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PUBLIC LAW 91-230-APR. 13, 1970

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" (A) make a significant contribution to strengthening the leadership resources of the applicant or its ability to participate effectively in meeting the educational needs of its district, and " (B) involve an expenditure of at least $2,500, and "(2) provide for an equitable distribution on the basis of need of funds provided pursuant to this part, and, to the extent possible within such a distribution, give priority to exemplary projects, programs, or activities. " P A R T C—CoMrREHENSivE E D U C A T I O N A L P L A N N I N G A N D EVALUATION

(AUTHORIZATION "SEC. 531. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to make comprehensive planning and evaluation grants to State and local educational agencies in order to assist and stimulate them to enhance their capability to make effective progress, through comprehensive and continuing planning and evaluation, toward the achievement of opportunities for high-quality education for all segments of the population. " (b) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this part. Appropriation. there are hereby authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973. " (c)(1)(A) From the sums appropriated for carrying out this part for each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve such am.ount, but not in excess of 2 per centum of such per centum, as he may determine and shall apportion such amount among the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territorv of the Pacific Islands according to their respective needs for assistance under this part. The remainder shall be apportioned by the Commissioner as follows: " (i) H e shall apportion 40 per centum of such remainder among the States in equal amounts. "(ii) H e shall apportion to each State an amount that bears the same ratio to 60 per centum of such remainder as the population of the State bears to the population of all the States, as determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to him. " (B) For purposes of this paragraph (1), the term 'State'does not "state." include the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "(2) The amount apportioned to any State under paragraph (1) of this subsection for any fiscal year which the (Commissioner determines will not be required for that year shall be available for reapportionment from time to time, on such dates during that year as the Commissioner mayfix,to other States in proportion to the amounts originally apportioned among those States under such paragraph for that year, but with the proportionate amount for any of the other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Commissioner estimates the State and local educational agencies of such State need and will be able to use for that year; and the total of these reductions shall be similarly reapportioned among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount reapportioned to a State under this paragraph from funds appropriated pursuant to this section for any fiscal year shall be deemed part of the amount apportioned to it under paragraph (1) for that year.

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