§803 — Title 20 Education | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary may give matching grants to States to help pay for two things. First, training programs that teach the skills people need to plan and run community development and housing work. This training can be for technical and professional workers in government or for staff at nonprofit housing and community groups. Second, state and local research on housing, public improvements, building code issues, land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems, including collecting and publishing related statistics and information. Grants can also support training people, especially low-income people, to manage housing for low- and moderate-income families, and the research and sharing of information about that management. A State can get a grant only after the Secretary approves a plan that says how the money will be used and what the goals are; explains how the State will get the required non-Federal funds; sets up needed financial controls and accounting; names the State officer or agency in charge of the program; and agrees to make reports the Secretary needs. No grant may be paid unless the State provides at least an equal amount from non-Federal sources for the same purpose and for the same time.

Title 20, §803

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(a)Subject to the provisions of this chapter and in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, the Secretary may make matching grants to States to assist in—

(1)organizing, initiating, developing, or expanding programs to provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development to those technical, professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and employ such skills who are, or are training to be, employed by a governmental or public body which has responsibilities for community development, or by a private nonprofit organization which is conducting or has responsibility for housing and community development programs; and

(2)supporting State and local research that is needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems, and collecting, collating, and publishing statistics and information relating to such research.

(b)Grants may be made under subsection (a) to support (1) the training of persons, especially persons of low income, in acquiring the skills needed in the management of housing for low- and moderate-income persons, and (2) research and the dissemination of information with respect to the problems involved in the management of housing for low- and moderate-income persons.

(c)No grants may be made to a State under this section unless the Secretary has approved a plan for the State which—

(1)sets forth the proposed use of the funds and the objectives to be accomplished;

(2)explains the method by which the required amounts from non-Federal sources will be obtained;

(3)provides such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be reasonably necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds paid to the State under this section;

(4)designates an officer or agency of the State government who has responsibility and authority for the administration of a statewide research and training program as the officer or agency with responsibility and authority for the execution of the State’s program under this section; and

(5)provides that such officer or agency will make such reports to the Secretary, in such form, and containing such information, as may be reasonably necessary to enable the Secretary to perform his duties under this section.

(d)No grant may be made under this section for any use unless an amount at least equal to such grant is made available from non-Federal sources for the same purpose and for concurrent use.

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1970—Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 91–609 added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsecs. (b) and (c) as (c) and (d), respectively. 1969—Pub. L. 91–152 substituted provisions authorizing the Secretary to make matching grants to States to assist in programs providing special training in community development and to support State and local research, provisions setting forth the required contents of any plan submitted to the Secretary in order to obtain grants, and provisions requiring the matching from non-Federal sources of any grant made pursuant to this section, for provisions requiring not more than 10 per centum of the total amount appropriated be used for making grants to any one State. The former provisions of this section are now set forth in section 804 of this title with minor

Amendments

. 1965—Pub. L. 89–117 substituted “appropriated for the purposes of this subchapter” for “authorized to be appropriated by section 802(d) of this title”.

§803 Matching Grants to States

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Title 20, §803

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