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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2791

To establish a grant program to return a portion of the savings realized

by the Department of Defense as a result of the closure or realignment

of a military installation to the communities in which the installation

is located to assist in the economic recovery and adjustment of these

communities.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JULY 28, 1993

Mr. STUPAK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Armed Services

A BILL

To establish a grant program to return a portion of the

savings realized by the Department of Defense as a

result of the closure or realignment of a military installation to the communities in which the installation is located to assist in the economic recovery and adjustment

of these communities.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Reinvest5 ment and Recovery Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANT PROGRAM.

2 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense

3 shall establish a program to make grants under this Act

4 to assist local communities in recovering from the adverse

5 economic impact of the closure or major realignment of

6 a military installation under a base closure law.

7 (b) DETERMINATIONS OF GRANT ELIGIBILITY.—

8 Within 180 days after the date on which a closure or re9 alignment announcement is made with regard to a military

10 installation under a base closure law, the Secretary shall

11 determine the unit or units of local government of commu12 nities adjacent to the installation that are eligible to re13 ceive a grant under this Act. In the case of military instal14 lations already announced for closure or realignment, the

15 Secretary shall make the determinations required by this

16 subsection within 180 days after the effective date of this

17 Act.

18 (c) PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE.—A grant under this

19 section shall be made by the Secretary through existing

20 Federal programs. The Secretary may use the grant to

21 supplement funds made available under other Federal pro22 grams and may provide financial assistance to eligible

23 local governments determined under subsection (b) to as24 sist such governments to pay their share of the costs under

25 such programs.
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1 (d) COOPERATION.—The heads of all departments

2 and agencies of the Federal Government shall cooperate

3 fully with the Secretary in carrying out subsection (c). The

4 heads of such departments and agencies shall give priority

5 attention to applications from eligible local governments

6 determined under subsection (b) for priority funding

7 under assistance programs within their annual agency ap8 propriations.

9 SEC. 3. ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN.

10 (a) PLAN REQUIRED.—To be eligible for a grant

11 under section 2, an eligible local government determined

12 under subsection (b) of such section shall submit to the

13 Secretary a comprehensive local economic recovery plan

14 developed by the local government. Such plan shall de15 scribe the steps being taken or planned to be taken by

16 the local community to recover from the adverse economic

17 impact of the closure or major realignment and shall in18 clude a detailed description of the programs for which the

19 grant will be used.

20 (b) EVALUATION.—For the plan to be approved and

21 assistance provided under section 2(c), the Secretary must

22 find that the proposed use of the grant funds will—

23 (1) improve opportunities for the establishment

24 or expansion of industrial or commercial activity in

25 the community;
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1 (2) create new jobs in the community; or

2 (3) otherwise alleviate specific economic prob3 lems in the community which limit the effective eco4 nomic recovery from the closure or major realign5 ment.

6 (c) SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION.—Eligible local

7 governments may submit an application or applications to

8 the Secretary through the cooperating departments and

9 agencies under section 2(c) at any time after the date on

10 which the Secretary determines under section 2(b) that

11 the local government is eligible for assistance.

12 (d) REVIEW.—The Secretary shall review and act

13 upon applications submitted by an eligible local govern14 ment within 90 days of the date of submission.

15 SEC. 4. AMOUNT OF FUNDS.

16 (a) AMOUNT OF FUNDS AVAILABLE.—The amount of

17 funds to be made available as grants under section 2 with

18 respect to the closure or major realignment of a military

19 installation shall be equal to 10 percent of the total pro20 jected savings to be realized by the Department of Defense

21 in the first 10 years after the closure or major realignment

22 of the installation as a result of the closure or realignment.

23 The amount of the projected savings shall be determined

24 by the Secretary as soon as possible after the date of the

25 announcement of the closure or realignment.
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1 (b) FUNDING REQUESTS.—The Secretary shall sub2 mit to the Congress annually such budgetary requests for

3 funds to make grants under section 2 as may be necessary.

4 Such requests shall be made separate from the normal ap5 propriation requests of the Department of Defense.

6 SEC. 5. ANNUAL REPORTS.

7 (a) REPORTS FROM GRANT RECIPIENTS.—Any unit

8 of local government receiving a grant under section 2 for

9 any fiscal year shall, not later than 90 days before the

10 end of such fiscal year, submit a report to the Secretary

11 concerning the progress of the local community in recover12 ing from the effects of the closure or major realignment

13 and the purposes for which grant money received under

14 section 2 was used during such fiscal year. The report

15 shall include—

16 (1) a revision of the comprehensive local eco17 nomic recovery plan originally submitted under sec18 tion 3; and

19 (2) a statement of all expenditures of grant

20 money received under section 2 during such fiscal

21 year.

22 (b) EVALUATION OF REPORTS.—If the Secretary

23 finds that a report submitted under subsection (a) for any

24 fiscal year discloses that the use during such fiscal year

25 of grant money received under section 2 by the unit of
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1 local government submitting such report was not consist2 ent with the purposes of this Act, the Secretary may sus3 pend any remaining grant payments and terminate grant

4 application eligibility under this Act to such unit of local

5 government until the Secretary receives satisfactory assur6 ances that the use of such grant money in the future will

7 be consistent with the purposes of this Act.

8 SEC. 6. REGULATIONS.

9 The Secretary shall prescribe general regulations cov10 ering the eligibility of units of local government for grants

11 under section 2, the order of priority in approving applica12 tions, the terms and conditions for approving applications,

13 determinations of the amounts of grants, and such other

14 regulations as the Secretary considers to be necessary to

15 carry out this Act.

16 SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.

17 For purposes of this Act:

18 (1) The term ‘‘military installation’’ means any

19 camp, post, station, fort, base, yard, facility, or

20 other installation under the authority of the Depart21 ment of Defense—

22 (A) which is located within any of the sev23 eral States, the District of Columbia, the Com24 monwealth of Puerto Rico, or Guam; and
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1 (B) at which there are authorized to be

2 employed not less than 500 direct-hire or con3 tracted permanent civilian employees of the De4 partment of Defense or at which the total mili5 tary and civilian personnel loss constitutes more

6 than 2 percent of the total military and civilian

7 work force for the impacted area.

8 (2) The terms ‘‘unit of local government’’ and

9 ‘‘local government’’ mean—

10 (A) a general purpose unit of local govern11 ment; or

12 (B) an entity established by a State, gen13 eral purpose unit of local government, or com14 bination of general purpose units of local gov15 ernment for the purposes of achieving economic

16 recovery in an area adversely affected by the

17 closure or realignment of a military installation.

18 (3) The term ‘‘base closure law’’ means each of

19 the following:

20 (A) The Defense Base Closure and Re21 alignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of

22 Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note).

23 (B) Title II of the Defense Authorization

24 Amendments and Base Closure and Realign-
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1 ment Act (Public Law 100–526; 10 U.S.C.

2 2687 note).

3 SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

4 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec5 retary such sums as may be necessary to carry out this

6 Act. The funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall

7 be available for a period not to exceed 10 years.

8 SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE.

9 (a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall take effect on

10 October 1, 1993.

11 (b) APPLICABILITY.—This Act shall apply with re12 spect to those military installations selected to be closed

13 or realigned under the base closure laws before, on, or

14 after the effective date of this Act.

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