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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of In-
spector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended, $112,000,000: Provided, That the In-
spector 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, $66,000,000, 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, 2008: 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 
in a financially safe and sound manner and complying 
with the capital requirements under Subtitle B of such Act: 
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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. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
SEC. 201. 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(42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded or in the case of 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of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded 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 
up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured 
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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 2008 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. 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 2008 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 2008 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 
2008 do not have the number of cases of acquired im-
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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 2008, 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 2008 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 
Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan 
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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 2008 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. 204. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pur-
suant to title II of this Act shall be made on a competitive 
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basis and in accordance with section 102 of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989. 
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 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-
ernment National Mortgage Association, Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Fed-
eral 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. 1811–1831). 
SEC. 206. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any ap-
propriation for the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall be available for any program, project or 
activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget esti-
mates submitted to Congress. 
SEC. 207. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are subject 
to the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, 
are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the 
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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 re-
gard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 
of such Act as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-
grams set forth in the budget for 2008 for such corporation 
or agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That 
collections of these corporations 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 guar-
anty operations of these corporations, or where loans or 
mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial 
interest of the United States Government. 
SEC. 208. None of the funds provided in this title for 
technical assistance, training, or management improve-
ments may be obligated or expended unless HUD provides 
to the Committees on Appropriations a description of each 
proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of the costs 
associated with each program, project or activity as part 
of the Budget Justifications. For fiscal year 2008, HUD 
shall transmit this information to the Committees by March 
15, 2008 for 30 days of review. 
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SEC. 209. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall provide quarterly reports to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all uncom-
mitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in each 
program and activity within the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment and shall submit additional, updated budget informa-
tion to these Committees upon request. 
SEC. 210. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the amount allocated for fiscal year 2008 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 Metro-
politan Division (hereafter ‘‘metropolitan division’’), shall 
be adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment by allocating to the State of New Jersey the propor-
tion of the metropolitan division’s amount that is based on 
the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the 
metropolitan division that is located in 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 
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 
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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 other-
wise would be allocated for fiscal year 2008 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 Statis-
tical 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 sta-
tistical area. 
(c) Notwithstanding section 854(c) of the AIDS Hous-
ing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development may adjust the alloca-
tion of the amounts that otherwise would be allocated for 
fiscal year 2008 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 eli-
gible grantee(s) of the allocation. In the case that a metro-
politan statistical area involves more than one State, such 
amounts allocated to each State shall be in proportion to 
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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 met-
ropolitan statistical area located in that State. 
SEC. 211. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall submit an annual report no later than August 
30, 2008 and annually thereafter to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations regarding the number of 
Federally assisted units under lease and the per unit cost 
of these units to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development. 
SEC. 212. The Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall submit the Department’s fiscal year 2009 
congressional budget justifications to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
using the identical structure provided under this Act and 
only in accordance with the direction specified in the report 
accompanying this Act. 
SEC. 213. Incremental vouchers previously made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’ or re-
newed under the heading, ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental Assist-
ance,’’ for non-elderly disabled families shall, to the extent 
practicable, continue to be provided to non-elderly disabled 
families upon turnover. 
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SEC. 214. 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 re-
quired 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 shall establish an advisory board of not less 
than 6 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 re-
lated to public housing and section 8. Such advisory board 
shall meet not less than quarterly. 
SEC. 215. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, subject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), for 
fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the Secretary may authorize 
the transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt and 
statutorily required low-income and very low-income use re-
strictions, associated with one or more multifamily housing 
project to another multifamily housing project or projects. 
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(b) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject 
to the following conditions: 
(1) the number of low-income and very low-in-
come units and the net dollar amount of Federal as-
sistance provided by the transferring project shall re-
main the same in the receiving project or projects; 
(2) the transferring project shall, as determined 
by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or eco-
nomically non-viable; 
(3) the receiving project or projects shall meet or 
exceed applicable physical standards established by 
the Secretary; 
(4) the owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
project shall notify and consult with the tenants re-
siding in the transferring project and provide a cer-
tification of approval by all appropriate local govern-
mental officials; 
(5) the tenants of the transferring project who re-
main eligible for assistance to be provided by the re-
ceiving project or projects shall not be required to va-
cate their units in the transferring project or projects 
until new units in the receiving project are available 
for occupancy; 
(6) the Secretary determines that this transfer is 
in the best interest of the tenants; 
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(7) if either the transferring project or the receiv-
ing project or projects meets the condition specified in 
subsection (c)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project 
resulting from additional financing obtained by the 
owner shall be subordinate to any FHA-insured mort-
gage lien transferred to, or placed on, such project by 
the Secretary; 
(8) if the transferring project meets the require-
ments of subsection (c)(2)(E), the owner or mortgagor 
of the receiving project or projects shall execute and 
record either a continuation of the existing use agree-
ment or a new use agreement for the project where, 
in either case, any use restrictions in such agreement 
are of no lesser duration than the existing use restric-
tions; 
(9) any financial risk to the FHA General and 
Special Risk Insurance Fund, as determined by the 
Secretary, would be reduced as a result of a transfer 
completed under this section; and 
(10) the Secretary determines that Federal liabil-
ity with regard to this project will not be increased. 
(c) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in-
come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the statute 
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and/or regulations governing the program under 
which the project is insured or assisted; 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 
means housing that meets one of the following condi-
tions— 
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
insured under the National Housing Act; 
(B) housing that has project-based assist-
ance attached to the structure including projects 
undergoing mark to market debt restructuring 
under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Housing Act; 
(C) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as amended by 
section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales National 
Affordable Housing Act; 
(D) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as such section 
existed before the enactment of the Cranston- 
Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; or 
(E) housing or vacant land that is subject 
to a use agreement; 
(3) the term ‘‘project-based assistance’’ means— 
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937; 
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(B) assistance for housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as 
such section existed immediately before October 
1, 1983); 
(C) rent supplement payments under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1965; 
(D) interest reduction payments under sec-
tion 236 and/or additional assistance payments 
under section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing 
Act; and, 
(E) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; 
(4) the term ‘‘receiving project or projects’’ 
means the multifamily housing project or projects to 
which the project-based assistance, debt, and statu-
torily required use low-income and very low-income 
restrictions are to be transferred; 
(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 
multifamily housing project which is transferring the 
project-based assistance, debt and the statutorily re-
quired low-income and very low-income use restric-
tions to the receiving project; and, 
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