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Also in this Section
(a) Enumeration of eligible activities
(b) Reimbursement of Secretary for administrative services
connected with rehabilitation of properties
(c) Activities benefiting persons of low and moderate income
(d) Training program
(e) Guidelines for evaluating and selecting economic development
projects
(f) Assistance to for -profit entities
(g) Microenterprise and small business program requirements
(h) Prohibition on use of assistance for employment relocation activities
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From the U.S. Code
[Laws In effect as oflanuary 20, 1999]
[CITE: 42USC5305]
a. Enumeration of eligible activities
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Activities assisted under this chapter may include only--
1. the acquisition of real property (including air rights,
water rights, and other interests therein) which is
A. blighted, deteriorated, deteriorating,
undeveloped, or inappropriately developed from
the standpoint of sound community development
and growth;
B. appropriate for rehabilitation or conservation
activities;
1 appropriate for the preservation or restoration of
historic sites, the beautification of urban land, the
conservation of open spaces, naturalresources, and
scenic areas, the provision of recreational
opportunities, or the guidance of urban
development;
3. to be used for the provision of public works,
facilities, and improvements eligible for assistance
under this chapter; or
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Title 42, Chapter 69 Contents
Sec. 5301 Congressional
findings and declaration of
purpose.
Sec. 5302 General provisions
Sec. 5303 Grants to States,
units of general local
government and Indian tribes
Sec. 5304 Statement of
activities and review
Sec. 5305 Activities eligible for
assistance
Sec. 5306 Allocation and
distribution of funds
Sec. 5307 Special purpose
grants
Sec. 5308 Guarantee and
commitment to guarantee loans
for acquisition of property
Sec. 5309 Nondiscrimination in
programs and activities
Sec. 5310 Labor standards;
rate of wages; exceptions;
enforcement powers
Sec. 5311 Remedies for
noncompliance with community
development requirements
Sec. 5312 Use of grants for
settlement of outstanding urban
renewal loans
Sec. 5313 Reporting
requirements
Sec. 5314 Consultation by
Secretary with other Federal
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4. to be used for other public purposes;
b. the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, or
installation (including design features and improvements
with respect to such construction, reconstruction, or
installation that promote energy efficiency) of public
works, facilities (except for buildings for the general
conduct of government), and site or other
improvements;
c. code enforcement in deteriorated or deteriorating areas
in which such enforcement, together with public or
private improvements or services to be provided, may
be expected to arrest the decline of the area;
d. clearance, demolition, removal, reconstruction, and
rehabilitation (including rehabilitation which promotes
energy efficiency) of buildings and improvements
(including interim assistance, and financing public or
private acquisition for reconstruction or rehabilitation,
and reconstruction or rehabilitation, of privately owned
properties, and including the renovation of closed school
buildings);
e. special projects directed to the removal of material and
architectural barriers which restrict the mobility and
accessibility of elderly and handicapped persons;
f. payments to housing owners for losses of rental income
incurred in holding for temporary periods housing units
to be utilized for the relocation of individuals and
families displaced by activities under this chapter;
g. disposition (through sale, lease, donation, or otherwise)
of any real property acquired pursuant to this chapter or
its retention for public purposes;
departments, etc
Sec. 5315 Interstate
agreements or compacts;
purposes
Sec. 5316 Transition
provisions
Sec. 5317 Liquidation of
superseded or inactive
programs
Sec. 5318 Urban development
action grants
Sec. 5319 Community
participation in programs
Sec. 5320 Historic
preservation requirements
Sec. 5321 Suspension of
requirements for disaster areas
Section 5318a (John Heinz
Neighborhood Development
Program) is not included
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h. provision of public services, including but not limited to
those concerned with employment, crime pre. v ncion,
child care, health, drug abuse, education, energy
conservation, welfare or recreation needs, if such
services have not been provided by the unit of general
local government -(through funds raised by such unit, or
received by such unit from the State in which it is
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located) during any part of the twelve-month period
immediately preceding the date of submission of the
statement with respect to which funds are to be made
available under this chapter, and which are to be used
for such services, unless the Secretary finds that the
discontinuation of such services was the result of events
not within the control of the unit of general local
government, except that not more than 15 per centum
of the amount of any assistance to a unit of general local
government (or in the case of nonentitled communities
not more than 15 per centum statewide) under this
chapter including program income may be used for
activities under this paragraph unless such unit of
general local government used more than 15 percent of
the assistance received under this chapter for fiscal year
1982 or fiscal year 1983 for such activities (excluding
any assistance received pursuant to Public Law 98-8), in
which case such unit of general local government may
use not more than the percentage or amount of such
assistance used for such activities for such fiscal year,
whichever method of calculation yields the higher
amount, except that of any amount of assistance under
this chapter (including program income) in each of fiscal
years 1993 through 2001 to the City of Los Angeles and
County of Los Angeles, each such unit of general
government may use not more than 25 percent in each
such fiscal year for activities under this paragraph, and
except that of any amount of assistance under this
chapter (including program income) in each of the fiscal
years 1999, 2000, and 2001, to the City of Miami, such
city may use not more than 25 percent in each fiscal
year for activities under this paragraph;
Section 218 of the Quality Housing and Work
Responsibility Act of 1998, title V of Public Law 105-276,
approved October 21, 1998 amended this paragraph by
striking "1998" and inserting "1999", as shown, to
extend the public services cap exception applicable to
the City and County of Los Angeles through the end of
fiscal year 1999. However, section 596 of such Act also
amended this paragraph, but by striking "1998" and
inserting "2000". The result of including both
amendments in the same Act is unclear.
i. payment of the non -Federal share required in connection
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