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Union Calendar No. 461
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2826
[Report No. 107–741]
To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching requirements
for grants provided to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands,
or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 2, 2001
Mr. UNDERWOOD (for himself, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, and Mrs. CHRISTENSEN)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Re-
sources
OCTOBER 11, 2002
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on August 2, 2001]
A BILL
To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching
requirements for grants provided to American Samoa,
Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.
(a) WAIVER
OF
CERTAIN
MATCHING
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Section 501 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to author-
ize certain appropriations for the territories of the United
States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other
purposes’’, approved October 15, 1977 (48 U.S.C. 1469a;
91 Stat. 1164) is amended—
(1) in the last sentence of subsection (d), by
striking ‘‘by law’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in
the case of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and
the Northern Mariana Islands, each department or agency
of the United States shall waive any requirement for local
matching funds (including in-kind contributions) that the
insular area would otherwise be required to provide for any
grant as follows:
‘‘(1) For a grant requiring matching funds (in-
cluding in-kind contributions) of $500,000 or less, the
entire matching requirement shall be waived.
‘‘(2) For a grant requiring matching funds (in-
cluding in-kind contributions) of more than $500,000,
$500,000 of the matching requirement shall be
waived.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 601 of the
Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize appropriations for certain
insular areas of the United States, and for other purposes’’,
approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1469a note; 94 Stat.
90), is amended by striking ‘‘, and adding the following
sentence’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Islands.’ ’’.
(c) STUDY.—Not later than 2 years after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall
complete and submit to the Committee on Resources of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources of the Senate the results of a study of
the implementation of the amendments made by subsection
(a).
Union Calendar No. 461
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2826
[Report No. 107–741]
A BILL
To increase the waiver requirement for certain local
matching requirements for grants provided to
American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, and for other purposes.
OCTOBER 11, 2002
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed