S.Amdt. 2760

SA 2760. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 end of subtitle E of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1049. DEFINITION OF RURAL AREA FOR CERTAIN IMMIGRATION
AND HOMELAND SECURITY PURPOSES.

(a) EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visas.--Section
203(b)(5)(D)(vii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(D)(vii)) is amended to read as follows:
``(vii) Rural area.--The term `rural area' means--

``(I) any area other that is not within a metropolitan
statistical area (as designated by the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget) or within the outer boundary of any
city or town with a population of 20,000 or more (based on
the most recent decennial census of the United States);
``(II) a county within a metropolitan statistical area
without an urbanized area (as designated by the Census
Bureau);
``(III) any census tract within a metropolitan statistical
area with a primary Rural-Urban Commuting Area Code of 4
through 10 (as determined by Economic Research Service of the
Department of Agriculture);
``(IV) any county within a metropolitan statistical area
with a population of fewer than 50,000 people if more than 80
percent of the census tracts within such county have a Road
Ruggedness Scale of 3, 4 or 5 (as categorized by the Economic
Research Service of the Department of Agriculture); and
``(V) any census tract within a metropolitan statistical
area with a land area greater than 100 square miles and a
Road Ruggedness Scale of 3, 4, or 5.''.

(b) Rural Policing Institute.--Section 210C(c) of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124j(c)) is amended
to read as follows:
``(c) Defined Term.--In this section, the term `rural area'
has the meaning given such term in section 203(b)(5)(D)(vii)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1153(b)(5)(D)(vii)).''.
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