Better Use of Intergovernmental and Local Development (build) Housing Act
Section 205 · Sec. 205 ·
What this chapter is about
This part adds a new section to the law that set up the housing agency. The head of that agency may label its help as a special project. That label decides how the effect on nature is reviewed. Tribes are added to the list of bodies that may run such a review. The new label reaches only money set aside after this law passes.
The document says “can”Who acts: Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHow: statuteSec. 205 in the PDF
What the document says
“the Secretary may, for purposes of environmental review, decision making, and action pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such Act, designate the treatment of assistance administered by the Secretary as funds for a special project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 3547).”
The section inserts a new section 13 into the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act letting the Secretary designate assistance the Department administers as funds for a special project under section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994, for purposes of environmental review and decision making under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
What the document actually says
“the Secretary may, for purposes of environmental review, decision making, and action pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such Act, designate the treatment of assistance administered by the Secretary as funds for a special project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 3547).”
That sentence, in plain words
The head of the housing agency may put a label on the agency's help. The label is funds for a special project. It matters when the effect on nature is reviewed.
What this is about
A federal project usually needs a study of its effect on nature. The label decides who does that study and how. It comes from a law passed in 1994.
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The document says “shall not”Who acts: Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHow: statuteSec. 205 in the PDF
What the document says
“The designation described in subsection (a) shall not apply to assistance for which a procedure for carrying out the responsibilities of the Secretary under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such Act, is otherwise specified in law.”
The new section 13 provides that the designation does not apply to assistance for which the law already specifies a procedure for carrying out the Secretary's responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
What the document actually says
“The designation described in subsection (a) shall not apply to assistance for which a procedure for carrying out the responsibilities of the Secretary under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such Act, is otherwise specified in law.”
That sentence, in plain words
Sometimes a law already says how a review must be done. In that case this label does not apply. The older steps stay in place.
What this is about
An exception marks where a rule stops. The label is a shortcut. Where Congress already picked a path, the shortcut is off.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 205 in the PDF
What the document says
“by striking ``State or unit of general local government'' each place it appears and inserting ``State, Indian Tribe, or unit of general local government'';”
The section amends section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994 to add Indian Tribes wherever States and units of general local government appear, and adds a definition of Indian Tribe drawn from section 4(13)(B) of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.
What the document actually says
“by striking ``State or unit of general local government'' each place it appears and inserting ``State, Indian Tribe, or unit of general local government'';”
That sentence, in plain words
A phrase in an older law names states and local governments. Every time it appears, it comes out. A longer phrase goes in that names tribes too.
What this is about
That older law lets a body take on a review itself. Before this, only states and local governments could. Now a tribe can as well.
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The document says “shall apply”Who acts: Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHow: statuteSec. 205 in the PDF
What the document says
“a designation of assistance under section 13 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act, as added by subsection (a), shall only apply with respect to funds appropriated after the date of enactment of this Act.”
The section provides that the new designation applies only to funds appropriated after enactment, and that it does not apply at all where a grantee combines funds appropriated before and after enactment to carry out a project.
What the document actually says
“a designation of assistance under section 13 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act, as added by subsection (a), shall only apply with respect to funds appropriated after the date of enactment of this Act.”
That sentence, in plain words
The label reaches only new money. Money set aside before this law passed is not covered.
What this is about
To appropriate is for Congress to set money aside. Some projects mix old money and new. In that case the label does not apply at all.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
The three things the section does: the new section 13 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act with its exception, the addition of Indian Tribes to section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994, and the limit on which appropriations the designation reaches.
Purely mechanical amendments. Changing a heading to match new text in the body is recorded only where it changes what somebody must do.
The section works by amending the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act and the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994, neither of which is indexed here, so nothing is recorded about what a special project designation does in practice. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is also not indexed here.
