[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 176 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 176

 To relocate the headquarters of the Appalachian Regional Commission, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2019

 Mr. Griffith introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To relocate the headquarters of the Appalachian Regional Commission, 
                        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 ``Appalachian Regional Commission 
Relocation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Regional commissions, such as the Delta Regional 
        Authority, the Denali Commission, and the Northern Border 
        Regional Commission, are each headquartered in their respective 
        region.
            (2) Headquartering regional commissions within the region 
        affected is a sensible approach to ensure that the commissions 
        are housed in more affordable locations than the District of 
        Columbia, thereby reducing administrative overhead and making 
        the commissions closer and more accountable to the people the 
        commissions were designed to serve.

SEC. 3. HEADQUARTERS OF THE APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--Section 14301 of title 40, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Headquarters.--The headquarters of the Commission shall be 
located in the Appalachian region.''.
    (b) Implementation.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Federal Cochairman of the Commission 
        shall take such actions as may be necessary to carry out the 
        amendment made in subsection (a).
            (2) Extension.--The Federal Cochairman of the Commission 
        may extend, by up to 180 days, the period for implementation 
        specified in paragraph (1) if the Federal Cochairman submits to 
        the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
        of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public 
        Works of the Senate written notice of the need for the 
        extension.
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