PUBLIC LAW 102-550—OCT. 28, 1992

106 STAT. 3725

"(E) a certification that the applicant will comply with
the requirements of the Fair Housing Act, title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and
will affirmatively further fair housing.

"(d) SELECTION CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall, by regulation,
establish selection criteria for a national competition for assistance
under this section, which shall include—

"(1) the qualifications or potential capabilities of the
applicant;

"(2) the potential of the applicant for developing a success-
ful and affordable Youthbuild program;

"(3) the need for the prospective program, as determined
by the degree of economic distress—

"(A) of the community from which participants would
be recruited (such as poverty, youth unemployment, and
number of individuals who have dropped out of high school);
and

"(B) of the community in which the housing proposed
to be constructed or rehabilitated would be located (such
as incidence of homelessness, shortage of affordable hous-
ing, and poverty); and

"(4) such other factors that the Secretary shall require
that (in the determination of the Secretary) are appropriate
for purposes of carrying out the program established by this
subtitle in an effective and efficient manner.

"SEC. 454. IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.

"(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary is authorized to make implementa-
tion grants to applicants for the purpose of carrying out Youthbuild
programs approved under this subtitle.

"(b) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—Implementation grants may be used
to carry out Youthbuild programs, including the following activities:
"(1) Architectural and engineering work.
"(2) Acquisition, rehabilitation, acquisition and rehabilita-
tion, or construction of housing and related facilities to be
used for the purposes of providing homeownership under sub-
title B and subtitle C of this title, residential housing for
homeless individuals, and low- and very low-income families,
or transitional housing for persons who are homeless, have
disabilities, are ill, are deinstitutionalized, or have other special
needs.

"(3) Administrative costs of the applicant, which may not
exceed 15 percent of the amount of assistance provided under
this section, or such higher percentage as the Secretary deter-
mines is necessary to support capacity development by a private
nonprofit organization.

"(4) Education and job training services and activities
including—

"(A) work experience and skills training, coordinated,
to the maximum extent feasible, with preapprenticeship
and apprenticeship programs, in the construction and
rehabilitation activities described in subsection (bX2);

"(B) services and activities designed to meet the edu-
cational needs of participants, including—

"(i) basic skills instruction and remedial education;

Regulations.

42 USC 12899c.