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PUBLIC LAW 91-646-JAN. 2, 1971
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(b) Federal agencies administering programs which may be of assistance to displaced persons covered by this Act shall cooperate to the maximum extent feasible with the Federal or State agency causing the displacement to assure that such displaced persons receive the maximum assistance available to them. (c) Each relocation assistance advisory program required by subsection (a) of this section shall include such measures, facilities, or services as may be necessary or appropriate in order to— (1) determine the need, if any, of displaced persons, for relocation assistance; (2) provide current and continuing information on the availability, prices, and rentals, of comparable decent, safe, and sanitary sales and rental housing, and of comparable commercial properties and locations for displaced businesses; (3) assure that, within a reasonable period of time, prior to displacement there will be available in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, as defined by such Federal agency head, equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced persons who require such dwellings and reasonably accessible to their places of employment, except that the head of that Federal agency may prescribe by regulation situations when such assurances may be waived; (4) assist a displaced person displaced from his business or farm operation in obtaining and becoming established in a suitable replacement location; (5) supplj^ information concerning Federal and State housing programs, disaster loan programs, and other Federal or State programs offering assistance to displaced persons; and (6) provide other advisory services to displaced persons in order to minimize hardships to such persons in adjusting to relocation. (d) The heads of Federal agencies shall coordinate relocation activities with project work, and other planned or proposed governmental actions in the community or nearby areas which may affect the carrying out of relocation assistance programs. H O U S I N G R E P L A C E M E N T BY FEDERAL AGENCY AS LAST RESORT
SEC. 206. (a) If a Federal project cannot proceed to actual construction because comparable replacement sale or rental housing is not available, and the head of the Federal agency determines that such housing cannot otherwise be made available he may take such action as is necessary or appropriate to provide such housing by use of funds authorized for such project. (b) No person shall be required to move from his dwelling on or after the effective date of this title, on account of any Federal project, unless the Federal agency head is satisfied that replacement housing, in accordance with section 205(c)(3), is available to such person. S T A T E R E Q U I R E D TO F U R N I S H REAL PROPERTY I N C I D E N T TO FEDERAL ASSISTANCE (LOCAL COOPERATION)
SEC. 207. Whenever real property is acquired by a State agency and furnished as a required contribution incident to a Federal program or project, the Federal agency having authority over the pro-
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