[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2826 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2826

     To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching 
 requirements for grants provided to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin 
 Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2001

  Mr. Underwood (for himself, Mr. Faleomavaega, and Mrs. Christensen) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching 
 requirements for grants provided to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin 
 Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 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. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Waiver of Certain Matching Requirements.--Section 501 of the 
Act entitled ``An Act to authorize certain appropriations for the 
territories of the United States, to amend certain Acts relating 
thereto, and for other purposes'', approved October 15, 1977 (48 U.S.C. 
1469a; 91 Stat. 1164) is amended--
            (1) in the last sentence of subsection (d), by striking 
        ``by law''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of 
American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana 
Islands, each department or agency of the United States shall waive any 
requirement for local matching funds under $500,000 per grant 
(including in-kind contributions) that the insular area would otherwise 
be required to provide.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 601 of the Act entitled ``An Act 
to authorize appropriations for certain insular areas of the United 
States, and for other purposes'', approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 
1469a-1 note; 94 Stat. 90), is amended by striking ``, and adding the 
following sentence'' and all that follows through ``Islands.'' and 
inserting a period.
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