[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 405 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 405

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            February 14 (legislative day, January 30), 1995

   Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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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; 10 U.S.C. 2391 note) 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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