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[87 STAT. 381]
PUBLIC LAW 93-000—MMMM. DD, 1973
[87 STAT. 381]

87 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 93-112-SEPT. 26, 1973

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(2) The general expenses of the operations of the Rehabilitation Services Administration relating to mortgages insured under this section may be charged to the Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance

Fund. (3) Moneys in the Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance Fund not needed for the current operations of the Rehabilitation Services Administration with respect to mortgages insured under this section shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of such fund, or invested in bonds or other obligations of, or in bonds or other obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States. The Commissioner may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, purchase in the open market debentures issued as obligations of the Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance Fund. Such purchases shall be made at a price which will provide an investment yield of not less than the yield obtainable from other investments authorized by this section. Debentures so purchased shall be canceled and not reissued. (4) Premium charges, adjusted premium charges, and appraisals and other fees received on account of the insurance of any mortgage under this section, the receipts derived from property covered by such mortgages and from any claims, debts, contracts, property, and security assigned to the Secretary in connection therewith, and all earnings as the assets of the fund, shall be credited to the Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance Fund. The principal of, and interest paid and to be paid on, debentures which are the obligation of such fund, cash insurance payments, and adjustments, and expense incurred in the handling, management, renovation, and disposal of properties acquired, in connection with mortgages insured under this section, shall be charged to such fund. (5) There are authorized to be appropriated to provide initial capital for the Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance Fund, and to assure the soundness of such fund thereafter, such sums as may be necessary, except that the total amount of outstanding mortgages insured shall not exceed $200,000,000. SPECIAL PROJECTS AND

Unused funds.

D e b e n t u r e s, purchase authority.

Appropriation.

DEMONSTRATIONS

SEC. 304. (a)(1) For the purpose of making grants under this section for special projects and demonstrations (and research and evaluation connected therewith), there is authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $17,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; and there is further authorized to be appropriated for such purposes for each such year such additional sums as the Congress may determine to be necessary. (2) Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, 5 per centum m each such fiscal year shall be available only for the purpose of making grants under subsection (c) of this section, and there is authorized to be appropriated in each such fiscal year such additional amount as may be necessary to equal, when added to the amount made available for the purpose of making grants under such subsection an amount of $5,000,000 to be available for each such fiscal year. (b) The Secretary, subject to the provisions of section 306, shall make grants to States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations for paying part or all of the cost of special projects and demonstrations (and research and evaluation in connection therewith)(1) for establishing programs and facilities for providing vocational rehabilitation services which hold promise of expanding or otherwise

Appropriations.