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 8 9 STAT. 724

'State.'

PUBLIC LAW 94-135—NOV. 28, 1975 bears to the sum of the corresponding product for all States, except that (A) no State shall be allotted less than one-half of 1 per centum of the remainder of the sums appropriated for the fiscal year for which the detennination is made, or $100,000, whichever is greater, and (B) Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the T r u s t Territory of the Pacific Islands shall each be allotted an amount which is not less than one-fourth of 1 per centum of the remainder of the sums 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 this paragraph the term 'State' does not include Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the T r u s t Territory of the Pacific Islands. " (S) For the purpose of this subsection— " (A) the allotment percentage of each State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the United States, except that (i) the allotment percentage shall in no case be more than 75 per centum or less than 331/^ per centum, and (ii) the allotment percentage for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the T r u s t Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be 75 per centum; " (B) the number of persons aged fifty-five or over in any State and in all States, and the per capita income in any State and in all States, shall be determined by the Secretary on the basis of the most satisfactory data available to h i m; and " (C) for the purpose of determining the allotment percentage, the term 'United States' means the fifty States and the District of Columbia. " (b) The amount allotted for projects within any State under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Secretary determines will not be required for such year shall be reallotted, from time to time and on such dates during such year as the Secretary may fix, to projects w i t h m other States in proportion to the original allotments to projects within such States under subsection (a) for such year, but with such proportionate amount for any of such other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Secretary estimates that projects within such State need 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. Any amount reallotted to a State under this subsection during a year shall be deemed part of its allotment under subsection (a) for such year. "(c) The amount apportioned for projects within each State under subsection (a) shall be apportioned among areas within each such State in an eauitable manner, taking into consideration (1) the proportion which eligible individuals in each such area bears to the total number of such individuals, respectively, in that State, and (2) the relative distribution of such individuals residing in rur-al and urban areas within the State. "DEFINITIONS

42 USC 3056e.

" S E ( \ 907. As used in this title— " (1) the term 'State' means any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, P u e r to Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the T r u s t Territory of the Pacific Islands;

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