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 PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981

95 STAT. 497

DEPARTMENT OP HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

SEC. 627. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, after consultation with the ^ r e t a r y, shall take all necessary steps to assist community development corporations and local cooperative associations to qualify for and receive (1) such assistance in connection with technical assistance, counseling to tenants and homeowners, and loans to sponsors of low-income and moderate-income housing under section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended by section 811 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; (2) such land for housing and business location and expansion under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; and (3) such funds for comprehensive planning under section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954, as amended by section 401 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as shall further the purposes of this subchapter.

42 USC 9816.

12 uSc i70ix. 42iJSC530i. 40 USC 461.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS

SEC. 628. The Secretary of Agriculture or, where appropriate, the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, after consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall take all necessary steps to ensure that community development corporations and local cooperative associations shall qualify for and shall receive— (1) such assistance in connection with housing development under the Housing Act of 1949, as amended; (2) such assistance in connection with housing, business, industrial, and community development under the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 and the Rural Development Act of 1972; and (3) such further assistance under all such programs of the United States Dep£u*tment of Agriculture; as shall further the purposes of this subchapter.

42 USC 9817.

42 USC 1441 ^* ^ use 1921 note, 7 USC 1921 note.

COORDINATION AND ELIGIBILITY

SEC. 629. (a) The Secretary shall take all necessary and appropriate 42 USC 98i8. steps to encourage Federal departments and agencies and State and local governments to make grants, provide technical assistance, enter into contracts, and generally support and cooperate with community development corporations and local cooperative associations. (b) Eligibility for assistance under other Federal programs shall not be denied to any applicant on the ground that it is a community development corporation or £my other entity assisted under th& subchapter. EVALUATION AND RESEARCH

SEC. 630. (a) Each program for which grants are made under this 42TJSC^gI5. subchapter shall provide for a thorough evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in achieving its purposes, which evaluation shall be conducted by such public or private organizations as the Secretary in consultation with existing grantees familiar with programs carried out under the Community Services Block Grant Act may designate. Post, p. 511. and all or part of the costs of evaluation may be paid from funds appropriated to carry out this part. In evaluating the performance pf any community development corporation funded under part 1, the criteria for evaluation shall be based upon such program objectives.

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