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[CITE: 42USC1490b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER 8A--SLUM CLEARANCE, URBAN RENEWAL, AND FARM HOUSING
 
                      SUBCHAPTER III--FARM HOUSING
 
Sec. 1490b. Housing for rural trainees


(a) Authorization; financial and technical assistance; selection of 
        training sites and location of housing

    Upon the application of any State or political subdivision thereof, 
or any public or private nonprofit organization, the Secretary is 
authorized, after consultation with the Secretary of Labor, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development, and the Director of the Office of Economic 
Opportunity, and after the Secretary determines that the housing and 
related facilities cannot reasonably be provided in any other way, to 
provide financial and technical assistance for the establishment, in 
rural areas, of housing and related facilities for trainees and their 
families who are residents of a rural area and have a rural background, 
while such trainees are enrolled and participating in training courses 
designed to improve their employment capability. The selection of 
training sites and location of housing shall be made with due regard to 
the economic viability of the area, and only after consideration of a 
labor area survey and full coordination among all Government agencies 
having primary responsibility for administering related programs.

(b) Quality of housing and related facilities; design and location

    Housing and related facilities assisted under this section shall be 
safe and sanitary, constructed in the most economical manner, and of 
modest design, giving due consideration to the purposes to be served and 
the needs of the occupants, and may, in the discretion of the Secretary, 
include mobile family quarters. Design and location shall be such as to 
facilitate, as feasible, the use of such housing and related facilities 
for other purposes when no longer needed for the primary purpose.

(c) Contribution of land by applicant

    The applicant shall contribute the necessary land, or funds to 
acquire such land, from its own resources, including land acquired by 
donation or from funds repayable under subsection (e) of this section or 
borrowed from other sources.

(d) Conditions precedent to grant of financial assistance

    No financial assistance shall be made available under this section 
unless, to the extent and for the periods required by the Secretary, the 
applicant agrees that--
        (1) such housing will be maintained at all times in a safe and 
    sanitary condition in accordance with standards prescribed by State 
    or local law, or, in the absence of such standards, with 
    requirements prescribed by the Secretary;
        (2) priority shall be given at all times, in granting occupancy 
    of such housing and facilities, to the trainees and their families 
    described in subsection (a) of this section; and
        (3) rentals charged them shall not exceed amounts approved by 
    the Secretary after considering the portion of the actual total 
    family income which the family can afford to pay for rent while 
    meeting its other immediate needs during occupancy.

(e) Advances; repayment; limitation on amount

    The Secretary may make advances pursuant to any contract for 
financial assistance under this section at such times and in such manner 
as may be specified in the contract. Such advances for the purchase of 
land shall be repayable with interest and within a period not to exceed 
thirty-three years and may be made upon such security, if any, as the 
Secretary requires. Advances for other purposes may be made repayable 
with or without interest or nonrepayable, as determined by the Secretary 
on the basis of the anticipated income, and cost of operation of the 
housing and related facilities and the ability of each applicant to 
finance such facilities. Any advances shall be limited to cover the 
capital costs of constructing such facilities, plus interest on 
borrowings to cover such costs.

(f) Sale of housing and related facilities to ineligible transferee or 
        diversion to use other than primary purpose; repayment of 
        advances; return of property to original condition

    Should housing and related facilities assisted pursuant to a 
contract under this section be sold to an ineligible transferee or 
diverted to a use other than its primary purpose within a period 
specified in the contract, all advances made under such contract shall 
be repaid to the Secretary, up to the amount of the sales price or the 
fair value of the property as determined by the Secretary, whichever is 
higher, with interest from the date of the sale or diversion. If no 
suitable alternate use of the property is available, as determined by 
the Secretary, after the purpose of this section can no longer be 
served, the property shall be returned to its original condition by the 
recipient of the assistance.

(g) Interest on advances

    Interest charged on advances made under this section shall be at a 
rate, prescribed by the Secretary, which shall be not less than a rate 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury taking into consideration 
the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations 
of the United States with remaining periods to maturity comparable to 
the average maturities of such loans, adjusted to the nearest one-eighth 
of 1 per centum, less not to exceed the difference between the adjusted 
rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury and 1 per centum per 
annum, as determined by the Secretary.

(h) Regulations

    The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to insure that Federal 
funds expended under this section are not wasted or dissipated.

(i) ``Related facilities'' and ``trainee'' defined

    As used in this section (1) the term ``related facilities'' shall 
include any necessary community rooms or buildings, infirmaries, 
utilities, access roads, water and sewer services, and the minimum fixed 
or movable equipment determined by the Secretary to be necessary to make 
the housing reasonably habitable by trainees and their families; and (2) 
the term ``trainee'' means any person receiving training under any 
federally assisted training program.

(j) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section.

(July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title V, Sec. 522, as added Pub. L. 90-448, 
title X, Sec. 1002, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 551; amended Pub. L. 98-479, 
title II, Sec. 201(c), Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2228; Pub. L. 100-242, 
title III, Sec. 316(e), Feb. 5, 1988, 101 Stat. 1898.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-242 substituted ``Secretary of Health 
and Human Services'' for ``Secretary of Health, and Human Services''.
    1984--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-479 substituted ``Health, and Human 
Services'' for ``Health, Education, and Welfare''.


                     Office of Economic Opportunity

    Pub. L. 93-644, Sec. 9(a), Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2310 [42 U.S.C. 
2941], amended the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2701 et 
seq.] to create the Community Services Administration, an independent 
agency in the executive branch, as the successor authority to the Office 
of Economic Opportunity, and provided that references to the Office of 
Economic Opportunity or to its Director were deemed to refer to the 
Community Services Administration or to its Director. The Community 
Services Administration was terminated when the Economic Opportunity Act 
of 1964, except for titles VIII and X, was repealed, effective Oct. 1, 
1981, by section 683(a) of Pub. L. 97-35, title VI, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 
Stat. 519 (42 U.S.C. 9912(a)). An Office of Community Services, headed 
by a Director, was established in the Department of Health and Human 
Services by section 676 of Pub. L. 97-35 (42 U.S.C. 9905).
