Tornado Shelters Act

Tornado Shelters Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to permit the use of community development block grants for construction of tornado-safe shelters in manufactured home parks.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 680 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 680

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize 
    communities to use community development block grant funds for 
   construction of tornado-safe shelters in manufactured home parks.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 3, 2001

Mr. Hutchinson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize 
    communities to use community development block grant funds for 
   construction of tornado-safe shelters in manufactured home parks.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tornado Shelters Act''.

SEC. 2. CDBG ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 105(a) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (22), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (23), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (23) the following:
            ``(24) the construction or improvement of tornado- or 
        storm-safe shelters for manufactured housing parks and 
        residents of other manufactured housing, the acquisition of 
        real property for sites for such shelters, and the provision of 
        assistance (including loans and grants) to nonprofit or for-
        profit entities (including owners of such parks) for such 
        construction, improvement, or acquisition, except that a 
        shelter assisted with amounts made available pursuant to this 
        paragraph--
                    ``(A) shall be located in a neighborhood consisting 
                predominantly of persons of low- and moderate-income; 
                and
                    ``(B) may not be made available exclusively for use 
                of the residents of a particular manufactured housing 
                park or of other manufactured housing, but shall 
                generally serve the residents of the area in which it 
                is located; and''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to any amounts 
otherwise made available for grants under title I of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), there is 
authorized to be appropriated for assistance only for activities 
pursuant to section 105(a)(24) of that Act, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 
2002.

SEC. 3. USE OF AMERICAN PRODUCTS.

    (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--It is the 
sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all 
equipment and products purchased with funds made available for the 
activities authorized under the amendments made by this Act should be 
American-made.
    (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance to, or 
entering into any contract with, any entity using funds made available 
for the activities authorized under the amendments made by this Act, 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to the greatest extent 
practicable, shall provide to that entity a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
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