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obligated until the Secretary submits to the Committees on Appro-
priations a plan for expenditure that—(A) identifies for each mod-
ernization project: (i) the functional and performance capabilities 
to be delivered and the mission benefits to be realized, (ii) the 
estimated life-cycle cost, and (iii) key milestones to be met; (B) 
demonstrates that each modernization project is: (i) compliant with 
the department’s enterprise architecture, (ii) being managed in 
accordance with applicable life-cycle management policies and guid-
ance, (iii) subject to the department’s capital planning and invest-
ment control requirements, and (iv) supported by an adequately 
staffed project office; and (C) has been reviewed by the Government 
Accountability Office. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $124,000,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall 
have independent authority over all personnel issues within this 
office. 
TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE 
For necessary expenses of research, evaluation, and program 
metrics activities; program demonstrations; and technical assistance 
and capacity building, $50,000,000 to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2014: Provided, That with respect to amounts made 
available under this heading for research, evaluation and program 
metrics or program demonstrations, the Secretary may make grants 
or enter into cooperative agreements if such grants or agreements 
include a substantial match contribution, notwithstanding section 
204 of this title. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION AND TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, 
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Amendments Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded 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rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 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 agencies 
with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development for which settlement occurred after January 1, 1992, 
in accordance with such section. Notwithstanding the previous sen-
tence, the Secretary may award 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. 202. None of the amounts made available under this 
Act may be used during fiscal year 2012 to investigate or prosecute 
under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged 
in by one or more persons, including the filing or maintaining
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of a nonfrivolous 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. 203. (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 2012 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 2012 under such clause (ii) because the areas in the 
State outside of the metropolitan statistical areas that qualify 
under clause (i) in fiscal year 2011 do not have the number 
of cases of acquired immunodeficiency 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 cumu-
lative 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 2012, in proportion 
to AIDS cases among cities and States that qualify under clauses 
(i) and (ii) of such section and States deemed eligible under sub-
section (a). 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount 
allocated for fiscal year 2012 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 ‘‘metropoli-
tan division’’) of the New York-Newark-Edison, NY–NJ–PA Metro-
politan Statistical Area, shall be adjusted by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development by: 
(1) allocating to the city of Jersey City, New Jersey, the 
proportion of the metropolitan 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 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 Jersey, the 
proportion of the metropolitan 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 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 metropolitan division that is located in New Jersey. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount 
allocated for fiscal year 2012 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
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by the Secretary on the basis of area incidence reported over a 
3-year period. 
SEC. 204. Except as explicitly provided in law, any grant, 
cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title 
II of this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance 
with section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545). 
SEC. 205. 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 administrative expenses, for legal serv-
ices on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment 
for services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Associa-
tion, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing 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. 1811–1). 
SEC. 206. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or through 
a reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be available 
for any program, project or activity in excess of amounts set forth 
in the budget estimates submitted to Congress. 
SEC. 207. Corporations and agencies of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act are hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to each such corporation or agency and in accordance 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without 
regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of 
such Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
forth in the budget for 2012 for such corporation or agency except 
as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of these corpora-
tions and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase 
commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this 
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance 
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this 
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage pur-
chases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United 
States Government. 
SEC. 208. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recap-
tured and excess funds in each program and activity within the 
jurisdiction of the Department and shall submit additional, updated 
budget information to these Committees upon request. 
SEC. 209. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2012 under section 854(c) of the 
AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the city 
of Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware- 
Maryland-New Jersey Metropolitan Division (hereafter ‘‘metropoli-
tan division’’), shall be adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development by allocating to the State of New Jersey the 
proportion of the metropolitan division’s amount that is based on 
the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the metropoli-
tan division that is located in New Jersey, and adjusting for the
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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 State of New Jersey shall use amounts 
allocated to the State under this subsection to carry out eligible 
activities under section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act 
(42 U.S.C. 12904) in the portion of the metropolitan division that 
is located in New Jersey. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development shall allocate to Wake County, 
North Carolina, the amounts that otherwise would be allocated 
for fiscal year 2012 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing 
Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)) to the city of Raleigh, North 
Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Cary North Carolina Metropolitan 
Statistical Area. Any amounts allocated to Wake County shall be 
used to carry out eligible activities under section 855 of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 12904) within such metropolitan statistical area. 
(c) Notwithstanding section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing Oppor-
tunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development may adjust the allocation of the amounts that other-
wise would be allocated for fiscal year 2012 under section 854(c) 
of such Act, upon the written request of an applicant, in conjunction 
with the State(s), for a formula allocation on behalf of a metropoli-
tan statistical area, to designate the State or States in which 
the metropolitan statistical area is located as the eligible grantee(s) 
of the allocation. In the case that a metropolitan statistical area 
involves more than one State, such amounts allocated to each 
State shall be in proportion to the number of cases of AIDS reported 
in the portion of the metropolitan statistical area located in that 
State. Any amounts allocated to a State under this section shall 
be used to carry out eligible activities within the portion of the 
metropolitan statistical area located in that State. 
SEC. 210. The President’s formal budget request for fiscal year 
2013, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment’s congressional budget justifications to be submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate, shall use the identical account and sub-account struc-
ture provided under this Act. 
SEC. 211. A public housing agency or such other entity that 
administers Federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority 
of the county of Los Angeles, California, the States of Alaska, 
Iowa, and Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident 
of public housing or a recipient of assistance provided under section 
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 on the board of directors 
or a similar governing board of such agency or entity as required 
under section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public housing agency or 
other entity that administers Federal housing assistance under 
section 8 for the Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, 
California and the States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi that 
chooses not to include a resident of public housing or a recipient 
of section 8 assistance on the board of directors or a similar gov-
erning board shall establish an advisory board of not less than 
six residents of public housing or recipients of section 8 assistance 
to provide advice and comment to the public housing agency or 
other administering entity on issues related to public housing and 
section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not less than quarterly. 
SEC. 212. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sub-
ject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), for fiscal years 2012