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PUBLIC LAW 248-AUG. 8, 1953

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able with respect to such children for the year for which the computation is being made." (b)(1) So much of the subsection of such section 3 herein redesignated as subsection (d) as precedes clause (1) thereof is amended to read as follows: "LOCAL CONTRIBUTION RATE

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" (d) The local contribution rate for a local educational agency (other than a local educational agency in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Wake Island, or the Virgin Islands) for any fiscal year shall be computed by the Commissioner of Education, after consultation with the State educational agency and the local educational agency, in the following manner:". (2) Clause (1) of such subsection is amended by striking out "most nearly comparable" and inserting in lieu thereof "generally comparable". (c) Such subsection is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentences: " I n no event shall the local contribution rate for any local educational agency in any State in the continental United States for any fiscal year be less than 50 per centum of (i) the aggregate current expenditures, during the second fiscal year preceding such fiscal year, made by all local educational agencies in such State (without regard to the source of the funds from which such expenditures were made), divided by (ii) the aggregate number of children in average daily attendance to whom such agencies provided free public education during such second preceding fiscal year. The local contribution rate for any local educational agency in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Wake Island, or the Virgin Islands, shall be determined for any fiscal year b j the Commissioner in accordance with policies and principles which will, in his judgment, best effectuate the purposes of this Act and most nearly approximate the policies and principles provided herein for determining local contribution rates in other States." (d) The subsection of such section herein redesignated as subsection (e) is amended by inserting "(other than subsection (c)(2) thereof)" after "this section". The second parenthetical clause contained in such subsection is amended to read as follows: " (but only to the extent such payments are not deducted under the last sentence of section 2 (a); and, in the case of Federal payments representing an allotment to the local educational agency from United States Forestry Reserve funds, Taylor Grazing Act funds. United States Mineral Lease Royalty funds. Migratory Bird Conservation Act funds, or similar funds, only to the extent that children who reside on or with a parent employed on the property with respect to which such funds are paid are included in determining the amount to which such agency is entitled under this section)". SEC. 3. Subsection (a) of section 4 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "INCREASES HEREAFTER OCCURRING

"SEC. 4. (a) If the Commissioner determines for any fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1956— "(1) that, as a direct result of activities of the United States (carried on either directly or through a contractor), an increase in the number of children in average daily attendance at the schools of any local educational agency has occurred in such fiscal year, which increase so resulting from activities of the United States is equal to at least 5 per centum of the number of

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