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RED-75-318 1 (1975-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaaut0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES0f WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-148044 A The Honorable Robert Packwood United States Senate Dear Senator Packwood: In your June 14, 1974, letter you asked us to review a change made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in its regulations relative to relocation assistance payments made pursuant to the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.). As agreed with your office on August 7, 1974, we are providing --a short legislative history and intent of the act relating to replacement housing payments, including our views as to the propriety of HUD's recent change in providing relocation assistance, and --data on the objectives and accomplishments of the inter- agency Relocation Assistance Implementation Committee (RAIC). We obtained information from HUD, the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Corps of Engineers, and RAIC. We reviewed the act's legislative history as it relates to replacement housing payments. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY The act established a uniform policy for fairly and equitably treating persons displaced (displacees) from their homes by Federal and federally assisted programs. Section 203 of the act authorizes the head of the Federal agency to make to a displacee replacement housing payments of up to $15,000 to help him purchase replacement housing. The amount of the payment is the difference between the Federal agency's cost of the house acquired and the reasonable cost of a comparable replacement house. Subsection (a)(2) allows that payments be made only to displacees who purchase and occupy replace- ment housing that is decent, safe, and sanitary. House Report 91-1656, dated December 2, 1970, indicates that the basic principle to be followed in determining the replacement housing payment should be that RED-75-318

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