emits, echeettintns, Siediinllspean a pee ae ke Pik.95-134 LAWS OF 95th CONG.—Ist SESS. Oct. 15 Oct. 1. 1976 (90 Stat. 263). and 502(a) (2) of said Covenant shall be applicable Insular téthe territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands on the same terms Insular to any <« and conditions as such laws are applied to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. App: ee ae TITLE V Iddular “Areas. 48 USE 14692. 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. in (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: Hol ar p 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)" 78 Yt “ae HE 91 STAT. 1164 Uemee res HLL M, Ju! Se edeee the +. ee Oe th eth het ata mel etaterhs, Leniethirin Waivers. LPGISLa ing, and reviewing any programsor activities receiving benefits fre: _— + erene mnie a eee 8 ee are reeee