PUBLIC LAW 105-276—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2669 (as contained in section 101(e) of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996; 42 U.S.C. 1437f note) by the Charlotte Housing Authority of Charlotte, North Carolina, or the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall— (1) consider such application, notwithstanding— (A) the limitation under subsection (b) of such section on the number of public housing agencies that may participate in such program; or (B) any limitation regarding the date for the submission of applications for participation in such program; and (2) approve or disapprove the application based on the criteria for selection for participation in such program, notwithstanding the limitations referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection. (f) USE OF PROJECT TO BENEFIT LOW-INCOME PERSONS. —The project funded by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the supportive housing program of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act through grant number FL 29T90-1285 (commonly known as Royal Pointe) shall be considered to have been approved pursuant to section 423(b)(3) of such Act as of December 31, 1995 for use for the direct benefit of lowincome persons. (g) RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE. —The last sentence of section Oklahoma. 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490) is amended by inserting before the period the following: ", and the city of Altus, Oklahoma, shall be considered a rural area for purposes of this title until the receipt of data from the decennial census in the year 2000". (h) FUNDING FOR PURCHASE AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ASSISTED HOUSING. —Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and only to the extent specifically provided in a subsequent appropriations Act, from any amounts previously appropriated for Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing or for the Public Housing Capital Fund and not obligated by the Secretary, the Secretary may make available to the Lockport Housing Authority in Lockport, New York, such sums as may be necessary for use in accordance with section 5 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437c) for the purchase and rehabilitation of a project that is assisted under section 8 of such Act and located on a site contiguous to the site of a public housing project administered by the agency. (i) RURAL AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE.— From the amounts that were made available to the Secretary under the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, for grants for rural and tribal areas pursuant to the 5th undesignated paragraph of the heading "COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT—COMMU- NITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAMS" (Public Law 105-65; 111 Stat. 1357), the Secretary shall provide from any amounts remaining unobligated— (1) $2,800,000 for seed money for a multi-State rural homeownership campaign administered by the Rural Opportunities Affordable Housing Finance Alliance; and (2) $500,000 to the Rural Housing Institute of the Muscatine Center for Strategic Action.
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