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Section 1480

Citation
Section 1480
Parent Document
Barbara Brewer v. Edward R. Madigan, Etc., 945 F.2d 449 (1991)
Effective Date
1991-09-26

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Section 1480(g) is the product of a compromise between two starkly different proposals for procedural protection of tenants in FmHA-subsidized housing. On the one hand, the bill originally approved by the House of Representatives, H.R. 12433, 95th Cong., 2d Sess. § 403 (1978), simply provided that an applicant denied assistance must receive written notice of the reasons for the decision. On the other hand, the bill originally approved by the Senate, S. 3084, 95th Cong., 2d Sess., § 504 (1978), established an administrative appeals process and spelled out in detail the tenant’s procedural rights. However, the Conference Committee, whose version of § 1480(g) was approved without amendment, did not adopt the Senate bill’s detailed proposal for an administrative appeals process nor the House’s de minimis