(4) policies to prevent such destructive practices as blockbusting, redlining, resegregation, speculation in reviving neighborhoods, and to promote homeownership in urban communities:

(5) policies to encourage better maintenance and management of existing rental housing;

(6) policies to make maintenance and rehabilitation of existing structures at least as attractive from a tax viewpoint as demolition and development of new structures;

(7) modification in local zoning and tax policies to facilitate preservation and revitalization of existing neighborhoods; and

(8) reorientation of existing housing and community development programs and other tax and subsidy policies that affect neighborhoods, to better support neighborhood preservation efforts.

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(c) Not later than fifteen months after the date on which funds. st become available to carry out this title, the Commission shall subit to the Congress and the President a comprehensive report on its idy and investigation under this subsection which shall include its dings, conclusions, and recommendations and such proposals for gislation and administrative action as may be necessary to carry out › recommendations.

COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS

SEC. 205. (a) Members of the Commission who are Members of ongress or full-time officers or employees of the United States shall rve without additional compensation, but shall be reimbursed for avel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred in the perrmance of the duties vested in the Commission.

(b) Members of the Commission, other than those referred to in bsection (a), shall receive compensation at the rate of $100 per day r each day they are engaged in the actual performance of the duties sted in the Commission and shall be entitled to reimbursement for avel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred in the perrmance of such duties.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

SEC. 206. (a) The Commission shall have the power to appoint and the compensation of such personnel as it deems advisable, without gard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appintments in the competitive service, and the provisions of chapter and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title, relating to classificaon and General Schedule pay rates, but at rates not in excess of a aximum rate for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 f such title.

(b) The Commission may procure, in accordance with the provisions f section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, the temporary or interittent services of experts or consultants. Persons so employed shall eceive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Commission but not 1 excess of $100 per day, including traveltime. While away from his

1 Sec. 315, Housing and Community Development Amendments, Public Law 95-557, 92 tat. 2080, approved October 31, 1978, replaced "one year" and substituted in lieu thereof fifteen months."

or her home or regular place of business in the performance of serv ices for the Commission, any such person may be allowed travel erpenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 (b) of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Goernment service employed intermittently.

(c) Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the Unite States is authorized and directed to furnish to the Commission, upol. request made by the Chairman or Vice Chairman, on a reimbursable basis or otherwise, such statistical data, reports, and other informstion as the Commission deems necessary to carry out its functions under this title. The Chairman is further authorized to call upon the departments, agencies, and other offices of the several States to furnish on a reimbursable basis or otherwise, such statistical data, reports, and other information as the Commission deems necessary to carry out its functions under this title.

(d) The Commission may award contracts and grants for the purposes of evaluating existing neighborhood revitalization programs and the impact of existing laws on neighborhoods. Awards under this subsection may be made to

(1) representatives of legally chartered neighborhood orga nizations;

(2) public interest organizations which have a demonstrated capability in the area of concern; and

(3) universities and other not-for-profit educational organizations.

(e) The Commission or, on the authorization of the Commission. any subcommittee or member thereof, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title, hold hearings, take testimony, and administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before the Commission or any subcommittee or member thereof. Hearings by the Commission will be held in neighborhoods with testimony received from citizen leaders and public officials who are engaged in neighborhood revitalization programs.

AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 207. There are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $1,000,000 to carry out this title.

EXPIRATION OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 208. The Commission shall cease to exist thirty days after the submission of its report under section 204. Approved April 30, 1977.

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URBAN RENEWAL1

TITLE I, HOUSING ACT OF 1949, AS AMENDED [Public Law 171, 81st Congress; 63 Stat. 413, 414; 42 U.S.C. 1450] TITLE I-SLUM CLEARANCE AND URBAN RENEWAL ART A URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTS, DEMOLITION PROGRAMS, AND CODE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS

URBAN RENEWAL FUND

SEC. 100. The authorizations, funds, and appropriations available ursuant to sections 102 and 103 hereof shall constitute a fund, to be nown as the "Urban Renewal Fund", and shall be available for adances, loans, and grants to local public agencies for urban renewal projects in accordance with the provisions of this title, and all conracts, obligations, assets, and liabilities existing under or pursuant o said sections prior to the enactment of the Housing Act of 1954 are ereby transferred to said Fund.

LOCAL RESPONSIBILITIES

SEC. 101. (a) In entering into any contract for advances for sureys, plans, and other preliminary work for projects under this title rfor grants pursuant to section 103 (d), the Secretary shall give consideration to the extent to which appropriate local public bodies have undertaken positive programs (through the adoption, modernizaion, administration, and enforcement of housing, zoning, building and other local laws, codes and regulations relating to land use and dequate standards of health, sanitation, and safety for buildings, including the use and occupancy of dwellings) for (1) preventing the spread or recurrence in the community of slums and blighted areas, and (2) encouraging housing cost reductions through the use of appropriate new materials, techniques, and methods in land and residenial planning, design, and construction, the increase of efficiency in residential construction, and the elimination of restrictive practices which unnecessarily increase housing costs.

Urban Renewal laws for certain territories and other Jurisdictions which are not part of the United States can be found in Part I and public housing.

Sec. 501(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 518, inserted this heading.

Sec. 417(1), Housing Act of 1959, Public Law 86-372, approved September 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 654, 676, substituted "grants" for "capital grants".

Sec. 417(2), Housing Act of 1959, Public Law 86-372, approved September 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 654, 677, inserted "or for grants pursuant to section 103(d)".

Sec. 6, Public Law 90-19, approved May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 17, 21, substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator" throughout uitle I in order to make it conform to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act which placed all functions of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator in the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

(b) In the administration of this title, the Secretary shall encourage the operations of such local public agencies as are established on a State, or regional (within a State), or unified metropolitan basis or as are established on such other basis as permits such agencies to contribute effectively toward the solution of community development or redevelopment problems on a State, or regional (within a State), or unified metropolitan basis. The Secretary shall particularly encourage the utilization of local public agencies established by the States to operate on a statewide basis in behalf of smaller communities within the State which are undertaking or propose to undertake urban renewal programs whenever that arrangement facilitates the undertaking of an urban renewal program by any such community, or provides an effective solution to community development or redevelopment problems in such communities, and is approved by resolution or ordinance of the governing bodies of the affected communities.

(c)2 No contract shall be entered into for any loan or capital grant under this title, unless (1) there is presented to the Secretary by the locality a workable program for community improvement (which shall include an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time, for effectively dealing with the problem of urban slums and blight within the community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned community with well-organized residential neighborhoods of decent homes and suitable living environment for adequate family life) for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, deteriorated, or slum areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible community activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such a program, and (2) on the basis of his review of such program, the Secre tary determines that such program meets the requirements of this subsection and certifies that the Federal assistance may be made available in such community: Provided,3 That commencing three years after the date of enactment of the Housing Act of 1964 or, in 5 the case of an Indian tribe, band, or nation, commencing January 1, 1970; no workable program shall be certified or recertified unless (A) the locality has had in effect, for at least six months prior to such certification or recertification, a minimum standard housing code, related but not limited to health, sanitation, and occupancy requirements, which is deemed adequate by the Secretary, and (B) the Secretary is satisfied that the locality is carrying out an effective program of enforcement to achieve compliance with such housing code. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of a contract with an Indian tribe,

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1 This sentence added by sec. 401, Housing Act of 1959, Public Law 86-372, approved September 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 654, 670.

2 Sec. 217, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969, Public Law 91-152, approved December 24, 1969, 83 Stat. 379, 390, amended section 101 (c) to eliminate the workable program requirement for low-rent public housing and section 221 (d) (3) projects: set 101 (c) is also amended by the "Supplemental Housing Authorization Act of 1977," Publis Law 95-24, approved April 30, 1977, to read as set forth in the text.

3 Sec. 301 (a), Housing Act of 1964, Public Law 88-560, approved September 2, 1964. 78 Stat. 769, 785, added this proviso.

September 2, 1964.

Sec. 513. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 525, added "in the case of an Indian Tribe, band, or nation. commencing January 1, 1970".

This sentence added by sec. 302(b), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1963 Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 474.

and, or nation (or a public housing or other public agency for such ribe, band, or nation established under State or tribal law), the workble program and minimum standards housing code, referred to in the receding sentence, may be presented to the Secretary by such tribe, and, or nation, and it shall be subject to the requirements of law with espect to such program and code only to the extent that such tribe, and, or nation has the legal jurisdiction and power to carry out such equirements.

(d) The Secretary is authorized to establish facilities (1) for furishing to communities, at their request, an urban renewal service to ssist them in the preparation of a workable program as referred to 1 the preceding subsection and to provide them with technical and rofessional assistance for planning and developing local urban rewal programs (including rehabilitation projects requiring no addional assistance under this title or self-liquidating redevelopment rojects), and (2) for the assembly, analysis and reporting of inforation pertaining to such programs.

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(e) No loan or grant contract may be entered into by the Secretary or an urban renewal project unless he determines that (1) the workble program for community improvement presented by the locality ursuant to subsection (c) is of sufficient scope and content to furnish basis for evaluation of the need for the urban renewal project; and 2) such project is in accord with the program.

LOANS

SEC. 102. (a) To assist local communities in the elimination of slums nd blighted or deteriorated or deteriorating areas, in preventing the pread of slums, blight or deterioration, and in providing maximum pportunity for the redevelopment, rehabilitation, and conservation f such areas by private enterprise, the Secretary may make temorary and definitive loans to local public agencies in accordance with he provisions of this title for the undertaking of urban renewal rojects. Such loans (outstanding at any one time) shall be in such mounts not exceeding the estimated expenditures to be made by the ocal public agency for 3 such purposes, bear interest at such rate (not ess than the applicable going Federal rate), be secured in such manner nd be repaid within such period (not exceeding, in the case of definiive loans, forty years from the date of the bonds or other obligaions evidencing such loans), as may be deemed advisable by the Secetary. In any case where, in connection with its undertaking and arrying out of an urban renewal project, a local public agency is uthorized (under the circumstances in which the temporary loan erein provided is requested) to acquire real property in the urban reewal area, the Secretary, in addition to all other authority under his title and notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, reardless of the stage of development of the urban renewal plan and hether before or after the approval thereof, may make a temporary

1 Sec. 302. Housing Act of 1964, Public Law 88-560, approved September 2, 1964, 78 tat. 769. 785, inserted this parenthetical phrase. 2 Sec. 302 (a) (1). Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 80-117, pproved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 474, added subsec. (e).

Sec. 302(a) (2) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 provided that the equirements imposed by subsec. (e) shall not be applicable to any project which received ederal recognition prior to the date of the enactment of this Act August 10, 1965). 3 Sec. 402 (a), Housing Act of 1959, Public Law 86-372, approved September 23, 1959, 3 Stat. 654, 671, substituted "for such purposes" for "as part of the gross project cost". This sentence added by sec. 403, Housing Act of 1959, Public Law 86-372, approved September 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 654, 671.