Recruitment, selection, and training of the volunteers are handled by the Office of Economic Opportunity, which provides their living allowances, stipends, and other requirements.

(Volunteers in Service to America, Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D.C., 20506.)

Information center.-As part of his responsibility for coordinating Federal programs to combat poverty, and to insure that all Federal programs related to this purpose are fully utilized, the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity is authorized to collect, analyze, and distribute pertinent information for the use of public officials and other interested persons.

(Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D.C., 20506.)

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

U.S. HISTORY

Grants to State and local governments and to nonprofit organizations and institutions may be made by the Administrator of General Services for the collecting, describing, preserving, and compiling and publishing of documentary sources significant to the history of the United States. Publication includes microfilming and other forms of reproduction.

The Administrator is required to seek advice and recommendations from the National Historical Publications Commission before making grants.

The statute does not require matching of the Federal grants but requires recipients to keep records which disclose, among other facts, the amount supplied from other sources.

(National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C., 20408.)

HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY

PUBLIC WORKS PLANNING (P. 121)

Repayment of all or part of an advance for public works planning may be waived by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator in cases in which he determines that the planned public work or part of it will not be built.

(Community Facilities Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., 20410.)

PUBLIC FACILITY LOANS (P. 122)

Statutory amendments included in the Housing Act of 1964 add the following as applicants which may qualify for loans to help finance public works or facilities:

(1) Instrumentalities of one or more States and instrumentalities of municipalities or other political subdivisions in one or more States;

(2) Additional communities in redevelopment areas; and

(3) Groups of municipalities, political subdivisions, or unincorporated areas to be served by a particular work or facility, where each community separately is within the applicable population limit, even though the aggregate population of the group exceeds that limit.

As to loans for transit systems, see the statement on urban mass transportation.

(Community Facilities Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, Ď.C., 20410.)

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS

In the Housing Act of 1964, Congress authorized new programs of training and graduate fellowships in the field of community development. The purpose of the Federal assistance is to encourage States, in cooperation with public or private universities and colleges and urban centers, (1) to organize, initiate, develop, and expand training programs for professional and technical people who are either employed or training to be employed by a governmental or public body with responsibility for community development; and (2) to support State and local research that is needed in connection with housing programs, public improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems.

The 88th Congress made no appropriations for these programs. Federal-State training programs. To qualify for a grant for a training program, the applicant State must have a State plan, approved by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, which meets requirements of the Federal statute. The plan must designate a responsible State officer or agency to administer a statewide research and training program and must explain how the required non-Federal financing will be obtained.

Each Federal grant must be at least equally matched by an amount from non-Federal sources available for the same purpose and for concurrent use. Of the total Federal authorization for grants, not more than 10 percent may be used for any one State.

Fellowships for city planning and urban studies.-Fellowships for use in public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education may be awarded to individuals for graduate training in professional city planning and as urban and housing technicians. The training must be in institutions offering programs oriented to preparation for careers in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, and community development. The study programs must include architecture, civil engineering, economics, municipal finance, public administration, and sociology.

Fellowship selections must be based solely on the ability of individual applicants. They require recommendations from an Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board.

Technical assistance.-The Housing and Home Finance Administrator provides technical assistance to State and local governments in the field of community development and the training of specialized personnel.

(Community Facilities Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., 20410.)

HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY OR HANDICAPPED (P. 123)

Statutory provisions authorizing direct loans for housing for the elderly were amended in the Housing Act of 1964 to cover housing for handicapped families as well as elderly families. A single person who is over the age of 62 or is handicapped also may be accommodated in such housing.

A "handicapped family" is one in which the head or his spouse has a physical impairment which is expected to be of long and indefinite duration and substantially impairs his ability to live independently, and for whom more suitable housing could improve his ability to live independently.

Workshops are added to the definition of "related facilities" which may be financed with loan proceeds. Also, the revised definition includes not only new structures but rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, or improvement of existing structures for use as "related facilities."

(Community Facilities Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, Ď.C., 20410.)

URBAN PLANNING (P. 123)

The Housing Act of 1964 added to the list of eligible recipients of grants and technical assistance for urban planning and increased the amount of Federal funds authorized for appropriation.

Eligible grant recipients (added to the list on pages 123-124 of the catalog) now include the following:

(6) Metropolitan and regional planning agencies, approved by the State planning agency or Governor, for the provision of planning assistance within the metropolitan area or region to cities, other municipalities, counties, groups of adjacent communities, or Indian reservations;

(7) Official governmental planning agencies for areas where a substantial reduction of employment opportunities has occurred as the result of the closing or curtailment of a Federal installation or a decline in the volume of Government orders for products of the area; and

(8) Tribal planning councils or other designated tribal bodies for planning in an Indian reservation to which no State or other planning agency provides planning assistance. A grant under this program may cover not more than 75 percent of the cost of the work in the case of agencies in category 7, above, and also for planning being carried out for a city, other municipality, county, group of adjacent communities, or Indian reservation in a redevelopment area. In all other cases, the grant may not exceed two-thirds of the estimated cost.

The scope of categories 1 and 3 of eligible planning agencies (catalog, p. 123) also was extended somewhat.

Category 1 comprises State planning agencies or other designated State agencies to which aid is given for their provision of planning assistance to certain units of local government. Previously, the local units were required to be of less than 50,000 population. The revised provision retains this limit for cities and other municipalities in the category but includes all counties, regardless of population. For

counties with 50,000 or more population in metropolitan areas, the grant may be made only if the Administrator finds that the county planning will be coordinated with the program of comprehensive planning (if there is one) which is being carried out for the metropolitan area. Grants for these larger metropolitan counties are limited in the aggregate to 15 percent of appropriations made after September 2, 1964, for the urban planning program.

In this category is now included any group of adjacent communities with less than 50,000 total population which have common or related urban planning problems. An earlier requirement that the problems result from rapid urbanization has been dropped.

Category 3 now includes a few counties in redevelopment areas which previously were excluded by population requirements or were not eligible for grants covering three-fourths (instead of two-thirds) of the planning costs.

(Urban Renewal Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., 20410.)

URBAN RENEWAL (P. 124)

The Housing Act of 1964 added to the specific purposes for which Federal assistance may be given in projects of urban renewal and slum clearance. New purposes are code enforcement in urban renewal areas; encouragement of renewal through rehabilitation of existing structures wherever feasible; and more extensive relocation assistance and adjustment payments for elderly and handicapped individuals or families and for small businesses.

The following statement supplements the one at pages 124-126 of the original catalog. Except as specified below, the earlier statement continues to apply.

A workable program for community improvement and preservation may not be certified or recertified unless the locality has had in effect for at least 6 months a minimum standards housing code related to health, sanitation, and occupancy requirements which is deemed adequate by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator and is being enforced. In incorporating a program of code enforcement in a renewal project, a locality is required to agree that during the period of the project it will increase its total expenditures for code enforcement by an amount equal to the required local grants-in-aid with respect to the code enforcement activities included in the project. The Administrator may not contract for a loan or capital grant for a project involving the demolition and removal of buildings unless he has determined that rehabilitation of the area could not achieve the objective of the urban renewal plan.

Planning advances. See separate statement on urban planning. Loans. A single loan contract may provide temporary financing for all urban renewal projects in a community.

Capital grants.-A provision added in 1964 authorizes special treatment in cases where property in an urban renewal area has been rendered partly or wholly unusable by the collapse of underlying coal mines or by underground mine fires. To avoid an actual uncompensated loss to the owner, the acquisition price may be raised to cover the diminution in value attributable to such damage. The extra payment is part of the aggregate net project cost.

Also new in 1964 is a provision authorizing the use of up to 5 percent ($36,250,000) of the new capital grant authorization for urban renewal

projects for the development of air-rights sites for low-income and moderate-income housing and related facilities in areas consisting principally of highways, railway or subway tracks, and other similar

uses.

Grants for relocation payments (p. 125).—A previous requirement that there be a feasible method for temporary relocation of families displaced from an urban renewal area was amended in 1964 to require provision for relocating individuals as well. Rules and regulations issued by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator must require that for each urban renewal project involving displacement of persons or businesses there be established early a relocation program designed to determine needs for relocation assistance, help minimize hardships, and coordinate relocation activities with other project activities and governmental actions in the community.

Provisions governing grants for relocation payments were revised. The following summary replaces the statement in the earlier catalog, page 125.

Federal grants are provided to reimburse the local public urban renewal agency in full for relocation payments. Such payments may be made to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations displaced from urban renewal areas by (1) the acquisition of real property by a local public agency or other public body, (2) code enforcement activities in connection with a renewal project, or (3) a program of voluntary rehabilitation in an urban renewal plan. In the case of a business or nonprofit organization, relocation payments may cover necessary moving expense and actual direct losses of property (except goodwill or profit), up to $3,000 or the total certified moving expenses if these are greater. An additional $1,500 may be paid to a private business with average net earnings of less than $10,000 a year which is doing business in the urban renewal area when the plan is approved (or real property is acquired) and is not a unit in an enterprise with establishments outside the renewal area.

For individuals or families, the payment may cover necessary direct moving expense and actual direct losses of property, up to $200. Flat payments of fixed amounts, at a rate not above $200 in any case, may be authorized by the Administrator. Beyond this, a local public agency may make a relocation adjustment payment of not more than $500 to assist a displaced family or a displaced individual 62 years of age or over to acquire a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling. This adjustment payment, to be made during the first 5 months after displacement, is to be an amount which, when added to one-fifth of the annual income of the family or individual, will equal the average rental required for an adequate dwelling for a year. This type of payment may be made only to an individual or family unable to obtain a unit in a low-rent housing project.

Adjustment payments are available only for families and elderly individuals displaced on or after January 27, 1964.

Relocation payments to eligible recipients are to be made promptly, without regard to other proceedings.

State or local matching of Federal grants for relocation payments is not required.

Rehabilitation loans. To encourage urban renewal by measures less drastic than the demolition of structures, the Housing and Home