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under such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration 
of— 
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property 
and all available Federal, State, and local resources, including 
rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’); 
and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in 
a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may contract for project- 
based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners 
of other existing housing properties, or provide other rental 
assistance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all properties cov-
ered by this section that are assessed through the Real Estate 
Assessment Center and have UPCS physical inspection scores of 
less than 60 or have received an unsatisfactory management and 
occupancy review within the past 36 months. The report shall 
include— 
(1) identification of the enforcement actions being taken 
to address such conditions, including imposition of civil money 
penalties and termination of subsidies, and identification of 
properties that have such conditions multiple times; 
(2) identification of actions that the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants of such 
identified properties; and 
(3) any administrative or legislative recommendations to 
further improve the living conditions at properties covered 
under a housing assistance payment contract. 
This report shall be submitted to the Senate and House Committees 
on Appropriations not later than 30 days after the enactment of 
this Act, and on the first business day of each Federal fiscal year 
quarter thereafter while this section remains in effect. 
SEC. 220. None of the funds made available by this Act, or 
any other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with 
respect to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 
9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et 
seq.), may be used by any public housing agency for any amount 
of salary, including bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, 
or any other official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual 
rate of basic pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive 
Schedule at any time during any public housing agency fiscal year 
2021. 
SEC. 221. None of the funds made available by this Act and 
provided to the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
may be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary notifies 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 
3 full business days before any project, State, locality, housing 
authority, Tribe, nonprofit organization, or other entity selected 
to receive a grant award is announced by the Department or its 
offices. 
SEC. 222. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 223. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 
be used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government 
National Mortgage Association, or the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal 
guarantee of any mortgage or mortgage backed security that
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refinances or otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject 
to eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, munici-
pality, or any other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 224. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to terminate the status of a unit of general local government 
as a metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with 
respect to grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 225. Amounts made available by this Act that are appro-
priated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable basis, or transferred 
to the Office of Policy Development and Research of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development and functions thereof, for 
research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and that are unex-
pended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately become avail-
able and may be reobligated in that fiscal year or the subsequent 
fiscal year for the research, evaluation, or statistical purposes for 
which the amounts are made available to that Office subject to 
reprogramming requirements in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 226. None of the funds provided in this Act or any other 
Act may be used for awards, including performance, special act, 
or spot, for any employee of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development subject to administrative discipline (including suspen-
sion from work), in this fiscal year, but this prohibition shall not 
be effective prior to the effective date of any such administrative 
discipline or after any final decision over-turning such discipline. 
SEC. 227. With respect to grant amounts awarded under the 
heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fiscal years 2015 through 
2021 for the Continuum of Care (CoC) program as authorized 
under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act, costs paid by program income of grant recipients may 
count toward meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, pro-
vided the costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the recipient’s 
CoC program. 
SEC. 228. (a) From amounts made available under this title 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’, the Secretary 
may award 1–year transition grants to recipients of funds for activi-
ties under subtitle C of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) to transition from one Continuum 
of Care program component to another. 
(b) In order to be eligible to receive a transition grant, the 
funding recipient must have the consent of the continuum of care 
and meet standards determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 229. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
to direct a grantee to undertake specific changes to existing zoning 
laws as part of carrying out the final rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively 
Furthering Fair Housing’’ (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) 
or the notice entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 
Assessment Tool’’ (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 2014)). 
SEC. 230. The Promise Zone designations and Promise Zone 
Designation Agreements entered into pursuant to such designations, 
made by the Secretary in prior fiscal years, shall remain in effect 
in accordance with the terms and conditions of such agreements. 
SEC. 231. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to establish and apply review criteria, including rating 
factors or preference points, for participation in or coordination
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with EnVision Centers, in the evaluation, selection, and award 
of any funds made available and requiring competitive selection 
under this Act, except with respect to any such funds otherwise 
authorized for EnVision Center purposes under this Act. 
SEC. 232. None of the funds made available by this or any 
prior Act may be used to require or enforce any changes to the 
terms and conditions of the public housing annual contributions 
contract between the Secretary and any public housing agency, 
as such contract was in effect as of December 31, 2017, unless 
such changes are mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and such 
agency: Provided, That such agreement by an agency may be 
indicated only by a written amendment to the terms and conditions 
containing the duly authorized signature of its chief executive: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may not withhold funds to 
compel such agreement by an agency which certifies to its compli-
ance with its contract. 
SEC. 233. None of the amounts made available in this Act 
may be used to consider Family Self-Sufficiency performance meas-
ures or performance scores in determining funding awards for pro-
grams receiving Family Self-Sufficiency program coordinator 
funding provided in this Act. 
SEC. 234. Any public housing agency designated as a Moving 
to Work agency pursuant to section 239 of division L of Public 
Law 114–113 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note; 129 Stat. 2897) may, upon 
such designation, use funds (except for special purpose funding, 
including special purpose vouchers) previously allocated to any such 
public housing agency under section 8 or 9 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, including any reserve funds held by the 
public housing agency or funds held by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development, pursuant to the authority for use of section 
8 or 9 funding provided under such section and section 204 of 
title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1996 (Public Law 104–134; 110 Stat. 1321–28), notwithstanding 
the purposes for which such funds were appropriated. 
SEC. 235. None of the amounts made available by this Act 
may be used to prohibit any public housing agency under receiver-
ship or the direction of a Federal monitor from applying for, 
receiving, or using funds made available under the heading ‘‘Public 
Housing Fund’’ for competitive grants to evaluate and reduce lead- 
based paint hazards in this Act or that remain available and not 
awarded from prior Acts, or be used to prohibit a public housing 
agency from using such funds to carry out any required work 
pursuant to a settlement agreement, consent decree, voluntary 
agreement, or similar document for a violation of the Lead Safe 
Housing or Lead Disclosure Rules. 
SEC. 236. There are hereby rescinded, from funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment—Housing Programs—Rental Housing Assistance’’— 
(1) all unobligated balances from recaptured amounts 
appropriated prior to fiscal year 2006 from terminated contracts 
under section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 
1715z–1(f)(2)), and any unobligated balances, including recap-
tures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated under 
such heading after fiscal year 2005; and 
(2) any funds remaining from amounts appropriated under 
such heading in the prior fiscal year.
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SEC. 237. None of the funds made available by this title may 
be used to issue rules or guidance in contravention of section 
210 of Public Law 115–254 (132 Stat. 3442) or section 312 of 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5155). 
SEC. 238. No later than September 30, 2021, the remaining 
unobligated balances of funds made available for the youth 
homelessness demonstration under the heading ‘‘Department of 
Housing and Urban Development—Community Planning and 
Development—Homeless Assistance Grants’’ in the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–6) are hereby perma-
nently rescinded, and an amount of additional new budget authority 
equivalent to the amount rescinded is hereby appropriated, to 
remain available until September 30, 2022, in addition to other 
funds as may be available for such purposes, and shall be available, 
without additional competition, for completing the funding of 
awards made pursuant to the fiscal year 2019 youth homelessness 
demonstration. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2021’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized 
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 792), 
$9,200,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds received 
for publications and training expenses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission 
as authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 
(46 U.S.C. 307), including services as authorized by section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles 
as authorized by section 1343(b) of title 31, United States Code; 
and uniforms or allowances therefore, as authorized by sections 
5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code, $30,300,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed $3,500 shall be for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General for 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out the provi-
sions of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 3),