§ 802. — Fellowships for city planning, management, housing specialists, and persons with general capacity in urban affairs and problems.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC802]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 23--TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 802. Fellowships for city planning, management, housing
specialists, and persons with general capacity in urban affairs
and problems
(a) Criteria
The Secretary is authorized to provide fellowships for the graduate
training of professional city planning, management, and housing
specialists, and other persons who wish to develop a general capacity in
urban affairs and problems as herein provided. Persons shall be selected
for such fellowships solely on the basis of ability and upon the
recommendation of the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory Board
established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. Fellowships
shall be solely for training in public and private nonprofit
institutions of higher education having programs of graduate study in
the field of city planning or in related fields (including architecture,
civil engineering, economics, municipal finance, public administration,
urban affairs, and sociology) which programs are oriented to training
for careers in city and regional planning, housing, urban renewal, and
community development.
(b) Urban Studies Fellowship Board
There is hereby established the Urban Studies Fellowship Advisory
Board (hereinafter referred to as the ``Board''), which shall consist of
nine members to be appointed by the Secretary as follows: Three from
public institutions of higher learning and three from private nonprofit
institutions of higher education, who are the heads of departments which
provide academic courses appropriately related to the fields referred to
in subsection (a) of this section, and three from national organizations
which are directly concerned with problems relating to urban, regional,
and community development. The Board shall meet upon the request of the
Secretary and shall make recommendations to him with respect to persons
to be selected for fellowships under this section. Members of the Board
shall be entitled to receive transportation expenses and a per diem in
lieu of subsistence as authorized for members of advisory committees
created pursuant to section 1701h of title 12.
(Pub. L. 88-560, title VIII, Sec. 802, Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 802; Pub.
L. 89-117, title XI, Sec. 1103(a), Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 503; Pub. L.
90-19, Sec. 21(d), May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 26; Pub. L. 90-448, title
XVII, Sec. 1707(a)(2), (3), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 606; Pub. L. 91-152,
title III, Sec. 307, Dec. 24, 1969, 83 Stat. 392; Pub. L. 93-383, title
IV, Sec. 402(b), Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 691.)
Codification
Pub. L. 93-383, Sec. 402, provided for amendments to title VIII of
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1964. The amendments of the
enumerated sections of such title VIII have been executed to comparable
sections of title VIII of the Housing Act of 1964 as the probable intent
of Congress.
Amendments
1974--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-383 expanded authority of Secretary to
include fellowships in graduate training in city management and for
persons wishing to develop a general capacity in urban affairs and added
urban affairs to authorized fields of study.
1969--Pub. L. 91-152 substituted provisions authorizing the
Secretary to grant fellowships solely on the basis of ability for
training in city planning at public and private nonprofit institutions
of higher education and establishing the Urban Studies Fellowship
Advisory Board for provisions authorizing the Secretary to make matching
grants to States to assist in programs providing special training in
community development and to support local research and setting forth
the provisions required in any plan submitted to the Secretary in order
to obtain grants. The former provisions of this section are now set
forth in section 803 of this title with minor amendments.
1968--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 90-448 substituted ``technical,
professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and employ
such skills'' for ``technical and professional people'', and inserted
provisions to include employment by a private nonprofit organization
which is conducting or has responsibility for housing and community
development programs.
1967--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 90-19 substituted ``Secretary'' for
``Administrator'' wherever appearing.
1965--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 89-117 substituted ``$30,000,000'' for
``$10,000,000''.
Termination of Advisory Boards
Advisory boards in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later
than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless,
in the case of a board established by the President or an officer of the
Federal Government, such board is renewed by appropriate action prior to
the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a board
established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by
law. See sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat.
770, 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization
and Employees.
