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 PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988

102 STAT. 313

cance or will be of special value in promoting effective programs under this title, or "(B) involve programs of adult education, including education for persons with handicaps, the homeless, and persons of limited English proficiency, which are part of community school programs, carried out in cooperation with other Federal, State, or local programs which have unusual promise in promoting a comprehensive or coordinated approach to the problems of persons with educational deficiencies; and "(2) training persons engaged, or preparing to engage, as personnel in programs designed to carry out the purposes of this title. "(b) APPLICATIONS.—Applications for funds under subsection (a) shall include such information as the State educational agency considers appropriate, including plans for continuing the activities and services under the project after the completion of the funding. "Subpart 7—Federal Share; Federal Administrative Responsibilities "SEC. 361. PAYMENTS.

20 USC 1209.

"(a) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of expenditures to carry out a State plan shall be paid from a State's allotment available for grants to that State. The Federal share shall be— Territories, U.S. "(1) 90 percent of the cost of carrying out the State's programs for fiscal year 1988; "(2) 85 percent of such cost for fiscal year 1990; "(3) 80 percent of such cost for fiscal year 1991; and "(4) 75 percent of such cost for fiscal year 1992 and for each fiscal year thereafter, except that with respect to Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Federal share of such cost shall be 100 percent. "(b) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—(1) No payment may be made to any State from its allotment for any fiscal year unless the Secretary finds that the fiscal effort per student or the amount available for expenditure by such State for adult education from non-Federal sources for the second preceding fiscal year was not less than such fiscal effort per student or such amount available for expenditure for such purposes from such sources during the third preceding fiscal year. "(2) The Secretary may waive the requirements of this subsection for 1 fiscal year only, upon making a determination that such waiver would be equitable due to exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances affecting the ability of the applicant to meet such requirements, such as a natural disaster or an unforeseen and precipitous decline in financial resources.

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