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 PUBLIC LAW 102-569—OCT. 29, 1992 106 STAT. 4395 of 1992, of title V of this Act, and of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; and "(12) support the funding of the State Rehabilitation Advisory Council and the Statewide Independent Living Council established under section 705. "SEC. 124. ALLOTMENTS AMONG STATES. 29 USC 744. "(a) IN GENERAL. — "(1) STATES. — "(A) POPULATION BASIS.—Except as provided in subparagraph (B), from simis appropriated for each fiscal year to carry out this part (not including sums used in accordance with section 101(a)(34XB)), the Commissioner shall make an allotment to each State whose State plan has been approved under section 101 of an amount bearing the same ratio to such sums as the population of the State bears to the population of all States. " (B) MiNlMUMS.— Subject to the availability of appropriations to carry out this part, the allotment to any State under subparagraph (A) snail be not less than $200,000 or one-third of one percent of the sums made available for the fiscal year for which the allotment is made, whichever is greater, and the allotment of any State under this section for any fiscal year that is less than $200,000 or one-third of one percent of such sums shall be increased to the greater of the two amounts. "(2) CERTAIN TERRITORIES.— "(A) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes of this subsection, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau shall not be considered to be States. " (B) ALLOTMENT. — Each jurisdiction described in subparagraph (A) shall be allotted not less than one-eighth of one percent of the amounts made available for purposes of this part for the fiscal year for which the allotment is made, except that the Republic of Palau may receive such allotment under this section only until the Compact of Free Association with Palau takes effect. "(3) ADJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION. —For purposes of determining the minimum amount of an allotment under paragraph dXB), the amount $200,000 shall, in the case of such allotments for fiscal year 1994 and subsequent fiscal years, be increased to the extent necessary to ofiTset the efiTects of inflation occurring since October 1992, as measured by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (U.S. city average) during the period ending on April 1 of the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the allotment is to be made. "(b) PROPORTIONAL REDUCTION.—Amounts necessary to provide allotments to States in accordance with subsection (a)(l)(B) as increased under subsection (a)(3), or to provide allotments in accordance with subsection (a)(2)(B), shall be derived by proportionately reducing the allotments of the remaining States under subsection (a)(D, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than the greater of $200,000 or one-third of one percent of the sums made available for purposes of this part for

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