LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL DECEMBER 1984. To: All Members of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Transmitted herewith for the use of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs is the revised edition of the Basic Laws and Authorities on Housing and Community Development. This revision embodies changes resulting from 58 public laws affecting our housing and community development programs enacted by the Congress since the last revision of Basic Laws on October 1, 1981. This revision of Basic Laws will assist the Committee in its upcoming legislative efforts in the First Session of the Ninety-Ninth Congress. I wish to commend the staff of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development for their efforts in assisting in the revision of this volume, and in particular to commend Mr. Ira Forstater, Assistant Counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House of Representatives, for his excellent work in overseeing these revisions. I recommend this document to the Members of the Committee as an invaluable tool in dealing with the Committee's major responsibility regarding its jurisdiction of the housing and community development programs. Sincerely, LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, Hon. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I hereby transmit for your consideration, the revised and up-dated Basic Laws on Housing and Community Development. This revision of the Basic Laws of October 1981 embodies changes made by some 58 public laws that affect our housing and community development programs over which this Subcommittee has jurisdiction. The major legislative effort since October of 1981 was the Housing and Urban Rural Recovery Act that was enacted as part of the Domestic Housing and International Recovery and Financial Stability Act of 1983, P.L. 98-181, as well as numerous extensions, appropriations Acts, and legislative changes embodied in other committees' actions. Because of these numerous changes, it is necessary to revise our Committee Print which the Subcommittee has been publishing since 1967, in order that the Committee have an up-dated version of the public laws over which the House has charged us with responsibility. Since the Committee will have to deal with major legislation in the First Session of the Ninety-Ninth Congress, it is most important that this revision be published for the use of the Committee, the rest of the Congress, and the public. Mr. Chairman, I would like to commend the staff of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development for supervising this revision of the Basic Laws. I would also commend Mr. Ira Forstater, Assistant Counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel for the House of Representatives, for his superb work in making the revisions contained in this print. I believe that this revised Basic Laws will serve the Committee well and will be most helpful to the other Members of Congress and the public in understanding our housing and community development programs. Sincerely, PREFACE Contents.-This committee print replaces the edition of the Basic Laws on Housing and Community Development dated October 1, 1981. As such, it contains the texts of the primary housing and community_development laws within the jurisdiction of the com- mittee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives, as well as additional laws and materials of par- Organization. This committee print retains the useful organiza- tion of the 1981 edition. Thus, the laws are arranged under the broad subject areas dealt with by the Committee. Part I contains the basic laws on community development, including the communi- ty development block grant program and the urban development action grant program. Part II contains the basic laws on assisted housing, including public housing, section 8 housing, housing for elderly and handicapped persons, and the new rental rehabilitation and development grant programs. Part III contains the basic laws on FHA mortgage insurance, mortgage relief, and multifamily mortgage foreclosure. Part IV contains the basic laws on the sec- ondary market for mortgage loans, including FNMA, FHLMC, and GNMA. Part V contains the basic laws on rural housing, including the FmHA housing assistance programs under title V of the Hous- ing Act of 1949. Part VI contains the basic laws on the property, crime, and flood insurance programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Part VII contains the basic laws establishing various regulatory programs, such as those relating to interstate land sales and real estate settlement procedures. Part VIII contains the basic laws guiding the organization and operation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Part IX contains additional laws relating to housing programs, including the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank Act. Part X contains the current appropriations provisions for housing and community development. Finally, part XI contains miscellaneous tables and glossaries designed to assist in the use of the compila- United States Code.-As its title indicates, this committee print contains only the basic laws relating to housing and community de- |