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 PUBLIC LAW 109–115—NOV. 30, 2005

119 STAT. 2463

be used to carry out eligible activities within the portion of the metropolitan statistical area located in that State. SEC. 313. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for this fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter, funds appropriated for housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, shall be available for the cost of maintaining and disposing of such properties that are acquired or otherwise become the responsibility of the Department. SEC. 314. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall submit an annual report no later than August 30, 2006 and annually thereafter to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding the number of Federally assisted units under lease and the per unit cost of these units to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. SEC. 315. The Department of Housing and Urban Development shall submit the Department’s fiscal year 2007 congressional budget justifications to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate using the identical structure provided under this Act and only in accordance with the direction specified in the report accompanying this Act. SEC. 316. That incremental vouchers previously made available under the heading ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’ or renewed under the heading, ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental Assistance,’’ for non-elderly disabled families shall, to the extent practicable, continue to be provided to non-elderly disabled families upon turnover. SEC. 317. A public housing agency or such other entity that administers Federal housing assistance in the States of Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of public housing or a recipient of assistance provided under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 on the board of directors or a similar governing board of such agency or entity as required under section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public housing agency or other entity that administers Federal housing assistance under section 8 in the States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi shall establish an advisory board of not less than 6 residents of public housing or recipients of section 8 assistance to provide advice and comment to the public housing agency or other administering entity on issues related to public housing and section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not less than quarterly. SEC. 318. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, the Secretary may authorize the transfer of projectbased assistance, debt and statutorily required low-income and very low-income use restrictions, associated with one multifamily housing project to another multifamily housing project. (b) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject to the following conditions: (1) the number of low-income and very low-income units and the net dollar amount of Federal assistance provided by the transferring project shall remain the same in the receiving project; (2) the transferring project shall, as determined by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically nonviable;

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