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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-1710" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="17" subtitle_name="Self-Help Homeownership Technical Assistance Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department may award a technical assistance grant only if the applicant agrees to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a budget that states the types and amounts of expenditures that may be made with the grant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the manner, timing, and conditions for disbursement of money to the grantee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a timetable to complete each stage of the project and for final project completion; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>terms to ensure compliance with regulations, special conditions imposed by grant approval, and any other terms or conditions that the Department specifies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The amount of a technical assistance grant may not exceed 20% of the average purchase price, over the last 3 fiscal years for which data are available, of a home:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>financed by a mortgage loan that the Administration purchased under § 4–239 of this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>located in the region where the technical assistance grant is to be awarded.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a technical assistance grant recipient shall complete the project within 2 years after the effective date of the grant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department may extend the term of a technical assistance grant because of delays beyond the reasonable control of the recipient.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department may require that all or part of a technical assistance grant be repaid when conditions that the Department specifies occur.</text>
  </level>
</section>
