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donations of goods and services: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall make all such information and its decision regarding 
the award of the surplus property available to the committees 
of jurisdiction, including a full justification of the appropriateness 
of the use of the property to assist the homeless as well as the 
appropriateness of the group seeking to obtain the property to 
use such property to assist the homeless: Provided further, That, 
this section shall apply to properties in fiscal year 2008 and 2009 
made available as surplus Federal property for use to assist the 
homeless. 
SEC. 236. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall increase, pursuant to this section, the number of Moving- 
to-Work agencies authorized under section 204, title II, of the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Develop-
ment and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public 
Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321–281) by adding to the program three 
Public Housing Agencies that meet the following requirements: 
is a High Performing Agency under the Public Housing Assessment 
System (PHAS) and is a HOPE VI agency. No PHA shall be granted 
this designation through this section that administers in excess 
of 5,000 aggregate housing vouchers and public housing units. No 
PHA granted this designation through this section shall receive 
more funding than they otherwise would have received absent this 
designation. 
SEC. 237. Of the unobligated balances remaining from funds 
appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
under the fourth paragraph under the heading ‘‘General and Special 
Risk Program Account’’ in the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Appropriations Act, 2008, $5,000,000 are rescinded: 
Provided, That with respect to such discount sales referenced under 
such paragraph, notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
determining the market value of any multifamily real property 
or multifamily loan for any noncompetitive sale to a State or local 
government, the Secretary shall in fiscal year 2009 consider, but 
not be limited to, industry standard appraisal practices, including 
the cost of repairs needed to bring the property into such condition 
as to satisfy minimum State and local code standards and the 
cost of maintaining the affordability restrictions imposed by the 
Secretary on the multifamily real property or multifamily loan. 
SEC. 238. The Secretary of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development is authorized to transfer up to 5 percent of 
funds appropriated for any account under this title under the 
heading ‘‘Personnel Compensation and Benefits’’ to any other 
account under this title under the heading ‘‘Personnel Compensation 
and Benefits’’ only after such transfer has been submitted to, and 
received prior written approval by, the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations: Provided, That, no appropriation for any 
such account shall be increased or decreased by more than 10 
percent by all such transfers. 
SEC. 239. The Disaster Housing Assistance Programs, adminis-
tered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall 
be considered a ‘‘program of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development’’ under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the pur-
pose of income verifications and matching. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2009’’.