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 PUBLIC LAW 105-65—OCT. 27, 1997 111 STAT. 1365 was granted by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to the city of Oglesby, Illinois, located in LaSalle County, Illinois (State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs grant number 96-24104), for the purpose of providing infrastructure for a warehouse in Oglesby, Illinois, is exempt from the provisions of section 104(g)(2), (g)(3), and (g)(4) of title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. SEC. 204. FINANCING ADJUSTMENT FACTORS.— Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-628; 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall be rescinded, or in the case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which settlement occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to refinance their project at a lower interest rate. SEC. 205. ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT FACTORS. — Section 8(c)(2)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended by section 201 of this title, is further amended by inserting the following new sentences at the end: "In establishing annual adjustment factors for units in new construction and substantial rehabilitation projects, the Secretary shall take into account the fact that debt service is a fixed expense. The immediately foregoing sentence Effective date. shall be effective only during fiscal year 1998.". SEC. 206. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the $7,100,000 appropriated for an industrial park at 18th Street and Indiana Avenue shall be made available by the Secretary instead to 18th and Vine for rehabilitation and infrastructure development associated with the "Negro Leagues Baseball Museum" and the jazz museum. SEC. 207. FAIR HOUSING AND FREE SPEECH. —None of the amounts made available under this Act may be used during fiscal year 1998 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or mote persons, including the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action, that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or preventing action by a government official or entity, or a court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 208. REQUIREMENT FOR HUD To MAINTAIN PUBLIC NOTICE AND COMMENT RULEMAKING. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal year 1998 and for all fiscal years thereafter, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall maintain all current requirements under part 10 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations (24 CFR part 10) with respect to the Department's policies and procedures for the promulgation and issuance of rules, including the use of public participation in the rulemeiking process.

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