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§1592c Loans or Grants for Community Facilities or Services; Conditions; Maximum Amounts; Annual Adjustments

Title 42 › CHAPTER 9 — HOUSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN NATIONAL DEFENSE › SUBCHAPTER IX — DEFENSE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES › § 1592c

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The HUD Secretary may give loans, grants, or other payments to public or nonprofit agencies to build, run, or keep up community facilities, buy equipment, or provide community services. The Secretary decides the terms and amounts that serve the public interest. Grants for hospital construction to a local agency are allowed only after the agency first seeks help under Public Law 725 (Seventy-ninth Congress), approved August 13, 1946, as amended, or Public Law 380 (Eighty-first Congress), approved October 25, 1949, and only for costs those laws do not cover. Payments cannot exceed the part of the cost caused by national defense activities and not paid by other sources. Ongoing grants must be reviewed and adjusted every year if the agency can pay more because of higher revenues from the facility or defense activity.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1592c

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In furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter and subject to the provisions hereof, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may make loans or grants, or other payments, to public and nonprofit agencies for the provision, or for the operation and maintenance, of community facilities and equipment therefor, or for the provision of community services, upon such terms and in such amounts as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may consider to be in the public interest: Provided, That grants under this subchapter to any local agency for hospital construction may be made only after such action by the local agency to secure assistance under Public Law 725, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved August 13, 1946, as amended, or Public Law 380, Eighty-first Congress, approved October 25, 1949, as is determined to be reasonable under the circumstances, and only to the extent that the required assistance is not available to such local agency under said Public Law 725, or said Public Law 380, as the case may be: Provided further, That grants or payments for the provision, or for the maintenance and operation, of community facilities or services under this section shall not exceed the portion of the cost of the provision, or the maintenance and operation, of such facilities or services which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development estimates to be attributable to the national defense activities in the area and not to be recovered by the public or nonprofit agency from other sources, including payments by the United States under any other provisions of this Act or any other law: And provided further, That any such continuing grant or payment shall be reexamined and adjusted annually upon the basis of the ability of the agency to bear a greater portion of the cost of such maintenance, operation, or services as a result of increased revenues made possible by such facility or by such defense activities.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Public Law 725, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved Aug. 13, 1946, as amended, referred to in text, means act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 958, 60 Stat. 1041, known as the Hospital Survey and

Construction

Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Public Law 380, Eighty-first Congress, approved Oct. 25, 1949, referred to in text, means act Oct. 25, 1949, ch. 722, 63 Stat. 898, known as the Hospital Survey and

Amendments

of 1949, which amended section 291, 291d, 291f, 291g, 291h, 291i, 291j, 291n, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 291 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. This Act, referred to in text, means act Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, 65 Stat. 293, known as the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1951 Amendment note set out under section 1501 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, see note set out under section 1581 of this title. Hospital

Construction

Revival and Extension of Loan and Grant Authority; Expiration Date; AppropriationAct Aug. 7, 1956, ch. 1029, § 605, 70 Stat. 1114, as amended by Pub. L. 86–372, title VIII, § 804, Sept. 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 687; Pub. L. 87–70, title IX, § 906, June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 191, provided that notwithstanding section 1591c of this title, the authority under this section to make loans or grants, or other payments to public and non-profit agencies for the

Construction

of hospitals was revived and extended with respect to public and nonprofit agencies which had, prior to June 30, 1953, applied under this section, for such loans or grants, or other payments for the

Construction

of hospitals, and had been denied such loans or grants, or other payments solely because of the unavailability of funds for such purpose, provided that the authority granted by this section was to expire
June 30, 1962, and authorized appropriations for fiscal years ending
June 30, 1962.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1592c

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

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