[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3030 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3030

   To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to 
    eliminate cost-sharing requirements in connection with economic 
    adjustment grants made to assist communities that have suffered 
economic injury as a result of military base closures and realignments, 
   defense contractor reductions in force, and Department of Energy 
                  defense-related funding reductions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 2010

Mrs. Gillibrand introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to 
    eliminate cost-sharing requirements in connection with economic 
    adjustment grants made to assist communities that have suffered 
economic injury as a result of military base closures and realignments, 
   defense contractor reductions in force, and Department of Energy 
                  defense-related funding reductions.

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

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF COST-SHARING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN 
              ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT GRANTS.

    Section 204(c) of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 
1965 (42 U.S.C. 3144(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Certain economic adjustment grants.--In the case of a 
        grant made under section 209 to a community that has suffered 
        economic injury as a result of a military base closure or 
        realignment, defense contractor reduction in force, or 
        Department of Energy defense-related funding reduction, the 
        Federal share of the cost of the project assisted by the grant 
        shall be 100 percent instead of the percentage specified in 
        subsection (a).''.
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