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PUBLIC LAW 87-70-JUNE 30, 1961

"($3,000 per room in the case of Alaska, or in the case of accommodations designed specifically for elderly families $3,000 per room and $3,500 per room in the case of Alaska)"; (3) striking out paragraph (6), redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (6), and transferring paragraph (9), as so redesignated, to the place heretofore occupied by the paragraph so stricken out; and (4) striking out "or 5 per centum in the case of any family entitled to a first preference as provided in section 10 ( ^) " in paragraph (7)(b) and inserting in lieu thereof "except in the case of a family displaced by urban renewal or other governmental action or an elderly family". (b) Section 10(h) of such Act is amended by inserting the following after the word "project" the third time it appears therein: "(exclusive of any portion thereof which is not assisted by annual contributions under this Act)". (c) Section 10(j) of such Act is repealed.

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Repeal,

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS

SEC. 207. The Housing and Home Finance Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts to make grants, not exceeding $5,000,000, to public or private bodies or agencies, subject to such terms and conditions as ne shall prescribe, for the purposes of developing and demonstrating new or improved means of providing housing for low income persons and families. Advances and progress payments may be made, under any contract to make grants under this section, without regard to the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes.

31 USC 529.

TITLE III—URBAN RENEWAL AND PLANNING INCREASED FEDERAL AID FOR SMALL COMMUNITIES; POOLING GRANTS-IN-AID BETWEEN PROJECTS

SEC. 301. (a) Section 103(a) of the Housing Act of 1949 is amended H ^^' ^^f^^ by inserting " (1) " after " (a) ", by striking out the last two sentences, and by inserting at the end thereof the following: "(2) The aggregate of such capital grants with respect to all of the projects of a local public agency for of two or more local public agencies in the same municipality) on which contracts for capital grants have been made under this title shall not exceed the total of— " (A) two-thirds of the aggregate net project costs of all such projects to which neither subparagraph (B) nor subparagraph (C) applies, and " (B) three-fourths of the aggregate net project costs of any of such projects which are located in a municipality having a population of fifty thousand or less (one hundred fifty thousand or less in the case of a municipality situated in an area which, at the time the contract or contracts involved are entered into or at such earlier time as the Administrator may specify in order to avoid hardship, is designated as a redevelopment area under the second sentence of section 5(a) of the Area Redevelopment Act) according to the most recent decennial census, and Ante, p. 48. " (C) three-fourths of the aggregate net project costs of any of such projects (not falling within subparagraph (B)) which the Administrator, upon request, may approve on a three-fourths capital grant basis. " (3) A capital grant with respect to any individual project shall not exceed the difference between the net project cost and the local grantsin-aid actually made with respect to the project."

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