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§5312 Use of Grants for Settlement of Outstanding Urban Renewal Loans of Units of General Local Government

Title 42 › CHAPTER 69 — COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › § 5312

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can use up to 20 percent of the program grants for a local government to pay off temporary loans tied to urban renewal projects. The Secretary can do this without the local government's request if, after talking with the local agency running the project and the local chief executive (for example, the mayor), the Secretary decides the project cannot be finished without more capital grants. The Secretary can also apply the money if the local agency asks and the local governing body agrees. When deciding how much to apply, the Secretary will review the project’s costs, expected sale or disposal income, and the capital grants already approved. If a local agency asks and its governing body approves, the Secretary may accept a financial settlement for an urban renewal project when he finds that paying off temporary loan debts will leave extra capital grant money. The Secretary may then let the local government use that leftover money, without reductions, under the program’s rules.

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Title 42, §5312

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(a)Limitation on amounts; prerequisites
The Secretary is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, to apply a portion of the grants, not to exceed 20 per centum thereof without the request of the recipient, made or to be made under section 5303 of this title in any fiscal year pursuant to an allocation under section 5306 of this title to any unit of general local government toward payment of the principal of, and accrued interest on, any temporary loan made in connection with urban renewal projects under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 [42 U.S.C. 1450 et seq.] being carried out within the jurisdiction of such unit of general local government if—
(1)the Secretary determines, after consultation with the local public agency carrying out the project and the chief executive of such unit of general local government, that the project cannot be completed without additional capital grants, or
(2)the local public agency carrying out the project submits to the Secretary an appropriate request which is concurred in by the governing body of such unit of general local government.
In determining the amounts to be applied to the payment of temporary loans, the Secretary shall make an accounting for each project taking into consideration the costs incurred or to be incurred, the estimated proceeds upon any sale or disposition of property, and the capital grants approved for the project.
(b)Approval by Secretary of financial settlement of urban renewal project
Upon application by any local public agency carrying out an urban renewal project under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 [42 U.S.C. 1450 et seq.], which application is approved by the governing body of the unit of general local government in which the project is located, the Secretary may approve a financial settlement of such project if he finds that a surplus of capital grant funds after full repayment of temporary loan indebtedness will result and may authorize the unit of general local government to use such surplus funds, without deduction or offset, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 93–383, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 633, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables. The Housing Act of 1949, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), is act July 15, 1949, ch. 338, 63 Stat. 413. Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 was classified generally to subchapter II (§ 1450 et seq.) of chapter 8A of this title, and was omitted from the Code pursuant to section 5316 of this title which terminated authority to make grants or loans under such title I after Jan. 1, 1975. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1441 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1984—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98–479 struck out subsec. (c) which related to retention of program income and prerequisites. 1983—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98–181 added subsec. (c). 1981—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–35 substituted “5303” for “5303(a)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1983 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 98–181 applicable only to funds available for fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, see section 110(b) of Pub. L. 98–181, as amended, set out as a note under section 5316 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Oct. 1, 1981, see section 371 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 3701 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 5312

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110