[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5030]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2760. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1049. DEFINITION OF RURAL AREA FOR CERTAIN IMMIGRATION 
                   AND HOMELAND SECURITY PURPOSES.

       (a) EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visas.--Section 
     203(b)(5)(D)(vii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(D)(vii)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(vii) Rural area.--The term `rural area' means--

       ``(I) any area other that is not within a metropolitan 
     statistical area (as designated by the Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget) or within the outer boundary of any 
     city or town with a population of 20,000 or more (based on 
     the most recent decennial census of the United States);
       ``(II) a county within a metropolitan statistical area 
     without an urbanized area (as designated by the Census 
     Bureau);
       ``(III) any census tract within a metropolitan statistical 
     area with a primary Rural-Urban Commuting Area Code of 4 
     through 10 (as determined by Economic Research Service of the 
     Department of Agriculture);
       ``(IV) any county within a metropolitan statistical area 
     with a population of fewer than 50,000 people if more than 80 
     percent of the census tracts within such county have a Road 
     Ruggedness Scale of 3, 4 or 5 (as categorized by the Economic 
     Research Service of the Department of Agriculture); and
       ``(V) any census tract within a metropolitan statistical 
     area with a land area greater than 100 square miles and a 
     Road Ruggedness Scale of 3, 4, or 5.''.

       (b) Rural Policing Institute.--Section 210C(c) of the 
     Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124j(c)) is amended 
     to read as follows:
       ``(c) Defined Term.--In this section, the term `rural area' 
     has the meaning given such term in section 203(b)(5)(D)(vii) 
     of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1153(b)(5)(D)(vii)).''.
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