[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2895]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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