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PUBLIC LAW 565-AUG. 3, 1954

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1954 share.

Federal

1954 State funds.

Services for the blind.

Division of lotment.

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Separate F e d • eral shares.

State for such year increased (if it is less than such State's 1954 Federal share) or decreased (if it is greater than such State's 1954 Federal share) by 75 per centum, 50 per centum, and 25 per centum, respectively, of the difference between such Federal share for the year involved and the 1954 Federal share. " (B) A State's 1954 Federal share means the percentage which (i) the base allotment of such State is of (ii) the sum of such allotment and the amount of 1954 State funds. " (C) The 1954 State funds for any State shall be the amount of State and other non-Federal funds available for expenditures, under such State's plan approved under this Act, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, as estimated by the Secretary for purposes of determining such State's allotment for such year for such expenditures, except that the 1954 State funds for the District of Columbia shall be the amount appropriated for such fiscal year out of the general fund of the District of Columbia for vocational rehabilitation. "(c) If in any State there is, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, a State agency administering or supervising the administration of the part of the State plan under which vocational rehabilitation services are provided for the blind, separate from the State agency administering or supervising the administration of the remainder of the State plan— "(1) for each consecutive fiscal year during which there are such separate agencies, the portion of such State's allotment which is equal to such State's base allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as the amount allotted to the State under this Act for expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, was divided between such agencies; "(2) for each such consecutive fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1962, separate Federal shares shall be established for such agencies for purposes of subsection (b)(2), and for such purposes— ^ "(A.) the 1954 Federal share for each shall be the percentage which (i) the portion of the State's allotment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, which was made available to each, is of (ii) the portion of the sum of such allotment ' and the amount of 1954 State funds available to each for expenditures, under the State plan approved under this Act, during such year; and " (B) the portion of the allotment referred to in subsection (b)(2)(A) for each shall be the portion of the State's allotment allocated to each pursuant to paragraph (1) of this ' subsection. a GRANTS TO STATES FOR E X T E N S I O N A N D IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

Basis ments.

of allot-

"SEC. 3. (a) '1) From the sums available for any fiscal year for grants to States to assist them in initiating projects for the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services, each State shall be entitled to an allotment of an amount bearing the same ratio to such sums as the population of such State bears to the population of all the States. The allotment to any State under the preceding sentence for any fiscal year which is less than $5,000 (or such other amount as may be specified as a minimum allotment in the Act appropriating such sums for such year) shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining States under the preceding sentence, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to

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