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 95 STAT. 400

12 USC 1715Z-1 and note, 1715z-la.

12 USC 1715z-la.

12 USC 1701s, 42 USC 1451. Post, p. 403.

PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 (B) by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ", and not to exceed $4,000,000 for the fiscal year 1982"; and (C) by striking out the comma immediately following "Act" and inserting in lieu thereof a closed parenthesis. (2) Section 201 of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 is amended— (A) by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections (j) and (k), respectively; and (B) by inserting the following new subsection after subsection (g): "(h) The Secretary may not use any of the assistance available under this section during any fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1981, to supplement any contract to make rental assistance payments which was made pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965.". (3) The third sentence of section 236(f)(3) of the National Housing Act, as redesignated by section 322(f)(7) of this part, is amended by striking out "September 30, 1981" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1982". TENANT RENTAL PAYMENTS

42 USC 1437a.

SEC. 322. (a) Section 3 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended to read as follows: RENTAL P A Y M E N T S; DEFINITIONS

"SEC. 3. (a) Dwelling units assisted under this Act shall be rented only to families who are lower income families at the time of their initial occupancy of such units. A family shall pay as rent for a dwelling unit assisted under this Act the highest of the following amounts, rounded to the nearest dollar: "(1) 30 per centum of the family's monthly adjusted income; "(2) 10 per centum of the family's monthly income; or "(3) if the family is receiving payments for welfare assistance from a public agency and a part of such payments, adjusted in accordance with the family's actual housing costs, is specifically designated by such agency to meet the family's housing costs, the portion of such payments which is so designated. "(b) When used in this Act: "(1) The term 'lower income housing' means decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings assisted under this Act. The term 'public housing' means lower income housing, and all necessary appurtenances thereto, assisted under this Act other than under section 8. When used in reference to public housing, the term 'lower income housing project' or 'project' means (A) housing developed, acquired, or assisted by a public housing agency under this Act, and (B) the improvement of any such housing. "(2) The term 'lower income families' means those families whose incomes do not exceed 80 per centum of the median income for the area, as determined by the Secretary with adjustments for smaller and larger families, except that the Secretary may establish income ceilings higher or lower than 80 per centum of the median for the area on the basis of the Secretary's findings that such variations are necessary because of prevailing levels of construction costs or unusually high or low family incomes. The term 'very low-income families' means lower income families whose incomes do not exceed 50 per

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