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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4810 
To designate an environmental review procedure for certain assistance 
administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2025 
Mr. LICCARDO (for himself and Mr. FLOOD) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To designate an environmental review procedure for certain 
assistance administered by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Better Use of Intergov-
ernmental and Local Development for Housing Act’’ or 
the ‘‘BUILD Housing Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PRO-
CEDURE. 
The Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3531 et seq.) is amended by inserting after 
section 12 (42 U.S.C. 3537a) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 13. DESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PRO-
CEDURE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), the Secretary may, for purposes of environmental re-
view, decision making, and action pursuant to the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 
et seq.), and other provisions of law that further the pur-
poses of such Act, designate the treatment of assistance 
administered by the Secretary as funds for a special 
project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily 
Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994 (42 
U.S.C. 3547). 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—The designation described in sub-
section (a) shall not apply to assistance for which a proce-
dure for carrying out the responsibilities of the Secretary 
under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and other provisions of law that fur-
ther the purposes of such Act, is otherwise specified in 
law.’’. 
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SEC. 3. TRIBAL ASSUMPTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW 
OBLIGATIONS. 
Section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property 
Disposition Reform Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 3547) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘State or unit of general local 
government’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘State, Indian Tribe, or unit of general local govern-
ment’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)(C), in the heading, by 
striking ‘‘STATE OR UNIT OF GENERAL LOCAL GOV-
ERNMENT’’ and inserting ‘‘STATE, INDIAN TRIBE, OR 
UNIT OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) DEFINITION OF INDIAN TRIBE.—For pur-
poses of this subsection, the term ‘Indian Tribe’ 
means a federally recognized tribe, as defined in sec-
tion 4(13)(B) of the Native American Housing As-
sistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
U.S.C. 4103(13)(B)).’’. 
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