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PUBLIC LAW 90-247-JAN. 2, 1968

[81 STAT.

TITLE IV—PROVISIONS FOR ADEQUATE LEADTIME AND FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ACTS SUBJECT TO THIS TITLE

20 USC' 2'Jia note. ^ ^ 20 USC 8 21, "20 USC 861, 871, 881, post, ^ SOStat. 1216. 20 USC 1201 note.

SEC. 401. The provisions of this title shall apply to title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (title II of Public Law 81-874), titles II, III, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the Adult Education Act of 1966 (title I H of the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1966), as now in effect or hereafter from time to time amended. PROGRAM PLANNING AND EVALUATION SEC. 402. There are authorized to be appropriated, for each fiscal year for which appropriations are otherwise authorized under any title or Act referred to in section 401, such sums as may be necessary, to be available to the Secretary, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, for expenses, including grants, contracts, or other payments, for (1) planning for the succeeding year programs or projects authorized under such title or Act and (2) evaluation of programs or projects so authorized, ADVANCE FUNDING

SEC. 403. To the end of affording the responsible State, local, and Federal officers concerned adequate notice of available Federal financial assistance for education, appropriations for grants, contracts, or other payments under any Act referred to in section 401 are authorized to be included in the appropriation Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation. I n order to effect a transition to this method of timing appropriation action, the preceding sentence shall apply notwithstanding that its initial application under any such Act will result in the enactment in the same year (whether in the same appropriation Act or otherwise) of two separate appropriations, one for the then current fiscal year and one for the succeeding fiscal year. EVALUZVTION REPORTS AND CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW

SEC. 404. (a) No later than January 31 of each calendar year, the Secretary shall transmit to the respective committees of the Congress having legislative jurisdiction over any Act referred to in section 401 and to the respective Committees on Appropriations a report evaluating the results and effectiveness of programs and projects assisted thereunder during the preceding fiscal year, together with his recommendations (including any legislative recommendations) relating thereto. (b) In the case of any such program, the report submitted in the penultimate fiscal year for which appropriations are then authorized to be made for such program shall include a comprehensive and detailed review and evaluation of such program (as up to date as the due date permits) for its entire past life, based to the maximum extent practicable on objective measurements, together with the Secretary's recommendations as to proposed legislative action.

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