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 82 STAT. J

PUBLIC LAW 90-576-OCT. 16, 1968

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"STATE PROGRAMS

"SEC. 152. (a)(1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated Appropriation. $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, for grants to the States to provide residential vocational education facilities in accordance with the provisions of this section. "(2) From the sums appropriated under paragraph (1), the Com- ^*^*^ allotments. niissioner shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to such sums as the population of each State bears to the population of all the States. " (3) For purposes of this section— " (A) the term 'State* does not include Guam, American Samoa, "State." the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; " (B) the amount allotted under this subsection to any State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, shall be available for payments to applicants with approved applications in that State during that year and the next fiscal year; and " (C) the amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a)(2) for any fiscal year, which the Commissioner determines will not be required for such fiscal year for carrying out the State's plan approved under subsection (b), shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during such year as the (\)mmissioner mayfix,and on the basis of such factors as he determines to be equitable and reasonable, to other States which as determined by the Commissioner are able to use without delay any amounts so reallotted for the purposes set forth in subsection (b). Any amount reallotted to a State under this paragraph during such year Shall be deemed part of its allotment for such year. "(b)(1) Funds allotted to the States under subsection (a) shall be used by the State, or, with the approval of the State boards, by public educational agencies, organizations, or institutions within such State, to pay the Federal share of the cost of planning, constructing, and operating residential vocational education facilities to provide vocational education (including room, board, and other necessities) for youths, at least age fourteen but who have not attained age twenty-one at the time of admission to the training program, who need full-time study on a residential basis and who can profit from vocational education instruction. In the administration of the program conducted under this section, special consideration shall be given to needs in geographical areas having substantial or disproportionate numbers of youths who have dropped out of school or are unemployed, and to serving persons from such areas. "(2) For purposes of this section, the Federal share of the cost of share^*^'^*"^^"^ planning, constructing, and operating residential vocational education facilities shall not exceed 90 per centum of the costs incurred in any fiscal year. "(c) For purposes of this section the State plan approved under section 123 shall set forth the policies and procedures to be used by the State in determining the size and location of such residential vocational facilities, taking into account the use of existing vocational education facilities. Such policies and procedures must give assurance Policies and .•1

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that— " (1) adequate provision will be made for the appropriate selection without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin or place of residence within the State of students needing education and training at such school: "(2) the residential school facility will be operated and maintained for the purpose of conducting a residential vocational education school program;

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