116 HR 1113 IH: Statistical Area Fairness Act of 2019 U.S. House of Representatives 2019-02-08 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I116th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 1113IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESFebruary 8, 2019Mr. Simpson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and ReformA BILLTo appropriately limit the impact of the presence of large Federal installations in the delineation of core based statistical areas.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Statistical Area Fairness Act of 2019.

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Limits in delineation of core based statistical areas

(a)

Definition

In this section, the term large Federal installation means a parcel of Federal land— (1)that has an area of not less than 500 miles; and (2)on which a Federal facility (as defined in section 930 of title 18, United States Code) is situated. (b)

Purposes

The purposes of this section are— (1)to account for the impact that large Federal installations have on rural counties in which they are based; and (2)to ensure that rural counties with large Federal installations within their borders are not negatively affected by core based statistical area designations. (c)

Limitation

In delineating core based statistical areas, the Office of Management and Budget shall not include a county in which a large Federal installation is located in a core based statistical area on the basis of the percentage of the employment in that county that is accounted for by workers who reside in the central county or counties of the core based statistical area, as determined by the Office of Management and Budget.