DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Office of Education payments to school districts For an additional amount for “Payments to school districts”, $5,850,000. assistance for school construction For an additional amount for grants to local educational agencies in federally affected areas as authorized by section 209 (c) of Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, as amended by section 2 (e) of Public Law 240, Eighty-third Congress, including not to exceed $125,000 for necessary expenses of technical services rendered by other agencies. $55,000,000, to remain available until April 1, 1955: Provided, That unpaid entitlements, reduced to the extent requests therefor are not filed before October 1, 1954, shall be paid on a pro rata basis if the amount herein appropriated for grants is not enough to cover all such entitlements: Provided further, That applications which meet the requirements of section 205 of such Public Law 815 may be amended not later than December 31, 1954, to (1) substitute a different project or (2) substitute a reimbursement request based upon construction of the original project under a contract entered into before the date of enactment of this Act or upon construction of other facilities under a contract entered into before such date and after June 30, 1952, and in either case the adequacy requirements in subsection (c) (1) of such section 205 shall not apply: Provided further, That the foregoing substitutions herein permitted shall not cost more than the project originally filed for. Social Security Administration salaries and expenses, bureau of old-age and survivors insurance The amount authorized by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1954, to be expended from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund for “Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance”, is increased from “$62,750,000” to “$63,746,000”. grants to states for public assistance For an additional amount for “Grants to States for public assistance”, $58,000,000.