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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2426 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2426

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize 
 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make partial grants 
    under the community development block grant program to any city 
previously classified as a metropolitan city under such Act that loses 
such classification because of a reduction in population, if such city 
  provides evidence of a population increase, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 1993

Ms. Shepherd (for herself and Mr. Orton) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize 
 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make partial grants 
    under the community development block grant program to any city 
previously classified as a metropolitan city under such Act that loses 
such classification because of a reduction in population, if such city 
  provides evidence of a population increase, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``CDBG Improvement Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. CLASSIFICATION AS METROPOLITAN CITY.

    Section 102(a)(4) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)(4)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(A)'' after the paragraph designation;
            (2) in the 1st sentence, by striking ``(A)'' and ``(B)'' 
        and inserting ``(i)'' and ``(ii)'', respectively;
            (3) in the 4th sentence, by striking ``(A)'' and ``(B)'' 
        and inserting ``(i)'' and ``(ii)'', respectively;
            (4) in the 5th sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``, and''; and
                    (B) by striking ``1989,'' and inserting the 
                following: ``1989 and has been notified in writing by 
                the Secretary of such failure to qualify before the 
                commencement of such fiscal year,''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(B)(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
        paragraph, any city that was classified as a metropolitan city 
        pursuant to clause (ii) of the first sentence of subparagraph 
        (A) and that, beginning in a fiscal year after fiscal year 1989 
        no longer qualifies as a metropolitan city pursuant to such 
        clause, shall be classified as a metropolitan city (subject to 
        clause (ii) of this subparagraph), but only if--
                    ``(I) before the expiration of the 3-year period 
                beginning on the date of notification by the Secretary 
                to the city that the city no longer qualifies as a 
                metropolitan city, the city submits to the Secretary 
                with respect to a fiscal year (aa) notification that 
                the population of the city has increased to 50,000 or 
                more because of growth or annexation or will so 
                increase before the first fiscal year to which the 
                first succeeding determination of the population of the 
                city applies for purposes of this paragraph, and (bb) 
                evidence of such increase or projected increase; and
                    ``(II) the Secretary determines that such evidence 
                indicates with sufficient reliability that the 
                population of the city has so increased or will so 
                increase.
            ``(ii) Any city classified as a metropolitan city pursuant 
        to clause (i)--
                    ``(I) shall be so classified only for the fiscal 
                year for which the submission under clause (i)(I) is 
                made and any fiscal years thereafter occurring before 
                the first fiscal year to which the first succeeding 
                determination of the population of the city applies for 
                purposes of this paragraph; and
                    ``(II) in any such fiscal year, the amount of the 
                grant to such city shall be the amount calculated under 
                section 106(b).''.

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