§1591b Community facilities or services by local agencies

Summary

Require that when the President names an area a critical defense housing area under section 1591, local agencies should use local money to provide the community facilities and services needed for national defense whenever possible. Loans under the programs in subchapter IX can only be made if the local area's top official certifies, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development finds, that the facilities or equipment cannot otherwise be provided in time. Grants or payments under subchapter IX for providing or running facilities or services can only be made if the local official certifies, and HUD finds, they cannot be provided or kept operating without causing excessive taxes or an unusual big jump in the local government's debt limit. The federal government will not directly provide, run, or maintain these local facilities unless the local agency clearly cannot do so itself, even with its own staff and the loans or grants available under subchapter IX.