[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4644 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4644

To amend the Defense Economic Adjustment, Diversification, Conversion, 
  and Stabilization Act of 1990 to give priority in the provision of 
  community economic adjustment assistance to those communities most 
 seriously affected by reductions in defense spending, the completion, 
 cancellation, or termination of defense contracts, or the closure or 
                 realignment of military installations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 1994

Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to 
the Committees on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Public Works and 
Transportation, Education and Labor, Armed Services, and Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Defense Economic Adjustment, Diversification, Conversion, 
  and Stabilization Act of 1990 to give priority in the provision of 
  community economic adjustment assistance to those communities most 
 seriously affected by reductions in defense spending, the completion, 
 cancellation, or termination of defense contracts, or the closure or 
                 realignment of military installations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PRIORITY FOR PROVISION OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT 
              ASSISTANCE TO MOST SERIOUSLY AFFECTED COMMUNITIES.

    Section 4103(a) of the Defense Economic Adjustment, 
Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990 (division D 
of Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1851) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentences: ``In making economic adjustment assistance 
available under such title, the Economic Development Administration 
shall ensure that priority is given to those communities identified as 
the most substantially and seriously affected by the closure or 
realignment of a military installation or the curtailment, completion, 
elimination, or realignment of a major defense contract or subcontract. 
The Administration shall identify such communities through the use of 
objective evidence, such as increasing unemployment.''.

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