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42 U.S.C. § 1591b — Community facilities or services by local agencies
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In order to assure that community facilities or services required in connection with national defense activities shall, wherever possible, be provided by the appropriate local agencies with local funds, in any area which the President, pursuant to the authority contained in [section 1591 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1591&num=0&edition=prelim), has declared to be a critical defense housing area—
**(a) Certification of necessity for loan** no loan shall be made pursuant to subchapter IX of this chapter for the provision of community facilities or equipment therefor required in connection with national defense activities in such area unless the chief executive officer of the appropriate political subdivision certifies, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development finds, that such facilities or equipment could not otherwise be provided when needed;
**(b) Certification of necessity for grants or other payments** no grant or other payment shall be made pursuant to subchapter IX of this chapter for the provision, or for the operation and maintenance, of community facilities or equipment therefor, or for the provision of community services, required in connection with national defense activities in such area unless the chief executive officer of the appropriate political subdivision certifies, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development finds, that such community facilities or services cannot otherwise be provided when needed, or operated and maintained, as the case may be, without the imposition of an increased excessive tax burden or an unusual or excessive increase in the debt limit of the appropriate local agency; and
**(c) Maintenance and operation of facilities** no community facilities or servi
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In order to assure that community facilities or services required in connection with national defense activities shall, wherever possible, be provided by the appropriate local agencies with local funds, in any area which the President, pursuant to the authority contained in [section 1591 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1591&num=0&edition=prelim), has declared to be a critical defense housing area—
**(a) Certification of necessity for loan** no loan shall be made pursuant to subchapter IX of this chapter for the provision of community facilities or equipment therefor required in connection with national defense activities in such area unless the chief executive officer of the appropriate political subdivision certifies, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development finds, that such facilities or equipment could not otherwise be provided when needed;
**(b) Certification of necessity for grants or other payments** no grant or other payment shall be made pursuant to subchapter IX of this chapter for the provision, or for the operation and maintenance, of community facilities or equipment therefor, or for the provision of community services, required in connection with national defense activities in such area unless the chief executive officer of the appropriate political subdivision certifies, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development finds, that such community facilities or services cannot otherwise be provided when needed, or operated and maintained, as the case may be, without the imposition of an increased excessive tax burden or an unusual or excessive increase in the debt limit of the appropriate local agency; and
**(c) Maintenance and operation of facilities** no community facilities or services shall be provided, and no community facilities shall be maintained and operated, by the United States directly except where the appropriate local agency is demonstrably unable to provide such facilities and services, or to maintain or operate such community facilities and services adequately with its own personnel, with loans, grants, or payments authorized to be made pursuant to subchapter IX of this chapter.
For the purposes of this section, the term “chief executive officer of the appropriate political subdivision” shall mean appropriate principal executive officer or governing body having primary responsibility with respect to the community facility or service involved, but shall not, in any case, mean any public housing authority, or its governing body, or any of its officers, acting in such capacity.
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**(a) Mandatory transfers** Upon the filing of a request therefor as herein prescribed, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall (subject to the provisions of this section) relinquish and transfer, without monetary consideration, to any State or political subdivision thereof, local housing authority, local public agency, nonprofit organization, or educational institution, all contractual rights (including the right to revenues and other proceeds) and all property right, title, and interest of the United States in and with respect to (1) any temporary housing located on land owned or controlled by such transferee and in which the United States has no leasehold or other property interest, and (2) housing materials which have been made available to the transferee by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to [section 1572 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1572&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Transfer to provide housing for parents of deceased World War II servicemen** Upon the filing of a request therefor as herein prescribed, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may (subject to the provisions of this section) relinquish and transfer, without monetary consideration other than that specifically required by this subsection, to any State, county, municipality, or local housing authority, or to any educational institution where the housing involved is being operated for its student veterans or where the land underlying the housing is in the ownership of two or more educational institutions, or to any other local public agency or nonprofit organization where the housing involved has been made available by the United States to such agency or organization pursuant to [section 1572 of this
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the authority contained in titles II or III of this Act shall not be exercised in any area unless the President shall have determined that such area is a critical defense housing area.
**(b)** No area shall be determined to be a critical defense housing area pursuant to this section unless the President finds that in such area all the following conditions exist:
(1) a new defense plant or installation has been or is to be provided, or an existing defense plant or installation has been or is to be reactivated or its operation substantially expanded;
(2) substantial in-migration of defense workers or military personnel is required to carry out activities at such plant or installation; and
(3) a substantial shortage of housing required for such defense workers or military personnel exists or impends which impedes or threatens to impede activities at such defense plant or installation, or that community facilities or services required for such defense workers or military personnel are not available or are insufficient, or both, as the case may be.
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Subject to all of the limitations and restrictions of this Act, including, specifically, the requirements of subsection (c) of [section 1591b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1591b&num=0&edition=prelim) and of subsections (c) and (d) of [section 1592h of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1592h&num=0&edition=prelim), where any other officer, department, or agency is performing, or, in the determination of the President, has facilities adapted to the performance of, functions, powers and duties similar, or directly related, to any of the functions, powers and duties which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is authorized by this subchapter to perform with respect to the construction, maintenance or operation of community facilities for recreation, and daycare centers, or the provision of community services, the President may transfer to such other officer, department, or agency any of the functions, powers, and duties authorized by this subchapter to be performed with respect thereto if he finds that such transfer will assist the furtherance of national defense activities, and upon any such transfer, funds in such amount as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine, but in no event in excess of the balance of any moneys appropriated to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the authorization therefor contained in this subchapter for the performance of the transferred functions, powers, and duties, may also be transferred by the President to such other officer, department, or agency: Provided, That the President, by Executive Order or otherwise, may prescribe or direct the manner in which any functions, pow
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, all functions, powers, and duties under this subchapter and [section 1591b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1591b&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to health, refuse disposal, sewage treatment, and water purification shall be exercised by and vested in the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service: Provided, That the Surgeon General shall have power to delegate to any other Federal agency functions, powers, and duties with respect to construction.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 1591b
§ 1591a. Construction by private enterprise
In order to assure that private enterprise shall
be afforded full opportunity to provide the de-
fense housing needed wherever possible, in any
area which the President, pursuant to the au-
thority contained in section 1591 of this title,
has declared to be a critical defense housing
area—
(a) Publication of number of units needed
first, the number of permanent dwelling
units (including information as to types, rent-
als, and general locations) needed for defense
workers and military personnel in such crit-
ical defense housing area shall be publicly an-
nounced and printed in the Federal Register
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment;
(b) Suspension of credit restrictions
second, residential credit restrictions under
the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amend-
ed [50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.], (1) as to housing to
be sold at $12,000 or less per unit or to be
rented at $85 or less per unit per month, shall
be suspended with respect to the number and
types of housing units at the sales prices or
rentals which the President determines to be
needed in such area for defense workers or
military personnel, and (2) as to all other
housing, shall be relaxed in such manner and
to such extent as the President determines to
be necessary and appropriate to obtain the
production of such housing needed in such
area for defense workers or military per-
sonnel;
(c) Mortgage insurance
third, the mortgage insurance aids provided
under title II of this Act shall be made avail-
able to obtain the production of housing need-
ed in such area for defense workers or military
personnel; and
(d) Construction by Government as conditional
fourth, no permane
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