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 95 STAT. 500

PUBLIC LAW 97-35~-AUG. 13, 1981 (2) The Secretary shall reserve 13 percent of the amount appropriated for each fiscal year for use in accordance with the following order of priorities— (A) Indian and migrant Head Start programs and services for handicapped children, except that— (i) there shall be made available for use by Indian and migrant Head Start programs, on a nationwide basis, no less funds for fiscal year 1982 and each subsequent fiscal year than were obligated for use by Indian and migrant Head Start programs for fiscal year 1981; and (ii) cost-of-living adjustments shall be made with respect to such Indian and migrant Head Stsirt programs for fiscal year 1982 and each subsequent fiscal year, and such adjustments shall, at the minimum, reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor; (B) payments to Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands according to their respective needs, except that such amount shall not exceed one-half of 1 percent of the sums appropriated for any fiscsil year; (C) training and technical assistance activities which are sufficient to meet the needs associated with program expansion and to foster program and management improvement activities; and (D) discretionary payments made by the Secretary. (3) The Secretary shall allot the remaining 87 percent of the amounts appropriated in each fiscal year among the States, in accordance with latest satisfactory data so that— (A) each State receives an amount which is equal to the amount the State received for fiscal year 1981; and (B)(i) 33 V percent of any amount available after all allotments a have been made under clause (A) for such fiscal year shall be distributed on the basis of the relative number of children from birth through 18 years of age, on whose behalf payments are made under the program of aid to families with dependent children under a State plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act in each State as compared to all States; and (ii) 66% percent of such amount shall be distributed on the basis of the relative number of children from birth through 5 years of age living with families with incomes below the poverty line in each State as compared to all States. (4) For purposes of this subsection, the term "State" does not include Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (b) Financial assistance extended under this subchapter for a Head Start program shall not exceed 80 percent of the approved costs of the assisted program or activities, except that the Secretary may approve assistance in excess of such percentage if the Secretary determines, in accordance with regulations establishing objective criteria, that such action is required in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter. Non-Feder£d contributions may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or services. The Secretary shall not require non-Federal contributions in excess of 20 percent of the approved costs of programs or activities assisted under this subchapter.

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