FUNDING FOR INSULAR AREAS.

SEC. 501. FUNDING FOR INSULAR AREAS. (a) Definition of Insular Areas.—Section 102(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:“(24) The term ‘insular area’ means each of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.”.(b) Definition of Unit of General Government.—The first sentence of section 102(a)(1) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)(1)) is amended—(1) by inserting “and” after “Secretary;”; and(2) by striking “; and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands”.117 STAT. 2697(c) Statement of Activities and Review.—Section 104 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended—(1) in subsection (a)(1)—(A) in the first sentence—(i) by striking “or” after “State,”; and(ii) by inserting “or under section 106(a)(3) by any insular area,” after “government,”; and(B) in the second sentence—(i) by striking “and in the case of” and inserting a comma; and(ii) by inserting “and insular areas receiving grants pursuant to section 106(a)(3),” after “106(d)(2)(B),”;(2) in subsection (e)(1), by striking “section 106(b) or section 106(d)(2)(B)” and inserting “subsection (a)(3), (b), or (d)(2)(B) of section 106”; and(3) in subsection (m)—(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting “(a)(2),” after “under subsection”; and(B) in paragraph (2), by striking “government—” and inserting “government other than an insular area—”. (d) Allocation and Distribution of Funds.—Section 106(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(a)) is amended—(1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1)—(A) by striking “an appropriation Act” and inserting “appropriation Acts”; and(B) by striking “in any year” and inserting “for such fiscal year”; (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting “under paragraph (1) and after reserving such amounts for insular areas under paragraph (2)” after “tribes”;(3) in paragraph (3), by striking “paragraphs (1) and (2)” and inserting “paragraphs (1), (2), and (3)”;(4) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) (as so amended) as paragraphs (3) and (4); and(5) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:“(2) For each fiscal year, of the amount approved in appropriation Acts under section 103 for grants for such fiscal year (excluding the amounts provided for use in accordance with section 107), the Secretary shall reserve for grants to insular areas $7,000,000. The Secretary shall provide for distribution of amounts under this paragraph to insular areas on the basis of the ratio of the population of each insular area to the population of all insular areas. In determining the distribution of amounts to insular areas, the Secretary may also include other statistical criteria as data become available from the Bureau of the Census, but only if such criteria are contained in a regulation promulgated by the Secretary after notice and public comment.”.(e) Conforming Amendment.—The first sentence of section 106(d)(1) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(d)(1)) is amended by striking “paragraphs (1) and (2)” and inserting “paragraphs (1), (2), and (3)”.(f) Special Purpose Grants.—Section 107 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5307) is amended—(1) in subsection (a)(1)—(A) by striking subparagraph (A); and117 STAT. 2698(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (H) as subparagraphs (A) through (G), respectively; and(2) in subsection (b)—(A) by striking paragraph (1); and(B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (7) as paragraphs (1) through (6), respectively.(g) Regulations.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall issue regulations to carry out the amendments made by this section, which shall take effect not later than the expiration of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.