[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3999 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3999

 To appropriately limit the size of the population required for urban 
                areas of metropolitan statistical areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 17, 2021

Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself and Mr. O'Halleran) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight 
                               and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To appropriately limit the size of the population required for urban 
                areas of metropolitan statistical areas.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Metropolitan Statistical Area 
Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. POPULATION OF URBAN AREAS.

    Section 3504 of title 44, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(l) In implementing subsection (e)(3), the Director--
            ``(1) shall not establish, for purposes of designating 
        areas as metropolitan statistical areas, or any successor 
        thereto, a minimum population for the urban area of such a 
        metropolitan statistical area that is more than 50,000; and
            ``(2) may, only for statistical purposes, and in addition 
        to the minimum population for urban areas described in 
        paragraph (1), establish other statistical area designations 
        with minimum population requirements for urban areas that are 
        higher than the minimum population for an urban area described 
        in paragraph (1).''.
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