Pub. L. 88-560, tit. I, pt. 2, sec. 810

Sec. 810. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $500,000 annually, for a three-year period commencing on July 1, 1964, to be used by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator for the purpose of providing fellowships for the graduate training of professional city planning and urban and housing technicians and specialists as herein provided. Persons shall be selected for such fellowships solely on the oasis of ability and upon the recommendation of the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board estab- 78 Stat. 804 lished pursuant to subsection (b). Fellowships shall be solely for training in public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education having programs of graduate study in the field of city planning or in related fields (including architecture, civil engineering, economics, municipal finance, public administration, and sociology), which programs are oriented to training for careers in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, and community development. (b) There is hereby established the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”), which shall consist of nine members to be appointed by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator as follows: Three from public institutions of higher learning, and three from private nonprofit institutions of higher education, who are the heads of departments which provide academic courses appropriately related to the fields referred to in subsection (a), and three from national organizations which are directly concerned with problems relating to urban, regional, and community development. The Board shall meet upon the request of the Administrator and shall make recommendations to him with respect to persons to be selected for fellowships under this section. Members of the Board shall be entitled to receive transportation expenses and a per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized for members of advisory committees created pursuant to section 601 of the Housing Act of 1949.