To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching requirements for grants provided to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

August 2, 2001

Mr. UNDERWOOD (for himself, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, and Mrs. CHRISTENSEN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching requirements for grants provided to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 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. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.

(a) WAIVER OF CERTAIN MATCHING REQUIREMENTS- Section 501 of the Act entitled `An Act to authorize certain appropriations for the territories of the United States, to amend certain Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes', approved October 15, 1977 (48 U.S.C. 1469a; 91 Stat. 1164) is amended--

(1) in the last sentence of subsection (d), by striking `by law'; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:

`(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, each department or agency of the United States shall waive any requirement for local matching funds under $500,000 per grant (including in-kind contributions) that the insular area would otherwise be required to provide.'.

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT- Section 601 of the Act entitled `An Act to authorize appropriations for certain insular areas of the United States, and for other purposes', approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1469a-1 note; 94 Stat. 90), is amended by striking `, and adding the following sentence' and all that follows through `Islands.' and inserting a period.

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