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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§803a Project Grants and Contracts

Title 20 › CHAPTER 23 — TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › § 803a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give grants or make contracts with colleges or groups of colleges to help them plan, build, improve, or run programs that train graduate or professional students in city and regional planning and management, housing, and urban affairs. The Secretary can also fund research or testing of better ways to teach those professions. Grants or contracts can pay all or part of the costs. Colleges must apply to the Secretary when asked and give the information the Secretary requires. An approved application must describe the program or research, promise proper money controls and accounting, and agree to required reports, records, and access for checking those reports. Funds may be used, under the Secretary’s rules and the approved application, to pay part of the wages of students working in the listed professions, except students working for any branch of the U.S. Government.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §803a

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(a)Authorization; purposes; application
The Secretary is authorized to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions, to assist them in planning, developing, strengthening, improving, or carrying out programs or projects (1) for the preparation of graduate or professional students in the fields of city and regional planning and management, housing, and urban affairs, or (2) for research into, or development or demonstration of, improved methods of education for these professions. Such grants or contracts may include payment of all or part of the cost of programs or projects.
(b)Contents; use of payments
(1)A grant or contract authorized by this section shall be made only upon application to the Secretary at such time or times and containing such information as he may prescribe, except that no such application shall be approved unless it—
(A)sets forth programs, activities, research, or development for which a grant is authorized under this section;
(B)provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this subsection; and
(C)provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may require to carry out his functions under this subsection, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Secretary may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.
(2)Payments under this section may be used, in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in an application approved under paragraph (1), to pay part of the compensation of students employed in professions referred to in subsection (a)(1), except students employed in any branch of the Government of the United States, as part of a program for which a grant has been approved pursuant to this subsection.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 93–383, § 402, provided for

Amendments

to title VIII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1964. The

Amendments

of the enumerated sections of such title VIII have been executed to comparable sections of title VIII of the Housing Act of 1964 as the probable intent of Congress.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 803a

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110