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PUBLIC LAW 89-10-APR. 11, 1965

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"(4) For purposes of this subsection, the term 'State' does not include Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "(b) A local educational agency shall be eligible for a basic grant for a fiscal year under this title only if it meets the following requirements with respect to the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, of families having an annual income of less than the lowincome factor (as established pursuant to subsection (c)): "(1) I n any case (except as provided in paragraph (3)) in which the Commissioner determines that satisfactory data for the purpose of this subsection as to the number of such children of such families are available on a school district basis, the number of such children of such families in the school district of such local educational agency shall be— " (A) at least one hundred, or " (B) equal to 3 per centum or more of the total number of all children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in such district, whichever is less, except that it shall in no case be less than ten. "(2) I n any other case, except as provided in paragraph (3), the number of children of such ages of families with such income in the county which includes such local educational agency's school district shall be one hundred or more. " (3) I n any case in which a county includes a part of the school district of the local educational agency concerned and the Commissioner has not determined that satisfactory data for the purpose of this subsection are available on a school district basis for all the local educational agencies for all the counties into which the school district of the local educational agency concerned extends, the eligibility requirement with respect to the number of children of such ages of families of such income for such local educational agency shall be determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner for the purposes of this subsection. "(c) For the purposes of this section, the 'Federal percentage' and ^^^f^'^^'if '^^'^" the 'low-income factor' for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, shall ""^"L^o^wlincome pe 50 per centum and $2,000, respectively. For each of the two sue- factor." ceeding fiscal years the Federal percentage and the low-income factor shall be established by the Congress by law. " (d) For the purposes of this section, the Commissioner shall determine the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, of families having an annual income of less than the low-income factor (as established pursuant to subsection (c)) on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available from the Department of Commerce. A t any time such data for a county are available in the Department of Commerce, such data shall be used in making calculations under this section. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall determine the number of children of such ages from families receiving an annual income in excess of the low-income factor (established pursuant to subsection (c)) from payments under the program of aid to families with dependent children under a State plan approved under title IV of the Social Security Act on the basis of the best available tl^i^^'.tV:-. data for the period most nearly comparable to those which are used 42 USC 601-609. by the Commissioner under the first two sentences of this subsection in making determinations for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b). When requested by the Commissioner, the Secretary of Commerce shall make a special estimate of the number of children of such ayes who are from families having an annual income less than the low

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