
provisions of this division and the amendments made by
this division shall apply thereafter, except to the extent
otherwise specifically provided in this division or the
amendments made by this division.
SEC. 1003. DECLARATION OF POLICY TO RENEW AMERICAN
NEIGHBORHOODS.
The Congress hereby declares that—
(1) the Federal Government has a responsibility
to promote the general welfare of the Nation—
(A) by using Federal resources to aid fami-
lies and individuals seeking affordable homes
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that are safe, clean, and healthy and, in par-
ticular, assisting responsible, deserving citizens
who cannot provide fully for themselves because
of temporary circumstances or factors beyond
their control;
(B) by working to ensure a thriving na-
tional economy and a strong private housing
market; and
(C) by developing effective partnerships
among the Federal Government, State and local
governments, and private entities that allow
government to accept responsibility for foster-
ing the development of a healthy marketplace
and allow families to prosper without govern-
ment involvement in their day-to-day activities;
(2) the Federal Government cannot through its
direct action alone provide for the housing of every
American citizen, or even a majority of its citizens,
but it is the responsibility of the Government to pro-
mote and protect the independent and collective ac-
tions of private citizens to develop housing and
strengthen their own neighborhoods;
(3) the Federal Government should act where
there is a serious need that private citizens or
groups cannot or are not addressing responsibly;
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(4) housing is a fundamental and necessary
component of bringing true opportunity to people
and communities in need, but providing physical
structures to house low-income families will not by
itself pull generations up from poverty;
(5) it is a goal of our Nation that all citizens
have decent and affordable housing; and
(6) our Nation should promote the goal of pro-
viding decent and affordable housing for all citizens
through the efforts and encouragement of Federal,
State, and local governments, and by the independ-
ent and collective actions of private citizens, organi-
zations, and the private sector.
TITLE XI—GENERAL
PROVISIONS
SEC. 1101. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
The purpose of this division is to promote safe, clean,
and healthy housing that is affordable to low-income fami-
lies, and thereby contribute to the supply of affordable
housing, by—
(1) deregulating and decontrolling public hous-
ing agencies, thereby enabling them to perform as
property and asset managers;
(2) providing for more flexible use of Federal
assistance to public housing agencies, allowing the
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authorities to leverage and combine assistance
amounts with amounts obtained from other sources;
(3) facilitating mixed income communities;
(4) increasing accountability and rewarding ef-
fective management of public housing agencies;
(5) creating incentives and economic opportuni-
ties for residents of dwelling units assisted by public
housing agencies to work, become self-sufficient, and
transition out of public housing and federally as-
sisted dwelling units;
(6) recreating the existing rental assistance
voucher program so that the use of vouchers and re-
lationships between landlords and tenants under the
program operate in a manner that more closely re-
sembles the private housing market; and
(7) remedying troubled public housing agencies
and replacing or revitalizing severely distressed pub-
lic housing developments.
SEC. 1102. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this division, the following definitions
shall apply:
(1) ACQUISITION
COST.—When used in ref-
erence to public housing, the term ‘‘acquisition cost’’
means the amount prudently expended by a public
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housing agency in acquiring property for a public
housing development.
(2) DEVELOPMENT.—The terms ‘‘public hous-
ing development’’ and ‘‘development’’ (when used in
reference to public housing) mean—
(A) public housing; and
(B) the improvement of any such housing.
(3) DISABLED
FAMILY.—The term ‘‘disabled
family’’ means a family whose head (or his or her
spouse), or whose sole member, is a person with dis-
abilities. Such term includes 2 or more persons with
disabilities living together, and 1 or more such per-
sons living with 1 or more persons determined under
the regulations of the Secretary to be essential to
their care or well-being.
(4) DRUG-RELATED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.—The
term ‘‘drug-related criminal activity’’ means the ille-
gal manufacture, sale, distribution, use, or posses-
sion with intent to manufacture, sell, distribute, or
use, of a controlled substance (as such term is de-
fined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances
Act).
(5) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—The term ‘‘effective
date’’, when used in reference to this division, means
the effective date determined under section 1601(a).
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(6) ELDERLY
FAMILIES
AND
NEAR
ELDERLY
FAMILIES.—The terms ‘‘elderly family’’ and ‘‘near-
elderly family’’ mean a family whose head (or his or
her spouse), or whose sole member, is an elderly per-
son or a near-elderly person, respectively. Such
terms include two or more elderly persons or near-
elderly persons living together, and one or more such
persons living with one or more persons determined
under the regulations of the Secretary to be essential
to their care or well-being.
(7) ELDERLY PERSON.—The term ‘‘elderly per-
son’’ means a person who is at least 62 years of age.
(8) ELIGIBLE PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY.—The
term ‘‘eligible public housing agency’’ means, with
respect to a fiscal year, a public housing agency that
is eligible under section 1202(d) for a grant under
this title.
(9) FAMILY.—The term ‘‘family’’ includes a
family with or without children, an elderly family, a
near-elderly family, a disabled family, and a single
person.
(10) GROUP HOME AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
FACILITY.—The terms ‘‘group home’’ and ‘‘inde-
pendent living facility’’ have the meanings given
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such terms in section 811(k) of the Cranston-Gon-
zalez National Affordable Housing Act.
(11) INCOME.—The term ‘‘income’’ means, with
respect to a family, income from all sources of each
member of the household, as determined in accord-
ance with criteria prescribed by the applicable public
housing agency and the Secretary, except that the
following amounts shall be excluded:
(A) Any amounts not actually received by
the family.
(B) Any amounts that would be eligible for
exclusion under section 1613(a)(7) of the Social
Security Act.
(12) LOCAL
HOUSING
MANAGEMENT
PLAN.—
The term ‘‘local housing management plan’’ means,
with respect to any fiscal year, the plan under sec-
tion 1106 of a public housing agency for such fiscal
year.
(13) LOW-INCOME FAMILY.—The term ‘‘low-in-
come family’’ means a family whose income does not
exceed 80 percent of the median income for the
area, as determined by the Secretary with adjust-
ments for smaller and larger families, except that
the Secretary may, for purposes of this paragraph,
establish income ceilings higher or lower than 80
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percent of the median for the area on the basis of
the public housing agency’s findings that such vari-
ations are necessary because of unusually high or
low family incomes.
(14) LOW-INCOME HOUSING.—The term ‘‘low-
income housing’’ means dwellings that comply with
the requirements—
(A) under title XII for assistance under
such title for the dwellings; or
(B) under title XIII for rental assistance
payments under such title for the dwellings.
(15) 
NEAR-ELDERLY
PERSON.—The 
term
‘‘near-elderly person’’ means a person who is at least
55 years of age.
(16) OPERATION.—When used in reference to
public housing, the term ‘‘operation’’ means any or
all undertakings appropriate for management, oper-
ation, services, maintenance, security (including the
cost of security personnel), or financing in connec-
tion with a public housing development, including
the financing of resident programs and services.
(17) PERSON WITH DISABILITIES.—The term
‘‘person with disabilities’’ means a person who—
(A) has a disability as defined in section
223 of the Social Security Act;
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(B) is determined, pursuant to regulations
issued by the Secretary, to have a physical,
mental, or emotional impairment which (i) is
expected to be of long-continued and indefinite
duration, (ii) substantially impedes his or her
ability to live independently, and (iii) is of such
a nature that such ability could be improved by
more suitable housing conditions; or
(C) has a developmental disability as de-
fined in section 102 of the Developmental Dis-
abilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act.
Such term shall not exclude persons who have the
disease of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or
any conditions arising from the etiologic agent for
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, no individual shall be
considered a person with disabilities, for purposes of
eligibility for public housing under title XII of this
Act, solely on the basis of any drug or alcohol de-
pendence. The Secretary shall consult with other ap-
propriate Federal agencies to implement the preced-
ing sentence.
(18) PRODUCTION.—When used in reference to
public housing, the term ‘‘production’’ means any or
all undertakings necessary for planning, land acqui-
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sition, financing, demolition, construction, or equip-
ment, in connection with the construction, acquisi-
tion, or rehabilitation of a property for use as a pub-
lic housing development, including activity in connec-
tion with a public housing development that is con-
fined to the reconstruction, remodeling, or repair of
existing buildings.
(19) PRODUCTION COST.—When used in ref-
erence to public housing, the term ‘‘production cost’’
means the costs incurred by a public housing agency
for production of public housing and the necessary
financing for production (including the payment of
carrying charges and acquisition costs).
(20) PUBLIC
HOUSING.—The term ‘‘public
housing’’ means housing, and all necessary appur-
tenances thereto, that—
(A) is low-income housing, low-income
dwelling units in mixed-finance housing (as pro-
vided in subtitle F of title XII), or low-income
dwelling units in mixed income housing (as pro-
vided in section 1221(c)(2)); and
(B)(i) is subject to an annual block grant
contract under title XII; or
(ii) was subject to an annual block grant
contract under title XII (or an annual contribu-
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tions contract under the United States Housing
Act of 1937) which is not in effect, but for
which occupancy is limited in accordance with
the requirements under section 1222(a).
(21) PUBLIC
HOUSING
AGENCY.—The term
‘‘public housing agency’’ is defined in section 1103.
(22) RESIDENT COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘resident
council’’ means an organization or association that
meets the requirements of section 1234(a).
(23) RESIDENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION.—
The term ‘‘resident management corporation’’ means
a corporation that meets the requirements of section
1234(b)(2).
(24) RESIDENT PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘resident
programs and services’’ means programs and serv-
ices for families residing in public housing develop-
ments. Such term may include: (A) the development
and maintenance of resident organizations which
participate in the management of public housing de-
velopments; (B) the training of residents to manage
and operate the public housing development and the
utilization of their services in management and oper-
ation of the development; (C) counseling on house-
hold management, housekeeping, budgeting, money
management, homeownership issues, child care, and
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similar matters; (D) advice regarding resources for
job training and placement, education, welfare,
health, and other community services; (E) services
that are directly related to meeting resident needs
and providing a wholesome living environment; and
(F) referral to appropriate agencies in the commu-
nity when necessary for the provision of such serv-
ices. To the maximum extent available and appro-
priate, existing public and private agencies in the
community shall be used for the provision of such
services.
(25) 
SECRETARY.—The 
term 
‘‘Secretary’’
means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment.
(26) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the
States of the United States, the District of Colum-
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam,
the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and any other
territory or possession of the United States and In-
dian tribes.
(27) VERY
LOW-INCOME
FAMILY.—The term
‘‘very low-income family’’ means a low-income family
whose income does not exceed 50 percent of the me-
dian family income for the area, as determined by
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the Secretary with adjustments for smaller and larg-
er families, except that the Secretary may, for pur-
poses of this paragraph, establish income ceilings
higher or lower than 50 percent of the median for
the area on the basis of the public housing agency’s
findings that such variations are necessary because
of unusually high or low family incomes.
SEC. 1103. ORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—For purposes of this division,
the terms ‘‘public housing agency’’ and ‘‘agency’’ mean
any entity that—
(1) is—
(A) a public housing agency that was au-
thorized under the United States Housing Act
of 1937 to engage in or assist in the develop-
ment or operation of low-income housing;
(B) authorized under this division to en-
gage in or assist in the development or oper-
ation of low-income housing by any State, coun-
ty, municipality, or other governmental body or
public entity;
(C) an entity authorized by State law to
administer 
choice-based 
housing 
assistance
under title XIII; or
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(D) an entity selected by the Secretary,
pursuant to subtitle D of title XV, to manage
housing; and
(2) complies with the requirements under sub-
section (b).
The term does not include any entity that is an Indian
housing authority for purposes of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (as in effect before the effectiveness of
the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1996) or a tribally designated housing en-
tity, as such term is defined in section 4 of the Native
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act
of 1996.
(b) GOVERNANCE.—
(1) BOARD OF DIRECTORS.—Each public hous-
ing agency shall have a board of directors or other
form of governance as prescribed in State or local
law. No person may be barred from serving on such
board or body because of such person’s residency in
a public housing development or status as an as-
sisted family under title XIII.
(2) RESIDENT MEMBERSHIP.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in
subparagraph (B), in localities in which a pub-
lic housing agency is governed by a board of di-
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rectors or other similar body, the board or body
shall include not less than one member who is
an elected public housing resident member (as
such term is defined in paragraph (5)).
(B) EXCEPTIONS.—The requirement in
subparagraph (A) with respect to elected public
housing resident members shall not apply to—
(i) any State or local governing body
that serves as a public housing agency for
purposes of this division and whose respon-
sibilities include substantial activities other
than acting as the public housing agency,
except that such requirement shall apply to
any advisory committee or organization
that is established by such governing body
and whose responsibilities relate only to
the governing body’s functions as a public
housing agency for purposes of this divi-
sion;
(ii) any public housing agency that
owns or operates less than 250 public
housing dwelling units (including any
agency that does not own or operate public
housing); or
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(iii) any public housing agency in a
State that requires the members of the
board of directors or other similar body of
a public housing agency to be salaried and
to serve on a full-time basis.
(3) FULL PARTICIPATION.—No public housing
agency may limit or restrict the capacity or offices
in which a member of such board or body may serve
on such board or body solely because of the mem-
ber’s status as a resident member.
(4) CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.—The Secretary
shall establish guidelines to prevent conflicts of in-
terest on the part of members of the board or direc-
tors or governing body of a public housing agency.
(5) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the following definitions shall apply:
(A) ELECTED PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENT
MEMBER.—The term ‘‘elected public housing
resident member’’ means, with respect to the
public housing agency involved, an individual
who is a resident member of the board of direc-
tors (or other similar governing body of the
agency) by reason of election to such position
pursuant to an election—
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(i) in which eligibility for candidacy in
such election is limited to individuals
who—
(I) maintain their principal resi-
dence in a dwelling unit of public
housing administered or assisted by
the agency; and
(II) have not been convicted of a
felony;
(ii) in which only residents of dwelling
units of public housing administered by the
agency may vote; and
(iii) that is conducted in accordance
with standards and procedures for such
election, which shall be established by the
Secretary.
(B) RESIDENT MEMBER.—The term ‘‘resi-
dent member’’ means a member of the board of
directors or other similar governing body of a
public housing agency who is a resident of a
public housing dwelling unit owned, adminis-
tered, or assisted by the agency or is a member
of an assisted family (as such term is defined
in section 1371) assisted by the agency.
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(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF POLICIES.—Any rules, regu-
lations, policies, standards, and procedures necessary to
implement policies required under section 1106 to be in-
cluded in the local housing management plan for a public
housing agency shall be approved by the board of directors
or similar governing body of the agency and shall be pub-
licly available for review upon request.
SEC. 1104. DETERMINATION OF ADJUSTED INCOME AND
MEDIAN INCOME.
(a) ADJUSTED INCOME.—For purposes of this divi-
sion, the term ‘‘adjusted income’’ means, with respect to
a family, the difference between the income of the mem-
bers of the family residing in a dwelling unit or the per-
sons on a lease and the amount of any income exclusions
for the family under subsections (b) and (c), as deter-
mined by the public housing agency.
(b) MANDATORY EXCLUSIONS FROM INCOME.—In
determining adjusted income, a public housing agency
shall exclude from the annual income of a family the fol-
lowing amounts:
(1) ELDERLY AND DISABLED FAMILIES.—$400
for any elderly or disabled family.
(2) MEDICAL
EXPENSES.—The amount by
which 3 percent of the annual family income is ex-
ceeded by the sum of—
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(A) unreimbursed medical expenses of any
elderly family;
(B) unreimbursed medical expenses of any
nonelderly family, except that this subpara-
graph shall apply only to the extent approved in
appropriation Acts; and
(C) unreimbursed reasonable attendant
care and auxiliary apparatus expenses for each
handicapped member of the family, to the ex-
tent necessary to enable any member of such
family (including such handicapped member) to
be employed.
(3) CHILD CARE EXPENSES.—Any reasonable
child care expenses necessary to enable a member of
the family to be employed or to further his or her
education.
(4) MINORS, STUDENTS, AND PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES.—$480 for each member of the family
residing in the household (other than the head of the
household or his or her spouse) who is less than 18
years of age or is attending school or vocational
training on a full-time basis, or who is 18 years of
age or older and is a person with disabilities.
(5) CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS.—Any payment
made by a member of the family for the support and
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maintenance of any child who does not reside in the
household, except that the amount excluded under
this paragraph may not exceed $480 for each child
for whom such payment is made.
(6) EARNED INCOME OF MINORS.—The amount
of any earned income of a member of the family who
is not—
(A) 18 years of age or older; and
(B) the head of the household (or the
spouse of the head of the household).
(c) PERMISSIVE EXCLUSIONS FROM INCOME.—In de-
termining adjusted income, a public housing agency may,
in the discretion of the agency, establish exclusions from
the annual income of a family. Such exclusions may in-
clude the following amounts:
(1) EXCESSIVE TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Excessive
travel expenses in an amount not to exceed $25 per
family per week, for employment- or education-relat-
ed travel.
(2) EARNED
INCOME.—An amount of any
earned income of the family, established at the dis-
cretion of the public housing agency, which may be
based on—
(A) all earned income of the family,
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(B) the amount earned by particular mem-
bers of the family;
(C) the amount earned by families having
certain characteristics; or
(D) the amount earned by families or
members during certain periods or from certain
sources.
(3) OTHERS.—Such other amounts for other
purposes, as the public housing agency may estab-
lish.
(d) MEDIAN INCOME.—In determining median in-
comes (of persons, families, or households) for an area or
establishing any ceilings or limits based on income under
this division, the Secretary shall determine or establish
area median incomes and income ceilings and limits for
Westchester and Rockland Counties, in the State of New
York, as if each such county were an area not contained
within the metropolitan statistical area in which it is lo-
cated. In determining such area median incomes or estab-
lishing such income ceilings or limits for the portion of
such metropolitan statistical area that does not include
Westchester or Rockland Counties, the Secretary shall de-
termine or establish area median incomes and income ceil-
ings and limits as if such portion included Westchester
and Rockland Counties.
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(e) AVAILABILITY OF INCOME MATCHING INFORMA-
TION.—
(1) DISCLOSURE
TO
PHA.—A public housing
agency shall require any family described in para-
graph (2) who receives information regarding in-
come, earnings, wages, or unemployment compensa-
tion from the Department of Housing and Urban
Development pursuant to income verification proce-
dures of the Department to disclose such informa-
tion, upon receipt of the information, to the public
housing agency that owns or operates the public
housing dwelling unit in which such family resides or
that provides the housing assistance on behalf of
such family, as applicable.
(2) APPLICABILITY
TO
FAMILIES
RECEIVING
PUBLIC HOUSING OR CHOICE-BASED HOUSING AS-
SISTANCE.—A family described in this paragraph is
a family that resides in a dwelling unit—
(A) that is a public housing dwelling unit;
or
(B) for which housing assistance is pro-
vided under title XIII (or under the program
for tenant-based assistance under section 8 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (as in
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effect before the effective date of the repeal
under section 1601(b) of this Act)).
(3) PROTECTION OF APPLICANTS AND PARTICI-
PANTS.—Section 904 of the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (42
U.S.C. 3544) is amended—
(A) in subsection (b)—
(i) in paragraph (2), by striking
‘‘and’’ at the end;
(iii) in paragraph (3), by striking the
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’;
and
(ii) by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
‘‘(4) only in the case of an applicant or partici-
pant that is a member of a family described in sec-
tion 1104(e)(2) of the Housing Opportunity and Re-
sponsibility Act of 1998, sign an agreement under
which the applicant or participant agrees to provide
to the appropriate public housing agency the infor-
mation required under such section 1104(e)(1) of
the Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of
1998 for the sole purpose of the public housing
agency verifying income information pertinent to the
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applicant’s or participant’s eligibility or level of ben-
efits, and comply with such agreement.’’; and
(B) in subsection (c)—
(i) in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter
preceding clause (I)—
(I) by inserting before ‘‘or’’ the
first place it appears the following: ‘‘,
pursuant to section 1104(e)(1) of the
Housing Opportunity and Responsibil-
ity Act of 1997 from the applicant or
participant,’’; and
(II) by inserting ‘‘or 104(e)(1)’’
after ‘‘such section 303(i)’’; and
(ii) in paragraph (3)—
(I) in subparagraph (A), by in-
serting ‘‘, section 1104(e)(1) of the
Housing Opportunity and Responsibil-
ity Act of 1998,’’ after ‘‘Social Secu-
rity Act’’; and
(II) in subparagraph (A), by in-
serting ‘‘or agreement, as applicable,’’
after ‘‘consent’’;
(III) in subparagraph (B), by in-
serting ‘‘section 1104(e)(1) of the
Housing Opportunity and Responsibil-
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ity Act of 1998,’’ after ‘‘Social Secu-
rity Act,’’; and
(IV) in subparagraph (B), by insert-
ing ‘‘ such section 1104(e)(1),’’ after ‘‘such
section 303(i),’’ each place it appears.
SEC. 1105. COMMUNITY WORK AND FAMILY SELF-SUFFI-
CIENCY REQUIREMENTS.
(a) COMMUNITY WORK REQUIREMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3), each public housing agency shall require,
as a condition of occupancy of a public housing
dwelling unit by a family and of providing housing
assistance under title XIII on behalf of a family,
that each adult member of the family shall contrib-
ute not less than 8 hours of work per month (not
including political activities) within the community
in which the family resides, which may include work
performed on locations not owned by the public
housing agency.
(2) EMPLOYMENT
STATUS
AND
LIABILITY.—
The requirement under paragraph (1) may not be
construed to establish any employment relationship
between the public housing agency and the member
of the family subject to the work requirement under
such paragraph or to create any responsibility, duty,
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or liability on the part of the public housing agency
for actions arising out of the work done by the mem-
ber of the family to comply with the requirement, ex-
cept to the extent that the member of the family is
fulfilling the requirement by working directly for
such public housing agency.
(3) EXEMPTIONS.—A public housing agency
shall provide for the exemption, from the applicabil-
ity of the requirement under paragraph (1), of each
individual who is—
(A) an elderly person;
(B) a person with disabilities;
(C) working, attending school or vocational
training, or otherwise complying with work re-
quirements applicable under other public assist-
ance programs (as determined by the agencies
or organizations responsible for administering
such programs); or
(D) otherwise physically impaired to the
extent that they are unable to comply with the
requirement, as certified by a doctor.
(b) REQUIREMENT REGARDING TARGET DATE FOR
TRANSITION OUT OF ASSISTED HOUSING.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each public housing agency
shall require, as a condition of occupancy of a public
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housing dwelling unit by a family and of providing
housing assistance under title XIII on behalf of a
family, that the family and the agency enter into an
agreement 
(included, 
pursuant 
to 
subsection
(d)(2)(C), as a term of an agreement under sub-
section (d)) establishing a target date by which the
family intends to graduate from, terminate tenancy
in, or no longer receive public housing or housing as-
sistance under title XIII.
(2) RIGHTS OF OCCUPANCY.—This subsection
may not be construed (nor may any provision of sub-
section (d) or (e)) to create a right on the part of
any public housing agency to evict or terminate as-
sistance for a family solely on the basis of any fail-
ure of the family to comply with the target date es-
tablished pursuant to paragraph (1).
(3) FACTORS.—In establishing a target date
pursuant to paragraph (1) for a family that receives
benefits for welfare or public assistance from a State
or other public agency under a program that limits
the duration during which such benefits may be re-
ceived, the public housing agency and the family
may take into consideration such time limit. This
section may not be construed to require any public
housing agency to adopt any such time limit on the
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duration of welfare or public assistance benefits as
the target date pursuant to paragraph (1) for a resi-
dent.
(4) EXEMPTIONS.—A public housing agency
shall provide for the exemption, from the applicabil-
ity of the requirements under paragraph (1), of each
individual who is—
(A) an elderly person;
(B) a person with disabilities;
(C) working, attending school or vocational
training, or otherwise complying with work re-
quirements applicable under other public assist-
ance programs (as determined by the agencies
or organizations responsible for administering
such programs); or
(D) otherwise physically impaired to the
extent that they are unable to comply with the
requirement, as certified by a doctor.
(c) TREATMENT OF INCOME CHANGES RESULTING
FROM WELFARE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) COVERED FAMILY.—For purposes of this
subsection, the term ‘‘covered family’’ means a fam-
ily that: (A) receives benefits for welfare or public
assistance from a State or other public agency under
a program for which the Federal, State, or local law
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relating to the program requires, as a condition of
eligibility for assistance under the program, partici-
pation of a member of the family in an economic
self-sufficiency program; and (B) resides in a public
housing dwelling unit or is provided housing assist-
ance under title XIII.
(2) DECREASES IN INCOME FOR FAILURE TO
COMPLY.—Notwithstanding the provisions of sec-
tions 1225 and 1322 (relating to family rental con-
tributions), if the welfare or public assistance bene-
fits of a covered family are reduced under a Federal,
State, or local law regarding such an assistance pro-
gram because of any failure of any member of the
family to comply with the conditions under the as-
sistance program requiring participation in an eco-
nomic self-sufficiency program, the amount required
to be paid by the family as a monthly contribution
toward rent may not be decreased, during the period
of the reduction, as a result of any decrease in the
income of the family (to the extent that the decrease
in income is a result of the benefits reduction).
(3) EFFECT OF FRAUD.—Notwithstanding the
provisions of sections 1225 and 1322 (relating to
family rental contributions), if the welfare or public
assistance benefits of a covered family are reduced