[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 372 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 372

  To appropriately limit the impact of the presence of large Federal 
   installations in the delineation of core based statistical areas.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2019

 Mr. Risch (for himself and Mr. Crapo) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To appropriately limit the impact of the presence of large Federal 
   installations in the delineation of core based statistical areas.

    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 ``Statistical Area Fairness Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. LIMITS IN DELINEATION OF CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREAS.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``large Federal 
installation'' means a parcel of Federal land--
            (1) that has an area of not less than 500 miles; and
            (2) on which a Federal facility (as defined in section 930 
        of title 18, United States Code) is situated.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are--
            (1) to account for the impact that large Federal 
        installations have on rural counties in which they are based; 
        and
            (2) to ensure that rural counties with large Federal 
        installations within their borders are not negatively affected 
        by core based statistical area designations.
    (c) Limitation.--In delineating core based statistical areas, the 
Office of Management and Budget shall not include a county in which a 
large Federal installation is located in a core based statistical area 
on the basis of the percentage of the employment in that county that is 
accounted for by workers who reside in the central county or counties 
of the core based statistical area, as determined by the Office of 
Management and Budget.
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