Metropolitan Statistical Area Preservation Act
This bill prohibits the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from establishing, for purposes of designating areas as metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), a minimum population for the urban area of such MSA that is more than 50,000.
The OMB may, for statistical purposes only, establish other statistical area designations with higher minimum population requirements for such urban areas.
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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Metropolitan Statistical Area Preservation Act
To appropriately limit the size of the population required for urban areas of metropolitan statistical areas.
Metropolitan Statistical Area Preservation Act
Rep. Johnson, Dusty