DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Administrative Provision—Home Section 217(a) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12747(a)) is amended— (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by inserting “and after reserving amounts for the insular areas under paragraph (3)” before the first comma; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(3) Insular Areas.— For each fiscal year, of any amounts approved in appropriations Acts to carry out this title, the Secretary shall reserve for grants to the insular areas the greater of (A) $750,000, or (B) 0.5 percent of the amounts appropriated under such Acts. The Secretary shall provide for the distribution of amounts reserved under this paragraph among the insular areas pursuant to specific criteria for such distribution. The criteria shall be contained in a regulation promulgated by the Secretary after notice and public comment.”. Section 104 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12704) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking “Guam” and all that follows through “American Samoa,”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(24) The term ‘insular area’ means any of the following: Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.”.