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[Document affected by Public Law 106-569 Section 607]
[CITE: 42USC5407]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
     CHAPTER 70--MANUFACTURED HOME CONSTRUCTION AND SAFETY STANDARDS
 
Sec. 5407. Research, testing, development, and training by 
        Secretary; scope; contracts and grants with States, interstate 
        agencies, and independent institutions
        
    (a) The Secretary shall conduct research, testing, development, and 
training necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including, 
but not limited to--
        (1) collecting data from any source for the purpose of 
    determining the relationship between manufactured home performance 
    characteristics and (A) accidents involving manufactured homes, and 
    (B) the occurrence of death, personal injury, or damage resulting 
    from such accidents;
        (2) procuring (by negotiation or otherwise) experimental and 
    other manufactured homes for research and testing purposes; and
        (3) selling or otherwise disposing of test manufactured homes 
    and reimbursing the proceeds of such sale or disposal into the 
    current appropriation available for the purpose of carrying out this 
    chapter.

    (b) The Secretary is authorized to conduct research, testing, 
development, and training as authorized to be carried out by subsection 
(a) of this section by contracting for or making grants for the conduct 
of such research, testing, development, and training to States, 
interstate agencies, and independent institutions.

(Pub. L. 93-383, title VI, Sec. 608, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 704; Pub. 
L. 96-399, title III, Sec. 308(c)(4), Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1641; Pub. 
L. 97-35, title III, Sec. 339B(c), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 417.)

                          Codification

    References to ``mobile homes'', wherever appearing in text, changed 
to ``manufactured homes'' in view of the amendment of title VI of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (this chapter) by section 
308(c)(4) of Pub. L. 96-399 requiring the substitution of ``manufactured 
home'' for ``mobile home'' wherever appearing in title VI of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974, and section 339B(c) of Pub. L. 
97-35 (set out as a note under section 1703 of Title 12, Banks and 
Banking) providing that the terms ``mobile home'' and ``manufactured 
home'' shall be deemed to include the terms ``mobile homes'' and 
``manufactured homes'', respectively.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 96-399 substituted ``manufactured 
home'' for ``mobile home''.
