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PUBLIC LAW 89-794-NOV. 8, 1966

[80 STAT.

Am LT BASrc EDUCATIOX 78 Stat. 516. . ^^v,., X 42 USC 2781 et ^.

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The Directov is authorized to make grants to local educational agencies and to other public or private nonprofit agencies for the purpose of special projects in the field of adult basic education for low-income individuals over eighteen years of age whose lack of basic educational skills constitutes a substantial impairment of their ability to get or retain employment commensurate with their real ability. Such projects shall— "(1) involve the use of innovative methods, systems, materials, or programs which the Director determines may have national significance or be of special value in promoting effective programs under this title, "(2) involve activities in adult basic education which the Director determines are so coupled with other Federal, federally assisted. State, or local programs, as to have unusual promise in promoting a comprehensive or coordinated approach to the problems of low-income individuals with basic educational deficiencies, or "(3) show promise of enabling persojis receiving welfare payments or other forms of public assistance to obtain employment which will permit discontinuance of such assistance." ' ' SEC. 211-;3.

TITLE n PROGRAMS—DURATION

.SEC. 218. Part D of title II of the Act is amended to read as follows: " P A R T D—DURATION OF PROGRAM

"SEC. 221. The Director shall carry out the programs provided for in this title during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and the three succeeding fiscal years. For each such fiscal year only such sums may be appis-opriated as the Congress may authorize by law, TITLE III — AMENDMENTS TO TITLE III O F THE ACT R U R A L AREAS—LOAN AUTHORITY AND INDEMNITY PAYMENTS 42 USC 2851.

SEC. 301. (a) Section 302(a) of the Act is amended by striking out "exceeding $2,500 in the aggregate" and inserting in lieu thereof "resulting in an aggregate indebtedness of more than $3,500 at any one time". (b) Section 305(f) of the Act is amended by— (1) inserting " (1) " immediately after '"'• Provided, That "; and (2) inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the following: "and (2) a cooperative organization formed by and consisting of members of an Indian tribe (including any tribe with whom the special Federal relationship with Indians has been terminated) engaged in the production of agricultural commodities, or in manufacturing products, on an Indian reservation (or former reservation in the case of tribes with whom the special Federal relationship with Indians has been

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