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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 1237 (Reported in Senate) — To improve the administration of programs in the insular areas, and for other purposes. · Sec. 16

Sec. 16. Waiver of local matching requirements

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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— in the last sentence of subsection (d), by striking by law ; and by adding at the end the following new subsection: 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 non-competitive grant as follows:
For a grant requiring matching funds (including in-kind contributions) of $500,000 or less, the entire matching requirement shall be waived. For a grant requiring matching funds (including in-kind contributions) of more than $500,000, $500,000 of the matching requirement shall be waived. . 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 note; 94 Stat. 90), is amended by striking , and adding the following sentence and all that follows through Islands’. .
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