6 te Oo research, planning assistance, studics, and demonstgation projects. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated suchfsums 4 Sec. 602. Title V of the Act of October 15, LOTT] enti- @®oO as may be necessary to carry out this section. tled “An Act to authorize certain appropriations for thd terri- mo Dd or nerships, or corporations. Technical assistance may inblude fe governments, or the einplovment of private individuals, part- tories of the United States, to amend certain Acts ré@lating 10 thereto, and for other purposes’ (91 Stat. 1159) sHfall be ll amended as follows: At the end of subsection (d) st sentence beginning with ‘Notwithstanding any othe 13 sion of law’’ and ending with “‘or the Northern l4 Islands."’ and substitute the following sentence: dé 15 standing any other provision oflaw,in the case of 16 Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands any depart agency shall waive any requirements for local matchify funds (including inkind contributions) required by law to fbe provided by American Samoa or the Northern Mariana Islands.’’. a C. Suc. 603. tn the event that a political union isfeffected at a future time between the Territory of Guam fand the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, thd federal Government and cachofits agencies ts authorized + directed to assure that—