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 104 STAT. 4194 PUBLIC LAW 101-625—NOV. 28, 1990 and including an estimate of the amount of assistance necessary to implement the improvements. "(3)(A) In cooperation with each agency participating in the program under this subsection, the Secretary shall provide for onsite assessment of the vacancy situation of the agency by a team of knowledgeable observers. The assessment team shall include representatives of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and an equal number of independent experts knowledgeable with respect to vacancy problems and management issues relating to public housing, who shall be selected by the Secretary. The sissessment team shall assess the vacancy situation of the agency to determine the causes of the vacancies, including any management deficiencies or modernization activities. "(B) The assessment team shall also examine indicators of the management performance of the agency relating to vacancy, which shall include consideration of the performance of the agency as measured by the indicators under subparagraphs (A) and (E) of section 6(j)(l). "(C) The assessment team shall submit to the agency and the Secretary written recommendations for management improvements to eliminate or alleviate management deficiencies, and may assist the agency in preparing the vacancy reduction plan under paragraph (2), including determining appropriate actions to eliminate vacancies. "(4) The Secretary shall, to the extent approved in appropriations Acts, provide assistance under this subsection to public housing agencies submitting vacancy reduction plans for reasonable costs of— "(A) implementing management improvements; "(B) rehabilitating vacant dwelling units identified in the statement under paragraph (2); and "(C) carrying out vacancy reduction activities described in the statement under paragraph (2). "(5) Of any amounts available for allocation under this section to large public housing agencies pursuant to subsection (k)(2), not more than $105,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 1991 and not more than $220,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 1992 for carrying out this subsection.". SEC. 511. INCOME ELIGIBILITY FOR PUBLIC HOUSING. Section 16(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437n(b)) is amended— (1) by striking "(b) Not" and inserting "(b)(1) Not"; (2) by striking "5 per centum" and inserting "15 percent"; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(2) Not more than 25 percent of the dwelling units in any project of any agency shall be available for occupancy by low-income families other than very low-income families. The limitation shall not apply in the case of any project in which, before the date of the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, such low-income families occupy more than 25 percent of the dwelling units.". SEC. 512. SCATTERED-SITE PUBLIC HOUSING DISPOSITION PROCEEDS. (a) IN GENERAL.— Section 18(a)(2)(B)(i) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437p(a)(2)(B)(i)) is amended by inserting before the first comma the following: ", which, in the case of

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