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PUBLIC LAW 93-644-JAN. 4, 1975

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health services, credit counseling, energy conservation, and programs for the maintenance of housing facilities. " (b) The Director shall conduct programs assisted under this part so as to contribute, on an equitable basis between urban and rural areas, to the elimination of poverty and the establishment of permanent economic and social benefits in such areas. " F I N A N C I A L ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS

"SEC. 713. (a) The Director, under such regulations as he may establish, shall not provide financial assistance for any community economic development program under this part unless he determines that— "(1) such community development corporation is responsible to residents of the area served (i) through a governing body not less than 50 per centum of the members of which are area residents and (ii) in accordance with such other guidelines as may be established by the Director, except that the composition of the governing bodies of organizations owned or controlled by the community development corporation need not be subject to such residency requirement; "(2) the program will be appropriately coordinated with local planning under this title, with housing and community development programs, with employment and training programs, and with other relevant planning for physical and human resources in the areas served; "(3) adequate technical assistance is made available and committed to the programs being supported; " (4) such financial assistance will materially further the purposes of this part; "(5) the applicant is fulfilling or will fulfill a need for services, supplies, or facilities which is otherwise not being met; "(6) all projects and related facilities will, to the maximum feasible extent, be located in the areas served; "(7) projects will, where feasible, promote the development of entrepreneurial and management skills and the ownership or participation in ownership of assisted businesses and housing, cooperatively or otherwise, by residents of the area served; "(8) projects will be planned and carried out with the fullest possible participation of resident or local businessmen and representatives of financial institutions, including participation through contract, joint venture, partnership, stock ownership or membership on the governing boards or advisory councils of such projects consistent with the self-help purposes of this title; "(9) no participant will be employed on projects involving political parties, or the construction, operation, or maintenance of so much of any facility as is used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship; "(10) the program will not result m the displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services, or result in the substitution of Federal or other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed; "(11) the rates of pay for time spent in work-training and education, and other conditions of employment, will be appropriate and reasonable in the light of such factors as the type of work, geographical region, and proficiency of the participant; "(12) the program will, to the maximum extent feasible, contribute to the occupational development or upward mobility of individual participants;

42 USC 29«2b.

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