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 PUBLIC LAW 100-242—FEB. 5, 1988

101 STAT. 1943

(2) education and outreach programs designed to inform the Education. public concerning rights and obligations under the laws referred to in paragraph (1). (b) PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.—

(1) Not less than 30 days before providing a grant or entering into any contract or cooperative agreement to carry out activities authorized by this section, the Secretary shall submit notification of such proposed grant, contract, or cooperative agreement (including a description of the geographical distribution of such contracts) to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives. (2) The Secretary shall provide to the Committee on Banking, Reports. Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives a quarterly report that summarizes the activities funded under this section and describes the geographical distribution of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements funded under this section, (c) REGULATIONS.—

(1) The Secretary shall issue such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. (2) The Secretary shall, for use during the demonstration Discrimination, authorized in this section, establish guidelines for testing activi- prohibition, ties funded under the private enforcement initiative of the fair housing initiatives program. The purpose of such guidelines shall be to ensure that investigations in support of fair housing enforcement efforts described in subsection (a)(1) shall develop credible and objective evidence of discriminatory housing practices. Such guidelines shall apply only to activities funded under this section, shall not be construed to limit or otherwise restrict the use of facts secured through testing not funded under this section in any legal proceeding under Federal fair housing laws, and shall not be used to restrict individuals or entities, including those participating in the fair housing initiatives program, from pursuing any right or remedy guaranteed by Federal law. Not later than 6 months after the end of the demonstration period authorized in this section, the Secretary shall submit to Congress the evaluation of the Secretary of the effectiveness of such guidelines in achieving the purposes of this section. (3) Such regulations shall include provisions governing applications for assistance under this section, and shall require each such application to contain— (A) a description of the assisted activities proposed to be undertaken by the applicant, together with the estimated v J costs and schedule for completion of such activities; (B) a description of the experience of the applicant in formulating or carrying out programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices; (C) available information, including studies made by or available to the applicant, indicating the nature and extent of discriminatory housing practices occurring in the general location where the applicant proposes to conduct its as: *i » sisted activities, and the relationship of such activities to such practices; (D) an estimate of such other public or private resources as may be available to cissist the proposed activities;

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