Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 3.djvu/80

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106 STAT. 1874 PUBLIC LAW 102-395—OCT. 6, 1992 8 USC 1153 note. SEC. 610. PILOT IMMIGRATION PROGRAM. — (a) Of the visas otherwise available under section 203(b)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)), the Secretary of State, together with the Attorney General, shall set aside visas for a pilot program to implement the provisions of such section. Such pilot program shall mvolve a regional center in the United States for the promotion of economic growth, including increased export sales, improved regional productivity, job creation, and increased domestic capital investment. (b) For purposes of the pilot program established in subsection (a), beginning on October 1, 1992, but no later than October 1, 1993, the Secretary of State, together with the Attorney General, shall set aside 300 visas annually for five years to include such aliens as are eligible for admission under section 203(b)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and this section, as well as spouses or children which are eligible, under the terms of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to accompany or follow to join such aUens. Exports and (c) In determining compliance with section 203(b)(5)(A)(iii) of imports. ^he Immigration and Nationality Act, and notwithstanding the requirements of 8 CFR 204.6, the Attorney General shall permit aliens admitted under the pilot program described in this section to establish reasonable methodologies for determining the number of jobs created by the pilot program, including such jobs which are estimated to have been created indirectly through revenues generated from increased exports resvdting from the pilot program. Disadvantaged. SEC. 611. (a) Funds appropriated under this Act to the Legal Services Corporation and distributed to each grantee funded in fiscal year 1993 pursuant to the number of poor people determined by the Bureau of the Census to be within its geographical area shall be distributed in the following order: (1) grants from the Legal Services Corporation and contracts entered into with the Legal Services Corporation under section 1006(a)(l) of the Legal Services Corporation Act, as amended, shall be maintained in fiscal year 1993 at not less than the annual level at which each grantee and contractor was funded in fiscal year 1992 pursuant to Public Law 102- 140; and (2) any increase in funding above the fiscal year 1992 level for grants and contracts under section 1006(a)(l) shall be awarded to grantees and contractors funded at the lowest levels per-poor-person (calculated for each grantee or contractor by dividing each such grantee's or contractor's fiscal year 1992 annual grant level by the number of poor persons within its geographical area under the 1990 census) so as to fund the largest number of programs possible at an equal per-poorperson amount; or (3) any increase above the fisced year 1992 level for grants and contracts to migrant programs under section 1006(a)(l) shall be awarded on a per migrant (including dependents) basis (calculated for each grantee or contractor by dividing each such grantee's or contractor's fiscal year 1992 grant level by the number of migrants, including dependents, within that grantee's or contractor's State as determined by the 1992 Report of the Tomas Rivera Center migrant enumeration project) and distributed in the following order: (A) forty percent to migrant grantees and contractors funded at the lowest levels per migrant (including depend-