54 USC 101335 – Housing programs
(a)
(1)
(A) Federal land and interests in land to qualified persons for the construction of field employee quarters for any period not to exceed 50 years; and
(B) developed and undeveloped non-Federal land for providing field employee quarters.
(2)
(3)
(A) shall stipulate whether operation and maintenance of field employee quarters is to be provided by the lessee, field employees, or the Federal Government;
(B) shall require that the construction and rehabilitation of field employee quarters be done in accordance with the requirements of the Service and local applicable building codes and industry standards;
(C) shall contain additional terms and conditions as may be appropriate to protect the Federal interest, including limits on rents that the lessee may charge field employees for the occupancy of quarters, conditions on maintenance and repairs, and agreements on the provision of charges for utilities and other infrastructure; and
(D) may be granted at less than fair market value if the Secretary determines that the lease will improve the quality and availability of field employee quarters.
(4)
Terms Used In 54 USC 101335
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1
(b)
(1)
(2)
(A)
(i) the occupancy of more than 75 percent of the units constructed or rehabilitated under the lease; and
(ii) at a rental rate that exceeds the rate based on the reasonable value of the housing in accordance with requirements applicable under section 5911 of title 5.
(B)
(3)
(4)