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1974, as amended, as follows: $3,000,000 to support Alaska 
Native serving institutions and Native Hawaiian serving 
institutions as defined under the Higher Education Act, as 
amended; $2,600,000 for tribal colleges and universities to 
build, expand, renovate, and equip their facilities and to 
expand the role of the colleges into the community through 
the provision of needed services such as health programs, 
job 
training 
and 
economic 
development 
activities; 
$9,000,000 for Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
program, of which up to $2,000,000 may be used for tech-
nical assistance; and $6,000,000 for the Hispanic Serving 
Institutions Program. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not other-
wise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing 
Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$44,550,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008, 
of which $19,800,000 shall be to carry out activities pursu-
ant to such section 561: Provided, That no funds made 
available under this heading shall be used to lobby the exec-
utive or legislative branches of the Federal Government in 
connection with a specific contract, grant or loan.
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OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL 
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION 
For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as author-
ized by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint 
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, $152,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2008, of which $9,000,000 
shall be for the Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to sec-
tions 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1970 that shall include research, studies, testing, and 
demonstration efforts, including education and outreach 
concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other housing- 
related diseases and hazards: Provided, That for purposes 
of environmental review, pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 
other provisions of law that further the purposes of such 
Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, Oper-
ation Lead Elimination Action Plan (LEAP), or the Lead 
Technical Studies program under this heading or under 
prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under this 
heading, shall be considered to be funds for a special project 
for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing 
Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994: Provided further, 
That of the total amount made available under this head-
ing, $48,000,000 shall be made available on a competitive 
basis for areas with the highest lead paint abatement needs,
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as identified by the Secretary as having: (1) the highest 
number of occupied pre-1940 units of rental housing; and 
(2) a disproportionately high number of documented cases 
of lead-poisoned children: Provided further, That each 
grantee receiving funds under the previous proviso shall 
target those privately owned units and multifamily build-
ings that are occupied by low-income families as defined 
under section 3(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937: Provided further, That not less than 90 percent of 
the funds made available under this paragraph shall be used 
exclusively for abatement, inspections, risk assessments, 
temporary relocations and interim control of lead-based 
hazards as defined by 42 U.S.C. 4851: Provided further, 
That each recipient of funds provided under the first pro-
viso shall make a matching contribution in an amount not 
less than 25 percent: Provided further, That each applicant 
shall submit a detailed plan and strategy that demonstrates 
adequate capacity that is acceptable to the Secretary to 
carry out the proposed use of funds pursuant to a Notice 
of Funding Availability. 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary administrative and non-administrative 
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, not otherwise provided for, including purchase of uni-
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forms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $25,000 for 
official 
reception 
and 
representation 
expenses, 
$1,156,658,000, of which $550,776,000 shall be provided 
from the various funds of the Federal Housing Administra-
tion, $10,700,000 shall be provided from funds of the Gov-
ernment National Mortgage Association, $750,000 shall be 
from the Community Development Loan Guarantee pro-
gram, $148,500 shall be provided by transfer from the ‘‘Na-
tive American housing block grants’’ account, $247,500 
shall be provided by transfer from the ‘‘Indian housing loan 
guarantee fund program’’ account and $35,000 shall be 
transferred from the ‘‘Native Hawaiian housing loan guar-
antee fund’’ account: Provided, That funds made available 
under this heading shall only be allocated in the manner 
specified in the statement of the managers accompanying 
this Act unless the Committees on Appropriations of both 
the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
of any changes in an operating plan or reprogramming: 
Provided further, That no official or employee of the De-
partment shall be designated as an allotment holder unless 
the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) has deter-
mined that such allotment holder has implemented an ade-
quate system of funds control and has received training in
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funds control procedures and directives: Provided further, 
That the Chief Financial Officer shall establish positive 
control of and maintain adequate systems of accounting for 
appropriations and other available funds as required by 31 
U.S.C. 1514: Provided further, That for purposes of funds 
control and determining whether a violation exists under 
the Anti-Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 1341 et seq.), the point 
of obligation shall be the executed agreement or contract, 
except with respect to insurance and guarantee programs, 
certain types of salaries and expenses funding, and incre-
mental funding that is authorized under an executed agree-
ment or contract, and shall be designated in the approved 
funds control plan: Provided further, That the Chief Finan-
cial Officer shall: (1) appoint qualified personnel to conduct 
investigations of potential or actual violations; (2) establish 
minimum training requirements and other qualifications 
for personnel that may be appointed to conduct investiga-
tions; (3) establish guidelines and timeframes for the con-
duct and completion of investigations; (4) prescribe the con-
tent, format and other requirements for the submission of 
final reports on violations; and (5) prescribe such addi-
tional policies and procedures as may be required for con-
ducting investigations of, and administering, processing, 
and reporting on, potential and actual violations of the 
Anti-Deficiency Act and all other statutes and regulations
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governing the obligation and expenditure of funds made 
available in this or any other Act: Provided further, That 
up to $15,000,000 may be transferred to the Working Cap-
ital Fund: Provided further, That the Secretary shall fill 
7 out of 10 vacancies at the GS–14 and GS–15 levels until 
the total number of GS–14 and GS–15 positions in the De-
partment has been reduced from the number of GS–14 and 
GS–15 positions on the date of enactment of Public Law 
106–377 by 21⁄2 percent. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For additional capital for the Working Capital Fund 
(42 U.S.C. 3535) for the development of, modifications to, 
and infrastructure for Department-wide information tech-
nology systems, for the continuing operation of both Depart-
ment-wide and program-specific information systems, and 
for program-related development activities, $219,780,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, That 
any amounts transferred to this Fund under this Act shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appro-
priated by previously enacted appropriations Acts or from 
within this Act may be used only for the purposes specified 
under this Fund, in addition to the purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $115,000,000, of which $23,760,000 shall be pro-
vided from the various funds of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration: Provided, That the Inspector General shall 
have independent authority over all personnel issues within 
this office. 
OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprises Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, including not 
to exceed $500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $67,600,000, to remain available until expended, to 
be derived from the Federal Housing Enterprises Oversight 
Fund: Provided, That the Director shall submit a spending 
plan for the amounts provided under this heading no later 
than January 15, 2007: Provided further, That not less 
than 80 percent of the total amount made available under 
this heading shall be used only for examination, super-
vision, and capital oversight of the enterprises (as such term 
is defined in section 1303 of the Federal Housing Enter-
prises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (12 
U.S.C. 4502)) to ensure that the enterprises are operating
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in a financially safe and sound manner and complying 
with the capital requirements under Subtitle B of such Act: 
Provided further, That not to exceed the amount provided 
herein shall be available from the general fund of the Treas-
ury 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. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 
(42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded, or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts 
of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded 
or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 
finance agencies or local governments or local housing agen-
cies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development for which settlement occurred after 
January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwith-
standing the previous sentence, the Secretary may award
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up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured 
and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide 
project owners with incentives to refinance their project at 
a lower interest rate. 
SEC. 302. None of the amounts made available under 
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2007 to investigate 
or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise law-
ful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including 
the filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal action, 
that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a 
court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 303. (a) Notwithstanding section 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 2007 that are allocated 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 2007 under such clause (ii) because the 
areas in the State outside of the metropolitan statis-
tical areas that qualify under clause (i) in fiscal year
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2007 do not have the number of cases of acquired im-
munodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) required under 
such clause. 
(b) 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 section 854(c)(1)(A) 
in fiscal year 2007, in proportion to AIDS cases among 
cities and States that qualify under clauses (i) and (ii) of 
such section and States deemed eligible under subsection 
(a). 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2007 under section 854(c) 
of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12903(c)), to the City of New York, New York, on behalf 
of the New York-Wayne-White Plains, New York-New Jersey 
Metropolitan Division (hereafter ‘‘metropolitan division’’) 
of the New York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan 
Statistical Area, shall be adjusted by the Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development by: (1) allocating to the City 
of Jersey City, New Jersey, the proportion of the metropoli-
tan area’s or division’s amount that is based on the number 
of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the metropolitan 
area or division that is located in Hudson County, New
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Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan 
division’s high incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey 
also has a higher than average per capita incidence of 
AIDS; and (2) allocating to the City of Paterson, New Jer-
sey, the proportion of the metropolitan area’s or division’s 
amount that is based on the number of cases of AIDS re-
ported in the portion of the metropolitan area or division 
that is located in Bergen County and Passaic County, New 
Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan 
division’s high incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey 
also has a higher than average per capita incidence of 
AIDS. The recipient cities shall use amounts allocated 
under this subsection to carry out eligible activities under 
section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12904) in their respective portions of the metropoli-
tan division that is located in New Jersey. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2007 under section 854(c) 
of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)) 
to areas with a higher than average per capita incidence 
of AIDS, shall be adjusted by the Secretary on the basis 
of area incidence reported over a three year period. 
SEC. 304. During fiscal year 2007, in the provision 
of rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in connection
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with a program to demonstrate the economy and effective-
ness of providing such assistance for use in assisted living 
facilities that is carried out in the counties of the State of 
Michigan notwithstanding paragraphs (3) and (18)(B)(iii) 
of such section 8(o), a family residing in an assisted living 
facility in any such county, on behalf of which a public 
housing agency provides assistance pursuant to section 
8(o)(18) of such Act, may be required, at the time the family 
initially receives such assistance, to pay rent in an amount 
exceeding 40 percent of the monthly adjusted income of the 
family by such a percentage or amount as the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development determines to be ap-
propriate. 
SEC. 305. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pur-
suant to title III of this Act shall be made on a competitive 
basis and in accordance with section 102 of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989. 
SEC. 306. Funds of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall 
be available, without regard to the limitations on adminis-
trative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee basis, 
and for utilizing and making payment for services and fa-
cilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Gov-