PAYMENTS FOR ELIGIBLE FEDERALLY CONNECTED CHILDREN.

SEC. 802. PAYMENTS FOR ELIGIBLE FEDERALLY CONNECTED CHILDREN. (a) Eligibility for Certain Heavily Impacted Local Educational Agencies.— (1) In general.—Section 8003(b)(2)(C) (20 U.S.C. 7703(b)(2)(C)) is amended— (A) in clauses (i) and (ii), by inserting after “Federal military installation” each place it appears the following: “(or if the agency is a qualified local educational agency as described in clause (iv))”; and (B) by adding at the end the following: “(iv) Qualified local educational agency.—A qualified local educational agency described in this clause is an agency that meets the following requirements: “(I) The boundaries of the agency are the same as island property designated by the Secretary of the Interior to be property that is held in trust by the Federal Government. “(II) The agency has no taxing authority. “(III) The agency received a payment under paragraph (1) for fiscal year 2001.”. (2) Effective date.—The Secretary shall consider an application for a payment under section 8003(b)(2) for fiscal year 2002 from a qualified local educational agency described in section 8003(b)(2)(C)(iv), as added by paragraph (1), as meeting the requirements of section 8003(b)(2)(C)(iii), and shall provide a payment under section 8003(b)(2) for fiscal year 2002, if the agency submits to the Secretary an application for payment under such section not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Applications for Payment.— (1) Warner public schools, muskogee county, oklahoma.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Education shall treat as timely filed an application under section 8003 (20 U.S.C. 7703) from Warner Public Schools, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, for a payment for fiscal year 2002, and shall process that application for payment, if the Secretary has received the fiscal year 2002 application not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Pine point school, school district 25, minnesota.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall treat as timely filed an application under section 8003 (20 U.S.C. 7703) from Pine Point School, School District 25, Minnesota, for a payment for fiscal year 2002, and shall process that application for payment, if the Secretary has received 115 STAT. 1950the fiscal year 2002 application not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.