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107TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 107-741
INCREASING THE WAIVER REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN LOCAL MATCH-
ING REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTS PROVIDED TO AMERICAN SAMOA,
GUAM, THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, OR THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTH-
ERN MARIANA ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
OCTOBER 11, 2002.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HANSEN, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2826]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 2826) 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, having considered the
same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. WAIVER OF LOCAL MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.
(a) WAIVER OF CERTAIN MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.-Section 501 of the Act enti-
tled 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
(including in-kind contributions) that the insular area would otherwise be required
to provide for any grant as follows:
(1) For a grant requiring matching funds (including in-kind contributions) of
$500,000 or less, the entire matching requirement shall be waived.
(2) For a grant requiring matching funds (including in-kind contributions) of
more than $500,000, $500,000 of the matching requirement shall be waived..
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.-Section 601 of the Act entitled An Act to author-
ize appropriations for certain insular areas of the United States, and for other pur-
poses, approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1469a note; 94 Stat. 90), is amended
by striking , and adding the following sentence and all that follows through Is-
lands.'.
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