Sec. 70701. Insular Affairs hospital and other critical health infrastructure funding
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $993,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, except that no amounts may be expended after September 30, 2031, for hospitals and other critical health infrastructure in the territories. Amounts made available under this section shall be divided among the territories in accordance with needs identified by assessments completed by the Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, of health care facilities in each territory, but not less than 35 percent shall be provided to Guam, not less than 35 percent shall be provided to the United States Virgin Islands, not less than 20 percent shall be provided to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and not less than 10 percent shall be provided to American Samoa.