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PUBLIC LAW248-AUG. 8, 1953

[67 S T A T.

^^^' ^' Subsection (d) of section 4 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN DECREASES I N FEDERAL ACTIVITIES

Ante, p. 532.

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" (d) Whenever the Commissioner determines that— "(1) a local educational agency has made preparations to provide during a fiscal year free public education for a certain number of children to whom subsection (a) applies; "(2) such preparations were in his judgment reasonable in the light of the information available to such agency at the time such preparations were made; and "(3) such number has been substantially reduced by reason of a decrease in or cessation of Federal activities or by reason of a failure of any of such activities to occur, the amount to which such agency is otherwise entitled under this section for such year shall be increased to the amount to which, in the judgment of the Commissioner, such agency would have been entitled but for such decrease in or cessation of Federal activities or the failure of such activities to occur, minus any reduction in current expenditures for such year which the Commissioner determines that such agency has effected, or reasonably should have effected, by reason of such decrease in or cessation of Federal activities or the failure of such activities to occur." SEC. 6. Subsection (b) of section 5 of such Act is amended to read as follows: (P A Y M E N T

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"(b) The Commissioner shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (c), from time to time pay to each local educational agency, in advance or otherwise, the amount which he estimates such agency is entitled to receive under this Act. Such estimates shall take into account the extent (if any) to which any previous estimate of the amount to be paid such agency under this Act (whether or not in the same fiscal year) was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to it. Such payments shall be made through the disbursing facilities of the Department of the Treasury and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office." (gj,^ Y. Subsection (c) of section 5 of such Act is amended to read as follows: a ADJUSTMENTS W H E R E NECESSITATED BY APPROPRIATIONS

"(c) If the funds appropriated for a fiscal year for making the payments provided in this Act are not sufficient to pay in full the total amounts which the Commissioner estimates all local educational agencies will be entitled to receive under this Act for such year, the Commissioner shall, subject to any limitation contained in the Act appropriating such funds, allocate such funds, other than so much thereof Post, p. 5 3 5; as he estimates to be required for section 6, among sections 2, 3, and ante, p. 530, 532. ^ ^^^ -j^ ^^le proportion that the amount he estimates to be required under each such section bears to the total estimated to be required under all such sections. The amount thus allocated to any such section shall be available for payment of a percentage of the amount to which each local educational agency is entitled under such section including, in the case of section 3, any increases under subsection (c)(2) thereof), such percentage to be equal to the percentage which the amount thus allocated to such section is of the amount to which all such agencies are entitled under such section. I n case the amount

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