construction of replacement housing

construction of replacement housing Sec. 117. (a) Sections 510 and 511 of title 23, United States Code including all references thereto are hereby renumbered as sections 511 and 512 respectively. (b) Chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting immediately after section 509 the following new section: “§ 510. Construction of replacement housing “(a) The Secretary may approve as a part of the cost of construction of any project on any Federal-aid system the cost of (A) constructing new housing, (B) acquiring existing housing, (C) rehabilitating existing housing, and (D) relocating existing housing, as replacement housing for individuals and families where a proposed project on the Federal-aid system cannot proceed to actual construction because replacement housing is not available and cannot otherwise be made available as required by section 502 of this title. For the purposes of this subsection the term ‘housing’ includes all appurtenances thereto. “(b) State highway departments shall, wherever practicable, utilize the services of State or local governmental housing agencies in carrying out this section.” (c) The analysis of chapter 5 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding after “509. Relocation assistance programs on Federal highway projects.” the following: “510. Construction of replacement housing.” (d) The definition of the term “construction” in section 101(a) of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “The term ‘construction’ means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway, including locating, surveying, and mapping (including the establishment of temporary and permanent geodetic markers in accordance with specifications of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Department, of Commerce), acquisition of rights-of-way, relocation assistance, elimination of hazards of railway grade crossings, acquisition of replacement, housing sites, and acquisition, and rehabilitation, relocation, and construction of replacement housing.”