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 118 STAT. 1348 PUBLIC LAW 108–335—OCT. 18, 2004 Stat. 593), is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2005’’. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003. SEC. 337. (a) Section 106(b) of the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954 (sec. 34–2401.25(b), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking paragraph (5). (b) Section 212(b) of such Act (sec. 34–2112(b), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking paragraph (5). (c) The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to quarters occurring during fiscal year 2005 and each succeeding fiscal year. SEC. 338. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, there is hereby appropriated for the Office of the Inspector General such amounts in local funds, as are consistent with the annual estimates for the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the operation of the Office of the Inspector General as prepared by the Inspector General and submitted to the Mayor and forwarded to the Council pursuant to D.C. Official Code 2–302.08(a)(2)(A) for fiscal year 2005: Provided, That the Office of the Chief Financial Officer shall take such steps as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection. SEC. 339. The paragraph under the heading ‘‘Federal Payment for Incentives for Adoption of Children’’ in Public Law 106–113, approved November 29, 1999 (113 Stat. 1501), is amended to add the following proviso: ‘‘: Provided further, That the funds provided under this heading for the establishment of a scholarship fund for District of Columbia children of adoptive families, and District of Columbia children without parents due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack to be used for post high school education and training, once obligated by the District to establish the scholar ship fund, shall remain obligated and be retained by the District for 25 years from the date of obligation to allow for any individual who is within the class of persons to be assisted by this provision to reach post high school and to present expenditures to be extin guished by the fund’’. SEC. 340. AUTHORITY OF OPCSFS. (a) Section 161(3)(E)(i) of Public Law 106–522 shall be amended to include a new section known as (E)(i)(IV) to establish regulations for administering lease guarantees through the credit enhancement fund to public charter schools in the District of Columbia. (b) The first sentence of section 143 of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–7; 117 Stat. 130) approved April 20, 2003 is amended by striking the phrase, ‘‘under the authority of the Department of Banking and Financial Institu tions’’ and inserting ‘‘under the authority of the Mayor’’ in its place. SEC. 341. PROCESS FOR FILING CHARTER PETITIONS. D.C. Code 38–1802.01 is amended by adding a new subsection (e) as follows: ‘‘(e) A petition to establish a public charter school in the District of Columbia, or to convert a District of Columbia public school or an existing private or independent school, is a public document.’’. SEC. 342. AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER SCHOOL LAW. (a) PROCESS FOR FILING CHARTER PETITIONS.—Section 2201 of the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Code 38–1802.01) is amended— 20 USC 1155. Applicability.

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