S.Amdt. 1687

SA 1687. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. ELIGIBILITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN
MARIANA ISLANDS FOR CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS.

The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended--
(1) in section 7(m)(7)(B) (15 U.S.C. 636(m)(7)(B))--
(A) by striking ``and American Samoa'' each place such term
appears and inserting ``American Samoa, and the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands''; and
(B) in clause (i)(I)(bb), by striking ``\1/55\'' and
inserting ``\1/56\'';
(2) in section 21(a) (15 U.S.C. 648(a))--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting before ``The
Administration shall require'' the following new sentence:
``The previous sentence shall not apply to an applicant that
has its principal office located in the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.''; and
(B) in paragraph (4)(C)(ix), by striking ``and American
Samoa'' and inserting ``American Samoa, and the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands''; and
(3) in section 34(a)(9) (15 U.S.C. 657d(a)(9)), by striking
``and American Samoa'' and inserting ``American Samoa, and
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands''.
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