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 PUBLIC LAW 105-78 —NOV. 13, 1997 111 STAT. 1507 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS. —The National Academy of Sciences shall submit a written report to the White House, the National Assessment Governing Board, the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate not later than September 1, 1998. SEC. 310. (a) The Federal Cxovernment shall not require any State or local educational agency or school to administer or implement any pilot or field test in any subject or grade, nor shall the Federal Government require any student to take any national test in any subject or grade. (b) Nothing in section 309(a) shall be construed as affecting the NationsJ Assessment of Educational Progress or the Third International Math and Science Study. SEC. 311. No Federal, State or local educational agency may require any private or parochied school student, or home-schooled individual, to take any pilot or field test developed under this Act, contract RJ97153001, or any contract related thereto, without the written consent of the parents or legal guardians of the student or individual. SEC. 312. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any institution of higher education which receives funds under title III of the Higher Education Act, except for grants made under section 326, may use up to 20 percent of its award under part A or part B of the Act for endowment building purposes authorized under section 331. Any institution seeking to use part A or part B funds for endowment building purposes shall indicate such intention in its application to the Secretary and shall abide by departmental regulations governing the endowment challenge grant program. (TRANSFER OF FUNDS) SEC. 313. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Higher Education Act, $280,000,000 of the balances of returned reserves, formerly held by the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, that are currently held in Higher Education Assistance Claims Reserves, Treasury account number 91X6192, shall be transferred to Miscellaneous Receipts of the Treasury, within 60 days of enactment of this Act. IMPACT AID SEC. 314. (a) IN GENERAL. —From funds made available to carry out section 3(d)(2)(B) of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, 81st Congress) for fiscal year 1994 that remain after making 100 percent of the pa5nnents local educational agencies are eligible to receive under such section for such fiscal year, the Secretary of Education shall make payments to applicants for fiscal year 1996 pursuant to subsection (b). (b) AWARD BASIS.— (1) IN GENERAL. —Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Education shall make a payment to each applicant in an amount that bears the same relation to the total amount of remaining funds described in subsection (a) as the number of children who were in average daily attendance in the schools served by the applicant for fiscal year 1996 bears to the total

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