Pub. L. 90-557, tit. IV, sec. 410

Sec. 410. No part of the funds contained in this Art shall be used to force busing of students, the abolishment of any school or the attendance of students at a particular school in order to overcome racial imbalance as a condition precedent to obtaining Federal funds otherwise available to any State, school district, or school: Provided, That the Secretary shall assign as many persons to the investigation and compliance activities of title. VI of the Civil Rights Art of 1964 related to elementary and secondary education in the other States as are assigned to the seventeen Southern and border States to assure that this law is administered and enforced on a national basis, and the Secretary is directed to enforce compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by like methods and with equal emphasis in all States of the Union and to report to the Congress by March 1, 1969, on the actions he has taken and the results achieved in establishing this compliance program on a national basis: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds or commodities for school lunch programs or medical services may not. be recommended for withholding by any official employed under appropriations contained herein in order to overcome racial imbalance: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys received from national forests to lie expended for the benefit of the public schools or public roads of the county or counties in which the national forest is situated, may not be recommended for withholding by any official employed under appropriations contained herein.