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42 U.S.C. § 8001 — Congressional findings
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The Congress finds that—
(1) congregate housing, coordinated with the delivery of supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-effective means of enabling temporarily disabled or handicapped individuals to maintain their dignity and independence and to avoid costly and unnecessary institutionalization;
(2) a large and growing number of elderly and handicapped residents of public housing projects and of nonprofit projects for the elderly and handicapped face premature and unnecessary institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of the supportive services required for the successful development of adequate numbers of congregate housing projects; and
(3) supplemental supportive services, available on a secure and continuing basis, are essential to a successful congregate housing program.
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The Congress finds that—
(1) congregate housing, coordinated with the delivery of supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-effective means of enabling temporarily disabled or handicapped individuals to maintain their dignity and independence and to avoid costly and unnecessary institutionalization;
(2) a large and growing number of elderly and handicapped residents of public housing projects and of nonprofit projects for the elderly and handicapped face premature and unnecessary institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of the supportive services required for the successful development of adequate numbers of congregate housing projects; and
(3) supplemental supportive services, available on a secure and continuing basis, are essential to a successful congregate housing program.
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to enable persons with disabilities to live with dignity and independence within their communities by expanding the supply of supportive housing that—
(1) is designed to accommodate the special needs of such persons;
(2) makes available supportive services that address the individual health, mental health, and other needs of such persons; and
(3) promotes and facilitates community integration for people with significant and long-term disabilities.
**(b) Authority to provide assistance** The Secretary is authorized to take the following actions:
(1) **Tenant-based assistance** — To provide tenant-based rental assistance to eligible persons with disabilities, in accordance with subsection (d)(4).
(2) **Capital advances** — To provide assistance to private, nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of supportive housing for persons with disabilities, which shall be provided as—
(A) capital advances in accordance with subsection (d)(1), and
(B) contracts for project rental assistance in accordance with subsection (d)(2);
assistance under this paragraph may be used to finance the acquisition, acquisition and moderate rehabilitation, construction, reconstruction, or moderate or substantial rehabilitation of housing, including the acquisition from the Resolution Trust Corporation, to be used as supportive housing for persons with disabilities and may include real property acquisition, site improvement, conversion, demolition, relocation, and other expenses that the Secretary determines are necessary to expand the supply of supportive housing for persons with disabilities.
(3) **Project rental assistance**
(A) *In general* — To offer additional methods of financing supportive housing for non-elderly adults with
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, act July 31, 1953, ch. 302, title I, § 101, 67 Stat. 307, which barred subversives from occupancy of housing units and which provided for enforcement of such prohibition and affect of such prohibition on loans and contributions by the Public Housing Administration, was from the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1954, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to enable elderly persons to live with dignity and independence by expanding the supply of supportive housing that—
(1) is designed to accommodate the special needs of elderly persons; and
(2) provides a range of services that are tailored to the needs of elderly persons occupying such housing.
**(b) General authority** The Secretary is authorized to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for the elderly. Such assistance shall be provided as (1) capital advances in accordance with subsection (c)(1), and (2) contracts for project rental assistance in accordance with subsection (c)(2). Such assistance may be used to finance the construction, reconstruction, or moderate or substantial rehabilitation of a structure or a portion of a structure, or the acquisition of a structure, to be used as supportive housing for the elderly in accordance with this section. Assistance may also cover the cost of real property acquisition, site improvement, conversion, demolition, relocation, and other expenses that the Secretary determines are necessary to expand the supply of supportive housing for the elderly.
**(c) Forms of assistance**
(1) **Capital advances** — A capital advance provided under this section shall bear no interest and its repayment shall not be required so long as the housing remains available for very low-income elderly persons in accordance with this section. Such advance shall be in an amount calculated in accordance with the development cost limitation established in subsection (h).
(2) **Project rental assistance** — Contracts for project rental assistance shall obligate the Secretary to make monthly payments to cover any part of t
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**(a) Transfer of personnel, assets, etc.** The personnel employed in connection with, and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds held, used, arising from, or available or to be made available in connection with, the functions, powers, and duties transferred by [section 3534 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section3534&num=0&edition=prelim) are hereby transferred with such functions, powers, and duties, respectively.
**(b) Repealed. Pub. L. 90–448, title VIII, § 807(d), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 544**
**(c) Employment, compensation, authority, and duties of personnel** The Secretary is authorized, subject to the civil service and classification laws, to select, appoint, employ, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, including attorneys, as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and to prescribe their authority and duties: Provided, That any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary may fix the compensation for not more than six positions in the Department at the annual rate applicable to positions in level V of the Executive Schedule provided by subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 5.
**(d) Delegation of authority; rules and regulations** The Secretary may delegate any of his functions, powers, and duties to such officers and employees of the Department as he may designate, may authorize such successive redelegations of such functions, powers, and duties as he may deem desirable, and may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out his functions, powers, and duties.
**(e) Temporary employment of experts or consultants; compensati
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**(a) Findings and purposes**
(1) **Findings** — The Congress finds that—
(A) the effective provision of congregate services may require the redesign of units and buildings to meet the special physical needs of the frail elderly persons and the creation of congregate space to accommodate services that enhance independent living;
(B) congregate housing, coordinated with the delivery of supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-effective means of enabling frail older persons and persons with disabilities to maintain their dignity and independence;
(C) independent living with assistance is a preferable housing alternative to institutionalization for many frail older persons and persons with disabilities;
(D) 365,000 persons in federally assisted housing experience some form of frailty, and the number is expected to increase as the general population ages;
(E) an estimated 20 to 30 percent of older adults living in federally assisted housing experience some form of frailty;
(F) a large and growing number of frail elderly residents face premature or unnecessary institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of supportive services;
(G) the support service needs of frail residents of assisted housing are beyond the resources and experience that housing managers have for meeting such needs;
(H) supportive services would promote the invaluable option of independent living for nonelderly persons with disabilities in federally assisted housing;
(I) approximately 25 percent of congregate housing services program sites provide congregate services to young individuals with disabilities;
(J) to the extent that institutionalized older adults do not need the full cos
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 7942
1 So in original. Subsec. (b) enacted without a par. (2).
New Mexico Partners site near Milan, New Mex-
ico,
and
the
Anaconda
carbonate
process
tailings site near Bluewater, New Mexico. Such
study shall be completed and a report thereof
submitted to the Congress and to the Secretary
within one year after November 8, 1978, together
with such recommendations as may be appro-
priate. If the Commission determines that such
authority is not adequate to regulate and con-
trol such materials at such sites in the manner
provided in the first sentence of this section, the
Commission shall include in the report a state-
ment of the basis for such determination. Noth-
ing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent
or delay action by a State as permitted under
section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [42
U.S.C. 2021] or under any other provision of law
or by the Commission to regulate such residual
radioactive materials at such sites prior to com-
pletion of such study.
(Pub. L. 95–604, title III, § 301, Nov. 8, 1978, 92
Stat. 3042.)
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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original
‘‘this Act’’, meaning Pub. L. 95–604, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat.
3021, known as the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation
Control Act of 1978. For complete classification of this
Act to the Code, see Short Title note under section 7901
of this title and Tables.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, referred to in text, is
act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954,
ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919, which is classified principally
to chapter 23 (§ 2011 et seq.) of this title. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
note set out under section 2011 of
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