URBAN AREAS see also Rural Areas; Suburban areas

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: provide assistance and opportunity to create and support sustainable agriculture activities and improve access to nutrition in U.S. cities (see H.R. 1933), H2568 [9MY]

Community development: provide funding through bonding or Neighborhood Stabilization Program grants to empower States to undertake significant residential and commercial structure demolition projects (see H.R. 656), H500 [13FE]

Dept. of Agriculture: define urban rodent control for clarifying control of nuisance mammals and birds carried out by Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service wildlife services program and private sector (see H.R. 730), H546 [14FE]

Dept. of Education: establish a grant program to ensure that students in high-need schools have equal access to a quality education delivered by an effective, diverse workforce (see H.R. 1334), H1822 [21MR]

Dept. of Homeland Security: prioritize assignment of officers and analysts to certain State and urban area fusion centers to enhance security of mass transit systems (see H.R. 1210), H1547 [15MR]

Dept. of Justice: enhance the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program (see H.R. 421), H292 [25JA]

——— making supplemental appropriations for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program COPS in Schools program (see H.R. 751), H594 [15FE]

Dept. of Labor: provide grants for an Urban Jobs Program (see S. 655), S2328 [22MR] (see H.R. 1340), H1822 [21MR]

Dept. of the Treasury: allow use of assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program Hardest Hit Fund for demolition of foreclosed-upon properties and related expenses (see H.R. 1550), H2025 [15AP]

Dept. of Transportation: provide grants to mitigate road congestion and improve transportation planning in metropolitan areas (see H.R. 2968), H5344 [1AU]

Disasters: provide assistance for condominiums and housing cooperatives damaged by a major disaster (see S. 1480), S6208 [1AU] (see H.R. 2887), H5260 [31JY]

——— require large public housing agencies to develop disaster response and relief plans (see H.R. 1669), H2245 [23AP]

Ecology and environment: reduce heat island effect and associated ground level ozone pollution from Federal facilities (see H.R. 469), H341 [4FE]

FAA: issue regulations to reduce helicopter noise pollution in residential areas of Los Angeles County, CA (see S. 208), S469 [4FE] (see H.R. 456), H341 [4FE]

FEMA: authorize use of grants under the Urban Areas Security Initiative and the State Homeland Security Grant Program to work in conjunction with a Dept. of Energy national laboratory (see H.R. 3438), H6953 [30OC]

——— codify authority to use Urban Areas Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding for enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge capacity, and mass prophylaxis capabilities (see H.R. 1791), H2391 [26AP]

Financial institutions: expand the purposes of advances and collateral available to community development financial institutions (see H.R. 3656), H7566 [5DE]

Medicare: apply budget neutrality on a State-specific basis in the calculation of hospital wage index floor for non-rural areas (see H.R. 2053), H2802 [20MY]

——— extend Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program and increase payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program (see S. 842), S3029 [25AP] (see H.R. 1787), H2391 [26AP]

——— preserve access to urban Medicare-dependent hospitals (see H.R. 1390), H1824 [21MR]

——— provide flexibility in the counting of hospital beds to determine designation of critical access hospitals (see H.R. 3444), H6954 [30OC]

Taxation: authorize new empowerment zone designations for urban areas with high unemployment and high foreclosure rates (see H.R. 3535), H7252 [19NO]

——— provide adjustments in individual income tax rates to reflect regional differences in the cost-of-living (see H.R. 1568), H2025 [15AP]

——— provide incentives for the establishment of supermarkets in certain underserved areas (see H.R. 3015), H5397 [2AU]

Unemployment: provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates to provide job training, public works, and economic development programs (see H.R. 3016), H5397 [2AU]

Veterans: provide discounted fares on public transportation (see H.R. 2362), H3591 [13JN]

Letters

Prohibit FEMA Urban Areas Security Initiative funding for projects that do not improve homeland security: Raymond W. Kelly, New York, NY, Police Commissioner, S1982 [20MR]

——— several law enforcement and emergency services organizations, S1983 [20MR]

Remarks in House

Buffalo, NY: anniversary of Parkside Community Association, E1840 [11DE]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: create and implement infant mortality pilot programs in standard metropolitan statistical areas with high rates of infant mortality, H6959 [12NO]

Climate: impact of high temperatures and lack of air conditioning on population, H5269 [1AU]

Dept. of Agriculture: encourage development of urban agriculture, E928 [20JN]

——— ensure that at least one large urban area is included in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program anti-fraud pilot programs, H3884, H3885 [19JN]

——— Hunger-Free Communities Grant program funding, H3877 [19JN], E941 [20JN]

Dept. of Homeland Security: modify activities of certain State and urban area fusion centers to enhance domestic security, E870 [14JN]

Dept. of HUD: Neighborhood Stabilization Program funding, H1670 [20MR]

Dept. of Justice: making supplemental appropriations for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program COPS in Schools program (H.R. 751), H570 [15FE]

FEMA: National Urban Search and Rescue Response System funding, H3137, H3138 [5JN]

——— Urban Areas Security Initiative funding, H2446 [7MY], H3136, H3137, H3149 [5JN], E837 [11JN]

——— Urban Areas Security Initiative funding for Buffalo, NY, area, H3107 [5JN]

——— Urban Areas Security Initiative Nonprofit Security Grant Program funding, H3164 [5JN]

Floods: express condolences and support for people of Illinois, H2314 [25AP]

Hendersonville, TN: anniversary of sister city relationship with Tsuru, Japan, E1249 [6SE]

Houston, TX: celebration of Arbor Day, E134 [13FE]

Los Angeles, CA: restrict Federal support of hydraulic fracturing in the Inglewood Oil Field, H4323, H4336 [10JY]

Minorities: emergency mortality rate of minority individuals, H4853 [22JY]

——— improve health of minority individuals, H2416–H2424 [6MY]

National Arson Awareness Week: observance, E623 [8MY]

National Emergency Summit on Urban Violence: convene, H4531 [17JY]

TELACU Education Foundation: anniversary, E516 [23AP]

Remarks in Senate

Chicago, IL: express condolences and support for people in Chicago, its suburbs, and downstate Illinois being affected by Rock, Fox, DuPage, Illinois and Mississippi River flooding, S2788 [18AP]

Dept. of HHS: Community Health Center Program funding, S2137 [21MR]

FAA: issue regulations to reduce helicopter noise pollution in residential areas of Los Angeles County, CA (S. 208), S470 [4FE]

FEMA: prohibit Urban Areas Security Initiative funding for projects that do not improve homeland security, S1977, S1982–S1984 [20MR]

Reports filed

Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act: Committee on Homeland Security (House) (H.R. 1791) (H. Rept. 113–273), H7352 [21NO]

Texts of

S. 208, Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act, S471 [4FE]