DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Housing Programs housing for the elderly or handicapped fund Of the amount provided for direct loan obligations under this head in title II, Public Law 101–144 (103 Stat. 839, 847), and subject to the provisos under that head, any part of such amount that is not obligated during fiscal year 1990 may be used for direct loan obligations thereafter. payments for operation of low-income housing projects (transfer of funds) For an additional amount for “Payments for operation of low-income housing projects’’, $72,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1991: Provided, That such amount shall be derived by transfer from “Annual contributions for assisted housing”, and the amount specified for the section 8 moderate rehabilitation program in the first proviso under that head in the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public Law 100–404, 102 Stat. 1014) shall be reduced by such amount. Community Planning and Development community development grants (including transfer of funds) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 by section 105(b) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, funds appropriated under the Community Development Grants heading of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990, pursuant to such section 107 shall be available for grants to Indian tribes. The paragraph under this head in title II of Public Law 101–144 (approved November 9, 1989) (103 Stat. 839, 849–850) is hereby amended by inserting, immediately before the final colon in the third proviso, a semicolon and the following: “and the amounts set forth for the 27 projects and purposes specified at page 19 (other than those three projects specified in this and the immediately preceding proviso) and for the first 10 projects specified on page 20, of the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference on H.R. 2916 (House Report 101–297), shall be made available for such projects and purposes”. The amount to be derived by transfer from the urban development action grants account to this head under Public Law 101–144 shall include all unobligated balances available at the end of fiscal year 1989: Provided, That such unobligated balances shall be made available for purposes authorized by section 106 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974: Provided further, That those amounts that are required to fund urban development action grant projects which have received preliminary approval in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall not be transferred: Provided further, That 104 STAT. 238 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall withhold from the amount subject to transfer such funds as may be necessary to comply with orders of United States Courts which direct the Secretary to set aside funds for possible future approval of grants to carry out urban development action grant programs authorized in section 119 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301). Of the amount that otherwise would be available under this head under Public Law 101–144 for technical assistance activities to be allocated at the discretion of the Secretary, under section 107(b)(4) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, $14,000,000 shall be made available under section 106 of such Act. administrative provisions Section 17(f) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437o(f) is amended by inserting after “or City of New York” the following: “or State of Vermont”. Section 17(d)(4)(G) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall not be applicable to the Beechwood Towers Housing Development Grant project, number PA008HG401, through December 31, 1990, and any cancellation of the grant resulting from the application of section 17(d)(4)(G) prior to December 31, 1990, shall be rescinded and the grant restored to the project.