Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 91.djvu/1367

 PUBLIC LAW 95-166—NOV. 10, 1977

91 STAT. 1333

' * that is responsible for the administration of one or more nonprofit private schools, for the purpose of purchasing needed replacement equipment."; (2) amending subsection (e) to read as follows: State "(e) For the fiscal years ending September 30, 1978, September 30, apportionment. 1979, and September 30, 1980, 331/3 percent of the funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall be reserved to the Secretary to assist schools without a food service program and schools without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals. The Secretary shall apportion the funds so reserved among the States on the basis of the ratio of the number of children in each State enrolled in schools without a food service program and in schools without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals to the number of children in all States enrolled in schools without a food service program and in schools without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals. In those States in which the Secre- Funds for States tary administers the food service equipment assistance program in administered by nonprofit private schools, the Secretary shall withhold from the funds Secretary, apportioned to any such State under this subsection an amount which withholding. bears the same ratio to such funds as the number of children enrolled in nonprofit private schools without a food service program or without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals in such State bears to the total number of children enrolled in all schools without a food service program or without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals in such State. The funds so reserved, apportioned, and withheld shall be used by the State, or the Secretary in the case of nonprofit private schools, only to assist schools without a food service program and schools without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals. If any State cannot use all the funds apportioned to it under the provisions of this subsection, the Secretary shall make further apportionment to the remaining States for use only in assisting schools without a food service program and schools without the facilities to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals. If after such further apportionment, any funds received under this subsection remain unused, the Secretary shall immediately apportion such funds among the States in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. Payment to any State Condition, of funds under the provisions of this subsection shall be made upon the condition that at least one-fourth of the cost of the equipment financed shall be borne by funds from sources within the State, except that such condition shall not apply with respect to funds used under this subsection to assist schools that are especially needy, as determined by criteria established by each State and approved by the Secretary."; (3) adding at the end thereof a new subsection (f) to read as follows: "(f)(1) Funds authorized for the purposes of this section shall be used only for facilities that enable schools, or local public or private nonprofit institutions under the conditions prescribed in paragraph (2) of this subsection, to prepare and cook hot meals or receive hot meals at the school or institution unless the school can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the State (or, in the case of nonprofit private schools in States where the Secretary administers the food service equipment program in such schools, to the satisfaction of the Secretary) that an alternative method of meal preparation is necessary for the introduction or continued existence of the school lunch or breakfast program in such school or to improve the consumption of food or the participation of eligible children in the program. "(2) If a school authorized to receive funds under this section

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