SALARIES AND EXPENSES, OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL For necessary expenses of the Office of General Counsel, not othe wise provided for, $3,425,000. SALARIES AND EXPENSES, OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, not othe wise provided for, $6,626,000. ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF SERVICES For administrative expenses necessary in providing general admin istration and staff services within the Department, not otherwis provided for $18,928,000. REGIONAL MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES For necessary administrative expenses, not otherwise provided for of management and program coordination in the regional offices of th Department, $28,563,000. FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION DISASTER RELIEF For expenses necessary to carry out the functions of the Departmen of Housing and Urban Development under the Disaster Relief Act o 1970, as amended, the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1973, authorizing assistance to States and local govern ments in major disasters, $200,000,000, to remain available unti expended: Provided, That not to exceed 3 per centum of the foregoing amount shall be available for administrative expenses. TITLE II-SPACE, SCIENCE, VETERANS, AND CERTAIN OTHER INDEPENDENT AGENCIES VETERANS ADMINISTRATION PAYMENT OF PARTICIPATION SALES INSUFFICIENCIES For the payinent of such insufficiencies as may be required by th Government National Mortgage Association, as trustee, on account of outstanding beneficial interests or participation in Direct loan revolv ing fund assets or Loan guaranty revolving fund assets, authorized by the Independent Offices, and Department of Housing and Urban Devel opment Appropriation Act, 1968, to be issued pursuant to section 30% (c) of the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, a amended (12 U.S.C. 1717 (c)), $1,828,000. TITLE III-CORPORATIONS The following corporations and agencies, respectively, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND NONADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION For administrative expenses in carrying out duties imposed by or pursuant to law, not to exceed $13,803,000 of the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration shall be available, in accordance with the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701): Provided, That funds shall be available for contract actuarial services (not to exceed $1,500): Provided further, That nonadministrative expenses classified by section 2 of Public Law 387, approved October 25, 1949, shall not exceed $190,500,000. LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Not to exceed $8,080,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, which shall be on an accrual basis, and shall be exclusive of interest paid, expenses (including expenses for fiscal agency services performed on a contract or fee basis) in connection with the issuance and servicing of securities, depreciation, properly capitalized expenditures, fees for servicing mortgages, expenses (including services performed on a force account, contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, protection, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to said Association or in which it has an interest, cost of salaries, wages, travel, and other expenses of persons employed outside the continental United States, and all administrative expenses reimbursable from other Government agencies and from the Federal National Mortgage Association: Provided, That the distribution of administrative expenses to the accounts of the Association shall be made in accordance with generally recognized accounting principles and practices. TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I and II of this Act as expendable for travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts set forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted for the appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service System; to travel performed directly in connection with care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Veterans Administration; or to payments to interagency motor pools where separately set forth in the budget schedules. SEC. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the administrative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Selective Service System shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase of uniforms, or allowances thereof, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. SEC. 403. Funds made available for the Department of Housing and Urban Development under title III of this Act shall be available, without regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Association or Government National Mortgage Association, Federal reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal home loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1831). SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that do not share in the cost of conducting research resulting from proposals for projects not specifically solicited by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest of the grantee or contractor and the Government in the research. SEC. 405. No part of any appropriation, funds, or other authority contained in this Act shall be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Services Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard level user charge established pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for space and services. SEC. 406. No part of any appropriations contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Housing and Urban Development; Space, Science, Veterans, and Certain Other Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1975". Approved September 6, 1974. EXCERPTS FROM SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1975 [Public Law 93-554, 88 Stat. 1771] AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act may be cited as the "Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1975") for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I-CHAPTER I-DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT For contracts with and payments to States and units of general local government and for related expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying out a community development grant program as authorized by Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383, 88 Stat. 633), $2,125,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1977: Provided, That upon the date funds become available for obligation under said title, there shall be transferred to and merged with appropriations and authority provided under this head, the uncommitted balances of funds provided for fiscal year 1975 for "Urban Renewal Programs" and "Model Cities Programs": Provided further, That there is hereby appropriated an additional $50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1977, for urgent community development needs pursuant to section 103 (b) of said title. HOUSING PRODUCTION AND MORTGAGE CREDIT HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY OR HANDICAPPED The limitation on the aggregate loans that may be made under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, from the fund created by subsection (a) (4) (A) of such section, in accordance with subsection (a) (4) (C) of such section as added by section 210(d) (3) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, is hereby established in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, at a level of $100,000,000 in addition to the unobligated balance of the amounts heretofore appropriated to or otherwise deposited in such fund as of the end of month after the enactment of this paragraph. TITLE II-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 201. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. SEC. 202. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Services Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard level user charge established pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for space and services. SEC. 203. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or any other Act may be used to pay any expenses of any kind to send, ship, transmit, convey, or deliver any of the Presidential documents, written materials, or tape recordings of former President Richard M. Nixon from the custody of Federal officials or agencies now in possession of them until the passage by the Congress of legislation determining the disposition of said documents, written materials, and tape recordings: Provided, That this limitation shall expire on June 30, 1975: And provided further, That this limitation shall not prevent compliance with subpenas duly issued by State or Federal Courts or by the United States House of Representatives or the United States Senate. SEC. 204. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, appropriations provided in this or any other Act which would otherwise expire on June 30 of the calendar year 1976, or on such date of any subsequent calendar year, shall remain available until September 30 of each such calendar year. SEC. 205. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act which are available during the fiscal year 1975 for travel expenses, including subsistence allowances, of Government officers and employees may be obligated after the date of the enactment of this Act, at a rate for the balance of the fiscal year which exceeds 90 percent of the budget estimates for fiscal year 1975 for such expenses which were submitted for appropriations or otherwise provided by law: Provided, That none of the limitations on travel included in the regular appropriations for fiscal year 1975 shall be exceeded. Approved December 27, 1974. EXCERPTS FROM SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS [Public Law 94-32, 89 Stat. 173] DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS For grants to States and units of general local government, to be used only for expenses necessary for carrying out a community development grant program authorized by section 106 (d) (2) of title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, $54,625,000, to remain available until September 30, 1977. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOUSING PRODUCTION AND MORTGAGE CREDIT "Salaries and expenses, Housing production and mortgage credit programs", $140,000; "Limitation on administrative expenses, Federal Housing Administration" (increase of $427,000 in the limitation on administrative expenses); "Limitation on administrative expenses, Government National Mortgage Association" (increase of $33,000 in the limitation on administrative expenses); HOUSING MANAGEMENT "Salaries and expenses, Housing management programs", $697,000; |