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[CITE: 48USC1469a]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
         CHAPTER 10--TERRITORIAL PROVISIONS OF A GENERAL NATURE
 
Sec. 1469a. Congressional declaration of policy respecting 
        ``Insular Areas''
        
    In order to minimize the burden caused by existing application and 
reporting procedures for certain grant-in-aid programs available to the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, and the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands (hereafter 
referred to as ``Insular Areas'') it is declared to be the policy of the 
Congress, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, that:
    (a) Any department or agency of the Government of the United States 
which administers any Act of Congress which specifically provides for 
making grants to any Insular Area under which payments received may be 
used by such Insular Area only for certain specified purposes (other 
than direct payments to classes of individuals) may, acting through 
appropriate administrative authorities of such department or agency, 
consolidate any or all grants made to such area for any fiscal year or 
years.
    (b) Any consolidated grant for any insular area shall not be less 
than the sum of all grants which such area would otherwise be entitled 
to receive for such year.
    (c) The funds received under a consolidated grant shall be expended 
in furtherance of the programs and purposes authorized for any of the 
grants which are being consolidated, which are authorized under any of 
the Acts administered by the department or agency making the grant, and 
which would be applicable to grants for such programs and purposes in 
the absence of the consolidation, but the Insular Areas shall determine 
the proportion of the funds granted which shall be allocated to such 
programs and purposes.
    (d) Each department or agency making grants-in-aid shall, by 
regulations published in the Federal Register, provide the method by 
which any Insular Area may submit (i) a single application for a 
consolidated grant for any fiscal year period, but not more than one 
such application for a consolidated grant shall be required by any 
department or agency unless notice of such requirement is transmitted to 
the appropriate committees of the United States Congress together with a 
complete explanation of the necessity for requiring such additional 
applications and (ii) a single report to such department or agency with 
respect to each such consolidated grant: Provided, That nothing in this 
paragraph shall preclude such department or agency from providing 
adequate procedures for accounting, auditing, evaluating, and reviewing 
any programs or activities receiving benefits from any consolidated 
grant. The administering authority of any department or agency, in its 
discretion, may (i) waive any requirement for matching funds otherwise 
required by law to be provided by the Insular Area involved and (ii) 
waive the requirement that any Insular Area submit an application or 
report in writing with respect to any consolidated grant.

(Pub. L. 95-134, title V, Sec. 501, Oct. 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 1164; Pub. 
L. 95-348, Sec. 9, Aug. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 495.)

                       Amendment of Subsection (d)

        Pub. L. 96-205, title VI, Sec. 601, Mar. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 90, 
    as amended Pub. L. 98-213, Sec. 6, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1460; Pub. 
    L. 98-454, title VI, Sec. 601(b), Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1736, 
    provided that this section shall be applied with respect to the 
    Department of the Interior by substituting ``shall'' for ``may'' in 
    the last sentence of subsection (d), and adding the following 
    sentence at the end of subsection (d): ``Notwithstanding any other 
    provision of law, in the case of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin 
    Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands any department or agency 
    shall waive any requirement for local matching funds under $200,000 
    (including in-kind contributions) required by law to be provided by 
    American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana 
    Islands.''


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-348, Sec. 9(1), in introductory provision inserted 
``, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,'' after 
``Congress''.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-348, Sec. 9(2), substituted ``Any'' for 
``Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any''.

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of this title.


Maintenance or Level of Effort Requirements; Adjustment or Modification 
           by Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency

    Pub. L. 99-396, Sec. 12(a), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 841, provided 
that: ``In awarding assistance grants, consolidated under the provisions 
of title V of the Act entitled `An Act to authorize certain 
appropriations for the territories of the United States, to amend 
certain Acts related thereto, and for other purposes' (91 Stat. 1159, as 
amended) [42 U.S.C. 4368b; 48 U.S.C. 1469a], to the Trust Territory of 
the Pacific Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands 
or the Virgin Islands, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency may, in his discretion, adjust or otherwise modify maintenance or 
level of effort requirements.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1492 of this title; title 20 
section 1070d-34; title 29 section 708.
