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 98 STAT. 2890

PUBLIC LAW 98-558—OCT. 30, 1984 DEFINITION

42 USC 8622.

Ante, p. 2885.

SEC. 602. (a) Section 2603(1) of the Act is amended— (1) by striking out "intervention"; and (2) by inserting before the period "and other household energy-related emergencies". (b) Section 2603(4) of the Act is amended to read as follows: "(4) The term 'poverty level' means, with respect to a household in any State, the income poverty line as prescribed and revised at least annually pursuant to section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act, as applicable to such State.". ENERGY CRISIS INTERVENTION

42 USC 8623.

SEC. 603. (a) Section 2604(c) of the Act is amended— (1) by inserting after "reserved" the following: "until March 15 of each program year"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The program for which funds are reserved by this subsection shall be administered by public or nonprofit entities which have experience in administering energy crisis programs under the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act of 1980, or under this Act, experience in assisting low-income individuals in the area to be served, and the capacity to undertake a timely and effective energy crisis intervention program.". 0)) Section 2604(d)(1) of the Act is amended by striking out "otherwise be paid" and inserting in lieu thereof "otherwise be payable". (c) Section 2604(e) of the Act is repealed. (d) Section 2604(f) of the Act is amended by striking out "its allotment" and inserting in lieu thereof "the funds payable to it". STATE ALLOTMENTS

42 USC 8623.

97 Stat. 871.

SEC. 604. (a) Section 2604(a)(2) is amended to read as follows: "(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), for fiscal year 1985 and thereafter, a State's allotment percentage is the percentage which expenditures for home energy by low-income households in that State bears to such expenditures in all States, except that States which thereby receive the greatest proportional increase in allotments by reason of the application of this paragraph from the amount they received pursuant to Public Law 98-139 shall have their allotments reduced to the extent necessary to ensure that— "(A)(i) no State for fiscal year 1985 shall receive less than the amount of funds the State received in fiscal year 1984; and "(ii) no State for fiscal year 1986 and thereafter shall receive less than the amount of funds the State would have received in fiscal year 1984 if the appropriations for this title for fiscal year 1984 had been $1,975,000,000, and "(B) any State whose allotment percentage out of funds available to States from a total appropriation of $2,250,000,000 would be less than 1 percent, shall not, in any year when total appropriations equal or exceed $2,250,000,000, have its allotment percentage reduced from the percentage it would receive from a total appropriation of $2,140,000,000.". (h) Section 2604(a) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:

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