Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 1.djvu/241

 56 STAT.] 77TT CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 239-APR. 10, 1942 viding the housing for which such funds are authorized to be appropriated. "(d) The housing provided with funds authorized to be appro- priated by this section may be sold and disposed of as expeditiously as possible: Provided,That in disposing of said housing consideration shall be given to its full market value and said housing or any part thereof shall not, unless specifically authorized by Congress, be con- veyed to any public or private agency organized for slum clearance or to provide subsidized housing for persons of low income. "SEC. 402. (a) The sum of $20,000,000, to remain available until expended, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of enabling the Federal Works Administrator to provide public works and equipment therefor in and near the District of Columbia. Such public works may include, but shall not be limited to, schools, water- works, sewers, public sanitarv facilities, works for the treatment and purification of water, hospitals and other places for the care of the sick, recreational facilities, streets, roads, facilities for the disposal of sewage, garbage, and refuse, and other types of necessary public works. "(b) In providing the public works and equipment therefor for which appropriations are authorized by subsection (a) of this sec- tion, the Federal Works Administrator is authorized to exercise all of the powers specified in subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 202 of this Act. Such public works and equipment therefor shall be pro- vided subject to the provisions of section 203 of this Act. "(c) The funds authorized to be appropriated by this section shall be available to pay administrative expenses in connection with pro- viding the public works and equipment therefor for which such funds are authorized to be appropriated. "SEC. 403. (a) The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to accept for the District of Columbia, and the Federal Works Administrator is authorized to make to the District of Colum- bia, advancements for the provision of public works and equipment therefor, such advancements to be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. "(b) Sums advanced to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia hereunder shall be available for the provision, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, of any or all public works and equipment therefor described in section 402 hereof, and for administrative expenses in connection therewith, including employment of engineering and other professional services and other technical and administrative personnel without reference to the civil- service requirements or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. The repayment of any sums so advanced and the payment of interest thereon shall be in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as are set forth in sections 3 and 4 of the Act of December 20, 1941 (Public Law Numbered 362, Seventy-seventh Congress). "(c) The Commissioners shall submit with their annual estimates to the Congress a report of their activities and expenditures under this section. "SEC. 404. As used in this Act the term 'Federal Works Adminis- trator' or 'Administrator', or 'Federal Works Agency' shall, with respect to housing. be deemed to refer to the National Housing Administrator or the National Housing Agency, as the case may be. Such terms shall, with respect to public works and equipment there- for, be deemed to refer to the Federal Works Administrator or the Federal Works Agency, as the case may be." Approved, April 10, 1942. 213 Disposal of hous- ing. Proviso. Public works. Appropriation au- thorized. Post, p . 634. Powers of Federal Works Administrator. 55 Stat. 362. 42UJ.S. C., Supp. I S§1532, 1533. Administrative ex- penses. Advancements for public works. Availability of sums. 41U.S.C. 5. Supra. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5 U. 8 . C. §1§61-674; Supp. I, ch. 13. Post, p. 733. 65 Stat. 848. Report to Congress. Terms construed.

�