"^3^*.*'^ PUBLIC LAW 105-276—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2483 be available from the General Fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund: Provided further, That the General Fund amount shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more than $0. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING RENTS, PREFERENCES, AND FLEXIBILITY SEC. 201. Section 201(a)(2) of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (42 U.S.C. 14371 note), is amended to read as follows: "(2) APPLICABILITY. —Section 14(q) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall be effective only with respect to assistance provided from funds made available for fiscal year 1999 or any preceding fiscal year, except that the authority in the first sentence of section 14(q)(l) to use up to 10 percent of the allocation of certain funds for any operating subsidy purpose shall not apply to amounts made available for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. ". GSE DEFAULT LOSS PROTECTION SEC. 202. (a) Section 305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act is amended in the first sentence by— 12 USC 1454. (1) striking "or" at the end of clause (B); (2) striking the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting: "; or (D) the mortgage is subject to default loss protection that the Corporation determines is financially equal or superior, on an individual or pooled basis, to the protection provided by clause (C) of this sentence: Provided, That if the Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight subsequently finds that such default loss protection determined by the Corporation does not provide such equal or superior protection, the Corporation shall provide such additional default loss protection for such mortgage, as approved by the Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, necessary to provide such equal or superior protection.". (b) Section 1313(b) of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Housing Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 is amended by 12 USC 4513. redesignating paragraphs (9), (10), and (11) as paragraphs (10), (11), and (12), respectively, and inserting the following new paragraph (9): "(9) default loss protection levels under section 305(a)(2)(D) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act;". FINANCING ADJUSTMENT FACTORS SEC. 203. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-628, 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall be rescinded, or in the case of cash, shall be remitted
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