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PUBLIC LAW 104-204—SEPT. 26, 1996 110 STAT. 2895 SEC. 206. DEBT FORGIVENESS.— The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall cancel the indebtedness of the Greene County Rural Health Center relating to a loan received under the Public Facility Loan program to establish the health center (Loan #Mis-22 -PFL0096). The Greene County Rural Health Center is hereby relieved of all liability to the Federal Government for such loan and any fees and charges payable in connection with such loan. SEC. 207. FLEXIBLE SUBSIDY FUND. —From the fund established by section 236(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, all uncommitted balances of excess rental charges as of September 30, 1996, and any collection during fiscal year 1997, shall be transferred, as authorized under such section, to the fund authorized under section 201(j) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, as amended. SEC. 208. RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE.— The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-l) is reduced in fiscal year 1997 by not more than $2,000,000 in uncommitted balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in appropriations Acts. SEC. 209. D.C. MODERNIZATION FUNDING. —Notwithstanding the provisions of section 14(k)(5)(D) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, the withheld modernization funds that became credited in fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995, due to the troubled status of the former Department of Public and Assisted Housing of the District of Columbia, shall be made available without diminution to its successor, the District of Columbia Housing Authority, at such time between the effective date of this Act and the end of fiscal year 1998 as the District of Columbia Housing Authority is no longer deemed "mod-troubled" under section 6(j)(2)(A)(i) of such Act; after fiscal year 1998, the District of Columbia Housing Authority shall become subject to the provisions of section 14(k)(5)(D) of such Act should it remain mod-troubled. SEC. 210. (a) FINANCING ADJUSTMENT FACTORS. —Fifty per centum of the amounts of budget authority, or in lieu thereof 50 per centum of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-628, 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall be rescinded, or in the case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which settlement occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. (b) In addition to amounts otherwise provided by this Act, $464,442 is appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for payment to the Utah Housing Finance Agency, in lieu of amounts lost to such agency in bond refinancings during 1994, for its use in accordance with subsection (a). SEC. 211. SECTION 8 CONTRACT RENEWAL AUTHORITY.—(a) 42 USC i437f DEFINITIONS. —For purposes of this section— note.