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PUBLIC LAW 88-204-DEC. 16, 1963

ALLOTMENTS TO STATES EOR PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND PUBLIC TECHNICAL INSTITUTES

SEC. 103. (a) The funds to be allotted for any fiscal year for use in providing academic facilities for public community colleges and public technical institutes shall be allotted among the States on the basis of the income per person and the number of high school graduates of the respective States. Such allotments shall be made as follows: The Commissioner shall allot to each State for each fiscal year an amount which bears the same ratio to the funds being allotted as the product of— (1) the number of high school graduates of the State, and (2) the State's allotment ratio (as determined under subsection (d)) bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States. (b) The amount of each allotment to a State under this section shall be available, in accordance with the provisions of this title, for payment of the Federal share (as determined under sections 108(b)(3) and 401 (d)) of the development cost of approved projects for the construction of academic facilities within such State for public community colleges and public technical institutes. Sums allotted to a State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, shall remain available for reservation as provided in section 109 until the close of the next fiscal year, in addition to the sums allotted to such State for such next fiscal year. (c) All amounts allotted under this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and the succeeding fiscal year, which are not reserved as provided in section 109 by the close of the fiscal year for which they are allotted, shall be reallotted by the Commissioner, on the basis of such factors as he determines to be equitable and reasonable, among the States which, as determined by the Commissioner, are able to use without delay any amounts so reallotted for providing academic facilities for public community colleges or public technical institutes. Amounts reallotted under this subsection shall be available for reservation until the close of the fiscal year next succeeding the fiscal year for which they were originally allotted. (d) For purposes of this section— (1) The "allotment ratio" for any State shall be 1.00 less the product of (A).50 and (B) the quotient obtained by dividing the income per person for the State by the income per person for all the States (not including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam), except that (i) the allotment ratio shall in no case be less than.33l^ or more than.66%, (ii) the allotment ratio for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam shall be.66%, and (iii) the allotment ratio of any State shall be.50 for any fiscal year if the Commissioner finds that the cost of school construction in such State exceeds twice the median of such costs in all the States as determined by him on the basis of an index of the average per pupil cost of constructing minimum

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