Subject to section 4133 of this title and the Indian housing plan for an Indian tribe, the recipient for that tribe shall have-
(1) the discretion to use grant amounts for affordable housing activities through equity investments, interest-bearing loans or advances, noninterest-bearing loans or advances, interest subsidies, leveraging of private investments, or any other form of assistance that the Secretary has determined to be consistent with the purposes of this chapter; and
(2) the right to establish the terms of assistance.
A recipient may invest grant amounts for the purposes of carrying out affordable housing activities in investment securities and other obligations as approved by the Secretary.
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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), was in the original "this Act", meaning
Section effective Oct. 1, 1997, except as otherwise expressly provided, see section 107 of