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PUBLIC LAW 88-269-FEB. U, 1964 CONSTRrCTK^N GRANTS

SEC. 7. (sb) The Library Services Act is further amended by inserting " TITLE I — P U B L I C L I B R A R Y 8 P: K VI ( ^ E S " after section 2, by redesignating sections 3, 4, 5, and 0, and references thereto, as sections 101, 102, 103, and 104, respectively, and by inserting after such sections the following new title: "TITLE II—PUBLIC LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION " AUTHORIZATION O F APPROPRL\nONS

"SEC. 201. There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, the sum of $20,000,000, and for each of the next two fiscal years such sums as the Congress may determine, which shall be used for making payments to States, which have submitted and had approved by the Commissioner, State plans for the construction of public libraries. "ALLOTMENTS

"SEC. 202. From the sums appropriated pux'suant to section 201 for each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall allot $20,000 each to Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, and $80,000 to each of the other States, and shall allot to each State such part of the remainder of such sums as the population of the State bears to the population of the United States, according to the most recent decennial census. A State's allotment under this subsection for any fiscal year shall be available for payments with respect to construction projects approved, under its State plan approved under section 203, during such year or (but only in the case of a State allotment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964) the next fiscal year. <STATE (

PLAKS FOR CONSTRUCTKJN

"SEC. 203. (a) To be approved for purposes of this title a Stat« plan for construction of public libraries must— "(1) meet the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of section 103(a); "(2) set forth criteria and procedures for approval of projects for construction of public library facilities which are designed to insure that facilities will be constructed only to serve areas, as determined by the State library administrative agency, which are without library facilities necessary to develop library services; " (3) provide assurance that every local or other public agency whose application for funds under the plan with respect to a project for construction of public library facilities is denied will be given an opportunity for a fair hearing before the State library administrative agency; and "(4) provide assurance that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on all construction projects assisted under this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality, as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a—276c-5), and shall ^^ ^*^*- ^°^ ^• receive overtime compensation in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Contract Work Hours Standards Act (Public Law 87-581); and the Secretary of Labor shall have with JJ us^c 32"*

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