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PUBLIC LAW 93-29-MAY 3, 1973

" P L A N N I N G, COORDINATION, EVALUATION, AND ADMINISTRATION OF STATE PLANS

"SEC. 306. (a)(1) Amounts appropriated as authorized by section 303 may be used to make grants to States for paying such percentages as each State agency determines, but not more than 75 per centum, of the cost of the administration of its State plan, including the preparation of the State plan, the evaluation of activities carried out under such plan, the collection of data and the carrying out of analyses related to the need for social services within the State, the dissemination of information so obtained, the provision of short-term training to personnel of public or nonprofit private agencies and organizations engaged in the operation of programs authorized by this Act, and the carrying out of demonstration projects of statewide significance relating to the initiation, expansion, or improvement of social service. "(2) Any sums allotted to a State under this section for covering part of the cost of the administration of its State plan which the State determines is not needed for such purpose may be used by such State to supplement the amount available under section 303(e)(1) to cover part of the cost of the administration of area plans. "(3) Any State which has designated a single planning and service area pursuant to section 304(a)(1)(E) covering all, or substantially all, of the older persons in such State, as determined by the Commissioner, may elect to pay part of the costs of the administration of State and area plans either out of sums allotted under this section or out of sums made available for the administration of area plans pursuant to section 303(e)(1), but shall not pay such costs out of sums allotted under both such sections. " (b)(1) From the sums appropriated for any fiscal year under section 303 lor carrying out the purposes of this section, each State shall be allotted an amount which bears the same ratio to such sum as the population aged sixty or over in such State bears to the population aged sixty or over in all States, except that (A) no State shall be allotted less than one-ha:lf of 1 per centum of the sum appropriated for the fiscal year for which the determination is made, or $160,000, whichever is greater, and (B) Ouam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall each be allotted no less than one-fourth of 1 per centum of the sum appropriated for the fiscal year for which the determination is made, or $50,000, whichever is greater. For the purpose of the exception contained in clause (A) of this paragraph, the term 'State' does not include Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territorv of the Pacific Islands. "(2) The number of persons aged sixty or over in any State and in all States shall be determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to him. "(c) The amounts of any State's allotment under subsection (b) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for that year shall be reallotted, from time to time and on such dates during such year as the Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to such States under subsection (b) for that year, but with such proportionate amount for any of such other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Commissioner estimates such State needs and will be able to use for such year; and the total of such reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Such reallotments shall be made on the basis of the State plan so approved, after taking into consideration the population aged

Allotment.

Reallotment.

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