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 108 STAT. 3656 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 "(A) five years in duration; and "(B) $10,000,000 in any one fiscal year. "(2) INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMMING. —Not less than 25 percent of the funds available to the Secretary in any fiscal year under this part shall be used for the cost of instructional programming. "(3) SPECIAL RULE. — Not less than 50 percent of the funds available in any fiscal year under this part shall be used for the cost of facilities, equipment, teacher training or retraining, technical assistance, or programming, for local educational agencies which are eligible to receive assistance under part AoftitleL "(e) FEDERAL SHARE.— "(1) IN GENERAL. —The Federal share of the cost of projects funded under this section shall not exceed— "(A) 75 percent for the first and second years for which an eligible telecommunications partnership receives a grant under this part; "(B) 60 percent for the third and fourth such years; and "(C) 50 percent for the fifth such year. "(2) REDUCTION OR WAIVER. —The Secretary may reduce or waive the requirement of the non-Federal share under paragraph (1) upon a showing of financial hardship. " (f) AUTHORITY To ACCEPT FUNDS FROM OTHER AGENCIES.— The Secretary is authorized to accept funds from other Federal departments or agencies to carry out the purposes of this section, including funds for the purchase of equipment. "(g) COORDINATION.— The Department, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and any other Federal department or agency operating a telecommunications network for educational purposes, shall coordinate the activities assisted under this part with the activities of such department or agency relating to a telecommunications network for educational purposes. "(h) CLOSED CAPTIONING AND DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO. —Each entity receiving funds under this part is encouraged to provide— "(1) closed captioning of the verbal content of such program, where appropriate, to be broadcast by way of line 21 of the vertical blanking interval, or by way of comparable successor technologies; and "(2) descriptive video of the visual content of such program, as appropriate. 20 USC 6895. ''SEC. 3205. ELIGIBLE ENTITIES. "(a) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES. — "(1) REQUIRED PARTICIPATION. — The Secretary may make a grant under section 3204 to any eligible entity, if at least one local educational agency is participating in the proposed project. "(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.— For the purpose of this part, the term 'eligible entity may include— "(A) a public agency or corporation established for the purpose of developing and operating telecommunications networks to enhance educational opportunities provided by educational institutions, teacher training centers, and other entities, except that any such agency or corporation

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