EDUCATION DIVISION

EDUCATION DIVISION Office of Education elementary and secondary education For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, title I, part A ($3,077,132,000), title IV, part C, title VII and title IX of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; title VII of the Education Amendments of 1974; the General Education Provisions Act; and Public Law 92–506, $3,448,382,000: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated above the following amounts shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1979, and shall remain available until September 30, 1980: title I, part A ($3,077,132,000), title IV, part C $190,000,000) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and section 417(a)(2) of the General Education Provisions Act ($1,250,000). For carrying out title IV, part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act an additional $7,400,000 to become available for obligation on July 1, 1979, and to remain available until September 30, 1980: Provided, That none of such funds may be paid to any State for which the allocation for fiscal year 1980 exceeds the allocation for comparable purposes for fiscal year 1979. school assistance in federally affected areas For carrying out title I of the Act of September 30, 1950, as amended (20 U.S.C., ch. 13), $786,100,000 of which $63,500,000 shall be for payments under section 6, and $710,600,000 shall be for payments under sections 2 and 3 in accordance with subsection 5(c) (1) and (2) of said Act, and $12,000,000 shall be for payments under section 7 of said Act: Provided, That the total amount paid with respect to entitlements under section 3(b) of that title shall not exceed the amount paid under that section in fiscal year 1978, and any reductions required thereby shall be derived by proportionately reducing the payments applied for by all local educational agencies under section 3(b). For carrying out the Act of September 23, 1950, as amended (20 U.S.C., ch. 19), $30,000,000 which shall remain available until expended, shall be for providing school facilities as authorized by said Act: Provided, That with the exception of up to $13,000,000 for section 10 and up to $16,000,000 for section 14 none of the funds contained herein for providing school facilities shall be available to pay for any other section of the Act of September 23, 1950, until payment has been made of 100 per centum of the amounts payable under section 5: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 421A(c)(2)(A) of the General Education Provisions Act, the Commissioner of Education is authorized to approve applications for funds to increase school facilities in communities located near the Trident Support Site, Ban-92 STAT. 1578gor, Washington, on such terms and conditions as he may reasonably require without regard to any provision in law. emergency school aid For carrying out title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Emergency School Aid Act, $341,350,000: Provided, That the Assistant Secretary, in awarding funds under this program, shall not give less favorable consideration to the application of a local educational agency which has voluntarily adopted a plan qualified for assistance under this title than to the application of a local educational agency which has been legally required to adopt such a plan. education for the handicapped For carrying out the Education of the Handicapped Act, $976,637,000: Provided, That of this amount $804,000,000 for part B and $17,500,000 for section 619 shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1979, and shall remain available until September 30, 1980. occupational, vocational, and adult education For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, section 523 of the Education Amendments of 1976, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, as amended, and the Adult Education Act, $774,453,000 of which $10,000,000 for part B, subpart 2 of the Vocational Education Act shall remain available until expended: Provided, That the amounts appropriated above shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1979, and shall remain available until September 30, 1980, unless otherwise specified herein: Provided further, That not to exceed $112,317,000 shall be for carrying out part A, subpart 3 of the Vocational Education Act. student assistance For carrying out subparts 1 ($2,600,000,000), 2 ($340,100,000), and 3 ($76,750,000) of part A, and parts C ($550,000,000) and E ($328,900,000) of Title IV of the Higher Education Act, and, to the extent not otherwise provided, the General Education Provisions Act, $3,922,650,000, of which $3,895,750,000 shall remain available until September 30, 1980: Provided, That such funds may be expended notwithstanding the provisions of section 1208(a)(2) of the Higher Education Act: Provided further, That (1) Funds appropriated in this Act for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants under the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall be used to make basic grants consistent with the Schedule of Expected Family Contribution in effect as of October 1, 1978, except that (A) such schedule shall not have an assessment rate on parental discretionary income in excess of 10.5 per centum, (B) such schedule shall not reduce the maximum basic grant below $1,800, and (C) such schedule shall retain the provisions relating to independent students as were in effect for the academic year 1978–79. (2) If funds contained in this Act available for basic educational opportunity grants are insufficient to satisfy fully all basic grant entitlements as determined by the Family Contribution Schedule as modified by paragraph (1), the amount paid with respect to each such entitlement shall be— 92 STAT. 1579 (A) the full amount in the case of any entitlement which exceeds $1,600; (B) in the case of any entitlement which exceeds $1,200 but does not exceed $1,600,90 per centum thereof; (C) in the case of any entitlement which exceeds $1,000 but does not exceed $1,200,75 per centum thereof; (D) in the case of any entitlement which exceeds $800 but does not exceed $1,000,70 per centum thereof; (E) in the case of any entitlement which exceeds $600 but does not exceed $800,65 per centum thereof; and (F) in the case of any entitlement which does not exceed $600, 50 per centum thereof: Provided further, That amounts appropriated for basic opportunity grants shall be available first to meet any insufficiencies in entitlements resulting from the payment schedule for basic opportunity grants published by the Commissioner of Education during the prior fiscal year: Provided further, That pursuant to section 411(b)(4)(A) of the Higher Education Act, amounts appropriated herein for basic opportunity grants which exceed the amounts required to meet the payment schedule published for any fiscal year by 15 per centum or less shall be carried forward and merged with amounts appropriated the next fiscal year. higher and continuing education For carrying out titles I-A, III, VIII, IX, and XI and sections 417, 418, 420, 705, 745, and 1203 of the Higher Education Act; the Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; section 421 of the General Education Provisions Act; title VI of the National Defense Education Act; and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act, $393,000,000: Provided, That funds contained in Public Law 95–205 for carrying out section 525 of the Education Amendments of 1976 shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1980. library resources For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, titles I and III of the Library Services and Construction Act (20 U.S.C., ch. 16); title II of the Higher Education Act; and title IV, part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, $266,475,000: Provided, That $180,000,000 for Title IV, part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1979, and shall remain available until September 30, 1980. special projects and training For carrying out the Special Projects Act (Public Law 93–380), the General Education Provisions Act, to the extent not otherwise provided, title V, part A and section 532 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the Career Education Incentive Act (Public Law 95–207), $134,472,000, of which not to exceed $1,840,000 shall be for carrying out section 403 of the Special Projects Act. 92 STAT. 1580 salaries and expenses For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the General Education Provisions Act, including rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $126,830,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year up to $10,000,000 in collections on Federally insured defaulted loans may be transferred to the Salaries and Expenses account for the payment of related collection activities. student loan insurance fund For necessary expenses under title IV, part B of the Higher Education Act, and to the extent not otherwise provided, the General Education Provisions Act, $714,314,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Commissioner is authorized to issue to the Secretary of the Treasury notes or other obligations, in an amount not to exceed a total of $25,000,000 without fiscal year limitation, to maintain the adequacy of the fund, but only with respect to payments authorized under section 431 of the Higher Education Act. higher education facilities loan and insurance fund For the payment of such insufficiencies as may be required by the trustee on account of outstanding beneficial interest or participations in assets of the Office of Education authorized by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1968, to be issued pursuant to section 302(c) of the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act (12 U.S.C. 1717(c)), $2,204,000 to remain available until expended, and the Secretary is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds available in the Higher Education Facilities Loan and Insurance Fund, and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitation as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act (31 U.S.C. 849) as may be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such fund. health professions graduate student loan insurance fund For necessary expenses for the Health Professions Graduate Student Loan Insurance Fund, authorized by title VII, part C, subpart 1 of the Public Health Service Act, the Secretary is authorized to issue to the Secretary of the Treasury notes or obligations, in an amount not to exceed a total of $2,500,000, without fiscal year limitation, to maintain the adequacy of the fund, but only with respect to payments authorized under section 734.