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LAWS OF 95th CONG.—Ist SESS.
Oct. 15
Oct. 1.
1976 (90 Stat. 263). and 502(a) (2) of said Covenant shall be applicable
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téthe territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands on the same terms
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to any <«
and conditions as such laws are applied to the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.
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TITLE V
Iddular “Areas.
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Src. 501; In order to minimize the burden caused byexisting application and reporting procedures for certain grant-in-aid programs
available te 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 hereby
Consolidation of
gitints.
declared to be the policy of the Congress that:
(a) Notwithstanding anv provision of law to the contrary, any
department or agencyof the Government of the United States which
administers anv .\ct of Congress which specifically provides for mak-
ing ‘grants to any Insular Area under which payments received may
be used by such Insular Area only for certain specified purposes (other
than direct pavments to classes of individuals) may, acting through
appropriate administrative authorities of such departmentor agency,
consolidate any or all grants made to such area for any fiscal year
oryears.
(b) Any consolidated grant for any insular area shall not be less
Allocation of
funds.
than the sum of all erants which =uch area would otherwise be entitled
to receive for such vear.
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(c) The funds received under a consolidated grant shall be expended
furtherance of the
programs and
purposes authorized
for
any of the wrants which are being consolidated, which are authorized
under anv of the Acts administered by the department or agency
making the grant. and which would be applicable to grants for such
Grents-in-aid’
regulations;
publication in
Federal Register.
programs and purposes in the absence of the consolidation, but the
Imsular 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
remuations published in the Federal Register, provide the method by
which anv Insular Area may submit (1) a single application for a
consolidated grant for any fiscal vear period. but not more than one
sich application for a consolidated grant shall be required by any
department or agency unless notice of such requirementis transmitted
to the appropriate committees of the United States Congress together
with x complete explanation of the necessity for requiring such addi-
fionsl applications and (ii) a single report to such department or
ageney with respect to each such consolidated grant: Provided, That
nothing in this paragraph shell preclude such department or agen’
from providing adequate procedures for accounting, auditing, evains:
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anv consolidated grant. The administering authority of any depart:
ment or agency, in its discretion, may (i) waive any requirement I: ”
matching funds otherwise required by law to be provided by 1)"
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