average price required for a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of modest standards adequate in size to accommodate the displaced owner, reasonably accessible to public services and places of employment and available on the private market: Provided, That such payment may be made only to a displaced owner who purchases and occupies a dwelling within one year subsequent to the date on which he is required to move from the dwelling acquired for the project: Provided further, That no such payment may be made if the owner-occupant receives a payment required by the State law of eminent domain which is determined by the Secretary to have substantially the same purpose and effect as this paragraph and to be part of the cost of the project for which Federal financial assistance is available.

(d) Payments to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations for recording fees, transfer taxes, incidental expenses, penalty costs, and pro rata taxes.

In addition to payments authorized to be made under subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a local public agency may pay to any displaced individual, family, business concern, or nonprofit organization reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for (1) recording fees, transfer taxes, and similar expenses incidental to conveying real property to a project assisted under this subchapter, (2) penalty costs for prepayment of any mortgage encumbering such real property, and (3) the pro rata portion of real property taxes allocable to a period subsequent to the date of vesting of title or the effective date of the acquisition of such real property by such agency, whichever is earlier.

(e) Rules and regulations; finality of administrative decisions; promptness of payments.

The Secretary is authorized to establish such rules and regulations as he may deem appropriate in carrying out the provisions of this section and may provide in any contract with a local public agency, or in regulations promulgated by the Secretary, that determinations of any duly designated officer or agency as to eligibility for and the amount of relocation assistance authorized by this section shall be final and conclusive for any purposes and not subject to redetermination by any court or any other officer.

Such regulations shall include provisions to assure that relocation payments, as authorized by this section, shall be made as promptly as possible to all families, individuals, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations found to be eligible for such payments by reason of their having been displaced from property in the urban renewal area, without regard to any subsequent proceedings, determinations, or events relating to such property which do not bear upon whether such displacement in fact occurred. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 114, as added Sept. 2, 1964, Pub. L. 88-560, title III, § 310 (a), 78 Stat. 788, and amended Aug. 10, 1965, Pub. L. 89-117, title I, § 101 (i), title IV, § 404 (b), (c) (1), 79 Stat. 453, 486; May 25, 1967, Pub. L. 90-19, § 6(b), 81 Stat. 21; Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 516, 82 Stat. 526; Dec. 31, 1970, Pub. L. 91-609, title II, § 212, 84 Stat. 1779.)

REPEAL

Provisions of section repealed by Pub. L. 91– 646, title II, § 220(a) (5), Jan. 2, 1971, 84 Stat. 1903, the repeal not to be applicable to any State so long as sections 4630 and 4655 of this title are not applicable in such State, but such sections completely applicable to all such States after July 1, 1972. Until such date applicable to a State to the extent the State is able under its laws to comply with such sections. See section 221 of Pub. L. 91-646, set out as a note under section 4601 of this title.

REFERENCES IN TEXT

The United States Housing Act of 1937, referred to in subsec. (c), is classified to chapter 8 of this title. The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (c) (2), is classified in section 301 et seq. of this title.

AMENDMENTS

1970 Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–609 în cl. (1) of first sentence authorized relocation payments to displaced business concerns of fixed amounts in lieu of their total certified actual moving expenses where he determines that it is impractical for such concerns to calculate the amount of such expenses, and in second sentence struck out "certified actual" preceding "moving expenses", respectively.

1968-Subsec. (c) (2). Pub. L. 90-448, § 516(1)–(3), authorized payments to displaced handicapped individuals, increased the amount of the payment from not more than $500 payable during the first five months after displacement, to not more than $500 in the first twelve months and not more than $500 in the second twelve months, payable in monthly payments over the two-year period, permitted the payments to be made on a lump sum or other than monthly basis in cases in which the small size of the payments do not warrant a number of separate payments or in other cases in which other than monthly payments are warranted, provided that no payment received shall be considered as income for purpose of eligibility under the Social Security Act or any other Federal Act, and eliminated provisions which restricted payments to families and individuals sixty-two years of age or over, displaced on or after January 27, 1964.

Subsec. (c) (3). Pub. L. 90-448, § 516(4), added subsec. (c) (3).

1967-Pub. L. 90-19 substituted "Secretary” for “Administrator" whichever appearing in subsecs. (c) (1), (2) and (e) of this section.

1965 Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89-117, § 404 (b), substituted "$2,500" for "$1,500".

Subsec. (c) (2). Pub. L. 89-117, § 101 (1) inserted "or a dwelling unit assisted under section 1701s of Title 12" at the end of the first proviso.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 89-117, § 404 (c) (1), redesignated former subsec. (d) as subsec. (e) and added subsec. (d). Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 89-117, § 404 (c) (1), redesignated former subsec. (d) as subsec. (e). AMENDMENT OF CONTRACTS EXECUTED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 2, 1964

Section 310(b) of Pub. L. 88-560 provided that: "Any contract with a local public agency which was executed under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 [this subchapter] before the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 2, 1964] may be amended to provide for payments authorized by section 114 of the Housing Act of 1949 [this section]. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 1415, 1468, 1468a, 3073, 3074 of this title; title 12 section 1701z-4. § 1466. Rehabilitation grants.

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the Secretary may authorize a local public agency to make grants (and the urban renewal project may include the making of such

grants) as prescribed in this section. Any such grant may be made only to an individual or family, as described in subsection (c) of this section, who owns and occupies real property in an urban renewal area, and only for the purpose of covering the cost of repairs and improvements necessary to make such real property conform to public standards for decent, safe, and sanitary housing as required by applicable codes or other requirements of the urban renewal plan for the area. Any contract for financial assistance under this subchapter shall provide that the capital grant otherwise payable for the project shall be increased by an amount equal to the total amount of the grants under this section and that no part of the total amount of such grants shall be required to be contributed as part of the local grant-in-aid.

(2) In addition to the authority conferred by paragraph (1), and notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized, through the utilization of local public agencies where feasible, to make grants (payable from any grant funds provided under section 1453 (b) of this title) to an individual or family, as described in subsection (b) of this section, to cover the cost of repairs and improvements necessary to make real property owned and occupied by such individual or family conform to public standards for decent, safe, and sanitary housing. No grants shall be made under this paragraph in the case of any property, unless (A) such property is in an area within a locality (other than an urban renewal or code enforcement area) which the governing body of the locality has determined, and so certifies to the Secretary, contains a substantial number of structures in need of such repairs and improvements, (B) there is in effect for the locality a workable program meeting the requirements of section 1451 (c) of this title, and (C) the area is definitely planned for rehabilitation or concentrated code enforcement within a reasonable time, and such repairs and improvements to such property are consistent with the plan for rehabilitation or concentrated code enforcement.

(b) The Secretary is authorized to make grants (payable from any grant funds provided under section 1453(b) of this title), through the utilization of local public and private agencies where feasible, to an individual or family, as described in subsection (c) of this section, who owns and occupies real property which has been determined to be uninsurable because of physical hazards after an inspection pursuant to a statewide property insurance plan approved by the Secretary under title XII of the National Housing Act. Such grants may only be made to rehabilitate such property to the extent which the Secretary determines to be necessary to make it meet reasonable underwriting standards imposed by such plan.

(c) A grant authorized by this section may be made to an individual or family whose income does not exceed $3,000 a year, and such grant may be in the amount which does not exceed the lesser of (1) the actual (and approved) cost of the repairs and improvements involved, or (2) $3,500. In case the income of the individual or family exceeds $3,000 a year, a grant may be made under this section, sub

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ject to the limitations specified in clauses (1) and (2) of the preceding sentence, but only in an amount not to exceed that portion of the cost of the repairs and improvements which cannot be paid for with any available loan that can be amortized as part of such individual's or family's monthly housing expense without requiring such monthly housing expense to exceed 25 per centum of such individual's or family's monthly income. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 115, as added Aug. 10, 1965, Pub. L. 89-117, title I, § 106(a), 79 Stat. 457, and amended May 25, 1967, Pub. L. 90-19, § 6(b), 81 Stat. 21; Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 503, 82 Stat. 521; Dec. 24, 1969, Pub. L. 91-152, title II, § 205, 83 Stat. 387.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

Title XII of the National Housing Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is classified to section 1749bbb et seq. of Title 12, Banks and Banking.

AMENDMENTS

1969 Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 91-152 substituted "or (2) $3,500" for "or (2) $3,000".

1968 Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 90-448, § 503 (a), (c), (d) (2), designated existing provisions as par. (1), and substituted therein "real property" for "a structure", "such structure" and "subsection (c)" for "subsection (b)."

Subsec. (a) (2). Pub. L. 90-448, § 503 (c), added par. (2). Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90-448, § 503 (d) (1), added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 90-448, § 503(b), (d)(1), redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c), and substituted therein "$3,000" for "$1,500."

1967-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-19 substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator".

AMENDMENT OF CONTRACTS EXECUTED PRIOR TO ENACTMENT OF SECTION

Section 106(b) of Pub. L. 89-117 provided that: "Any contract with a local public agency which was executed under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 [this subchapter] before the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 10, 1965] may be amended to provide for grants authorized by section 115 of the Housing Act of 1949 [this section]."

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 1468 of this title. § 1467. Grants to cities, other municipalities, counties, and Indian tribes, etc., for demolition of unsafe structures; authorization; maximum amount; conditions precedent.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant funds provided under section 1453 (b) of this title) to cities, other municipalities, counties, and Indian tribes, bands, groups, and nations, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, of the United States to assist in financing the cost of demolishing structures which under State or local law have been determined to be structurally unsound, a harborage or potential harborage of rats, or unfit for human habitation, and which such city, municipality, or county has authority to demolish. The amount of any grant under this section shall not exceed two-thirds of the cost of the demolition of such structures.

(b) No grant shall be made under this section unless the structures to be demolished are located in an urban renewal area, or, in the case of structures outside an urban renewal area, (1) the locality involved has an approved workable program for

community improvement in accordance with the requirements of section 1451(c) of this title, as determined by the Secretary, (2) the demolition to be assisted will be on a planned neighborhood basis and will further the over-all renewal objectives of such locality, or will be consistent with a systematic rodent control program being undertaken in the neighborhood, (3) there is in such locality a program of enforcement of existing local housing and related codes, (4) the structures to be demolished constitute a public nuisance and a serious hazard to the public health or welfare, and (5) the governing body of such locality has determined that other available legal procedures have been exhausted to secure remedial action by the owner of the structures involved and that demolition by governmental action is required. (July 15, 1949, ch. 388, title I, § 116, as added Aug. 10, 1965, Pub. L. 89-117, title III, § 311(a), 79 Stat. 477, and amended May 25, 1967, Pub. L. 9019, § 6(b), 81 Stat. 21; Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 510, 82 Stat. 524; Dec. 24, 1969, Pub. L. 91152, title II, § 202(b), 83 Stat. 386.)

1969

AMENDMENTS

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91-152 extended applicability of provisions to include Indian tribes, bands, groups, and nations, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, of the United States.

1968 Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-448, § 510(a), included structures which are a harborage or potential harborage of rats.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90-448, § 510(b), authorized grants where the demolition will be consistent with a systematic rodent control program being undertaken neighborhood.

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1967-Pub. L. 90-19 substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator" wherever appearing in subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section.

§ 1468. Grants to cities, other municipalities, counties, and Indian tribes, etc., for code enforcement; authorization; maximum amount; conditions precedent.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant funds provided under section 1453 (b) of this title) to cities, other municipalities, counties, and Indian tribes, bands, groups, and nations, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, of the United States for the purpose of assisting such localities in carrying out programs of concentrated code enforcement in deteriorated or deteriorating areas in which such enforcement, together with those public improvements to be provided by the locality, may be expected to arrest the decline of the area. Such grants shall not exceed two-thirds (or three-fourths in the case of any city, other municipality, or county having a population of 50,000 or less according to the most recent decennial census) of the cost of planning and carrying out such programs which may include the provision and repair of necessary streets, curbs, sidewalks, street lighting, tree planting, and similar improvements within such areas. The Secretary shall not make any grant under this section unless he has obtained adequate assurances (1) that the locality will maintain during the period of the contract, in addition to its expenditures for planning and carry

ing out any program assisted under this section, a level of expenditures for code enforcement activities at not less than its normal expenditures for such activities prior to the execution of such contract, and (2) that the locality has a satisfactory program for the provision of all necessary public improvements for such areas. The provisions of sections 1451(c), 1456, 1465, and 1466 of this title, shall be applicable to activities and undertakings assisted under this section to the same extent as if such activities and undertakings were being carried out in an urban renewal area as part of an urban renewal project: Provided, That the Secretary may, in addition to authorizing a local public agency to make grants as prescribed in section 1466 of this title, make such grants through the utilization of local private nonprofit agencies. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 117, as added Aug. 10, 1965, Pub. L. 89-117, title III, § 311 (a), 79 Stat. 478, and amended May 25, 1967, Pub. L. 90-19, § 6(b), 81 Stat. 21; Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90448, title V, § 515, 82 Stat. 525; Dec. 24, 1969, Pub. L. 91-152, title II, § 202(c), 83 Stat. 386.)

AMENDMENTS

1969-Pub. L. 91-152 extended applicability of provisions to include Indian tribes, bands, groups, and nations, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, of the United States.

1968-Pub. L. 90-448 authorized the Secretary, in addition to authorizing a local public agency to make grants as prescribed in section 1466 of this title, to make such grants through the utilization of local private nonprofit agencies.

1967-Pub. L. 90-19 substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator" wherever appearing.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 1452b of this title and in title 12 section 1715k.

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§ 1468a. Interim assistance for blighted areas; grants to cities, other municipalities, counties, and Indian tribes, etc.; encouragement of employment of unemployed or underemployed residents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts (in an aggregate amount not to exceed $15,000,000 in any fiscal year) to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant funds provided under section 1453 (b) of this title) to cities, other municipalities, counties, and Indian tribes, bands, groups, and nations, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, of the United States for the purpose of assisting such localities in carrying our programs to alleviate harmful conditions in slum and blighted areas which are planned for substantial clearance, rehabilitation, or federally assisted code enforcement in the near future but in which some immediate public action is needed until clearance, rehabilitation, or code enforcement activities can be undertaken. Such grants shall not exceed two-thirds (or three-fourths in the case of any city, other municipality, or county having a population of fifty thousand or less according to the most recent decennial census) of the cost of planning and carrying out programs which may include (1) the repair of streets, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, publicly owned utilities, and public buildings to meet needs consistent with the short-term continued use of the

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area prior to the undertaking of the contemplated clearance or upgrading activities, (2) the improvement of private properties to the extent needed to eliminate the most immediate dangers to public health and safety, (3) the demolition of structures determined to be structurally unsound or unfit for human habitation and which constitute a public nuisance and serious hazard to the public health and safety, (4) the establishment of temporary public playgrounds on vacant land within the area, and (5) the improvement of garbage and trash collection, street cleaning, and similar activities. The Secretary shall encourage, wherever feasible, the employment of otherwise unemployed or underemployed residents of the area in carrying out the activities and undertakings assisted under this section. The provisions of sections 1451 (c), 1456, and 1465 of this title shall be applicable to activities and undertakings assisted under this section to the same extent as if such activities and undertakings were being carried out in an urban renewal area as part of an urban renewal project. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 118, as added Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 514, 82 Stat. 525, and amended Dec. 24, 1969, Pub. L. 91-152, title II, § 202(d), 83 Stat. 386.)

AMENDMENTS

1969-Pub. L. 91-152 extended applicability of provisions to include Indian tribes, bands, groups, and nations, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, of the United States.

PART B.-NEIGHBORHOOD Development PROGRAMS

§ 1469. Declaration of purpose.

(a) Authorization for financial assistance to local public agencies.

To facilitate more rapid renewal and development of urban areas on an effective scale, and to encourage more efficient and flexible utilization of public and private development opportunities by local communities in such areas, the Secretary is authorized to make financial assistance available under this subchapter to local public agencies for undertakings and activities which are carried out under a neighborhood development program approved by him pursuant to this part.

(b) Extent of neighborhood development program.

A neighborhood development program shall consist of urban renewal project undertakings and activities in one or more urban renewal areas which are planned and carried out on the basis of annual increments in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter for planning and carrying out urban renewal projects, except as modified by the provisions of this part.

(c) Conditions for approval of applications for financial assistance.

No application for financial assistance in planning and carrying out a neighborhood develpoment program shall be approved by the Secretary unless

(1) the governing body of the locality has, by resolution or ordinance, approved the proposed program and the annual increment covered by the application and authorized the filing of the application for financial assistance; and

(2) the Secretary has concluded that there is the necessary capacity to carry out the undertakings and activities included under the program. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 131, as added Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 501 (b), 82 Stat. 518.) NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS BY DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA REDEVELOPMENT LAND AGENCY Section 501(c) of Pub. L. 90-448 provided that: "Notwithstanding any requirement or condition to the contrary in section 6 or 20(1) of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 or in any other provision of law, the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency may plan and undertake neighborhood development programs under part B of title I of the Housing Act of 1949 (as added by this section [sections 1469-1469c of this title], subject to all of the provisions of such Act of 1945 to the extent not inconsistent with such part B, and any such program shall be regarded as complying with the requirements of such sections 6 and 20(1) and of such other provision of law if it meets the applicable requirements established under such part B."

§ 1469a. Financing of undertakings and activities; payment of excess of sale price and imputed capital value of land or other property leased or retained over gross project cost.

(a) Upon the approval of a neighborhood development program by the Secretary, the cost of any undertakings and activities authorized as part of the program shall be financed in accordance with the loan, capital grant, and project cost provisions of part A, except that

(1) net project cost may be calculated on the basis of costs incurred and proceeds derived for the account of the program during a specified twelve-month period, and may be recalculated for succeeding periods of twelve months to reflect additional costs and additional proceeds since the date of the last computation or recomputation; and

(2) if property has been acquired but not disposed of prior to the computation or recomputation of net project cost, temporary loans made or secured under this subchapter to finance undertakings or activities included in the program may remain outstanding until the property has been disposed of and the proceeds thereof together with additional funds becoming available to the program, are sufficient to permit repayment of the loans.

(b) In the event that gross project cost as computed for a specified twelve-month period is exceeded, with respect to that period, by the sum of (1) the sales price of land or other property sold, and (2) the imputed capital value of land or other property leased or retained by the local public agency in accordance with the provisions of the urban renewal plan, the local public agency shall pay to the Secretary two-thirds of the excess (or three-fourths in the case of a program on a three-fourths grant basis), which amount shall be available to the Secretary for grant payments under section 1453 of this title. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 132, as added Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 501(b), 82 Stat. 519.) § 1469b. Local grants-in-aid.

(a) Determination of eligibility; extension of eligibility.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for the purpose of determining the eligibility of

local grants-in-aid in connection with undertakings and activities carried out under a neighborhood development program, the three-year period referred to in the first sentence of the second paragraph of section 1460(d) of this title shall be deemed to be a period of three years prior to the authorization by the Secretary of the first contract for financial assistance under the program which includes the urban renewal area which is benefited by the public improvement or facility for which credit is claimed; and the seven-year period referred to in clause (1) of section 1463 (b) of this title shall be deemed to be a period of seven years prior to the date of authorization by the Secretary of the first contract for financial assistance under the program which includes the urban renewal area which is benefited by the expenditures for which credit is claimed. In connection with any neighborhood development program for which an application is filed not later than December 24, 1969 and for which no contract for financial assistance under the program has been authorized by the Secretary, the three-year and seven-year periods referred to above shall be extended to periods of four and eight years, respectively, prior to authorization of (1) the first contract for financial assistance under the program which includes the urban renewal area benefited by the public improvement or facility (or the expenditures) for which credit is claimed, or (2) a contract for a loan or capital grant for an urban renewal project authorized after December 24, 1969 in an area which is benefited by the public improvement or facility (or the expenditures) for which credit is claimed and which was included in the neighborhood development program application.

(b) Cost of public improvement or facility.

No portion of the cost of a public improvement or public facility (to the extent otherwise eligible) may be included as a local grant-in-aid in computing the gross project cost of an approved program for any twelve-month period

(1) prior to commencement of construction of the improvement or facility, or

(2) in excess of the amount actually expended or obligated by contract.

(c) Excess local grants-in-aid; inapplicability of pooling provisions.

The provisions of section 1454 of this title with respect to the pooling of local grants-in-aid among the various projects undertaken by a local public agency shall not be applicable with respect to any excess local grants-in-aid resulting from the urban renewal projects contained in a neighborhood development program. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 133, as added Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 501(b), 82 Stat. 519, and amended Dec. 24, 1969, Pub. L. 91-152, title II, § 203 (c), 83 Stat. 386.)

AMENDMENTS

1969-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91-152 substituted "Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for" for "For", added "the first sentence of" preceding "the second paragraph", and added the provisions extending the periods of eligibility of local grants-in-aid under the specified conditions from three and seven years to four and eight years, respectively.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 1463 of this title.

§ 1469c. General provisions.

(a) Workable program requirement; capital grants; relocation requirements; transient housing; demolition and removal of buildings and improvements.

For purposes of this part

(1) the workable program requirement in section 1451 (c) of this title shall apply to the authorization, rather than the execution, of any contract for loans or capital grants;

(2) capital grants on a three-fourths basis may only be made under section 1453 (a) (2) (B) of this title;

(3) the relocation requirements specified in section 1455 (c) of this title shall apply to each annual increment of an approved program;

(4) section 1456 (g) of this title (relating to transient housing) shall apply to activities undertaken under approved programs, except that the determination as to need for transient housing shall be made with respect to any sale or lease of land for construction of such housing prior to such sale or lease; and

(5) the requirement concerning demolition and removal of buildings and improvements stated in clause (A) of the sentence following paragraph (10) of section 1460 (c) of this title shall apply to each annual increment of an approved program. (b) Obligation to provide financial assistance for subsequent annual increments.

The approval by the Secretary of financial assistance for one or more annual increments of a neighborhood development program shall not be considered as obligating him to provide financial assistance for any subsequent annual increments. (c) Extent of urban renewal plan; modification; establishment of requirements prescribing scope and content of plan.

The urban renewal plan referred to in section 1460 (b) of this title may cover one or more of the urban renewal areas covered by a neighborhood development program and such plan may be modified from time to time to cover additional urban renewal areas added to the program. The Secretary may establish such requirements as he deems appropriate prescribing the scope and content of such plan, taking into consideration, among other matters, the degree of detail needed in the plan to properly and expeditiously carry out the activities and undertakings proposed in any annual increment of a neighborhood development program. (July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title I, § 134, as added Aug. 1, 1968, Pub. L. 90-448, title V, § 501 (b), 82 Stat. 520.)

SUBCHAPTER III.-FARM HOUSING

§ 1471. Financial assistance by Secretary of Agriculture; definitions; conditions of eligibility.

(a) The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized, subject to the terms and conditions of this subchapter, to extend financial assistance, through the Farmers Home Administration, (1) to owners of farms in the