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 PUBLIC LAW 105-78—NOV. 13, 1997 111 STAT. 1499 as are necessary beginning in fiscal year 1998 and for each succeeding fiscal year.": Provided further, That of the funds available for section 8007, the Secretary shall, under such terms and conditions he determines appropriate, first provide $1,500,000 to applicant number 11-2815 and $1,500,000 to applicant number 36-4403 for the construction of public elementary or secondary schools where the current structures are unsafe and pose serious health threats to the students, if requests for funding and construction project descriptions are submitted to the Secretary within 30 days of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That notwithstanding any deadline established by the Secretary of Education under subsection (c) of section 8005 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7705), and without regard to paragraphs (I)(A), (2), and (3) of subsection (d) of that section, the Secretary shall accept, as if timely received, an application from the Maconaquah School Corporation, Bunker Hill, Indiana, under section 8003 of that Act for fiscal year 1996 if the Secretary has received that application not later than 30 days' after the enactment of this Act: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense shall treat any data included in an application described in the preceding proviso, and that is approved by the Secretary of Education, as data to be used in determining the eligibility of the Maconaquah School Corporation, Bunker Hill, Indiana, for, and the amount of, a pay- ment for any of the fiscal years 1998 through 2000 under section 386 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993: Provided further. That section 8 of Public Law 104-195 is llO Stat 2383. amended by striking the period after "year" and adding the following: "or, for fiscal year 1995 or fiscal year 1996, the amount of any payment under section 8003(f) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965": Provided further. That the Secretary of Kentucky. Education shall deem the local education^ agency serving the Clinton County School District in Albany, Kentucky, to meet the eligibility requirements of section 8002(a)(l)(C) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702(a)(l)(C)). SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS For carrying out school improvement activities authorized by titles II, IV-A-1 and 2, V-A and B, VI, K, X, and XIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; $1,538,188,000, of which $1,246,300,000 shall become available on July 1, 1998, and remain available through September 30, 1999: Provided, That of the amount appropriated, $335,000,000 shall be for Eisenhower professional development State grants under title II-B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 of which $25,000,000 shall be for professional development in reading, $350,000,000 shall be for innovative education program strategies State grants under title VI-A of said Act and $750,000 shall be for an evaluation of comprehensive regional assistance centers under title XIII of said Act: Provided further. That of the amount made available for title rV-A-2, $350,000 shall be for the Yonkers Public Schools for innovative anti-drug and antiviolence activities.

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