TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS See also: EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING ACT OF 1964 Page No. 393 424 TITLE VIII-TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS PART 1-FEDERAL-STATE TRAINING PROGRAMS FINDINGS AND PURPOSE SEC. 801. (a) The Congress finds that the rapid expansion of the Nation's urban areas and urban population has caused severe problems in urban and suburban development and created a national need to (1) provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development and (2) support research in new or improved methods of dealing with community development problems. (b) It is the purpose of this part to assist and encourage the States, in cooperation with public or private universities and colleges and urban centers, to (1) organize, initiate, develop, and expand programs which will provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development to those technical and professional people who are, or are training to be, employed by a governmental or public body which has responsibility for community development; and (2) support State and local research that is needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems. MATCHING GRANTS TO STATES SEC. 802. (a) Subject to the provisions of this part and in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, the Administrator may make matching grants to States to assist in (1) organizing, initiating, developing, or expanding programs to provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development to those technical and professional people who are, or are training to be, employed by a governmental or public body which has responsibilities for community development; and (2) supporting State and local research that is needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems, and collect ing, collating, and publishing statistics and information relating to such research. (b) No grants may be made to a State under this part unless the Administrator has approved a plan for the State which— (1) sets forth the proposed use of the funds and the objectives to be accomplished; (2) explains the method by which the required amounts from non-Federal sources will be obtained; (3) provides such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be reasonably necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds paid to the State under this part; (4) designates an officer or agency of the State government who has responsibility and authority for the administration of a statewide research and training program as the officer or agency with responsibility and authority for the execution of the State program under this part; and (5) provides that such officer or agency will make such reports to the Administrator, in such form, and containing such information, as may be reasonably necessary to enable the Administrator to perform his duties under this part. (c) No grant may be made under this part for any use unless an amount at least equal to such grant is made available from non-Federal sources for the same purpose and for concurrent use. (d) There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this part, without fiscal year limitation, not to exceed $30,000,000.1 STATE LIMIT SEC. 803. Not more than 10 per centum of the total amount appropriated for the purposes of this part may be used for making grants to any one State. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, STUDIES, AND PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION SEC. 804. In order to carry out the purpose of this part, the Administrator is authorized to provide technical assistance to State and local governmental or public bodies and to undertake such studies and publish and distribute such information, either directly or by contract, as he shall determine to be desirable. Nothing contained in this part shall limit any authority of the Administrator under any other provision of law. MISCELLANEOUS SEC. 805. (a) As used in this part, the term "State" means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; and the term "Administrator" means the Housing and Home Finance Administrator. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative and other expenses in carrying out this part. 1 Sec. 1103 (a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 503, substituted "$30,000,000" for "$10,000,000". PART 2-FELLOWSHIPS FOR CITY PLANNING AND URBAN STUDIES 1 SEC. 810. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $500,000 annually, for a three-year period commencing on July 1, 1964, to be used by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator for the purpose of providing fellowships for the graduate training of professional city planning and urban and housing technicians and specialists as herein provided. Persons shall be selected for such fellowships solely on the basis of ability and upon the recommendation of the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board established pursuant to subsection (b). Fellowships shall be solely for training in public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education having programs of graduate study in the field of city planning or in related fields (including architecture, civil engineering, economics, municipal finance, public administration, and sociology), which programs are oriented to training for careers in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, and community development. (b) There is hereby established the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board (hereinafter referred to as the "Board"), which shall consist of nine members to be appointed by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator as follows: Three from public institutions of higher learning, and three from private nonprofit institutions of higher education, who are the heads of departments which provide academic courses appropriately related to the fields referred to in subsection (a), and three from national organizations which are directly concerned with problems relating to urban, regional, and community development. The Board shall meet upon the request of the Administrator and shall make recommendations to him with respect to persons to be selected for fellowships under this section. Members of the Board shall be entitled to receive transportation expenses and a per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized for members of advisory committees created pursuant to section 601 of the Housing Act of 1949. Approved September 2, 1964. 1 The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1967, approved September 6, 1966, Public Law 89-555, 80 Stat. 663, appropriated $500,000 (from funds previously made available for urban renewal grants) for fellowships. 283 317, 320 467 Sec. 7, Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964.... Sec. 12, Highway Act of 1966 (study). Sec. 15(8), United States Housing Act of 1937 Secs. 114 and 117, Housing Act of 1949_ Sec. 107, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 Sec. 404, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965. EXCERPTS FROM SMALL BUSINESS ACT [Public Law 536, 85th Congress; 15 U.S.C. 631] SEC. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Small Business Act." SEC. 2. (a) The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small business is encouraged and developed. It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government (including but not limited to contracts or subcontracts for maintenance, repair, and construction) be placed with small-business enterprises, to insure that a fair proportion of the total sales of Government property be made to such enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.1 (b) Further, it is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid and assist victims of floods and other catastrophes, and small-business concerns which are displaced as a result of federally aided construction programs.2 SEC. 3. For the purposes of this Act, a small-business concern shall be deemed to be one which is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field of operation. In addition to the foregoing criteria the Administrator, in making a detailed definition may use these criteria, among others: Number of employees and dollar volume of business. Where the number of employees is used as one of the criteria in making such definition for any of the purposes of this The subcontracts of contractors performing work or rendering services under Government procurement contracts were included within the policy statements of this section by sec. 6 of Public Law 87-305. The last 15 words of this subsection added by sec. 305 (b) of Public Law 87-70. Act, the maximum number of employees which a small-business concern may have under the definition shall vary from industry to industry to the extent necessary to reflect differing characteristics of such industries and to take proper account of other relevant factors. SEC. 7. (a) The Administration is empowered to make loans to enable small-business concerns to finance plant construction, conversion, or expansion, including the acquisition of land; or to finance the acquisition of equipment, facilities, machinery, supplies, or materials; or to supply such concerns with working capital to be used in the manufacture of articles, equipment, supplies, or materials for war, defense, or civilian production or as may be necessary to insure a well-balanced national economy; and such loans may be made or effected either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lending institutions through agreements to participate on an immediate or deferred basis. The foregoing powers shall be subject, however, to the following restrictions and limitations: (1) No financial assistance shall be extended pursuant to this subsection unless the financial assistance applied for is not otherwise available on reasonable terms. (2) No immediate participation may be purchased unless it is shown that a deferred participation is not available; and no loan may be made unless it is shown that a participation is not available. (3) In agreements to participate in loans on a deferred basis under this subsection, such participation by the Administration shall not be in excess of 90 per centum of the balance of the loan outstanding at the time of disbursement. (4) Except as provided in paragraph (5)(A), no loan under this subsection shall be made if the total amount outstanding and committed (by participation or otherwise) to the borrower from the revolving fund established by this Act would exceed $350,000; (B) the rate of interest for the Administration's share of any such loan shall be no more than 52 per centum per annum; and (C) no such loan, including renewals or extensions thereof, may be made for a period or periods exceeding ten years except that a loan made for the purpose of constructing facilities may have a maturity of ten years plus such additional period as is estimated may be required to complete such construction. of (5) In the case of any loan made under this subsection to a corporation formed and capitalized by a group of small-business concerns with resources provided by them for the purpose obtaining for the use of such concerns raw materials, equipment, inventories, supplies or the benefits of research and development, or for establishing facilities for such purpose, (A) the limitation of $350,000 prescribed in paragraph (4) shall not apply, but the limit of such loan shall be $250,000 multiplied by the number of separate small businesses which formed and capitalized such corporation; (B) the rate of interest for the Administration's share of such loan shall be no less than 3 nor more than 5 per centum per annum; and (C) such loan, including renewals and extensions thereof, may not be made for a period or periods exceeding ten years except that if such loan is made for the purpose of con |