(a) The authority and responsibility
for administering this Act shall be in the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development.
(b) The Department of Housing
and Urban Development shall be provided an additional Assistant Secretary.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (Public Law 89-174,
79 Stat. 667) is hereby amended by—
(1) striking the word “four,” in section
4(a) of said Act (79 Stat. 668; 5 U.S.C. 624b(a)) and substituting
therefor “five,”; and
(2) striking the word “six,” in section 7 of said Act (79 Stat. 669;
5 U.S.C. 624(c)) and substituting therefor “seven.”
(c) The Secretary may delegate any of his functions,
duties, and powers to employees of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development or to boards of such employees, including functions, duties,
and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining,
ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to any work,
business, or matter under this title. The persons to whom such delegations
are made with respect to hearing functions, duties, and powers shall
be appointed and shall serve in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development in compliance with sections 3105, 3344, 5362, and 7521
of title 5 of the United States Code. Insofar as possible, conciliation
meetings shall be held in the cities or other localities where the
discriminatory housing practices allegedly occurred. The Secretary
shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of
his hearing examiners to other hearing examiners or to other officers
in the Department, to boards of officers or to himself, as shall be
appropriate and in accordance with law.
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(d) All executive
departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities
relating to housing and urban development (including any Federal agency
having regulatory or supervisory authority over financial institutions)
in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of this title and
shall cooperate with the Secretary to further such purposes.
(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall—
(1) make studies with respect
to the nature and extent of discriminatory housing practices in representative
communities, urban, suburban, and rural, throughout the United States;
(2) publish and disseminate
reports, recommendations, and information derived from such studies,
including an annual report to the Congress—
(A) specifying the
nature and extent of progress made nationally in eliminating discriminatory
housing practices and furthering the purposes of this title, obstacles
remaining to achieving equal housing opportunity, and recommendations
for further legislative or executive action; and
(B) containing tabulations of the number
of instances (and the reasons therefor) in the preceding year in which—
(i) investigations are not completed as required by section 810(a)(1)(B);
(ii) determinations are
not made within the time specified in section 810(g); and
(iii) hearings are not commenced
or findings and conclusions are not made as required by section 812(g);
(3) cooperate with and render technical assistance to Federal, State,
local, and other public or private agencies, organizations, and institutions
which are formulating or carrying on programs to prevent or eliminate
discriminatory housing practices;
(4) cooperate with and render such technical
and other assistance to the Community Relations Service as may be
appropriate to further its activities in preventing or eliminating
discriminatory housing practices;
(5) administer the programs and activities
relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively
to further the policies of this title.
(6) 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)
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).
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(f) The provisions of law and Executive orders to
which subsection (e)(6) applies are—
(1) title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964;
(2) title VIII
of the Civil Rights Act of 1968;
(3) section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973;
(4) the Age
Discrimination Act of 1975;
(5) the Equal Credit Opportunity Act;
(6) section 1978 of the
Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1982);
(7) section 8(a) of the Small Business
Act;
(8) section 527
of the National Housing Act;
(9) section 109 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974;
(10) section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968;
(11) Executive orders
11063, 11246, 11625, 12250, 12259, and 12432; and
(12) any other provision of law which the
Secretary specifies by publication in the Federal Register for the
purpose of this subsection.
[42 USC 3608. As amended
by acts of Oct. 13, 1978 (92 Stat. 122) and Sept. 13, 1988 (102 Stat.
1623, 1624).]
