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I 108TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1189 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 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 SECTION 1. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS. 3 (a) WAIVER OF CERTAIN MATCHING REQUIRE- 4 MENTS.—Section 501 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to au- 5 thorize certain appropriations for the territories of the 6 United States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and 7 2 •HR 1189 IH for other purposes’’, approved October 15, 1977 (48 1 U.S.C. 1469a; 91 Stat. 1164) is amended— 2 (1) in the last sentence of subsection (d), by 3 striking ‘‘by law’’; and 4 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub- 5 section: 6 ‘‘(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 7 the case of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, 8 and the Northern Mariana Islands, each department or 9 agency of the United States shall waive any requirement 10 for local matching funds (including in-kind contributions) 11 that the insular area would otherwise be required to pro- 12 vide for any grant as follows: 13 ‘‘(1) For a grant requiring matching funds (in- 14 cluding in-kind contributions) of $500,000 or less, 15 the entire matching requirement shall be waived. 16 ‘‘(2) For a grant requiring matching funds (in- 17 cluding in-kind contributions) of more than 18 $500,000, $500,000 of the matching requirement 19 shall be waived.’’. 20 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 601 of the 21 Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize appropriations for cer- 22 tain insular areas of the United States, and for other pur- 23 poses’’, approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1469a note; 24 94 Stat. 90), is amended by striking ‘‘, and adding the 25 3 •HR 1189 IH following sentence’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Is- 1 lands.’ ’’. 2 (c) STUDY.—Not later than 2 years after the date 3 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 4 shall complete and submit to the Committee on Resources 5 of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 6 Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate the results 7 of a study of the implementation of the amendments made 8 by subsection (a). 9 Æ