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116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
S. 372
To appropriately limit the impact of the presence of large Federal installations
in the delineation of core based statistical areas.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Mr. RISCH (for himself and Mr. CRAPO) introduced the following bill; which
was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To appropriately limit the impact of the presence of large
Federal installations in the delineation of core based
statistical areas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Statistical Area Fair-
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ness Act of 2019’’.
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SEC. 2. LIMITS IN DELINEATION OF CORE BASED STATIS-
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TICAL AREAS.
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(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘large
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Federal installation’’ means a parcel of Federal land—
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(1) that has an area of not less than 500 miles;
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and
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(2) on which a Federal facility (as defined in
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section 930 of title 18, United States Code) is situ-
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ated.
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(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are—
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(1) to account for the impact that large Federal
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installations have on rural counties in which they are
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based; and
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(2) to ensure that rural counties with large
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Federal installations within their borders are not
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negatively affected by core based statistical area des-
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ignations.
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(c) LIMITATION.—In delineating core based statis-
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tical areas, the Office of Management and Budget shall
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not include a county in which a large Federal installation
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is located in a core based statistical area on the basis of
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the percentage of the employment in that county that is
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accounted for by workers who reside in the central county
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or counties of the core based statistical area, as deter-
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mined by the Office of Management and Budget.
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