REDUCTION OF VULNERABILITY TO ATTACK

EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING ACT OF 1954

[Public Law 560, 83d Congress, 68 Stat. 590, 646; 12 U.S.C. 1701n] SEC. 811. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, and any other departments or agencies of the Federal Government having powers, functions, or duties with respect to housing under this or any other law shall exercise such powers, functions, or duties in such manner as, consistent with the requirements thereof, will facilitate progress in the reduction of the vulnerability of congested urban areas to enemy attack.

Approved August 2, 1954.

ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN JOINTLY FUNDED

PROJECTS

Executive Order 11466

[34 Fed. Reg. 6727]

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 612 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2962), section 406 of the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3886) and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget is authorized to designate, from time to time, projects for joint funding under section 612 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2962), and section 406 of the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3886). The Director of the Bureau of the Budget is also authorized to designate, or provide criteria for the designation of, one Federal agency to act for all participating agencies in administering any such jointly funded project.

SEC. 2. Any Federal agency designated pursuant to section 1 of this order to administer any jointly funded project may waive any technical grant or contract requirement which is inconsistent with such agency's similar requirements or which such agency does not impose, except that no waiver of requirements may be made which (1) would materially affect or change the character or purpose of such project, or (2) does not have the concurrence of the agency which imposed such requirement and advanced the funds for such project. For the purposes of this section, the term "technical grant or contract requirement" means any requirement imposed by administrative regulation or order.

SEC. 3. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget is authorized to prescribe such additional regulations, not inconsistent with those prescribed herein, as he may deem necessary to implement section 612 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended, section 406 of the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968, and this

order.

SEC. 4. In carrying out the provisions of this order, the Director the Bureau of the Budget shall from time to time consult with participating Federal agencies as may be appropriate.

SEC. 5. Nothing in this order shall be deemed to limit or restrict other authority which any Federal agency may possess by law, reg tion, or order to initiate or participate in common or jointly fun projects, programs, activities, or functions.

THE WHITE HOUSE, April 18, 1969.

RICHARD NIXON

RECORDS, SPECIFICATIONS AND AUDITS REQUIRED CONNECTION WITH LOANS, ADVANCES, GRANTS CONTRIBUTIONS (BYRD AMENDMENT)

EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING ACT OF 1954

[Public Law 560, 83d Congress; 68 Stat. 590, 647; 12 U.S.C. 1701n]

RECORDS

SEC. 814. Every contract between the Department of Housing a Urban Development and any person or local body (including any c poration or public or private agency or body) for a loan, advan grant, or contribution under the United States Housing Act of 1937, amended, the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, or1 any other oth act shall provide that such person or local body shall keep such recor as the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall fro time to time prescribe, including records which permit a speedy a effective audit and will fully disclose the amount and disposition such person or local body of the proceeds of the loan, advance, gra or contribution, or any supplement thereto, the capital cost of any co struction project for which any such loan, advance, grant, or contrib tion is made, and the amount of any private or other non-Feder funds used or grants-in-aid made for or in connection with any su project. No mortgage covering new or rehabilitated multifamily hou ing (as defined in section 227 of the National Housing Act, amended) shall be insured unless the mortgagor certifies that he w keep such records as are prescribed by the Secretary of Housing an Urban Development at the time of the certification and that they w be kept in such form as to permit a speedy and effective audit. The D partment of Housing and Urban Development and the Comptroll General of the United States shall have access to and the right to e amine and audit such records. This section shall become effective on t first day after the first full calendar month following the date of a proval of the Housing Act of 1961.3

APPLICANTS FOR ASSISTANCE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT SPECIFICATIONS

SEC. 815. Repealed. Every contract for a loan, grant, or contrib tion under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended,

1 Sec. 908, Housing Act of 1961, Public Law 87-70, approved June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 14 192. inserted "or any other Act."

2 Sec. 908, Housing Act of 1961, Public Law 87-70, approved June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 14 192, inserted "and the Comptroller General of the United States."

3 Sec. 908, Housing Act of 1961, Public Law 87-70, approved June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 14 192, substituted "1961" for "1954."

Sec. 204 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Public Law 93–38 88 Stat. 633, approved August 22, 1974, repealed this section.

title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, for the construction of a project shall require the submission of specifications with respect to such construction prior to the authorization for the award of the construction contract and the submission of data with respect to the acquisition of land prior to the authorization to acquire such land.

AUDITS UNDER PUBLIC HOUSING ACT OF 1937; COMPTROLLER GENERAL SEC. 816. Every contract for loans or annual contributions under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, shall provide that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall, for the purpose of audit and examination, have access to any books, documents, papers, and records of the public housing agency entering into such contract that are pertinent to its operations with respect to financial assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended.

Approved August 2, 1954.

PRESIDENT'S FUNCTIONS DELEGATED TO HOUSING

ADMINISTRATOR

Executive Order 11196

[30 Fed. Reg. 1171]

PROVIDING FOR THE PERFORMANCE BY THE HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS VESTED IN OR SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows

SECTION 1. The Housing and Home Finance Administrator is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the following:

(1) The authority vested in the President by Section 6(d) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 50 Stat. 888 (42 U.S.C. 1406 (d)), to approve the undertaking by the Public Housing Administration of any annual contribution, grant, or loan, or any contract for any annual contribution, grant, or loan, under that Act.

(2) The authority vested in the President by Section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 50 Stat. 895 (42 U.S.C. 1414), to approve the amending or superseding of any contract for annual contributions or loans, or both, so that the going Federal rate on the basis of which such annual contributions or the interest rate on the loans, or both, respectively, are fixed shall mean the going Federal rate on the date of approval of the amending or superseding contract entered into by the Public Housing Administration.

(3) The authority vested in the Housing and Home Finance Administrator by Section 103(b) of the Housing Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 416 (42 U.S.Č. 1453(b)), to contract, with the approval of the President, to make grants under Title I of that Act.

(4) The authority vested in the President by Title II of the Act of

June 28, 1940, ch. 440, 54 Stat. 681 (42 U.S.C. 1501-1505), to determi that housing administered or assisted by the Public Housing Admi istration under that Title is no longer needed to assure the availabili of dwellings for persons engaged in national-defense activities: P vided, That determinations under this paragraph shall require the co currence of the Secretary of Defense.

(5) The authority vested in the President by Section 5 of the Act June 29, 1936, ch. 860, 49 Stat. 2026, to approve the dedication by t Public Housing Commissioner of streets, alleys, and parks for pub use, and the granting by the Commissioner of easements, in connecti with any low-cost housing or slum-clearance project described in th Act.

(6) The authority vested in the President by Section 57 of t Alaska Omnibus Act (added by Public Law 88-451 of August 1964, 78 Stat. 507), (A) to make the grants to the State of Alas provided for in that Section, (B) to approve a plan submitted by t State of Alaska for the implementation of the purpose of that Sectio (C) to specify reports to be made by the agency designated by t State of Alaska in accordance with that Section and to prescri the form of, and information to be contained in, such reports, an (D) to demand access to the records upon which such reports a based.

SEC. 2. The following are hereby superseded:

(1) Part III of Executive Order No. 10530 of May 10, 1954. (2) Executive Order No. 10573 of October 26, 1954.

(3) Executive Order No. 10852 of November 27, 1959.

(4) So much of Executive Order No. 11184 of October 13, 1964, added paragraph (g) to Section 4 of Executive Order No. 10530 May 10, 1954.

SEC. 3. (a) References in this Order to any statute or to any pr vision of any statute shall be deemed to include (1) to the extent n inappropriate, references thereto as amended from time to time, (2) i the cases of Sections 1(1), 1(2), 1(4), and 1(5) of this Order, refe ences to Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1947 (61 Stat. 954), and (3) the case of Section 1(5) of this Order, a reference to Executive Orde No. 7732 of October 27, 1937.

(b) Unless inappropriate, any reference in any Executive order t any Executive order which is superseded by this Order, or to an Executive order provision so superseded, shall hereafter be deemed t refer to this Order or to the provision of Section 1 hereof, if any which corresponds to the superseded provision.

SEC. 4. All actions heretofore taken by the President or by his dele gate in respect of the matters affected by Section 1 of this Order an in force at the time of the issuance of this Order shall, except as the may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Order, remain in effec until amended, modified, or revoked pursuant to the authority con ferred by this Order unless sooner terminated by operation of law.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 2, 1965.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON.

SPECIAL ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR COOPERATIVE

HOUSING 1

EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING AMENDMENTS OF 1955

[Public Law 345, 84th Cong, 69 Stat. 636; 12 U.S.C. 1715e]

SEC. 102.

(h) In the performance of, and with respect to, the functions, powers, and duties vested in him by section 213 of the National Housing Act, section 221(d)(3), section 235,2 section 236, section 241, section 243, section 246, and section 203 (n) of the National Housing Act, and section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 or section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 19372 (insofar as the provisions of such sections relate to cooperative housing), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, shall appoint a Special Assistant for Cooperative Housing, and provide the Special Assistant with adequate staff, whose sole responsibility will be to expedite operations under such sections and to eliminate obstacles to the full utilization of such sections under the direction and supervision of the Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing Management." The person so appointed shall be fully sympathetic with the purposes of such sections.

Approved August 11, 1955.

EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED FROM STRIKING

EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING ACT OF 1949

[Public Law 171, 81st Cong., 63 Stat. 413, 438; 42 U.S.C. 1445 Rep.]

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 612. No part of any appropriation, loan, fund, or expenditure authorized by or provided pursuant to this Act, shall be used directly or indirectly to pay the salary or wages of any officer or employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Agriculture who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organiza

A provision in sec. 213 (f) of the National Housing Act, as amended, authorizing the appointment of an Assistant Commissioner for cooperative housing administration was deleted by sec. 120 of the Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83d Congress, approved August 2, 1954, 68 Stat. 590, 596. The First Independent Offices Appropriation Act of 1954, Public Law 176, 83d Congress, approved July 31, 1953, 67 Stat. 298, 315, had previously provided that the position was no longer authorized.

Sec. 1020 (h), Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, approved November 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 1255, 1296, reenacted this section which in effect had been repealed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act. The 1966 Act also amended this section to add to the duties of the Special Assistant for Cooperative Housing, the cooperative housing programs under sec. 221(d) (3) of the National Housing Act, and cooperatives receiving rent supplements under sec. 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965.

Sec. 18(1) of the Housing Authorization Act of 1976, Public Law 94-375, approved August 3, 1976. 90 Stat. 1067, amended section 102 (h) of the Housing Amendments of 1955, by inserting after "section 221(d) (3)" a comma and the following: "section 235, section 236, section 241, section 243, section 246. and section 203 (n)"; sec. 18(2) further amended this section by inserting immediately after "Housing and Urban Development Act of 1985" the following: "or section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937"; sec. 18(3) further amended this section by inserting before the period "and Assistant Secretary for Housing Management".