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 123STA T . 1 69 9 PUBLIC LA W 111 – 22 —M A Y 2 0, 2009 (i i ) i npar a g rap h ( 1 )( A ) ,byst ri k ing ‘ ‘pr ov i d ing ho u sing and oth e r assistan c etoho m e l ess persons ’ ’ and inserting ‘‘meeting the goals described in subsection (a)’’ (iii) in paragraph (1)( B ), by striking ‘‘address homelessness in rural areas’’ and inserting ‘‘meet the goals described in subsection (a) in rural areas’’; and (iv) in paragraph ( 2 ) — ( I ) by striking ‘‘ T he’’ and inserting ‘‘ N ot later than 2 4 months a f ter funding is first made avail - able pursuant to the amendment made by title I V of the H omeless E mergency Assistance and R apid Transition to Housing Act of 2 0 0 9, the’’; (II) by striking ‘‘, not later than 1 8 months after the date on w hich the S ecretary first makes grants under the program,’’; and (III) by striking ‘‘prevent and respond to homelessness’’ and inserting ‘‘meet the goals described in subsection (a)’’; (I) in subsection (k)— (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘rural homeless- ness grant program’’ and inserting ‘‘rural housing sta- bility grant program’’; and (ii) in paragraph (2)— (I) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and inserting a semicolon; (II) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ‘‘rural census tract . ’’ and inserting ‘‘county where at least 75 percent of the population is rural; or’’; and (III) by adding at the end the following ‘‘( C ) any area or community, respectively, located in a State that has population density of less than 3 0 persons per s q uare mile (as reported in the most recent decennial census), and of which at least 1.25 percent of the total acreage of such State is under F ederal j urisdiction, provided that no metropolitan city (as such term is defined in section 102 of the Housing and Community D evelopment Act of 1974) in such State is the sole beneficiary of the grant amounts awarded under this section.’’; ( J ) in subsection (l)— (i) by striking the subsection heading and inserting ‘‘ PROG R AM F UNDI NG.—’’; and (ii) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: ‘‘(1) IN G E NERA L .—The Secretary shall determine the total amount of funding attributable under section 427(b)(2) to meet the needs of any geographic area in the Nation that applies for funding under this section. The Secretary shall transfer any amounts determined under this subsection from the Community Homeless Assistance Program and consolidate such transferred amounts for grants under this section, e x cept that the Secretary shall transfer an amount not less than 5 percent of the amount available under subtitle C for grants under this section. Any amounts so transferred and not used for grants under this section due to an insufficient number of applications shall be transferred to be used for grants under subtitle C.’’; and Det e rmina ti o n . Dea dl ine.