RURAL CONSOLIDATED PLAN.

SEC. 8011. [20 U.S.C. 7845] RURAL CONSOLIDATED PLAN. Section 8305, as redesignated and amended by section 8001 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following: “(e) Rural Consolidated Plan.— “(1) In general.—Two or more eligible local educational agencies, a consortium of eligible local educational service agencies, or an educational service agency on behalf of eligible local educational agencies may submit plans or applications for 1 or more covered programs to the State educational agency on a consolidated basis, if each eligible local educational agency impacted elects to participate in the joint application or elects to allow the educational service agency to apply on its behalf. “(2) Eligible local educational agency.—For the purposes of this subsection, the term ‘eligible local educational agency’ means a local educational agency that is an eligible local educational agency under part B of title V.” .