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"State." ReaUotment.

Post, p. 596.

PUBLIC LAW 93-380-AUG. 21, 1974

apportion such amount to Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands according to their respective needs for assistance under this title. Of the remainder of such sums, he shall allot an amount to each State which bears the same ratio to the amount available for allotment as the number of school age children (aged 5 to 12, inclusive) in each such State bears to the total number of such children in all the States, as determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to him. The allotment of a State which would be less than $50,000 under the preceding sentence shall be increased to $50,000, and the total of the increases thereby required shall be derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to the remaining States under the preceding sentence, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotments to any such remaining States from being reduced to less than $50,000. (2) For the purpose of this section the term "State" includes the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Eico. (I3) xiie amouut allotted to any State under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for that year shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during that year as the Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the amounts originally allotted among those States under subsection (a) 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 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 reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount reallotted to a State under this subsection from funds appropriated pursuant to section 732 for any fiscal year shall be deemed part of the amount allotted to it under subsection (a) for that year. AGREEMENTS W I T H

20 USC 1944.

[88 STAT.

STATE EDUCATIONAL

AGENCIES

SEC. 714. (a) Any State which desires to receive grants under this part shall, through its State educational agency, enter into an agreement with the Commissioner, in such detail as the Commissioner deems necessary, which— (1) designates the State educational agency as the sole agency for administration of the agreement; (2) provides for the establishment of a State advisory council on reading, appointed by the State educational agency, which shall be broadly representative of the educational resources of the State and of the general public, including persons representative of— (A) public and private nonprofit elementary school children, and (B) institutions of higher education, (C) parents of elementary school children, and (D) areas of professional competence relating to instruction in reading, to advise the State educational agency on the formulation of a standard of excellence for reading programs in the elementary schools and on the preparation of, and policy matters arising in the administration of, the agreement (including the criteria for approval of applications for assistance under such aflcreemeijt) and in the evaluation of results of the program carried out pursuant to the agreement;

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