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[CITE: 12USC1701z-2]

 
                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
                      CHAPTER 13--NATIONAL HOUSING
 
Sec. 1701z-2. Advanced technologies, methods, and materials for 
        housing construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance
        

(a) General acceptance; costs, reduction; health and safety restrictions 
        on expanded housing production

    The Secretary shall require, to the greatest extent feasible, the 
employment of new and improved technologies, methods, and materials in 
housing construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance under programs 
administered by him with a view to reducing costs, and shall encourage 
and promote the acceptance and application of such advanced technology, 
methods, and materials by all segments of the housing industry, 
communities, industries engaged in urban development activities, and the 
general public. To the extent feasible, in connection with the 
construction, major rehabilitation, or maintenance of any housing 
assisted under section 1701z-1 of this title, the Secretary shall assure 
that there is no restraint by contract, building code, zoning ordinance, 
or practice against the employment of new or improved technologies, 
techniques, materials, and methods or of preassembled products which may 
reduce the cost or improve the quality of such construction, 
rehabilitation, and maintenance, and therefore stimulate expanded 
production of housing, except where such restraint is necessary to 
insure safe and healthful working and living conditions.

(b) Experimental construction under approved housing plans on Federal or 
        other lands with view toward ultimate mass housing production; 
        use of section 1701z-1 funds and authority

    To encourage large-scale experimentation in the use of new 
technologies, methods, and materials, with a view toward the ultimate 
mass production of housing and related facilities, the Secretary shall 
wherever feasible conduct programs under section 1701z-1 of this title 
in which qualified organizations, public and private, will submit plans 
for development and production of housing and related facilities using 
such new advances on Federal land which has been made available or 
acquired by the Secretary for the purpose of this subsection or on other 
land where (1) local building regulations permit such experimental 
construction, or (2) necessary variances from building regulations can 
be granted. The Secretary may utilize the funds and authority available 
to him under the provisions of section 1701z-1 of this title to assist 
in the implementation of plans which he approves.

(c) Acquisition, use, and disposal of property; transfer of excess 
        property

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary is 
authorized, in connection with projects under this title [12 U.S.C. 
1701z-1 et seq.], to acquire, use and dispose of any land and other 
property required for the project as he deems necessary. Notwithstanding 
the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949 [40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.], any land which is excess property 
within the meaning of such Act and which is determined by the Secretary 
to be suitable in furtherance of the purposes of subsection (b) of this 
section may be transferred to the Secretary upon his request.

(d) Technical assistance; reports; general dissemination and form of 
        reports, data, and information

    In order to effectively carry out his activities under section 
1701z-1 of this title, the Secretary is authorized to provide such 
advice and technical assistance as may be required and to pay for the 
cost of writing and publishing reports on activities and undertakings 
financed under section 1701z-1 of this title, as well as reports on 
similar activities and undertakings, not so financed, which are of 
significant value in furthering the purposes of that section. He may 
disseminate (without regard to the provisions of section 3204 of title 
39 or section 4154 of such title with respect to any period before the 
effective date of such section 3204 as provided in section 15(a) of the 
Postal Reorganization Act) any reports, data, or information acquired or 
held under this title [12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.], including related 
data and information otherwise available to the Secretary through the 
operation of the programs and activities of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development, in such form as he determines to be most useful 
to departments, establishments, and agencies of Federal, State, and 
local governments, to industry, and to the general public.

(e) Contracts or grants; authority; advance and progress payments; work 
        limitation

    The Secretary is authorized to carry out the functions authorized in 
section 1701z-1 of this title either directly or, without regard to 
section 5 of title 41, by contract or by grant. Advance and progress 
payment may be made under such contracts or grants without regard to the 
provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324 of title 31 and 
such contracts or grants may be made for work to continue for not more 
than four years from the date thereof.

(f) Utilization of facilities of other agencies; working agreements, 
        cooperative agreements, contract authority, receipt of funds, 
        and exercise of section 1701c(c) powers

    In carrying out activities under section 1701z-1 of this title, the 
Secretary shall utilize to the fullest extent feasible the available 
facilities of other Federal departments and agencies, and shall consult 
with, and make recommendations to, such departments and agencies. The 
Secretary may enter into working agreements with such departments and 
agencies and contract or make grants on their behalf or have such 
departments and agencies contract or make grants on his behalf and such 
departments and agencies are hereby authorized to execute such contracts 
and grants. The Secretary is authorized to make or accept reimbursement 
for the cost of such activities. The Secretary is further authorized to 
undertake activities under this title [12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.] under 
cooperative agreements with industry and labor, agencies of State or 
local governments, educational institutions, and other organizations. He 
may enter into contracts with and receive funds from such agencies, 
institutions, and organizations, and may exercise any of the other 
powers vested in him by section 1701c(c) of this title.

(g) Information and data; restriction on use or identification

    The Secretary is authorized to request and receive such information 
or data as he deems appropriate from private individuals and 
organizations, and from public agencies. Any such information or data 
shall be used only for the purposes for which it is supplied, and no 
publication shall be made by the Secretary whereby the information or 
data furnished by any particular person or establishment can be 
identified, except with the consent of such person or establishment.

(Pub. L. 91-609, title V, Sec. 502, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1784; Pub. 
L. 94-375, Sec. 23(c), Aug. 3, 1976, 90 Stat. 1078; Pub. L. 98-479, 
title II, Sec. 203(k), Oct. 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 2231.)

                       References in Text

    This title, referred to in subsecs. (c), (d), and (f), is title V of 
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-609, Dec. 31, 
1970, 84 Stat. 1784, as amended, which is classified generally to 
section 1701z-1 et seq., of this title. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1970 Amendments note set out 
under section 1701 of this title and Tables.
    The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 
referred to in subsec. (c), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, 
as amended. The provisions of that act relating to management and 
disposal of government property are classified to chapter 10 (Sec. 471 
et seq.) of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 471 of title 40, and Tables.
    For effective date of section 3204 of title 39 as provided in 
section 15(a) of the Postal Reorganization Act, referred to in subsec. 
(d), see notes preceding section 101 and under section 3204 of Title 39, 
Postal Service.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Housing and Urban Development Act 
of 1970, and not as part of the National Housing Act which comprises 
this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98-479 substituted ``subsections (a) and 
(b) of section 3324 of title 31'' for ``section 3648 of the Revised 
Statutes [31 U.S.C. 529]''.
    1976--Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 94-375 inserted ``and such departments 
and agencies are hereby authorized to execute such contracts and 
grants.'' after ``make grants on his behalf''.