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42 USC 1759.

PUBLIC LAW 87-823-OCT. 15, 1962

[76 STAT.

to the Secretary by the Department of Commerce; and (ii) the average annual per capita income for American Samoa shall be disregarded in determining the average annual per capita income for all the States for periods ending before July 1, 1967. "(7) 'School' means any public or nonprofit private school of high school grade or under and, with respect to Puerto Rico, shall also include nonprofit child-care centers certified as such by the Governor of Puerto Rico." SEC. 6. The National School Lunch Act is further amended by inserting immediately after section 10 thereof the following new section: "SPECIAL ASSISTANCE

Ante, p. 945.

42 USC 1756.

" SEC. 11. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and su^h sums as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year to provide special assistance to schools drawing attendance from areas in which poor economic conditions exist, for the purpose of helping such schools to meet the requirement of section 9 of this Act concerning the service of lunches to children unable to pay the full cost of such lunches. "(b) Of the sums appropriated pursuant to this section for any fiscal year, 3 per centum shall be available for apportionment to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. From the funds so available the Secretary shall apportion to each such State an amount which bears the same ratio to the total of such funds as the number of free or reduced-price lunches served in accordance with section 9 of this Act in such State in the preceding fiscal year bears to the total number of such free or reduced-price lunches served in all such States in the preceding fiscal year: Provided, That for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, $5,000 shall be apportioned to American Samoa, which amount shall be first deducted from the total amount available for apportionment under this subsection. If any such State cannot utilize for the purposes of this section all of the funds apportioned to it, the Secretary shall make further apportionment on the same basis as the initial apportionment to any such States which justify the need for additional funds for such purposes. "(c) Of the remaining sums appropriated pursuant to this section for any fiscal year, not less than 50 per centum shall be apportioned among States, other than Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, on the basis of the following factors for each State: (1) the number of free or reduced-price luncnes served in accordance with section 9 of this Act in the preceding fiscal year, and (2) the assistance need rate. These factors shall be applied in the following manner: First, determine an index for each State by multiplying factors (1) and (2); second, divide this index by the sum of the indices for all such States; and, third, apply the figure thus obtained to the total funds to be apportioned. Any funds so initially apportioned which cannot be used for the purpose of this section by the State to which apportioned, together with the remainder of the funds available under this subsection, shall be further apportioned by the Secretary on the same basis as the initial apportionment to such States which justify on the basis of operating experience the need for additional funds to meet the need of students in such States for free or reduced-price lunches in schools deemed eligible by their State educational agencies for special assistance in accordance with the factors set forth in subsection (e) of this section. " (d) Payment of the funds apportioned to any State under this section shall be made as provided in the last sentence of section 7 of the Act.

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