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 TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE. CHAPTER 44 - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN. DEVELOPMENT. SEC. 3535 – ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.
(r) Program Evaluation and Monitoring (1) For the programs listed in paragraph (2), amounts
appropriated under this subsection shall be available to the Secretary for evaluating and
monitoring of all such programs (including all aspects of the public housing and section 202
programs) and collecting and maintaining data for such purposes. The Secretary shall expend
amounts made available under this subsection in accordance with the need and complexity
of evaluating and monitoring each such program and collecting and maintaining data for such
purposes.
(2) The programs subject to this subsection shall be the programs authorized under—
(A) titles I [42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.] and II of the United States Housing Act of 1937;
(B) section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 [12 U.S.C. 1701q];
(C) section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 [12 U.S.C. 1701x];
(D) the Fair Housing Act [42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.];
(E) title I [42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.] and section 810 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974;
(F) section 201 of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 [12
U.S.C. 1715z–1a];
(G) the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978 [42 U.S.C. 8001 et seq.];
(H) section 222 of the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983;
(I) section 3616a of this title;
(J) title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act [42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.]; and
(K) titles II [42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.], III, and IV and section 811 [42 U.S.C. 8013] of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
(3) In conducting evaluations and monitoring pursuant to the authority under this subsection,
and collecting and maintaining data pursuant to the authority under this subsection, the
Secretary shall determine any need for additional staff and funding relating to evaluating and
monitoring the programs under paragraph (2) and collecting and maintaining data for such
purposes.
(4)(A) The Secretary may provide for evaluation and monitoring under this subsection and
collecting and maintaining data for such purposes directly or by grants, contracts, or
interagency agreements. Not more than 50 percent of the amounts made available under
paragraph (1) may be used for grants, contracts, or interagency agreements.
(B) Any amounts not used for grants, contracts, or interagency agreements under
subparagraph (A) shall be used in a manner that increases and strengthens the ability of the
Department to monitor and evaluate the programs under paragraph (2) and to collect and
maintain data for such purposes through officers and employees of the Department.

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(5) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection such sums as may be
necessary for fiscal year 1993 and fiscal year 1994. Such amounts shall remain available until
expended.
(e)(6) FUNCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY. Annually report to the Congress, and make available
to the public, data on the race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, and family
characteristics of persons and households who are applicants for, participants in, or
beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries of, programs administered by the Department to the
extent such characteristics are within the coverage of the provisions of law and Executive
orders referred to in subsection (f) of this section which apply to such programs (and in order
to develop the data to be included and made available to the public under this subsection,
the Secretary shall, without regard to any other provision of law, collect such information
relating to those characteristics as the Secretary determines to be necessary or appropriate).
 TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE. CHAPTER 44 - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN. DEVELOPMENT. SEC. 3536 – ANNUAL REPORTS.
The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year, make a report
to the President for submission to the Congress on the activities of the Department during
the preceding calendar year. The report required under this section shall include the reports
required under paragraphs (2) and (6) of section 3608 (e) of this title, the reports required
under subsections (a) and (b) of section 4856 of this title, the report required under section
1701o of title 12, and the report required under section 3533 (e)(2) of this title.

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