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 PUBLIC LAW 96-374—OCT. 3, 1980

94 STAT. 1493

programs to make postsecondary education opportunities more accessible to residents of such urban area or contiguous areas, (D) has the present capacity to provide resources responsible to the needs and priorities of such urban area and contiguous areas, (E) offers a range of professional or graduate programs sufficient to sustain its capacity to provide such resources, and (F) has demonstrated and sustained a sense of responsibility to such urban area and contiguous areas and its people; "(3) for the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4) of this section, 'institution of higher education' includes any combination of such institutions, any one of which meets all the qualifications of paragraph (2); and "(4) 'resources' are programs of institutions of higher education including specialized training, research services, and technical assistance responsible to the needs and priorities of the urban area and contiguous areas.". TITLE XII—GENERAL PROVISIONS AMENDMENTS

SEC. 1201. Title XII of the Act is amended by striking out sections 1202, 1203, 1205, 1206, and 1208, by redesignating section 1207 as 20 USC 1142, section 1202, and by adding after such section the following new ii45 iilsa sections: ii45c. "FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONSHIPS; STATE AGREEMENTS

"SEC. 1203. (a) Any State which desires to receive assistance under 20 USC 1143. an applicable program, as described in subsection (f), shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary pursuant to subsection (b) setting forth the terms and conditions for the relationship between the Federal Government and that State for the purposes set forth in the applicable programs. (b) Such agreement shall consist of assurances by the State, including a description of the means to be used by the State to fulfill the assurances, that— "(1) the State will provide for such methods of administration as are necessary for the proper and efficient administration of any program in keeping with the purposes of the applicable programs described in subsection (f); "(2) the State will provide such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to ensure proper disbursement of, and accounting for. Federal funds paid to the State under any title of this Act; "(3) the State will follow policies and practices of administration that will ensure that non-Federal funds will not be supplanted by Federal funds, and that equitable and appropriate criteria will be used in evaluation of applications or proposals for grants or contracts under any such applicable program; and "(4) the State has a comprehensive planning or policy formulation process which— "(A) considers the relation between State administration of any such applicable program, and administration of similar State programs or processes; "(B) encourages State policies designed to consider effects on declining enrollments on all sectors of postsecondary education in the State;

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