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 112 STAT. 2706 PUBLIC LAW 105-285—OCT. 27, 1998 "(iii) if legislation approving renegotiated Compacts of Free Association for the jurisdictions described in clause (ii) has not been enacted before September 30, 2001, for fiscal year 2002 to those jurisdictions; according"; (C) in subparagraph (C), by striking "; and" and inserting ", of which not less than $3,000,000 of the amount appropriated for such fiscal year shall be made available to carry out activities described in section 648(c)(4);"; (D) in subparagraph (D), by striking "related to the development and implementation of quality improvement plans under section 641A(d)(2)." and inserting "carried out under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 641A(d) related to correcting deficiencies and conducting proceedings to terminate the designation of Head Start agencies; and"; (E) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following: "(E) payments for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities under section 649."; and (F) by adding at the end the following: "No Freely Associated State may receive financial assistance under this subchapter after fiscal year 2002."; (2) in paragraph (3)— (A) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking "equal" and all that follows through "amount;" and inserting "equal to the simi of— "(I) 60 percent of such excess amount for fiscal year 1999, 50 percent of such excess amount for fiscal year 2000, 47.5 percent of such excess amount for fiscal year 2001, 35 percent of such excess amount for fiscal year 2002, and 25 percent of such excess amount for fiscal year 2003;"; (B) in subparagraph (B)— (i) in clause (ii)— (I) by striking "adequate qualified staff' and inserting "adequate numbers of qualified staff'; and (II) by inserting "and children with disabilities" before ", when*^ (ii) in clause (iv), by inserting before the period the following: ", and to encourage the staff to continually improve their skills and expertise by informing the staff of the availability of Federal and State incentive and loan forgiveness programs for professional development"; (iii) in clause (v), by inserting "and collaboration efforts for such programs' before the period; (iv) in clause (vi), by striking the period and inserting ", and are accessible to children with disabilities and their parents."; (v) by redesignating clause (vii) as clause (viii); and (vi) by inserting after clause (vi) the following: "(vii) Ensuring that such programs have qualified staff that can promote language skills and literacy growth of children and that can provide cnildren with a variety of skills that have been identified, through scientifically based reading research, as predictive of later reading achievement."; (C) m subparagraph (C)—

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