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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 338 -JULY 15, 1949 Taxation exemp- tion. Restriction. Limitation on capi- tal grants. Increase in specified amounts. Post, p. 421. Contract require- ments. (g) Obligations, including interest thereon, issued by local public agencies for projects assisted pursuant to this title, and income derived by such agencies from such projects, shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States. CAPITAL GRANTS SEC. 103. (a) The Administrator may make capital grants to local public agencies to enable such agencies to make land in project areas available for redevelopment at its fair value for the uses specified in the redevelopment plans: Provided, That the Administrator shall not make any contract for capital grant with respect to a project which consists of open land. The aggregate of such capital grants with respect to all the projects of a local public agency on which contracts for capital grants have been made under this title shall not exceed two- thirds of the aggregate of the net project costs of such projects, and the capital grants with respect to any individual project shall not exceed the difference between the net project cost and the local grants- in-aid actually made with respect to the project. (b) The Administrator, on and after July 1, 1949, may, with the approval of the President, contract to make capital grants, with re- spect to projects assisted under this title, aggregating not to exceed $100,000,000, which limit shall be increased by further amounts of $100,000,000 on July 1 in each of the years 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953, respectively: Provided,That (subject to the total authorization of not to exceed $500,000,000) such limit, and any such authorized increase therein, may be increased, at any time or times, by additional amounts aggregating not more than $100,000,000 upon a determination by the President, after receiving advice from the Council of Economic Ad- visers as to the general effect of such increase upon the conditions in the building industry and upon the national economy, that such action is in the public interest. The faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment of all capital grants contracted for under this title, and there are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amounts necessary to provide for such payments. REQUIREMENTS FOR LOCAL GRANTS-IN -AID SEC. 104. Every contract for capital grant under this title shall require local grants-in-aid in connection with the project involved which, together with the local grants-in-aid to be provided in connec- tion with all other projects of the local public agency on which con- tracts for capital grants have theretofore been made, will be at least equal to one-third of the aggregate net project costs involved (it being the purpose of this provision and section 103 to limit the aggregate of the capital grants made by the Administrator with respect to all the projects of a local public agency on which contracts for capital grants have been made under this title to an amount not exceeding two-thirds of the difference between the aggregate of the gross project costs of all such projects and the aggregate of the total sales prices and capital values referred to in section 110 (f) of land in such projects). LOCAL DETERMINATIONS SEC. 105. Contracts for financial aid shall be made only with a duly authorized local public agency and shall require that- (a) The redevelopment plan for the project area be approved by the governing body of the locality in which the project is situated, and that such approval include findings by the governing 416 [63 STAT.

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