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 PUBLIC LAW 100-242—FEB. 5, 1988

101 STAT. 1951

selected code or set of codes. Such codes may be national model codes and shall provide for periodic upgrading through recognized model code development procedures and the development of modular housing standards for construction, design, and performance that ensure quality, durability, and safety and are in accordance with life-cycle cost-effective energy conservation standards established by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and designed to ensure the lowest total construction and operating costs over the estimated life of such housing. (b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term "modular housing" means factory-built single-family and multifamily housing (including closed wall panelized housing) not subject to the requirements of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974. (c) GRANT.—From amounts appropriated pursuant to section 501 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall make a grant to the National Institute of Building Sciences in an amount not to exceed $50,000 to cover the cost of the report under this section.

TITLE VI—NEHEMIAH HOUSING OPPORTUNITY GRANTS SEC. 601. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

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It is the purpose of this title— (1) to encourage homeownership by families in the United States who are not otherwise able to afford homeownership; (2) to undertake a concentrated effort to rebuild the depressed areas of the cities of the United States and to create sound and attractive neighborhoods; and (3) to increase the employment of neighborhood residents. SEC. 602. DEFINITIONS.

For purposes of this title: (1) The term "Fund" means the Nehemiah Housing Opportunity Fund established in section 609(a). (2) The term "home" means any 1- to 4-family dwelling. Such term includes any dwelling unit in a condominium project or cooperative project consisting of not more than 4 dwelling units, any town house, and any manufactured home. (3) The term "lower income families" has the meaning given such term in section 3(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. (4) The term "metropolitan statistical area" means a metropolitan statistical area as established by the Office of Management and Budget. (5) The term "nonprofit organization" means a private nonprofit corporation, or other private nonprofit legal entity, that is approved by the Secretary as to financial responsibility. (6) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (7) The term "State" means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana

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