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 88 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 93-380-AUG. 21, 1974

545

"(b) I n exercising his authority under this section, the Commissioner shall comply with such priorities and preferences as may be expressly provided by law, with respect to this section. a APPROPRIATIONS

"SEC. 4. (a)(1) I n order to enable the Commissioner to make contracts under section 3, there is authorized, subject to subsection (b), to be appropriated to the OiRce of Education $200,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and each of the two succeeding fiscal years. "(2) Sums appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, unless enacted in express limitation of this paragraph, remain available until expended. "(b)(1) Not later than February 1 of each year, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate a plan in accordance with which the Commissioner has determined to expend funds to be appropriated for the succeeding fiscal year. Such plan shall be accompanied by a report describing each contract made during the calendar year preceding that fiscal year under the authority of this Act involving an expenditure in excess of $100,000. "(2)(A) The funds appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) for any fiscal year shall be expended in accordance with the plan submitted for that year pursuant to paragraph (1), unless prior to sixty days after the submission of such plan, either the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate adopts a resolution disapproving such plan. " (B) If either or both such committees adopts a resolution of disapproval as provided in subparagraph (A), the Commissioner shall, not later than fifteen days after the adoption of any such resolution, submit a new plan in accordance with paragraph (1) and subparagraph (A).". (2) The title of such Act of July 24, 1954, is amended to read as follows: "An Act to authorize special projects, surveys, and studies by the Office of Education.". (b)(1) I n carrying out his functions under section 3 of the Special Projects Act, the Commissioner shall reserve not less than 50 per centum of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 4 of such Act for the purposes given preference under paragraph (3) of this subsection and apportioned in accordance with paragraph (2) of this subsection. With respect to the funds to which this paragraph applies, the Commissioner's authority under such section 3 shall include authority to make grants as well as contracts. (2) Except as is otherwise provided with respect to section 409, the Commissioner shall apportion an amount for each of the purposes set forth in paragraph (3) which bears the same ratio to the sums reserved pursuant to paragraph (1) as the amount permitted to be expended for each such purpose bears to the aggregate of the amounts permitted to be expended for all such purposes. (3) The sums reserved pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be expended for programs otherwise authorized by an applicable statute and described in the following subparagraphs: Education for the Use of the Metric System of Measurement (A) A program to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement, as provided in section 403.

20 USC 1853.

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20 USC 1861.

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