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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-554 Section 1(a)(1)]
[Document affected by Public Law 107-116]
[CITE: 42USC9921]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
           CHAPTER 106--COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
 
Sec. 9921. Discretionary authority of Secretary


(a) Grants, contracts, arrangements, loans, and guarantees

                           (1) In general

        The Secretary shall, from funds reserved under section 
    9903(b)(3) of this title, make grants, loans, or guarantees to 
    States and public agencies and private, nonprofit organizations, or 
    enter into contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements 
    with States and public agencies and private, nonprofit organizations 
    (and for-profit organizations, to the extent specified in paragraph 
    (2)(E)) for each of the objectives described in paragraphs (2) 
    through (4).

                 (2) Community economic development

        (A) Economic development activities

            The Secretary shall make grants described in paragraph (1) 
        on a competitive basis to private, nonprofit organizations that 
        are community development corporations to provide technical and 
        financial assistance for economic development activities 
        designed to address the economic needs of low-income individuals 
        and families by creating employment and business development 
        opportunities.

        (B) Consultation

            The Secretary shall exercise the authority provided under 
        subparagraph (A) after consultation with other relevant Federal 
        officials.

        (C) Governing boards

            For a community development corporation to receive funds to 
        carry out this paragraph, the corporation shall be governed by a 
        board that shall consist of residents of the community and 
        business and civic leaders and shall have as a principal purpose 
        planning, developing, or managing low-income housing or 
        community development projects.

        (D) Geographic distribution

            In making grants to carry out this paragraph, the Secretary 
        shall take into consideration the geographic distribution of 
        funding among States and the relative proportion of funding 
        among rural and urban areas.

        (E) Reservation

            Of the amounts made available to carry out this paragraph, 
        the Secretary may reserve not more than 1 percent for each 
        fiscal year to make grants to private, nonprofit organizations 
        or to enter into contracts with private, nonprofit or for-profit 
        organizations to provide technical assistance to aid community 
        development corporations in developing or implementing 
        activities funded to carry out this paragraph and to evaluate 
        activities funded to carry out this paragraph.

             (3) Rural community development activities

        The Secretary shall provide the assistance described in 
    paragraph (1) for rural community development activities, which 
    shall include providing--
            (A) grants to private, nonprofit corporations to enable the 
        corporations to provide assistance concerning home repair to 
        rural low-income families and concerning planning and developing 
        low-income rural rental housing units; and
            (B) grants to multistate, regional, private, nonprofit 
        organizations to enable the organizations to provide training 
        and technical assistance to small, rural communities concerning 
        meeting their community facility needs.

                (4) Neighborhood innovation projects

        The Secretary shall provide the assistance described in 
    paragraph (1) for neighborhood innovation projects, which shall 
    include providing grants to neighborhood-based private, nonprofit 
    organizations to test or assist in the development of new approaches 
    or methods that will aid in overcoming special problems identified 
    by communities or neighborhoods or otherwise assist in furthering 
    the purposes of this chapter, and which may include providing 
    assistance for projects that are designed to serve low-income 
    individuals and families who are not being effectively served by 
    other programs.

(b) Evaluation

    The Secretary shall require all activities receiving assistance 
under this section to be evaluated for their effectiveness. Funding for 
such evaluations shall be provided as a stated percentage of the 
assistance or through a separate grant awarded by the Secretary 
specifically for the purpose of evaluation of a particular activity or 
group of activities.

(c) Annual report

    The Secretary shall compile an annual report containing a summary of 
the evaluations required in subsection (b) of this section and a listing 
of all activities assisted under this section. The Secretary shall 
annually submit the report to the Chairperson of the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the 
Chairperson of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.

(Pub. L. 97-35, title VI, Sec. 680, as added Pub. L. 105-285, title II, 
Sec. 201, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2750.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 680 of Pub. L. 97-35 was classified to section 9909 
of this title, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 
105-285.


  Procedures To Permit Grant Funds or Intangible Property Acquired by 
             Grant Funds To Become Sole Property of Grantees

    Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(4) [title II], Nov. 29, 1999, 
113 Stat. 1535, 1501A-235, provided in part: ``That the Secretary shall 
establish procedures regarding the disposition of intangible property 
which permits grant funds, or intangible assets acquired with funds 
authorized under section 680 of the Community Services Block Grant Act, 
as amended [42 U.S.C. 9921], to become the sole property of such 
grantees after a period of not more than 12 years after the end of the 
grant for purposes and uses consistent with the original grant''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 9903 of this title.
