[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5864]
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  SA 2518. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Kaine) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. 
Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for 
Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

        At the appropriate place in division C, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 300__. URBANIZED AREAS.

       (a) Extension of Treatment of Urbanized Areas.--Section 
     21101 of division B of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 
     (Public Law 115-123; 132 Stat. 103) is amended by striking 
     ``and 2020'' and inserting ``2020, 2021, and 2022''.
       (b) Census Discretion.--Section 5324 of title 49, United 
     States Code (as amended by section 30011), is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(g) Census Discretion.--
       ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       ``(A) Disaster-related population decrease.--The term 
     `disaster-related population decrease', with respect to an 
     urbanized area, means that--
       ``(i) the population of the urbanized area decreases to be 
     less than 50,000 individuals, as determined in a decennial 
     census after the decennial census in which the area was 
     designated as an urbanized area; and
       ``(ii) the decrease described in clause (i) is a result of 
     a major disaster declared by the President under section 401 
     of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170).
       ``(B) Urbanized area.--The term `urbanized area' means an 
     area designated in a decennial census as an urbanized area by 
     the Secretary of Commerce.
       ``(2) Election.--On request by the Governor of a State in 
     which an urbanized area that experiences a disaster-related 
     population decrease is located, the Secretary may elect for 
     the purposes of this chapter, including for purposes of 
     making apportionments under this chapter, to continue to 
     treat the area as an urbanized area with the same population 
     and land area as the area had in the most recent decennial 
     census in which it was designated as an urbanized area by the 
     Secretary of Commerce.''.
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