SITE CONTROL.

SEC. 450. SITE CONTROL. (a) Requirement.— (1) In general.— Section 424(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11384(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: “(3) The Secretary shall require that an application furnish reasonable assurances that the applicant will own or have control of a site for the proposed project not later than 6 months after notification of an award for grant assistance. An applicant may obtain ownership or control of a suitable site different from the site specified in the application. If an applicant fails to obtain ownership or control of the site within 1 year after notification of an award for grant assistance, the grant shall be recaptured and reallocated.”. (2) Effective date.— The amendment made by paragraph (1) applies to notifications of awards for grants made under subtitle C of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act on or after November 1, 1987. (b) Priority.— Section 424(b) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11384(b)) (as amended by section 448 of this subtitle) is further amended— (1) by striking “and” at the end of paragraph (7); (2) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and (3) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following new paragraph: “(8) the extent to which the applicant or project sponsor has control of the site of the proposed project; and”.