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administration Sec. 808. (a) The authority and responsibility for administering this Act shall be in the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (b) The Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be provided an additional Assistant Secretary. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (Public Law 89–174, 79 Stat. 667) is hereby amended by— (1) striking the word “four,” in section 4(a) of said Act (79 Stat. 668; 5 I \S.(\ 624b(a)) and substituting therefor “five,”; and (2) striking the word “six,” in section 7 of said Act (79 Stat. 669; 5 U.S.C. 624(c)) and substituting therefor “seven.” (c) The Secretary may delegate any of his functions, duties, and powers to employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development or to boards of such employees, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to any work, business, or matter under this title. The persons to whom such delegations are made with respect to hearing functions, duties, and powers shall be appointed and shall serve in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in compliance with sections 3105, 3344, 5362, and 7521 of title 5 of the United States Code. Insofar as possible, conciliation meetings shall be held in the cities or other localities where the discriminatory housing practices allegedly occurred. The Secretary shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his hearing examiners to other hearing examiners or to other officers in the Department, to boards of officers or to himself, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with law. (d) All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development 82 Stat. 85in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of this title and shall cooperate with the Secretary to further such purposes. (e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall— (1) make studies with respect to the nature and extent of discriminatory housing practices in representative communities, urban, suburban, and rural, throughout the United States; (2) publish and disseminate reports, recommendations, and information derived from such studies; (3) cooperate with and render technical assistance to Federal, State, local, and other public or private agencies, organizations, and institutions which are formulating or carrying on programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices: (4) cooperate with and render such technical and other assistance to the Community Relations Service as may be appropriate to further its activities in preventing or eliminating discriminatory housing practices; and (5) administer the programs and activities relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively to further the policies of this title.