[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 638 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 638

 To authorize appropriations for United States insular areas, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 28 (legislative day, March 27), 1995

  Mr. Murkowski (by request) 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 authorize appropriations for United States insular areas, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Insular Development Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the 
Interior for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
$6,140,000, backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, 
for each of fiscal years 1996 through 2001, for capital improvement 
projects in the environmental, health, and public safety areas, 
administration and enforcement of immigration and labor laws, and 
contribution toward costs of the compacts of free association (for the 
same duration and purposes as are applied to Guam in Public Law 99-239 
as amended by section 3 of this Act).

SEC. 3. IMPACT OF THE COMPACT.

    Paragraph (6) of subsection (e) of section 104 of Public Law 99-239 
(99 Stat. 1770, 48 U.S.C. 1681 note), is amended by striking everything 
after the word ``after'' and inserting in lieu thereof the following 
language: ``September 30, 1995, and ending September 30, 2001, 
$4,580,000 annually, backed by the full faith and credit of the United 
States, for Guam, as a contribution toward costs that result from 
increased demands for education and social program benefits by 
immigrants from the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of 
Micronesia, and Palau.''.

SEC. 4. CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the 
Interior $17,000,000 for each fiscal year beginning after September 30, 
1995, and ending September 30, 2001, backed by the full faith and 
credit of the United States, for grants for capital infrastructure 
construction in American Samoa, Guam, and the United States Virgin 
Islands: Provided, That the annual grant to American Samoa shall not 
exceed $15,000,000 and the annual grants for Guam and the United States 
Virgin Islands shall not exceed $3,000,000 each.

SEC. 5. CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) No funds shall be granted under this Act for capital 
improvement projects without the submission by the respective 
government of a master plan of capital needs that--
            (1) ranks proposed projects in order of priority, and
            (2) has been reviewed and approved by the Department of the 
        Interior and the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
The insular areas' individual master plans, with comments, shall be 
presented in the Department of the Interior's annual report on the 
state of the Islands, and shall be the basis for any requests for 
capital improvement funding through the Department of the Interior or 
the Congress.
    (b) Each grant by the Department of the Interior shall include a 
five percent payment into a trust fund, to be administered by the 
Governor (as trustee) of the territory in which the project is located, 
solely for the maintenance of such project. No funds shall be paid 
pursuant to a grant under subsection (a) of this section without the 
prior appropriation and payment by the respective territorial 
government to the trustee, of an amount equal to the Federal 
contribution for maintenance of the project. A maintenance plan 
covering the anticipated life of each project shall be adopted by the 
Governor of the respective insular area and approved by the Department 
of the Interior before any grant payment for construction is released 
by the Department of the Interior.
    (c) The capital infrastructure funding authorized under this Act is 
authorized to be extended for an additional three-year phaseout period: 
Provided, That each grant during the additional period contains a 
dollar sharing by each grantee and the grantor in the following ratios: 
25/75 percent for the first year, 50/50 percent for the second year, 
75/25 percent for the third year: Provided further, That funding for 
capital infrastructure for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands shall not exceed $3,000,000 annually during the period of such 
extension.

SEC. 6. REPEAL.

    Effective after September 30, 1995, no additional funds shall be 
made available under subsection (b) of section 4 of Public Law 94-241 
(90 Stat. 263, 48 U.S.C. 1681 note), and such subsection is repealed.
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