PAYMENT AMOUNTS.

SEC. 402. PAYMENT AMOUNTS. Section 5 of the Act (20 U.S.C. 240) is amended: (1) by amending paragraph (2) of subsection (b) to read as follows: “(2) As soon as possible after the beginning of any fiscal year, the Secretary shall, on the basis of a written request for a preliminary payment from any local educational agency that was eligible for a payment for the preceding fiscal year on the basis of an entitlement established under section 2, make such a preliminary payment of 50 percent of the amount that such agency received for such preceding fiscal year on the basis of such entitlement.”; and (2) by amending subparagraph (D) of subsection (e)(1) to read as follows: “(D) For any fiscal year after September 30, 1991, the Secretary is authorized to modify the per pupil amount described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, in any case in which, in the fiscal year for which the determination is made, a local educational agency is105 STAT. 509 described under a different clause of section 5(c)(2)(A) than such agency was in fiscal year 1987.”.