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PUBLIC LAW 86-372-8EPT. 23, 1969
[73 STAT.
GRANTS
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^^^- ^^^- Section 103 of the Housing Act of 1949 is amended— (1) by amending the first sentence of subsection (b) to read as follows: "The Administrator, on and after July 1, 1949, may, with the approval of the President, contract to make grants under this title aggregating not to exceed $1,350,000,000, which limit shall be increased by $350,000,000 on the date of enactment of the Housing Act of 1959, and by $300,000,000 on July 1, 1960."; (2) by striking out the period at the end of the second sentence of subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: 'Provided, That any amounts so appropriated shall also be available for repaying to the Secretary of the Treasury, for application to notes of the Administrator, the principal amounts of any funds advanced to local public agencies under this title which the Administrator determines to be uncollectible because of the termination of activities for which such advances were made, together with the interest paid or accrued to the Secretary (as determined by him) attributable to notes given by the Administrator in connection with such advances, but all such repayments shall constitute a charge against the authorization to make contracts for grants contained in this section: Provided further, That no such determination of the Administrator shall be construed to prejudice the rights of the United States with respect to any such advance."; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other Act, if financial assistance authorized by this title to be made available to a locality or local public agency may be made available to any locality or local public agency within the limitations provided in sections 42 USC 1452, 102(e), 103(b), and 106(e), and the second paragraph following the 1453, 1456, 1460. paragraph numbered (6) of section 110(c), the amount of such financial assistance made available to any locality or local public agency upon submission and processing of proper application therefor shall not otherwise be restricted except on the basis of (1) urgency of need, and (2) feasibility, as determined by the Administrator. " (d) The Administrator may contract to make grants for the preparation or completion of community renewal programs, which may include, without being limited to, (1) the identification of slum areas or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas in the community, (2) the measurement of the nature and degree of blight and blighting factors within such areas, (3) determination of the financial, relocation, and other resources needed and available to renew such areas, (4) the identification of potential project areas and, where feasible, types of urban renewal action contemplated within such areas, and (5) scheduling or programing of urban renewal activities. Such programs shall conform, in the determination of the governing body of the locality, to the general plan of the locality as a whole. The Administrator may establish reasonable requirements respecting the scope and content of such programs. No contract for a grant pursuant to this subsection shall be made unless the governing body of the locality involved has approved the preparation or completion of the community renewal program and the submission by the local public agency 42 USC 1460. j^£ ^^ application for such a grant. Notwithstanding section 110(h) or the use in any other provision of this title of the term 'local public agency' or 'local public agencies', the Administrator may make grants pursuant to this subsection for the preparation or completion of a community renewal program to a single local public body authorized to perform the planning work necessary to such preparation or completion. No grant made pursuant to this subsection shall exceed two-
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