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Union Calendar No. 61
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1189
[Report No. 108–119] 
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 
MARCH 11, 2003
Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA (for himself and Ms. BORDALLO) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources 
MAY 20, 2003
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) WAIVER
OF
CERTAIN
MATCHING
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Section 501 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to au-
thorize 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 pro-
vide 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 cer-
tain insular areas of the United States, and for other pur-
poses’’, 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 ‘‘Is-
lands.’ ’’. 
(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. 61
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1189
[Report No. 108–119] 
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. 
MAY 20, 2003
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed