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 PUBLIC LAW 97-377—DEC. 21, 1982

96 STAT. 1907

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOUSING PROGRAMS ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING

The amount of contracts for annual contributions, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by section 5 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and heretofore approved in appropriation Acts, is increased by $519,711,198: Provided, That the budget authority obligated under such contracts shall be increased above amounts heretofore provided in appropriation Acts by $8,651,475,689: Provided further, That of the budget authority provided herein, $361,760,000 shall be for assistance in financing the development or acquisition cost of public housing for Indian families, $1,834,000,000 shall be for assistance for projects developed for the elderly or handicapped under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701q), and $2,500,000,000 shall be for the modernization of existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 14371): Provided further. That all budget authority recaptured and becoming available for obligation in fiscal year 1983 shall only be made available for annual contributions contracts under the section 8 moderate rehabilitation program and the section 8 existing housing program (42 U.S.C. 1437f): Provided further. That any balances of authorities made available prior to the enactment of this Act which are or become available for obligation in fiscal year 1983, shall be added to and merged with the authority approved herein, and such merged amounts shall be made subject only to terms and conditions of law applicable to authorizations becoming available in fiscal year 1983: Provided further. That the $89,321,727 of budget authority deferred and made available in accordance with the provisos under the heading "Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing" in Chapter VII of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982 (Public Law 97-257), shall be made available for the modernization Ante, p. 835. of vacant uninhabitable public housing units, pursuant to section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, other than section 14(1) of such Act: Provided further. That none of the merged amounts available for obligation in 1983 shall be subject to the provisions of section 5(c)(2) and (3) and the fourth sentence of section 5(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and section 213(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1439): Provided further. That with respect to newly constructed and substantially rehabilitated projects under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, during 1983, the Secretary shall not impose a percentage or other arbitrary limitation on the cost and rent increases resulting from increased construction cost in exercising the authority to approve cost and rent increases set forth in section 8(1) of such Act: Provided further. That no funds provided in this joint resolution or any other Act shall be used to administer or implement any regulation, policy direction or handbook instruction concerning maximum total development costs applicable to the public housing, Indian housing or low-rent homeownership programs not in effect before September 7, 1982: Provided further. That the proceeding proviso may be waived by the Committees on Appropriations after the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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