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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-557—OCT. 31, 1978

92 STAT. 2109

(4) the professional qualifications of the members of the professional assessment committee; and (5) the reasonableness of fee schedules established for each congregate service. (b) In evaluating programs receiving assistance under this title, the Secretary shall— (1) establish procedures for the review and evaluation of the Procedures performance of nonprofit corporations and public housing agencies receiving assistance under this title, including provisions for the submission of an annual report, by each such nonprofit corporation and public housing agency, which evaluates the impact and effectiveness of its congregate services program; and (2) publish annually and submit to the Congress, a report on Report, annual and evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of congregate serv- publication and ices programs assisted under this title. Such report and evaluation submittal to shall be based, in part, on the evaluations required to be sub- Congress. mitted pursuant to paragraph (1). FUNDING PROCEDURES

SEC. 409. (a) The Secretary shall establish procedures— (1) to assure timely payments to nonprofit corporations and public housing agencies for approved assisted congregate services programs with provision made for advance funding sufficient to meet necessary startup costs; (2) to permit reallocation of funds approved for the establishment of congregate services in existing public housing projects and projects assisted under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 if the services are not established within six months of the notification date of funding approval; (3) to assure that where such funding has been approved for the establishment of congregate services for public housing projects and projects assisted under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 under construction or approved for construction, these services shall be in place at the start of the project's occupancy by tenants requiring such services for maintaining independent living; (4) to establish accounting and other standards in order to prevent any fraudulent or inappropriate use of funds under this title; and (5) to assure that no more than 1 per centum of the funds appropriated under this title for any fiscal year may be used by public housing agencies and nonprofit corporations for evaluative purposes as required by section 408(b)(1). (b) The Secretary shall establish a reserve fund, not to exceed 10 per centum of the funds appropriated in each fiscal year for the provision of services under this title, in order to supplement grants awarded to public housing agencies and nonprofit corporations under this title when, in the determination of the Secretary, such supplemental adjustments are required to maintain adequate levels of services to eligible project residents. MISCELLANEOUS

42 USC 8008.

12 USC 1701q.

Reserve fund, establishment,

PROVISIONS

SEC. 410. (a) Each public housing agency and nonprofit corporation 42 USC 8009. shall, to the maximum extent practicable, utilize elderly and permanently disabled adult persons who are residents of public housing projects or projects assisted under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, but who are not eligible project residents, to participate in pro-