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PUBLIC LAW 96-272—JUNE 17, 1980 reasonable to conclude that such child cannot be placed with adoptive parents without providing adoption assistance, and (B) that, except where it would be against the best interests of the child because of such factors as the existence of significant emotional ties with prospective adoptive parents while in the care of such parents as a foster child, a reasonable, but unsuccessful, effort has been made to place the child with appropriate adoptive parents without providing adoption assistance under this section. "PAYMENTS TO STATES; ALLOTMENTS TO STATES

42 USC 674.

"SEC. 474. (a) For each quarter beginning after September 30, 1980, each State which has a plan aptproved under this ^art (subject to the limitations imposed by subsection G))) shall be entitled to a payment equal to the sum of— "(1) an amount equal to the Federal medical assistance per42 USC i396d. centage (as defined in section 1905(b) of this Act) of the total amount expended during such quarter as foster care maintenance payments under section 472 for children in foster family homes or child-care institutions; plus "(2) an amount equal to the Federal medical assistance percentage (as defined in section 1905(b) of this Act) of the total amount expended during such quarter as adoption assistance payments under section 473 pursuant to adoption assistance agreements; plus "(3) an amount equal to the sum of the following proportions of the total amounts expended during such quarter as found necessary by the Secretary for the proper and efficient administration of the State plan— "(A) 75 per centum of so much of such expenditures as are for the training (including both short- and long-term training at educational institutions through grants to such institutions or by direct financial assistance to students enrolled in such institutions) of personnel employed or preparing for employment by the State agency or by the local agency administering the plan in the political subdivision, and "(B) one-half of the remainder of such expenditures. "(b)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3), the aggregate of the sums payable thereunder to any State 42 USC 1308 (other than a State subject to limitation under section 1108(a)) with Fost,pp.bZb,5zy, respect to expenditures relating to foster care, for the calendar quarters in any of the fiscal years 1981 through 1984 in which the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) are met, shall not exceed the State's allotment for such year. "(2)(A) The limitation in paragraph (1) shall apply— "(i) with respect to fiscal year 1981, only if the amount appropriated under section 420 for such fiscal year is equal to or greater than $163,550,000; "(ii) with respect to fiscal year 1982, only if the amount 42 USC 620. appropriated under section 420 for such fiscal year is equal to or greater than $220,000,000; "(iii) with respect to fiscal year 1983, only if the amount appropriated under section 420 for such fiscal year is equal to $266,000,000; and "(iv) with respect to fiscal year 1984, only if the amount appropriated under section 420 for such fiscal year is equal to $266,(J00,000.

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