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IB 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- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2 •HR 1189 RH SECTION 1. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS. 1 (a) WAIVER OF CERTAIN MATCHING REQUIRE- 2 MENTS.—Section 501 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to au- 3 thorize certain appropriations for the territories of the 4 United States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and 5 for other purposes’’, approved October 15, 1977 (48 6 U.S.C. 1469a; 91 Stat. 1164) is amended— 7 (1) in the last sentence of subsection (d), by 8 striking ‘‘by law’’; and 9 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub- 10 section: 11 ‘‘(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 12 the case of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, 13 and the Northern Mariana Islands, each department or 14 agency of the United States shall waive any requirement 15 for local matching funds (including in-kind contributions) 16 that the insular area would otherwise be required to pro- 17 vide for any grant as follows: 18 ‘‘(1) For a grant requiring matching funds (in- 19 cluding in-kind contributions) of $500,000 or less, 20 the entire matching requirement shall be waived. 21 ‘‘(2) For a grant requiring matching funds (in- 22 cluding in-kind contributions) of more than 23 $500,000, $500,000 of the matching requirement 24 shall be waived.’’. 25 3 •HR 1189 RH (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 601 of the 1 Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize appropriations for cer- 2 tain insular areas of the United States, and for other pur- 3 poses’’, approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1469a note; 4 94 Stat. 90), is amended by striking ‘‘, and adding the 5 following sentence’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Is- 6 lands.’ ’’. 7 (c) STUDY.—Not later than 2 years after the date 8 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 9 shall complete and submit to the Committee on Resources 10 of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 11 Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate the results 12 of a study of the implementation of the amendments made 13 by subsection (a). 14 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