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! 3 ~'.' than 80 percent of the area median income. In addition, at least 30 percen: of the assisted families must have incomes below 50 percent of the area median income. In :~ii~.~.. practice, "area" is defined as the S~SA in which the applicant lives, or as the county if he lives in a nonmetropolitan area. Changes in S~.!SA definitions ca~ .~.~. affect the median income used to determine eligibility for assistance. 3. Fair market rents. Regulations state that SMSA~s are to be used iH det'~rmining the fair market rents for housing in metropolitan areas. Under Section 8, for example, ;~-~" ~UD pays the owner of the applicant's housing an assistance payment equal'to the difference between the fair market rent~3.::~' and the applicant's payment. Deoartment of the ~nterior Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (P.L."'df-~'/~). One o~ the purposes o~ ~n~s ~c~"£s to '~":'-:" provzae r~naacial assistance to States (and through the States to loc.al governments) to acquire and d~velop :3?3: public outdoor recreation areas and facilities. The Act :iii!ii_ stipulates that of th~ moneys available for State ourposes, 40 percent of the first $225,000,000, 30 percent of the next $275,000,000, and 20 percent o.f all additional appro- priations shall be apportioned equally among the several The remaining appropriation is apportioned by the Secretary of the Interior on the basis of need. Section 6b(2) of the Act states that the determination of need shall include, amon~ other things, a consideration of the prooortion which the population of each State bears to the total ,~.'::.~' population of the United States. Although S~.!SA's are '"?'~.~:' not mentioned in the Act, one of the major factors used in determining need is the ra~io of the population resid- ,~.:i~:'~''''' lng in S~.!SA'$ within a particular State to the population of all SMSA's nationwide. Department of Labor '~.-~ Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS publishes data "~.. by S~4SA for ~he ~oilow!ng programs: Occupational Employment Statistics, Consumer Price Index, Consumer Expenditure Survey, Area Wage Surveys, Industry Wage Surveys, Work Stoppages, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Labor Turnover Rates, and Current Employment. Statistics. As is true of all data published by SMSA, changes in SNSA boundaries disrupt the continuity of the~e data and affect :::i:. their use in time-series analyses.