adjustments when necessitated by appropriations

adjustments when necessitated by appropriations Sec. 107. (a) The second sentence of section 203(c) of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress), is amended to read as follows: “Except as otherwise provided in section 208, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1968, June 30, 1969, and June 30, 1970, they shall be 50 per centum and $3,000, respectively.” (b) Section 208 of such Act is amended to read as follows: “adjustments where necessitated by appropriations “Sec. 208. If the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for making the payments provided in this part are not sufficient to pay in full the total amounts which all local and State educational agencies are eligible to receive under this part for such year— “(1) the amount available for each grant to a State agency eligible for a grant under paragraph (5), (6), or (7) of section 203(a) shall be equal to the maximum grant as computed under such paragraph; “(2) allocations shall be made to local educational agencies on the basis of computations, in accordance with section 203(a)(2) as reduced ratably, except that— “(A) until appropriations are sufficient to satisfy all maximum grants as computed by using a low-income factor of $2,000, the low-income factor (referred to in section 203(c)) for such year shall be $2,000; and “(B) the aggregate amount available for grants to local educational agencies within each State shall be not less than the aggregate amount allocated to local educational agencies within such State for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, until the total appropriations for that fiscal year exceed $1,500,000,000 for part A of title I; “(3) the amount available for payments to each State educational agency for the purposes of section 207(b) shall be equal to 1 per centum of the aggregate amounts available within that State pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), except that no State shall receive less than the minimum amount provided for in section 207(b)(2). In case additional funds become available for making payments under this part for that year, such reduced amounts shall be increased on the same basis that they were reduced. In order to permit the most effective use of all appropriations made to carry out this part, the Commissioner may set dates by which (1) State educational agencies must certify to him the amounts for which the applications of educational agencies have been or will be approved by the State, and (2) State educational agencies referred to in section 203(a)(6) must file applications. If the maximum grant a local educational agency or an agency referred to in section 203(a)(6) would receive (after any ratable reduction which may have been required under the first sentence of this section) is more than an amount which the State educational agency determines, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner, such agency will use, the excess amount shall be made available first to educational agencies in that State. Determinations of the educational agencies to which such excess amounts shall be made available shall be made by the State educational agency in furtherance of the purposes of this part, in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Commissioner which are designed to assure that such excess amounts will be made available to other eligible educational agencies with the 81 Stat. 786greatest need, for the purpose of, where appropriate, redressing inequities inherent in, or mitigating hardships caused by, the application of the provisions of paragraph (2) of section 203(a) as a result of such factors as population shifts and changing economic circumstances. In the event excess amounts remain after carrying out the preceding two sentences of this section, such excess amounts shall be distributed among the other States as the Commissioner shall prescribe for use by local educational agencies in such States for the purposes of this part in such manner as the respective State educational agencies shall prescribe.”