S.Amdt. 3982

SA 3982. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr.
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development,
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II of division A, insert
the following:
Sec. __.  Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare and submit
to Congress a report on the community development block grant
program under title I of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) that
describes--
(1) how the Secretary could devise a system of consolidated
reporting of expenditures and accomplishments by grant
recipients under the program in an easily analyzable format,
which would include--
(A) a cost-benefit analysis of each project that a grant
recipient has funded using amounts provided under the
program, including--
(i) the number of people the project was expected to help;
(ii) the number of people the project actually helped; and
(iii) the number of houses rehabilitated or removed due to
blight;
(B) a description of how each grant recipient validated the
self-reported information described in subparagraph (A); and
(C) a description of how to tie the outcome data described
in clauses (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (A) to census tract
or block group data to enable independent researchers to
validate the outcomes; and
(2) measures that the Secretary could adopt to identify
viable urban communities that can serve as models for other
communities trying to rehabilitate certain neighborhoods,
which measures shall be tied to census tract or block group
data, such as communities--
(A) in which not more than 10 percent of households have an
income at or below the poverty level;
(B) in which the median wage is not less than 90 percent of
the median wage for the metropolitan statistical area;
(C) in which the unemployment rate is not more than 8
percent; or
(D) that meet 2 of the 3 criteria under subparagraphs (A)
through (C).
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