[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1010 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1010

   To amend the ``unit of general local government'' definition for 
 Federal payments in lieu of taxes to include unorganized boroughs in 
                    Alaska, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 30 (legislative day, June 19), 1995

 Mr. Stevens (for himself and Mr. Murkowski) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the ``unit of general local government'' definition for 
 Federal payments in lieu of taxes to include unorganized boroughs in 
                    Alaska, and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

    Section 6901(2) of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows:
            ``(2) `unit of general local government' means--
                    ``(A) a county (or parish), township, borough, or 
                city (where the city is independent of any other unit 
                of general local government), that--
                            ``(i) is within the class or classes of 
                        such political subdivisions in a State that the 
                        Secretary of the Interior determines to be the 
                        principal provide or providers of governmental 
                        services within the State; and
                            ``(ii) is a unit of general government, as 
                        determined by the Secretary of the Interior on 
                        the basis of the same principles as were used 
                        by the Secretary of Commerce on January 1, 
                        1983, for general statistical purposes.
                The term `government services' includes, but is not 
                limited to, those services that relate to public 
                safety, the environment, housing, social services, 
                transportation, and governmental administration;
                    ``(B) the State of Alaska, for any land within that 
                State which is not within the boundaries of a 
                governmental entity described under subparagraph (A);
                    ``(C) the District of Columbia;
                    ``(D) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
                    ``(E) Guam; and
                    ``(F) the Virgin Islands.''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES.

    Section 6902(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(a) The Secretary of the Interior shall make a payment for each 
fiscal year to each unit of general local government in which 
entitlement land is located, as set forth in this chapter. Except for 
the State of Alaska for entitlement land described in section 
6901(2)(B), a unit of general local government may use the payment for 
any governmental purpose. The State of Alaska shall distribute any 
payment received for entitlement land described in section 6901(2)(B) 
to home rule and general law cities within Alaska (as such cities are 
defined by the State).''.
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