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MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
ministrative expenses in support of capital policy activities,
$60,703,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That project
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities
Management Service Delivery Office, including technical
consulting services, project management, real property ad-
ministration (including leases, site acquisition and disposal
activities directly supporting projects), shall be provided to
Department of Veterans Affairs components only on a reim-
bursable basis, and such amounts will remain available
until September 30, 2000.
GENERAL POST FUND, NATIONAL HOMES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $7,000, as authorized by
Public Law 102–54, section 8, which shall be transferred
from the ‘‘General post fund’’: Provided, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined 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 principal
amount of direct loans not to exceed $70,000.
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In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct loan programs, $54,000, which shall be trans-
ferred from the ‘‘General post fund’’, as authorized by Pub-
lic Law 102–54, section 8.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary operating expenses of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including uni-
forms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General Services
Administration for security guard services, and the Depart-
ment of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail,
$912,594,000: Provided, That funds under this heading
shall be available to administer the Service Members Occu-
pational Conversion and Training Act: Provided further,
That travel expenditures for the immediate Office of the
Secretary shall not exceed $100,000.
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and oper-
ation of the National Cemetery Administration, not other-
wise provided for, including uniforms or allowances there-
for; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; purchase of
two passenger motor vehicles for use in cemeterial oper-
ations; and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $97,256,000:
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Provided, That of the amount made available under this
heading, not to exceed $117,000 may be transferred to and
merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General operating ex-
penses’’.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as
amended, $43,200,000: Provided, That of the amount made
available under this heading, not to exceed $30,000 may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103,
8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States
Code, including planning, architectural and engineering
services, maintenance or guarantee period services costs as-
sociated with equipment guarantees provided under the
project, services of claims analysts, offsite utility and storm
drainage system construction costs, and site acquisition,
where the estimated cost of a project is $4,000,000 or more
or where funds for a project were made available in a pre-
vious major project appropriation, $70,140,000, to remain
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available until expended: Provided, That except for advance
planning of projects (including market-based assessments of
health care needs which may or may not lead to capital
investments) funded through the advance planning fund
and the design of projects funded through the design fund,
none of these funds shall be used for any project which has
not been considered and approved by the Congress in the
budgetary process: Provided further, That funds provided
in this appropriation for fiscal year 2000, for each ap-
proved project shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of
a construction documents contract by September 30, 2000;
and (2) by the awarding of a construction contract by Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
promptly report in writing to the Committees on Appro-
priations any approved major construction project in which
obligations are not incurred within the time limitations es-
tablished above: Provided further, That no funds from any
other account except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be
obligated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving
a project which was approved in the budget process and
funded in this account until one year after substantial com-
pletion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with respect
to that part only.
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CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including planning,
architectural and engineering services, maintenance or
guarantee period services costs associated with equipment
guarantees provided under the project, services of claims an-
alysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system construc-
tion costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the purposes
set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106,
8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States Code,
where the estimated cost of a project is less than $4,000,000,
$175,000,000, to remain available until expended, along
with unobligated balances of previous ‘‘Construction, minor
projects’’ appropriations which are hereby made available
for any project where the estimated cost is less than
$4,000,000: Provided, That funds in this account shall be
available for: (1) repairs to any of the nonmedical facilities
under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Department
which are necessary because of loss or damage caused by
any natural disaster or catastrophe; and (2) temporary
measures necessary to prevent or to minimize further loss
by such causes.
PARKING REVOLVING FUND
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 8109, income from fees collected, to remain available
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until expended, which shall be available for all authorized
expenses except operations and maintenance costs, which
will be funded from ‘‘Medical care’’.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE
FACILITIES
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to re-
model, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care
to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131–8137,
$90,000,000, to remain available until expended.
GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS
CEMETERIES
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding,
or improving State veteran cemeteries as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2000 for
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’,
and ‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be trans-
ferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations.
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Department
of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2000 for salaries and ex-
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SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2000 shall be
available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X
of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 100–
86, except that if such obligations are from trust fund ac-
counts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation and pen-
sions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
during fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall, from the National Service Life Insurance Fund (38
U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans’ Special Life Insurance Fund
(38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Government Life
Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reimburse the ‘‘General
operating expenses’’ account for the cost of administration
of the insurance programs financed through those accounts:
Provided, That reimbursement shall be made only from the
surplus earnings accumulated in an insurance program in
fiscal year 2000, that are available for dividends in that
program after claims have been paid and actuarially deter-
mined reserves have been set aside: Provided further, That
if the cost of administration of an insurance program ex-
ceeds the amount of surplus earnings accumulated in that
program, reimbursement shall be made only to the extent
of such surplus earnings: Provided further, That the Sec-
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retary shall determine the cost of administration for fiscal
year 2000, which is properly allocable to the provision of
each insurance program and to the provision of any total
disability income insurance included in such insurance
program.
SEC. 108. (a) SENSE OF SENATE.—It is the sense of
the Senate that it should be the goal of the Department of
Veterans Affairs to serve all veterans equitably at health
care facilities in urban and rural areas.
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—(1) Not later than six
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees
on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives a report on the impact of the allocation of funds
under the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA)
funding formula on the rural subregions of the health care
system administered by the Veterans Health Administra-
tion.
(2) The report shall include the following:
(A) An assessment of impact of the allocation of
funds under the VERA formula on—
(i) travel times to veterans health care in
rural areas;
(ii) waiting periods for appointments for
veterans health care in rural areas;
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(iii) the cost associated with additional
community-based outpatient clinics;
(iv) transportation costs; and
(v) the unique challenges that Department
of Veterans Affairs medical centers in rural, low-
population subregions face in attempting to in-
crease efficiency without large economies of scale.
(B) The recommendations of the Secretary, if
any, on how rural veterans’ access to health care serv-
ices might be enhanced.
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available in this Act for the Medical Care appropriation
of the Department of Veterans Affairs may be obligated for
the realignment of the health care delivery system in VISN
12 until 60 days after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs cer-
tifies that the Department has (1) consulted with veterans
organizations, medical school affiliates, employee represent-
atives, State veterans and health associations, and other in-
terested parties with respect to the realignment plan to be
implemented, and (2) made available to the Congress and
the public information from the consultations regarding
possible impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care
services to affected veterans.
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SEC. 110. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) One of the most outrageous examples of the
failure of the Federal Government to honor its obliga-
tions to veterans involves the so-called ‘‘atomic vet-
erans’’, patriotic Americans who were exposed to ra-
diation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and at nuclear
test sites.
(2) For more than 50 years, many atomic vet-
erans have been denied veterans compensation for dis-
eases, known as radiogenic diseases, that the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs recognizes as being linked to
exposure to radiation. Many of these diseases are le-
thal forms of cancer.
(3) The Department of Veterans Affairs almost
invariably denies the claims for compensation of
atomic veterans on the grounds that the radiation
doses received by such veterans were too low to result
in radiogenic disease, even though many scientists
and former Under Secretary for Health Kenneth
Kizer agree that the dose reconstruction analyses con-
ducted by the Department of Defense are unreliable.
(4) Although the Department of Veterans Affairs
already has a list of radiogenic diseases that are pre-
sumed to be service-connected, the Department omits
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three diseases—lung cancer, colon cancer, and central
nervous system cancer—from that list, notwith-
standing the agreement of scientists that the evidence
of a link between the three diseases and low-level ex-
posure to radiation is very convincing and, in many
cases, is stronger than the evidence of a link between
such exposure and other radiogenic diseases currently
on that list.
(b) SENSE OF SENATE.—It is the sense of the Senate
that lung cancer, colon cancer, and brain and central nerv-
ous system cancer should be added to the list of radiogenic
diseases that are presumed by the Department of Veterans
Affairs to be service-connected disabilities.
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For activities and assistance to prevent the involun-
tary displacement of low-income families, the elderly and
the disabled because of the loss of affordable housing stock,
expiration of subsidy contracts (other than contracts for
which amounts are provided under another heading in this
Act) or expiration of use restrictions, or other changes in
housing assistance arrangements, and for other purposes,
$11,051,135,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
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vided, That of the total amount provided under this head-
ing, $10,855,135,000, of which $6,655,135,000 shall be
available on October 1, 1999 and $4,200,000,000 shall be
available on October 1, 2000, shall be for assistance under
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (‘‘The Act’’ herein)
(42 U.S.C. 1437) for use in connection with expiring or
terminating section 8 subsidy contracts, for enhanced
vouchers (including renewals) as provided under the ‘‘Pre-
serving Existing Housing Investment’’ account in the De-
partments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban De-
velopment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act,
1997 (Public Law 104–204) for families eligible for assist-
ance under such Act, and contracts entered into pursuant
to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assist-
ance Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may deter-
mine not to apply section 8(o)(6)(B) of the Act to housing
vouchers during fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That
of the total amount provided under this heading,
$156,000,000 shall be for section 8 rental assistance under
the Act including assistance to relocate residents of prop-
erties: (1) that are owned by the Secretary and being dis-
posed of; or (2) that are discontinuing section 8 project-
based assistance; for relocation and replacement housing for
units that are demolished or disposed of from the public
housing inventory (in addition to amounts that may be
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available for such purposes under this and other headings);
for the conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under
section 8; for funds to carry out the family unification pro-
gram; and for the relocation of witnesses in connection with
efforts to combat crime in public and assisted housing pur-
suant to a request from a law enforcement or prosecution
agency: Provided further, That of the total amount provided
under this heading, $40,000,000 shall be made available to
nonelderly disabled families affected by the designation of
a public housing development under section 7 of such Act,
the establishment of preferences in accordance with section
651 of the Housing and Community Development Act of
1992 (42 U.S.C. 1361l), or the restriction of occupancy to
elderly families in accordance with section 658 of such Act,
and to the extent the Secretary determines that such amount
is not needed to fund applications for such affected families,
to other nonelderly disabled families: Provided further, That
no funds under this heading may be used for Regional Op-
portunity Counseling: Provided further, That all balances
for the section 8 rental assistance, section 8 counseling, new
construction 
sub-rehabilitation, 
relocation/replacement/
demolition, section 23 conversions, rental and disaster
vouchers, loan management set-aside, section 514 technical
assistance, and programs previously funded within the
‘‘Annual Contributions’’ account shall be transferred to this
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account, to be available for the purposes for which they were
originally appropriated: Provided further, That all bal-
ances previously recaptured in the ‘‘Section 8 Reserve Pres-
ervation’’ account shall be transferred to this account, to
be available for the purposes for which they were originally
appropriated: Provided further, That the unexpended
amounts previously appropriated for special purpose grants
within the ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’
account shall be recaptured and transferred to this account,
to be available for assistance under the Act for use in con-
nection with expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy con-
tracts: Provided further, That of the amounts previously ap-
propriated for property disposition within the ‘‘Annual
Contributions for Assisted Housing’’ account, up to
$79,000,000 shall be transferred to this account, to be avail-
able for assistance under the Act for use in connection with
expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy contracts: Pro-
vided further, That of the unexpended amounts previously
appropriated for carrying out the Low-Income Housing
Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990 and
the Emergency Low-Income Housing Preservation Act of
1987, other than amounts made available for rental assist-
ance, within the ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Hous-
ing’’ and ‘‘Preserving Existing Housing Investments’’ ac-
counts, shall be recaptured and transferred to this account,
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to be available for assistance under the Act for use in con-
nection with expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy con-
tracts.
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to
carry out capital and management activities for public
housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1437), $2,555,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That of the total amount, up to $100,000,000
shall be for carrying out activities under section 9(d) of
such Act, and technical assistance for the inspection of pub-
lic housing units, contract expertise, and training and tech-
nical assistance directly or indirectly, under grants, con-
tracts, or cooperative agreements, to assist in the oversight
and management of public housing related to capital activi-
ties for lease adjustments to section 23 projects: Provided
further, That no funds may be used under this heading for
the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as in effect immediately before enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That all balances for
debt service for Public and Indian Housing and Public and
Indian Housing Grants previously funded within the ‘‘An-
nual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’ account shall be
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transferred to this account, to be available for the purposes
for which they were originally appropriated.
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For payments to public housing agencies for the oper-
ation and management of public housing, as authorized by
section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $2,900,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That no funds may be
used under this heading for the purposes specified in section
9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as in effect
immediately before enactment of this Act.
DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING
For grants to public housing agencies and Indian
tribes and their tribally designated housing entities for use
in eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized
by 42 U.S.C. 11901–11908, for grants for federally assisted
low-income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909, and for
drug information clearinghouse services authorized by 42
U.S.C. 11921–11925, $310,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That of the total amount provided
under this heading, up to $5,000,000 shall be solely for tech-
nical assistance, training, and program assessment for or
on behalf of public housing agencies, resident organizations,
and Indian tribes and their tribally designated housing en-
tities (including up to $250,000 for the cost of necessary
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travel for participants in such training): Provided further,
That of the amount provided under this heading,
$10,000,000 shall be used in connection with efforts to com-
bat violent crime in public and assisted housing under the
Operation Safe Home Program administered by the Inspec-
tor General of the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment: Provided further, That of the amount under this
heading, $10,000,000 shall be provided to the Office of In-
spector General for Operation Safe Home: Provided further,
That of the amount under this heading, $20,000,000 shall
be available for a program named the New Approach Anti-
Drug program which will provide competitive grants to en-
tities managing or operating public housing developments,
federally assisted multifamily housing developments, or
other multifamily housing developments for low-income
families supported by non-Federal governmental entities or
similar housing developments supported by nonprofit pri-
vate sources in order to provide or augment security (in-
cluding personnel costs), to assist in the investigation and/
or prosecution of drug related criminal activity in and
around such developments, and to provide assistance for the
development of capital improvements at such developments
directly relating to the security of such developments: Pro-
vided further, That grants for the New Approach Anti-Drug
program shall be made on a competitive basis as specified
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in section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development Reform Act of 1989: Provided further, That
the term ‘‘drug-related crime’’, as defined in 42 U.S.C.
11905(2), shall also include other types of crime as deter-
mined by the Secretary: Provided further, That none of the
funds under this heading may be awarded pursuant to a
Notice of Funding Availability which contains substantive
program changes unless such program changes have been
subject to review under notice and comment rulemaking:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 5130(c) of
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 11909(c)), the
Secretary may determine not to use any such funds to pro-
vide public housing youth sports grants.
REVITALIZATION OF SEVERELY DISTRESSED PUBLIC
HOUSING (HOPE VI)
For grants to public housing agencies for demolition,
site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based
assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937, $500,000,000 to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That for purposes
of environmental review pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969, a grant under this heading or
under prior appropriations Acts for use for the purposes
under this heading shall be treated as assistance under title
I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and shall be
subject to the regulations issued by the Secretary to imple-
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ment section 26 of such Act: Provided further, That none
of such funds shall be used directly or indirectly by granting
competitive advantage in awards to settle litigation or pay
judgments, unless expressly permitted herein.
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS
For the Native American Housing Block Grants pro-
gram, as authorized under title I of the Native American
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996
(NAHASDA) (Public Law 104–330), $620,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $4,000,000 shall
be used by the National American Indian Housing Council
and up to $2,000,000 by the Secretary to support the in-
spection of Indian housing units, contract expertise, train-
ing, and technical assistance in the oversight and manage-
ment of Indian housing and tenant-based assistance, in-
cluding up to $300,000 for related travel: Provided, That
of the amount provided under this heading, $6,000,000 shall
be made available for the cost of guaranteed notes and other
obligations, as authorized by title VI of NAHASDA: Pro-
vided further, That such costs, including the costs of modi-
fying such notes and other obligations, 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 the total principal amount of any notes and
other obligations, any part of which is to be guaranteed,
not to exceed $54,600,000: Provided further, That for ad-
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expended: Provided, That of the amount under this heading,
up to $3,000,000 shall be used to develop capacity at the
State and local level for developing rural housing and for
rural economic development and for maintaining a clear-
inghouse of ideas for innovative strategies for rural housing
and economic development and revitalization: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amount under this heading, at least
$22,000,000 which amount shall be awarded by June 1,
2000 to Indian tribes, State housing finance agencies, State
community and/or economic development agencies, local
rural nonprofits and community development corporations
to support innovative housing and economic development
activities in rural areas: Provided further, That all grants
shall be awarded on a competitive basis as specified in sec-
tion 102 of the HUD Reform Act.
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Hous-
ing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), $232,000,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the funds under this
heading shall be awarded on a priority basis to renew and
maintain existing programs funded under this heading:
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Provided further, That the Secretary may use up to 1 per-
cent of the funds under this heading for technical assistance.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For grants to States and units of general local govern-
ment and for related expenses, not otherwise provided for,
to carry out a community development grants program as
authorized by title I of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’ herein) (42
U.S.C. 5301), $4,800,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2002: Provided, That $67,000,000 shall be
for grants to Indian tribes notwithstanding section
106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000 shall be available as a
grant to the Housing Assistance Council, $2,000,000 shall
be available to support Alaska Native serving institutions
and native Hawaiian serving institutions as defined under
the Higher Education Act, as amended, $1,800,000 shall be
available as a grant to the National American Indian
Housing Council, and $45,500,000 shall be for grants pur-
suant to section 107 of the Act: Provided further, That all
funding decisions under section 107 except as specified here-
in shall be subject to a reprogramming request unless other-
wise specified in accordance with the terms and conditions
specified in the committee report accompanying this Act:
Provided further, That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant
made with funds appropriated herein (other than a grant
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made available in this paragraph to the Housing Assistance
Council or the National American Indian Housing Council,
or a grant using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the Hous-
ing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended)
shall be expended for ‘‘Planning and Management Develop-
ment’’ and ‘‘Administration’’ as defined in regulations pro-
mulgated by the Department: Provided further, That all
balances for the Economic Development Initiative grants
program, the John Heinz Neighborhood Development pro-
gram, grants to Self Help Housing Opportunity program,
and the Moving to Work Demonstration program previously
funded within the ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted
Housing’’ account shall be transferred to this account, to
be available for the purposes for which they were originally
appropriated.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$25,000,000 shall be made available for ‘‘Capacity Building
for Community Development and Affordable Housing,’’ for
LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activities as au-
thorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of
1993 (Public Law 103–120), as in effect immediately before
June 12, 1997, with not less than $5,000,000 of the funding
to be used in rural areas, including tribal areas.
Of the amount made available under this heading, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use up
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to $45,000,000 for supportive services for public housing
residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and not less than
$10,000,000 for grants for service coordinators and con-
gregate services for the elderly and disabled residents of pub-
lic and assisted housing: Provided further, That amounts
made available for congregate services and service coordina-
tors for the elderly and disabled under this heading and
in prior fiscal years may be used by grantees to reimburse
themselves for costs incurred in connection with providing
service coordinators previously advanced by grantees out of
other funds due to delays in the granting by or receipt of
funds from the Secretary, and the funds so made available
to grantees for congregate services or service coordinators
under this heading or in prior years shall be considered
as expended by the grantees upon such reimbursement. The
Secretary shall not condition the availability of funding
made available under this heading or in prior years for
congregate services or service coordinators upon any grant-
ee’s obligation or expenditure of any prior funding.
Of the amount made available under this heading, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, $42,500,000 shall
be available for YouthBuild program activities authorized
by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such activities
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shall be an eligible activity with respect to any funds made
available under this heading: Provided, That local
YouthBuild programs that demonstrate an ability to lever-
age private and nonprofit funding shall be given a priority
for YouthBuild funding: Provided further, That up to
$2,500,000 may be used for capacity buildings efforts.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$110,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic
Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of eco-
nomic development efforts, including $95,000,000 for mak-
ing individual grants for targeted economic investments in
accordance with the terms and conditions specified for such
grants in the committee report accompanying this Act.
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $29,000,000, as au-
thorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community De-
velopment Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec-
tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to
be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,261,000,000, notwith-
standing any aggregate limitation on outstanding obliga-
tions guaranteed in section 108(k) of the Housing and Com-
munity Development Act of 1974: Provided further, That
in addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the
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guaranteed loan program, $1,000,000, which shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for depart-
mental salaries and expenses.
The Secretary is directed to transfer the administra-
tion of the small cities component of the Community Devel-
opment Block Grant Program for fiscal year 2000 and all
fiscal years thereafter to the State of New York. No funds
under this heading may be made available to grantees until
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development transfers
the administration of the Small Cities component of the
Community Development Block Grants program to the
State of New York.
BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT
For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by
section 108(q) of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974, as amended, for Brownfields redevelopment
projects, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall make these grants available on a competitive
basis as specified in section 102 of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), as amended,
$1,600,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
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vided, That up to $20,000,000 of these funds shall be avail-
able for Housing Counseling under section 106 of the Hous-
ing and Urban Development Act of 1968: Provided further,
That all Housing Counseling program balances previously
appropriated in the ‘‘Housing Counseling Assistance’’ ac-
count shall be transferred to this account, to be available
for the purposes for which they were originally appro-
priated.
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For the emergency shelter grants program (as author-
ized under subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Act, as amended); the supportive hous-
ing program (as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of
such Act); the section 8 moderate rehabilitation single room
occupancy program (as authorized under the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended) to assist homeless indi-
viduals pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Act; and the shelter plus care program
(as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of such Act),
$1,020,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That not less than 30 percent of these funds shall
be used for permanent housing, and all funding for services
must be matched by 25 percent in funding by each grantee:
Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall conduct a review of any balances of
amounts provided under this heading in this or any pre-
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vious appropriations Act that have been obligated but re-
main unexpended and shall deobligate any such amounts
that the Secretary determines were obligated for contracts
that are unlikely to be performed and award such amounts
during this fiscal year: Provided further, That up to 1 per-
cent of the funds appropriated under this heading may be
used for technical assistance: Provided further, That all bal-
ances previously appropriated in the ‘‘Emergency Shelter
Grants,’’ ‘‘Supportive Housing,’’ ‘‘Supplemental Assistance
for Facilities to Assist the Homeless,’’ ‘‘Shelter Plus Care,’’
‘‘Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occu-
pancy,’’ and ‘‘Innovative Homeless Initiatives Demonstra-
tion’’ accounts shall be transferred to and merged with this
account, to be available for any authorized purpose under
this heading.
HOUSING PROGRAMS
HOUSING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
For assistance for the purchase, construction, acquisi-
tion, or development of additional public and subsidized
housing units for low income families not otherwise pro-
vided for, $911,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That $710,000,000 shall be for capital advances,
including amendments to capital advance contracts, for
housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the
Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for project rental
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assistance, and amendments to contracts for project rental
assistance, for the elderly under such section 202(c)(2), and
for supportive services associated with the housing of which
amount $50,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and
continuation of existing congregate services grants for resi-
dents of assisted housing projects, and for other eligible el-
derly persons residing in the neighborhood in which such
projects are located on an exception basis, and of which
amount $50,000,000 shall be for grants for conversion of
existing section 202 projects, or portions thereof, to assisted
living or related use, subject to the provision that the Sec-
retary shall select existing section 202 projects to receive
such assistance on a competitive basis based on a set of con-
ditions that take into account the need for and quality of
the proposed alterations, the extent to which the application
demonstrates the ability to complete the alterations prompt-
ly and successfully, past history of successful deliverance of
services to the elderly, and such other factors as the Sec-
retary deems appropriate: Provided further, That of the
amount under this heading, $201,000,000 shall be for cap-
ital advances, including amendments to capital advance
contracts, for supportive housing for persons with disabil-
ities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, for project rental assist-
ance, for amendments to contracts for project rental assist-
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ance, and supportive services associated with the housing
for persons with disabilities as authorized by section 811
of such Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may des-
ignate up to 25 percent of the amounts earmarked under
this paragraph for section 811 of such Act for tenant-based
assistance, as authorized under that section, including such
authority as may be waived under the next proviso, which
assistance is five years in duration: Provided further, That
the Secretary may waive any provision of such section 202
and such section 811 (including the provisions governing
the terms and conditions of project rental assistance and
tenant-based assistance) that the Secretary determines is
not necessary to achieve the objectives of these programs,
or that otherwise impedes the ability to develop, operate or
administer projects assisted under these programs, and may
make provision for alternative conditions or terms where
appropriate.
FLEXIBLE SUBSIDY FUND
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all uncom-
mitted balances of excess rental charges as of September 30,
1999, and any collections made during fiscal year 2000,
shall be transferred to the Flexible Subsidy Fund, as author-
ized by section 236(g) of the National Housing Act, as
amended.
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FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
FHA—MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
During fiscal year 2000, commitments to guarantee
loans to carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the Na-
tional Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan
principal of $120,000,000,000.
During fiscal year 2000, obligations to make direct
loans to carry out the purposes of section 204(g) of the Na-
tional Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed
$100,000,000: Provided, That the foregoing amount shall be
for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in connec-
tion with sales of single family real properties owned by
the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual Mort-
gage Insurance Fund: Provided further, That no amounts
made available to provide housing assistance with respect
to the purchase of any single family real property owned
by the Secretary or the Federal Housing Administration
may discriminate between public and private elementary
and secondary school teachers.
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the
guaranteed and direct loan program, $330,888,000, of
which not to exceed $324,866,000 shall be transferred to the
appropriation for departmental salaries and expenses; not
to exceed $4,022,000 shall be transferred to the appropria-
tion for the Office of Inspector General. In addition, for
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administrative contract expenses, $160,000,000: Provided,
That to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed
$49,664,000,000 on or before April 1, 2000, an additional
$1,400 for administrative contract expenses shall be avail-
able for each $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed loan
commitments (including a pro rata amount for any
amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made
available by this proviso exceed $16,000,000.
FHA—GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by sec-
tions 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1715z–3 and 1735c), including the cost of loan guarantee
modifications (as that term is defined in section 502 of the
Congressional 
Budget 
Act 
of 
1974, 
as 
amended),
$153,000,000, including not to exceed $153,000,000 from
unobligated balances previously appropriated under this
heading, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, of up to
$18,100,000,000: Provided further, That any amounts made
available in any prior appropriations Act for the cost (as
such term is defined in section 502 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974) of guaranteed loans that are obliga-
tions of the funds established under section 238 or 519 of
the National Housing Act that have not been obligated or
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that are deobligated shall be available to the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development in connection with the
making of such guarantees and shall remain available until
expended, notwithstanding the expiration of any period of
availability otherwise applicable to such amounts.
Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct
loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and
519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed
$50,000,000; of which not to exceed $30,000,000 shall be for
bridge financing in connection with the sale of multifamily
real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly in-
sured under such Act; and of which not to exceed
$20,000,000 shall be for loans to nonprofit and govern-
mental entities in connection with the sale of single-family
real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly in-
sured under such Act: Provided further, That no amounts
made available to provide housing assistance with respect
to the purchase of any single family real property owned
by the Secretary or the Federal Housing Administration
may discriminate between public and private elementary
and secondary school teachers.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the guaranteed and direct loan programs,
$211,455,000 (including not to exceed $147,000,000 from
unobligated balances previously appropriated under this