Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 112 Part 3.djvu/724

 112 STAT. 2554 PUBLIC LAW 105-276—OCT. 21, 1998 management corporation to substantiate the performance of that agency or corporation); "(B) activities to ensure a program of routine preventative maintenance; "(C) anticrime and antidrug activities, including the costs of providing adequate security for public housing residents, including above-baseline police service agreements; "(D) activities related to the provision of services, including service coordinators for elderly persons or persons with disabilities; "(E) activities to provide for management and participation in the management and policy making of public housing by public housing residents; "(F) the costs of insurance; "(G) the energy costs associated with public housing units, with an emphasis on energy conservation; "(H) the costs of administering a public housing work program under section 12, including the costs of any related insurance needs; "(I) the costs of repaying, together with rent contributions, debt incurred to finance the rehabilitation and development of public housing units, which shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Secretary may establish; and "(J) the costs associated with the operation and management of mixed finance projects, to the extent appropriate. " (2) FORMULA. — " (A) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary shall establish a formula for determining the amount of assistance provided to public housing agencies from the Operating Fund for a fiscal year. The formula may take into account— "(i) standards for the costs of operating and reasonable projections of income, taking into account the characteristics and locations of the public housing projects and characteristics of the families served and to be served (including the incomes of the families), or the costs of providing comparable services as determined in accordance with criteria or a formula representing the operations of a prototype well-managed public housing project; "(ii) the number of public housing dwelling units owned, assisted, or operated by the public housing agency; "(iii) the number of public housing dwelling units owned, assisted, or operated by the public housing agency that are chronically vacant and the amount of assistance appropriate for those units; "(iv) to the extent quantifiable, the extent to which the public housing agency provides programs and activities designed to promote the economic self-sufficiency and management skills of public housing residents; "(v) the need of the public housing agency to carry out anti-crime and anti-drug activities, including providing adequate security for public housing residents;

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