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PUBLIC LAW 89-511-JULY 19, 1966

[80 STAT.

"STATE PLANS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARY SERVICES

20 USC 3 54.

"SEC. 404. (a) To be approved for purposes of this part a State plan must— "(1) meet the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of section 103(a); "(2) provide policies and objectives for the establishment or improvement of State institutional library services; "(3) provide assurance that all eligible State institutions will be accorded an opportunity to participate in the program pursuant to this part; "(4) provide criteria which the State agency shall use in evaluating applications for funds under this part and in assigning priority to project proposals; "(5) provide assurances satisfactory to the Commissioner that expenditures made by such State in any fiscal year for State institutional library services will not be less than such expenditures in the preceding fiscal year; and "(6) establish a council which is broadly representative of State institutions eligible for assistance under this part which shall act in an advisory capacity to the State agency. " (b) The Commissioner shall approve any State plan which meets the conditions specified in subsection (a) of this section. "(c) No portion of any money paid to a State under this part shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase or erection of any building or buildings, or the purchase of any land. "PART B—LIBRARY SERVICES TO THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED li

Definition.

AUTHORIZATION

OF APPROPRIATIONS

"SEC. 411. There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, the sum of $3,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, $4,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, $5,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $6,000,000; and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, $7,000,000; which shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted and had approved by the Commissioner State plans for establishing and improving library services to the physically handicapped. For the purposes of this part the term 'library services to the physically handicapped' means the providing of library service, through public or other nonprofit libraries, agencies, or organizations, to physically handicapped persons (including the blind and visually handicapped) certified by competent authority as unable to read or to use conventional printed materials as a result of physical limitations. ((ALLOTMENTS "SEC. 412. From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 411 for each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall allot $5,000 each to Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, and $25,000 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.

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