amendments with respect to applicability, authorization of appropriations, and other general matters

amendments with respect to applicability, authorization of appropriations, and other general matters Sec. 505. (a) (1) Section 400 of the General Education Provisions Act is amended to read as follows: “short title; applicability; definitions; appropriations “Sec. 400. (a) This title may be cited as the ‘General Education Provisions Act’. “(b) Except where, otherwise specified, the provisions of this title shall apply to any program for which an administrative head of an education agency has administrative responsibility as provided by law or by delegation of authority pursuant to law. “(c) (1) For the purposes of this title, the term— “(A) ‘applicable program’ means any program to which this title is, under the terms of subsection (b), applicable; “(B) ‘applicable statute’ means— “(i) the Act or the title, part or section of an Act, as the case may be, which authorizes the appropriation for an applicable program; “(ii) this title; and “(iii) any other statute which under its terms expressly controls the administration of an applicable program; “(C) ‘Assistant Secretary’ means the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Education; “(D) ‘Commissioner’ means the Commissioner of Education; 88 Stat. 562 “(E) ‘Director’ means the Director of the National Institute of Education; and “(F) ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. “(2) Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the applicability of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to any program subject to the provisions of this title. “(3) No Act making appropriations to carry out an applicable program shall be considered an applicable statute. “(d) Except as otherwise limited in this title, there are authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. “(e) (1) The aggregate of the appropriations to the agencies in the Education Division and to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for any fiscal year shall not exceed the limitations set forth for that fiscal year in subparagraph (2). “(2) (A) Except as is provided in subparagraph (B), the appropriations to which paragraph (1) applies— “(i) shall not exceed $7,500,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $8,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and $9,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977; and “(ii) shall not exceed such amounts as may be authorized by the law and limited by this subparagraph. “(B) The limitations set forth in subparagraph (A) shall not apply— “(i) to uncontrollable expenditures under obligations created under part B of title IV or the Higher Education Act of 1965, farts C and D of title VII of such Act, and the Emergency Insured Student Loan Act of 1969; and “(ii) to any other expenditure under an obligation determined by the Commissioner pursuant to, or in accordance with, law to be an uncontrollable expenditure of the Office of Education.” (2) Section 442(d) of the Education Amendments of 1972 is amended by striking out “400(c)” and inserting in lieu thereof “400(d)”. (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall be effective on the tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act.